Troubleshooting walk through 6.0.1 - 6.1.2.

Welcome to the troubleshooting part of my blog I'll keep this post updated with issues that occur in IOS 6.0.1 - 6.1.2 to help you guys track down that tweak or app that causes your device to respring, crash or freeze hopefully help you guys cut down countless hours of troubleshooting.. I'll mainly post the tweaks and apps that usually cause problems.

Auxo - A memory leak occurs in this app causing your device to crash when the home button is double tapped.

Protube 2 - Uses the YouTube application as a primary but if you update your YouTube app you can find yourself having the app crash a lot.

Springtomize - This app can cause a few Issues so I'll walk you through them
Lockscreen Notification center - This tweak can cause a frozen lockscreen when the notification center is in  use.
Hidden slider tweak -Has the potential of keeping you from unlocking your device, If this happens restart your device and hold the volume up button.

Weather app - In iOS 6x a corrupted file makes the stock Weather app crash if you download iOS 6.x weather app fix it will replace only that one file allowing you to use the app again.

Winterboard - If you use a full theme on this app I'd recommend removing some tweaks you're not so fond of because this tweak will suck tons of memory making your device very very slow hope you brought a book!


Let me know what I missed I'll update with new info as I come across it!

Ipod Completely and Helplessly Frozen? Not Anymore!

Yesterday my friend gave me his Ipod touch 2G which he thought might be completely frozen so I took a look at it and I found the solution is farly easy but took some time to complete. Also today I was searching the web and I found out someone else was having the same problem so I know it wasn't just a freak accident. Here's the steps to fix your problem.

1. Turn off your Ipod Touch.
2. unplug it from your computer if it was plugged in.
3. Put it into DFU mode. (don't worry if it doesn't get past the boot logo it can still go into DFU mode.) instructions below if you don't know how to do it.
4. if Itunes opens up saying it recognises an ipod in restore mode youve done it right so far.
5. Download the origional Firmware from Itunes or from Here. (this will take about 20 mins.)
6. Restore your Ipod to the origional Firmware.
If all that works your ipod will be fixed and if you want to you can re-jailbreak it.

How to put Ipods into DFU mode.
1. Unplug Ipod touch from computer and turn off.
2. Hold Power and Home buttons while you plug ipod in. (hold for ten seconds.)
3. let go of power and continue holding home until itunes recognises it as ipod in restore mode.

Internet Help Caution

Ok here's a point I feel I must bring up. Recently (before I jailbroke
my Ipod) I was looking for safe effective ways to do it and I stumbled
across a site (techlivez.com) which had a way to jailbreak Ipods with
what they say works well while looking at the site I noticed that there
method was very outdated so to make sure it didn't work I read their
comments and found that every comment was from a person who had
trouble. Well naturally I posted a comment saying that I had a way to
do it safely so people wouldn't have problems. To post comments on
their site you had to sign up. Ever since signing up I've recieved
email upon email that were comments from more people having problems.

More and more people were falling victom to the internets outdated

information so by writing this I'm hoping to keep at least one

person from becoming a victom.

Here's some things to look for so you don't become like the others.
1. Make sure your using the best version.

2. If the site lets people comment read the comments if there's alot of
bad comments Ex. (This made my computer crash! Help!) if you see that
and there's no response from the site administrator then steer clear.

3. Make sure you know what your doing! ask around if there's some one
who knows what there doing ask some questions. I'm always avalible for
questions on my youtube site I know alot about computers and I can
possibly help out.

4. If it seems like it's to complicated there probably is an easier way.

5. Don't trust everything you read on the internet you could download
or use something incorrectly and end up messing up your computer.

Always be sure of everything on the list if you have questions ask me
and I'll help I will help you as much as possible to build up trust with
my viewers.

Why Jailbreak?

There are alot of people that ask why would I want to jailbreak my Ipod or Iphone? There are over 2 million jailbroken Ipods/Iphones out there

Rumor One - Jailbreaking your Ipod/Iphone shortens the battery life.

Truth - This is not true the only reason it would seem that way is people tend to use their Ipods/Iphones more often. My solution? Turn your backlight down or off this will extend your battery life.

Rumor Two - You can "Brick" your Ipod/Iphone by jailbreaking it.

Truth - It's nearly impossibe to brick your Ipod/Iphone to "Brick" your Ipod/Iphone you have to destroy the hardware pretty much any software issue that people say "Bricked" their Ipod/Iphone can be fixed.

Rumor Three -Jailbreaking voids your wannanty.

Truth - 99% of the time you can restore your Ipod/Iphone before you bring it back to Apple the other 1% of the time your Ipod/Iphone is so messed up that they wouldn't be able to read the software.

Rumor Four - Jailbreaking Slows your Ipod/Iphone.

Truth - The jailbreak doesn't slow your Ipod/Iphone some users Ipod/Iphones are slow because they have way to many apps on their device so if yours starts running slow delete the old apps you don't use anymore.

Now here's some reasons why you should jailbreak your device.

#1 Installous

Download almost any App Store application for free straight onto your Ipod Touch/Iphone and be able to sync them to Itunes just like if you used the App Store. Search through games, books, photography even weather to find that app that you wanted.

#2 Use Winterboard and Cydia to download and install themes to your Ipod/Iphone

Tired of the black background and boring Sliders? Well all you need is Cydia and Winterboard. Use Cydia to search through thousands of themes and find that perfect theme (I'm working on my own layout creator for download I'll upload it soon) Don't want any static background? There are backgrounds that change picture every so often and also video backgrounds.

#3 Thousands of third party apps to download

With Apple's way to strict rules of what can and can't be sold in their app store also with the 100 dollar service charge many good apps wont ever get seen in the app store but with your jailbroken Ipod/Iphone you'll have access to more apps then you can handle so go wild.

#4 BossPrefs

adds more settings to your Ipod/Iphone don't want bluetooth or Wifi on to save battery? Turn them off here partially manage your mail app here. Add a numeric battery icon to your status bar. Find out how much free disk space there is on your Ipod/Iphone without having to use your computer. Disable Apple's killswitch so they can't remove apps they don't like off your Ipod/Iphone. Last but not least Hide Icons we all have icons we don't use and don't want to look at (Itunes, Stocks, Etc. . .) with Hide Icons you can remove those pesky icons from your springboard.

#5 OpenSSH

Manually manage your Ipod/Iphone's directorys with OpenSSH thousands of possibilities. Change your themes add Roms for your emulators and much more. Caution how you use it you could delete or romove something you need.

#6 Completely Reversible

Don't like your Ipod/Iphone jailbroken? You can restore it to your old firmware easily and never have to be reminded of it again.

#7 Cycorder and Snapture (Iphone only)

Record video on your Iphone with Cycorder the fully functioning app records at 15 Fps and has sound. Saves videos as MPEG format so you can view them on your computer.

catch fast moving objects with multiple pictures with Snapture

#8 Turn-By-Turn GPS (Iphone only)

with xGPS you can get GPS with voice right on your Iphone theres no more need for that Tom Tom anymore. You can't find any GPS software on the App Store Apple wont allow it.

I hope this helps you make a decision on jailbreaking your Ipod/Iphone.

Did I miss something? If you think I should add something I missed leave your idea in the comments I'll add it as soon as i read it.

Quick Freedom Jailbreak Error Help

Here's some error codes that I've been asked about so far hope this helps! If your perticuar error isn't on this web log message me and I'll get back to you with the answer.

Here's the programs the errors will fall under

1 LibUSB

2 Quick Freedom

3 Itunes

4 Ipod/Iphone

LibUSB errors

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! AHH - haha this ones not as bad as people portray it to be its a pretty easy one to fix without having to restore your computer. Here's what you need to do.

1. Restart your computer.

2. During startup press F8 and put your computer into "Safe Mode"

3. Uninstall LibUSB and then put your computer back into mormal mode.

USB Mouse stops working - This one's simple just unplug your mouse and plug it back in.

All USB ports stop working - Uninstall LibUSB and reinstall with compatibility set to windows XP Service pack 2 and run as administrator. if you can't uninstall it because your keyboard don't work follow the steps for the blue screen of death.

Quick Freedom errors

Ipod is not connected - Reinstall LibUSB and set it as administrator.

Error occurred - Are you sure you hit the "Download Firmware" button?

An error occured during process - Close Quickfreedom, Right click and select "Run As Administrator"

Itunes errors

There is not enough memory available (XP Problem) - SSL Cache Full (Follow instructions)

1 Click Start > Control Panel.

2 Double-click Internet Options.

3 On the Content tab, click Clear SSL State.

4 Click OK, when you get the SSL Cache Cleared Successfully message.

5 In the Internet Options window, click OK.

error 1604 - Restart your computer and restart the jailbreaking process.

error 13 - (Follow instructions)

1. Restart your computer.

2. Open itunes and close all other programs.

3. Put Ipod into DFU mode

Ipod touch/Iphone error

Partial Brick(if this works your Ipod wasn't bricked) - Put your Ipod touch/Iphone into DFU mode here's instructions:

1. Unplug your Ipod/Iphone from computer and turn it off.

2. Hold power button(button on top) and home button (square button) for ten seconds, at the same time and plug Ipod/Iphone into computer(the one you were using!!)

3. Let go of Power button and continue holding Home button for about 10 seconds or untill computer recognises Ipod/Iphone.

4. Re-sync Ipod/Iphone to original firmware.

Bricked - There's no such thing, this term was created for people who messed up their PSP's while trying to hack it. It is impossible to brick an Ipod Touch.

I'll add to this blog as i come across new problems if your problem is not here message me Here.

Or E-mail me at Megacratercmc@aol.com