Jailbreaking an ipod touch 1.1.4 using a mac
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Warning: Everything described below only reflects my opinion, I don’t take any warranty if something goes wrong. These are just guidlines!
I got my ipod touch several months ago but never tried to jailbreak it until last week. And I must say with the right tools it is really easy. Before I go on talking about how to do I want to answer some questions that keept me from doing it.
Q: can I brick my ipod touch?
A: no you can’t.
Q: if something goes wrong will it be hard to restore?
A: no not at all, just don’t panic and follow the steps I will descirbe later.
Q: after restoring what firmware will my ipod touch have?
A: the same firmware it had before you jailbroke it.
Q: can experiementing with cause any major problems?
A: no. you can savely play around, if you like it jailbroken fine, if not restore it and you get your old more boring ipod back
So lets get startet: supposing you got your ipod plugged into your mac you want to got to this site http://ipluspwns.com/?q=node/2 and download iliberty+ for mac. There is a PC version also.
There is another tool that says it can do Ipod touch jailbreaks and thats Ziphone, but I never got it to work, neither on a pc nor on my mac.
well one you downloaded iliberty unpack it and run and simply click jealbreak then wait a fec seconds and you are done with your jailbroken ipod touch. really really easy. If you need more details see this guide http://ipluspwns.com/?q=node/99
Now things get a little bit more interesting. Start your ipod and you will find the installer app on the homescreen, which is a great program but I found it a bit confusing at first. There is plenty tutorials out there how to use installer. After I got the installer running I was aksing myself, well what can I do with it. Well first you want to install some vital utilities. In order to do so, in installer go to sources and install the sources that you find there. After that the list of new apps in the installer should have increased significantly.
So lets talk about Files.