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iPod touch Ipod Touch Background

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jman800

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Sep 19, 2008
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Okay so for those of us who didn't jailbreak our ipod touch's, Will we ever get the option to change the background? Background meaning the black empty landscape behind all your apps. I heard apple was going to give us the option to change it in the future or maybe i heard wrong. So is this going to happen?
 
Yeah, Also, isn't there a big update coming in January? It told me that after buying the App store upgrade
 
I thought i remembered it saying, Buying this also entitles you for receiving the January update. Something like that, I'm pretty sure i saw that.
 
jman800 said:
I thought i remembered it saying, Buying this also entitles you for receiving the January update. Something like that, I'm pretty sure i saw that.
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As has been said it refers to the January Software Upgrade from earlier this year. In other words you got Mail, Stocks, Weather, Notes, Maps, lyrics and the ability to move icons around on the home screen.
 
Yeah, I want backgrounds as I like unique, custom iPods. Was one of the reasons I tried to jailbreak on 1.1.4, but something went wrong and I've updated to 2.0 to stop myself trying again...

Yes, safe and legal way to customize please.
 
jailbreaking is perfectly legal. You own the device and can do whatever you want to it. The only illegal thing would be if you posted copyrighted code on the internet. Plus, pwning your ipod with quick pwn is pretty much fool proof, and if anything went wrong you could always ask us folks here at MacRumors for help, and we'd help you resolve the issue.
 
Ohh. Don't I feel stupid now. Haha, Thanks for pointing that out though.
 
Heather1 said:
It voids warranty though. But you can always restore it.
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I have not hacked mine because I don't want to void the warranty. However, if I do restore the settings then there's no way for Apple to know it was hacked?
 
Paul R said:
I have not hacked mine because I don't want to void the warranty. However, if I do restore the settings then there's no way for Apple to know it was hacked?
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Woh.... not the setting but the whole thing. I think there's a restore button on itune and it resets your ipod to factory condition (empty). I've never jailbroken mine either but thats what everyone's saying.
 
Actually regardless of whether or not you do a full restore, the iPod always keeps a record of everything that was on it, which can be viewed by Apple if it's ever sent or taken in for service...someone posted about it a few weeks ago where a kid tried to get a Genius to look at his iPod, and the records showed he had once had Springboard installed.

Ah, here we go:

Opie said:
Yeah there is a misconception that a simple restore will make it untraceable and thats not true. When geniuses hook it up to run diagnostics they can see deleted programs. I saw them bust a kid today. It was hilarious. He was telling the genius some crap about his battery being bad and the charging being messed up. The Genius said ok let me run diagnostics and when he did (i was peeking at the screen) it showed springboard on there. The genius called him out in front of about 20 people and i thought the kid was gonna cry. He was like i swear i never jailbroke it sir and the genius was like listen kid i can see springboard right here. He told the little whipper snapper that he was not replacing his iphone. It was great
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https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6135928/
 
Ivan P said:
Actually regardless of whether or not you do a full restore, the iPod always keeps a record of everything that was on it, which can be viewed by Apple if it's ever sent or taken in for service...someone posted about it a few weeks ago where a kid tried to get a Genius to look at his iPod, and the records showed he had once had Springboard installed.

Ah, here we go:



https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6135928/
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PHEW! I'm glad I never hacked mine then. Thanks for the help all! ;)
 
My Touch should arrive next week and I'm in two minds whether or not to Jailbreak it to be honest. I think for the first couple of months I won't bother (I know the latest version can't be done yet anyway but let's be honest, it's only a matter of time).

Maybe I'll get curious after a while and do it- anyone got links to the benefits of Jailbreaking (or aren't we allowed to post those?)

Cheers :)
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F138 Safari/525.20)

If you weren't allowed to then I'd be worried at the fact there's an entire board here dedicated to hacking the iPod touch :p
 
Ivan P said:
Actually regardless of whether or not you do a full restore, the iPod always keeps a record of everything that was on it, which can be viewed by Apple if it's ever sent or taken in for service...someone posted about it a few weeks ago where a kid tried to get a Genius to look at his iPod, and the records showed he had once had Springboard installed.

Ah, here we go:



https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6135928/
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OMG, so what's gonna happen to all you folks with a jailbroken touch once it's broken down ?! :eek:

Edit: I've read the whole thread and a few guys there said if you do a DFU restore (not the simple restore), you should be ok with the traces.
 
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