iPod touches "self heal" from read-write access after jailbreak

I have a problem with my iPod touch 8GB. I tried jailbreaking it by going to www.jailbreakme.com on the iPod Touch Safari browser, but i found out that im behind a proxy so it didn't work. Then i went on another jailbreak site called jailbreakme.toc2rta.com which just closed on me. Afterwords, when i try playing any of my music files, or videos, or even try to view my photos, the window on my iPod touch just closes. I checked the about section on the iPod Touch settings and it said that i have a total of 300MB, thats right, MEGABYTES, as a total memory and that i only have something like 59MB avaliable for multimedia. I really need help with this. Regards, Tom

For insightful commentary on the whole subject of iPhone hacking, check out what John Martellaro has to say over on the MacObserver:

http://www.macobserver.com/columns/hiddendimensions/2007/10/12.1.shtml

Now THAT's a blog post -- I like the fact that the average person can understand it, as opposed to use of oh-so-technical terms such as "self heal" and iPhuc. Seriously, the engineers at Apple that designed this thing must be laughing their asses off at posts like Erica's.

@86:

There are lots of articles about iPhone and iPod touch hacking because both are ALMOST devices that everyone really wants and everyone has a lot of use for. They are ALMOST exactly what people are looking for. The only reason they are "ALMOST" rather than "exactly" is because of Apple's software restrictions. In every other way, they are pretty much perfect.

The frustration is exacerbated because the cell phone industry will never allow (at least not in the next 10 years) something as powerful as the iPhone can be while jailbroken to be sold on their networks. Try to name me a product like the iPhone that can do everything it can do and do it as well -- you can't. Symbian is locked down now. WM is pen-oriented and a piece of crap. Palm is pen-oriented and a piece of crap. Linux is non-existent in the mobile market and will remain so after OpenMoko fails horribly -- and even where Linux has penetrated, those handsets are incredibly feature-poor.

There are no companies in the mobile game with any kind of future who are genuinely interested in empowering the customer. Apple and the iPhone are the closest thing we've got. This is why efforts to free it are big news.

@80

By "at the forefront of the Mobile OS X hacking effort" you must mean she has been blogging for days on incremental status updates regarding work other people are doing. She's as much at the forefront of this as anyone else with a weblog who declares themselves spokesperson.

Besides, what real work has she done? If I remember correctly, she wrote an applescript. She put together a "hacking vocabulary primer" full of BS. She has detailed her various attempts at following hacking instructions. This now makes her a traditional "hacker"? I don't think so.

Luckily, it seems tuaw may have put a stop to this today. There was one iphone post recently by another author, but it contained more reasonable content. Hopefully they've had a talk with Erica.

@93

By having a seperate feed, you are polarising the readership. It is fair to say I *do* want to read the occasional iPhone/touch hack story when an important milestone or finished hack is released, I just don't think the play-by-play leading up to it is warranted.

A separate feed would not provide a balanced Apple weblog - that is all many are asking for, balance.

Also remember that not everyone reads by feed alone.

Why don't TUAW just add another feed called "iPod/iPhone hack free"? This way, people that still want to read about the iPod/iPhone news still gets those news, just that the hacking stuff will be filtered out.

To be honest, I only started reading TUAW because of all the iPhone hacking stuff. But having 200+ comments unrelated to the actual story is ridiculous. By giving this option, the people that doesn't find iPhone/iPod hacking their cup of tea won't have to read or even scroll pass these stories, and thus, won't comment on it.

I did like Jason's Analogy on page one.......

I rest my case.

Let's do an experiment tones,

Go away for a year.

See what happens.

#86

So you can enter into mature and reasonable discussion but have again choosen not to do so? Disappointing, if not entirely unexpected.

Absolutely agree arguing is retarded (as is poking fun) but *discussion* is a different thing altogether.

You don't understand why people that are saying they are going to stop reading is a threat to tuaw? Perhaps I could offer a little insight:

readers = advertising CPC/CPW

There is a small number that have said they will stop, with an unknown number who have done so. I would be concerned if I were AOL or any of the other bloggers who were worried that they may be losing readers.

#87
Please people, stop it with the 'whiners' tag, you only make yourself look naive.