Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks
iPod Touch: State of the Jailbreak as of 09/24/2007
The iPod touch jailbreak effort continues to grind forward in slow steady steps. "Martyn", hardware expert and hacker extraordinaire, posted on Craig's List until he found a lady whose iPod touch screen had been smashed. Since the unit was not covered under Apple Care, said lady swapped the dead touch for a nice pretty iPod nano. He took the smashed touch back to his lair and extracted its chips. At this time, Martyn is dumping data from those NAND chips and expects to finish recovering that data by tomorrow morning.
It will take some time after dumping the raw data to make sense of that information. Don't expect me to be able to test out the iPod touch applications on the iPhone for some time to come. It is still unclear whether the data is encrypted or not and whether Martyn and his peers will be able to reconstruct the complete file system. Visit the touchdev wiki for more details as they develop.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ramesh said 7:32PM on 9-24-2007
Erica, thank you for this update! I'm hoping the iPod touch break thrus will also help in breaking the iPhone 1.1.1 firmware!
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yacoub said 7:36PM on 9-24-2007
Honestly, it shouldn't be this hard. Apple = bastards.
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punkassjim said 7:41PM on 9-24-2007
Last I knew, Genius Bars were still authorized to replace iPhones (and presumably iPod Touches) that were subject to accidental damage. Poor lady. Did she even try to go to the store first?
Pretty awesome steps in the right direction on the jailbreak, though.
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punkassjim said 7:43PM on 9-24-2007
@yacoub
Apple's the bastard because you haven't yet got what you want, and were never promised? Gimme a break.
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Cycomachead said 7:45PM on 9-24-2007
Wow good idea.
Does the touch even show up n Disk Util?
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yacoub said 7:49PM on 9-24-2007
@punkassjim:
Apple are bastards for a number of things, including removing features from the touch and locking it down the touch so hard to make sure we can't return them to their rightful place.
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Edgan said 8:25PM on 9-24-2007
Why aren't they ripping iTunes limb from limb for the key to unencrypt the firmware files? I looked over the files and found they all seemed to be encrypted.
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Steve said 9:13PM on 9-24-2007
Edgan I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe someone post that idea on Hackint0sh?
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Matt said 12:46AM on 9-25-2007
Take the same approach PSP modders did, exploit buffer overflows in the libraries apple is using.
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Matt said 12:48AM on 9-25-2007
Edgan: decrypting the firmware is pointless, the iPhone still won't load any of your own code. they need to find an overflow exploit or the key for signing the code.
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Graeme Fickling said 2:04AM on 9-26-2007
Um...so WHY is Apple making it so hard to break into (not out of*) the Touch? Maybe because the Touch is a precursor to a tablet/Newton-esque (ugh, made up words)/whatever you want to call it inpocket device? I'm sure they are working on porting all of the abilities that you are struggling to introduce to the iPod Touch, and will release their hardware soon, fully backed by updates and exciting keynotes. I love my iBook G4 and am well on my way to saving the dough for a new Macbook Pro and I want an iPhone more than I want to achieve Tantric balance, but please, think of the Vulcans! What would Spock do? Apple knows what you want. They will give you what you want. When they have taken you to your breaking point, they will give you what you want.
Be still, this is embarrassing.
*you're not freeing the iPod, you're breaking into a system.
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Dave Jansen said 11:35AM on 9-26-2007
And in the end, all is futile.. You cannot stop the Hackers, evar.. :)
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Sharkus said 12:06AM on 9-27-2007
I, for one, will be returning my 16G IPOD Touch if I cannot install native apps on it within the next 90 days (i.e. the max return policy at Costco). I'm already a bit tempted to return it due to the poor battery life, high cost per mb, lack of disk mode, and slow transfer rate...
If I wanted "just" a MP3 player I would have purchased a IPOD Classic for $150 less.
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MuscleNerd said 1:53AM on 9-27-2007
Sharkus, that will make one more refurbished iPod Touch buyer all the more pleased.
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Gumbyboy said 2:27PM on 10-02-2007
I ordered a 16GB iPod Touch in the hopes tht I could use it as a weak PDA, i.e. enter address info, modify my iCal, maybe in the future look at and modify spreadsheets, etc. I know that you can enter address info, but why disable the iCal functions for writing? Weird and sadistic. I may return mine too when it gets here. Is it so wrong for me to want something small and portable that will do some of the "important" things? I don't have coverage nor want to switch now to use the iPhone and I don't want to open my powerbook everytime I want to check my calendar or addresses!
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tomjennings83 said 7:39PM on 10-04-2007
wow there are to many ipods on the market right now. if you ask me the touch screen is just another thing that can fail or malfunction
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