How to Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Using Blackra1n (For Windows)

by Simon Ng on October 13, 2009



blackra1n-jailbreak-logoAs you know, GeoHot has released a jailbreak tool called blackra1n to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows. As claimed, blackra1n is an universal jailbreak solution for all models of iPhone and iPod touch. This guide will walk you through on how to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n on Windows.

Before you start, please read through the following notes carefully. If you’re confused, I suggest you to hold off the jailbreak and read the note again (or leave comment below):

  1. Blackra1n only jailbreaks your iPhone and does not perform the unlock to let use other unofficial SIM. (If you do not know the difference between jailbreak and unlock, please check out the iPhone terminology.)
  2. For those using software-unlocked iPhone 3G or 3GS, please do not upgrade to iPhone 3.1. Otherwise, you’ll lose the unlock, as the firmware update will also the baseband.
  3. Blackra1n will not hactivate your iPhone. That means, you’ll need to use official SIM card for activation purpose.
  4. Only tethered jailbreak is available for iPod touch device.
  5. Though it’s reported that blackra1n works for all models of iPhone, there is no guarantee that it will work for you. So, use it at your own risk.
  6. Disclaimer: Jailbreaking may void your warranty of iPhone. Again, jailbreak it at your own risk.

Okay, let’s get started with blackra1n.

Procedures to Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 using blackra1n

1. Make sure you’re using iTunes 9.0 or 9.0.1. You can download the latest version of iTunes here.

2. Download Blackra1n from blackra1n.com and save the blackra1n.exe to a folder

3. Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB. Launch iTunes and upgrade your iPhone to iPhone OS 3.1.2.

Note: You can also download the iPhone OS 3.1.2 from here and restore it via iTunes.

4. After your iPhone has upgraded to firmware 3.1.2, launch blackra1n.exe

5. Ensure your iPhone is still connected to your computer and click “make it ra1n” to kick off the jailbreak.

Blackra1n - make it ra1n

6. Once you click the button, the jailbreak process starts and it’ll take around a minute to complete.

Blackra1n - Jailbreaking in Progress

7. Wait until you see the following message and your iPhone should be jailbroken after reboot.

blackra1n-3

8. Next, you can tap the blackra1n icon in your iPhone screen and install Cydia.

blackra1n-install-cydia

9. Finally, reboot your iPhone and enjoy!

Optionally, you can uninstall blackra1n from iPhone after you confirm cydia works.

As always, remember to share your jailbreak experience by leaving comment below.

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1 Eugen October 13, 2009 at 3:57 am

It doesn’t work on Win 7 x64 with iTunes x64 edition. It just stays forever and nothing happens.

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2 slah October 13, 2009 at 6:21 am

dude just right click blackra1n and go to the compatibility tab and run as vista sp2.

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3 Eugen October 13, 2009 at 6:55 am

tried this, also Win XP SP3, it comes to “running …” but after this nothing happens :(

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4 IvorNEO October 15, 2009 at 10:22 am

I had the same problems, Please make sure you are login windows as Administrator, than GeoHot will show up in your iPhone and continue…

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5 greg November 14, 2009 at 6:39 am

wait how did it not work i have the same specs @eugen i just did it it works great try again

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6 Simon Ng October 13, 2009 at 11:39 am

@Eugen, please use XP compatibility mode to run the application.

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7 Eugen October 14, 2009 at 12:37 am

tried this and also all the tips I found below, no luck :(
never had problems with jailbreaking, this time I guess is not my turn :)
Will wait when another jailbreaking program comes

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8 Eugen October 14, 2009 at 1:09 am

well finally I did it, all I had to do is to use my laptop where I have Win XP Sp3 installed. It took 15 secs and is done :)

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9 Designstein October 13, 2009 at 4:21 am

Did it yesterday.
Few seconds to jailbreak and a minute to restart.
Discovering the underground iPhone world.
iPhone 3GS OS 3.1.2.
Super sweet.

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10 remi October 25, 2009 at 2:52 am

sorry ,could you tell me when you used blackra and installed cydia, can you sync your cracked application via iTunes. the problem that I can not instal the cydia always says timed out. is it possible to do it via rock or ice? please repeat yours apinion, I cant get any information any where.Thanks

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11 Imran11121 October 13, 2009 at 5:53 am

Just jailbroke my 3gs, amazing, sooooooooo quick.

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12 Fernando October 13, 2009 at 7:45 am

I have a Jailbroken 3G with OS 3.0 and have a lot of apps downloaded from Cydia and Rock. How can I upgrade to OS 3.1 or 3.1.2 On a Windows PC using Blackra1n, without losing all my apps. I have made backups using Apps backups. Will i be able to restore all my Cydia apps?
Thanks for your help

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13 IvorNEO October 13, 2009 at 10:42 am

I had Jailbroken Yestersday, using WinXP SP3, but some of the applications like SBSetting, and Lock Calender seen like not working…

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14 IvorNEO October 15, 2009 at 10:24 am

I had make a mistake, please do not install Cydia, Rock and Icy together, Just Install Cydia, and all the problems run ok.

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15 Rayven October 13, 2009 at 11:13 am

OMG! WOW! The best and the easiest yet. Was done jailbreaking and back out the door in less than 10 min. Keep up the good work. Appreciate you making owning the IPHONE the best thing yet. Donation? No prob

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16 Simon Ng October 13, 2009 at 11:38 am

@Rayven, blackra1n is developed by GeoHot. I just provide the walkthrough guide. If you want to make donation, go to blackra1n.com and click the donate button.

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17 Zach Tremaine October 13, 2009 at 11:30 am

Just tried this, stuck my iPhone in recovery mode. Had to restore the iPhone to factory settings, re-download the 3.1.2 update, re-sync everything, then restore from backup before iTunes would even recognize the device again

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18 Napoleon October 13, 2009 at 11:39 am

had the same problem like Zach “stuck my iPhone in recovery mode. Had to restore the iPhone to factory settings, re-download the 3.1.2 update, re-sync everything”..anything we missed out???

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19 IvorNEO October 15, 2009 at 10:26 am

You mus login windows as Administrator.

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20 Napoleon October 13, 2009 at 11:43 am

oh one thing my 3g iphone, entered the recovery mode and it shows logo usb connect to itunes, not same as the one showned up this tutorial, that its suppose to show blackra1n splash screen.

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21 Ahmed October 13, 2009 at 11:44 am

@ Eugen, agreed.
I have the same problem, and that compatibility thing doesn’t help.

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22 Robert Knight October 13, 2009 at 12:18 pm

I have a Jailbroken 3G with OS 3.0 and have a lot of apps downloaded from Cydia and Rock. How can I upgrade to OS 3.1 or 3.1.2 On a Windows PC using Blackra1n, without losing all my apps. I have made backups using Apps backups. Will i be able to restore all my Cydia apps? Another example, I have the Categories App. Will I lose all my folders and have to recreate them OR will the back up form AppBackUp bring them back in tact.
Thanks for your help

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23 RichE October 13, 2009 at 2:39 pm

Simon,
is this ok for 2G as well ? If yes, once jailbroken, how do I unlock to use unofficial carrier sim? Could the fuzzy downgrader come into play to amend the baseline?

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24 Simon Ng October 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm

@RichE, blackra1n does work with 2G iPhone. But it doesn’t unlock your iPhone and you’ll need an official SIM for the jailbreak process.

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25 Epong October 13, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Hi guys. I just done on the jailbreaking. At several attempts, it stuck in recovery mode. However you can try this to smoothen the jailbraking….
1) Turn off your antivirus
2) Should stuck while blackra1n running, restart your phone. and try again
3) I found this on other blog .. while its still “running” press and hold the home and lock buttons till the phone reboots the screen will pop up saying “your jailbreak is done”, press okay and when the phone finally reboots unlock the phone if u do not find the blackra1n icon anywhere, restart blackra1n one more time. and shortly after just as everyone else has been saying your phone will be jailbroken, the screen ” your jailbreak is done” will come up again and this time blackra1n will be there an your phone jailbroken

For me, I dunno what happen, but I try all above and next attempt, The jailbreak done. It only takes about 15 sec.

Anyway, thankx blackra1n and Simon!

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26 Simon Ng October 13, 2009 at 6:33 pm

@Epong, great! Thanks for sharing the tips.

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27 Designstein October 13, 2009 at 10:10 pm

icy and rock are fcukin up my cydia.
anyone here know how to remove them safely?

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28 laurentium October 13, 2009 at 10:23 pm

i had the same problems on stucking at the “running” stage. but i tryed several times to jailbreak my 3g iPhone. and i succeded finally.
i’m not sure how i succeded but i can tell you what i have setup differently that time when i did it right:
- turned off all my runing programs on my PC, including anti-virus
- turned off iTunes
- unlocked the phone (i think this can be the most important)
- went to iPhone’s page 2

there you go! may be it helps someone too :)

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29 laurentium October 13, 2009 at 10:26 pm

BTW i didn’t restore my previous setting or firmware not even once

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30 Designstein October 14, 2009 at 12:50 am

Dev team pwnage tool for 3.1.2 os out!
Freezes baseband too!
Try it!

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31 Eugen October 14, 2009 at 12:53 am

eh, all is left to do is to buy a Mac computer :)

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32 Parker October 14, 2009 at 8:13 am

Worked perfectly, easiest jailbreak yet.

iPod touch 2G, 3.1.2 firmware

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33 Ashton Gongaware October 14, 2009 at 9:02 am

Ok… after lots of searching through different threads, this is what finally worked for me… mine was freezing on the running mode and the itunes/usb screen… I unlocked my iPhone 3G…enjoy!!

yes…it DOES work for 3G’s….that is what I have and I finally got it to work on mine…when it freezes and blackrain says “running”, and your iphone is showing the itunes/usb screen….hold the power and home buttons until it resets and you see the apple logo on your iphone….a box should pop up saying the jailbreak was successful once your iphone reboots….leave that open, while your restarting your iphone….once you see the apple screen…close blackrain, reopen black rain and hit make it rain…took me several tries but it finally worked.

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34 Rosa October 15, 2009 at 1:02 am

Will blackrain work with windows vista or just windows XP?

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35 polytropon October 15, 2009 at 2:43 am

My most frustrating jailbreak to date, but I finally got it to work. Maybe these tips will help someone else.

If you are using Vista 64bit and have installed the 64bit patch for iTunes, first of all my condolences but more importantly, DO NOT use compatibility mode to launch blackra1n and DO NOT run as administrator. Otherwise, you will never get past the “waiting for iphone” message.

After that (when I got to “running” stage), I followed Ashton’s instructions (thanks!) and after a few iterations it worked. This was my third and maybe last jailbreak. Reloading all my Cydia apps and data files is getting really old. Is there no way to back up the Cydia apps to avoid this?

Good luck…

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36 Daniel October 15, 2009 at 5:46 am

Hi, I had a few problems also with jailbraking my iphone 3G.

It was stuck on the running screen as with everyone else.

They way I resolved this issue was with the following:

Connect the iphone as normal, open Blackra1n and click ‘make it rain’.
When the iphone turns itself off and the screen is blank, hold down the power button and home button at the same time.
When the Apple logo appears release the power button but still hold the home button.
You will need to hold the home button down untill you see the blackrain logo on your screen, then release.

This took me two goes before it worked. Hope it helps someone else out there with this problem!

Dan

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37 patrick the pissed off man October 24, 2009 at 9:03 pm

thanks mate that worked great

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38 Zach Tremaine October 15, 2009 at 11:34 am

Tried this again today and it worked perfectly, great jailbreak.

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39 Ricky October 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Its amazing to use blackra1n. very easy to use. i am trying to use redsn0w but nothing happens. thank for blackra1n..

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40 DriverJZ October 15, 2009 at 2:35 pm

First time jailbreak for me, and I think it went better than i could have imagined. juuuuust finished so all i’ve done is intall cydia so far, but I just wanted to say thanks for making this so easy. I have always thought about it, but something small i wanted to do that apple doesn’t allow pushed me over the edge. I had just upgraded to OS 3.2.1 and iTunes 9.0.1 on Windows XP. I was clueless in the first place but having JUST updated both I figured it wouldn’t be possible, at least yet. I was easily proven wrong by this great jailbreak app. Thanks again. I can’t wait to start the customization. If anything goes wrong in that process of course, I’ll re-neg all of this praise and hate you all. Haha, j/k…i’m on a fat sleeping pill lol, gotta love the loopy thoughts :)

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41 Laura October 15, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Hi, Blackra1n worked for me, but I am still on version 3.1. Should I upgrade then do the Blackra1n again? Also, I understand that it does not unlock my phone to an unofficial simcard. How do I unlock it? My phone won’t work… Please help

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42 Hashim Azzouz October 15, 2009 at 6:17 pm

THank man it really worked out for me on the second attempt! thanks again and again :)

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43 Jill October 16, 2009 at 9:38 am

I have a iphone 3G and I am using vista 64, I am getting so annoyed with this stupid blackra1n I wanna throw my laptop down the stairs. I have tried everything possible, every little thing everyone is saying and still nothing….

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44 Eugen October 16, 2009 at 9:52 am

I had the same frustration, but with Windows 7, just go find a computer with Windows XP, it will work right away.

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45 Jill October 16, 2009 at 11:47 am

I am going to try it on a friends xp tomorrow, wish me luck!!

Ps. I truely hate vista and I hope windows 7 is much better. I need to get rid of vista!

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46 Bruno October 19, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Anything is better than vista

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47 blackboy October 16, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Xp is the best had to use my mini acer i was getting fustrated

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48 Jagney October 16, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Blackra1n developed by Geo is a universal jailbreak tool for all… All credit to the dude for the wonderful simple jailbreak tool…..

My guys beaware….
(1) Blackra1n cannot be hacktivated…. That is u cannot unlock your iphone…. So all with 3g on os 3.0 pl wait for snowbreeze to be released.. It should be out in first week of november….. then u’ll be able to jailbreak and unlock your iphone…:)

(2) Apple has blocked jailbreak on new iphone 3gs. Looks like Apple has started shipping new iPhone 3GS’s which have an updated bootrom that is resistant to 24kpwn. Dev-Team member MuscleNerd confirms that the new bootrom, iBoot-359.3.2, is no longer vulnerable to the memory segment overrun exploit which is used to Jailbreak devices.

This is the first time Apple has upgraded the bootrom during a normal production cycle, rather than when a new model is introduced. The bootrom is a snippet of code that runs at startup time, and checks on the status of the boot image. It’s generally used to verify that the image has not been corrupted, but can also be used to check for unauthorized firmware. The 24kpwn exploit – otherwise known as 0×24000 Segment Overflow – bypassed the signature checks on iBoot and allowed unsigned firmware to be loaded. The new bootrom makes that impossible, so currently shipping 3GS phones cannot be jailbroken until a new exploit is found.

To determine if your new 3GS is running the new bootrom, just check System Profiler while the phone is in DFU mode. Versions of iBoot prior to 359.3.2 should still be able to be jailbroken using known methods.

Came across this at http://www.siinfuliphone.com…Enjoy groaning at Crapple..

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49 GeorgePk October 16, 2009 at 5:35 pm

Simon, I am confused :)

After the upgrade to 3.1.2 (step 3) all my contacts, settings, data are still on the phone. Even the apps I installed from appstore (and they work) even the non appstore apps (these do not work).

I have not yet made any sync from itunes.

Is this normal?

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50 GeorgePk October 16, 2009 at 6:07 pm

So I said lets do the jailbreak.

Done it with blackra1n (took me 4-5 times with Ashton’s instructions) but when I manage the jailbreak now everything works fine. All app store apps, all non appstore apps, my songs are there, the videos are there. Never did a sync with itunes.
I havent even installed Appsync and everything works.

These does not sound normal to me, now I am afraid I will have a fail somewhere in the near future?

Whats your opinion?

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51 Simon Ng October 17, 2009 at 12:21 am

@GeorgePk, that’s normal. I think you have chosen the upgrade option instead of restore.

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52 Daniel October 17, 2009 at 1:27 am

I was using Blackra1n for Mac OS X and would get stuck at Recovery, however for some reason it started to work when the iPhone got stuck in the Recovery Loop,

just keep trying!

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53 GeorgePk October 17, 2009 at 1:33 am

Yes Simon, but thats how I did all other upgrades as well and it always errased everything on the phone.

Anyway so far so good!!!

Thanx

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54 Mohan October 17, 2009 at 3:02 am

My computer is on Vista Ultimate and I have a 3G running original 3.1.2 and I tried Blackrain about 10 times and it did not work. Finally I did a hard reset (holding down power and home buttons for about 10 seconds) and then connected the phone and rebooted it. I resolved the issue by hitting the “make it rain” button while the phone still displayed the apple logo. Before it would just stay on running and nothing happened. Hope this helps all the 3G folks and may also work on other models. Let me know.

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55 norman g October 17, 2009 at 3:24 pm

hey people, i have an iPhone that is still on 2.2 firmware, and have it under T-Mobile. If i jailbreak to 3.1.2 using blackra1n, would i have any problems? WIll i still be able use it as a phone atleast??

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56 Fcuk BlackRain October 17, 2009 at 10:52 pm

This lame a55 shit blackrain , dosent fcuking work. Eat 5hit you fcuk…

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57 Jill October 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm

I was finally able to jailbreak my iPhone 3G. I dislike blackra1n and I would recommend waiting for something other then this one to jailbreak your iPhone. I found a video on YouTube called how to jailbreak using blackra1n for iPhone 3G and after a couple of tried it worked!!

I thought at first it was vista giving me the problem so I tried xp like people suggested and I got the same result so I followed the way the YouTube described and it worked.

My friend used vista with his 3G and it worked on the first time…. All the matters is a finally got my iPhone re-jailbroken and I am not updating until I know it truely works next time!

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58 TV October 18, 2009 at 2:36 am

Ashton’s trick worked for me as well. I had problems at the USB/connect itunes, and wouldn’t proceed.

Followed the steps from:
http://wickmanstudios.com/content/view/26/1/

Couldn’t get it to work after several attempts. Tried Ashton’s suggestion, worked on the first try.

Thanks!

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59 Dylan October 18, 2009 at 3:03 pm

I have an iPhone 3g and wanted to jailbreak the 3.1.2 firmware. I tried and tried after reading everyone elses problems and still didnt work. I am running a new top of the line gaming maching with windows vista home pro. Eventually I gave up and tried using my old windows XP laptop… It worked straight away… so easy. Maybe if you are having the same problem, try jailbreaking on an XP computer.

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60 tonystark1914 October 22, 2009 at 3:06 am

it works. disable all itunes/apple applications on your pc after u do the 3.1.2 update. reboot your phone once. put phone in airplane mode.

after it works, go to cydia and do update. then search for afc2add in cydia apps. install this and winterboard, iphonebrowser, etc will work!

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61 sakzzz October 22, 2009 at 7:46 am

After restoring my phone 4 times. heres how it worked.
1)restored my phone. 2) restarted my comp 3) connected the usb on the rear of the comp 4)killed processes ituneshelper, synchelper, n few others starting with the word sync 5)blackrain in c drive, run as admin, make it rain
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using iphone 16gb, vista

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62 Bao Chau October 22, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Finally got it to work… 3g is very frustrating… after working on it for the past 2 nights.. i figured it…. not really hard…. you need to juss sync your iphone, then run black rain once the screen turns black hold the power and home button the blackra1n logo should appear…

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63 Tired of Trying.... October 23, 2009 at 10:50 am

OK…. I was ready to give up and the last step that I tried that made my iphone 3G update almost instantly was I went into the services and stoped the Bonjour Service in windows. Once I stopped that service in the START…Run…. services.msc. Then c Stopped any Itunes processes running. I click Make it Rain… Not as Admin, or Compatability Mode…. Now my iphone 3g is FREE

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64 Tired of Trying.... October 23, 2009 at 10:51 am

OK…. I was ready to give up and the last step that I tried that made my iphone 3G update almost instantly was I went into the services and stopped the Bonjour Service in windows. Once I stopped that service in the START…Run…. services.msc. Then c Stopped any Itunes processes running. I click Make it Rain… Not as Admin, or Compatability Mode…. Now my iphone 3g is FREE

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65 onefinethug3 October 24, 2009 at 2:07 am

Everyone who has successfully jailbroken their iphone 3g are right. All you have to do is keep trying it over and over again. I have tried many many different methods posted on this site. The only thing that seems to work is to keep on trying over and over again. I ddint do anything with changing to runs as admin, or changing the xp capability or anything. Just kept rebooting it when the phone froze in the itunes restore mode. In my personal opinion and i have read it in other posts; The blackra1n program is still buggy. I’m not sure how easy it is to be done on a 3GS but for 3G users like my self it sucks. If you have gotten your phone sucessfully jailbroken on the first try, consider your self one of the lucky ones. It took 3 days and over 30 tries for my phone to show the picture of George on my Iphone. After he finally came up on my phone, i was happy and it successfully jailbroke on its own. But this program works but not well for th 3G users. Finally worked for me tho, and im happy. Hope my donation helps with making the next program better the next time around.

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66 mont_blanc October 24, 2009 at 5:14 am

It works for My iPhone 3G by this way:
1. Connect your iPhone by USB cable, turn of iTunes
2. Run blackra1n,and make it run, it will turn to recovery mode, and then on the iPhone you’ll see the logo for connect iTunes.
3.turn off your iPhone by holding down the Power Button and the Home button,
Close blackra1n program
4. Turn on your iPhone by holding power and then immediately after, also hold the Home Button. When the apple logo appears, release power button (but still hold the home button), re-open blackra1n.exe and make it ra1n very fast (when the apple logo still display)
you see the GeoHot background image and it’s done !!!

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67 Buzz23 October 24, 2009 at 9:11 am

After 3 days of trying I finally got the jailbreak to work. It was easy once it worked just finding the right combination that worked.
1. I plug in my phone to my computer
2. ran blackra1n (no admin., did not disable anything, just ran the .exe file)
3. after clicked “make it rain” i held down the homescreen button until the geohot screen popped up

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68 Joe October 24, 2009 at 11:50 am

Jailbreak was the easiest thing ever. Just did my phone and in the process of doing my wife’s.

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69 Alex dominquez October 24, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Well I used blackra1n to jailbreak my iPhone 3g but the screen never shows up..the program always running but never does nothing what should I do

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70 patrick the pissed off man October 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm

what a fucking stupid program its just like trying to break out of real jail…. YOU CANT…my iphone is fucked.. i bet it was a yank that design this arse hole program

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71 darealfrankwhite@aol.com October 24, 2009 at 10:12 pm

yo i do everything like it says but it keeps getting stuck on the running screen im using windows vista on my home computer any sugestions

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72 jay October 24, 2009 at 10:38 pm

Just ran Blackra1n on my device and it worked. Couple issues though, I installed cydia and icy..when i try to access cydia screen says “reorganizing” and then it just kicks me back to the unlock screen for iPhone. Any advice?

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73 steven October 25, 2009 at 12:13 am

it work after all the searching that i have done. finally balckrain worked. thanks.

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74 bmex78 October 25, 2009 at 4:54 am

I keep trying and trying, I updated my 3g to 3.1.2 and than ran blackra1n, push make it rain. It says my phone has to get restored, while it’s going through the process it says blackra1n is done. But my phone restores to original factory settings under 3.1.2 and blackra1n icon never appears in my phone. Can any1 tell me what am I doing wrong.

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75 Buzz23 October 25, 2009 at 7:58 am

jay, erase icy. it has had trouble running with cydia. cydia also has less bugs (rumored).

For everyone asking for advice on this blog… still… just read above there’s about 20 or more different ways thats have worked.

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76 karli October 25, 2009 at 6:30 pm

first time i tried it, it didnt work..
so when i plug the iphone in and click on make it rain… hold the home and lock button and then it gets jailbroken… hope it works for you

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77 asad October 26, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Dear All,

Plz try this out and it surely works. The real one was posted by ASHTON GONGAWARE October 14, 2009 at 9:02 am, I’ve just copied n pasted coz it really works….CHEERZ…
Ok… after lots of searching through different threads, this is what finally worked for me… mine was freezing on the running mode and the itunes/usb screen… I unlocked my iPhone 3G…enjoy!!

yes…it DOES work for 3G’s….that is what I have and I finally got it to work on mine…when it freezes and blackrain says “running”, and your iphone is showing the itunes/usb screen….hold the power and home buttons until it resets and you see the apple logo on your iphone….a box should pop up saying the jailbreak was successful once your iphone reboots….leave that open, while your restarting your iphone….once you see the apple screen…close blackrain, reopen black rain and hit make it rain…took me several tries but it finally worked.

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78 tamer October 27, 2009 at 3:31 pm

thanks heaps. worked like a charm in a minute

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79 JamesC October 27, 2009 at 8:56 pm

Hi All
It does work for my iPhone 3gs, and succussed at first time.
I am using Windows Vista, I just simply followed above “Procedures to Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 using blackra1n”. It took me about 3 mins to jailbreak my iPhone3gs.

Good luck

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80 Ben Means October 27, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Hey guys.
For those of you having problems with the 3G jailbreak still, try it again. This new version of Blackra1n seems to have fixed the bug. I had tried countless times with the first version, and I was constantly stopped at the “running….” screen.
This time, it took about 10-15 seconds total.
Thanks GeoHot for the amazing software.
and thanks Simon for keeping this blog updated on a regular basis.

Happy Jailbreaking All!

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81 The iPhone Blogging October 28, 2009 at 8:25 am

I also had this problem on my iPhone 3G, which stuck at the iTunes with USB cable logo when the jailbreak is on progress. Try a lot of methods posted on other blogs and site but still no avail.

At last, I’d managed to get blackra1n to jailbreak my iPhone 3G. If you’re having the same problem, you can try my step-by-step instrunctions to fix it and it may or may not work on your iPhone 3G.

Cheers~~~

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82 Arai October 29, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Hi i Tried at least 10 times after restore on vista but no good so tried my pc which
has xp sp3 and worked first time.My advice don’t use vista

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83 david October 29, 2009 at 10:40 pm

i have used blackrain on my 3gs 16 with 3.1.2 operating system and never had a problem. i installed cydia and no problem there. the problem i am having is trying to install ibluetooth i keep getting a unable to stack try to restart app or reboot device message when i try to run the app after installation. Any ideas or answeres?

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84 Leandro Salinas October 29, 2009 at 11:37 pm

Worked perfectly!!!

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85 amn2000 November 1, 2009 at 1:43 am

I like your software although it did not work with me. but it was usefull to make my iPhone 2 G in recovery mode where I restored a customer firmeware got every thing straight.

dunken

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86 xMANJEW November 2, 2009 at 3:02 pm

i accadently added all the apps icy cidia and rock. and then i took off blackra1n. and they are still there and my phones stuck on safemode. what should i do?

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87 Glock19er November 4, 2009 at 5:06 am

This was so easy. Mo problems what so ever. Thanks

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88 EpicFail November 4, 2009 at 6:39 am

LOL, hardly ever good advice anywhere. For users having probs, just keep trying, close the app, click Make It Rain and WAAAIIIIIIITTTTTT when the dude’s pic comes up. Yall got to be patient wow try Ritalin. It works fine on XP, ditch that crap OS Vista like a boil on your sac.

Proggie’s ok, says only iPod will boot on tethered but my 3GS brand spankie new has to be rerun every time I boot and my apps get restored. Tried iRecovery, doesnt work, surprise. Nothing has worked as of late, if I have to reboot my phone, I just have to make sure to tether it. Lame in all honest opinion.

But for those of you STUCK IN RECOVERY MODE – just load Blackra1n again and say Make it Rain, wait for old boy’s pic, and just take a dump or something, when you come back you’ll have your iPhone and apps. For that, I put this app in the category of “kiddie script” as it doesn’t really solve the whole prob for this new 3GS. JBs but tether boot = VeryLame!! I mean phuckMe, add a bootloader or something to it, but 1 button, 30 seconds all done crap is well, a buncha crap – YEAH, everytime you have to boot yo shit!

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89 swanny88 November 4, 2009 at 8:50 pm

hey mate cheers for everything guys,
i put blackra1n onto my iphone without a sim card in it, forgot, and then when i put the proper sim card in the phone it wont recognise it, its jalibroken but because theres no network i cant load blackra1n. the network its locked to doesnt even work anymore.
sorry bout this not your fault at all, but if u have any suggestions that would be awesome
cheers

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90 Hamish98 November 5, 2009 at 11:25 pm

jail broke my iphone 3Gs on 3.1.2 in less than 10 seconds (I used windows xp)

Worked perfectly first time. I’ve never experience a simpler jailbreaking process

Thanks to the developers

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91 andrea November 8, 2009 at 1:15 am

youtube is not working…. after i used blackra1n

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92 Simon Ng November 8, 2009 at 2:20 am

@andrea, you can check out this post about the workaround.

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93 andrea November 9, 2009 at 11:32 am

thanks it worked

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94 anthony November 9, 2009 at 11:32 am

easiest thing i ever done!!!! lol i thought it would be hard but so eazy!!!!

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95 angel3y3s November 11, 2009 at 2:07 am

I have a 2G iphone.
Instructions very easy to follow.

I updated my itunes to 9.0 first.
Then connected my iphone (phone off) and then restoration took place.
After restoration, I was prompted to update and install new firmware, 3.1.2 – clicked yes.
After all was updated, iphone displayed connection to globe.
On my desk top, I had already downloaded the BlackRa1n and just ran the program.
Was provided information of the process BlackRa1n and jailbreak was complete.
My iphone settings and itunes library was updated and ran normal.
I then found the BlackRa1n icon on my spring board and opened it.
I installed Rock my Phone first (as instructions indicate to install one program at a time) and then when finished, installed Cydia. Rebooted and was good to go!

Man, the most easiest and less stressful firmware upgrade !

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96 Tom Wuthrich November 11, 2009 at 10:14 am

doesn’t get much easier than that; thanks

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97 villianci November 14, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Like Simon said, It may void ur warranty. For me, as i was going back to S’Tel to exchange my damaged earpiece, they did tell me that Jailbroken Iphones will not be under warranty anymore. So u may need to restore your phone before going for repairs. Is there a way to restore Iphone?

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98 Josh November 15, 2009 at 9:52 am

This jailbreak worked perfect and the simplest jailbreak ive ever used . After i got on cydia and got my fav themes and stuff everything worked except my keyboard themes . Anybody have a idea why they dont apply ?????

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99 tedd November 17, 2009 at 2:32 pm

I’ve updated to iPhone 3.1.2, but i can’t install cracked application anymore, anyone can help?

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