Help/Support PaleRa1n App not Showing after Successful Jailbreak

Evoal91 · January 8, 2023

this is a common issue in Palera1n, happened to me whenever i tried to JB or Re-JB but some devs told me that the rootfs is messed up and i had to restore to 15.6 since it's still signed.

Evoal91 · January 8, 2023

oh and btw did you fully wipe your iPhone 8 ? in case you didn't yu have to install a fresh iOS from iTunes and never set a passcode ands never set one again.

Rook · January 8, 2023

1 hour ago, quatorze said:

Bootable ubuntu environment: Download Ubuntu Desktop | Download | Ubuntu

Also this tutorial goes in details:

You should probably try redoing the entire process once more with this information, before that make sure you restorerootfs.

Will follow this and report back!

27 minutes ago, Evoal91 said:

this is a common issue in Palera1n, happened to me whenever i tried to JB or Re-JB but some devs told me that the rootfs is messed up and i had to restore to 15.6 since it's still signed.

22 minutes ago, Evoal91 said:

oh and btw did you fully wipe your iPhone 8 ? in case you didn't yu have to install a fresh iOS from iTunes and never set a passcode ands never set one again.

No password ever. Looks like I’ll do a fresh restore and then try again. I’ll see about restoring rootfs too, or is that available via the checkra1n app only?

Evoal91 · January 8, 2023

4 minutes ago, Rook said:

Will follow this and report back!

No password ever. Looks like I’ll do a fresh restore and then try again. I’ll see about restoring rootfs too, or is that available via the checkra1n app only?

just restorerootfs in a terminal

lockz3 · January 8, 2023

Did you by any chance abort any steps in the jailbreak process and rerun the jailbreak? I remember some steps taking about 10 minutes, where I thought the process was stuck and I aborted the process and ran it again.
This caused my device to be a very weird state where it would not respring and show the palera1n app, while the terminal said it was successfully jailbroken.

How I fixed it at the time was by restoring rootfs with

./palera1n.sh --restorerootfs <iOS version>

After that do a fresh restore and rerun the jailbreak. Follow the steps and be patient keeping in mind that some steps can take a while.

Rook · January 8, 2023

11 minutes ago, lockz3 said:
Did you by any chance abort any steps in the jailbreak process and rerun the jailbreak? I remember some steps taking about 10 minutes, where I thought the process was stuck and I aborted the process and ran it again.
This caused my device to be a very weird state where it would not respring and show the palera1n app, while the terminal said it was successfully jailbroken.

How I fixed it at the time was by restoring rootfs with
./palera1n.sh --restorerootfs <iOS version>
After that do a fresh restore and rerun the jailbreak. Follow the steps and be patient keeping in mind that some steps can take a while.

Actually, at one point I thought it seemed frozen and so I quit and restarted. That may have done something.

Will try this command and report back!

Evoal91 · January 8, 2023

3 minutes ago, Rook said:

Actually, at one point I thought it seemed frozen and so I quit and restarted. That may have done something.

Will try this command and report back!

ye in that step just wait......it may take up to 10 Minutes.

Rook · January 10, 2023

I ended up restoring my device (it’s possible that restoring rootfs may also have the same effect if you do not want to lose your current iOS version) and re-running palera1n.sh. This time I just waited for everything to complete.

I had to manually turn on the phone after phase 1 was complete but other than that, all went well.

The device booted and I still saw no palera1n app but it respringed on my after ~30s (as mentioned in the Terminal) and the palera1n app appeared.

All is good and working now, thank you everyone for your help! :hug:

Updated January 10, 2023 by Rook

Aspect13 · January 27, 2023

Just tried this and everything seemed to go perfect. My device restarted on its own and resprang 30 seconds later. However, no palera1n app.

I never aborted during any steps. One quick question (it may not matter):

sudo ./palera1n.sh --tweaks <iOS version you're on> --semi-tethered

I’m on 15.4.1 but I entered 15.4 on this command. That’s all I got…any ideas?

Rook · January 27, 2023

5 minutes ago, Aspect13 said:
Just tried this and everything seemed to go perfect. My device restarted on its own and resprang 30 seconds later. However, no palera1n app.

I never aborted during any steps. One quick question (it may not matter):
sudo ./palera1n.sh --tweaks <iOS version you're on> --semi-tethered
I’m on 15.4.1 but I entered 15.4 on this command. That’s all I got…any ideas?

Try the shortcuts link another user posted.

Otherwise, it may be important that you should have specified the complete iOS version (15.4.1).