Jailbreak Your 32 Gig Touch The WiFi Way
by Eric March on February 17, 2008 at 5:10 pm
UPDATE: This jailbreak method is now depreciated. Please see the article on ZiPhone 2.6 for the latest method of jailbreaking 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 devices.
Do I hear a collective groan? Surely I couldn’t be writing another 1.1.3 jailbreak article. Oh, no I di’int! Well, yes I did, but with good reason. Having just upgraded to a 32-gig iPod Touch yesterday, I was naturally looking for an easy way to jailbreak. My first instinct was to try ZiPhone, since it touted a complete 1.1.3 solution without having to downgrade. Unfortunately, that didn’t work so well; lots of 8-gig users reported that it worked fine, but success with 16-gig devices was spotty at best, with those who managed to get it working putting it down to pure luck. 32-gig users reported no success whatsoever. So, what now? I began to cast about for an easy solution and eventually settled on trying out the iJailbreakMobile method, which is based on ZiPhone but works on-board over WiFi, and will upgrade and jailbreak directly to 1.1.3 from 1.1.1. After a short while and a bit of trial-and-error, I had found my solution — one that worked consistently and almost effortlessly, and furthermore should, in theory, work on any iPod Touch from 8-gig to 32, with or without January app update, and even both 8 and 16-gig iPhones. This method does include the 1.1.3 apps.
Following are the steps I took. If you follow them to the letter, you should be able to jailbreak your Touch to 1.1.3 using the easiest method to date.
NOTE: You will need the 1.1.1 firmware restore file stored on your local hard drive. (download here from Apple)
STEP 1
Put your Touch into DFU mode: Connect your device to dock or cable, load iTunes if it doesn’t load automatically, hold SLEEP/WAKE + HOME until it turns off, then release SLEEP/WAKE but keep holding home for up to 15 seconds until iTunes recognizes your device is in restore mode. Your screen will still be off — there will be no “Connect to iTunes” graphic. This is normal and good. If iTunes detected your device in restore mode, it means you have successfully entered Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) mode. On Windows, it may pop up with a “New hardware found” notification. This is okay too. Just let it do its business.
STEP 2
Dismiss iTunes’ restore notice. Hold shift (Mac users hold Option+Shift) while clicking on restore, then locate and double-click on the 1.1.1 restore ipsw (iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore.ipsw) file and let iTunes restore your Touch back to 1.1.1.
STEP 3
Once restored to 1.1.1, set up your iPod in iTunes (do not restore from backup, don’t sync anything.) Now load Safari and go to jailbreakme.com, scroll to the bottom and tap on “Install AppSnap.” You now have a 1.1.1 jailbroken 32-gig Touch.
STEP 4
Load Installer, let it refresh sources for the first time and dismiss the donation dialog. Tap on Sources and add ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your sources. Let it refresh again. Now tap on Install, All Packages, scroll down to BSD Subsystem, and install it. Exit Installer, let the device respring, and then turn off your device (hold sleep+wake, slide to turn off, then turn on again). This step is important. The jailbreak may not work until you reboot this way.
STEP 5
Load Installer, tap on the Install tab, tap the iJailBreakMobile category, and tap on iJailBreakMobile 1.1.1. Install. Exit Installer and let it respring. Return to Springboard and tap on iJailBreakMobile. Now let it download and jailbreak. This process will take up to 45-minutes or longer depending on your Internet connection speed. The download may appear to stall from time to time, sometimes for minutes on end. This is annoying, but fine; just let it chug away, and it will eventually complete the download. After that it will proceed with the upgrade and jailbreak process.
STEP 6
If all went well, your device should reboot into 1.1.3 with the January update all functioning perfectly. Now there are two more things left to do: First, we need to remove the temp files put on your device by iJailBreakMobile. Load Installer, tap the Install tab, go back to the iJailBreakMobile category, and tap “Remove 1.1.3 Upgrade…” to remove the temp files. There is no program to download here; installing it will initiate the deletion process automatically. When it’s done just exit Installer and let it respring.
STEP 7
Finally, we need install the basics and fix the mail. First, go to Installer, click on All Packages, and install BSD Subsystem again. Next, go back to the iJailbreakMobile category and install “Fix Mail Passwords.” This will solve the password saving problem with the Mail app. Finally, install OpenSSH from Installer and you’re all set!
Congratulations! Barring any problems you should now have a fully jailbroken 32-gig iPod Touch with January Update apps and features intact. This has been by far the fastest, easiest, most stable 1.1.3 jailbreak for the iPod Touch that I’ve done — and I’ve done most of them. I didn’t even have to upgrade to 1.1.2, and iTunes recognized that I have the January apps so it isn’t bugging me to upgrade. (This is probably because my new Touch came with them, though.) Very impressive.
Thanks to Chris, ipodtouchhacker and ipodtouchmaster for the original wireless jailbreak, Arix for the on-board GUI, and of course Zibree for the ZiPhone jailbreak that this is based on. Feel free to visit the iJailbreak site for more in-depth information on this and the desktop version of this jailbreak.
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February 17th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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February 17th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
ok so I think I missed my name at the bottom of that thread…. Who was the main coder with iptm and ipth? Just wondering lol
February 17th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Did I overlook or duplicate someone there? I was just posting the names I saw in the announcements for the jailbreak method. Who should I be crediting here?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
well, i think that you have got a couple of jailbreak methods confused. me, iPodtouchhacker, and iPodtouchmaster created the first computerless 1.1.3 soft update that pre-installed the January apps. Arix came along and made iJailbreak mobile, which provided a progress indicator and a GUI, then zibri has made an actual jailbreak that isn’t even related to the soft update. it just hurt my feelings that u listed my team mates and not me : ( lol jk
February 18th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Please accept my apologies for neglecting to include you — your name is being added to the list of thanks.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Great instructions – worked first time on my Touch 16.
However I had purchased the extra apps – Maps, Mail, etc. These icons no longer appear, and iTunes is coming up with an error each time it attempts to re-sync them. Any clues? Cheers.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
thanks, not to be picky or anything, just wanted to clear the historical aspect of this thing up.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Hey, no problem — I want to be as accurate as possible and give people their due props, so thanks for correcting me!
February 18th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Thanks. This worked great for me and my new 32gb ipod touch. I jailbroke it the second I opened the package. Thanks again.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Does this work on a mac. Just making sure before I do something stupid.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
this didnt work for me and actually broke my ipod.
it is stuck on version 1.1.3 and whenever i try to restore it says there is an error and it wont restore.
is there any way to fix this?
is there any way to jailbreak my touch (16 gig) from 1.1.3?
help would be appreciated
February 18th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
@B. Clarke – Glad it worked for you! I was concerned about it myself when I brought my 32 gig home, but once I tried this it worked beautifully.
@Rafael – it should work fine on a mac. This is the “No computer required” method that works completely over WiFi, so it doesn’t matter what platform you have. That’s the beauty of it.
@user needing help – The problem is that it’s trying to do a restore the normal way. What you need to do is put the device into DFU mode as described in Step 1. It _should_ still get picked up by iTunes as a device in restore mode, and you should be able to restore back to 1.1.1 using the ipsw file linked at the top of the article. Make sure to follow the directions exactly, ensuring that you do NOT get the “Connect to iTunes” graphic when you enter DFU mode — your screen should be completely blank. You must be connected to the computer through the USB cable or dock when you do this.
February 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Hmm find not in the Install the iJailBreakMobile category ? All other themes i found.Please Help. Thx.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Sorry i have found it my mistake jailbreak is work now.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Confirmed working on 16GB touch. I had previously purchased the January upgrade software, and it didn’t come back upon the ijailbreakmobile step (step 4). There’s an option in the same section of installer to restore them, however. Do that before doing the mail fix.
Couldn’t find OpenSSH in the list of packages, however – guessing I’ll be needing that for something…
February 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
‘fire’, glad you figured out what was wrong!
‘heltoupee’, thanks for confirming another successful jailbreak using this method.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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February 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
hi (help)im up to er step 5 if someone could kindly help me i cannot find on install the ijailbreakmobile catagory , does n e 1 know where i can find it help would be much appreciated …………………….
February 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
@john – Did you add ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your sources? Make sure it it spelled correctly and exactly as it appears in Step 4, otherwise if there are any mistakes it will show up as an “uncategorized source” in the Installer sources list, and it won’t work.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I also cannot find ijailbreakmobile…is the source down?
February 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
oh, I got it. Make SURE you leave in the http! The link is NOT just ijailbreak.com/repo.plist …. its ***http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist***!!!
February 19th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
yer i did .con lol my bad thnx guys…:p luvin the dedication keep it up
February 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
[...] Fuente: Manzzana.com (Cosecha Propia) y TouchPodium. [...]
February 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
k er maybe i was wrong well.n e way itunes updated me back to 1.1.3 with new software after id downloaded ijailbreakmobile thing and now ive lost the installer tab on the home screen could n e one help so i can complete steps 6 and 7 thnx
February 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
arrrrrrrgh!!! do i have to do the whole thing again it doesnt say its jailbroken like the pictre at the top just got what i started with again this sucks,,, brian,erich-march if ur there
February 19th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
@john – I’m not sure I understand where it went wrong. iTunes shouldn’t be updating you back to 1.1.3 — in fact, iTunes shouldn’t even enter into the equation except to tell you when you’ve entered DFU mode in Step 1. (You can close iTunes after that.) Oh — and it won’t actually say “Jailbroken? Damn right!” — that’s just me playing with Photoshop there.
Just to be certain, yes, I would try doing it one more time, from scratch, following the steps above. (Do a full restore back to 1.1.3 in iTunes first)
And yes — you do need to keep the http:// in there when adding sources. I assumed in the article that everyone does this, but to make sure, yes, it’s needed.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Hey,
Just a quick question – once i’ve followed the instructions, if for some reason I want to revert back to “out of the box” can I just connect to iTunes in Restore mode and restore back to 1.1.3?
Thanks for your dedication!
February 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Yep, you can revert to a non-jailbroken iPod Touch anytime… But trust me on this one – you’ll never want to.
Once you’ve gone jailbroken – ya don’t wanna go back.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I completed the instructions; but when I was going to install OpenSSH, it was not in the list. Is there another way to get it?
February 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
yeh i cant find it either
February 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I went through this process…
I’m now on a JB 1.1.3 but why is it after waking up the screen is white (as if the brightness is turned all the way up)? It needs a poweroff and on again to return the screen back to normal… but if the sleep button is pressed it will happen again when the device is powered on again…
February 19th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
It’s a newly purchased (Valentine’s) 16GB btw…
Could it be apple is preventing the newer touch from being jb’ed?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
@Andy/john – People have been having trouble with the repo that contains OpenSSH It’s been up and down lately, so be patient and it’ll reappear — there or on another repo.
@mogz – That’s a new one on me. It sounds like something else is going on there. Try a restore and go through the instructions again, just in case something got buggered up in the update/jailbreak process. It isn’t Apple though; this process has worked for loads of people.
@Jody – I think that’s “Once you hack, you can’t go back.”
February 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
hey is there like a download if anything goes wrong so it can restore back to 1.1.3??? and this would be my first time trying to jailbreak so idk what ur talking about SSH and what not. can u explain just alittle more. thnx
February 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I’ve done this at least 5 times… all with the same result…
February 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Forgot to add, even in the first step of downgrading 1.1.1 it’s already like that…
February 19th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Thank you so very much! I did this on my new 32 gb ipod in like 30 minutes. This was so easy!
February 20th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Thx it´s work perfect have now a jailbreaked 16GB Touch.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:26 am
GREAT INstructions…so far the most easy and time saving plus no need to do all those nafty dowmgrades n stuff
February 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Glad it’s working out for all of you!
February 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am
@mogz – I think there is definitely a problem there somehow; have you been able to successfully do a full, complete (erase-everything) restore to 1.1.3 with full functionality? And does it still do the white screen thing when you do Step 1?
February 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am
i still cant find the openssh catagory (step 7)or package what should i do, should i reboot and jailbreak again? not sure how to get more packages etc
February 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
before i tried jaolbreaking again i restored it twice the second was i backup restore is this someting to do with where i went wrong by n e chance?
February 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
yes i restored first to a clean 1.1.3 and then do the steps all over again…
just to clarify, i didnt get a complete white screen, but rather a washed out screen, just like when you turn up the contrast all the way up…
February 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’ve just noticed something weird. All my mp3 files play ok, but my purchased m4p tracks dont play on my jb’d touch. Any ideas?
February 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
k this is really annoying my ipod 32gb is jailbroken but when i enter any sources marmot, etc for nes snes any thing i cant get n e new catagories after refrshing such as gpsphone openssh or anything can someone help? on a bunch of youtube videos evryones got am and its pissin me off spent aes doing this thnx
February 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Dude this guy is amazing and very kind for answering all your guyses questions i am so glad he made this site thanks
February 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Just wanted to say thanks! Being a novice touch user I came at this with fear and trembling. But I followed all the instructions and I now have a 32 gig ipod touch that has been jail broken.
The only thing is, I couldn’t find the Openssh app anywhere.
Thoughts?
Thanks again
david
February 20th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
With regards to OpenSSH, I got it from the Ste Packaging repo, which is part of Community Sources. Make sure Community Sources are installed, and it should show up.
Just to be certain, make sure you have the new Ste Packaging repo address:
http://psmxy.org.nyud.net/iphone-apps/repo.cache
Note also that OpenSSH is not absolutely necessary — only if you want to be able to SSH into your iPod to do manual installs or copy ROMs from your local hard drive or things like that. If you can’t find it or if the repo is down and it isn’t available, don’t sweat it; your JB’ed Touch will still work fine.
@mogz – That is definitely not normal. Do you by chance have an 8 or 16 gig iPod with the negative black problem? Not that this will offer any solution, I’m just thrown by this occurring only when you restore back to an earlier version.
@Ian – Unfortunately I just discovered that this is in fact a problem with this jailbreak method. DRM’ed music will not play. (This includes previews in the iTunes store app) This is apparently a problem with all soft-upgrade methods like this. The only true solution seems to be to wait for the real native Dev Team jailbreak, which should turn up in a week or two. Then all of this will be obsolete.
@Brandon – Thank you for the kind words!
@David Truhler – I am glad it worked out for you! The OpenSSH problem as I mentioned may be the lack of Community Sources being installed, or possibly the repo being down. Check above for the proper address to the repo, just in case it isn’t correct in your sources.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hi, I’m having trouble with a fresh 1.1.3 16gb touch, with step 1.
I can’t seem to get into recovery mode without the connect to itunes graphic showing up :/
I’m following step one to the letter btw.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Okay, here’s something else to look forR:
1. Connect the iPod to the computer with the USB cable.
2. iTunes should open (if you have it set to open when the iPod is connected; if you have it set to manual, then load iTunes) iTunes should detect and show your iPod.
3. Press and hold POWER+HOME until it resets and iTunes no longer shows your iPod.
4. Release the POWER button, but keep HOME firmly pressed until iTunes shows your iPod again. That may take up to 15 seconds. Your iPod’s screen SHOULD remain blank after the reset, and iTunes should notify you that it has detected your iPod in restore mode.
Now you should now be able to proceed with the restore back to 1.1.1. Remember that if you release the HOME button at any time after the reset but before iTunes picks up your iPod in restore mode again, it will not work.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
After installing OpenSSH it says” Your first login will take 30-35seconds, while the host keys are being generated” What does this mean? What do I have to do? Do I have to be connected to my mac.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:37 am
I don’t think so. My touch is pretty new got it on valentines.
Right now the screen is great so i dont think i have the negative black problem.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:38 am
@Rafael – It means that the first time you connect to your Touch using whatever SFTP or SSH program you use. it may take up to 30-35 seconds to establish a connection because it has to create the host keys, which takes time. Once it has created the host keys it will connect instantly every time thereafter.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
How can you put apps directly onto your ipod touch from your mac?
February 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
@Rafael – You have to SSH or SFTP into your iPod using whatever such program is available for the Mac (sorry, I don’t own a Mac so I don’t know) and then copy the entire <program>.app directory from the archive you downloaded into your /Applications directory, then set the permissions for the entire directory and all subdirectories to 755.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:58 am
Im trying this method on my 16gb Touch. What is the last thing is says after you run the 1.1.3 from Home wich was downloaded from your source? Mine now says this at the end:
“Archive: patch.zip
inflating: /patch.sd3
Patching filesystem…
^[[Bmount: /var: unkown special file or file system.
If you get a mount: /var: unkown special file or file system error, it is completely normal”
Its been 45mins+
Im thinking its still doing something, or done. IDK please help. THANKS in advance!
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
nevermind! im sorry! its working!!! hehehe
what? is this jailbreak supposed to come with the Jan apps? i dont have them…..but i have 1.1.3 now. No apps…. o___O huh? is this normal for a 16gb touch jb?
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 am
hey Eric
fine job you did. i tried so many methods. yours the only one that worked for my 32gb! thx.
ps: in my case i took more than 1h!
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Kuni, jailbreaking will not automatically give you the App Pack (Jan apps). You have to download those via repo/source. I’m not entirely sure what the source is – try Googling it.
Giorgio, glad to hear everything worked out for you.
1 hour eh? It personally, took me over 6 hours… Don’t even get Eric started —
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
@Kuni – Perhaps it doesn’t include the January apps; it may be that they only show up if you already have the apps (purchased or came with the unit, as they did with the 32GB). In any case there are several repos that contain the 1.1.3 apps (ipodtouchmaster’s repo for one) so you shouldn’t have any problem finding them.
@Giorgio – I’m glad everything worked for you! Yes, this method worked flawlessly when I brought my 32-gig. I’d tried almost every other method out there with the 16-gig and they were all a pain in the butt and none of them worked quite right. This method is the only way that worked right and without any problems right from Step 1.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
The process didn’t work for me. Everything ran flawlessly and smoothly up until I ran the ijailbreak program. It downloaded and did its thing, but after coming to and respringing, it was still only 1.1.1.
I have an 8 GB iPod touch and I’m using a MacBook.
Oh well, it was a nice try. Thanks, anyway!
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hey Eric, this jailbreak looks so simple. Are you sure it works? I haven’t gotten my iPod yet, but I want to make sure I am going to use the best and safest jailbreak way there is. Anyone else have any comments about this method? Work? Doesn’t work? Safe? Not Safe?
So far, I think this method looks easiest and safest, but who knows?
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
quick question before i get started… i have heard stories of some cases where after updating to 1.1.3 in a way like this some ipods are unable to play songs bought from the itunes wifi store… can anyone confirm or disprove this?
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I have heard the same thing Reid. Not too sure how to solve that problem, myself. Maybe Eric can give you some insight on that issue. Sorry!
Anil, yes it works. Just read the other comments left here!
This is – by far – the best way to jailbreak your iPod Touch to date. Most easy by far.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
@Anil. Hey this jailbreak is very simple and works flawlessly. I am a fifteen year old and did this with some help from my macbook. Most of it is done through your wifi connection. Because I have a fast wifi signal, I managed to jailbreak my 32 gb ipod touch in just 30 minutes! It is easy to do and works perfectly. Well worth it! Once you hack it you won’t want to go back.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
@Anil – It is definitely the easiest jailbreak method I have used. It’s perfectly safe — it is not without its certain issues, but it is by no means unsafe unless you have DRM-protected music. (See below)
@Reid Penny – Unfortunately it is true that this jailbreak, as with all soft-update method, breaks DRM-protected playback, so if you have any DRM-protected songs, they will not play. (This includes song previews in the iTunes store app). There is no jailbreak solution yet that will fix this other than ZiPhone, but that only works reliably on 8gb machines. One way around that though is to strip the DRM from your protected music using doubleTwist. Then you don’t have to worry about it ever again.
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I confirm that the jailbreak works on ipod touch 16GB with v1.1.3 updated with iTunes 7.6.
Only one observation: downgrade method with wake/sleep + home… then hold just home after powerOFF give error (1) when try to restore with SHIFT + click Restore in iTunes 7.6. Problem resolved with IPHUC v 0.91. Also, after finishing downloading and proccesing data (ijailbreak 1.1.1 to 1.1.3) ipod do not restart alone (after 1h I pushed home button and ipod restart’s with v1.1.3)
Verified:
- YouTube
- Safari
- Mail
- Maps
- Notes
- Weather
all works well.
Thank you very much!!
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Wow when I do get my iPod, I am definitely going to use this way since all the well comments left on this page. Thanks Eric =).
By the way, can you make some tutorials on how to download and install applications (examples: Customize, iAno, Guitar Hero)
Thanks in advance =)
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Anil, we’ve planned to make a Tutorials page on Touch Podium for a while.
I think I will get started on that right now for you, mate.
Besides, we’re running Touch Podium for you guys, so keep the suggestions coming!
Take care for now, folks.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Eric, you instructions were excellent. For the folks who didn’t get the January apps, just go back to installer and under the ijailbreak, there you can get them along with fix the mail app. Also, what cured my “no DRM playing” was to go to settings, and do a reset all. Then turn OFF the ipod then turn it back on and let it reboot. Redo the settings and you should be in business.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Um, Hey guys. I get totally lost at step 2 and have tried this multiple times. Every time I restore it, It goes right on back to 1.1.3, without the January update apps.
So heres what I do, maybe you can pinpoint the problem.
1. hold shift and click on restore in iTunes.
2. I then double click on iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore(2).ipsw
3. then I go back to iTunes’ message and click restore
4. iPod comes back up with 1.1.3 software and no January update apps.
What’s up with that?
February 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
by the way, if it helps, iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore(2).ipsw is on my desktop.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:40 am
guyz i use windows and i cant find this thing
iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore(2).ipsw
how and where and it’s taking forever to download it keeps saying not enough resources
plz help me
February 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Mr. Confused…. change the last part of the restore file name from Restore(2).ipsw to Restore.ipsw
February 26th, 2008 at 11:42 am
YOU ARE A GOD! Ive tried jailbreaking this freakin thing for weeks and NOTHING has worked until now. You need to publish that first step everywhere, that was the key! Thanks
February 26th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Weird!!! I completed Step 5 – Now it’s stuck in a “rebooting loop” with the apple logo.
Any ideas what to do from here??
Thanks,
Mike
February 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@MR Confused – You’re clicking restore twice, the first with the shift-restore method and picking the 1.1.1 firmware file, then the second time without shift, which simply restores it from within iTunes to the latest firmware (1.1.3, now 1.1.4). You only need to do the shift-restore method, not the second restore; once it is restored to 1.1.1, proceed to step 3.
@M0E – The link to download 1.1.1 is at the top, right before Step 1.
@Alex – That was what I found, too; the only real way to get iTunes to stop throwing that Error (1) was to put it right into DFU mode; then iTunes had nothing to complain about. I’m glad it worked out for you!
@Mike – It sounds like maybe something went sideways during the download process. Try repeating it from Step 1 again and see if it has the same result.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am
HI, guys, i have 32gb itouch and i would like to jailbreaking, what Itunes versions should i need for 32gb jailbreaking, currenly i’m having Itunes versions 7.6.1. In the instruction how to jailbreaking for 32gb itouch, it does’t state any Itunes Versions to working on this 32gb itouch. thanks guys.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I need help in two issues:
a) I couldnt find OpenSSH in the installer
b) After the update i cannot preview songs in iTunes from the iPod.
Thank you.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
Can u use same method to downgrade a 1.1.4 to 1.1.1?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
@t1879 – 7.6 and above is required for 1.1.3, so you should be fine.
@jrsanta – The problem with previewing songs in iTunes (and playing DRM content) is a known issue and is a problem with all soft-update methods unfortunately. OpenSSH is available on multiple repos, however first make sure that you have the most recent address for the Ste Packaging repo in your sources (http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/). It should work fine.
@Golteb – Yes, DFU mode should work with all of the latest firmware versions to downgrade to any other firmware version.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
hi, guys, i’m trying to jaibreak my 32gb itouch and i’m struck at number two, when i’m press Shift and click Restore on( ipod1,1_1.1.1_3a11oa_restore.ipsw) it’s look like is working fine and then when it’s going to extract the file is say ” file cannot restore becuase is an error.” Help, thanks guys.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
@t1879 – Are you absolutely sure your Touch is in DFU mode, and not simple restore mode? In other words, is your screen blank and iTunes has recognized that your device is in restore mode?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
@Eric March – TY dude.
Another thing & it is quite trivial, but am no techie here. How do u fix the problem of your touch where the date & time keeps on going backwards like 3 months back when u plug into USB. Somehow itunes syncs it & I dont know where itunes gets the date from. I already disabled auto sync of ipods in itunes.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
It seems that you need to time when you release the sleep/wake button while still holding down the home button. If you don’t release the sleep/wake button while the screen is still turned off, you won’t get it. I managed to time it by listening to my Macbooks harddrive activity! When holding both buttons, the MB drive gave a tick and I released the sleep/wake button. It worked!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 am
@Eric March,I’m beleived you problobly right, I’m problobly let one of my finger off before it going into the Restore Mode, after i’m trying mamy time to dowgrade to 1.1.1 without success and I’m some kind of panic and I’m click on Restore and the Itunes restore every things back, not even that it’s upgrade my Itouch to 1.1.4, I’m wondering it is possible to dowgrade to 1.1.1 again. Thant.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
When I try to revert back to 1.1.1 on my itouch 32 gig it says it can’t and has an error after it extracts. Any ideas?
March 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Well, i didn’t worked with me, still in 1.1.1 after step 6.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks anyways..
March 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
On a 16gb touch, will the above method install all the Jan apps like weather, mail, notes, etc even if u never had it before? I understand a 32 g touch has them already preinstalled but a 16 g doesn’t.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
hey the problem i am having is it automatically updates to the 1.1.4 firmware after i do all you ask
March 5th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Thank you soooooo much !! After many hours of google and youtube, I finally jailbreaked my 16gb ipod touch !! =D Thanks a billion. Just one question, when i connect my ipod to itunes, it asks for me to upgrade to 1.1.4. Should i be upgrading.. or will that just bring me back to where i started? =0 Nevertheless.. THANKS A BUNCH!! (=
March 5th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I have a 32gb touch and managed to get to the first part of step 5 before I ran into trouble.
After installing iJailBreakMobile 1.1.1. I am supposed to ran iJailBreakMobile from springboard. Firstly on my touch it is just “iJailbeak” not “iJailbreakmobile” so am I in the right place or have I already stuffed it up.
If i tap “iJailbreak” it goes into a terminal like program and tries to download from apple but after many tries in which I can’t tell if anything is actually happening, it keeps coming up with the same text and and a new try, it turns off and i have set never to the autolock.
Any help would be very much appreciated
March 5th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
@All – I apologize for taking so long to respond. The newswires have been buzzing non-stop the last few days and I’ve got an enormously full plate of news to post, so I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the comments.
@Garth – You should be fine. When it’s downloading it should show a status line showing how much has been downloaded. It may stall from time to time — it did for me anyway — but if it isn’t going at all after a long period of time, I’d restore and try it at some other time perhaps, as maybe Apple’s server is having trouble. You’re on the right track though.
@bebexangel – No, don’t upgrade, at least not until there’s a foolproof jailbreak for 1.1.4, which should be coming out soon. Stick with 1.1.3 for now.
@Justin g – You have to hold SHIFT when you click RESTORE, otherwise it will automatically restore from iTunes, which will put the latest firmware on your Touch.
@Golteb – No, it will not install them if you didn’t already have them. They are available in Installer however. I have no idea about the date problem though — that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that one.
@Evr – Did the jailbreak appear to go okay, or were there errors anywhere?
@calikorban – Is your device in restore mode (Connect to iTunes graphic displayed on your Touch) or DFU mode (screen is blank)? It must be in DFU mode for it to work.
@t1879 – Yes, as far as I know it’s possible to downgrade from 1.1.4 following the same steps.
@Carl Jensen – I’m glad to hear it worked! There may be a point at which you’re holding it down too long; I’ve never gone that far. This is why I load iTunes and connect the Touch; when iTunes recognizes my device in restore mode I know I can let go.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
thank you eric but there is an error…i am sure you didnt know that i was doing this on a macbook but in all of these posts no one has said how to do the update to 1.1.1 on a mac computer. IF YOU HAVE AN APPLE COMPUTER YOU MUST HOLD ALT-OPTION not SHIFT. shift doesnt work on apple computers it will just boot with the newest update.
now i will try to JAIL BREAK MY 32 gb thanks eric.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Thanks very much for that Justin.
March 6th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Hey guys,
I can be another successful jailbroken 32gb ipod. However I have some issues/questions.
Yesterday I accidentally upgraded to 1.1.4, therefore ruining the whole jailbreak.
Anyway songs would not preview on itunes and some songs wouldn’t play at all, especially my purchased ones.
Any reason why?
And when will there be a fix to this?
March 6th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Still can’t past the 1.1.3 download. It seems to be trying to contact to this address appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net… but nothing happens and after a while it tries again.
I am up to try 19 at the moment with no sign of any connection. I have tried different times of day but nothing makes any difference.
didn’t see all of it but something flashed up on the screen very quickly then rebooted. Couldn’t read most of it but it did say couldn’t find file. Rebooted back to 1.1.1.
Any ideas?
March 6th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Just did this without any troubles, other than openSSH not being there. I’ll just keep checking it, hopefully it’ll show up soon.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I just got my 32gb and trying to do this. I am kinda lost at step 4 though.
How do i add the sources, i pressed the little sources button on bottom and now it shows 4 things in list:
Apptapp official
conceited software
modmyifone
ste packaging..
What do i do with these and how do i add source, i tried clicking edit but it doesnt allow me to do much, i also tried clicking on each of them and changing their url but it doesnt even let me input new details
March 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
sorry about my stupidity but i literally found the answer like 2 seconds after posting
March 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
@Justin g – Whoops! My apologies — you are correct. Being on the PC end of things I tend to think solely in terms of PC functions. Thank you for the correction.
@Rachel – DRM’ed music will not play, unfortunately. (This includes previews in the iTunes store app) This is apparently a problem with all soft-upgrade methods like this. The only true solution seems to be to wait for the real native Dev Team jailbreak, which should turn up pretty soon, now that all this SDK business is out of the way. Then all of this will be obsolete.
@Garth – I’m not sure why it shouldn’t be able to connect; that is the official Apple download server for firmware files. Perhaps your WiFi connection is getting dropped?
@Mike – OpenSSH is available on several different repositories, but first make sure you have the correct and current address for the Ste Packaging repo: http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/
March 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Does the actual jailbreak upgrade process (not download) take a very long time. Mines been at patching filesystem…. for the past 2 hours…
March 6th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Hey, thanks for this… but i gotta tell you man…. i just bought my itouch yesterday, so its got apps like weather and mail… but the problem is that i cant downgrade to firmware 1.1.1…. i think apple put up a block on this… i think this only cz i’ve searched google and youtube for about 3 hours now… and i’ve tried everything…
since i cannot get it into 1.1.1, i cant download the jailbreak =\
any suggestions?
March 6th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Great instructions, worked on the first try!
One thing I noticed, in iTunes (MacOS 10.5) I needed to press option-shift when clicking the restore button, just pressing shift did not give an option to select the firmware version.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
@Plz help – It shouldn’t take that long, no. For some it took maybe 20-30 minutes. Me, it took about 45 minutes, and for some as long as an hour, but that variability was mostly due to the download time. The actual jailbreaking does take a while, but 2 hours tells me something’s gone south.
@D an G – Are you able to put the device into DFU mode? (Not restore mode, full-blown DFU mode, with the blank screen and all.)
@Brian – Yes, that was recently pointed out to me. I should really change that in the article. Thanks! And I’m glad it worked out for you.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
yep, everything is the exact same… i can open the restore, etc. but it just pops up an error saying i cant go back to firmware 1.1.1… this is because (i think) there was a software upgrade to the itouch that i bought only a day ago. (i’m not the only one who has this problem…many others who have bought itouch recently have it)
…i can also restore to 1.1.3 and 1.1.4, through itunes and through my harddrive… but it doesnt allow 1.1.1 or 1.1.2…. =(
and yes, i can enter full blown dfu mode
any help here? =\
March 7th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Hey I have a problem. I finished the jailbreak successfully to my knowledge, but now when i try to install anything I always get the error:
error in script command 1: installapp
Someone please help cause i cant install anything
March 7th, 2008 at 6:52 am
@Dan G – Hmmm. Have you tried going to have to 1.1.3, and then going back to 1.1.1 from there?
March 7th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi guys, after i installed that big 162M package it started jailbreak process after some minutes it restarted , but im still on 1.1.1
Please help me, have any ideas ?
March 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
yep, i’ve done that too… =\
it just doesnt allow restoration to 1.1.2 and 1.1.1…. (and im not the only one….most other itouch users that have only recentrly gotten an itouch have the same problem…=\)
so i was wondering (cz the itouch is boring without jailbreaking) if theres any way to jailbreak it? the siphone method also doesnt work… just makes a repeating error…
March 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I confirm this method works well and is easy to follow -I managed to jailbreak my brand new 32GB Touch on the first attempt following the instructions (on a Mac with iTunes 7.6).
however, using this method the iPod will no longer play DRM’ed music, either purchased music or even the free preview samples in the iTunes store.
to fix this, I started again from scratch (restored to official 1.1.3) and then used the jailbreak method described here:
http://rupertgee.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/jailbreak-113-official-gui/
though not as simple as the wi-fi method described here, it’s really not too hard – the instructions are very clear, and it leaves iTunes able to correctly play any music files and previews on a jailbroken v1.1.3 iPod Touch.
anyhow thanks for the excellent site, I enjoy reading touchpodium frequently
March 7th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Well, if all else is failing, have a look at these threads:
Modified ZiPhone Jailbreak for 16GB/32GB Touch (Windows only; Install .NET application framework 2.0 only, not 3.0)
Real jailbreak solution (with video)
Let me know if either of these work. Both use ZiPhone.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Got stuck on step 5. Left it going ovenight coz I fell asleep n woke up, still stuck at the “if u get /var .. is normal” stuff.But u know what, I decided to do it all over again, tried to go to DFU but due to bad timing I pressed the power off a lot more than home button so Pod rebooted & voile I was ready for step 6 & going to step 7 was a breeze. Everything works fine & looks like I’m running out of springboard space for all the apps I can install. I even got the apple jan update apps. & yes sometimes that SSH thing u need to install does not come out everytime. It appeared later on in the day. Is the SSH thing for iphones only? I want to take it out to save space.
I luv u guys, thanks for the instructions.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am
http://www.ziphone.org/2008/03/unitil-i-will-receive-my-ipod.html hi guys this worked for me ……for first try.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:37 am
@Golteb – I’m glad it worked out for you! SSH is for both iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you FTP or SSH into your device to manually install or copy things over. If you are running out of application space, install BossTool and move your fonts and applications folder. That will move everything over to your music partition and give you tons more space (assuming you have space on your music partition).
March 8th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@dart….what ipod touch do you have?
March 8th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Does ipod have to be connected to itunes all the time while you use jailbreakme.com cause i don’t have WiFi in my room? Cause i disconnected it and took it downstairs and it doesn’t do it’s thing. I press on AppSnap and all it does is close safari and thats it. I do have 1.1.1
March 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
@Eric March – Cooool, thks dude!
March 9th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Hey guys. I’m looking to JB my ipod touch 32gb, but I have a few questions before I actually do it:
1) If at any point anything goes wrong, I can I restore it to factory defaults (or latest the firmware), right?
2) Which method would I use in reference to Qn 1: the method in step 1 or the one here http://ijailbreak.com/unbrick.html both of which describe it a little differently (one says nothing appears on the screen, the other one says a “connect to itunes” will appear).
3) If I want to “unjailbreak” my ipod, I just restore it using the restore button on itunes? the DRM songs should be able to play as per normal then right?
4) is there any risk at all in jailbreaking my ipod touch?
Thank you.
March 9th, 2008 at 6:52 am
i have 32 gb version. its working great.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:17 am
i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have 1.1.1 jailbroken. I do everthing but i just cant install BSD Subsystem! It says “Error: Packeage download failed: can’t find host!”. I have installer 3.1 and everything i try to download says that thing. i can only refresh my sources.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:50 am
@slaz that has to do with your wifi connection i get that sometimes to but then after i refresh the wifi (long as i get it a little bit) it downloads.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
[...] and I believe I found one that should work. It worked for me at least. You can find the guide here Jailbreak Your 32 Gig Touch The WiFi Way | Touch Podium, though the method to enter the DFU mode was explained better by W9cae here. So far no problems [...]
March 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Please help, i cant find the mobile jAILBREAK
March 9th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
@Faux – 1) Yes, you can restore back to factory-fresh at any point. This option is always available since it’s built-in to the device. 2) If the “Connect to iTunes” graphic comes on, then you’re in restore mode. If the screen does not come on at all, you are in DFU mode. DFU mode is kind of like an unconditional restore mode that works at all times. (Apparently it may not work with devices that ship with Firmware 1.1.4 though). 3) Yes, same a 1), you can restore at any time to turn everything back to the way it was when you bought it.
@Slaz – No, you do not have to be connected to iTunes by cable as long as you have a WiFi connection.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Ok…so I downgraded my 32 gig 1.1.3 iPod touch to 1.1.1 and using safari on the Ipod, I visited jailbreakme.com and clicked on install appsnap. All that happened is that Safari closed and nothing else. Is this correct?
March 10th, 2008 at 8:33 am
@dan – No, Safari should quit and then you should see a download indicator. Then it should reboot. I would give it another shot.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
@Eric March THANKS!! After I posted the question last night, I went back and tried it again MANY MANY times…it FINALLY took and when I woke up this morning, I had a 32gig jailbroken iPod touch!! MUCH thanks!! The only thing is that I cannot find Open SSH in installer….
March 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@Dan – Glad it worked out for you! OpenSSH is a bit elusive at times; just make sure you have the most recent address for the Ste Packaging repo:
http://repo.smxy.org/iphone-apps/
March 10th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Eric,
Thanks a lot!! I’ve done it and worked just perfect at the first try. For those who want to know if this method works I will say: JUST READ and FOLLOW the INSTRUCTIONS. Its all there. Now I’m a happy owner of a recently bought ipod touch 32 Gb 1.1.3. A final word for Steve Jobs: please jailbreak your own ipod, you dont know what you are loosing….
March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
wish i had a strong enough wifi connection to allow me time to upgrade to the 1.1.3 firmware it sucks having just a jailbroken 1.1.1 32 gig ipod. no place i go to works not even my university wifi.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Wow, this worked! After several futile hours of trying to get Ziphone working on my 32 gig ipod touch (and trying the multiple click jailbreak) I’ve finally managed to do it. Much kudos to yourself for a great tutorial!
March 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Gave this a shot just now and it didn’t seem to work. Everything went fine , downloaded 1.1.3, jailbroke etc, when it went to restart it started up in restore mode not 1.1.3 mode.
So i will give it another shot. This is on a 32gb ipod aswell.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Got it working now. I get the feeling my airport died durring the file transfer or something and caused it to not go through the first time.
Thanks for the guide! Jailbroken 32gb touch here now
March 10th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
YESSSSS… I have been looking for these instructions since I got my 32GB iTouch!
AND IT ALL WORKED IN UNDER AN HOUR!!!!!!! I am not great at doing this type of stuff and I am not fermilliar with the iTouch or anything about the 3rd party apps! and this worked on my first try!!!!! Like he said if you follow everything to the letter you cant go wrong!!!
THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
March 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
After I went through the long, sluggish jailbreaking process with the ijailbreak app, My iPod came back out with 1.1.1, and the january update apps were nowhere to be found.
What did I do wrong?
March 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hey I can’t download appsnap it just goes back to home imediatly once I press Download Appsnap
March 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
My emails Sojustintime@live.com. My bsd sub system won’t download do you know why it’s just stuck?
March 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
@Alberto – I’m glad you found the tutorial helpful.
Yeah, sometimes I don’t know where Steve’s head is; there’s so much potential in these here devices and Steve only wants to show off half of it.
@Justin – If need be, you can create a cheap, ad-hoc WiFi setup on your PC or Mac using just a WiFi dongle, which you can pick up for $20-30 or so. Of course, you could probably pick up a cheap WiFi router for around that price too.
@Rich – Glad it all worked out!
@Ben – Glad to hear it! Yeah, sometimes mysterious dropouts or timeouts can throw a wrench into the works unexpectedly. Sometimes it helps to try again just in case something somewhere down the pipe went south. The method should work just fine so long as everything else cooperates.
@Shannon – Excellent! You are very welcome.
@Max – The January apps will only show up if your Touch came with them in the first place — and of course, only once it’s upgraded and jailbroken to 1.1.3. Once again, it’s possible something went sideways during the procedure; stuff like that can happen sometimes. Try restoring back to factory-fresh and trying again to see if you end up with the same results. If it’s consistently having trouble at the same spot then it’s probably something that can be nailed down more definitively.
@Me – Could be a number of reasons. Might be high server load or a flaky WiFi connection. Keep trying, I’m sure it will eventually work itself out. Sometimes this stuff happens for no readily apparent reason.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I followed the directions as written to a T, and had nothing but success with my 32GB Touch which had been upgraded to 1.1.4. It works beautifully, and I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t jailbreak. It is lots of fun. Thanks! At this point I am staying in 1.1.3.
Some stuff that surprised me…Despite down grading to 1.1.3, my Apple apps remained (Mail, Maps, etc). Also, I have no trouble syncing and playing DRM protected music or video from the iTunes store. Cool!
I was anxious to use VNSea, but overall have found that Telekinesis (which can be used on a non jailbroken Touch) is even better, and will VNC in a fashion, as well as stream over the network.
Thanks again.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
thank you so much, whoever wrote this thanks you so much ive been trying to do this for days since i got my touch and i finally got it thanks to you
March 13th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
hey umm im having a problem, i have the ijailbreakmobile and it downlaods to 100% but it doesnt change it to 1.1.3 it just does nothing, can you help me ASAP please?
thanks a lot
March 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am
ok i did it again and everything looked good, it installed my ipod restarted, but when i turned it on again, it was still 1.1.1 ,what am i doing wrong?
March 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
[...] looks like my jailbreak tutorial for the 32-gig iPod Touch has finally become (mostly) obsolete — and I couldn’t be [...]
March 15th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Hi, guys, i have a qusetion not about Jailbreak though, but about songs that I’m dowload in to the my 32gb itouch. 10gb of space, why I’m getting only 865 songs, it does not get more songs like what they say, for instance 1gb can store up to 250 songs, any ideas, thanks
March 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
@t1879: The idea that X songs can fit in Y space is rubbish. That assumes that the songs are a certain average length (Apple uses 4 minutes) and encoded in a specific format at a specific bit rate (Apple uses 128kb/s AAC). The stuff I have on my iPod doesn’t even come close to that. If I had to guess I’d say that the average song length in my library is about 6 minutes, and I never encode at 128kb anything if I can help it. Wherever possible my music is at least 160kb/s MP3, and more often 192kb/s and above. So the number of songs I can fit is nowhere near Apple’s average. My average song size is 7.37MB. I’m sure if I converted them all to 128kb/s AAC I could fit a lot more songs on my Touch. But I’m not going to.
@George – What firmware version did your Touch come with? I am hearing reports that Touches that came with firmware 1.1.4 are having problems with this jailbreak method. However, you might want to try the new version of ZiPhone, I understand it works on all the latest firmware versions and works _much_ better than this method.
@Turner and Jim – I’m glad everything went so well for you! You are welcome.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
ok i tried your method but my 16gb ipod touch just doesn’t seem to want to accept jailbreak, what can i do? hasn’t someone come up with simple installer via itunes or just windows. i don’t want to go the ziphone way, heard it causes “problems”; i don’t need problems… i’ve upgraded to 1.1.4 and then down to 1.1.1 for some reason i can’t get to the home button only restore step … if i can’t get there and can’t restore my 1.1.1 to 1.1.1 and then go to safari while my ipod touch is connected … Whenever i try jailbreakme.com and click install appsnapp, it goes back to home screen instead of lock screen where normally (according to so many tutorials) it should automatically have the installer icon and be ready to use. Just not getting it… PLEASE HElP! i can read and do exactly as written but to no avail
June 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
this effin sucks im frozen on one screen and i have no idea how to get out i have an ipod touch and ive held both buttons until it shuts off but i cant do anything i want to get out of this jailbreak thing or restart it or something i have no idea what version my ipod is im not very smart about that stuff someone please help me quit the process or start over or something!!
by the way i keep getting a message that says BSD root : md0, major 2, minor 0
HELP
July 6th, 2008 at 1:59 am
hey guys
k, im stuck on step 3. i click on “Install AppSnap”, but it just brings me back to the home page and nothing happens. what happens now?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
hi!i’m just concerned regarding my ipod touch 32gig because it’s software is 2.1.1,and im reluctant to try a jailbreak using 1.1.1 or a 1.1.3 software..is there a jailbreak already availabe for 2.1.1.?thanks a lot!i really hope that there something availabe for my ipod…thanks again and more support!
November 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
btw i’m a windows user too..thanks again!
February 25th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Ok went step by step to jailbreak my iPod touch. 32gb 2.2(g7) now it’s just froze at step 4 won’t turn off buzzing from speaker untill battery go,s flat turn on there is like a apple icon with sad face flashing. With a loud buzzing from speaker same cycle untill I plug into docking station then apple logo for about 20 min then just sad face icon flashing with buzzing again. Been like this for 2days now. Any ideas? Ohh iPod touch is only 3weeks old 32gb on pc
February 25th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
This method was for jailbreaking 1.1.3 only (over a year old now), not 2.x. You need the Dev Team’s latest jailbreak for 2.2 (YellowSnow) and 2.2.1 (RedSnow).
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 am
it wont go back to 1.1.1 it wanted to update to the newest filmware