Hi,
I already have my ATV 2 jailbroken on 5.0, would it be possible to upgrade the jailbreak to 5.01 and keep all my current settings?
Cheers
Are you using ATV Flash? If so it has options under the FireCore Settings menu for backing up and restoring application settings to save them across a re-jailbreak (although you still have to re-install the actual apps for which the settings have been saved).
Assuming you want to keep your XBMC settings…sftp into your current setup using something like FileZilla, and copy the XBMC folder from /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/ to your destop. re-jailbreak, then sftp again into the new JB and copy the folder back to that location after installing XBMC and nitoTV from the maintenance Menu (I use aTV Flash Black from this site).
After that, SSH into the ATV2 with putty or equivalent, login: root, passw: alpine, and type the command:
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/
This will update the ownership…relaunch XBMC and all of your XBMC settings including login info will be retained.
I use this process so I don’t have to manually install the repos and plugins one by one.
Sorry! After this step, what is a next step you are typing to and let a new JB APT2 have a own folder XBMC which you were saved on laptop?
Cheers guys, decided to just go for it thinking I could restore from my backup but when I tried to restore all I got was a blank screen and when I pressed the left or right button it restarted. So I’ve ended up starting from scratch.
So you are doing this command after you have copied the XBMC folder into the the preferences folder detailed in my first post. this is basically the last step. then exit out of FileZilla and relaunch XBMC.
What happens when you copy the xbmc folder into the prefs folder of a newly JB ATV2 is that the ownership is set to root:mobile. the repos and plugins will not work unless it is set to mobile:mobile. This command does just that to ensure everything installed works. This is the case because you are installing unzipped info to the apple tv. In the standard process, you SFTP zipped files to a directory and install from zip within XBMC…that process does apply the correct ownership of mobile:mobile…but takes more time. This is kind of a quick way to do this if you want the same XBMC settings and plugins without having to spend time doing everything over again.
Cleaned up duplicate posts.
Cheers