I personally had a great experience with Blackra1n. That said, it was with the RC2 or RC3 release (no Icy bundle), and it was on a 3G 3.1.2 model phone – cleaner than the first releases, I know.

The only problem I ran into was using a USB hub the first shot. My fault. Directly to a USB port it worked like a charm.

Bottom line… here’s my two cents:

1. As someone relatively new to the JB-world, I greatly appreciated the lack of bundled features/stuff, and a clear separation between JB and Unlock. Further, I was very glad that it did NOT include SSH. I find distribution like this makes it easier to understand whats happening, especially when something fails. It also makes more sense to avoid assuming that every person JB’ing their phone wants AFC, SSH, or to Unlock the baseband for other carriers, or even use Icy. Applications with a single purpose are always better apps – ask any developer.

2. That said, as a developer myself I agree with BigBoss, distributing “plug-ins” or additional stuff that doesn’t function properly is wanky and unprofessional.

3. Maybe the kid did rush his package for some coins or his ego… but it matters absolutely none and is adolescent to argue about it. He’s done the entire community a huge service. Remember he is only human and that he (hopefully) does have some bit of a life outside his hack-world… for god’s sake in the few weeks that everyone was in panic about a buggy application hopefully the kid was getting laid, or a little sunshine, or reading a book with his donations… ;)

anyway… thanks.
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You can view the details at iPhone Atlas.

As for me, I’ll be unlocking my phone and thanking geohot for his work. As I’ve noted in the past, both the dev team and geohot are doing valuable work. You all should get over yourselves and be thankful that this guy is spending his time working on this stuff.

A fair number of other folks had the same problem. You want to know what the suggested solution by the dev team was?

Jailbreak the 3Gs with blackra1n and then install my custom firmware (with with pwnage tool). That solution worked for me like a charm.

So I for one am grateful for Geohot’s work.