Ok, I see all these posts about getting 1.1.2 firmware. I'm not stupid, but I can't find it in iTunes. And every time I connect the Touch, it wants to download 1.1.3
I've gone to ijailbreak to get that upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3, but I'm wondering now how I upgrade the official Apple firmware without wiping everything out after I've jailbreaked it to 1.1.3? Does this make any sense? It doesn't tell you to upgrade the firmware anywhere, so what do I do?
To go up to 1.1.2 you need to click 'alt' when you select the 'update' button in iTunes. This will allow you to browse to the file you want to use for the update, which means you need to download it if it's not already on your machine (will end in something like ...restore.ipsw).
For what it's worth, I've done the upgrade several times now using about 5 or 6 different methods all with varying results. Because "reloading" my 16 iPod with music etc doesn't take that long, I always start with a completely wiped 1.1.1 baseline. What I've done is this:
Restore to 1.1.1
jailbreakme.com to install appsnap
Install 'ok to prep' in the tweaks 1.1.1
Alt-click update to 1.1.2
Run jailbreak.jar
Now that I have itunes 7.6, the iPod won't come out of recovery so I use to iNdependence 1.3 Beta 2 (for OSX) and this works well to get me running again.
The update the installer.app, install BSD as well
Now it's a clean jailbroken 1.1.2, ready for any method you choose to go to 1.1.3. The method
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/422278/ is the best I've seen so far because I don't see how I could run into so many other permission problems, space problems, etc with a practilly virgin jailbroken iPod.
The method I linked to missed one step (or I missed reading it). When you are jailbroken in 1.1.3, there is an app in there (if you add applerepo.com to your sources) that is called something like 1.1.3 app springboard fix. Install that and then boom, wiggly icons, Map locator, and safari weblink bookmars. All worked terrific.
Problem for me is that I often would install a few things I knew worked under 1.1.3, then after trying to install a few more, Installer stopped working altogether. I've read it's a space issue and I can remedy that with BossTool so I probably will give it a go this weekend or when I hear more things are worked out. In the meantime I'm back to 1.1.2 with Summerboard and not really missing the new features much.
But I think it's worth a shot, I've gotten starting from scratch and getting up to 1.1.2 jailbroken down to a science taking less than an hour. Remember, you can ALWAYS go back if you F it up.
