Stuck in Recovery Mode :/

[Bananaking726]

I have a ipod touch 4g that is stuck in recovery mode with no shsh blobs saved because I bought it recently apple decided to stop signing iOS4.1. Am I able to jailbreak it to iOS 4.2.1?

[Simon]

You can jailbreak on 4.2.1 with redsnow 0.9.6b6 but it is a tethered jailbreak right now. Hopefully a untethered one will be out very soon.

[Bananaking726]

I tried that but it doesn't work.

[Simon]

You need to restore to 4.2.1 in itunes first.

[Bananaking726]

It says that it is successfully jalbreaking and the rest of the process takes place on the ipod but as soon as I get to the runny pineapple it stops on "jailbreaking filesystem".

[Simon]

What OS are you running redsnow on?

[Bananaking726]

4.2.1

[Simon]

I mean windows or Mac and what version

[Bananaking726]

vista

[Simon]

Ok, try running redsnow in windows xp sp2 compatibility mode.

[Bananaking726]

Yes I was running it under administrator, xp sp2, set affinity to cpu 1 and it still was stuck at that screen. I was reading the dev team blog and they said that you need to have shsh blob saved for 4.1 or older

[Simon]

You only need the 4.1 SHSH if you are trying to downgrade. If redsnow is still not working you may need to try another computer. It can be finicky at times.

[Bananaking726]

Am I able to get a 4.1 shsh blob from some else? Or are shsh blobs unique to one device?

[Simon]

They are unique to each device unfortunately.

[Bananaking726]

Thanks for your your post on using itunes. I tried to restore my ipod by clicking on the restore button but that didn't work. Now it just hit me I was actually supposed to press "shift+left click" and then select the 4.2.1 firmware. now my ipod is unjailbroken and at least at a functional state. I think I can now jailbreak with redsn0w. Thanks again.

[Simon]

Ya, redsnow "should" work for you now. Remember it is a tethered jailbreak for now though.

[Bananaking726]

Yea it works now thanks. I had a previous post but no one posted.