After I upgraded my phone to iOS 4.x, it felt slower.  Not outright slow, but a bit sluggish here and there.   I chalked it up to the upgrade and just lived with it. 

Last week, my cable modem internet connection went out.  In blind panic, I decided to jailbreak the phone, purchase MyWi and use it to tether my laptop.  The jailbreak did not go so well.  For one the version of Cydia that is installed is actually for the wrong OS and won’t even run.  I am stunned that the jailbreak is even being offered – it is so useless.

So I tried to reverse the jailbreak, which made things even worse – my apps would not sync, the iPod app would not even start, the settings would not “take”, etc…complete mess.  I tried to restore from backup – it did not help.  So I figured I’ll just start from scratch. 

I restored the OS and when asked which backup to use, I selected no backup – in other words, a new iPhone.  And that is what I got.  After that I was able to sync all my apps, music, podcasts, photos, contacts, etc....  There was a bit more work setting up the email, but that’s about it.

The greatest thing about this is that the phone is really snappy now – it’s like I removed all the cruft it’s been saddled with.  Feels new.