A lot of people have been reporting issues with jailbreaking using the new blackra1n tool by George, especially iPod Touch 3G owners. Some of these issues have to do with the fact that this is a tethered jailbreak for iPod Touch 3G so far. This means that to boot your iPod Touch 3G, it must be plugged into your computer and you must run blackra1n again. For those stuck at a white screen or being unable to boot your device, here are a few important pointers to keep in mind during the process:
- Make sure you’ve updated to 3.1.2. This jailbreak is not for 3.0 or 3.1.
- Download the purplera1n tool to your desktop. Some users have reported issues of the application crashing or having issues with rights on Vista or 7. This should fix those issues. For more convenience. run it as an administrator.
- Make sure no other software is running when you jailbreak to avoid interference.
- If your device doesn’t boot for a long time, hold down the power and home buttons and restart it. If it tells you to connect to iTunes, something must have gone wrong and you might have to restart the process. I know this is annoying, but it has worked for some people after some tries. It does work.
- You won’t lose your data by jailbreaking. Only a fresh firmware restore could mean that your apps might go away, but they can be synced back using iTunes.
- If you have a white screen turn off the device by holding the power and home buttons for 10 seconds and boot it again.
- If iTunes keeps popping up, use CTRL + ALT + DELETE to go to the task manager and kill all iTunes processes which includes iTunesHelper.exe. This can cause interference with the process too.
- Strangely, doing the process on different computers has also worked for some people.
In the end, keep in mind that blackra1n really works. I tried it on my iPod Touch 2G 8GB, and it worked on the first try. It only got stuck when running Cydia for the first time. I had to reboot using the Power + Home buttons trick, but after that, it has been really smooth.
If you have any questions, put them down in the comments below, or you are welcome to start a discussion on our Facebook fan page.
Update: George Hotz has tweeted about an important issue that most people are facing. You’ll have to check if your iPod Touch 2G or 3G, 8GB model starts with MB or MC. For MC it won’t work, so you should restore it back to the old firmware. It works fine for the ones that start with MB. I guess that should answer most of the issues people are facing with blackra1n.
Update 2: blackra1n RC2 has been released which fixes most issues. Read more here.
Important: iPhone OS 3.1.3 has been released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. We’ve got a new guide up on how to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 and iPod Touch 3.1.3 with redsn0w 0.9.4. Don’t upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.3 if you’re using an unlocked iPhone 3G/3Gs or a jailbroken iPod Touch 2G (MC Model)/3G. The redsn0w guide is for iPhone 2G/3G jailbreak and iPod Touch 1G/2G ( non-MC Models) only.
Update: Use this one to jailbreak all iPod Touch models with OS 3.1.2/3.1.3 untethered using Spirit Jailbreak!
my ipt 2g 8gb 3.1.2 mc it is jail broken i had to stop itunes helper ipod service and bonjure also had to keep ituens open now i am scared to reset because i dont now if i wll have to use black rain again can someone tell me also if it is not working for you just keep trying it definetly will i know it is frustrating just do as much reserch as posible you will get it so if you have a 8gb 2g mc model it will work i just dont know if it is tetherd or not thank you gohot i will donate!!!!!! keep them coming
Thx man after i closed all processes running on my computer with the programm End it All its finally working
Greets
Max
so, if i have an iTouch 3rd gen blackra1n woun’t work?
Everytime i click make it ra1n it tells me my ipod is jailbroken but it alwasy hangs when it restarts with a black screen
Ok, this is so frustrating! I don’t get it! I downloaded it again, got Cydia. Went to install winterboard and then it said it had to reboot (the ipod). I hit reboot and then it said I need to plug into itunes. Itunes wouldn’t do anything until I hit “restore” which then erased blackra1n and all my other applicatio…ns that were already on there and now I have to restore those from my backup. So it’s a vicious cycle. Is there a solution??
i used blackra1n just like u told me to word for word. but every time i jailbreak the ipod turns off and it says to wait for reboot. and when it dosent reebot itunes tells me that the ipod is in restore mode. what do i do. help me please.
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need fast help ipod touch has been jailbroken for a month. nothing went wrong untill i installed catagories. it froze and now when i start it up the apple icon just sits there. please help me with what to do to fix this. thanks in advance
WOo!! Really weird, I did all the steps and everything, but I can turn off and turn on without plugging it in and starting blackra1n!! The only real thing I can think of is when I plugged it into my car charger, maybe it tricked it into thinking I already restarted or something. FREAKING AWESOME THOUGH!!, love the themes on Cydia! Thx Jailbreaker man.
Hey I was wondering if you can do the jailbreak without restoring? I f someone has tried it like this can you confirm if it worked or not?
Hi, I was wondering if the Jailbreaking process for iPod 3G (64GB) models that starts with MC will never work, or will you fix it soon?
Please help!! Everytime i jailbreak my ipod touch 3g, once I install cydia when my ipod reboots it goes into recovery mode and I have to restore it. Does anyone know why and how to fix this???
You don’t need to restore it! When you restart it, just connect it to your computer and run blackra1n again.
Is there anyway that this jailbreak will be lasting using blackra1n RC3? I have an 8 gig iPod Touch with OS 3.1.2. I’ve been able to load Cydia properly, but my issue is everytime I turn off then turn on the touch, it shows the screen requesting the touch be connected to iTunes. I run blackra1n everytime this screen comes up, and then blackra1n reboots the touch, and I am able to use it normally.
Is there anyway I can avoid this issue of having to run blackra1n everytime I turn on the touch? Because if a computer with blackra1n isn’t near and I were to turn it on, I can’t use it.
i got a 8g it starts with mc am i able to use this ??
My problem is when i go to download blackra1n, i hit run both times then a dialogue box pops up saying “the procedure entry point sqlite3_prepare_v2 could not be located in the dynamic link library SQLite2.dll.” and nothing else happens.Also no matter how many times i hit ok on the dialogue box, it won’t go away. HELP me plz i don’t know why this is happening
The comment was specific to ITouch 3g, 8gb models that start with “mc”. Does that target only 8gb? or is that 8, 32, and 64?
Also will there be an update in the future to fix it to work for these models?
Im having the exact smae problems as W2002. Every time i turn off my ipod touch with 3.2.1 firmware it requests that it be connected to itunes. What’s the deal with that? I had to recover from that 4 times already and its a pain in the ass to put all the music and vid’s back on it. Just wondering could there be something that I’m doing wrong or is there a fix that could be made for it?
cydia keeps telling me that there’s a domain error how do i fix this?
Damn mine starts wit mc . Ne idea ow to restore it???? Xx tank u!
Ran blackra1n on ipt 3g 8g and apart from havin to use blackra1n everytime i plug it in everything seems fine. small price topay for a working JB
Any help appreciated, ( am an old fart trying to sort this for my son ) I have an 8Gb Ipod Version 3.1.2 (7D11) Model MC086BT, have managed to run Blackra1n and Cydia but when I try to sync applications (games) from iTunes I get the following message ‘ The application “x” was not installed on the iPod “y” because an unknown error occurred (0xE8008001)………
Just wandered if there was something that I was missing or have misunderstood.
Many Thanks
Doodle