HACK: Enable adding calendar events on your iPod touch

Hackers Nicholas "Drudge" Penree and Tony Hoyle have figured out an easy fix that allows you to add calendar events to your iPod touch. You'll need read/write access to your touch and a full jailbreak but once you do, all you need to do is add the following two lines to the N45AP.plist file inside your Core Services' SpringBoard app.

<key>editableUserData</key>

<true/>

The plist is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plist

Update: Reader Andi notes that you need to put the editableUserData under "capabilities" not under "root" in the property list.

Update 2: If you'd rather use a text editor rather than the property list editor, convert the file to text-based xml. At the Mac command line, you can do this by issuing plutil -convert xml1 filename.plist. To convert back use binary1 instead of xml1.

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seth

i just got my i pod touch and it wont get on i tunes safari wifi you tube ect. it just says wifi can not connect to page because it can not find the server and i have put in the most simplest things what would maybe fix it so it will work restore possibly?

December 26 2007 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric

I'v bought ipod touch two days ago, and the "add calender event" function is ok in my version..

The funny thing is the apple guy told me this function could not work..

November 27 2007 at 1:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rookie21

How do I get "read/write access" in my ipod touch?

November 26 2007 at 6:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jazz Dude

You don't need a hack, just update to 1.1.2

November 17 2007 at 11:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stuart Bell

NB As of software 1.1.2, the iPod Touch now has calendar event adding and editing as standard.

Wa-Hay!

Stuart

November 13 2007 at 7:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

elkay_brooklyn

I've had this hack working for about 2 weeks, but a problem has come up in the last few days. Maybe someone here will have some advice.

I sync my Touch with two different Macs. The primary is a new 13" Mac Book running x.4.whatever and the secondary is an elderly Mini running the same OS.

At first the calendar was syncing fine to both machines, but now, for some reason I can't determine, it will only sync with the Mac Book, and not with the Mini. On the Mini, when it gets to the Calendar sync phase, I get a message that says "iTunes could not sync calendars to the iPod "Name X" because an error occurred while pushing data from the iPod."

All other information still syncs without a problem on the Mini, and the calendar (and everything else) syncs error-free on the Mac Book.

Any ideas?

November 09 2007 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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November 08 2007 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I have fallen behind with technology over the past 3 years. Now i have an ipod touch and would like to be able to update my calendar directly from my ipod. I see that there is a program to do it. Please help by providing very detail steps on how to do it.......and does it really work?

Thanks
New Ipod Touch user :)

November 08 2007 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FoundInTheFlood

can i use textedit to modify that code? i don't have any special programs and i hate the terminal :/ did you pull and copy that code back via ssh ?

November 08 2007 at 5:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

thomas viguier

Hey...
I'm sorry, but I don't understand anything about the whole procedure... can someone explain me step by step what I have to do? what do I have to download? from where to where?
I also wanted to know what a "jailbreak" was... Is it damaging for the ipod? does it prevent a future update on the ipod?
Thank you so much for your answers

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