greenpois0n RC5 WINDOWS VERSION release

[brimarsh]

I know this isnt related but how do you reply in the iPad forums app?

Click the little blue arrow on the right hand side of the message,
then click the square on the bottom left of the message,
Then click the button under the battery icon & select reply. Simples

Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[dkazaz]

I have tried like 25 times and the jailbreak fails every time!

I follow the instructions, windows recognises DFU mode, I couch jailbreak, it starts the process, then says Jailbreak Failed. Every damn time!

Then i have to restore or retry the JB, which at least manages to reboot the iPad out of dfu mode and save me the trouble of restoring.

I have a 3G iPad and using windows 7 64-bit, greenpois0n rc5b4.
I have tried this on 2 computers.

I also tried on a 3rd machine running 32bit windows 7 but there green poison never even recognised dfu mode so I couldn't click jailbreak.

Am I the only one?

 

[f4780y]

I have tried like 25 times and the jailbreak fails every time!

I follow the instructions, windows recognises DFU mode, I couch jailbreak, it starts the process, then says Jailbreak Failed. Every damn time!

Then i have to restore or retry the JB, which at least manages to reboot the iPad out of dfu mode and save me the trouble of restoring.

I have a 3G iPad and using windows 7 64-bit, greenpois0n rc5b4.
I have tried this on 2 computers.

I also tried on a 3rd machine running 32bit windows 7 but there green poison never even recognised dfu mode so I couldn't click jailbreak.

Am I the only one?

You are running it in "Windows XP sp2" compatibility mode with admin privileges, yes?

 

[dkazaz]

I have tried like 25 times and the jailbreak fails every time!

I follow the instructions, windows recognises DFU mode, I couch jailbreak, it starts the process, then says Jailbreak Failed. Every damn time!

Then i have to restore or retry the JB, which at least manages to reboot the iPad out of dfu mode and save me the trouble of restoring.

I have a 3G iPad and using windows 7 64-bit, greenpois0n rc5b4.
I have tried this on 2 computers.

I also tried on a 3rd machine running 32bit windows 7 but there green poison never even recognised dfu mode so I couldn't click jailbreak.

Am I the only one?

You are running it in "Windows XP sp2" compatibility mode with admin privileges, yes?

Yes, and I just tried it again just to be sure. No difference

 

[mi04se1]

I have Win7X64 and had no issues. I didnt even run in admin or xp mode.

 

[f4780y]

Yes, and I just tried it again just to be sure. No difference

OK, just checking. And what version of IOS is on the iPad. Again, just checking the obvious.

 

[dkazaz]

No prob, thanks for answering! Firmware is 4.2.1, I upgraded from 3.2.1 just last week.

Now I'm thinking about downgrading again to 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 so I can JB and also because since upgrading I have seen no major benefits. Still I'd rather not because I know my apps will eventually stop working as they update...

Any help is much appreciated!

 

[graywolf]

No prob, thanks for answering! Firmware is 4.2.1, I upgraded from 3.2.1 just last week.

Now I'm thinking about downgrading again to 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 so I can JB and also because since upgrading I have seen no major benefits. Still I'd rather not because I know my apps will eventually stop working ad they update...

Any help is appreciated!

How did you run greenpoison in xp compatibility mode with administrator privileges? I can tell you if you are doing it wrong.

iPad 16gb Wi-Fi 4.2.1 jailbroken untethered

 

[dkazaz]

No prob, thanks for answering! Firmware is 4.2.1, I upgraded from 3.2.1 just last week.

Now I'm thinking about downgrading again to 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 so I can JB and also because since upgrading I have seen no major benefits. Still I'd rather not because I know my apps will eventually stop working ad they update...

Any help is appreciated!

How did you run greenpoison in xp compatibility mode with administrator privileges? I can tell you if you are doing it wrong.

iPad 16gb Wi-Fi 4.2.1 jailbroken untethered

Right click the executable, select properties, select the advanced tab and change compatibility mode to xp2 sp2 and tick run as administrator.

Then just to be safe I also right clicked and chose "run as admin" from the greenpoison.exe.

Update: I have just tried and failed with RC6 too!

 

[graywolf]

Right click the executable, select properties, select the advanced tab and change compatibility mode to xp2 sp2 and tick run as administrator.

Then just to be safe I also right clicked and chose "run as admin" from the greenpoison.exe.

Update: I have just tried and failed with RC6 too!

Well, you are doing it right. That's what I did. Hmm...

iPad 16gb Wi-Fi 4.2.1 jailbroken untethered

 

[dkazaz]

Next week I'll try to do it from a friend's Mac - maybe that'll work better

 

[Malko]

Right click the executable, select properties, select the advanced tab and change compatibility mode to xp2 sp2 and tick run as administrator.

Then just to be safe I also right clicked and chose "run as admin" from the greenpoison.exe.

Update: I have just tried and failed with RC6 too!

Hi. I had JB my Ipad with Redsnow (tethered). When greenpois0n was available, I JB on the Redsnow without problem. So, maybe you could first JB with Redsnow 0.9.6 and then with greenpois0n.

Bye

 

[dkazaz]

Thanks if doing it from a mac doesn't work, I'll do that next. I honestly don't understand why it doesn't work on any of my systems.

 

[dkazaz]

Finally solved!

It finally worked - I tracked down the problem to an issue with 64-bit windows where sometimes the iPad is not recognized in DFU mode. An error pops up saying that a connected device was not recognized in the middle of the jailbreak - perhaps that is the problem and interferes with the process.

What I did was to backup the iPad, then do a clean restore to factory settings (to minimize any problems from configurations coming from my previous settings - e.g. I had jailbroken 3.2.1 and I thought it might be trying to copy some settings from the previous set-up).
After that, I didn't sync the old files or set it up as a new ipad - I just left it in a pristine state.

I then tried the JB on my 32-bit Windows 7 HTPC, but first I installed iTunes on it, which installed all the iPad USB drivers, including the DFU mode driver. After that the Jailbreak went through without any problems!

So if anyone is having similar problems, check those USB drivers and maybe uninstall & re-install iTunes.

 

[graywolf]

It finally worked - I tracked down the problem to an issue with 64-bit windows where sometimes the iPad is not recognized in DFU mode. An error pops up saying that a connected device was not recognized in the middle of the jailbreak - perhaps that is the problem and interferes with the process.

What I did was to backup the iPad, then do a clean restore to factory settings (to minimize any problems from configurations coming from my previous settings - e.g. I had jailbroken 3.2.1 and I thought it might be trying to copy some settings from the previous set-up).
After that, I didn't sync the old files or set it up as a new ipad - I just left it in a pristine state.

I then tried the JB on my 32-bit Windows 7 HTPC, but first I installed iTunes on it, which installed all the iPad USB drivers, including the DFU mode driver. After that the Jailbreak went through without any problems!

So if anyone is having similar problems, check those USB drivers and maybe uninstall & re-install iTunes.

Awesome.