https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7000
They were documented in 2.x, but not in 3.x. According to the deprecation policy (http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/DeprecationPolicy), it will be deprecated in the next release (changes are already in trunk), and removed in 3.9.0. If it was a publicly documented API, which it is not, it would have been removed in 4.0 instead. Unless its a better idea to do this in 4.0? Yup, some 3rd party plugins still use these methods. (writing a blog post about this soon)
