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Took me over 2 years to jailbreak my ipod

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b_unnies
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
3579 Posts
February 03 2010 13:43 GMT
#1
I finally jailbreak my ipod touch generation 1 after over 2 years.

So my computer is a WinXP 64 bit, itunes cant work on that OS. Supposedly. Finally found myself the solution through google after a long week. Apple lied on their support page that it doesnt work. Just need to use Orca to edit.

Still can't jailbreak. Although I can add in music/video to ipod touch, I cant update the firmware or else it gets permanently stuck in recovery mode, and cant get out of it even though i did a Restore. So now all my music/video erased from ipod touch (Because my comp is XP 64 bit.) 2 long painful weeks, I gave up and went to my retail store where I bought it. Surprisingly, they were kind enough to get my ipod out of recovery mode and then updated my firmware to 2.2.2 (or w/e it's called)

Couple months later, I thought I would have better luck with 2.2.2 to jailbreak. Guess not. Forgot how i got my ipod out of recovery mode but used QuickPWN or another program, cant remember. At least this time I was smart enough to backup my video/music.

I decided to use my friend's computer. Got the jailbreak files into my ipod touch. I just realised jailbreak needs WiFi. No WiFi anywhere near me unless I pay. Jailbreak plans put on hold, for now.

Fast track to somewhere around september/october 2009, itunes decided to pull a Terminator on me. Refused to let me in, some sort of error with quicktime or something. Un-installed, re-installed. itunes still decided to be an ass.

November 2009, I found Sharepod! I can add in music/video to my ipod again :D Can't jailbreak with this though.

February 2nd, 2010. (pretty much yesterday) On holiday in Taiwan, in my cousin's home. Windows XP 32 bit here. Updated my firmware to 3.1.2 or something. Used redsnow jailbreak methods to jailbreak. Doesn't require WiFi as well :D. Since when did I become so lucky with my ipod touch?

So here I am, with my ipod jailbreak'ed. Except one problem. A big one. I needed to restore my ipod to jailbreak. Except I forgot that I forgot to backup all my videos/music, since this wasn't my computer. All 600+ music, 100+ video files gone. Even if I go back home from my holiday, and my itunes cant work on my XP 64 bit so i cant do that backup thing.

At least I finally jailbreak my ipod and apps/games work. Fuck My Life.

Cost to jailbreak my ipod touch:
-Airplane ticket
-4 computers
-my entire music/video collection
-2+ long years.

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Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17685 Posts
February 03 2010 14:30 GMT
#2
You know of course that you don't need iTunes for your iPod?
Also:
- XP64 is garbage (you should never get it in the first place)
- Even if you don't know how to use iPod without iTunes you could just ask someone who has normal (ie working) Windows version installed and do your update/backup whatever on their comp?
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
February 03 2010 14:39 GMT
#3
that's a fuckton of fail =[
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
February 03 2010 14:42 GMT
#4
Eh, that's unfortunate. I fucking hate itunes too, I'm just reliant on there products.
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-03 15:32:21
February 03 2010 15:30 GMT
#5
There's a ton of apps that can manage an ipod. To show you what I mean:
http://alternativeto.net/SearchResult.aspx?profile=windows&search=itunes&category=desktop

Try searching for Ipod, itunes and all related things and look at alternatives to stuff and try things with many likes
Sosha
Profile Joined August 2004
United States749 Posts
February 03 2010 15:38 GMT
#6
Whats it mean to "jailbreak" an ipod?

I mean, I did have a problem once, to where I loaded up itunes on my original ipod A, and had all sorts of music on there, my life! Then my home was broken into and ipod-A was stolen. I was able to replace it, but had to start all over w/ a new ipod.. Itunes was registered and recognized only ipod-A and told me that to upload ipod-B to itunes, i'd have to erase all itunes information, music, and start over.. Of course that would have been terrible, cause I didn't/don't back up any of my files..
However!!!
I did look up on Utube how to repair the situation, and good ole utube! U can literally find anything there, in video form. Found this little asian kid that gave a tutorial how to fix that situation, which involved me going into my control panel or soemthing and altering the details of a file or something, and then dragging files that contained all my music into another folder or something.. and it let me re-upload music to my new ipod..
Which saved me a lot of grief and possible aggrivation.

Sucks to hear about ur blight =[
My ipod is my life, which holds like 700+ of my Electro/Trance.. I never leave home w/o it!!

At least you have urs back up-n-running though.. so congrats for that
gL
Tranquility through fluid Motion. GlowBabyGlow.
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
February 03 2010 16:13 GMT
#7
are you some kinda idiot?
Kouda
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States2205 Posts
February 03 2010 17:48 GMT
#8
You need Wifi for Cydia to install Installous/Appsync 3.1 for cracked apps.

Lol... Then to install apps, you either need to use Installous (downloading apps from itouch via wifi) or getting Appsync and downloading apps via computer and syncing with...Itunes.
Amnesia
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3818 Posts
February 03 2010 18:03 GMT
#9
...LOL.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
February 03 2010 18:09 GMT
#10
I haver never understood why people buy Mac products.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
February 03 2010 18:18 GMT
#11
On February 04 2010 00:38 Sosha wrote:
Whats it mean to "jailbreak" an ipod?


I also don't know. I think the OP should have started with some definitions or a better description of what the problem was. All I got out of it was "I broke my ipod because I tried to mess with it. A lot of people helped me out but it still took me years and I still failed." Maybe I am misunderstanding but the communication problem definitely isn't on my end.
Biochemist
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1008 Posts
February 03 2010 18:28 GMT
#12
I think jailbreaking means cracking the iPod firmware so that pirated apps and games will run on it. Normally you have to buy everything through the apple store. It's like modding your ps2 so it will run games from burned cds.
Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
February 03 2010 19:18 GMT
#13
2 years? My friend did it in less than an hour with some program. I think he had an Ipod Touch.
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
February 03 2010 20:00 GMT
#14
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maga33
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States247 Posts
February 03 2010 23:21 GMT
#15
i jail broke mine in 10 minutes
my friend had your problem so i broke his for him
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
February 04 2010 01:22 GMT
#16
On February 04 2010 03:28 Biochemist wrote:
I think jailbreaking means cracking the iPod firmware so that pirated apps and games will run on it. Normally you have to buy everything through the apple store. It's like modding your ps2 so it will run games from burned cds.
It's more than that. It also opens up a wider array of programs, many of which are legal, and things like Flash support and multitasking. *gasp*

I was thinking of rooting my Droid so I can overclock it, but it's snappy enough as is. ^^
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Try
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1293 Posts
February 04 2010 02:16 GMT
#17
I jailbroke my ipod touch in 15.4 seconds. Blindfolded.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11556 Posts
February 04 2010 02:17 GMT
#18
lol so much effort D:
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
February 04 2010 02:17 GMT
#19
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Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
February 04 2010 02:22 GMT
#20
what version of redsnow did you use?

everything i have tried to jailbreak my 2g ipod touch with hasn't worked, v 3.1.2
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
b_unnies
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
3579 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-04 06:32:52
February 04 2010 06:31 GMT
#21
On February 03 2010 23:30 Manit0u wrote:
You know of course that you don't need iTunes for your iPod?
Also:
- XP64 is garbage (you should never get it in the first place)
- Even if you don't know how to use iPod without iTunes you could just ask someone who has normal (ie working) Windows version installed and do your update/backup whatever on their comp?


Im planning to switch to Windows 7 soon when I get back home. Like I stated in my post, I did try jailbreaking on my friend's computer and it succeeded. But like I said, i needed WiFi for the Cydia files, and i dont have any place for WiFi unless i pay. I can't use iTunes so thats why I said im using Sharepod now.

On February 04 2010 00:30 Patriot.dlk wrote:
There's a ton of apps that can manage an ipod. To show you what I mean:
http://alternativeto.net/SearchResult.aspx?profile=windows&search=itunes&category=desktop

Try searching for Ipod, itunes and all related things and look at alternatives to stuff and try things with many likes



Yah, like I said im using Sharepod atm.

On February 04 2010 03:18 Durak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2010 00:38 Sosha wrote:
Whats it mean to "jailbreak" an ipod?


I also don't know. I think the OP should have started with some definitions or a better description of what the problem was. All I got out of it was "I broke my ipod because I tried to mess with it. A lot of people helped me out but it still took me years and I still failed." Maybe I am misunderstanding but the communication problem definitely isn't on my end.


On February 04 2010 10:22 Jibba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2010 03:28 Biochemist wrote:
I think jailbreaking means cracking the iPod firmware so that pirated apps and games will run on it. Normally you have to buy everything through the apple store. It's like modding your ps2 so it will run games from burned cds.
It's more than that. It also opens up a wider array of programs, many of which are legal, and things like Flash support and multitasking. *gasp*

I was thinking of rooting my Droid so I can overclock it, but it's snappy enough as is. ^^



That pretty much explains it mostly.

On February 04 2010 11:22 Yogurt wrote:
what version of redsnow did you use?

everything i have tried to jailbreak my 2g ipod touch with hasn't worked, v 3.1.2


Umm, I cant remember the link, found it through ipodtouchfans.com Redsnow released a new version like last week. So that version works.


CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-04 19:18:31
February 04 2010 19:16 GMT
#22
The only official way to obtain third-party applications for the iPod Touch is Apple's App Store, which is a branch of iTunes Store. The App Store application, available in all versions of the iPhone OS from iPhone OS 2.0 onwards, allows users to browse and download applications from a single online repository (hosted by Apple) with the iTunes Store. To develop such software, a software development kit (SDK) was officially announced on March 6, 2008, at an Apple Town Hall meeting.[23] The iPhone SDK allows developers to make applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch after paying a fee to join the development team. The developer can then set the price for the applications they develop and will receive 70% of money earned. The developer can also opt to release the application for free and will not pay any additional costs.

Shortly after the iPod Touch was released, hackers were able to "jailbreak" the device through a TIFF exploit. The resulting application enabled the user to download a selection of unofficial third-party programs. Some of these give the user more control over the iPod Touch than is officially available, and also make it possible to install Linux operating systems on the device. All officially released versions of the iPhone OS through 3.0 can be jailbroken,[24][25] but version 3.1 could not at the time it was released.[26] Servicing an iPod Touch after jailbreaking or other modifications made by unofficial means is not covered by Apple's warranty.[27]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(iPhone_OS)

is there anything similar to this for 80g ipods 5th gen ?
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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