Posted by Jayesh on
August 22, 2008
Jailbreaking the iPod Touch Firmware 2.0.1
What you need:-
- iTunes 7.7+
- Winpwn 2.0.4
- Firmware file for 2.0.1 iPod Touch [Demonoid] / Firmware file for iPod Touch 2.0.1 [Direct Apple]
What you do:-
- Install iTunes and Winpwn.
- Connect your iPod Touch to your PC and open up WinPwn.
- Winpwn will not allow you to do anything without selecting a firmware file. Click “Browse .ipsw” button and select your firmware image from your desktop/any other place you saved it. Note: Be sure to select the right firmware image for your iPod Touch.
- Next, we need to build the iPod software image. Click “IPSW Builder” and you will be presented with some screens. Start on the Applications tab. On this screen you must select “Install Cydia”. As far as installer goes, feel fee to select it if you want. But do not select installer instead of Cydia. Cydia has all the apps. Installer does not and installer is still very beta as of August 9, 2008 and contains virtually no packages to install. If you select installer, also select Cydia.
- Click the custom images tab. Here you can select custom boot images. This is optional.
- Skip the Payload tab.
- Partition resizer. With the current version fo Winpwn, move this to 550 mb. The extra packages will fill the root partition before Cydia gets to run and move things about. Do not make it any larger though as Cydia moves your applications around properly to the larger partition so if you resize this larger here you are just losing space.
- Click “Build .ipsw” at the bottom of the window. Save the file to some place sensible so you can find it. Try your documents or your desktop. Winpwn will start working and finally you will see the success box which might takea couple of minutes.
- Back to the main screen, select iPwner. This will ask you to select your custom firmware we just built in step 8 select that file/image. You will see a dialouge box saying ‘iTunes has been pwned’ your work with Winpwn is done.
- Now we need to get the iPod Touch into DFU mode which is not very easy for many but hold the Power and the Home button for exactly ten seconds and then you may leave the power button but you need to keep holding the home button [Note : Your iPod Touch should be connected to your PC while you're doing this]
- iTunes will launch on it’s own now you restore with the shift + restore method. Press the shift button and click on the restore tab. Select the custom firmware you just made using Winpwn. Remember that your iPod should not be on during this process it should have a completely blank screen.
- NOTE: We are not responsible about what goes wrong with whatever you do. Remember to take a backup of your iPod Touch because you will loose your personal data and your music. And also when everything is done and iTunes asks if you wanna restore your iPod with a previous backup select ‘NO’ We however do take responsibilty about the links provided in the post and if you follow the exact instructions you will be able to jailbreak your iPod. If you however cannot do it and you need help be sure to leave a comment with the nature of the issue you face clearly described and we will get back to you. Also do not update to 2.0.2 unless there is Winpwn available for it yet.
Be free =)
Next post is gonna be about how to get all those fancy games and apps for free on your jailbroken iPod Touch :P
