Seas0nPass Cuts the Cord for 4.4.4

AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! No PlEX??? That's all I use my ATV for!

thanks so much for this

Congrats guys, thanks for all your (and pod2g's) efforts...

YOEHOEOHE

itunes 10.5.2 ipsw created successfully for 4.4.4 but getting an error 3194 in itunes on win xp.
anyone else know how to resolve this?

Yeah! Why isn't Plex supported?

Brilliant, Happy New Year to the Team!

Thanks. Now I can finally jailbreak my Apple TV for the first time (tried the past few days unsuccessfully to get the tethered jailbreak working).

Super duper!! Please tell me there is functionality to disable hokey and wsj? Not sure why apple decided we all want these!

Quick Google search revealed that they're working on it:
https://twitter.com/#!/tobiashieta/statuses/152364579224174592
and this whole thread about the beta progress:
http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/34029-09-beta-releases/

so wait... rejailbreak as in restore with modified IPSW :-(

I was waiting for the untether before I upgraded my box. now let's see if we can get some nice coding done and fix up the plex plugin.

I have jailbroken my ATV2 4.3 some months ago using Seas0nPass.
What are the steps to update to 4.4.4 and rejailbreak?

Hmm, iTunes cannot restore... Gives an error... Using an European Apple TV 2. If it is jailbroken you should see fc logo right?

Tethered 4.4.4 already, can't enter DFU when doing the new untethered. Tried everything I could find on the forum. Help?

Thnx! Works like a charm now!

thank you so much!

YEAH! Thanks a bunch pod2g and FireCore!!
Jailbreaking went (almost) without problems.
I had to deviate from the jailbreak guide on a single point though to get it to work, because at first I couldn't get it in DFU mode. When connecting the ATV2 with the USB cable it only gave me 2 short flashes of light, and then nothing.
So instead I had to first connect the power cable and then quickly connect the USB cable. Then it began to flash rapidly, and I could get it into DFU mode.
When restoring in iTunes it ran through the restore process twice rather slowly, and ended up with error 1602 restore failed (or something similar.)
But even though iTunes said it failed, the jailbreak went successful as far as I can see. When starting it up on my TV, I have the FireCore logo, and I can SSH to it.

Now I will run it for a couple of days without installing anything to see if it runs as expected, before I purchase the ATV Flash.

Excelent Work

Good News

I would be interested in knowing this as well. I would like the process to go as smoothly as possible.

And many thanks to all involved on getting a solution for an Untethered Jailbreak.

I'm a little fuzzy on this-- I bought Apple TV about 5 months ago, bought aTV Flash at that point, did the jailbreak and so forth and everything was fine. Since then I've upgraded my aTV software using the "Manage" menu, per the previous blog posts. So far, so good. So with this... do I need/want to do this? Do I take my AppleTV and re-jailbreak it, and then re-install aTV? I guess I don't understand how this fits into what I have now. Thanks.

PLEX?????? :'(
What a bummer!! Still not working??

Whats the recent intel on that in regards to 4.4.4 compatibility issues??
Was hoping the Un-Tether would address that problem,
Are there any work-arounds on getting it to work that anybody might be aware of
with out having to downgrade back to 4.3.3.
Plex consists of 90% of ATV2 use .

Thanks All

Great news. Wish I'd waited since I just used the old version about 2 hours before this mail!

Thanks for the support guys.

I had that problem try this iREB-r4 it worked after I a pplied it.

Great!!!

Thanks Firecore and @pod2g, re-jailbreaking right now :D

Thank you lkodk ! - I had exactly the same issue you did. The power cable quickly followed by connecting USB did the trick for me.

Hi,

sorry in advance for the newbee question: I currently have my ATV2 with OS 4.3 jailbroken - do I need first to upgrade to OS 4.4 and then perform the new jailbreak, or can I simply perform the jailbreak (because in the instructions it reads: "The latest AppleTV software will be downloaded and used to create a custom 'jailbroken' software file".).

Thanks for clarifying and thanks for the great work - I also really enjoy the aTV flash (back) and keep on recommending it to all my friends!

Best
EBob

Great Great great , thank you!

We Need Plex :-( any one try to install it on 4.4.4 ?

This is strange but after jailbreaking and entering my credentials into Netflix, Apple TV 2 reboots automatically .... anyone with this bug ??

Not doing tips before plex is in place

Then don't. How about a thank you or learn how to spell.

Sucks the world is full of unappreciative a-holes like this.

FireCore you guys rock. Thanks for the hard work and keeping us all up to date.

Happy New Year to all!!!

Is there anyway to save all of my settings from my Tethered 4.4.4 ATV so I don't have to reinstall ATV Flash, XBMC, Navi-X. ICefilms and create all of my favourites, and reindex re-meta my library? 

I am sure I should know this having used ATV Flash for a couple of Years, but can't find anything.

Hi:

I just got my black Apple TV, but I don't understand the differences here between ATV and Seas0nPass, are they the same or why would I want to do Seas0nPass over ATV?

Any help will be well received.

Thanks!

Alex

Fantastic!
Does anyone know if this will only work with 4.4.4 or will it also work with 4.4.2?
Last I heard Apple are still signing 4.4.2 and it also works with Plex!
Thanks :)

Well done and thanks! I greatly appreciate the effort put into this.

Just searched for backup, and now realise that's what the cloud backup is used for.  Could someone look to update the install instructions for SeasonPass to suggest if you are an existing use to make sure you have taken a backup before running SeasonPass if you want to avoid having to reconfigure all of your Apps.  Fortunately I have been taking the backups once a week for a while (even though I hadn't bothered to understand what it was used for).

Thanks Guys for the great support for ATV & ATV2. It makes this the best piece of Hardware for the living room by a long way.

No matter what I try, the restore always fail in 1601... I tried the fixes listed in http://forum.firecore.com/topic/4328 to no avail... I can see the new ipsw (AppleTV2,1_4.4.4_9A406a_SP_Restore) under ~/Library/Application Support/Seas0nPass/Firmware but iTunes seems to be stuck forever on "Preparing Apple TV for restore..." and then eventually gives up with 1601 error.

I tried to switch USB port (from recent iMac so there is enough power), still no go.

I tried to do a "normal" restore and this is working so I know the USB port and cable are fine...

Halp! :)

Do you have the power cable connected? When resetting you only should have the USB cable connected or you will nd up with 1601 every time.

F.A.O. Anybody getting a 1602 error in iTunes .. plug it in even if you do get this error. I got the error twice plugged it in and sure enough it has new firmware and the FC logo

Cheers guys & many thanks to @Pod2g

I apologize for the n00b question but does Seas0nPass allow me to hide the default ATV2 menus? I really couldn't care for most of the iTunes stuff. Thanks.

Spent about an hour trying to get into DFU mode. Doesn't work. Don't download until they can actually release a working update.

Thanks but nope, just the USB cable :(

I'm now seeing the 1604 error as well... That's when I switched to another port! Very suspicious...

Plug in power to kick into dfu. It'll give a error at the end, but work. Happens to me every time. I think it's cause I jail broke with green poison once.

Two days ago I bought ATV2 and learned of this software.  I downloaded Seas0nPass and purchased aTV Flash (black).  I was extremely shocked, surprised and happy to see and email about this new update.  I stared reading the comment to see the success of others and avoid any pitfalls if any.  I was very shocked to read all of the comments from ppl bitching about various things with respect to this new release.. I never comment on blogs/forums etc but felt obligated as few  seems to be grateful for all of the work that you guys have put into the development of the software which allows us (as consumers) to do things that Apple did not care to put into the software for what ever reason (for me connecting to my NAS storage device - opposed to using iTunes was important).  As a developer, I wanted to give you guys a big THANKS for all of the hard work, quick turn around and continued support.  For those of you that are complaining - try opening up your editor and coding something like this for yourself (for free might I add) before you start sharing your twisted views on software that is being offered a not cost to you.  Quit being so unappreciative and just learn to say thanks - it goes along way!!!

THANKS A MILLION!!

Hi Alex,  SeasonPass is the tool used to prepare -- Jailbreak --  your AppleTV so that you can THEN install the ATVFlash software.  So you do need to do both (SeasonPass first)  and you'll be up and running in no time.