I have an iPhone 3g 16GB, used Blackra1n on it, and it worked no problems.

I went to do an iPhone 2G 8GB, went to blackra1n, and it put the phone into recovery, then the screen goes black and never loads the geohot splash screen. Will sit there basically forever. I am able to home/power reboot and it will come back up normally, but it remains unjailbroken. Although blackra1n stated that the jailbreak was done, and to wait for the phone to reboot.

I had another friend with this same problem on his 3G 8GB, but he was able to fix that by putting the phone into airplane mode, and the jailbreak went through.

Anyone have any ideas of how to get it to go through? (yes, all phones I am talking about are on 3.1.2 with latest carrier update, and I am using AT&T)

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Let me explain in more detail what is happening.

The computer I am doing this on is running Windows XP. I am trying to jailbreak an iPhone 2g (EDGE) 8GB. It was jailbroken and unlocked on FW 2.2.1, then 3.0, then 3.1. I followed the instructions and restored the phone with the latest iTunes to FW 3.1.2 and did the carrier settings update afterwards. I then started with blackra1n app.

I have tried:
Phone operating normally and just running blackrain
Phone operating normally, manually putting in DFU and running blackrain
Airplane mode and running blackrain
Airplane mode with manually putting it in DFU and running blackrain

All above methods have resulted with the phone going to the apple/usb splash screen then the screen goes black when blackrain states that it is uploading the image in the log file. There are no errors in the log file either, it looks as if it runs properly, and blackrain will pop up and say wait for phone to reboot. I have tried it with RC1, RC2, and RC3 with the same exact result on all.

I have also DL custom firmware and restoring it with iTunes, which just errors out part of the way through. Just getting a little frustrated, as I have always been able to JB on all other versions of FW with the same phone.

86 Comments »

  1. Luther Miller Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:20 pm

    It doesn’t crash for me, but I have to kill it manually. Digsby is one of about 3-4 programs (Firefox and Outlook also are) that seem to mysteriously cause my computer to grind to a halt with 100% CPU usage by multiple processes combined. Once I kill Digsby, Outlook, and Firefox, the problem goes away after a few minutes. I think its some kind of driver/DPC issue, but only these programs cause it to happen. In Digsby, I turned off the feature to use my computer for research, so that’s not it.

  2. Don Webster Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:38 pm

    Running Windows 7 Ultimate, and have Visual Studio 2008 installed with a ton of add-ins. No crashes, no freezes, it just works.

    I also have a Win7 VM setup with the VS 2010 beta 2 running and have Digsby installed there, no issues.

  3. Yuriy Opryshko Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

    Let’s try it.

  4. Drew S. Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:49 pm

    I run VS 2005 and 2008 on WinXP Pro SP3 and no crashes related to digsby. if it does, i will install the debug version and let you know.

    good luck bug hunting

  5. Jon Wu Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

    +1 what Luther said. Sometimes everything just locks up and normally once I kill Digsby and Firefox it’s all better – but Firefox doesn’t freeze on its own. Sometimes Outlook is in the loop too but Luther has nailed it down pretty well.

  6. Ricardo Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:51 pm

    Now, it never starts…

  7. ADMIRAL12 Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

    I don’t have any problems on my Digsby.

    I have Windows Vista Ultimate, i use Digsby to Contact my Yahoo!,Gmail,Msn,Facebook,Myspace,Twitter…

    I have a PC with {Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz(2 CPU)..
    RAM > 1918MB

    I hope that my information useful..

  8. Ricardo Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

    it is not launching… the process starts and then quits

  9. Selvan Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

    I have visual studio and I am using Digsby for the past few months. But not once it has crashed.

  10. Lance Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

    NO

  11. Sam Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

    The problem isn’t with Digsby, but with the platform we are running it on.

  12. rainer Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

    i have the same problem as luther

  13. ylvall Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:22 pm

    If you have Visual Studio installed, when you see a problem like the one described by Luther Miller, you can go in Task Manager, right click the process and select “Create dump file”.
    The dump will reveal the call stack that causes the CPU to go 100%.
    A crash handler in Digsby would be nice.

  14. Avery Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

    I am afraid it updated to build 24920, not 22. Feel free to email me further instructions.

  15. Yuriy Padlyak Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

    I have the same issue, Luther Miller has.

  16. Mark Chandler Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

    You know that you can save the crashdump when digsby crashes automatically and then upload it next time it starts.

    http://www.debuginfo.com/articles/effminidumps.html

  17. John Meyer Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:30 pm

    I live in Studio & always have Digsby running the latest alpha, and I’ve never seen Digsby crash… WinXP in the office, Win7 at home, both running the Win7 theme

  18. D Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:34 pm

    The problam is rather in a common microsoft shared dll..
    I had a similar problem using FoxPro Support Library for Data bases..

    Open Internet options, from internet explorer.
    Click Advanced – Reset.

    try again, if the problem persists try this..

    1- put your Windows xp/Vista CD in the drive..

    2- open the run window (Winkey+R) and type the following command

    sfc /scannow

    3- restart the computer (After the proceedure is complete)
    (Remember to remove the Windows® CD

  19. solariz Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:35 pm

    Hi,

    I have installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta but Digsby runs as smooth as usual. No Crash since weeks.

  20. Diego Torres Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

    Will thid apply for portable version???

  21. reedinthewind Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

    I downloaded the file, and it broke three copies of Digsby. Every time I let it update after putting the file in, Digsby wouldn’t launch. I’m one of those few users for whom Digsby still crashes on a semi-regular basis, so I’d like to do my part to help fix the problem.

  22. Gonzalo Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

    I’ll send the crash As soon as I have it.

  23. cindy perez Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:46 pm

    my messenger won’t connect to gmail it start the process then stop the it do it again and again.please fix

  24. Joshua Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

    It crashes at least one time a week for me. I am in a programming class at school so I am using VB, so that would make sense if that was making it crash

  25. NA Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

    The issue I usually get when working with VS2005 and Digsby is that, when debugging and stopped a breakpoint, Digsby’s UI is locked up until I let the debugger continue — doesn’t happen in any other application aside from Digsby.

  26. sampi Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

    @Luther: try experimenting with you virus scanner settings (if you have one). usually the 100% cpu is because the virus scanner is analyzing every bit of data coming through your programs.

  27. DD Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

    I have Digsby Im running windows Vista home And i have NO problems with it ever its a Great Program.

    Ty From a very satified Customer

  28. Nitz Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:29 pm

    Just curious, if we keep our tag.yaml at ‘debug’, are we still getting releases as often as alpha, or is this a less frequently updated branch?

  29. Ivan Wilson Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

    Well, how can I put this? Until recently the SMS feature was working like a charm. Now, I get a error when I reply to a SMS! Could this be a bug? I can’t remember what the erros / Prompt is at the time but I will post it when someone sends me a SMS. Please resolve this minor issue. Meanwhile, I love Digsby, I promot Digsby with the Widget on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. Also, I have the Widget on one of my other Websites [http://fmlyrnn.tripod.com/id15.html] so that people can obtain this wonderful application.

  30. nikkie Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

    I switched from alpha to debug. Doesn’t load now.

  31. Jerry Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 2:55 pm

    Do i have to restart my entire system after placing the file in the folder. Since i did that i’m not able to restart digsby. I click on the exe and nothing happens. There is nothing running in the task manager.

  32. lazar vasile Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:01 pm

    nu inteleg decit romineste

  33. danny g Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:01 pm

    i run vs2003, vs2005, and vs2008 with no probs

  34. alminol Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

    Am I silly or some people here didn’t actually understand what this is all about?

    As I understood, this article is not about the issue VS2008 or VS2005 causing crashes in digsby…
    The thing is you need VS2008 or VS2005 to create dump data when running debug version of digsby… so here, VS is just a tool to determine a cause of the crash in digsby by creating a report… it doesn’t invoke crashes…

    peace…

  35. Hemank Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:30 pm

    digsby is like the coolest software i have ever used.. no probs so far

  36. Jerry Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:31 pm

    I rebooted my machine and it worked.

  37. mikey Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:40 pm

    I am still having problems with signing into the Facebook application. Upon entering my email and password and pressing enter, the pop-up screen goes all white and does nothing from there on.

  38. WaywardCat Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

    The issue I had been having with Digsby is that it would lock up. Just Digsby. I could use firefox, but Digsby would stop working for 5 minutes or so at a time. This is slightly my computer’s fault for being slow, but it’s clearly not all my computer’s fault, nor the Internet connection, because other programs continued working.

    Anyway, I figured I’d do this to help out. Now Digsby won’t start at all. I tried resetting my computer, but nothing. It just won’t start.

  39. Omi Azad Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:48 pm

    Never crashed on me till I installed it. I think I’m using this for more than 1 year now.

    Thank you people!

  40. Anthony Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

    Have been encountering crashes as well. WinXP system and Visual Studio 2005 is installed. I copied the tag.yaml file and Digsby updated to build 24922, but now will not start.

  41. Brian Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

    I have VS2008 installed and Digsby gives me a warning that comes when idle for a while and goes away when the mouse is moved. I got the debug build but it won’t run. I think I am gonna have to uninstall Digsby and reinstall it.

  42. Geoff Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

    I’m having the same problem as Ricardo. Having followed these instructions, Digsby updated itself and will now not start. Removing the tag.yaml file didn’t help, so I’m gonna try a re-install. Wish me luck.

  43. Phillip Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 4:32 pm

    I can’t get it to run at all. It launches and immediately quits — I had to set the update speed to “High” in Task Manager to even see it.

  44. anssik Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 4:40 pm

    I have Visual Studio C++ 6.0 and VB 6.0. I never have experienced any crashes on digsby. I’m running XP SP3 with all the latest updates.

  45. Matt Webb Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 4:47 pm

    I have Digsby installed on 4 computers on the following platforms; Xp Home, Xp Pro, Vista basic, Windows 7 Ultimate. I have never had any issues with Digsby and all computers run CS4(usually Photoshop and Illustrator together), FireFox 3.5 with 10+ tabs open at a time, Outlook, Norton Anti-virus, Eclipse, Tomcat, Run Run Jetty and a 25GB MYSQL Database. Granted all these computers have 4GB of DDR2 RAM and Intel Core2 2.1GHz or higher. Do not use Visual Studio mostly because it sucks.

  46. Michael Carrano Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:07 pm

    I’ll have to reinstall MS Visual Studio this weekend on my computer because Digsby does crash quite often on my computer running Windows 7.

    I’ll help out as much as possible so these issues get solved.

  47. Digsby Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:09 pm

    @All: The debug build won’t work unless you have Visual Studio. If it doesn’t work on your machine just remove the tag.yaml file and reinstall Digsby for everything to go back to normal. None of your preferences will be lost.

  48. Nate Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:18 pm

    Digsby works perfectly fine I ran the debug on it and didn’t find any leaks or problems. Im using win 7 and its good so far, so theirs no need to adapt digsby to win 7 which is pretty nice.

  49. WaywardCat Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

    My mistake – I have Visual Express C++. I thought I had Visual Studio 2010 installed, but I guess not.

  50. Theo Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:44 pm

    No crashes, but I restart Digsby from time to time due to MEM/VMEM consumption.

  51. Phillip Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:46 pm

    Which one? I have VS.NET 2003 and VS 8 installed.

  52. Brian King Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 5:50 pm

    I have Digsby installed, but I haven’t had it hard lock once! No lie. Is there anything else I can do to help? I do have Visual Studio.

  53. Stratos Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 6:06 pm

    I have VB Intstalled but i didnt have problems with digsby!

  54. Pete N. Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

    Hi, I have installed the debug version and will submit my debug reports when Digsby crashes.

    Digsby crashes for me at least twice a day, locking up pretty much any processes that tie into anything Microsoft related. What’s funny, is that I only experience this issue on computers that I use when Visual Studio is installed.

    I’m also running Win7 Professional 64-Bit.

  55. flfny Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 7:05 pm

    It crashes for me on a daily basis. I am running Win 7 RTM and it seems everytime my computer goes to sleep, when I come back and wake it, Digsby reports it has crashed.

  56. Andrew Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 7:35 pm

    Well, I don’t have Visual Studio installed on my computer that I use Digsby, but I have had crashes, so here’s my general info:

    - Digsby running…
    - Outlook (2007) running
    - Internet Explorer running
    — And then sometimes when I’m typing, Digsby locks up for an entire minute. It takes a while for it to restore function, so that I can type again.

    But I will never stop using Digsby, since it’s too great!! Keep it all up, I actually really love the little pop up messages you send us, it’s pretty cool

    Good work, again!

  57. Dave Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

    Thanks for this. I’m probably one of the small portion of users you speak of, having submitted logs after Digsby has frozen multiple times per day (although it’s only when I am using Twitter – since removing my account it’s been stable).

    As I have Visual Studio I have upgraded and will add my Twitter account again in the hope that I can help you to find out what’s going on.

  58. achain Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 8:20 pm

    I have Digsby crash often and I have VisualStdio so I would join the hunting.
    But Digsby stay at build 24920 even with tag.yaml (debug one) in the same place of digsby.exe. The updater always check updates about 20 sec, then nothing happen.
    Any hints?

  59. Joey Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 9:04 pm

    VS 2k8 & Disgy on Windows XP & Windows 7 with no crashes at all.

  60. SquareWheel Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 9:50 pm

    I’ll run the debug version if Digsby starts crashing on me, but it’s been just fine thusfar.

  61. Robbie Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

    ok digsby could in prove a bit more if you added more social site to deal with like fan box and others like tagged and hi5 and so forth with all sorts of social net works not just the main ones you all ready have try finding this ones i already mention but its just a suggestion

    but on a side note its awesome that i can operate with digsby

  62. var_dump Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 10:16 pm

    i have vs 2008, but no probs with digsby
    everything is OK

    and btw, digsby ROCKS!

  63. Troy Roeder Said,

    November 5, 2009 @ 10:20 pm

    why when to hot mail through digsby, Windows signs me out and says I have been signed on through a different location. did i do somthing wrong? This is getting to be frustrating!

  64. Salin Sarin Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 12:19 am

    Hi All,

    kindly advise how to make a call from digsby. ( as we used to make from yahoo in hte messenger box )

  65. M. Asad Malik Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 12:30 am

    I don’t have any problems on my Digsby.

    I have Windows XP Professional, i use Digsby to Contact my Yahoo!,Gmail,Msn,Facebook,Myspace,Twitter…

    I have a PC with {Intel(R) Pentium 4 CPU 4.60 1.60GHz 1.59GHz, 384 MB of RAM

    I hope that my information useful..

  66. Magdi Raid Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 3:20 am

    I work with digsby for more than one year and there is no problem till now.

  67. Abs M Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 5:12 am

    My Digsby doesn’t crash exactly, rather it periodically cuts out from the individual services, MSN being the most troublesome, disconnects and reconnects… ahsn’t happened as much in the last few days but we shall see.

    Installed the file, downloaded updates but my build says 24920 Any ideas why I’m getting a previous build?

  68. Kerem Kusmezer Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 8:55 am

    Everything ok for me also, i have VS2008 ve Windows 2003 Server , so no problems at whole.

  69. riceboyler Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 9:31 am

    VS2008 and VS2010 Beta 2 installed in W7 x64 Ultimate. Very few crashes of late, but glad to help when I can.

  70. Konrad Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 9:44 am

    I have Visual Studio 2005 pro and 2008 Database Dev Edition and the debug build of Digsby will not start.

  71. haliphax Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:07 am

    I’m running VS2005, VS2008, several plug-ins, and I use Digsby from 8AM-5PM Mon-Fri. I have never experienced a crash. I hope you guys can squash the bugs others are having.

    Keep up the good work!

  72. haliphax Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:07 am

    Oh, and I neglected to mention–this is on Windows XP Professional, SP3.

  73. Marsh Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:20 am

    Just like flfny said, “Digsby crashes for me on a daily basis. I am also running Win 7 RTM, and it seems everytime my computer goes to sleep, when I come back and wake it, Digsby reports it has crashed.”

    64-bit version of Win 7 Ultimate RTM.

  74. Andree Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:35 am

    Sometimes those status comes up on but no display on digsby’s window…

  75. Jerry Lillibridge Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:40 am

    I used to have Vista and now I have Win 7 Business but with both OS, I occasionally get “Sign out” abrubtly without any reason like maybe once or twice a day but it auto-reconnected though. It could be a bug but can’t figure out what caused it.

    I have HP Intel Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram using office 2007 and IE 8.0. am currently using digsby build 24920.

  76. duckworth Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:41 am

    I have the same issue as Luther as well. It results in 100% CPU and locks the DWM and the taskbar won’t respond to clicks.

  77. Fred Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:43 am

    i have Windows XP Pro SP2, VSTS 2008, and digsby. I added the tag.yaml set as debug to add the ability to notify when digsby crashes or does something unexpected. Digsby updated, tried to launch and failed to launch. launched digsby manually, and it imediatly quits before the splash screen shows up. uninstalled and reinstalled digsby 2 times, tried the tag.yaml as debug again both times. Same result. uninstalled and reinstalled back with tag.yaml set as alpha, digsby updated and launched without incident. Any idea?

  78. joe Cook Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:50 am

    OK, I have VS2005 installed as I am a developer. I’ve downloaded and put the yaml file in the Digsby folder. When I restart the application, does it pull down the debug version from the site or is there a binary I install as well? The instructions at the top of this only indicate the download and install of the yaml file. After I restart Digsby, it says it is Build 24920, implying it is retail.

    I’ve run Digsby for probably 5-6 months with NO ISSUES on XPSP3 and McAfee Corporate antivirus suites. Digsby == Great product!.

  79. Brijan Anand Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 10:56 am

    This looks like a new bug , i have visual studios installed .. digsby never ever crashed for me … nor does it freeze .

  80. Jeffrey Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 11:05 am

    I changed the tag param from alpha to debug and digsby wont start nemore…just runs the update and aborts

    I do have VS 2008 installed on Win XP SP3

  81. Digsby Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 11:12 am

    @All: The return from hibernate crash is fixed! For those of you having trouble getting the debug build going, don’t worry about it. Just remove the file and reinstall the regular release. Those of you who have it running, thank you for the help! Keep those crash logs coming.

  82. David Pesta Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 11:29 am

    Digsby used to be good. But feature creep is making it bloated. That is the problem with crashing as it never happened before. Now it crashes every day.

    Revert to an earlier working version to make a separate Digsby Lite product. Then you can make your main Digsby program as bloated and feature creepy as you want it to be. And the people who just want a basic IM system can be happy.

  83. Dylan Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

    I do not have visual studio installed but digsby crashes on me almost every day It started doing this about 3 builds or so ago. I’m still holding out but at some point I may have to give up.

  84. Zak Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 3:36 pm

    Personally, Digsby has been stable as a rock for me since I started using it at build 33. I’ve never even had it spike in CPU usage.

  85. Mike Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 4:13 pm

    Add me to the list of people who tried this, and now Digsby doesn’t start at all. I have VS2005 & VS2008 installed. Reinstalling Digsby.

  86. Bewitched Said,

    November 6, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

    So when i go to click the download this file … doesnt work.. maybe ya should check that out.. there is nothing to download.. pretty pointless and there are a lot of script errors on the main site as well.

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