Jailbreak no longer working on iPad 2

[battery111]

So I've had my iPad 2 5.0.1 jailbroken with Absinthe since the day it was released. No issues until yesterday. Restarted and it booted as if it was semi-tethered. Safari crashes on open, none of my tweaks working, etc. Tried restarting again, same thing. Tried hard reset, same thing. Thought maybe I could use redsnow to "just boot" so I could get in there and figure out what was wrong but it won't support my iPad 2. Tried re-jailbreaking with absinthe but it won't because it says I'm already jailbroken. Any ideas what happened and what I can do to fix it? Apple is no longer signing 5.0.1 so I really don't want to restore. Is there something I can do with the Corona Injector CLI to fix it?

 

[Mickey330]

Did you install any Cydia tweaks just before this started? Sometimes, this type of behavior is from the iPad trying to run incompatible tweaks... IOW, what were you or the iPad doing just before your latest restart?

Can you get to Cydia? If so, I'd recommend you uninstall the latest tweaks you've put on (or all of the, for that matter). Even if nothing was recent, they may just have decided to not run correctly, or play well together.

Then, if the UNinstallation makes the iPad "behave," then you can try putting them back one at a time.

Sorry you are having the troubles. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Marilyn

 

[Bluray]

I also encountered issues a few times and as Marilyn explained, remove the last Cydia tweak and all should be fine again.

 

[battery111]

Unfortunately I can't run cydia to uninstall, and don't believe my ssh server is running either. The last tweak I installed was the patch for the directv app. Would love to uninstall it but can't figure out how to do it.

 

[Mickey330]

Can you put it into Safe Mode? That'll calm it down enough to where you can get to Cydia (access it by finding it in Spotlight).

Marilyn

 

[Bluray]

You can also try file explorer on your PC and try to locate the file if all fails. Hope you come right.

 

[Gzoladz]

Something similar to this happened to me. The turning point was when I updated xcon today. Cydia actually advised it would uninstall corona and I pressed ok too quickly

 

[battery111]

I believe the xcon issue mentioned is what happened to me. When I get home I'll see if I can get into safe mode and reinstall corona. If not is there a way to reinstall corona using the cli jailbreak tool?

 

[battery111]

no joy putting it into safe mode. SSH isn't working so I'm unable to trigger it that way, and sbsettings is obviously not working as well. I really hope I have not put myself in the position where I need to restore to 5.1 and say goodbye to being jailbroken anytime soon.

 

[Gzoladz]

Well we are two now...I even tried to go back to 4.3.3 but it did not work for some reason.

Very silly on my side. I was not careful enough.

Let us know how you get on.

 

[battery111]

Will do. I'm not giving up hope yet. I figure the only thing missing is corona. Has to be. Therefore there should be a way to reinstall corona without needing to restore. Biggest frustration is my iPad is only partially capable right now, since safari doesn't run.

 

[Gzoladz]

You are better off than I was then...my ipad didnt even started. It showed me briefly the password screen and then it rebooted again, in cycles.

I hope you are luckier than I was. Also, one of the reasons I had decided not to buy the ipad 3 was because I did not want to be waiting for the jb, but that reason is no longer valid

 

[battery111]

I'm the same way. If I can't get this resolved I may just take the plunge.

 

[owensky]

I had the same problem but mine worked but wouldn't sync with iTunes and all my content showed up as "other."

 

[Gzoladz]

This merit a warning or a sticky as there must be a lot of users who got affected by this xcon update.