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!
hii ipod touch 16 gig think its second gen not really sure i done this jailbreak it does everything appart from wen it says wait 2 reboot it just goes 2 a black screen and nothing comes up ? help please
email : happyparsnips@hotmail.co.uk ohh i have tried pressing the power button and hom and done all that nothing seems 2 work :s
Hi i have upgraded my 3g iphone 8g to the 3.1.2 and was easy, but the problem i’m facing now is that when i restored my iphone applications from itune, they open and close directly i cannot use the, so i tried something and it worked, I re downloaded some applications from itune again and sync those newly downloaded apps works fine, any application already on the itune will not work any help as i have 190 apps and some are more than 100mb i cannot download them all :)
hey i jailbroke my ipod with blackra1n and i did cydia but when i got this theme called blackra1n and it said rebot ipod and i did and now it wont turn what do i do?
i have the ipod touch 2g and ive used blackra1n four times and every time it starts back up after reboot no app called blackra1n is added…plus i dont know where to see if im MB or MC
I have VISTA and tried for the last 3 hrs to do this, with no success. Finally, I ran it without the XP compatibility, and it worked like a charm! (also not as administrator)
Help!!! I installed Blackra!n and now my iPhone wont turn on!! I tried EVERYTHING!! plugging it into my mac, rebooting, turning power switch and home button, and still NOTHING!! Its been 2 hours now! :(
yeah same i have a jailbroken ipod touch 2g with 2.2.1. firmware. i want to get 3.1.2 but without deleting anything on my ipod…. is there way to do this?????
Will this work on mac G4?
The latest version of blackra1n should.
Got there in the end. As previously stated, kill all ipod processes in task manager and don't bother with the xp compability switch and make it rain. I'm running vista.
Where does it say mc or mb on the ipod
Go to Settings> General > About and scroll down to see Model number
i have itouch 3g 3.1.2 MC and how i can jailbreak it or i won't do this
is there any way to change mc to mb????
No
ummm i have a model # that starts with an MC but it works. and is there a way to untether the jailbreak?
Is there a jailbreak for my iTouch that starts with MC?
will a version of blackra1n in the future could jailbreak mc models?
I have a itouch 3g with mc version. I've downloaded the latest itune n run blackra1n RC3. All works well, i installed Cydia but d itouch now in tethered mode. How to fix this ?
do i need to download anything in Cydia? becoz i cant not put any apps that i download from appulo…still having error when installing them through itune