GeoHot of the Purpler4in iPhone jailbreak fame has once again released a simple jailbreak utility that will jailbreak all iPhone/iPod Touch devices – Blackr4in.
Yes, this is exciting! But just remember this
- You need to be on 3.1.2 to jailbreak
Blackra1n should work on all iPhone OS 3.0 and above. [I personally didn't have any luck with 3.0.1 - see below] - Blackra1n does not hactivate. So you have to be on your carrier activation to jailbreak
- If you are a 3G or 3GS unlocker, don’t update to 3.1.2 via iTunes yet
- Blackra1n is Windows only at the moment
- iPod Touch 3G needs to be tethered to jailbreak
All you have to do to jailbreak is to
- Download and run Blackra1n in your PC
- Plug in your device
- Click on Make it ra1n!
Download Blackra1n (click on Windows logo below the pic)
[via GeoHot blog]
Update: Oct 13 2009
My 3GS is on jailbroken 3.0.1 and I am waiting for Sn0wbreeze (redsn0w for 3.1.2) for the 3.1.2 3GS unlock.
I finally got a chance to try Blackra1n on my friend’s iPhone 3G. And this is ‘not the easiest jailbreak ever’. I started off telling my buddy this shouldn’t take more than a minute. Boy, was I wrong.
The Blackra1n would just hang at ‘running’ mode. Here is a few things we tried without any luck whatsoever
- Run as admin in Vista
- Reboot iPhone while connected and ‘Make it rain’ number of times
- Run blackra1n in XP
- Stopped iPod Service & killed all iTunes process (except AppleMobileDevice service – otherwise Blackra1n doesn’t detect iPhone)
You could try these but looking around the blog comments and forums, this looks like a hit and miss for most people. I guess it is the easiest jailbreak ever, if it works.

