Thread: KOA2 KOA2 jail break
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Old 12-28-2018, 02:51 PM   #386
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Originally Posted by seeker7 View Post
Back to the conundrum at hand I have installed the factory firmware and I am now on 5.9.0.6 but when I use the factory jaibreak from Snapshots of NiLuJe's hacks thread and type ;installHtml my KOA2's screen flashes and the device reboots but no "You are jailbroken" book appears.

I am using windows 7 with Firefox as browser. I even tried reflashing the factory firmware but the result was same. Guys any leads??
Yes, Windows 7 is destroying the internal structure of the jailbreak.tar.gz file itself.
It is examining it, finding a tar bomb, and converting it to a "safe" archive.
But it MUST be a tar bomb, that is the type of file the firmware expects and its structure is critical to it doing its job.


Fix the "safe" conversion option (turn it off) -
OR
Use a non-windows download program (curl, wget, ...) -
OR
Find a friend that can do that and sneaker-net it to your PC.


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Yes, a one byte difference can be critical, IF it is the leading "/" that has been deleted from the internal jailbreak pathname.
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