[AppleTV 2] How to save SHSH blobs using Tiny Umbrella

Hi all,

I know this is not strictly related to XBMC, however as many people on this board having been doing this over the last few weeks I am hoping someone has some insight. I've searched, but can't find an answer to this.

I have an untethered JB using greenpois0n rc6. I have also downloaded Tiny Umbrella latest version (both 4.21.07 and 4.21.08 beta) to save my shsh blobs. However, when I run TU, it doesn't seem to detect my ATV. I don't get anything about my ATV appearing in the window, and the buttons are all greyed out.

The screenshots for the latest versions are different from the tutorials on the web - they seem to be a very old version.

I've tried 3 different machines. I tried two different ATVs (used a friends) and I have tried with USB only and USB/power. Nothing. It does show up in utunes when I plug it in, but TU never shows the ATV.

Anyone done this recently using these versions? How did you get on? Anyone suggest any other way of doing this or what my problem might be?

I had to get mine in recovery mode first, then tiny and itunes found it

What platform do you use? Windows / OSX?

You have to enter the ECID from your Apple TV manually. If you are using a Mac, you will find the ECID in the USB section of the System-Profiler.

I'm using Windows. Can anyone else confirm that I need to get it into recovery mode first?

How would I get the ECID on a Windows platform? Would this be in Device Manager properties?

So you're saying it doesn't actually automatically detect a device when it's connected?

win7 x64 recovery mode, tiny found it and did the do.

Lies about putting the ECID in manually, not saying that it doesn't work, just that I didn't have to on win.

Itunes doesn't even see the thing unless its in recovery either, for me.

I'm in Windows XP right now trying to do it, with latest 32 bit Java VM installed. Plugged the ATV into power and usb, itunes came up, closed it down. Started TU - had to stop IIS first, then restarted. Nothing - it doesn't detect it.

I had a look in Device Manager but can't see where I would get ECID from. Any advice?

I just read on a forum that they don't recommend being in recovery mode, just normal mode is better. But right now I'm willing to give it a go. How do I get into recovery mode?

Now I am just plain confused. I put the ATV into DFU mode (recovery??) and ran usbviewer. A website I read said that using usbviewer with ATV DFU mode would show the ECID. I couldn't see it anywhere under the Apple TV (DFU) node.

When I switched back to TU, it suddenly showed the Apple TV under recent devices. It also showed that the device was NOT connected but when I click save SHSH it showed they were being saved and sent to Cydia.

I unplugged the ATV completely and restarted TU, and it still let me save the SHSH blobs! Where was it getting those from? Isn't it supposed to read them from the ATV itself, or are they cached on my PC somewhere?

Confused. Are they really saved or not?

Look for a folder called shsh in windows my docs or users something like that
Not at my pc at the moment sorry

Yeah, I found them locally. My confusion is where they came from in the first place. I moved the folder to a different location, restarted TU and clicked Save SHSH on the Custom Device is had set up with a manual ECID which matched that in my device. Sure enough, it created all new SHSH blobs, but the ATV wasn't even plugged in!

I wouldn't really care... except I want to be sure that it has actually worked and they are real SHSH blobs for this device! Does this process actually read data from the AppleTV, or is it requesting the SHSH blobs from Apple itself for this ECID or something like this, and therefore the device doesn't even need to be plugged in?

In fact, I just made up an ECID and created a custom device with this, and it still created SHSH blobs for them!?!