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Absinthe will not work on my Mac?

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Jimmy Guphanti

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Mar 29, 2011
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Hello,

For reasons unknown to me, I can not get Absinthe to work on my Mac. I have a 21.5 inch Thunderbolt iMac. No matter what I do, I always get "Device detection failed. Please unplug device and plug it back in." If I try in on my friends' MacBook Pro, it will work fine, matter of fact, it will work on any computer but mine. If I make a new account on my computer and try it on there, it will work, but while on my account (Administrator Privileges) Absinthe always says "Device detection failed. Please unplug device and plug it back in." On another thread, someone said it has something to do with an old Wi-Fi Sync client for Mac, that worked with an app for iOS 4. This app is obviously gone from my iPhone since it is on iOS 5.1.1, but it was still on my Mac, so I uninstalled it. Still no dice. Does anyone here have any ideas or have experienced the same problem?

Thanks.
 
I read of this occasionally. I have a houseful of Macs and never encountered this.
Try re-downloading and re-installing Absinthe to the desktop, then reboot.
Use different USB port and cable if available.
Thinking it is a conflict with some obscure app you have installed as it is so rare.
 
could it be permissions got screwed up somewhere w/ your profile? repair permissions in disk util.
 
I have tried everything. I cannot figure this out. I am thinking of scraping my Mac, and putting my stuff back on by hand to isolate the problem. Well maybe not because I have too much stuff. There has got to be someone out there with this problem. Just to note, I had the exact same problem back when there was that Crash Reporter program, that used the same GUI. I can use Redsn0w perfectly fine, but Absinthe does not work. So frustrating.
 
Does itunes see you phone on your mac?

Close Absinthe.
First, make sure the device is detected properly in iTunes.
Make a backup if you did not.
If the device is detected properly in iTunes try the following:
OSX/Linux: go to .config directory in your home folder and rename the libimobiledevice folder to libimobiledevice.bak
Open up Absinthe again, it should detect your device now.

If the above doesn't work you could try a SMC reset? Also try resetting the PRAM.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 = SMC reset

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 = PRAM reset
 
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seanwebb68 said:
Does itunes see you phone on your mac?

Close Absinthe.
First, make sure the device is detected properly in iTunes.
Make a backup if you did not.
If the device is detected properly in iTunes try the following:
OSX/Linux: go to .config directory in your home folder and rename the libimobiledevice folder to libimobiledevice.bak
Open up Absinthe again, it should detect your device now.

If the above doesn't work you could try a SMC reset? Also try resetting the PRAM.

UPDATE: Restoring iPhone did not fix problem.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 = SMC reset

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 = PRAM reset
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Thanks for the response!

Unfortunately, I tried all of the things that you listed, and the problem remains. doing the .config thing just makes Absinthe crash. The device is detected perfectly fine in iTunes. In case it helps, out of curiosity, I connected my iPad 2 to the computer, opened Absinthe, and it detected the iPad right away with no problems. This is really puzzling.
 
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dhlizard said:
I read of this occasionally. I have a houseful of Macs and never encountered this.
Try re-downloading and re-installing Absinthe to the desktop, then reboot.
Use different USB port and cable if available.
Thinking it is a conflict with some obscure app you have installed as it is so rare.
Click to expand...

I tried what you said, still not working.

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outz said:
could it be permissions got screwed up somewhere w/ your profile? repair permissions in disk util.
Click to expand...

I tried it, and it's still not working.
 
When you updated your phone did you restore from a backup?

If so i wonder if there is still files on the iPhone relating to wifi sync.

You could try putting the phone ito dfu mode restoring then before restoring from backup jailbreak then phone then try it.

Thats a bit of a task if it doesn't work but if all else fails what else do you have to lose
 
seanwebb68 said:
When you updated your phone did you restore from a backup?

If so i wonder if there is still files on the iPhone relating to wifi sync.

You could try putting the phone ito dfu mode restoring then before restoring from backup jailbreak then phone then try it.

Thats a bit of a task if it doesn't work but if all else fails what else do you have to lose
Click to expand...

I think it has more to do with the computer, since this problem does not happen if I try to jailbreak on a different computer, or simply make a new account on my computer and try it on there. There has to be something on my user account that is messing with Absinthe.
 
I had all types of issues on my mac when I tried to jailbreak using Absinthe. Have you tried booting into safe mode and then jailbreaking? That is what finally did the trick for me.
 
chr1s60 said:
I had all types of issues on my mac when I tried to jailbreak using Absinthe. Have you tried booting into safe mode and then jailbreaking? That is what finally did the trick for me.
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That did fix it the first few times, but not anymore.
 
UPDATE: Recently the power went out at my house for about 2 minutes while my computer was on. When the power came back on, my computer booted up. After this, Absinthe detected my device, but the jailbreak failed. I restarted the computer, and now it is back to the same issue again.
 
Absinthe problems on ipad 1

dhlizard said:
I read of this occasionally. I have a houseful of Macs and never encountered this.
Try re-downloading and re-installing Absinthe to the desktop, then reboot.
Use different USB port and cable if available.
Thinking it is a conflict with some obscure app you have installed as it is so rare.
Click to expand...

For me absinthe worked well on my iphone 4 and 4s
Could not make it work on my i pad 1,
Cannot conect to device tried both mac and windows changed cables etc ...
The i pad was restored and clean so no obscure app cannot be the reason
Used the latest version of redsnow and it worked
 
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