Crash on iPad and restored

There's always a price for hacking a Apple device. Yesterday I was paying that price.

I got my iPad 3G before my trip, and it took me no time to jailbreak this bad boy, get AT&T unlimited data plan, and started using it like crazy. I installed these jailbreak only apps:

- Backgrounder (so that I can play Pandora at the back)
- 3G Unrestrictor (so that I can use Skype on 3G network)
- Installous

I didn't remember whether I accidentally turned on the "install with iTune" feature in Installous, though.

So everything worked out great while I was in the trip. When I got back home I was trying to sync my iPad back to my iTune on my MacMini at home, and found that even apps I got from Installous got sync to iTune. Interesting. But still so far not much problem at all.

I did realized that when I use iPhone explorer to get access to the root, I had problem. Later I realized that that's because I hadn't installed "afc2add". After I installed it, iPhone explorer has no problem getting to the real root.

Trouble came when yesterday I tried to sync my iPad to my iTune, and found that the apps I grabbed earlier yeterday kept being deleted during the sync process. I was pissed, and tried rebooting the iPad. And that's when everything went south.

After rebooted, the machine was in crazy mode:

• It seemed to thought of itself as an iPhone or iPod Touch, as the bottom tray only occupy 1/4 of the screen!
• The background photo is GONE, and replaced with totally black.
  
• Screen orientation button turned into a sound mute button! And on the home screen, change orientation does NOT WORK.
• iPhone mode doesn't work. The 2X button was gone, and apps behave strangly. Specifically, some area became unclickable.
• Even the iPad native apps went crazy. Some portion of the screen didn't sense touch

The system was a total disaster. After tried and tried, I finally decided to restore the system. Luck that I let iTune backup my machine, caused after I re-stalled, everything went back to normal. even my manga in GoodReader is now behaving properly. It did, thought tool me almost 3+ hours to get everything back to normal. Crazy.

I also lost all the apps I downloaded, but thanks to this experience, I was forced to deal with the iPHone Explorer problem, and also found out that the apps downloaded can be found at:
/var/mobile/Documents/Installous/Downloads/

But in the meantime I am not going to install Backgrounder and 3G Unrestrictor .I suspect that they are the reason why my iPad was freaked up. And also since I am not going to trip soon, these features doesn't seem as useful when I am use being at home or at work.