How to Fix Purple screen, Jailbreakme Hang Errors

2 August 2010 by Vinay 11 Comments

As you know Comex released his most anticipated jailbreak solution for all iDevices including each and every model of iPod touch, iPhone and iPad running on iOS 4.0 or iOS 4.0.1 JailbreakMe works in a whole new way: we will not need any PC / Mac or cable but just a simple internet connection and Mobile Safari. All you need to go to jailbreakme.com on your iDevice and slide to jailbreak. We already published how to jailbreak guides for iPhone 3GS (check here) and iPhone 4 (check here).

We are getting so many questions in form of comments, e-mails and via twitter that they are facing random issues like blank purple screen, download isn’t starting or jailbreakme screen hangs. Following are the few handy tips you can try.

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jailbreakme.com is hammered with a loads of traffic today so you can use an alternate replica provided by modmyi, simply browse to jailbreakme.modmyi.com instead of jailbreakme.com
Clear your Mobile Safari cache, go to Setting >> Safari and hit the clear history, clear cookies and clear cache button. Now try again to jailbreak.
Sometimes a simple reboot and then reinstalling jailbreak is good enough to overcome these random problems

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11 Comments »

Kenny aka goldfingrjunior on Twitter said:

If you have an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 (preferably on OS 4.0 or 4.0.1) a slightly different way is to reboot your iPhone then do these steps:

1) put your iphone to Airplane mode.

2) Go to -> Setting -> safari -> Cookies -> Accept.

3) Double tap home button.

4) Press and hold to quit safari (in multitask mode)

5) Clear all Cache n cookies.

6) Put your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 back into wi-fi and or 3G mode.

7) Open safari and go to jailbreakme.modmyi.com

If it doesn’t work just repeat the steps

# 2 August 2010 at 6:52 pm

Chris said:

Thank you so much Kenny aka goldfingrjunior, I’ve been trying so many times and couldn’t get it to work until I followed your steps.

# 3 August 2010 at 1:58 am

James Mobley said:

Hello there.
I tried installing yout jailbreak thing.
And it gets through the installation and all but the cydia icon doesnt get download to the homescreen.
Could you help me out?

# 3 August 2010 at 3:53 am

eugene lee said:

thanks kenny, been trying for the past couple of days, finally saw your post and now it’s finally working. thanks again. big help.

# 4 August 2010 at 9:39 am

Pat said:

Initially, I was stuck several times at the purple screen.

After reading “Kenny aka goldfingrjunior on Twitter” suggestion
which appeared some time later, I successfully did it.

Tks Comex, the Team & “Kenny”

# 4 August 2010 at 2:17 pm

Chris said:

Nope… did this thing about 10 times now and still Safari crashes as soon as the download is complete.

# 4 August 2010 at 6:52 pm

Gauzi said:

Hi Kenny aka goldfingrjunior…

Thanks for your valuable suggestion but I am not able to jailbreak my iphone 3gs ios 4.0.1 on 05.13.04 baseband….. Safari crashes as soon as the download is complete.

Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz anyone help me….

I beg you…..

My email Id is mehta143@gmail.com

Thanks a ton on advance

# 11 August 2010 at 9:45 am

Bigbully91 said:

Good Job Kenny, my slider wasnt working and after your steps it worked! thanks Buddy

# 12 August 2010 at 2:22 am

ourtran said:

Once i install the jailbreak, cydia will not add repo666 or hackulo.us do you have a clue how to clear this up?

# 12 August 2010 at 3:08 am

Gauzi said:

Somebody plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz respond to my below query…..

Hi Kenny aka goldfingrjunior…

Thanks for your valuable suggestion but I am not able to jailbreak my iphone 3gs ios 4.0.1 on 05.13.04 baseband….. Safari crashes as soon as the download is complete.

Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz anyone help me….

I beg you…..

My email Id is mehta143@gmail.com

Thanks a ton on advance

# 12 August 2010 at 7:47 pm

Deep said:

I am also facing the same problem of safari crashing just after the download completes…i have tried the above steps for almost 20 times but no success…plss help me plzzz

# 15 August 2010 at 12:01 am