Trying to use the latest redsnow and the 4.2.1 firmware fior my iphone 4, but I keep getting stuck at the "uploading ramdisk". My phone seems to be responding since it's getting the image of downloading, but i dont know whats going on. I've even re-downloaded the soft/firmware again.
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I am having the same issue as well. I have followed all the online guides that I can find and am running it in xp compatibility mode. If you figure out what is going on let me know.
Glad you got it working. That is why these instructions are put in bold on the dev-team blog though! Always RTFM
Yeah well glad it worked for you!! I'm still SOL , I was running in xp mode from the beginning and after 7 failed attempts I'm giving up until the official untethered jb is out. (it's my wifes phone any way, mines on 4.1 so I'm good.)
Cydia crashing with redsn0w
I'm having trouble with cydia. I had my iPhone 4 jailbroken a month or 2 ago and I installed a new update from Apple and everything went away. I used limera1n but now i recently tried to jailbreak it with redsn0w. It jailbreaks fine then when I try and open cydia it crashes right away. Also the cydia logo is not on the app it is just a blank white screen. Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm using a Mac to jailbreak my IPhone 4.
I'm having trouble with cydia. I had my iPhone 4 jailbroken a month or 2 ago and I installed a new update from Apple and everything went away. I used limera1n but now i recently tried to jailbreak it with redsn0w. It jailbreaks fine then when I try and open cydia it crashes right away. Also the cydia logo is not on the app it is just a blank white screen. Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm using a Mac to jailbreak my IPhone 4.
If you're on 4.2.1, after jailbreaking with redsn0w you have to run it in "tethered mode"
I have an iphone 4 on 4.2.1 and I never used tethered mode at any stage in the jailbreaking process. My iphone reboots and launches cydia just fine without ever having to boot tethered. What baseband is on your phone? Do you care about an unlock? This version of redsn0w 0.9.7b4 allows for an untethered jailbreak.
Iphone 3gs Problems booting up after using redsnow
I updated my iphone 3gs to firmware 4.2.1 and tried using redsn0w to jailbreak it. I followed the on screen prompt and it showed the pineapple logo and went through those steps. After that it went to reboot and can not boot up. The apple logo comes on for about 2 min then flashes and comes back on. I put it in DFU mode to try and restore using itunes, but it goes about 3/4 the way through and says it can not complete restore and gives me error code 1015. I think it is because i tried installing the ipad firmware so i can unlock it also. Can anyone point me in the right direction to install firmware so it will boot up again. Please let me know if you need more detailed information. Thanks.
I updated my iphone 3gs to firmware 4.2.1 and tried using redsn0w to jailbreak it. I followed the on screen prompt and it showed the pineapple logo and went through those steps. After that it went to reboot and can not boot up. The apple logo comes on for about 2 min then flashes and comes back on. I put it in DFU mode to try and restore using itunes, but it goes about 3/4 the way through and says it can not complete restore and gives me error code 1015. I think it is because i tried installing the ipad firmware so i can unlock it also. Can anyone point me in the right direction to install firmware so it will boot up again. Please let me know if you need more detailed information. Thanks.
You cannot restore it with an official restore thru itunes any more since you updated it to the ipads baseband version.
You can only restore it with custom IPSW firmware created with pwnage.
You first have to put the iphone in pwned DFU mode with redsnow and after you do that you can shift and click restore thru itunes and point it to the custom JB 4.2.1 ipsw.