Mail problem in 3G

[benzng]

Hi all,

I just got my iphone 3G and i backed up my old iphone. Everything was transferred including my SMS. yey But the problem is my Mail. Whenever I click on it it just goes back to the spring board. I did some research and i think the problem is it copied the permissions in my old iphone?

Here is what i dug up.
If you are restoring your settings from a non-jailbroken phone - or if you are not restoring at all - then you just need to reboot the phone first, and if that doesn't work, restore it.

If you are restoring from a jailbroken phone and it doesn't work, that's because you improperly set the permissions on the phone last time you fixed the problem in 1.1.3 or 1.1.4.

You probably followed some instructions that told you to chmod 755 or 777 on some files, when in fact the correct procedure would have been to chown them to mobile.mobile

So if you still have your old iPhone around, install SSH and SSH into the phone (username root, password alpine). Then type

cd /var/mobile/Library/Mail
chown mobile.mobile *
cd /var/private/Library/Mail
chown mobile.mobile *

Then connect the phone back to iTunes, rename it to something unique, and force it to make a backup (in Windows, you right click on the phone icon to do so).

Finally, connect the 3G iPhone and restore it as a backup (the name it suggests as the backup should be the unique name you chose above - if not, nuke your backup folder in iTunes and make a backup of the old iPhone again and repeat).

True? any other suggestions aside from setting it up as new iphone? i tried backing up my SMS via megaphone but it cant read the 3G iphone.

Thanks.

Solution

This is the fix that worked for me.

This fix comes adapted from http://www.ben.geek.nz/fixing-iphone...s-20-firmware/
The problem is the user privileges to the directory that your mail is stored in is owned by user “root” and under 2.0 Mail requires ownership by user “mobile”. The following procedure fixes this.
1. Download MobileTerminal from Cydia if you haven’t already done so (it’s in the Featured Packages section).
2. Open MobileTerminal – this looks like the Terminal on a Mac or the Command Prompt on a PC. It’s very small so you have to type very carefully. If you’re not familiar with UNIX commands type very very carefully and pay attention to Capital Letters. The Commands you will enter are case sensitive. Type everything within the quotes (but not the quotes).
3. Enter “su” press return
4. You will be prompted for a password, enter “alpine” press return (if you’ve already changed the root password enter your new password).
5. Enter “cd /var/mobile/Library” press return (Note the capital L in Library)
6. Enter “chown -R mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Library/Mail” press enter (note the capital letters again)
All fixed, you’re done, exit MobileTerminal and the Mail app should work

I did this to my old iphone. deleted all email settings. backed up. restored the new 3G and used the backed up data. everything is working ok.