DismissModalViewController stuck the app in lower version than iOS 5.0 - ios4

Let´s see, I am developing an app which uses some ModalViewCotrollers.
When I show any of these modals, everything is going OK, I can work with it and interact with his content. The problem comes when I try to do:
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
This problem, only happens in lower version than iOS 5.0
The modals are called from my DetailViewController (in Master-Detail app).
Any suggestion??
Thanks everybody in advanced!!!

Have you tried if you are dismissing from the correct view controller??
Like this:
[self.parentViewController.parentViewController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Anyway, I found a couple of good links which could be helpful for you:
Modal view controller won't dismiss itself
dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: (and dismissViewControllerAnimated) crashing in iOS 5

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