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valkur
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I have setup two ATV2s now, one of my own and one for my neighbour.
Mine I setup first, connected to wifi, worked good and then jailbroke with the Pwnage Tool method. Everything worked after some fiddling with wireless and then wired which I switched to later. The only issue is it takes a long time to boot when I do the tethered boot. I cant say its for sure the network but it seems possible.
The second one I broke with the Seas0npass method, it has never been plugged in wired and it works great. Tonight I will unplug the wire and see if mine boots better, i hadnt thought of it before reading this.
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I also tried both season pass 0.6.9 (30) and Pwnage Tool 4.1.3 and neither of them would make the wifi work, The ATV booted up no problem but with no networking, must have tried at least 5 times with each of the firmwares.
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I had the exact same problem - no networking. This is what fixed it for me:
- Do a clean restore of the AppleTV from within iTunes
- Jailbreak with Seas0npass
- Tether boot the ATV2 (also using Seas0npass)
- You should see the initial language-selection screen on the ATV... from there it will ask you to connect to a network. You should be fine from this point.
The key was to start with a newly restored ATV2.
XBMC on the ATV2 rocks - big thanks to everyone involved in making it happen.
Good luck!
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adefa
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After having some problems with wifi on the ATV2 after jailbreaking it, I tried restoring the original firmware and then using both the latest PwnageTool and Seas0nPass to jailbreak it. With the stock firmware I could connect to wifi fine, but after jailbreaking the ATV2 the box wouldn't even try (No swirly wait for it animation). The last thing I tried (which worked) was a different order in tetheredbooting.
I'm using the Windows tetheredboot program to boot from my laptop:
Instead of plugging just the micro usb cable in to the ATV2, I instead plug the usb cable and the power cable in before starting the boot process. Once I used this method instead of plugging the power cable in after the tetheredboot process finishes but before the usb cable is removed, the wifi worked the first time. Coincidence? Not sure. ;]
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I had the no network problem happen to me last night after I did my jailbreak. When I did the tethered boot the way most guides specify, I had no network. Convinced the jb had indeed worked, I simply re did the the tethered boot and then the network was there. So if it happens, try the tethered reboot again and see if the network comes back before you go through the trouble of redoing your jb. Not saying it will work for everyone, but it worked for me. I can't be sure if my sequence of connections was different when doing the reboot but I don't think so.
This was on wifi.
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I have a couple of different jailbroken ATVs, one of which had never given me any network problems through many tethered reboots (a couple of months worth). However, I recently had to do a tethered reboot which I did with Seas0nPass 0.6.8, and when it came back up I had no sign of wireless (ie none of the nearby networks appeared at all). I tried many reboots, but it never came back (ethernet was fine).
I restored and re-jailbroke with Seas0nPass 0.6.9. Wireless was back, and used the ATV with XBMC etc for a couple of days. Last night, I was scrolling through the menus, and the screen just went black. Attempted to SSH and it was still on the network, but killall AppleTV didn't bring the screen back. A few moments later, it was off the network entirely, so I did another tethered reboot. Damned if wireless wasn't gone again. Several more tethered reboots failed to bring it back. Pretty discouraging.
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Thanks for the reply badjase. I'm sure I can "fix" it again, by restoring and re-jailbreaking, but I'm not convinced that it will STAY fixed. However, I'm pretty sure that the problem is actually in the tethered reboot process rather than the jailbreak itself, since I never had a problem until I used one of the newer versions of Seas0nPass to do that. Over a 2 month period, it always worked fine until .0.6.8 of Seas0nPass was used to reboot it.
Maybe I'll do one more jailbreak and try using the Windows tethered booter instead of Seas0nPass. Since I have both Mac and PC laptops, it's not too much trouble to give it a go.
Thanks again for your input.
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So I got it working today. The newest iOS is not working for jailbreaks. Went back a version and magic. I had done this previously but I am sure something was fixed in the backend.
