Troubleshooting Tips if You're Having Problems Jailbreaking Your iPhone 4S / iPad 2 Using Absinthe

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Troubleshooting Tips if You're Having Problems Jailbreaking Your iPhone 4S / iPad 2 Using Absinthe

Chronic Dev team released a new jailbreak tool called Absinthe to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 yesterday.

If you hit any problems while or after jailbreaking your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 using Absinthe then checkout our troubleshooting tips, which should help in resolving them. It includes a fix for the annoying issue where Absinthe does not recognise the iOS device, which results in the Jailbreak button being greyed out.



Here are some of the tips that have helped a number of readers:

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Jason

I had no issues, seams like verything works. Are there any known side effects ie iBook, mms?

Joao Reis

I have a problem, the SMS received dont show up in the SMS repository, i can only open the sms on the Notification AreaJailbreaked 4s easily, installed iLocalis and some ios 5.0.1 compatible cydia apps, including SBSettings.Now i cannot see the SMS on the list, iv rebooted and same. Some app icons are also white, like buggy feel. Something is wrong but i cannot know why, iv unninstalled barrel and its the same so thats no the problem.Any Guesses?

Steve

What about the blank icon issue?

Steve

Respring seems to be a temporary fix

Scott

I've tried everything, including updateing iTunes to 10.5.3. I am still getting the error message "The Application Absinthe quit unexpectedly" when I try to open the Absinthe app on my Mac. I am running Leopard 10.5.8

Bryce

i have the same problem with my ipad2 and iphone4s, i get a blank screen from absinthe! therefore by following the guide my ipad2 or iphone4s should reboot if i turn VPN to ON however all i get was an error message and nothing else.. some people say that the server is overloaded, well i would love to know the exact reason so as i would know whether to restore my iphone or wait till the server is relief from the load.(:

Amin

I can not eve n open absinthe, it gives me the "absinthe quit unexpectedly" error. What should i do?

khan

Absinthe doesn't launch in OS X 10.5.8. I tried everything but to no avail. Help please!!!!

Beki

I did install Cydia, but it wont load sources, I cant put any source ??? any help!!!

Trizzcuitt

Ok i know this is a dumb question but how to i know if i need to pay for a cydia app .....or how will it take a payment

Steve

It will say purchase not install

Kay

Dint have a prob jailbroke my 4S and I am do happy thank guys donations will come :)

Trizzcuitt

Thanks for the help Steve....just hard to tell in the apps when they have purchase prices.

Evan

any known issues with music not playing after jailbreak?

Leon o'sullivan

There is still no solution to the "the application absinthe quit unexpectedly" iv tried everything itunes is up to date and iv tried booting it from Terminal and the same message came up (if i did it correctly).. could someone explain how to use Terminal Program. im using Leopard 10.5.8

Leon o'sullivan

There is still no solution to the “the application absinthe quit unexpectedly” iv tried everything itunes is up to date and iv tried booting it from Terminal and the same message came up (if i did it correctly).. could someone explain how to use Terminal Program. im using Leopard 10.5.8

axe

If i'm not mistaken, some of the dream team members actually upgraded their mac to snow leopard and lion before they wrote absinthe. Maybe they forgot absinthe compatibility in leopard. I hv no problem using it in my lion.

Paradox

Thanks for the tip Wass unfortunately this did not help me :(Without safe mode... absinthe just stares at me.With safe mode it absinthe crashes and has a lengthy error report. So Safe mode did do something .. just not enough. Something is gumming up the works somewhere... Do appreciate any tips others have... and thanks again Wass .. its progress....

Paradox

Oh ... using latest iTunes and lion updates .. just fyi

al

Is there a fix for the camera roll using the windows version... Jailbroke no bother just lost my camera roll...... Tried the reinstall as suggested but to no avail ?????

Finale

If Absinthe is still quitting out even after a "safe mode" reboot... Switch to a guest user account (in safe mode) and try it then. Worked for me... Hopes this helps :-)

Brandon Hash

it will only run on snow leopard and up for whatever reason

Brandon Hash

will someone on iPhone Hacks update the articles stating that Absinthe only runs one snow leopard and upit will just crash when run on leopard

Brandon Hash

as I stated above, Absinthe only runs on snow leopard and up it seems

brian

I have the same problem. I've heard that you have to rerun the jailbreak twice again to get the camera roll back, but this didn't work for me.

Paradox

trying this next .. will report back

bobby

I have the same problem.. Absinthe screen stay`s white.. Rebooted, VPN on, doenst work for me.

Leon

thanks brando im going to try on another mac running snow

Paradox

Well first attempt to me to safari only browser when logging in as guest... scratching head .. surfing some more about safe mode on iMAc... report back if I make progress.

Paradox

don't know if this will help anyone trouble shoot .. exempt form the crash log...Crashed Thread: 5 Dispatch queue: com.apple.distributed_notifications@Uv3.xpcqException Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000069666e87