Blackra1n is the simplest and the fastest tool to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone. I use it everytime I have to restore my good old Apple iPhone 2G. However recently while unlocking / jailbreaking a friends iPhone 2G I came across a weird issue. When I run Blackrain the iPhone reboots to a blank screen. I can see the LCD is on with a backlit, but the screen is black (blank). Ideally this should display the Geohot photo and jailbreak the iPhone. But that just didn’t happen. After cracking my head for over a couple of hours this is what worked for me:
(I am assuming that you have already updated the iPhone to firmware 3.1.2 using iTunes before running Blackra1n. Read the instructions to unlock the iPhone 2G using Blackra1n)
- When the iPhone hangs at the black screen and Blackra1n reads “done, waiting for reboot” leave the iPhone in the same state for 10 mins.
- If this doesn’t work – Run the blackra1n.exe again. Without closing the existing session of blackra1n
- Once blackra1n again comes to the “done, waiting for reboot screen” disconnect the USB cable from the iPhone and immediately connect it back again
- You should now see the geohot photo on screen and the iPhone would jailbreak successfully.
I have not heard of this issue with 3G or 3GS, but you might want to try this for iPod touch or iPhone 3G / 3GS aswell, if you are facing the issue of blackra1n not working and sticking to the blank screen after reboot.
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i ‘ve been trying to jailbreak my 2G ipod touch with black ra1n. but it stuck in black screen what i have to do to jailbreak successfully. Thank you
I’ve also lost a lot of music I didn’t have backed up on my HD because of this piece of shit program.
I want to kill whoever made this.
DUDE THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU,,, I VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWERE FOR THIS AND URS IS THE ONLY ONE THT WORKD UR THE BEST THNX
this isnt workin for me..
Mines on the black screen ill write back when its done p.s im using a itouch 2GeN 8Gb
blah blah *ignore this*
ignore this too
ok well it didnt work. 10 min after it was black it started turning on witht eh white apple and i had no black ra1n