I’m a very happy camper — spent about an hour this afternoon hacking my new iPod Touch and thanks to the guys at touchdev.net I now have third party applications enabled with the 1.1.1 firmware!
All in all it wasn’t that difficult to do if you strictly follow the step by step instructions. If you’re scared of opening up Terminal this jailbreak process is going to be a bit daunting though. To enable third party applications on your iPod Touch just follow this guide: http://www.touchdev.net/wiki/Jailbreak_Guide
Here are a few minor hiccups I ran into:
- Had problems getting libreadline to work when not copied into the root folder of your HD (/opt/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib)
- Cyberduck really is the best FTP software to SFTP into the device, tried Transmit and had some issues renaming folders
I currently have the following apps installed:
- Mail (iPhone)
- Weather (iPhone)
- Stocks (iPhone)
- Notes (iPhone)
- Maps (iPhone)
- Calendar (adding events enabled)
- Taptap Revolution
- Stumbler
- Sudoku
- MobileCast
- MobileRSS
- VNsea
As was to be expected some of the apps listed in Installer.app don’t work well on the iPod Touch (yet) but overall its been a very positive experience. When someone gets round to porting Flash Player for use on the iPod this will be my all time favorite multimedia device.
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Nice Peter. You’ll have to give me a demo over a beer or two at MAX :D
Sweet! I’ll have to give this a shot!
Lucky you … I want an iPod now !! ;)
ciao mate
Peter,
Will you now (have to) avoid future upgrades from Apple?
On a freed unit, can the TIFF hole be plugged w/o upgrading (from Apple)?
Can the iTunes button be made to go away? Have you found (enabled) a way (trash can) to delete individual images?
IMHO, Apple should have their bare bottoms publicly spanked for having released the unit not only w/o the Notes feature, but with the Calendar feature without the ability to enter any events.
Any Apple upgrades could potentially break the jailbreak — luckily the iPod Touch can easily be restored to factory defaults just by holding the home and power key down for 20 or so seconds.
In the meanwhile Steve Jobs has announced that third party apps will be allowed and an SDK is coming in February. They’re still working on improving security, working out ways of signing apps etc.
There are multiple apps that customize the interface so I would not be surprised if there is something out there that allows you to remove buttons or that trash can feature you talk about.
Nice case! Where’d you get that iPod Case from?
thats easy just go to jailbreakme.com on your ipod touch