The State of the iTouch Jailbreak

No news to report yet but since I'm being bombarded by email, here's a status report:
iPhuc. Recompiled and working. I've created a hacker version that I'm using to send requests. So we've moved a little closer. Now I'm getting "unrecognized request" messages in GRestore mode instead of request not founds.
Recovery mode. Achieved both by hand and by software. The old restore commands do not work. iTouch uses a new restore protocol. Instead of pushing data from iTunes, the iTouch pulls data via request. It used to be that iTunes sent a request, and the iPhone returned results. Now iTunes starts a restore mode and waits for requests from the iTouch and serves the requested data.
File read/write from disk. Achieved. Pretty much all the normal inside-jail stuff works.
File system mount. Not there yet.
GRestore. Partial success.
RAM disk decryption. Not yet. No luck yet on finding the key, which may be getting served from Apple.
Shell mode. Maybe.
Normal mode debug access working
State. Arminius: Cranky; Pumpkin, tE_gU, Kroo, Roxfan, BloomFilter: Exhausted. Martyn: Bits of his ipod scattered about his workbench. Me: Frustrated. Jailbreak seems increasingly unlikely at this point.
Update: I've gotten the iTouch not to barf at two requests: QueryType and Goodbye. Now I've got to see if there any other requests that I can find and also to figure out how to provide parameters to QueryType. Goodbye takes no arguments and just pretty much ends the session. Update 2: I'm calling it a night (morning). I've restored my iTouch software now almost a dozen times. Just as a rule: make sure to go into recovery mode by hand, not through iPhoneInterface or iPhuc because you can't get back without restoring. The goal of this whole exercise is to get access to disk mount and ditto--neither of which happened today. Once those are solved, you can put in the fstab and Services.plist files and get access to the whole disk. We're not there yet. Or really not that close. Once we get the disk, we're golden. All hacks flow from full disk access with read & write. Without Jailbreak, there's no way to install applications or really do anything else.
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No news to report yet but since I'm being bombarded by email, here's a status report: iPhuc. Recompiled and working. I've created a hacker...
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how do i get rid of bugs and spyware on my ipod touch?
November 28 2007 at 1:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wanted to buy an iPod touch but all this mess Apple is creating with its ban on 3rd party software I was looking for alternatives.
What do you guys think about the nokia n800?
- open to any kind of 3rd party
- MP3
- Video
- internet
somme hackers even implemented the touchpad functions from the iphone.
- two slots for extra memory cards
I think thats great. But even better> there is supposed to come an update on November 2nd...
I like Apple and had a Macbook Pro but I think we should keep an open mind!
not easy to try
http://allworldrecipe.org
emm not easy
http://allworldrecipe
i try for this
http://airline-readers.org
http://digital-nokia.org
http://cancer-asbestos.org
have you guys tried looking at what itunes is sending to the itouch it mite help if you know the whole conversation it mite even have the key
October 04 2007 at 7:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPeople dont return your ipod touches for negative black, the 1.1.1 update fixed that
also remember that even if we cant install apps.
its STILL an ipod. and ipod with touch screen and wifi and a browser.
so we already have an amazing device.
and if we all email apple and say we want more apps, they will unlock it, or someone will figure it out
I thought about getting an iPhone as well, because it has more apps running on it.
However, I don't really need a phone, and EDGE seems to be pretty slow. And getting the much more expensive iPhone for which you pay a lot per month, only because Apple installed no Email Client, and other apps?
I am really disappointed about the greedy strategy Apple has presently. Keeping away software to urge the customer towards buying the more expensive product....
Shame on, Steve
Or how does the security rationale of which Steve pretends it's responsible for not allowing developers to write apps for the touch and phone fit into the fact that no Email client is on the touch. They only wanted to prevent that the touch is stealing the iPhone the show.
I think and hope that the 3rd party locking of these devices inspires hackers. I mean Apple had never any problem with hackers, now they do something against them... seems time they get a problem when setting such challanges.
I think I'm gonna call mine iTouch, iPod Touch is too long a name. I'm transitioning from Clie, another short simple name. iTouch is likely to start more interesting conversations, anyway...
Keep up the good fight y'all, and know that your work is appreciated even by those who have kids living in their basement!
If I knew the first thing about this kind of hacking I'd offer to help out.
Yikes, I tried jailbreaking with the iNdependence wotsit, kinda froze my ipod up some thing super. Thing is, i live in the UK so i have to wait for the iphone, and i would really like to be able to put native applications on my ipod, so please keep up your wonderfull work, i'll bookmark you on my ipod :P
Restoring my ipod now, takes a while =_=
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