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!
I have an ipod touch dont know if 2g or 3g that’s one of my doubt but it’s 8gb could you please tell me how to identify whether which one it my be?? It begings with the model MC and i want to jailbreak it but whenever i try it it keeps sowing me the itune connection usb—> itunes im desperated please help me to jailbreak it!!!!
yeah same ere except mine just boots and stays on the apple logo, i can hold home+power button and it resets but gets stuck at the same damn spot…. how do i fix this and i have also tryed on boot, launching blackra1n which does nuthin :( heeeallp
Guys, it clearly states on this site that for the IPod Touch, it’s a tethered jailbreak only. Meaning, the device is jailbroken, but if you turn off the IPod, then you will need to rerun blackra1n again to get into the IPod menu. From all that i have read, there are no hot fixes for this at the moment until they come up with a better solution.
what happens if blackrain wont even run. after i start it it keeps saying that an error occurred and it must close. really frustrating cause my ipod turned off and now i cant reboot. and doesnt restoring it erase everything on the ipod?
why do i have to connect my jailbroke ipod touch to blackra1n if i shut it off?
Is there any solution that when you turn off the ipod and you turn it back on you need to plug in … any solution for it ? is very annoying ….
If you have a 64GB Touch (3G) with a serial starting with MC – DO NOT use the blackra1n jailbreak. I repeat, DO NOT try to jailbreak it. I tried on my 64GB touch and bricked the device. It went to some “firmware restore” mode, then turned off for good.
Took it back to the Apple Store and they even replaced it because they could not get response out of it. I believe comment #19 here had the same problem.
I have the exact same problem as BElal Kaddoura #29, Id love an answer to the question…
i jailbroke it using this but everytime i turn it off ,
i have to re- jailbreak it , help please???
jailbreak worked quick and on first shot with 8gb 2G iphone but iphone gets stuck on edit home screen–can’t dismiss message
anyone else have this happen?
how can i fix it?
Well my ipt 3g 32 gb had some very weird problems, whenever i clicked make it ra1n, the ipod goes into recovery mode, george picture never comes up and only the connect to itunes pic was there. The program shows a ‘clicked’ make it ra1n which says going into recovery. Waited for about 1 hrs + and nothing happened. Is there anything im doing wrong?
I have an iPod 3rd gen that starts with Model MC. I’ve tried every single trick that i’ve seen in youtube and in every forum including the power button and home one, running it as an administator from c: local drive, and deleting the tasks and none of them have worked. However once playing with the iPod’s setting and the blackrain properties I managed to get GeoHot’s face on my iPod wich is an MC model and i had restored it just before that happened during the jailbreak but it got stuck on that part and never rebooted. i didn’t knew that restoring it might make the Model Number an MB or at least i’ve heard something like that. It was just pure luck and I really don’t remember what i did to get to the GeoHot’s image part but I know it can be done and by the way I have tried the jailbreak many time and it hasn’t bricked or anything like that i just gets stuck on the black screen then i turn it off and on again and it starts like if nothing had happened with all my music, apss and stuff. I really don’t know what else to do right now i’m hoping for Blackweather to release something new for 3rd Gens MCs. the only thing i’m missing is trying the jailbreak on other computer. If someone has an Ipod like mine jailbroken i’ll really apreciate info you can write me at kenepo_adc@hotmail.com or comment me I haven’t jailbroken mine yet but I Know a bit about the black and white, geohot’s pic and connect to itunes stucks. If anything of this happens to your ipod all you got to do is keep playing with the blackrain properties and your computer until u get to the black screen. Once u get there u can turn off and on the ipod and i will start as normal. God bless U all.
Why in the he’ll should I always reconnect blackrain wenever I turned on my iPod.. This is a waste of time.. Any other thing to Do with this.. Do something.. I just buy ds iPod for a convinient work purposes and time consumption.
Hi, I own an iPod touch 2nd gen with a 3.1.2 firmware and it’s jailbroken. Only problem is is that I can’t turn it off/let it be low batt bcuz when i try to turn it on, it’s always on the restore mode. Same goes if I download something on Cydia and it needs to reboot.. Pls help!
So I have everything jailbroken and I’m good with that and then I want to download winterboard and for that you have to restart the ipod. When I do that my iPod just shows the connect to iTunes sign.
From what I understand, I should just go to the blackra1n website and re jailbreak it again? Should that fix everything? Will everything, including winterboard, be on my iPod?
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Just re run blackra1n as the instructions in the blog post say.
i just jailbreaked my BRANDNEW touch 3G 32gb.. i keep having to connect it to BLACKRA1N when i want to turn it on. someone please help me, im so guttred :( there must be a way.
I just got my ipod touch 3g 32gb and i want to jailbreak it. I downloaded blackra1n and ran it and everything was goinggreat it found the device it apparantly jailbroke it and then it came up with the message your ipod is now jailbroken wait for reboot or something along those lines. so i waited and waited and about 40 minutes later the ipod decided to reboot. i have had a good look and cannot find the app anywhere.I have ran blackra1n a good 10 times butt the same thing keeps happening. I know it’snot working because my m8 jailbroke is ipod touch 3g 32gb at the same time as mine and his has lots of new apps. My ipod has still works fine but it’s still not jailroken. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks hunter.
My Ipod 32g seems to be jailbroken but when I sync an application all I get is an unknown error 0xE8008001. I have updated my usb drivers as suggested in another thread but to no avail.
Is there any way around this?
when i jailbreak my ipod 2g 8gs 3.12 its goes to recovery mode then soon a black screen over and over i cant jail break it and how do you tell if its mc or mb
why when i download blackra1n in my ipod touch 3g i have to restore it
Help please, I have an 8 gig iPod Touch, 2nd generation, 3.1.2, MB model. Need to know if this is tethered? Thanks