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LimeRa1n Not Working? Here’s Why

iPhone hacker Geohot stepped back into the jailbreak limelight the other day by releasing his latest iPhone jailbreak solution, LimeRa1n; however there may be a couple of things you’ve missed that may cause LimeRa1n to not work.

According to an article over on iPhone Download Blog by Sebastien, one of the reasons LimeRa1n may not work is because the jailbreak is only for Windows at the moment, so if you are using a Mac then LimeRa1n won’t work.

Another reason is that LimeRa1n also requires the latest version of iTunes, so iTunes 10, and if you don’t have this then you need to download it for LimeRa1n to work. You also need to run LimeRa1n as an administrator on your PC and to do so simply click on the LimeRa1n icon and choose “run as administrator.”

Another issue you may face is once you have run LimeRa1n with no issues the LimeRa1n icon doesn’t show on your iPhone, so reboot, and if that doesn’t work then you may need to attempt a hard reset, to do this hold Home and Power together until the device closes down.

Apparently there are some users of LimeRa1n who are reporting that their iPhone gets stuck on the Apple Logo when using LimeRa1n, so if that happens you can follow the guys “get out of reboot loop” article by hitting up here.

So any of our iPhone toting readers experienced any issues when using LimeRa1n? If so feel free to let us know by dropping us a comment to our comments area below.

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156 thoughts on “LimeRa1n Not Working? Here’s Why”

  1. henx says:

    Hi used limera1n on release date works fine no problems and works fine with 9.2 itunes my iphone is 16gb white 3gs firmeware 05.14.02 installed straight away its safe everyone. Also greenpo1son anotherj ailbreak will be released next day or 2 but only works for iphone 4 not 3 gs so dnt install on 3gs as u could brick your 3gs limera1n is the one AND totally100% safe currently for windows users only

  2. Sinu Thomas Chacko says:

    LIMERAIN, partly works. Jailbreak is OK. But, not the network unlock performed by repo666/Cydia. the Netwok keeps searchinga nd finds no network. Spent almost 4 times but there aint Nework Registration what so ever. Checked with 2 SIMs are 2 Network Providers. Are we missing part of the fun?

  3. James says:

    I run limera1n on iPad 3.2.2 7B500 installed fine but when I click on cydia to install I get an error code that cydia file can't be found tried everything sucks…

  4. jes says:

    If your limera1n icon isn't showing up still, after the exploit has installed and you've restarted your phone, then go to settings -> general -> reset -> erase ALL content and settings. after this completes, the limera1n icon appears. After installing cydia, do a hard reset for it the show up.

    1. rapj7777 says:

      wholy crap it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank u so much!!! just make sure to back up before or u will loose everything. i honestly didnt think this would work n thought i was just gettin screwed by a newb lol thank you again : ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2. Bladzalot says:

      jes you are a lifesaver… Two things to point out in your post, and I am not sure which one did the trick, but I did the master reset per your instructions, then I went to http://www.limera1n.com today and got a NEW download of the exploit, and it worked. Either way thanks so much, I swear to god I tried this yesterday at least a dozen times, I even reset my device back to base IOS twice, lots of work…but I am there!!

  5. OMG!! It uses windows so it must not work!!! This is the most biased, poorly written, and poorly argued article I have ever read. It works fine, it doesn't require itunes 10, and if you have to reboot your device, WTF cares? Try actually using the jailbreak before you start referencing the experiences of people you have found on the internet.

    1. Todd says:

      "the jailbreak is only for Windows at the moment, so if you are using a Mac then LimeRa1n won’t work."

      …actually i think your the one the can't read

  6. carl says:

    i cant get limera1n to recognize my ipod touch 3g. i have itunes 10, i run as administrator. i dont kno what is the problem. after i click make it rain it jus stays on the waiting for device screen

  7. rapj7777 says:

    no limera1n app icon shows up after jailbreak. i have itunes10, 3g touch 4.1 (8b117) MC008ll…
    what can i do??? i tried hard reset after jailbreak and still nothing…

      1. jacob says:

        settings -> general -> reset -> erase ALL content and settings. where do u do that at itunes? couse my itouch just stays to the connect to itunes screen ? what do i do man help me!

  8. evrulz says:

    i followed all the instructions but when i use limera1n the green limera1n drop never shows up and the app never shows up so i cant install cydia i have tried rebooting hard rebooting and restoring nothing works i have tried this on two 3g ipod touches on ios 4.1. please help!

    1. Gem420 says:

      Yea I am having same problem, it worked great with my iPhone 3gs on 4.1 but the iPod touch 3g on 4.1 wont give me the limera1n icon. If I find the fix or get it to work i will let you know

  9. Jason L. Harrison says:

    Tried 10 times the day of release and it didn't work. I tried 3 times the next morning and it worked and I have seen no issues. Good going Geohot. Don't be mad Dev Team you should have gave it to us when we wanted it instead of making us wait. All I can say is he got you and he gave us what you had been holding on to for months.

  10. Solomon says:

    I have a new iPhone 3GS and the jailbreak goes fine but the limera1n icon does NOT show up on my home screen despite running Limera1n as administrator…

  11. iphoner says:

    Hey everyone, I am having trouble with my JB, if anyone could lend any advice (even if it's just wait for a newer version) I'd really appreciate it:

    I'm using a previously broken 32GB 3GS. I upgraded to software 4.1 in order to JB with limera1n.
    firmware 05.14.02
    downloaded limera1n, the process went as expected…i see the big lime ra1n drop on the screen, but the ap itself is just a plain white ap button, not the ra1n drop. I select the ap, something opens for 1 second and then it crashes on me…

    Anyone else experiencing this? Is there something I can do here? Thanks

    1. Gspec says:

      i had the same problem try this go to settings -> general -> reset -> erase ALL content and settings. after this completes, the limera1n icon appears. After installing cydia, do a hard reset for it the show up. BACK UP YOUR PHONE FIRST

  12. NIck says:

    I have an iphone 3gs 16gb, and after going though all the steps, i succeed in jailbreak and unlock. however, my active AT&T sim is not finding any service, while it does have service on my other iphone 3gs which is not jailbroken.

    1. curiousone says:

      Did you get your phone unlocked? I could not get my 3gs 16GB with 4.10 unlocked, no matter what I tried. It jailbreaks just fine, but no unlocking 🙁

      1. NIck says:

        yes. I got it unlocked. I installed repo666 everything went smooth. but no service on the phone.
        So I restored the phone back with Itunes, and it now has service with AT&T.
        but not jailbroken any more.

  13. Dan Mclellan says:

    I’m runnin windows 32 bit,did Not run as administrator,Limera1n jailbroke my 3GS 4.1 MC IPhone with all icons on homemscreen,works awesome! Thanks Geohot !!

  14. Mike says:

    Network unlock is working…
    i jailbroke my iphone4 with limer1 and then installed ultrasnow, and voilaa, i have an iphone 4.1 version which is unlocked
    nice work geohot

  15. SAM says:

    omg i have done all troubleshooting to try and fix im running on itunes 10 and i have 4.0.2 firmware i tryed running as administrator but it still wont come up with the logo GWRRRRRRR

  16. Theicephoenix says:

    NOTHING WORKS I have tried different suggestions from all over the net I have followed numerous videos I even tried erasing everything as someone stated above I tried different versions of limera1n release I tried restoring my ipad I tried putting it into dfu mode myself. this things simply is unreliable and unstable I read FAR more complaints about this program then I do on compliments. this has got to be the worst made Ipad hack I have seen out YET. I do notice a lot of people say this works for all gens but then how come I am seeing almost entirely iphone users as being the only ones able to get it working? this is a luck of the draw software and that's dumb.

  17. Zeey says:

    I have itouch 3g on ios 4.1 and the limera1n told me the jailbreak was successful but there was no green droplet on my screen and no green droplet icon in my apps.

    1. Mark says:

      Hi just thought i'd try and help as i was just experiencing this problem wih the no green logo on boot and and no app appearing i got round this by doing the following:

      Reset ipod settings/general/reset/reset all
      plug ipod in
      open itunes (v10.1) (dont know if this is necessary?)
      right click limera1n run as administrator (Win7)
      this time on boot i got green droplet logo on boot
      and my ipod was off when it had finished
      switched it on and limera1n appeared

      however now im stuck with no network
      ive reset network settings a few times seen my wifi once but didnt connect in time before it dissapeared now on every reboot no wifi networks??

      any ideas?

      Mark.

  18. drydock says:

    I also had issues when installing LimeRa1n that it's icon did not show up on my Ipad. I simply did a search (menu to the left of home) and it found it immediately… icon then showed up and allowed installation of Cydia.

    So any of you having that problem might also try this method.

  19. theskaternator says:

    iv run limera1n on my ipod 2g 4.1 15 times on every beta rebooted and all no matter what all it seems to make it do is go into dfu and pop back out no lime drop icon no drop relpacing the apple nothing besides normal dfu im about to give up

  20. Notepad says:

    I was havin prolems at start limera1n icon not showing, when I was releasing power button and still holding down home button I let go home button to soon

  21. Bobby says:

    I installed limerain from an acer PC laptop to my iphone4 without a problem. installed cydia, then bricked my phone after trying to install some winterboard theme. I then restored the phone back from a backup i did right before the jailbreak. I didnt have access to the same acer laptop to do the limerain jailbreak but i used parallels on my macbook pro running windows xp. I can run the limerain jailbreaker again, but i dont see the limerain icon anywhere on the fine despite it saying it was done. What should I do?

  22. Freddie says:

    I got 2 iPhone 4s. Took a couple tries. But both jailbroken with limera1n. Now that Greenpois0ns out. I’m torn to try it. Haven’t really seen reviews.

  23. Swehack says:

    If you guys dont get the limedrop on your device after dfu-mode, do as i did and have itunes OPEN when you hit "make it Ra1n" and rest of the jailbreak. i have itunes 10 and iphone 4, ios 4.1 if you guys wonder

    Good Luck guys
    /swe

  24. proxydeamon says:

    I also had issues with the limera1n icon not showing up on the screen after installation…All you have to do is update iTunes and jailbreak it again…worked for me

  25. sallu says:

    dear all, how get this software bcoz i could not understand how to download it easily for my iPhone 3gs locked after errase the data….plzzzzzzzz reply me ASAP…

  26. Jam says:

    i have big problem !

    I jailbreaked with limera1n 4.1 on iphone 3gs and then erased my iphone know it is stucked on the recover mode logo doesnt do anything pls help!!

  27. jok3r105 says:

    i have an ipod 3g 4.1 and i wanted to know if limera1n will work with this.. and apparantly not because i downloaded it with know problem but the icon wont show up .. and i tried restoring, rebooting and other stuff but it still doesnt work ????

  28. BcSrosseau says:

    I have an old ibook power pc G4 running OSX 10.4.11
    I have an iphone 3gs 4.1
    i tried to download limera1n – the icon shows on my computer – but says theres no application to open it??
    nothing happens when i plug in my iphone??
    (correction – the ONLY thing that happened is "Game Center" app was installed on my phone? what the heck is that?
    my itunes is 9.2.1( cant upgrade to 10??)
    help???
    thanks

  29. Philtwo says:

    Drains my Blue Tooth Device
    iPhone 3GS, I was running 3.1.3 under Spirit (working great)
    Update to 4.1 and installed Limera1n a few days ago.
    NO Problem with updating process using Limera1n – everything went smooth
    except for my BlueTooth Device (iCom – which is connected to my Hearing Aids)
    is now dead (battery Drain) after 3 hours and my iPhone battery is also dying faster than normal (my iphone is warm to the touch)
    I reset and paired up my blue tooth . it pairs fast and works, but my battery is Dying FAST
    Tested without my Blue Tooth device and turned off Bluetooth on phone, and iPhone battery showns normal Battery Drain. and is not warm to the touch.
    Any Advise and is it Limera1n causing my problem?
    I may need to reload 4.1 from Itunes and remove limera1n. because I need my Blue tooth device to work for me

  30. Kell says:

    Can anyone help? I got the limera1n icon on my home screen..But i cant select the available installer! Error message :pls check your network connection…

  31. Ipod problems says:

    iv got a ipod touch 3g 8gb and when i get my device into dfu mode it sais jailbreak complete but the limera1n logo doesnt apear on my loading screen, it just has the standard apple logo as its laoding up then when the itouch is on theres no jailbreak on it. Any help ?

  32. Boban38111 says:

    Hi, can someone tell me why I am unable to JB my Iphone 3G, 5.14 with limera1n. In DFU it stays in "wait" forever. I am on Mac but I have parallels with Windows7 so it shouldn't be a problem? Any suggestions? Oh, I did notice most of directions talks about 3GS phones does it mean no JB for 3G?

  33. nido says:

    IPhone 3GS unlocked and upgraded to iOS 4.1 with Itunes 10. Tried limera1n and messages indicates that Phone is " in DFU mode….wait ", but nothing happens. I also tried greensp0ison, but that does not even show my IPhone in DFU mode, but it is. Has anyone seen this issue ? I have searched and searched all forums, but no luck. Please help 🙁

  34. please help says:

    It won't work for me & I am too scared to go to settings and click erase all contents and settings coz won' t this delete everything on my ipod.

  35. I have in iPhone 3g running 4.1 but every I process through Limera1n it just gets stuck on the release the power button screen and my phone never reboots. Any help would be great as this is my 2nd day working on this.

  36. AARON says:

    i have tried greenpoision, limera1n, redsn0w, spirit, jailbreakme 1.0 and 2.0 and blackra1n and purplera1n and snowbreeze and EVEN tred to script y own. NOTHING WORKS IM ON MC 4.1 3G AND HAVE JAILBROKE BEFORE 5 TIMES. HELP

  37. Domo says:

    someon help!
    i have ipod touch 3.1.3 and i tried to jb it but it just has the usb and the itunes sign on it.
    pleaseee help
    i dont want to restore my ipod!

  38. Faizal says:

    FOR THOSE HAVING PROBLEMS LIKE NO LIMERA1N ICON AFTER JAILBREAK,THERES NO NEED FOR RESET,ETC…

    ssh IPHONE USING IFUNBOX….PASTE ANY .app file and reboot iphone…it workss….YEAHHH

  39. Rich says:

    ^^ Faizal…..Don't have a clue what you just said mate (ssh IPHONE USING IFUNBOX….PASTE ANY .app file and reboot iphone…it workss….YEAHHH)?!?! This JB does NOT work on 3gs with 4.1, so DON'T waste your time trying….

  40. Rangaman123 says:

    well after i press and hold home + power, and after i release it after limera1n tells me too, it goes to the connect ipod to itunes screen, and says try again, does anyone know what exactly is up?

  41. alex says:

    i have iphone 3gs and a mac will it work for me?
    i downloades limeRa1n and did all the steps but on my iphone it wont show up the limera1n icon
    what can i do help pliz!

  42. JOHN LUC says:

    HI LIMERA1N DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK ON MAC TITANIUM POWERBOOK. I ASSUME THE CHIP IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE LATEST PROGRAM.

    LET ME KNOW. ALSO HOW CAN I UPDATE TO 4.1 FROM 4.01 ON MY IPHONE IF MY COMPUTER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LIMERA1N.

    HOPE IT'S NOT A CASE OF HAVING TO GET A NEW MAC.

    OR CAN I USE A FRIENDS UPDATED MAC TO UPDATE A JAILBROKEN IPHONE OR WILL ADMINISTRATION BE A PROBLEM?? THANKS.

  43. Brandon says:

    Probably a dumb question, can anyone confirm a Touch 2G MC :/
    Nothing works on this ipod, i hate it. I saw someone say I need Redsn0w.
    Can anyone tell me how to JB this thing? I can't even get it to downgrade :,(

  44. T-wiz says:

    I have an iPod touch 2g 8 gb with 4.2.1 firmware and I ran limera1n and no limera1n drop on the iPod. WTF pleeaasssee someone tell me what went wrong.

    1. Epic says:

      Did any of you read the article? Try making sure that iTunes is up to date, and run the program as an administrator. If that doesnt work, I dont know what to tell you. 

  45. Annoyed! says:

    i have an 8gig ipod touch 3rd generation iOS 4.1. I tried greenpois0n an was kinda succesful, 'loader' was on my screen but crashed when i tried to click on it. i restored my ipod and tried limera1n. Nothing at all changed on my ipod, even tho it said jailbreak was succesful! Any Help? tried rebooting no success !

  46. Hey All

    Just a Query over here … I have recently bought an iphone4G with ios 4.1 Baseband 20.10.04 and jailbroke it with limera1n then installed Cydia , then restarted the phone and opened cydia it asked me to update cydia and since I updated it Cydia is giving issues “ Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/soiurces.list.d/cydia.list (dist parse ) “ and then there are no sources in cydia, I tried to add sources manually but it fails.

    I tried to restore my iphone to original ios 4.1 with itunes it gives error “The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured” , I used tinnyumbrella to change the set host to cydia option it gave same error.

    Even tried to restore by DFU mode but it gave the same error “ The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured”.

    Then I tried to use redsn0w_win_0.9.6b2 but in using this all process goes fine but the uploading Ram disk gets stuk at 25% or 50% and does not move. I am able to use my phone but cant use cydia.

    Even I tried to jailbreak again with limera1n and the process completes but my phone when powered on has no change and the cydia issue remains.

    Iam using gevey sim for unlocking and using it pn my carrier.

    Need ur expert advice where iam going wrong and what to do ?? Please help !!!

  47. Hey All

    Just a Query over here … I have recently bought an iphone4G with ios 4.1 Baseband 20.10.04 and jailbroke it with limera1n then installed Cydia , then restarted the phone and opened cydia it asked me to update cydia and since I updated it Cydia is giving issues “ Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/soiurces.list.d/cydia.list (dist parse ) “ and then there are no sources in cydia, I tried to add sources manually but it fails.

    I tried to restore my iphone to original ios 4.1 with itunes it gives error “The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured” , I used tinnyumbrella to change the set host to cydia option it gave same error.

    Even tried to restore by DFU mode but it gave the same error “ The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured”.

    Then I tried to use redsn0w_win_0.9.6b2 but in using this all process goes fine but the uploading Ram disk gets stuk at 25% or 50% and does not move. I am able to use my phone but cant use cydia.

    Even I tried to jailbreak again with limera1n and the process completes but my phone when powered on has no change and the cydia issue remains.

    Iam using gevey sim for unlocking and using it pn my carrier.

    Need ur expert advice where iam going wrong and what to do ?? Please help !!!

  48. Hey All

    Just a Query over here … I have recently bought an iphone4G with ios 4.1 Baseband 20.10.04 and jailbroke it with limera1n then installed Cydia , then restarted the phone and opened cydia it asked me to update cydia and since I updated it Cydia is giving issues “ Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/soiurces.list.d/cydia.list (dist parse ) “ and then there are no sources in cydia, I tried to add sources manually but it fails.

    I tried to restore my iphone to original ios 4.1 with itunes it gives error “The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured” , I used tinnyumbrella to change the set host to cydia option it gave same error.

    Even tried to restore by DFU mode but it gave the same error “ The iphone cannot be restored an Unknown Error 3194 has occoured”.

    Then I tried to use redsn0w_win_0.9.6b2 but in using this all process goes fine but the uploading Ram disk gets stuk at 25% or 50% and does not move. I am able to use my phone but cant use cydia.

    Even I tried to jailbreak again with limera1n and the process completes but my phone when powered on has no change and the cydia issue remains.

    Iam using gevey sim for unlocking and using it pn my carrier.

    Need ur expert advice where iam going wrong and what to do ?? Please help !!!

  49. Anonymous says:

    Hi I have an Iphone 4 version 4.1. I managed to dowloand limera 1 on my windows PC about when I clic on run and then on make it ra 1 n it it does not loacate my iphone, this is the message i get (waiting for device..) what do you advise me to do.

    Many thanks

  50. Anonymous says:

    Hi I have an Iphone 4 version 4.1. I managed to dowloand limera 1 on my windows PC about when I clic on run and then on make it ra 1 n it it does not loacate my iphone, this is the message i get (waiting for device..) what do you advise me to do.

    Many thanks

    1. Holmey123 says:

      Follow these steps:
      1. Right click on the icon on your p and click allow
      2. You need the latest iTunes installed on your pc
      Then it should work fine

  51. hi i have a iphone 3gs running on 4.3.5 trying to jailbreak and unlock with limera1n it does everything fine but then when it says jailbreak done it goes to the apple logo and stays there how can i fix this ?

  52. damsel in distress says:

    i have an ipod touch 4g and i used limera1n to jailbreak it and it worked. there was an incedent in which i ended up removing it by accident and now i can not get the icons to show up for cydia limera1n or installous.what do i do to get them back…please help me =(

  53. Jerseyson says:

    im totally stumped i have an ipod touch 4g and have used limera1n like 7 times but every time its over instead of powering off the apple logo comes up (not the limera1n one) and it powers on and i dont have the limera1n app someone please help!!!!!!!! 

  54. Hello says:

    when its in dfu mode it doesnt work it just gets stuck there and i have to reset my ipod and it just shows the apple logo and not the limera1n logo ;(

  55. Lovedgirl1234567 says:

    Hello,, I have the new itunes and i have downloaded limera1n and I run it as an administrator. It runs fine and then it is supposed to show the raindrop and tell you it is jailbroken. In my case it says it is jailbroken without showing the raindrop and when I turn it back on it is not jailbroken. What am i doing wrong?

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