iBooks not working after jailbreak? Here’s how to fix it [updated]

So, you decided to jailbreak your iPhone. Here’s your reasoning: Everything works the same, it can look the same, and you get more features. However, if you jailbroke iOS 4.2.1 with Greenpois0n and tried to read an Apple iBook, you may have noticed a little glitch.

Here’s what probably happened: You opened up iBooks, clicked on a title and got an error that said, “There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.” The stuff you buy from the iBook Store is actually all DRM’d — like the apps Apple sells too. (Apple got rid of a lot of DRM from music with iTunes+.)

UPDATE: All you have to do is download Greenpois0n and re-run the jailbreak. All settings will remain the same, and it’ll be a lot easier then adding sources to Cydia.

UPDATE #2: If you would like to jailbreak, use Greenpois0n, PwnageTool, or SnowBreeze 2.2.1. These all have the iBooks fix within them. Otherwise, re-running Greenpois0n does the same thing. However, if you unlock do not use Greenpois0n, use PwnageTool or Sn0wBreeze.

It’s kind of a tedious process — unlike many Apple procedures which require one or two taps. But hey, at least you can read iBooks on your jailbroken iDevice now! Yay!

Via: Redmond Pie, Social Apples

UPDATE: Greenpois0n has been updated to include the iBooks fix! Says Redmond Pie:

Comex discovered that the app was checking if the operating system allowed it to execute an unsigned binary, and if it did, the book wouldn’t open. Now both PwnageTool 4.2 and Sn0wbreeze 2.2 already includes this fix. If you are jailbroken with Redsn0w 0.9.6 or 0.9.7, you can simply use “iBooks Fix” app from Cydia, or just run this latest version of GreenPois0n RC6.1 over your existing RC5 or RC6 jailbreak. No restore is required.

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