Comments on: Hello blackra1n, Welcome Back Jailbreak on the iPhone 3GS

By: kadeem

kadeem — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:41:35 +0000

WHY!! every time i try and run blackrain, i get an error report, how to i get it so it dosnt pop up!!! why!!

By: samdeja

samdeja — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:07:12 +0000

arrrrgghhh!! ok so every time i try and run blackra1n now, the window pops up with "make it ra1n" and so i click it, then the "send error report" window comes up and i click "don't send" and blackra1n closes.. i've clicked "send error report" as well but it doesn't make any difference.. someone please help!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:40:52 +0000

on the iphone 3gs running 3.1.2 how can I change the color of the keyboard? there are many choices they just dont work.

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By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing. My Italian is non-existent, but I think the gist of that is that you need to suspend the iTuneHelper.exe process prior to running blackra1n?

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:59:07 +0000

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By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:10:14 +0000

Maybe try downloading it via a different browser or, if that also fails, a different machine.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:01:26 +0000

I cannot run the exe it keeps saying blackra1n.exe is not a valid win32 application, I have tried downloading it about 5 or more times. I am standard running windows xp professional. Please help me?

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:23:03 +0000

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By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:34:16 +0000

In reply to Robert.

Oh, very glad to hear it – hope it all goes smooth for you from there onwards 🙂

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:04:59 +0000

In reply to patrickj. after another fresh install of 3.1.2 it worked, not sure why I was having all the problems, didn't do anything differently this time, just glad it's finally working and cydia is installed once again =]

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:26:28 +0000

The only information I can get other than it "performed an illegal operation" is a hex dump, doubt that would be much help =/

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:21:43 +0000

In reply to Robert. Long shot, but want to post a screencap of your error (link) in here, or send it to us via our Contacts page and maybe one of us will have an idea for you?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:53:25 +0000

In reply to patrickj. It would start the application but I just got one of those fancy windows error report windows as soon as I clicked on the make it rain button. Nothing terribly useful in there, at least not anything a mere mortal like myself can understand.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:47:28 +0000

In reply to Robert. Damn - what is the error / issue you're getting? I ran it on a little Gateway netbook running Vista, and apart from the first download of the .exe for blackra1n being corrupt, did not run into any problems.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:41:36 +0000

In reply to patrickj. nope, running on my dell mini 10 ... I tried running XP in a virtual machine on my iMac and blackra1n wouldn't even run at all. At this point I'm considering putting XP back on my netbook and trying that. Perhaps I should be more patient though.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:03:07 +0000

In reply to Robert. Not Windows 7 in a virtual machine by any chance?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:02:45 +0000

In reply to simonz. Ton install or to work once installed?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:35:59 +0000

this jailbreak didn't work for me at all using windows 7 and a fresh clean install of 3.1.2 … I've spent the last 4 hours googling and trying oodles of different solutions that worked for other people but I've got nothing. I'm officially disappointed =/

By: simonz

simonz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:18:20 +0000

Can't seem to get winterboard to work once jailbroken any ideas why?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:12:08 +0000

In reply to Shobizz3000.

I'm sure there'll be plenty of other reasons to poke fun at me – I'm great at providing those 🙂
Good thoughts on the opportunity for cleanout with each of these processes. I've often thought that as well, especially when doing a restore and putting apps back on – great time to be brutal and think on how often you really use each one.
Thanks for the welcome back to whichever side this is 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:08:20 +0000

In reply to Hotrod. On the Lock screen = mQuickDo, mentioned in the post, superb for app switching. True about file system = not sure. SSH works fine for me but on first use it doesn't seem to show as much of file system as expected - but I didn't have a need to nose around when I gave it a quick go earlier.

By: Hotrod

Hotrod — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:52:50 +0000

What is that on your lock screen? Is it true about access to the file system. If you have Cydia, I'm sure you can install openssh and use winscp or cyberduck.

By: Shobizz3000

Shobizz3000 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:33:45 +0000

Hooray!!! I know that you are as happy as ever. But what am I going to do now that I can't poke fun at you anymore lol 🙂
Well I've downloaded blackra1n, and will be commencing with the upgrade and jailbreak later tonight after my bowling league. i have to mentally prepare for this ordeal, because it is goung to take several hours i'm sure. But I've really been looking forward to this, because i think my 3gs needed a cleanup anyway. I have noticed a few quirks over the last month which i believe come from several unclean installations of apps and mobile substrate add ons. So i always take these upgrade/rejailbreak opportunities as a chance to clean house and really evaluate what i have/haven't been using on the phone, and what's gonna make the cut. GeoHot definitely deserves his props, the kid is a prodigy. Well glad to have you back on the dark side Patrick!

By: Olek

Olek — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:48:56 +0000

With this jailbreak you can't access the full iPhone file system from computer with apps like Diskaid.