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iPod Touch Jailbreak 2.0.2 Tutorial

Tested with:
Windows XP / SP3 and iTunes (Version 7.7.1.11)
iPod Touch (doh! ) with 32GB and 1.1.5 Firmware

The follwing article describes how to install the 2.0.2 Firmware on an iPod Touch and jailbreak it.

Foreword
I experienced several problems jailbreaking the 1.1.4. Firmware (maybe because i got the 32GB iPod Touch?), the actual process of jailbreaking worked fine with ZiPhone, but about 1h-2days later the cracked firmware froze. It didn’t really freeze, in fact it always refreshed the Home Screen, and there was no chance to get rid of that bug. So this time, i wanted to jailbreak the newest 2.0 Firmware, and one result is this Step by Step Tutorial. None the less, you should only continue if you really know what you are going to do. That means, you should know the meaning of the word „iPod“, errr … „Jailbreak“, and i expect you to read the README files and documentions. Thats the most important thing if something is going wrong – precise informations on what happend. No one will care if you’re just asking „my iPod is broken, plz heeeeelp me!!!!111!!!!!ONE!!!!“. You should know how to restore another firmware (explained later on), put your iPod in recovery mode (press down Home Button, connect it then to your computer), etc. Try to solve your problems, even if you didn’t succeed, you gained knowledge.

I know that i am not the first to write a tutorial about that topic, but i did it for a very simple reason. I experienced some difficulties and when i was finished with the research, downloading the software, etc. i had about 20-30 tabs in my firefox, as most of the existing tutorials only partly provided informations and some important facts where missing (like i had to figure out the „restore/update“ trick, wasn’t mentioned on the sites i googled). That doesn’t mean there where no usefull informations available, but they where scattered all over the web.

For the impatient: Read at least the whole tutorial, before spamming the net with your problems

If you are not sure, what jailbreaking is, why you probably want to do it, Bigboss wrote an article, read it!

Last but not least: This worked fine for me, but i don’t take any responsibility if you bricked your iPod Touch!

Download the Software you need:
- Download iTunes from Apple – Version should be >=7.7 .
- Download Quick PwnRC3 for the Jailbreak.
-Then get the Firmware from here: Download. Select the iPod1,1 (2.0.2/5C1) Firmware Version.

All links worked fine when i wrote the Tutorial. If some links are broken when you read this, please tell me, and i try to update them or provide the software/fw for you.

Then install iTunes and unpack QuickPwn, try to remember the folder where you downloaded the Firmware

Update your iPod
QuickPwn is not designed to update your device to a newer firmware version. Therefore we have to do it manually, before we jailbreak it. Connect your iPod Touch to your PC and run iTunes, then select your iPod in the Category „Devices“. And now comes the tricky part – you actually don’t have to upgrade your firmware to 2.0.2, you have to restore it.

Hold down the Shift Key and press „Restore“. A window pops up and you can select the firmware you want to restore. Now browse for the Ipod1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw file and open it. Get a cup of coffee, as it takes about 10 minutes to install the 2.0.2 firmware.

When i tried that the first time, i encountered the following error. About 1-2 Minutes after starting the Firmware update i got the message: „The iPod could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (6).“. Then i figured out, that the real trick is not to „Update“ the Software, but to Shift+“Restore“ it. So if you get that error, its most likely, that you clicked on the „Update“, not the „Restore“ Button.

Jailbreak the restored firmware
So we managed to update/restore the new firmware, lets jailbreak it now with the following steps:

-Disconnect your iPod from your computer again.
-Run QuickPwn:
– Select the iPod Touch on the first screen
– Browse for the Firmware you want to jailbreak (v2.0.2), basically select the same firmware you running on your iPod.
– Check „Add Cydia“ and „Add Installer“ (but you can also only just install Cydia or the Installer.app, for informations read „Post-Install“)
– Connect your iPod to your computer
– Follow orders on the next screen – after pressing the Home/Power Button Combinations according to QuickPwn, your iPod will be recognised as a new hardware in „DFU Mode“.
– Wait till QuickPwn does the rest, then the iPod Device reboots as a new jailbreaked version.

Post-Install
First of all configure your Wifi. I prefered to install both Cydia and the Installer, but after playing around with it, it looks like i’m going to uninstall „Installer“ and just use Cydia. If you want to get more informations, read here:

Installing Cydia (an alternative to Installer)
Bringing Debian Apt to the iPhone
Cydia 2.0 vs Installer 4.0
Conclusion: „Whether your preference is the new Installer 4.0 or Cydia, rest assured they will both play nicely together. Some developers will only package their apps in an Installer repository, and some will only put theirs in Cydia, and of course some will publish to both. No matter what the developer’s preference you will be able to run Cydia, Installer, and AppStore all on your iPhone with no problems.“

And last but not least a list of Sources for Cydia and the Installer:

Cydia
BigBoss & Planet-iPhones – http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/
Hack&Dev.org – http://iphone.hackndev.org/apt/
iFonetec – http://app.ifonetec.com/cydia/
Free Coder – http://iphone.freecoder.org/apt/
ModMyiFone – http://modmyifone.com/repo/
Ste – http://repo.smxy.org/cydia/apt/
Telesphoreo Tangelo – http://apt.saurik.com/
Urban Fanatics – http://urbanfanatics.com/cydia/
ZodTTD – http://zodttd.com/repo/cydia/
Intelliborn – http://intelliborn.com/cydia

Installer 4
RiP Dev – http://i.ripdev.com/
BigBoss’s Apps and Things. – http://apptapp.thebigboss.org/repofiles/installer4/
iSpazio Official – http://repo.neolinus.org/ispazio/
Ste Packaging – http://repo.smxy.org/installer4/
andyman repo – http://repo.gafoogle.com [CURRENTLY DOWN]
iModZone – http://imodzone.net/repo/ [CURRENTLY DOWN]
ClubiFone – http://www.clubifone.com/repo/
iPhone-notes.de – http://sendowski.de/iphone/

Copied from here.

If you are using OpenSSH, don’t forget to change the password, otherwise everyone with knowledge of the original root password („alpine“ on 1.1.4. to 2.0.2.) can hack your iPod, read your data and do harm to it. Install „MobileTerminal“, open it, su, enter „alpine“. Then passwd $NEWPASSWORD. Done.

Hope that this helped you guys & girls out there

iPod and Amarok

This had been tested with
Debian Etch
Gnome 2.14.3
Amarok 1.4.4. (Using KDE 3.5.5)

For some reason, i don’t like the whole KDE windowmanager stuff, but prefer to use GNOME instead. However, i think that Amarok is the finest media player out there. I used Amarok (and some other KDE apps) already when i was still running XFCE as window manager, so i decided to stick to it on my Debian workstation. As a proud owner of an iPod (thanks to my sister who will never read this ), i want to sync the iPod with Amarok instead of one of the other apps. GNOME’s own app, „Rythmbox Music player“ syncs the iPod fine, but i had several problems with GTKpod: errors occurred when GTKpod tried to read/write the iPods database -> syncing didn’t work any more.

Install Software
First of all, install Amarok, by running

4life:~# apt-get install amarok

as root. If that worked out fine, plug in your iPod. GNOME detected it automatically on my system, here is some output of my system

4life:~# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 006: ID 05ac:120a Apple, Inc. iPod Nano

and some more:

4life:~# dmesg
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 6
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sde: 7999487 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sde: 7999487 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
sde: sde1 sde2
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sde
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will b e case sensitive!

Don’t care about the UTF warning, i never experienced problems with it. If no errors appeared until now, continue with configuring Amarok:

Configure
Start Amarok, go to

Applications -> Sound & Video -> Amarok

Later the iPod can be found in the Category „Media Device“ (the button down below „Magnatune.com“ ) But first of all, we have to configure Amarok, so that it finds your iPod. Therefore go to

Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Amarok... -> Media Devices

Clicking on the Autodetect Devices shows :

No new media devices were found. If you feel this is an error, ensure that the DBUS and HAL daemons are running and KDE was built with support for them. You can test this by running "dcop kded mediamanager fullList" in a Konsole window.

Running the suggested command as user results only in

user@4life:~$ dcop kded mediamanager fullList
call failed

As root you get more informations

4life:~# dcop kded mediamanager fullList
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

In case you want to use your iPOD under KDE, the DCOP should be up and running and ready to use now. But we have to add it manually, because when using GNOME there is no KDE DCOP server listening in the background. Click on Add Device:

Select the plugin to use with this device:

Choose the Apple iPod Media Device here. Take any name for your Ipod.

Get the Mounting Point of your iPOD, in my case:

4life:~# mount
/dev/sde2 on /media/IPOD type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)


Enter that in the last field, click OK. The iPod appears in the Media Devicecategory, if not you have to press Connect.

You are now ready to drag n drop your collection onto the iPod. When finished, don’t forget to press the Disconnect button, otherwise you can’t unmount the iPod. On my system Amarok displays always

Post-disconnect command failed, before removing device, please make sure that it is safe to do so.

but this is irrelevant.

Finetuning
Finally, i don’t want to have Rhythmbox started automatically when i plug in the iPod, so i disabled it here:

Desktop -> Preferences ->Removable Drives and Media
Multimedia -> Portable Music Players

Now uncheck the Play music files when connected. If you want to autostart Amarok, keep it enabled and enter amarok instead of rhythmbox. Doing so also means that your system is putting Amarok in foreground if it is already running when connecting the iPod.

Have fun.