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slug420

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May 14, 2007
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I want to get an ipt, but one of the main reasons (if not only) for getting it instead of some other personal media player or a nano is the potential it has if I can jailbreak it.

my question is what is all this stuff I head about "brick"ing it?

What does this mean?

Is there seriously something you can do with the ipt in software that renders the hardware unusable? I find this hard to believe but this seems to be the definition of "bricking" it that I am coming up with.

I am pretty tech savvy and have no problem with headaches and losing everything on my ipt when I am forced to recover it if it crashes....but if something goes awry and it becomes "bricked" I am not ok with the 300 dollar pmp being completely useless forever. I am capable of searching the forums and/or google to find out how to jailbreak it and how to resolve problems when I run into them but im just trying to make sure all the problems I could run into are indeed fixable.
 
I don't want to scare you, but my iPod Touch 16gb. Hacked on 1.1.1 won't sync with my Mac. Done a settings reset and erase content, the hacked apps are still there but now I have no music and no connectivity.

Not good.
 
steve.lawrence said:
Yes it does.
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So help me understand (or point me to where this has already been discussed if it has been) if you will what the future *probably* lookslike for the ipt.

What is the general consensus?

Will all the apps that people are using on a jailbroken ipt likely be made available for the ipt without hacking it? Will some 3rd parties make a few apps and charge money for them? Will the open source community get behind this and make all the stuff everyone wants for the ipt/iphone?
 
oh...so no matter what happens during jailbreak you can always recover? Worst case scenario is what? you lose the data you had on it?
 
im not worried at all about losing stuff I put on it. I mean i keep copies of the playlists in itunes and it takes a matter of minutes to drag them onto a newly restored ipod right? sounds like an ipt will be saweet
 
An iPT cannot become an iBrick. The bricking refers largely to the baseband corruption; no longer allowing an unlocked and jailbroken phone to get GSM service.
 
ah, so real bricking is only for iphones? ipt can only become temporarily unusable (until you restore it)
 
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