2011-02-15, 07:48
Hi guys, I apologise if this has been answered elsewhere. I have searched through the sub-forum and haven't found anything similar.
I purchased my AppleTV and it came with 4.2.1, I used SeasonPass to have a tether jailbreak and have been running XBMC happily for the past few weeks. I was streaming music in the background when suddenly the XBMC menu became unresponsive while the music continued to play. I left it until the album had finished but still couldn't use it. I then physically unplugged the power and restarted, now for whatever reason I can no longer find any wireless networks. Manually typing it in also fails and states that it cannot find the network. I then tried to physically plug in cat5 back to my switch which also didn't work.
I then tried to reset all settings on the AppleTV through the menu and rebooted, the unit then no longer could be booted even when I was using tethered.
I then heard of Greenpois0n and decided to put the unit into DFU mode, restore to stock firmware and try it. Everything looks successful, I leave it for 5 minutes after flashing to ensure the buffer is completely written but then all I see are random artifacts on the TV and it saying "unsupported video mode". My TV supports up to 1080p so not sure what that could mean.
I then restored back to standard just to test it, the unit starts up fine and I can see my wireless network. I then tried the tethered SeasonPass which I could at least boot into, but again my wireless no longer worked and neither did the physical cable.
I can't explain it, it's as if the partition which holds the jailbroken/custom files is not being removed when restoring in DFU mode. Has anyone experienced anything like this or can provide any help?
Just before this problem started I did apt-get update to get the new release of XBMC, I also did an apt-get upgrade which from memory only upgraded 1 additional network .deb package. Could this be causing the problem? Could the existing SeasonPass jailbreak also be conflicting with Greenpois0n and giving these weird unsupported video modes?
I'm unable to return the unit to Apple as when it's standard everything works fine, it's only when using either jailbreaking option that it's not right. Could there be files remaining on the flash memory even after restoring via DFU?
Thanks for your time and apologies for the long topic, I just wanted to try and include all relevant information so I wasn't wasting anyones time having to ask me.
Cheers!
I purchased my AppleTV and it came with 4.2.1, I used SeasonPass to have a tether jailbreak and have been running XBMC happily for the past few weeks. I was streaming music in the background when suddenly the XBMC menu became unresponsive while the music continued to play. I left it until the album had finished but still couldn't use it. I then physically unplugged the power and restarted, now for whatever reason I can no longer find any wireless networks. Manually typing it in also fails and states that it cannot find the network. I then tried to physically plug in cat5 back to my switch which also didn't work.
I then tried to reset all settings on the AppleTV through the menu and rebooted, the unit then no longer could be booted even when I was using tethered.
I then heard of Greenpois0n and decided to put the unit into DFU mode, restore to stock firmware and try it. Everything looks successful, I leave it for 5 minutes after flashing to ensure the buffer is completely written but then all I see are random artifacts on the TV and it saying "unsupported video mode". My TV supports up to 1080p so not sure what that could mean.
I then restored back to standard just to test it, the unit starts up fine and I can see my wireless network. I then tried the tethered SeasonPass which I could at least boot into, but again my wireless no longer worked and neither did the physical cable.
I can't explain it, it's as if the partition which holds the jailbroken/custom files is not being removed when restoring in DFU mode. Has anyone experienced anything like this or can provide any help?
Just before this problem started I did apt-get update to get the new release of XBMC, I also did an apt-get upgrade which from memory only upgraded 1 additional network .deb package. Could this be causing the problem? Could the existing SeasonPass jailbreak also be conflicting with Greenpois0n and giving these weird unsupported video modes?
I'm unable to return the unit to Apple as when it's standard everything works fine, it's only when using either jailbreaking option that it's not right. Could there be files remaining on the flash memory even after restoring via DFU?
Thanks for your time and apologies for the long topic, I just wanted to try and include all relevant information so I wasn't wasting anyones time having to ask me.
Cheers!