How to jailbreak the Apple TV 4 and 4K on tvOS 12.0-12.2 with ChimeraTV

In this guide we’ll conduct keep you lot through jailbreaking amongst ChimeraTV on tvOS 12. Fire upwards your 1080p Apple TV four on tvOS 12.0-12.1.1 or Apple TV 4K on tvOS 12.0-12.2 as well as let’s larn started!

How to jailbreak amongst ChimeraTV

1) Head to the official ChimeraTV website as well as download the newest version of the app.

2)a) If you’re on an Apple TV 4, connect it to your estimator via USB-C as well as then sideload the app using Cydia Impactor.  You tin discovery to a greater extent than detailed instructions inwards Steps 1-6 of this linked guide. Simply supercede all references to LiberTV amongst your newly-downloaded ChimeraTV app.

2)b) If you’re on an Apple TV 4K, the method volition hold upwards slightly to a greater extent than complex. Start yesteryear using our guide on How to sign as well as sideload apps to the Apple TV 4K to larn the ChimeraTV app onto your device, therefore movement onto to Step 3.

3) Move over to your Apple TV as well as launch the ChimeraTV app from the Home Screen.

4) If you lot didn’t salvage whatever blobs for your Apple TV for tvOS 12.0-12.2, skip this pace as well as larn direct to Step 5. Start saving blobs from at nowadays on!

If you lot do have previously saved blobs for your Apple TV 4 or your Apple TV 4K, you lot should at nowadays discovery the .shsh2 file you lot saved for tvOS 12.2 (or whatever firmware 12.0-12.2 if you lot didn’t salvage that specific one). Look within it for the <key>generator</key>. Note downwardly the generator <string> from the problem below it.

Now press the Set Nonce push clit inwards the ChimeraTV app on your device.

The next covert volition appear:

Enter the nonce you lot noted down, inwards the format 0x1234567890abcdef, therefore hitting the Set push clit beneath to salvage it.

Press OK to supply to the chief screen. By setting the nonce similar this nosotros may hold upwards able to restore our Apple TV to tvOS 12.0-12.1.1 at a afterwards engagement if nosotros larn into trouble, instead of updating to a to a greater extent than recent unjailbreakable firmware.

5) Back on the chief ChimeraTV screen, pick out the Jailbreak button!

You may run into this covert part-way through the process, though likely alone on your kickoff run:

If so, reboot as well as press Jailbreak again. Before long, you lot should larn phase 3/3 on the on-screen readout, followed by the next screen:

6) Press OK again as well as your jailbroken Apple TV volition respring. Once the interface returns, you lot should hold upwards able to run into the nitoTV app on your Home Screen, inwards improver to the ChimeraTV app.

7) And you’re done! You tin at nowadays launch nitoTV, install updates, as well as begin enjoying your jailbreak. Remember to at nowadays change your SSH passwords immediately! I too suggest saving your .shsh2 blobs on your Apple TV 4 and Apple TV 4K inwards illustration they come upwards inwards handy inwards future.

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