I killed bonjour

I didn’t know about the problems with Rock app. I installed Cydia and Rock app, and then I changed my mind about Rock app. I used cydelete to get rid of it. Is there any way I can permanently delete it?

Tried this multiple times, tried killing just iTunesHelper.exe, tried killing all the ones Flol suggests. Nothing seems to work, i always get stuck in the running… mode. I have tried it on 5 different computers running different os’s 64bit and 32bit.

Will all the apps I installed using cydia and tethering be preserved after using this?

This looks to be good only for people who did not jailbreak on previous OS versions… I still think that it is better to wait until dev-team confirms that it is working.

Btw i have a 3gs with 3.0 jailbroken

Big Boss,

My 1st time to JB 3Gs with no problems. I have cydia installed and started selecting some programs. Question – Do I have to purchase duplicate apps from Cydia for a second Iphone (wife’s) or can I drop the same ones on her phone using same account like I do with the app store?

No, stay on 3.0.1. There is no reason to move from 3.0.1 to 3.1.2.

Yes no iphone browser of any type will work for now, maybe on the next update of Blackra1n.

So how does one get recorded video (from cycorder for example) off the phone?

I have an iPhone 3G with 3.1.2 installed (stupidly doing it then reading this post). I need to UNLOCK my phone for travel. Can I restore to my phone 3.0 to unlock?

thanks

another useless programm. who wants to jailbreak.
the only thing most users want is unlock.

we want to use the iPhone with other carriers, who cares about jailbreak itself. its only use together wtih unlock.

so i misinterpreted everything that said “don’t upgrade to 3.1.2″
I ran blackra1n without upgrading to 3.1.2 (was still on 3.0) and now the phone won’t reboot (or boot at all). How can I get it to boot? (I cant even run a restore becuase the phone wont boot up!)

Each, Sorry half the text is missing.

Kev…

superbbbbbbbb works gr88888
in few secs all was done
i love my 3GS ven more now

Hey Boss!!

Thanks for all your terrific work! Keep up the great job!

I have a problem with my 3G with 3.1.2 jailbroken and Categories.

I UPDATED from 3.1 to 3.1.2 (I have so many applications that restoring them all would take hours) and then blackrained my device.

Before updating the fw, I did a backup but I forgot to remove my applications from my Categories folders.

Everything was working just fine until I reinstalled Categories. I can see my Categories, all showing (0) apps and I cannot add or edit anything.

What’s worse, all my applications have disappeared from my springboard, even if I uninstall Categories and reboot.

Please, can you suggest anything so I can resolve this problem?

Thank you.

can i use blackra1n if my iphone is sync with a mac?

meaning, can i do the jailbreak on the pc then go back to syncing with my mac.. ?

cydelete wont work for some stupid fucking reason!

So….? this do not seem to work properly? The only reason for my wanting to jailnreak is to run cydia!

Does this work or not?

where do i download this, ? when i push the link nothing happens!

Shitt , it worked, hurrrreeeeyyyyyy!!!

how long after finished and reboot i am stuck at reboot for 30+ min andi have tried every way shown over here

hi
WORKS GREATTTTTTT A+++++++++++++++++++
NICE WORKS
HATS OFFFFFFFFFFF

Hi Guys,

I tried about 3 hours to use Blackra!n, it didn’t work,….
then i found this thread and,…Oh miracle,…
after 30-40 seconds, I saw the dude (Lol), few seconds later the Iphone rebooted, and worked properly!!!!!

Thank u for the Tip Floi!!!

Greetings from Luxembourg

—> Iphone 3G 8GB without NetLock

I am still getting stuck on running no matter which way I try it. tried bigboss instructions, Floi’s, rabbits, and still no go. I am using a iphone3g 3.1.2 firm ware. Any help would be much appreciated I just want my iphone jb for cydia apps, themes etc.

thanks

S

Use SBSettings and go into safe mode, you can enable it from the power icon. That will show all your apps. You should also be able to launch them from spotlight if you have Big Boss’ libhide installed.

I’m having the same issue as Jared. And plus, I followed some Yotube videos fixes.
It’s time to use iReb… Right now, it’s working. But it’s not really a jailbreak :/

Hi, Does it make more sense to jailbreak my ipod touch 3g using BlackRa1n? Or to wait for an untethered jailbreak? If I Jailbroke using Blackra1n now would I have to restore to remove the jailbreak and Jailbreak using the untethered Jailbreak?

Yes, I just made sure to backup my iphone 3gs on my mac (just in case), and just plugged it in to my friends PC. i made sure to close itunes when it popped up (which u can disable ahead of time on itunes) and then ran blackra1n. No problem, did it with 2 iphones, just make sure to keep itunes closed (it will pop up again when the jailbreak reboots)

The best thing about GeoHot is you dont need itunes to download a .psw, so it doesn’t matter what cpu or type of cpu u can use to jailbreak.

After the jailbreak, i synced it to my mac and it backed it up without a hickup

Go for it and be free

Does anyone have an eta to Dev Teams JB? I have 3G 3.1.2 tried all above and still cant jailbreak the blasted phone :(

I had trouble getting this to work at first. But I have found that if you plug iphone in to computer, wait for itunes to open, once it opens close it. Then open blackra1n, wait for 30 seconds then click ‘make it rain’.

I have done it, but once it reboots it just loads up the old screen with the emergency call slide (arrow in background pointing to itune) has anyone else got this? I assume im supposed to get the springboard screen, no?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Because you live in the US doesnt mean that it doesnt matter about the carrier unlock…. does it? If you update to 3.1.2 you cant use any other carrier other than AT&T I believe?

But if you dont care then simply upgrade through itunes (plug it in, wait for itunes to recognise the iphone, click ‘restore’ and it will do the rest).

Once thats done just jailbreak with Blackra1n: http://blackra1n.com/

Click no the windows icon at bottom of the screen. Download it, then run it. Im having problems tho.. So you do it at your own risk.

Once you have updated through itunes to the latest firmware there is no going back!

AWESOME! Works sooo much better than the last one, purple rain… First time very smooth and easy.. Thank you

you mean cracked apps? Jailbreak apps dont have anything to do with itunes. As far as cracked apps, I would try a dif site. It is my understanding that BB frowns apon such a practice.

Hey the link to blackra1n appears to be broken… for me at least..

yes, its just that simple

update via itunes, close itunes, run the blackra1n (make sure itunes is closed), wait, wait some more (literally 30-60secs) and you are done.

Remember, install cydia, icy and rock ONE AT A TIME< DONT INSTALL ALL 3 at once

Does anyone know if there is a tethering solution with 3.1.2? I was using the different carrier setting before having to upgrade and would like to get this functionality back.

What is the deal with unlocking! Its great and all that you can JB your phone but the rest of us are waiting for the unlocking of 6.02 and up! That is something that we will gladly throw some money at!!!!!

Everything went perfect for me, but……….

iphonebrowser did not work for me. I fixed the plist using ifile.

Now I cannot connect to itunes. I get error 8u000022.

Any ideas? BTW 3GS 3.1.2 blackra1n.

Hey guys attempted the jailbreak several times before I successfully did it. Now my problem is that neither Cydia nor Icy are working? Did I miss a step? Suggestions?

Thanks!!!

I was also having issues but finally got it to work and here’s how:
1)Make sure your iPhone is connected (USB) to your PC
2) Make sure you have iTunes 9.0.1.8
3) Close out of iTunes (no need to stop all the tasks as mentioned in the steps above)
4) Make sure your iPhone is on
5) Run blackra1n as admin
6) If iTunes opens while blackra1n is still running, simply close out of it and continue to let blackra1n do its thing.

Use admin priv to run blackra1n and win95 compatability mode

I have tried every single option and nothing atall is working :(
I need a new solution, can anyone help?

im running 3.0 on my 3GS right now.. it has been jailbroken. so, ill have to upgrade to 3.1.2 through itunes, then JB the device, correct? when i do this, will i lose all the apps from cydia im currently running and have to reinstall them all, or will they still be around when i update and re-JB?

wow, that was incredibly easy.
No hick-ups at all.
Thanks!

YOU GUYYS ARE LEGENDS!!!

IT DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN.

OUTSTANDING WORK!

i did the update, ran blackra1n.. it seriously took ~30 seconds, no glitches, no hang, no nothing. i did close itunes, ituneshelper, and mdnsresponder before i ran blackra1n.

unfortunately i did have to reinstall all previously used apps from cydia. no biggie but yeah..

Hi there.

I have jailbroken my iphone (i think) with os 3.1.2.
Everything went very well but i cannot install any game or app.
I countiniously getting the same error ” an unknown error has accured 0xE8008001”

Will you help me please?????

Greetings from Hellendoorn Holland

Rik

牛X!

Thanks a million Floi, I’ve been trying to jailbreak for the past half hour and finally got it working thanks to your excellent instructions.

i installed blkrn with out any problems. i did install cydia, icy and rock at same time. only thing that doesn’t seem to work is catagories from cydia. how do i remove icy. will this help get catagories working. i can create folder install the app in folder see the icon in the folder, but icon doesn’t disappear from main menu. any ideas?
thanks

This worked for me. I was able to get everything perfect after a restore/backup…

Steps:
1) Backup in iTunes
2) Restore to factory settings iTunes
3) run Blackra1n
4) Install Cydia
5) Restore from backup in iTunes
5) Sync in iTunes (To get all your music/photos/etc back)
6) Install AptBackUp in Cydia and run Restore
7) Enjoy

Rumor has it that installing any carrier packages from Cydia and then upgrading from 3.0.1 will give you the carrier update error in iTunes. Rumor also has it that if you get the carrier error in iTunes, Blackra1n won’t work.

Putting one and two together: Remove any carrier packages from Cydia prior to upgrading to 3.1.x. If that doesn’t work, follow the steps above.

your an idiot

How long does it take to see the dude?? My phone just looks like its on but nobodys home and it never reboots…. WTF?? Help please…

install appsync from cydia and it will patch the mobileinstallation file and give you permission to install cracked applications

word of advice, if you do want winterboard and sbsettings to work, dont install rock or icy as these installers are full of bugs! just stick to the single install of cydia!

LMFAO!! No sooner do I post that, then try one last time and it worked. I did nothing different, it just took 1,438,948 attempts.

HOW

Yes, it works, but took me almost one hour.
I have a 3G 8GB.

Here is how it works for me:

-start iphone (with OS 3.1.2) and close itunes when it opens.

-unplugg usb-cable, and turn off your iphone, press and hold homebutton while inserting usb-cable, keep holding home-button and the recovery image displays (itunes icon with a usb-cable)(thnx Floi)

-open blackra1n and press “make it ra1n” DIRECTLY when the phone goes into recovery-mode!

-wait a while and you should see the picture

-keep wait and your phone reboots.

-open the new blackrain icon on your springboard and install cydia.

Wow.. I absolutely love you. I just tried that since the release date, gave up, tried new things, and now i saw this so i tried it and it worked IMMEDIATELY. Does this mean I don’t lose my contacts and photos? If so i’m about to find out in 5 seconds, and boy do I ever love you right now :). Worked likea charm, follow Floi and you’ll do it immediately first try!!

Update: Photos, Music, EVERYTHING is still on my Iphone. I love you 5x more now buddy :)

J.W. are you leaving out some steps?
First off, are these instructions to be followed after a failed try of blackra1n or as a first try?

In your second step you discuss going into recovery mode…how do you get into recovery mode? After a failed attempt using blackra1n, when it hangs at the ‘running’ step you are left in ‘recovery mode’, however, I can’t turn off my iPhone when it is in that state…the only thing I can do is reboot it. After that of course it isn’t in recovery mode. So, I can’t follow/fully understand your steps either after a failed try using blackra1n or as a first try.
thx

Mojtaba from Cazisoft – “If you already unlocked your iPhone 2G with 2.x or 3.x you don’t need to unlock your phone any more! You need just to jailbreak! Because the baseband didn’t get updated after 2.0.0″

So accordingly, if you had unlocked before then you need not worry about further unlock for a 2G – just JB.
With blackra1n you get to install both Cydia & Rock but to do it one at a time?

push CLTR AND ALT and Deler at the same time and then go to start task manager and just look for items

Help please.. My iphone 3gs doesn’t start back up when entering reboot mode…

What about the 1st generation iPhone?
Does blackra1n unlock the original iPhone on 3.2 or not? I believe there are no baseband updates to it?

J.W, thanks, tried your steps and it works just like that.

jonr, from J.W’s steps, I just open blackra1n program before plugging in the cable, so when the cable is plugged and the recovery image displays you can click the “make it rain” button right away.

Tried it and almost get frustrated, but it works fine finally.
Hope it works for you too.
cheers

yo guys are correct …even mine worked after holding the MAKE IT RAIN button for 10 seconds..I see the image of GEOHOT…but the phone is not jailbreaked…again i see the NO SIM CARD intalled message…the un-jailbreaked version still persists…
please help …
iused ipsw: iPhone1,2_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw

please let me know….if i m doing it correct…i am geting geohot image..phone is restarting but i have not jailbroken it yet…
PLZ HELP

Hi everyone. I have been reading the post but cant get myself to do upgrade to 3.1.2. I am in Mumbai, India. I am using a 3g 8gb jailbroken and unlocked iphone. When i purchased it secondhand it was JB and unlocked. I was using Idea sim which is not tied up with apple, as here in India only vodafone and Airtel are authorised. After the new 3.0 update came out and after reading all the post in dev teams site, I finally after a mt did the restore and JB and unlock using ultrasnow8. It worked fine. Then the update came for 3.0.1 and I again restored and used ultrasnow 9.0.1. But my iphone got locked. After multiple tries I could use it for a few hours then NO SERVICE. After a month after going trough many post I finally found unltrasnow8 by Rizwan which worked for me but I could only use Vodafone sim, I guess it got locked to vodafone. I use multiple sims which used to work before but non works now. Somebody Pls advice should I restore to 3.1.2 as there is no unlock available for it. I already went trough pains using my iphone as an ipod for more than a month. Pls advice big boss or guys. Thanks.

franz thinks that his case is the same as the majority,
srry to burst your bubble franz but for example here in australia all iphones can be legally unlocked so everyone here only cares about the jailbreak, keep your ignorant comments to yourself

Here is my log.. Boss can you help me.. I try everything, I been jailbreaking iphone from 2.1 till now,i can’t get the this thingy to work. It load up the geohot pix but when it go to reboot mode it doesn’t turn back on. The only way to turn the iphone is by restoring the iphone with itune. Btw I’m using iphone 3gs.
***
INFO: welcome to blackra1n for windows
INFO: loaded dll at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\iTunesMobileDevice.dll
INFO: button clicked
INFO: callbacks registered
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: internal device callback called
INFO: sent enter recovery command
INFO: internal recovery callback called
INFO: unregistered normal mode callback
INFO: go go gadget ra1n
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 1
INFO: command setenv auto-boot true sent
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command saveenv sent
send payload: 0
INFO: start sending exploit
ioctl: 0
INFO: exploit closed 0
sent exploit
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command geohot sent
send picture: 0
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command setpicture 0 sent
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command bgcolor 1 1 1 sent
send ramdisk: 0
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command geohot sent
INFO: I JUST DROPPED IT LIKE ITS HOT
WARN: wtf who called this?
INFO: global callback finished
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called
***
INFO: welcome to blackra1n for windows
INFO: loaded dll at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\iTunesMobileDevice.dll
INFO: button clicked
INFO: internal device callback called
INFO: callbacks registered
INFO: sent enter recovery command
INFO: internal recovery callback called
INFO: unregistered normal mode callback
INFO: go go gadget ra1n
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 1
INFO: command setenv auto-boot true sent
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command saveenv sent
send payload: 0
INFO: start sending exploit
ioctl: 0
INFO: exploit closed 0
sent exploit
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command geohot sent
send picture: 0
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command setpicture 0 sent
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command bgcolor 1 1 1 sent
send ramdisk: 0
INFO: send command started
INFO: file opened
ioctl: 0
INFO: command geohot sent
INFO: I JUST DROPPED IT LIKE ITS HOT
WARN: wtf who called this?
INFO: global callback finished
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called
***
INFO: welcome to blackra1n for windows
INFO: loaded dll at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\iTunesMobileDevice.dll
INFO: button clicked
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: callbacks registered
INFO: unused callback called
INFO: unused callback called

Thanks dude finially worked!!! I see the dude!!

Can someone answer my question:

Does it make more sense to jailbreak my ipod touch 3g using BlackRa1n? Or to wait for an untethered jailbreak? If I Jailbroke using Blackra1n now would I have to restore to remove the jailbreak and Jailbreak using the untethered Jailbreak?

Hey, if you have a passcode set on your iPhone Floi’s steps won’t work. remove the passcode and it works like a charm. Dan

J.W….no prob; I appreciate your input! Thanks Alrindo as well!
However, I discovered something else that worked before I had the chance to do these ‘refined’ steps you guys have provided.

I read someone talk about running the blackra1n executable as an Administrator and I had not been doing that…just double-clickingg on the .exe to run it. (I do have administrator privileges on my XP machine, btw). So, I tried it again by right-clicking on the executable and then using ‘Run as’ from the right-click menu…then choosing ‘Administrator’ explicitly rather than my XP user account name. The process worked the first time and VERY quickly and it’s working great.
Here’s a disclaimer though: Even though I got the jailbreak to work by doing this there is no guarantee that this caused it to work; it may have been a coincidence. (But my hunch ‘off the record’ is that this what fixed it) I would be interested in testing it further to isolate variables and narrow it down, etc., etc. but don’t have time. Perhaps if others who were hanging at the ‘running’ dialog even after following Big Boss’s intstructions could try it, then after a bunch of folks get success then we could probably safely say that this is the fix. I would be interested in hearing other people’s experiences with this.

The jailbreak works great but in my noob euphoria I also installed ICY, dammit. I wish I had come here first to read the warnings. Now SBSettings will not install or run. :(

I realize now I don’t want Icy. Does anyone have any ideas how I can remove/fix the Icy problem ?

Edit to above:

On task manager, click “Show processes from all users” check box on bottom

Kill Ipodservices process

worked fine for me after that.

i also installed all three, cydia, icy and rock at the same time. i got a jailbreak but cannot get cydelete to download, cannot get some apps to work. am i not fully jailbroken? wht to i do? do i wipe phone clean and restart process? any help is appreciated.

Take your sim card out. I tried about a billion times, and nothing every worked. Then I took my sim card out and it worked.

i installed and it works fine, but i had so many applications it didn’t show but 11 pages in itunes and only 4 on the iphone devise. i’m trying to reinstall the applications and it gives me errors so now i can’t get my apps back

Thanks Floi, I saw the dude….. but i just end task from those you mention.. Million Thanks

Hi there,

I use a mac pro running itunes 9.0.1 and installed blackra1n to JB my 3GS running on 3.1.2 and its working ok but only after a couple of times.
All seems to work except all of my free apple applications. I have tried to re-installed a zillion times., but no luck… you click on it a in a millisec it just closes with no error message.

Any ideas or suggestions as to how I can get them to work again

Thanks in advance

call me crazy i tried EVERY suggestion on here then just left itunes open since and ran blackrain as admin.. and it worked.. so quick once actually works….

FLOI YOU EFFING ROCK!

be sure you go to processes -> show all processes from all users and close the mdnsresponder.exe. It will NOT work unless you do this.

Thanks Floi!!! You’re a genius!!! Your tip worked fabulously!!! =D

Sorry for the following question but im a n00b and doing this for the first time.

I have a iphone3GS and looking to jailbreak. I downloaded the blackra1n app but im confused about the “ipt3″ file and “DFU-Mode” what are those?

Also if i run balcrain do i loose all my data like pictures, messages, videos, etc?

floi- YOU ARE A GOD!!!

that worked on the first try, after all other attempts numerous times failed!!!

thank you

remove Icy

like this

search on Icy…
and look for Icy installer instal Icy again it will instal but no new icon will aper on your home screen the open Icy again and go to installed look for Icy and click remove Icy then turn off your iphone/i touch and turn back on and Icy will be gone for good

Iphone 3g 8gig

so I have been trying this for two days now. When i run task manager i don’t even see ituneshelper.exe but ever thing else that is ipod or iphone, itunes ext. I shutdown then I make it rain and it never comes out of recovery mode? i have run as admin i have put it into and out of xp compatibility mode. turned off iphone held home button pluged in iphone and make it rain. not a drop. HELP any other ideas would be great. or pawnage tool for windows cuse that worked super easy.

Help! i’ve followed your instruction but i’m stuck, i can’t see the dude? all i see is black screen? Any fix for these?

thks floi and finally it worked for my 3G,

thanks a lot

Yes, NoS-Gr’s feedback is right. Been trying using floi’s feedback the whole night but it didn’t work.

Move Blackra1n.exe to c:\root folder and it worked beautifully. Am re-installing my jailbreak application now…:)

Hi, the below is my favorite..

http://download.pandaapp.com/

I haven’t closed the applemobiledevice.exe or whatever this is. It worked without closeing this.

Hi. I have just jail-broken my iPhone 3GS successfully and realised it is not mine but my sister’s. Even though she likes it jailbroken she is pretty pissed and wants it un-broken again. Is there a way I can get this done?

Quick question. I’m running Mac OS X, and blackrain. I am trying to upgrade to 3.1.2 in iTunes first, but it freezes during backup. How can I upgrade without having the iphone backup first? thx!

i must be an idiot…

Running Blackra1n as admin,

in C:\

Stuck on USB to iTunes logo on phone, Blackrain stuck on “running…”

My phone is MA model, iPhone 2g.

i read else where that this will not work on old models, is this correct?

ive been trying this for about 2 hours, and read this entire thread twice.

Could really use some help on this please.

I’m running 3.0 on jailbroke 3GS. I have categories & Cydia apps. Should I empty the categories folder, dumping all to main screen, b4 I update to 3.1.2? I don’t wanna loose my cydia apps.
Update to 3.1.2, via iTunes, run purplerain, install cydia ONLY?
Will I have to reinstall all cydia appz again?

HINT HINT HINT!

VISTA USERS RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR!

Alright so I used Internet explorer and went to blackra1n.com then I clicked on the windows logo but it just took me to a webpage that said that it’s a forbidden link…… Plz help!!!!!

how to unlock j\

You took your sim out and jailbroke with it out, or just popped it out and back in before trying?

Tried with 2 different 3G iPhones and it would NOT work. Tried literally every suggestion in the comments and still nothing…Its just hanging at “done,waiting for reboot”.

Latest iTunes,both phones running 3.1.2,Windows XP SP3 fully updated

I cant delete ICY, I installed all the apps on blackra1n and have since found out that it could be icy that are making sbsettings not work. I have tried to instal cydelete but that does not appear in my settings how can I delete ICY without having to restore the phone?

BlackRa1n doesnt jailbreak the iphone for me. I get the dude the iphone restart so the process runs ok, but when it restarts it still gives me no sim card installed thing? What do i do wrong.

how to make tathering work again

********** WORKING 3GS 3.0.1

Not sure why everyone is making this so complicated. Here is what I did

3gs – 3.0.1 – not jailbroken – stock

stopped apple services, ipod services, closed itunes
usb connection – ran blackra1n
blackra1n said it worked – device rebooted
didnt see any icons or anything special – rebooted a few times – no new icons
used itunes to update device to 3.1.2
used phone for about 2 hours
ran blackra1n again – blackrain said it worked
after reboot blackrain icon on iphone
installed cydia – everything working perfectly

ya man, how come some ppl can do it easily, and some fail to jailbreak? Is the Blackra1n’s problem or our computer’s problem?
Just follow step by step and some ppl will sucess with the jailbreak, but how come some ppl fail?

i did what spysnake said up there, and poof. i was messing with this for 3 days…. did what Floi said, nothing, did what SpySnake said. and POOF within 10 seconds, iphone jailbroken. went onto itunes 30 seconds later, did a backup, and all my data back right where it belongs. big kudos to Spy

floi, u r the man buddy. thx for the tips.

what if the itouch wont reboot after that image of geohot when it goes blank to the black recovery mode screen? mine has this problem. help me with this please. like everything works out great till it has to reboot. please help me

anybody? how do you install downloaded apps once jailbroken? itunes gives me errors.

Hello
I used blackra1n then installed cydia as instructed. However when i put a new sim it keeps saying searching and does not get signal acquisition from the new network. keeps saying searching… Any suggestions…help??

Thanks

Here are the steps I followed to get it to work.

1) Backup your phone
2) Unplug your iphone and switch it off.
3) press and hold Home Button and reconnect iphone cable so it enters DFU Mode.
4) Itunes will ask do you wish to restore and update. Say yes.
5) Configure your Iphone as a new one
6) Unplug iphone and turn it off
7) Close Itunes
8) Connect iphone to PC
9) Iphone will start, and then iTunes will open 10) Cancel any syncing or backup activity then close itunes.
11) Use task manager and rightclick:
ipodservice.exe and select end process tree
same with itunes.exe
end these two processes also:
ituneshelper.exe
mdnsresponder.exe

12) unplugg usb-cable
13) turn off your iphone
14) press and hold homebutton while inserting usb-cable, keep holding home-button and the recovery image displays (itunes icon with a usb-cable)
15) while holding home button open blackra1n (Win 7 user – no need for Admin or compatibility mode)
16) still holding home button, press “make it ra1n”
17) in a couple of secs you will see a dude ;)
18) release home button
19) wait and your phone reboots.
20) open the new blackrain icon on your springboard and install cydia. Done

Thank you to Floi and spysnake for the instructions, and a Huge thanks to Geohot for the app.

Blackra1n is a jailbreak, not a ‘Unlock’. Your iphone can only use the carrier sim that its locked to. In the US its AT&T. In the UK its O2

Another tip…

MAKE SURE YOU ARE ADMINISTRATOR ON LOCAL MACHINE. I tried many ways.. I thought it was a piece of cake after jailbreaking so many times. Ran into an issue, this was my problem.. wasn’t admin on my machine.. changed that and it worked:)

thnks so much it finaly worked !

I WAS ABLE TO GET IT TO WORK FINALLY BY KEEPING IT UNPLUGGED, WITH NONE OF THE ITUNES/IPHONE/APPLE PROCESSES RUNNING, AND HITTING “MAKE IT RAIN”. I THEN PLUGGED IN THE PHONE AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE, AND IT WENT THROUGH, AND TOLD ME IT HAD BEEN DONE. GEOHOT’S FACE SHOWED UP, THEN REBOOTED. IT IS NOW COMPLETE.

Please help me out here,
I have an iPhone 3GS 3.1.2, locked. I tried jailbreaking using Blackra1n, it said done, wait for reboot, and after the iPhone reboots nothing happens, I’m back to where I started with the iTunes&USB cable logo and emergency call.
I tried using Windows 7 & Windows Vista. I killed iTunes, iTunes helper and mdnsresponder, of-course killing AppleMobileDevice would prevent Blackra1n from detecting the iphone so I never kill it.

Basically; I did every step perfectly, but nothing happens after the phone reboots, I’m just back to where I started with the itunes&usb logo along with emergency call

PLEASE HELP !

regards,
Hamza

This worked great. Thanks for the info workd well.

Hey just thought I would let you know, I tried many times, gave up, tried again, etc. etc. and finally got it to work. All of the recommendations seem to be BS, except those about killing processes… That said, here is my advice:

1) Kill ituneshelper.exe

2)Kill any other process that has anything to do with ipods/iphones etc. (for me, it was pahelper.exe , which has to do with ipod access – a program I use to get music off ipods iphones etc.)

3) Plug in your phone

4) Check processes again to make sure everything you closed stayed closed when you plugged the phone in.

5) Run blackrain.

If your phone doesn’t display the dude with the phones image in like 20 seconds (at any rate fast) its not gonna work. Close blackrain, reboot your phone and come back here to figure out what went wrong.

Cheers

OK. I need HELP !!

I did the jailbraik, got the screen with geohot on my phone, saw the spin for the reboot and…. NOTHING.

What do I do.
It all looked perfect.
Now I have nothing on my phone.
PLease HELP fast!

Thanks

by nothng i mean. black screen. no power. nothing at all

jailbreak worked fine but when I download 3rd party applications ( games) I can not sync or install it to my 3gs. Any idea?

blackra1n does work on 2G. b sure to upgrade to latest itunes and iphone software b4 starting. DO NOT INSTALL ICY! USE CYDIA, PREFERABLY, AND/OR ROCK IF U MUST. is absoutely awesome.

Blackra!n RC2 worked for me on iphone 3g 16gb

I have a factory unlocked phone :)

** Recommend you do a full backup of your phone b4 u begin

1. Was on iphone 3.01 (Already JB)
2. Upgraded to itunes 9
3. Upgraded manually to apple iphone 3.1.2
4. Followed steps as above
5. So far everything works

Thanks

1. I assume this works on an iPhone 2G with ATT? please confirm someone?
2. I’m still running 2.whatever the last 2 was…. is it worth upgrading to 3.1.2?
3. I downloaded the blackrain software by following the blackrain link and clicking on the Apple… However, it shows up as unable to open. I have a PPC running latest Leopard. “Not supported by this architecture” – Help?

i have iphone 2G running windows XP and works wonderfully. READ UPDATES! DO NOT INSTALL ICY AT THIS TIME! cydia and rock ok. it is recommended that you use the latest itunes(9) and iphone(3.1.2) updates b4 u use blackra1n.

corrected the problem with synching apps using appsync 3.1.2, its all good now!!

One snag is that I have to tether to reboot, not a big problem as far as im concerned.

to recap.
I have a 32GB 3GS that came with 3.1.2 preinstalled. my phone serial indicates it was made at the end of week 42.

I used blackra1n for this OS and I was not able to get apps synched, just from cydia and installous on my phone.
I used appsych 3.1.2 2 days ago and now I can put apps from my pc onto my phone.

Forgot to mention. I am able to jailbreak the phone after each restore but anytime I turn my phone off and back on with it jailbroken I have to do the itunes restor.

I tried jailbreaking my Iphone 3G with blackrain and it got as far as step 5, but never got to install Cydia. My phone turned off and I have not been able to turn it on ever since.
I have tried holding the power button and menu botton at the same time for 10 seconds and I have also tried restoring the phone with itunes without success. Am I totally out of luck here? Should I throw away this current brick?

Hello all,

I successfully jb my iphone 3G with 3.1.2 firmware. Am I to no longer sync my phone with itunes? I backed up my phone before I jb it, and I know itunes only stores one copy, so I don’t want to back up the jb phone if I need to restore it for some reason. Also-what happens if the phone is rebooted without being tethered? Does it revert to the non-nb configuration? I would really appreciate any advice any of you can offer.

Cheers,
Dave

Sorry, that looks like a question. What I meant was, RESTORE!!!

Hi Guys,

I follow the process as it’s written but unfortunately blackra1n is stuck on “entering recovery”.

Don’t know what can I do, I have tried 3 times, always the same results…

Thanks for help!
Rom

Hi I got the my 3G 16gb successfully jailbroken, but every time I try to open an app that I downloaded from the app store, it loads for a second and then automatically closes then I get reverted back to the home screen. Can someone help me with this problem? Or will I just need to do a restore? Thanks.

I have an iPhone 3G that i upgraded to 3.1.2 then jailbroke with the BlackRain. Now the phone’s bluetooth will not discovery any bluetooth devices, it stays searching. I’ve paired my headset before with my iPhone prior to the upgrade. I’ve already tried the network reset on the iphone and reboot. I’ve also already tried to reset the bluetooth headset and then try to pair, but nothing works as the iphone will not discover the headset. The bluetooth headset is in the pairing mode when i’m doing this. Can anyone help me out??? I’ve looked all over the web with no avail. Thanks?

please Help dont have network connection after jailbreak with blackrain 3rc

I have tried using all the methods to jailbreak my phone using blackrain, and everything seems unsuccessful!

From a lot of the replies, a lot of people are having the same issues!

Is there any other method to jailbreak the phone?

Or is blackrain the only method as of now?

What about red snow? Before the 3.1.2 upgrade, I had no problems with jail broken iphone, any news on any other methods?

Please help me. I have a iphone 3gs. When I started Blackra1n and during recovery mode a image of a guy show up. I accidently plug out my usb wire and now the guy image is stuck on my phone. I can’t get rid of it or make my phone work. Can anyone help me? Thank you.

I can’t use itune to restore it because the image is literally stuck on the screen and nothing is working…even when I plug in the usb cable to try go to my itune…nothing is happening. Basically I’m sayin that my phone have the image stuck and now I can’t even power off,charge,or recognized on my computer.

try to hold power and home button as the same time for a while until you see it change

It took me awhile to get Blackra1n to work from the video instruction I was following. I found this site and the instruction included the stopping of the iTunesHelper. Once I did that it worked like a charm. I Lost the us of WIFI for a whi, but it eventually started to work. The one odd thing I have going on is that when ever I restart the iPhone and it comes back on, it indicates that I have a new voice message and when I swipe to unlock it calls my voice mail server. I guess this will be my small price to pay for iPhone freedom.

Hi there,

Can someone just confirm for me:

Is blackra1n an ‘untethered’ jailbreak for Iphone 3GS running 3.1.2 and base band 05.11.07?
The phone in question has just been purchased in the UK on orange.

My understanding of an ‘untethered’ jailbreak is that once the phone is jailbroken and the phone is turned off, you can then turn the phone back on without plugging it into a computer. And a ‘tethered’ jailbreak is one where you will need to plug the phone into a comp every time you want to turn it on.
Is this correct?

I’ve seen mixed comments on the net about whether it is a tethered or untethered jailbreak for the 3GS.

Thanks in advance for your help guys

Hey Welch,
Man..I am havin the same prob….done everything possible…even replaced system file “commcenter” goin crazy searching solution on the net..but seems like no one having this prob with bluetooth..
I would appreciate if u write back if got any solution yet….??

betterlinks@gmail.com

thanks a lot

hey i deleted blackra1n in my iphone so how can i get it back

A tethered jailbreak is where once the device has been jailbroken, you have to plug your device into the compute everytime you want to turn your device on.

If the battery dies or you just happen to turn it off you have to wait until you can plug into the computer to turn it back on.

I recently jailbroke my girlfriends brand new 3gs running 3.1.2, 05.11.07

In this case it turned out to be a tethered jailbreak. She didn’t like the idea of that so I restored it to factory settings.

I’ll wait until there is an untethered jailbreak.

Any news guys?

I had difficulty with getting blackra1n to work. My two Iphone’s 3G 16GB did not boot after running BR. The screen just stayed black. I could reboot by holding down to power and home button but after that no blackra1n icon. I tried my laptop (also XP) also no luck. Finally tried another cable and tried not unlocking (slider to the right)the phone and one of both seemed to work. I have different original apple usb cables, one of them worked another one didn’t. Hope it will help some of you.

Im trying to jailbreak iphone 3g and its on 3.1.2 and im getting the boot screen but its like it never finishes and after the boot screen comes on my phone just turns back on with out the blackra1n icon please help i dont know what else to do

Hi Keke,

The more recent batches of Iphone 3gs have been updated with a new boot-rom. I’m not sure what the actual technicality of that actually means but I do know that this is the reason why you are having to go through the process of using the computer to turn on the phone each time.

For the newer batches, which is what I presume yours to be is only supported (at the present time)by what is known as a tethered jailbreak. This means you have to plug your phone in and use blackra1n each time to turn the phone on.

I have a 3gs which I purchased in August 2009. This is an older batch and it is supported by untethered jailbreak which means I can turn my phone off and on without the need to plug it into a computer.

My girlfriend has recently purchased a newer batch 3gs and she is in the same boat as you.

I think the Dev Team are working on a project called greenpo1son, which I believe is going to be a tool for developers and will also enable you to do an untethered jailbreak for the new batch of Iphones.

Look out for this but if you go on any forums please do not rush these guys. We have to just be patient and let them work at their pace.

I hope that helps.

Apple updated the iBoot –359.3 to iBoot –359.3.2 and the latest iBoot isn’t vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit used by jailbreakers to enable untethered jailbreaks on the IPhone 3GS.

I run blackra1n, got a message that it’s JB, unlocked via sn0w (without instaling cydia),

but when i open ifun, iphone browser and other stuff i got message that iphone is not JB and tree of directories (no root, no var, no private etc.) is still the same as before…

any suggestions?

Floi’s method works for me everytime, on 2g and 3g.

This is unlock to, just select snow and the device is unlocked.
The only problem for me is that none of my applications from apple store works.

Hi Jeff,

I forgot to add, this method of having to re-run the blackra1n program each time only applies if you have a 3gs which was made after week 43 (i think, correct me if i’m wrong anybody) of production of this model). Look at your serial number and check the 4th and 5th digits. This will indicate the week of production. This method also applies to the Ipod touch 3.

If you have an older model Iphone or an Iphone 3gs which was made before the week mentioned then you should be fine to jail break your phone without having to runblackra1n each time you turn it on.

I hope this all helps.

Rich

Hey everyone I jailbroke my iPhone 3gs on 3.1.2 using blackrain but now the buttons on my headset don’t seem to respond. I know the iPhone detects it cause when I raise the volume on the phone it says “headset” and it isnt the headset thats damaged cause when i use it on another unjailbroken iPhone it works and also on mine when it wasnt jailbroken by blackrain . Thanks for any help.

I have installed an app from cydia something that makes the icons invisible. After installation i didnt get exactly what i hoped the result would be. so i decided to open up cydia and remove the app. Now Cydia just wont open keeps on crashing. I tried jailbraking it again using blackrain…is it possible to jailbreak again so just i thought that i would be avail to open up cydia and remove the app…but to no avail what should i do? i would appreciate any assistance from anyone. Thanks — Paolo

I have unlocked iphone 3gs( 3.1.2)
I installed an application using cydia. It restarted the iphone. Now iphone hangs with Geohot screen. None of the buttons and phone is freezed. The computer is not recognizing the iphone.

pls reply…thanks!!

Hi nhnh99,

My friend had the same problem as you. Try the following:

Make sure that everything itunes related on your computer is closed down before you try the jailbreak. If you are using a pc then go into your task manager (press control + alt + delete) and go to processes and scroll through the list and look for anything itunes related and end the process for each)

Then run the jailbreak and see if it works.

My friend tried the aboce but it still work so he then deleted the blackra1n program from his computer and downloaded it again. Download it from here http://blackra1n.com/

Try it again and see if it works.

Let us know if it works

Rich

Hey all and happy new year! i Jailbroke my iphone with blackra1n once already about a month ago… and all has been fine since… now i’m tring to jailbrake my girlfriend’s but it keeps giving me problems… After installing SBSettings it restarted and asked to be reinitialized… Anyone know what the problem is!? thank you all in advance.

i have the same problem after jailbreak my bluetooth no longer works and resetting network settings only fixes the problem with wireless not working cant find any solution but i have seen many people with this problem.
i have an iphone 3GS 32GB production week 43 so im on a tethered jailbreak. Hopefully there will eventually be a permanent jailbreak that will also fix the bluetooth bug.
please let me know if any of you found a solution.

Where is the task manager?

Got the same problem dude…do you have solution? Please send to my email address at eric.cara@pusbbrunei.com.bn

alright i have jail broken my iPhone and unlocked it with snow. Everything works fine with internet and making calls, i can even send text msg… but that’s where the problem lies. i can neither send or receive mms. each time i try to the signal timeout all of a sudden and then it tells me can’t find the cellular network data. i tried the whole jail breaking and unlocking process. it fixed the problem with the timeout issue but i still can’t send mms ;-/ Could u help me out?

Turn off the phone, while holding down the home button plug it in your computer. don’t let go till after your computer finds it

hold down the lock and home button till it cuts off, then hold down the home button while off and plug it into your computer. don’t let go till your computer rediscovers it again

Copy the file QTCF.dll file from your quicktime directory to the same folder as Blackra1n.

Shut down iTunes and shut down your task manager.

(hold Alt+Control+delete) should bring up task manager then click on processes tab and see if ituneshelper.exe (sp?) is running, if it is then you need to shut it down.

I have an Iphone 2g everything is updated. I have tried every step throughout this fourm and I still get stuck with Blackra1n saying “Running” One post said to close applemobile from task manager but when I did the blackra1n would not run. Any ideas for would be appreciated

ok so i got it this rain thing and now that it died it wont work my friend told me to plug it into itunes and now my ipod isnt even working

I tried jailbreaking with blackra1n, and i got through, however after the picture of whatever, and after i unlocked my ipod i couldnt find the blackra1n app, and it wasn’t there. Any clue on what happened?

ok so i went to the blackrain website clicked on windows i con and ran it to my system then i clicked make it rain waited then it said it was done wait for recovery but nothing came up just a blank screen wht should i do

blackra1n doesn’t work in my iphone

uhh so ive had blackrain 3.1.2 running for a while…. a long while, recently my little brother thought he’d be really smart on my new laptop and when i let him use it he’s deleted some files and he thinks hes smart cos he also knows how to empty my recycle bin, so long story short, i dont have 3.1.2 blackrain and i kinda need to respring my ipod, it would really help if someone could find me a link for the download