I'm running the spirit jailbreak on my phone and want the new FW. what is the easiest way to get to that, or should I wait a bit and see the outcome? What's a more preferable JB other then spirit?
thanks.

NO! Do not jump on the iOS4 bandwagon just yet.

Yeah I'm letting it go. Will it be okay since I used Spirit? I'm hearing there might be problems.

Originally Posted by nickx

Yeah I'm letting it go. Will it be okay since I used Spirit? I'm hearing there might be problems.

To jailbreak 4.0 on the 3GS you need to have old bootrom and either be already pwned (not a userland jailbreak like spirit) or have a 3.1.2 SHSH

If you don't meet these conditions you must wait for new exploits to be revealed that can directly jailbreak OS 4.0 on a 3GS and iPhone 4.

Spirit DOES not work on OS 4.0 or as a new jailbreak on OS 3.1.x with iTunes 9.2 (it's okay if you jailbroke with spirit and then upgraded to iTunes 9.2)

Originally Posted by Olethros

To jailbreak 4.0 on the 3GS you need to have old bootrom and either be already pwned (not a userland jailbreak like spirit) or have a 3.1.2 SHSH

If you don't meet these conditions you must wait for new exploits to be revealed that can directly jailbreak OS 4.0 on a 3GS and iPhone 4.

Spirit DOES not work on OS 4.0 or as a new jailbreak on OS 3.1.x with iTunes 9.2 (it's okay if you jailbroke with spirit and then upgraded to iTunes 9.2)

I had used blackrain before this since my phone is fairly new. I got it end of January. I'm gonna stick with this for now since I'm happy with backgrounder and categories for now. I'm still running the old iTunes just waiting for a confirmation and I can install 9.2

I have 5.12.01 so it should be okay, I assume.

Originally Posted by nickx

I'm still running the old iTunes just waiting for a confirmation and I can install 9.2

I have 5.12.01 so it should be okay, I assume.

You can synchronize a Spirit JB'd device on 9.2 with no problems -- but you cannot jailbreak a device with iTunes 9.2 + Spirit, it bootloops. Just as an FYI. If you don't intend to use Spirit for further jailbreaks, you can upgrade to 9.2 and use the dev-team tools (pwnagetool / redsn0w) and they work fine with 9.2.

Baseband doesn't really matter at this point -- ultrasn0w released yesterday unlocks all 3.0 - 4.0 basebands (3.0/3.0.1/3.1/3.1.2/3.1.3/4.0).

Originally Posted by Olethros

To jailbreak 4.0 on the 3GS you need to have old bootrom and either be already pwned (not a userland jailbreak like spirit) or have a 3.1.2 SHSH

If you don't meet these conditions you must wait for new exploits to be revealed that can directly jailbreak OS 4.0 on a 3GS and iPhone 4.

Spirit DOES not work on OS 4.0 or as a new jailbreak on OS 3.1.x with iTunes 9.2 (it's okay if you jailbroke with spirit and then upgraded to iTunes 9.2)

i have a 3GS with old bootrom. i used sauriks SHSH database when prompted in cydia. so thats safe at least!
how can this help my current situation? i just get an error 1600 when trying to restore to custom fw4... repeatedly. my 3gs is now on "connect to itunes" screen and I dont know what to do. i cant seem to restore to any firmware other than official 4.0 which i dont want to try...

Originally Posted by n1ckn4m3

You can synchronize a Spirit JB'd device on 9.2 with no problems -- but you cannot jailbreak a device with iTunes 9.2 + Spirit, it bootloops. Just as an FYI. If you don't intend to use Spirit for further jailbreaks, you can upgrade to 9.2 and use the dev-team tools (pwnagetool / redsn0w) and they work fine with 9.2.

Baseband doesn't really matter at this point -- ultrasn0w released yesterday unlocks all 3.0 - 4.0 basebands (3.0/3.0.1/3.1/3.1.2/3.1.3/4.0).

Thanks for clarifying that. So what steps do you suggest I take? I'm a bit overwhelmed and just trying to point myself in the right direction. Oh, and I DO have SHSH fo 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 on cydia.

Originally Posted by nickx

Thanks for clarifying that. So what steps do you suggest I take? I'm a bit overwhelmed and just trying to point myself in the right direction. Oh, and I DO have SHSH fo 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 on cydia.

If you got your 3GS in Jan you most likely have new bootrom. (did you have to re-run blackra1n every time?) . If you have new bootrom, then that means no 4.0 (with jailbreak) for you until a new exploit is released.

Old bootrom can use Pwnagetool 4.0.1 to go to iOS 4 with jailbreak.

Is that clear enough?