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3.1.2 suddenly crashes after blacksn0w install

crazyfool2100 said:
Hi

I am having the exact same issue. I enjoyed an unlocked 3gs 3.1.2 (blacksn0w) for about 2 months and then I started having WIFI issues. I reset my network settings as many sites suggested, but doing that put my phone into a boot loop stuck at the apple logo (thx guys). I was forced to restore the phone with a custom 3.1.2 pwnagetool firmware and I ran blacksn0w again. It worked this time but about a week later, the phone crashed again and when I restarted it, it was in a boot loop.

After the 2nd restore, blacksn0w no longer unlocks my phone but rather just makes it extremely slow and unstable for a min or so and then completely freezes. Restarting just puts it in a boot loop. I have tried installing blacksn0w via cydia and manually without results. I've restored and reblacksn0w'd multiple times and it crashes every time.

It's odd to me that the unlock worked for a while, then worked again after 1 restore, and now just completely doesn't work. I don't understand what changed with the phone when I never upgraded to another firmware or made any other os modifications. I don't have my 3.1.2 shsh on file, so doing an original restore is out of the question now :(

Has anyone had any luck solving this problem?
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I am sorry to hear that but I don't have a solution. However, I am seeing myself in your boat if I use blacksn0w to unlock. I have read so many issues w/ unlock using blacksn0w. nothing about jb though.

And unfortunately, no one seems to know an alternative for blacksn0w or may be just no alternative to unlock an iphone. For example, I learned that redsn0w can be used to jb instead of blackra1n but then eventually need to use blacksn0w to unlock it. The iphone dev team has developed reliable tools to jb but depend on the buggy geohot blacksn0w software to unlock :(
 
3.1.2 hang

Hi there,

I´m exactly encountering the same problem since 3 or 4 weeks ago. The description is nearly the same than the first post of this thread.


It´s really mysterious that a phone works normally for month´s and suddenly it stops to work and several people are encountering the same prob.

As I searched the internet I think that there are more and more people with the same problem but they haven´t figured out already that the cause of the Problem is the unlock.

Greets
heizy


DESCRIPTION:
All started once a day when the iphone became very slow and bluetooth (in settings menu) turned to be UNAVAILIABLE. So I decided to restart my Iphone and suddenly it hangs at time of booting. But I was in luck, I haven´t watched my phone for 30minutes and it started again and worked without problems, till yesterday my battery went flat and the phone turned of. I´m not able to restart it again.
So i wanted to know which application or tool is causing the problem, I have heard much about (the apple of death) and so on. As I made a clean install of the jailbreak 3.1.2. I found out that all is working fine until I install blacksn0w. When blacksnow is installed, bluetooth turns again to be UNAVAIL, and the phone is going to be very slow (same symptoms i have encountered weeks ago) I started ssh and looked at the processes. The Process "CommCenter" used about 80-90% of CPU usage and there suddenly were two new processes "Bluetool" "BTServer". When I now restart my Iphone it doenst start anymore, when I deinstall blacksn0w before all works fine again.
 
heizy said:
Hi there,

I´m exactly encountering the same problem since 3 or 4 weeks ago. The description is nearly the same than the first post of this thread.


It´s really mysterious that a phone works normally for month´s and suddenly it stops to work and several people are encountering the same prob.

As I searched the internet I think that there are more and more people with the same problem but they haven´t figured out already that the cause of the Problem is the unlock.

Greets
heizy


DESCRIPTION:
All started once a day when the iphone became very slow and bluetooth (in settings menu) turned to be UNAVAILIABLE. So I decided to restart my Iphone and suddenly it hangs at time of booting. But I was in luck, I haven´t watched my phone for 30minutes and it started again and worked without problems, till yesterday my battery went flat and the phone turned of. I´m not able to restart it again.
So i wanted to know which application or tool is causing the problem, I have heard much about (the apple of death) and so on. As I made a clean install of the jailbreak 3.1.2. I found out that all is working fine until I install blacksn0w. When blacksnow is installed, bluetooth turns again to be UNAVAIL, and the phone is going to be very slow (same symptoms i have encountered weeks ago) I started ssh and looked at the processes. The Process "CommCenter" used about 80-90% of CPU usage and there suddenly were two new processes "Bluetool" "BTServer". When I now restart my Iphone it doenst start anymore, when I deinstall blacksn0w before all works fine again.
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so can we unlock it using tools like pwnage? someone PLEASE let us know an alternative for blacksn0w :(
 
dhlizard said:
Pwnage Tool does not unlock, it jailbreaks.

Ultrasn0w only works on baseband 4.26.xx and lower.
Blacks0w only works on baseband 5.11.xx and lower.

Those are it.
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thanks. so I guess there is no escape from blacksn0w. Unfortunately, I cannot use ultrasn0w because my iphone's bootloader version is 6.4 and I read only with ver 5.8 can one downgrade the bb to 4.26.xx using fuzzyband. Oh man, out of luck :(
 
Pwnage Tool jailbroken phones only?

I am having the same problem :(. But after reading more on this... it seams as though this happen to Pwnage Tool jailbroken phones only?:confused: Maybe for some reason or another Blackra1n is not compatible with the firmwhare after the custom ipsw file. Hence, people who install fresh/original 3.1.2 firmware then blackra1n J/B it, and blacksn0w U/L it works.
I have a Blackrain jailbroken phone, and blacksn0w has been working fine on it:). But the Pwnage jailbroken phone is having the problems:(.
I respect all the guys at the Dev Team, but maybe this is something that they need to look into and the problem lies not with Blackra1n but with Pwnage.
My 2 cents... Please don't bash:mad: me after stating this...

iphone 3gs 16gb - Blackra1n J/B & U/L
iphone 3gs 16gb - Pawnage J/B.
 
Klasniedryg said:
I am having the same problem :(. But after reading more on this... it seams as though this happen to Pwnage Tool jailbroken phones only?:confused: Maybe for some reason or another Blackra1n is not compatible with the firmwhare after the custom ipsw file. Hence, people who install fresh/original 3.1.2 firmware then blackra1n J/B it, and blacksn0w U/L it works.
I have a Blackrain jailbroken phone, and blacksn0w has been working fine on it:). But the Pwnage jailbroken phone is having the problems:(.
I respect all the guys at the Dev Team, but maybe this is something that they need to look into and the problem lies not with Blackra1n but with Pwnage.
My 2 cents... Please don't bash:mad: me after stating this...

iphone 3gs 16gb - Blackra1n J/B & U/L
iphone 3gs 16gb - Pawnage J/B.
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I was planning to use redsn0w/blacksn0w combo to jb/ul my 3g 3.1.2/05.11.07 phone. But the more problems I read about blacksn0w the more I think about returning my iphone and just be happy w/ my samsung phone which of course is not a smartphone. att/apple have any made so much money by now. why can't they just let iphone users unlock if they are over a certain period of contract? :mad:
 
Newsupdate

Hello again,

so it costs me the whole day to realize that i have saved an SHSH on Saurik´s server. I restored the original FW, thereafter the Custom FW and have jailbroken my device like ShaftX described.

@ShaftX (two questions)
What have you done after your last explained step? Have you restored your apps and data using itunes?

As the problems started, have you made App-Updates?

The fact is, when I restore my apps, i have the same problem like before? Is there a bad code hided in an app? I don´t know which app it was exactly because in that week the problems begun, I updated a lot of apps...

Maybe that was the origin of the whole!

Greets
heizy
 
Wish I had seen this earlier...

I was going through my phone this morning doing my regular uninstall of themes and add-ons that I don't use anymore and came to the blackra1n icon. I opened it up to uninstall and saw the sn0w option and figured "what the hell, why not?".

It froze at the "cleaning up for sn0w" screen. That's right. It didn't work for a single minute. My phone's been in the boot loop as described throughout this thread for going on 45 minutes. And as always, it happened just as I was leaving for work so I'm stuck for about nine hours with no phone.
 
thinkpad77 said:
I was planning to use redsn0w/blacksn0w combo to jb/ul my 3g 3.1.2/05.11.07 phone. But the more problems I read about blacksn0w the more I think about returning my iphone and just be happy w/ my samsung phone which of course is not a smartphone. att/apple have any made so much money by now. why can't they just let iphone users unlock if they are over a certain period of contract? :mad:
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I would not use redsn0w to jailbreak. If you want to unlock it after jailbreaking it, use blackra1n. Give it a try before you return the phone.:)
 
Hi,

I have the same problem

3GS iPhone with 3.1.2 firmware, 05.11.07 baseband and serial 87947Wxxxx

This iphone was successfully Jaillbreaked with Blackra1n RC3.

To solve Wifi problem I restarted network setting. After this, when I run Blackra1n Geohot's pic stay longer than usual and iphone reboot in restore mode!!!!!
 
kaursan said:
Hi,

I have the same problem

3GS iPhone with 3.1.2 firmware, 05.11.07 baseband and serial 87947Wxxxx

This iphone was successfully Jaillbreaked with Blackra1n RC3.

To solve Wifi problem I restarted network setting. After this, when I run Blackra1n Geohot's pic stay longer than usual and iphone reboot in restore mode!!!!!
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did you ul your iphone? did you see the wifi issue imeediately after the jb/ul or after few days/weeks?
 
thinkpad77 said:
did you ul your iphone? did you see the wifi issue imeediately after the jb/ul or after few days/weeks?
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yes I unlock (jaillbreak + unsimlock) my iphone. Wifi problems have been seen after three weeks and I had also a problem with edge
 
kaursan said:
yes I unlock (jaillbreak + unsimlock) my iphone. Wifi problems have been seen after three weeks and I had also a problem with edge
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hmmm....so this wifi issue is a real mystery I guess. many users have been frequently reporting this specific issue. I wonder if the unlock affects some hardware that impacts the wi-fi.

anyway, I finally got mine done BUT not myself. went to a local mall and got it done for $25. yes, I finally gave up doing myself. And the guy who jb/ul my iphone was never ready to reveal which tool he used to do it ie,., redsn0w, etc., I tested w/ my t-mobile SIM and it all worked fine. After ul/jb I saw two new icons - Cydia and Rock. I still don't know how to or what to use these two for. My main purpose is unlock.

well, I will have to wait and see when I am gonna hit this stupid wi-fi issue and any other issue. hopefully, I don't see too many surprises !
 
thinkpad77 said:
hmmm....so this wifi issue is a real mystery I guess. many users have been frequently reporting this specific issue. I wonder if the unlock affects some hardware that impacts the wi-fi.

anyway, I finally got mine done BUT not myself. went to a local mall and got it done for $25. yes, I finally gave up doing myself. And the guy who jb/ul my iphone was never ready to reveal which tool he used to do it ie,., redsn0w, etc., I tested w/ my t-mobile SIM and it all worked fine. After ul/jb I saw two new icons - Cydia and Rock. I still don't know how to or what to use these two for. My main purpose is unlock.

well, I will have to wait and see when I am gonna hit this stupid wi-fi issue and any other issue. hopefully, I don't see too many surprises !
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Cydia and Rock are where you're going to find the add-ons and themes to modify the way your phone works/looks. Winterboard is the next step if you plan on customizing your look.

Update on my situation: Luckily I had my SHSH's on file with Sauriks server so I was able to restore to 3.1.2 and rejailbreak. I'll certainly be staying away from blacksn0w.

Strange thing is after the restore and rejailbreak, Cydia tells me I have SHSH's for 3.1, 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 on file even though I was never at 3.1.3.
 
lostprophet894 said:
Cydia and Rock are where you're going to find the add-ons and themes to modify the way your phone works/looks. Winterboard is the next step if you plan on customizing your look.

Update on my situation: Luckily I had my SHSH's on file with Sauriks server so I was able to restore to 3.1.2 and rejailbreak. I'll certainly be staying away from blacksn0w.

Strange thing is after the restore and rejailbreak, Cydia tells me I have SHSH's for 3.1, 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 on file even though I was never at 3.1.3.
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thanks for the info one cydia/rock. In my iphone, I saw number 3 on top of Cydia and when I launched it, it said "one or more essential packages are currently out of date. If these are not performed you are likely to encounter errors" and it gave me options "upgrade essentials", "complete upgrade" or "ignore (temporary)". what should I do? is this something normal?

And when I launched Rock, this is what I saw "OpenSSL Install - a required component of rock your phone (open ssl) still needs to be installed for your rock applications to function correctly. Install openssl?"
 
thinkpad77 said:
thanks for the info one cydia/rock. In my iphone, I saw number 3 on top of Cydia and when I launched it, it said "one or more essential packages are currently out of date. If these are not performed you are likely to encounter errors" and it gave me options "upgrade essentials", "complete upgrade" or "ignore (temporary)". what should I do? is this something normal?

And when I launched Rock, this is what I saw "OpenSSL Install - a required component of rock your phone (open ssl) still needs to be installed for your rock applications to function correctly. Install openssl?"
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Complete upgrade.
 
Anyone figure this out? I'm having the same problem. I even tried restoring using a custom firmware with blacksnow built in (added package to pwnage tool) and it still didn't work :(

Anyone?
 
firmware with blacksnow

I also have tried to restore with firmware that has blacksn0w, but that didnt work either. Actually, I could not even get it to run! (in any restore mode)

On some forum, I read of a person downgrading to 3.1 custom firmware and then unlocking it (that with whatever tool you want to use)... I have not tried this, but has anyone?
 
Klasniedryg said:
On some forum, I read of a person downgrading to 3.1 custom firmware and then unlocking it (that with whatever tool you want to use)... I have not tried this, but has anyone?
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I just tried blacksn0w on a custom 3.1 firmware (pwnagetool) and it crashes the phone like it does on 3.1.2. No Luck :(
 
I've tried everything! No luck whatsoever.

If only I had saved my ecid on 3.1.2 :( I find it hard to believe there is no solution to this...
 
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