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Two GUIs for jailbreaking your iPod touch available
Wanna set your iPod touch free and install tons of wacky apps on it but don't want to muck around with the Terminal? Now you don't have to with the debut of two new apps that will jailbreak your iPod Touch from the comfort of your Intel Mac or Windows machines (yes, there are iPod touch users running Windows).iJailBreak is an AppleScript app that takes all the fuss out of jailbreaking. At the moment it only works on Intel Macs, so our PPC friends are out of luck. Oh, and I should mention it was apparently written by two 13 year olds, which I normally wouldn't point out but it is featured prominently on their website.
touchFree is a Windows app that'll do the same thing, only on Windows (shocking, I know).
Both apps are free, though I imagine both will void your iPod touch's warranty, so run 'em at your own risk. I don't have an iPod touch myself so I haven't tried either. If you have had experiences with either sound off in the comments.
Thanks to everyone who sent these in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Carlz36 said 9:21PM on 10-14-2007
It jailbreaks it alright but im having trouble installing apps it frezzes cpuple of times bbut at least it installs them
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Ace said 9:30PM on 10-14-2007
http://filebeam.com/download.php?file=72e985330c3ab354d297fc2b7b6ecff8
A All-In-One single-click Jailbreak and Iphone Apps installer for the iPod Touch i put together yesterday. Has worked flawlessly for 3 beta testers :) Uses TouchFree5 by planetbeing.
-Ace
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Katrina said 3:40PM on 12-05-2007
Ok I went to the site on the safari on my ipod touch and it just has a small question mark. What does that mean?
Angelo said 6:27PM on 12-05-2007
This particular software is for the PC, the link still works for me, I dont quite know why you see only a question mark. The easiest way to jailbreak now days is just to visit www.jailbreakme.com on your touch/iphone (Make sure you have the 1.1.1 Firmware first)
-Ace
Katrina said 7:32PM on 12-06-2007
hmm well that's probably why I am getting a question mark cause I don't have 1.1.1 I have 1.1.2 but I'm not sure if that's just it, I went to Jailbreakme.com on my ipod and still saw a question mark. Know another easy way I can get 1.1.1?
Freeskihp said 9:37PM on 10-14-2007
so, I am relatively new to the whole jailbreak thing and I have a couple of questions for anyone willing to answer.
1)Are there any reprocussions(other than obvious warentee(sp) breakage)?, will my iPod still function as per usual? Can it be un jailbreaked?
2)apps... is there a place where they all can be found?
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Ace said 9:49PM on 10-14-2007
So far no-one i know has put their iPod touch in a state that it couldn't easily be restored by itunes (Takes about a minute). My only concern would be if the ipod was damaged physically while also running a few hacked apps. If you can restore the iPod, no-one will ever really know it was ever jailbroken...
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Steven said 9:53PM on 10-14-2007
anyone have any recommendations for blogs that cover mac news and tips?
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thenewkasanova said 10:06PM on 10-14-2007
Ace...mac or windows?
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Alan said 10:12PM on 10-14-2007
Freeskihp - The installer app installs onto your iPod Touch. When you open that app on your iPod, it shows a list of all the available third party apps for your iPod.
Of course, you have to install the 'community sources' through the installer app to see absolutely every app available, but its all through your ipod/iphone.
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Freeskihp said 10:18PM on 10-14-2007
I thought that installer.app didn't work with the touch
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James F said 10:29PM on 10-14-2007
Unlike the iPhone, the jailbreak is a software-only thing. Restoring your iPod touch in iTunes erases the folders and permissions, sending you back to factory defaults.
Installer.app appears to work on the iPod touch fine, after jailbreaking of course.
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Photoslob said 10:31PM on 10-14-2007
touchfree works perfectly and is as one-touch a solution as your liable to get for a little while. it helps to give the touchdev wiki handy to for ftp instructions and iNdependence info. i'll probably give iJailbreak a shot with my buddy's itouch tomorrow.
and one more thing....for all of you whining about TUAW being hijacked by iphone/ touch news, well, I felt exactly the same way until I bought an itouch. a format change for how the iphone entries are displayed might be a way to address the obvious issue of iphone overload. is there a way to filter out the iphone news on the http page?
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Photoslob said 10:33PM on 10-14-2007
"it helps to give the touchdev wiki handy" - should read: it helps to keep the touchdev wiki handy
one more thing - it helped for me to run through the restore process once to feel confident I could unbrick my itouch should something go wrong.
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dremos said 10:40PM on 10-14-2007
sorry if this is a dumb question but would this also jailbreak 1.1.1 iphones? or is the one click solution(s) still on the way for that?
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Freeskihp said 10:49PM on 10-14-2007
F**K! somthing happened in the jailbreaking and now I have an ipaperweight. Restore does not work and it would seem as if I am pretty much screwed
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Ace said 11:03PM on 10-14-2007
Freeskihp: hold down the lock and menu button for about 20 seconds until a connect to iTunes logo appears. Simply restore the ipod and everything will be fine.
If itunes is having trouble restoring, restart your computer and try again.
As for my OneTouch with iphone apps comment #2, this is Windows-Only.
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Jon C said 11:06PM on 10-14-2007
hey steven, I think your reading a god one right now, but for other good reads there's:
Daring Fireball: http://daringfireball.net/
Macalope, and 9 to 5 mac are also good reads...
not much into the tip sites: I have MacWorld which is a good magazine for tips etc, maybe the site has a good blog part of it?
but. lets be honest- all you really need is TUAW! Best blog ever:)
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Andrew Harrison said 11:17PM on 10-14-2007
Mine didn't work very well, I think I'll wait until there is a not-version-0.x jailbreak before i try again. I used iJailbreak.
I restored mine before the jailbreak so that i was nice and clean and wouldn't have any issues.
Followed the instructions to crash safari, ran the jailbreak process. It took a long time [about 5 mins at least, i had a shower in the mean time]
Once it was jailbroken, i reset it using the switch and then the power-off slider. Restarted, but it wouldn't boot into the iPod software, got stuck at the Apple logo.
Did a hard reset [held down sleep and home button for about 5 seconds] but still no dice. Held down sleep and home button for about 30 seconds to force it into recovery mode. Attempted to do a restore, but iTunes said there was a problem. Disconnected and reconnected and tried to restore again and it's all fine now, back to normal.
I'll try again when there is a more refined version of iJailbreak.
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Ben said 11:35PM on 10-14-2007
I just tried this, and my best suggestion for you is not to. My iPod would not restart after the program did it's thing. I had to hold the sleep button and the home button down until it was forced to restart. Then I had to connect to iTunes and restore all of my media. It was a waste of time and I hope that you will not do it, and if you do, I hope you have better luck than myself.
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