George Hotz a.k.a GeoHot was the first one to release BlackRa1n tool to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2. The initial version had many issues, and now most of them have been fixed in the latest version – Blackra1n RC2.
Blackra1n RC2 can jailbreak all iPhone’s (2G/3G/3GS) and iPod touches (1G/2G/3G) running iPhone firmware 3.1.2. It can also tethered jailbreak 3.1 OOTB iPod touch 8GB and all the new iPhone 3GS’s. In case you have already used Blackra1n then there is no need to rerun Blackra1n rc2.
Features of Blackra1n RC2
* Fixed all issues that you might had when jailbreaking iPhone 3G with Blackra1n RC1.
* Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB iPod touch 8GB and all the new iPhone 3GS’s.
* Fixed Icy issues.
* Works on both Windows and Mac.
Download Blackra1n RC2 for Windows and Mac OS X
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October 27th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
blackrain asks me for authentication… what user and password it needs to be entered
October 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Still didnt work. My iphone 3g still gets stuck in recovery mode and needs to be restored. Warning, be carefull…
October 28th, 2009 at 11:50 am
GeoHot – GeoNot. Beware. Same problem…
October 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Just re-jailbroke. Definitely worth it. Waited for blackra1n before I went to 3.1.2. It’s too bad apple won’t make some of these features native. Might be a big deciding factor when it’s time get a new phone.
October 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
just used it again, this time it worked just like it should! very good!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Hmm had so many issues with Version 1 of blackra1n I was skeptical about using this version….
However I just used it and all seems to be working well.
My iPhone was already upgraded to 3.1.2 with the 5.11.7 baseband.
I left my phone on, connected it to my hp dv4 and then downloaded blackra1n.
Then I clicked make it ra1n and voila. I didn’t have to run it in compatibility mode or even put it on my c-drive, I launched it straight from my downloads folder.
In all it took about 45 sec…it went to the restore screen then to the screen with geohot. Stayed there about 30 seconds. The done, wait for phone to reboot screen popped up before it was finished.
All seems to be working fine though.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Worked Great the first time I tried it. Thanks
November 8th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Hey guys,
I jailbroke my iphone 3gs running on 3.1 (5.11.7) basebandwith the new blackrain. Does this mean that this is a tethered jailbreak and everytime my battery dies i will loose all the data inserted.
Thank you,
Rasa
November 15th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I connected my ipod touch 3rd gen (32gb) on 3.1.2 firmware, but when I press make it rain, it says “waiting for device” and nothing happens.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
i connected my i pod to i tune and installed 3.2.1 5.11.07 after that it is not working properly then i did to brake it from blakra1n after that carrier software is not working properly so how to re install the carrier software .also i try to battery shout down but same thing happens like before so pls give any idea expect blackra1n software.
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Nothing happened. I tried it again, same thing. What’s wrong?
December 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
when useing blackrain when itunes turns off, quit blackrain and open it again and make it rain.
December 10th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
ive never used a i pod touch before so can someone tell me waht to do and i would gladly accept that plzzzz
and what version does it have to be
December 12th, 2009 at 10:29 am
i am having iphone 2g with baseband 04.05.04 os 3.1 but when i tried to jailbreak my iphone it just unlocked but when i use iphonebrowser it shows that my iphone is not jailbroken any suggestion plz
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:48 am
I tired to jailbreak my iphone and when I went to download a theme it put my phone in recovery mode!!!!! Y did it do this? I’ve been putting off jail breaking my iphone because I just knew something would go wrong!
December 30th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I don’t know about anyone else, but here’s what I did: I updated from 3.1 to 3.1.2 on 12-30-09. Then I downloaded blackra1n. I installed it, ran it, and clicked on “make it rain”. It worked like a charm. It even restored tethering for me that I lost when I upgraded to 3.1. The only thing that is annoying, is that iTunes keeps trying to alert me that it has a carrier profile update that needs to be installed. I rejected it because I’m afraid I’ll lose tethering or my jailbreak/unlock will be screwed up. I think it immediately fixed the tethering because I still had the profile installed that you download to make tethering work in 3.0 and 3.0.1. I didn’t have to do anything. Another thing that’s odd is that when I’m surfing the net while tethered, it doesn’t show up in Network under System Preferences on my mac. It works, but there’s nothing onscreen indicating that it’s working except for the fact that I can get online.
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:31 am
I have a 3G Version 3.1.2 Firmware 05.11.07.
Used Blackra1n with Cydia jailbreak and unlocked perfectly to my UK provider.
Got MMS, Tethering using APN profile from BenM.at
Read somewhere that Blackra1n should be uninstalled after jailbreaking so I unistalled Blackra1n app, BUT Cydia disappeared along with it.
I want to download other apps but without Cydia or similar how can I do that?
I particularly want to edit the carrier.plist to get rid of that pesky “Call Forwarding Active – Dismiss” message
Tried re-installing Blackra1n, but that just re-boots the phone now. I really do not want to restore the phone – is there another way to install Cydia please.
January 5th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Hi, Please help, I have succesfully install the blackrain icon in my iphone. However, when I tap on the icon in my iphone, I always get error message: “Please check your internet connection”. I was in the Wi-Fi enable and able to browse internet go to iTune from the iphone but whenever I tap on the balcrain icon, I always get that error message and I have not seen any Cydia, Rock or Sn0w applications at all… Please help! Thanks
February 17th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Kristen- Its likely that your iphone is a tethered jailbreak. Meaning everytime that the phone is powered off or the springboard restarted it will require to be plugged into PC and black rain run again. You will not lose anything that has been previously installed. Its best to not turn off ipod or iphone on a tethered jailbreak.
But if you do ,no worry ,just plug in and make it rain(blackrain).
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:09 pm
sup folks. blackrain would not run on my 64 bit win 7 version. had to insatll using my 32 bit laptop. am i the only one wit this issue? in any case the install went off without a hitch. thanx dev boy n galz!
March 8th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I have new 3GS 2.1.2 at at&t and tried to delete all data and settings from-General-reset-erase all data and settings…and it shows me (plug in itune) logo.Can,t even rstor or do anything,even with blacrain the picture of a guy is frozen.When i connect to itune is asks me to apdate to 3.2.3.Can i do that and after use it again,jailbreak and unlock?Or what shoud i do at all?
Please help me THANK YOU
March 10th, 2010 at 10:17 am
HI i have a 2.2.1 ipod 8gb and downloaded blackra1n, i have an older ipod, and a friend told me to download rc2, problem is that the site only has the one download link for rc3, what do i do? my ipod restarts fine but the blackrain icon doesn’t show up? is there any way to get this to work?