brenanne said:
I didn't pay attention to some of the jail breaking rules and downloaded winter board from cydia. Well attempted to, that is. I'm new to this obviously. Anyways, cydia, safari, winter board and my email will not open. What do I do from here? I downloaded redsn0w on my iphone4 iOS 5.1.1, verizon.
It's a lot easier to just plug in phone, shut down, then enter DFU mode, then open redsn0w and click the "Just boot" button.
When you install something that requires a reboot like WinterBoard, just don't press the reboot button. Don't press "anything".
When it's done instating, just plug in phone, shut down, enter DFU, the. Open redsn0w and boot tethered.
That is what makes it a tethered jailbreak. You have to boot tethered via the "Just boot" button on every reboot.
Make sure to install the Semi-Tether package from the semitether repo: thebigboss.org/semitether/.
And make sure you open the app to check your semi-tether status in case you must reboot alway from your computer.