Does Jailbreaking Brick or keep you from Updating later?

[DRFP]

Read this on a lot of Blogs

Before you upgrade you need to make sure the your iphone has not been modified (jailbreaked), because if you upgrade your phone it will get bricked. Your phone might not be unlocked but it could be modified.
A way of cheking this is if you have thir party applications in your iphone such as summerboard, appinstaller, fielt test, customize, nes games, etc.
Currently the simfree hack is the only hack that will let you upgrade a modified phone but you have to buy it from them.

Any truth at all to these posts?

I thought jailbreaking is just software like unlocking, when you update the firmware it just overwrites the jailbreak.

No big deal no brick

If this is wrong please post.

[seann33uk]

jailbreak allows the iphone to be opened up to third party apps and tweaks
its a bad thing in apples eyes but it allows:
APPS that apple wouldn't allow past the reviews
Tweaks like wallpaper behind the icons, or new methods of showing icons on your springboard like STACKS or 5 columns (instead of 4)
and lots of many great things you couldn't do if you leave it as stock.

so far there has been no true BRICK you could crash your phone if you put something bad on it.. but all you do is restore and its fixed.


its just trying to scare you

[CaptainChaos]

That quote must be from a long time ago. Summerboard has been replaced by Winterboard..Installer is gone..Customize hasn't been ported in a while.

It is actually quite the opposite. Once you have jailbroken your phone you can jailbreak it again as you have established what they call the chain of trust.

The days of bricking are gone with the exception of hardware failures.

[DRFP]

That quote must be from a long time ago. Summerboard has been replaced by Winterboard..Installer is gone..Customize hasn't been ported in a while.

It is actually quite the opposite. Once you have jailbroken your phone you can jailbreak it again as you have established what they call the chain of trust.

The days of bricking are gone with the exception of hardware failures.

I read it from 2009 about BlackRa1n.

But if you google this topic there are a ton of these type posts, I wanted to see what members here would say.

I think the posts are from those

Who work for apple.
or
Who think they know when they have no clue but assume it would be bad.

I used BlackRa1n and found it easy and works, CYDIA works well ROCK has some issues though, it hangs and has reset my phone a couple of times. But no losses.

[CaptainChaos]

I have never had luck with Rock so I never use it anymore. Other people swear by it though. I will give them this...they stand behind their software and are always trying to fix/improve it. It just simply doesn't work for me.