greenpois0n Absinthe by the Chronic Dev team to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and the CLI tool by iPhone Dev team was only available for the Mac.
We've some good news for Windows users. iPhone Dev team has just released a new version of their command line tool 0.4.3 that adds support for Windows. The CLI tool is for the technically inclined and should help in troubleshooting issues.
iPhone Dev team had provided the following details of their command line tool:
iPhone Dev have also incorporated the exact same flow into an alternative command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through individual steps of the jailbreak manually, to both help the user and help improve the overall flow. Although the CLI will also allow the user to perform the entire jailbreak from beginning to end, we anticipate it will be more useful in debugging the occasional errors. The CLI currently has over 20 individual options (in addition to the single “jailbreak” option) that should be useful during debug after the GUI release.
iPhone Dev team has provided the following details about the latest version of their command line tool:
The OS X version of the CLI mentioned in the post can be downloaded here. It’s primarily to help us debug specific issues, but tinkerers might like to play around with some of its advanced options! More info is here.
- Version 0.4.3 adds support for Windows users. It also makes the “-j” jailbreak option much more functional :)
You can download CLI using this link and check out this readme.txt file, which includes more details about how to use it.
Please remember to take a backup of your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 before proceeding.
Update:
If you need help in jailbreaking, you can checkout our step-by-step guides:
As always, let us know how it goes.
[via Dev team's blog]
ma cm si fa questo jailbreak x l’ipad 2 io nn riesco a farlo aiutatemii
Hola amigo…habla english..
Hi guys, ive go fair bit of experience with cmd but when i do the command cinject.exe -j payloads i get a
Finding slide…
Failed
Error
any1 can help me with this please? thanks
This error is only on ios 5.0…update to 5.0.1
system cannot find path specified
Anyone else getting a vpn error connection? What do I do after I get this.
I dont have any problems with cmd prompt but i wont do it, ill wait for the absinth ver.
anyone knows this everytime i type cinject.exe on c:\ directory
comes out is not recognized as an internal or external command
Sherwin – Have you located the directory where cinject is located? if you start with c: and the directory with cinject is in the root of c: you would need to type cd cinject_0.4.3 and press return and you can then run the commands from inside that
i can’t download CLI corona. if somebody do me a favor by mailing it I’ll never forget his generosity
Yeah! it works!!
hey guys done everything ok but just phone didnt reboot after error message any ideas?
IM getting error 1102.Someone pls help…and yes i admit im retarted !! just help me someone !
Thanks Dev-Team, Chronic Dev-Team and pod2g. Donations to all 3 will be made.
it takes a long time to backup in step 4, is it ok??
everytime i enter
send 1: result too large WTF is this
how long do you have to wait until it reboots after pressing ok on vpn error
I run “cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig” —–> Ipad2 ask for VPN password I just click “next”.
I run “cinject.exe -j payloads” and I got the feedback that “Finding payloads…” and then “Error” cannot find the payloads.
I check the payloads driver and inside there are a lot of files.
Anyone with teh same issue?
BR,
XinaPower
phone wont reboot ???
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!
Greetings from Berlin, Germany!
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
@ Wilfred & Roofey: Thank you very much for providing the instruction!!!
Once the JB is done, can one delete the jailbreak profile from settings?
Work OK on my 64bit Windows 7 System…First Time following the above jailbreaking my Ipad2
Excellent jailbreak. It took me five minutes for my Iphone 4s. Thank you guys.
Much appreciated!! great work fellas!!! Took me a few times but got it. Thanks
Sweet! It’s unlocked.
But it will not read my Kenyan simcard. Any ideas why? When I put the card in it restarts and says “activation required” and then I can’t set up the phone on the ‘Cellular Connection’ – any thoughts?
do not enable Location Services yet so you can set up your phone, you have JB your device, but unlocking is different bro…
Peeps who evers having random probs just re-jailbreak and should work fine.
As for me my SIRI has dissapeared HELP!
I have an issue. When i run cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig
My phone asks for a password. i click next without a password then it says failed to install. cant get past it.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH GUYS at the Dev Team, tutorial was really easy and THANK YOU for jb. I will donate.
Guys just follow the instructions.
sweet thanks devs
wasnt rebooting at first tried like 5 times then i tried on my laptop worked straight away
dudes. is unlocking different than jailbreaking? I’m a “n00b” as they say, and want my other sim-card to work. waahhhh waaaahhh
I am also reposting under a different name…
yes…
camera icon blank. Tried restoring from backup still blank how do I get the icon colorful again.
I think it worked. I’m going to include instructions below. Please note, I’m using Win XP SP-3, iTunes 10.5.3 and iPad 2 running 5.0.1. Here’s how I did it.
Version 0.4.3 adds support for Windows users. It also makes the “-j” jailbreak option much more functional
Usage:
1. open CMD.exe
2. cd to the cinject.exe
3. execute the command: cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig
4. execute the command: cinject.exe -j payloads
5. execute the command: cinject.exe -w
6. toggle the VPN switch in settings
7. Wait for reboot
If you encountered the 1266 error:
1. Do a backup in itunes
2. Go to phone settings-general-reset-erase all content and settings
3. After reboot/config done, exe the cinject commands.
4. After Jb, restore your contents from itunes again.
This will solve the 1266 error. Have fun!
Yes, it worked! I did encounter error 1266 but did the steps I mentioned. I’m now doing a restore and Cydia is there. So yes I can confirmed this worked.
Thanksssssss, that’s what I needed
I have just done jailbreaking my IPAD 2 iOS 5.0.1, bunch of thanks for the dream team!!!
1. Restore your device with iTunes (i use the latest 10.5.3.3)
2. Download and extract “cinject_0.4.3″ (Absinthe CLI for windows)
3. Hold shift and right click the folder of cinject_0.4.3 and select “open command window here”.
4. Execute the command: cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig
5. Execute the command: cinject.exe -j payloads.
6. Execute the command: cinject.exe -w (I didn’t use this to watch the system log, cause I see no error executing cinject.exe -j payloads)
7. Toggle the VPN switch in settings, wait for reboot and your free!!!
DREAM TEAM ROCKS!
can some help please its saying too large.how do i get passed this…thanks
doesnt matter sorted it now thanks
waiting at “installing filemover” for about 20 minutes? any cure?
did you restore before jailbreaking?
YES! Cydia appears to be on the phone so what now?
then try to run cydia, it should run and update, your jailbreaking process is done…
Those with this error….
Adding custom com.apple.ipsec.plist to backup
Restoring…
recv: Bad file descriptor
FATAL(__LINE__): Assertion failed (1266): got == sizeof(size)
1266
1. Simply backup and reset phone.
2. Jailbreak again.
3. And restore.
Works on Windows 64bit
The resetting of all content and settings thing worked like a dream, now playing with my new 4s jailbreak!
Doing my Ipad2 now as I type this!
Thanks once again to the dream team for making this happen!
Everything worked great after restore but one problem, I lost all of my photos on my camera roll.
I’m stuck at ‘Creating backup…’ continuously when entering the payload…:( please help
Any one know were the donate page is to these guys now i cant see it on Pod2gs page?
Pfft, you not technical ppl schuld wat a few days extra, till the windows GUI jailbreak app is out :p
Command line rulez!
Old MS-Dos 1.x user.
3. execute the command: cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig
4. execute the command: cinject.exe -j payloads
5. execute the command: cinject.exe -w
6.toggle the VPN switch in settings
on my iPad 2 (wifi) everything went well until i get stuck at step 6….
can’t get the VPN to start
error message: VPN Connection A configuration error occured
ran as administrator for CMD in Win7 64 bit
still can’t get the damn VPN to start in order to complete the JB cycle on my iPad 2
btw the firewall on my win7 is off still cannot start VPN or reboot
cinject.exe -w logged the following:
iPad amfid[273] : /private/var/mobile/Media/corona/jailbreak not valid: 0xe800801c: No code signature found.
Jan 22 00:19:45 iPad com.apple.launchd[1] (jb[274]) : (jb) Exited: Killed: 9
how about my error is
FATAL(__LINE__): Assertion failed (718).. how solve it?
WTF!!
stuck on backing files up for half an hour
it work.. for win7..
Run CMD as administrator..
just follw the usage..
don’t forget tu turn on VPN…
Hi Buuju, should I do this as the script is running? I don’t see much scrolling of the syst log right now but it looks like its thinking. Don’t want to mess this up, do I turn on the VPN now?
Quick question: after I type the -W command, the script runs and i can see the log scrolling for a few seconds then it stops but it is not back to the prompt; when do I need to switch the VPN on? It seems like its still working. Thanks
I keep getting a config error when I switch the VPN switch on any ideas?
THX
hmm…no idea, but I can tell you what worked for me. I backed up my iPhone with iTunes. Then started the process with -J command which prompted me to run an -I command first. I did then I ran the -J command again. once that finished i typed the -W command which took a while and seem to be stuck at which point I enabled the VPN. also when you install VPN don’t put any password. Hope that helps.
yup…
turn VPN on
turn on VPN one it stop..
after that, it will continew..
Okay ladies and mostly gentlemen, here is how to do this and it is not very difficult. I have tried below to be as easy as possible, so that everybody can do it. Carefully follow the instructions and you will be able to do it even if you are a basic user of iPhone.
1) First, download the file “cinject_0.4.3.zip”, extract the contents and copy the top folder “cinject_0.4.3″ to your C:\
(I am assuming that there is another folder inside this folder named “cinject_0.4.3″.)
2) Now, on your PC, click start menu and in the text box type “Run” and press on PC
3) Now the “Run” dialog box will appear. Here, type “cmd” and press on PC
4) Now type “CD C:\cinject_0.4.3\cinject_0.4.3″
5) Now type “cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig” and press key on PC
a) Now, on your iPhone, press “Install”
b) Now, you will see a password prompt. Just press on “Next” on top-right on your iPhone
(This will install the “jailbreak” VPN profile on your iPhone)
6). Now, come back to your PC and on the DOS window, type “cinject.exe -j payloads” and press key on PC
7). After it finishes, type “cinject.exe -w” and press key on PC
8). Now, on your iPhone screen, you have to turn “VPN” ON. If you don’t know how to do it, refer to the instruction below. If you can turn “VPN” ON you your on, you are done!
a) If you see “General” on top-left, press it. Now click on “Settings” on top-left. Now scroll up and just below “Wi-Fi” option, you would see “VPN”. Now press on the greyed out “OFF” to turn it “ON” and the phone will reboot.
b) If you did not see “General” on top-left of your iPhone, then just keep pressing the keys, which take you back… You have to go to “Settings”, then select “General” and then press on “VPN” option below “Wi-Fi” option.
9) Wait for reboot
10) After the phone reboots, go to the second-right screen of iPhone and press “Cydia” and continue. After Cycia installs, it would reboot your iPhone and you are done!
All the best guys!
To those who deride the newbies, you’re probably a newbie yourself. Please understand that not all computer configurations are the same. If you don’t want to help, just keep quiet. Remember, you were once a newbie to too.
Btw, I am an Android user, and I’ve never seen this kind of derisive comments to newbies.
Chill out.
Whatever happened to light sense of humor!
Anyway lady, let me try to explain – Except for 64-bit versions of Windows, which this release of “cinject” is not compatible with, regardless of the computer configuration, the instructions WILL work for majority of windows PCs and where there are exceptions, they ARE EXCEPTIONS.
DOS environment for all Windows PCs are the same.
Anyway, my objective was to keep it as simple as possible. If you scroll up and read, lot of users were not able to do even basic stuff and hence the detailing. The “deride” part was just to add some fun. You chill too
Danny I’m with you. Although not with you on Android
. But yes, if you don’t want to help just STFU and stop insulting people. Mostly those that ‘behave’ like this are either 13 and under or are probably abused by other kids/adults at school/work.
any one can upload to rapidshare or megaupload?
thanks in advance.
can the profile that was loaded be deleted after the jb is done?
Running “cinject.exe -j payloads” results in this error for me (under both XPP & W7x64)
Creating backup…
12469 files backed up
Adding custom com.apple.ipsec.plist to backup
Assertion failed: (fp=fopen(path, “rb”))!=NULL, file /home/musclenerd/pers/cinject/cinject/mbdb.c, line 167