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Hooray!!! I successfully jailbreaked my iPod Touch using this process! Seamless, absolutely no problems. I installed the iPhone apps and they all work great!!! One last hack... modify the Calendar app to allow new entries...

My iPod touch went from a great MP3 player with some cool bells and whistles, to a full fledged PDA/micro-computer... I love it!


if its not to much to ask how did you install the applications?

i have them but i don't know how to move them from my pc to my touch
 
why are sftp and ssh so hard to acess. Ive had a 1 to 20 success ratio on getting into the root but once im in it works fine. Any ideas?
 
Is touchfree supposed to be resetting the media folders? and how long will that take?
 
updated version

http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/~yw226/ipod/touchfree.zip

Here's an updated version, no rapidshare. The difference is that this version does some error checking. It does more verification to check whether each step has been done successfully before proceeding (should resolve some of those connection refused problems).

It also allows you to resume from any stage, which is good if there was a temporary issue, and saves a lot of restoring. I still don't consider any of this newbie-material, btw., but it's there for what it's worth.
 
everytime i try to run touchFree i get an error saying the application couldnt initialise. the touchfree app is that generic picture..it looks like it wouldnt open. "0xc0000135" is the error i get. any help here would be great.
 
Hooray!!! I successfully jailbreaked my iPod Touch using this process! Seamless, absolutely no problems. I installed the iPhone apps and they all work great!!! One last hack... modify the Calendar app to allow new entries...

My iPod touch went from a great MP3 player with some cool bells and whistles, to a full fledged PDA/micro-computer... I love it!

Me too Spazer...Excited about my new improved device!

if its not to much to ask how did you install the applications?

i have them but i don't know how to move them from my pc to my touch

I used WinSCP http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=winscp&filename=winscp404setup.exe&use_mirror=easynews
to login to the ipod and then drag & drop the apps to Applications folder and the GMM.framework folder to System\Library\Frameworks and MobileMailSettings.bundle to \System\Library\PreferenceBundles

Then I had to go back into Putty and type /bin/chmod -Rf +x /Applications/ because the Apps would just crash on the ipod. Now all is right with the world...until the next update

THANKS PLANETBEING!!!
 
everytime i try to run touchFree i get an error saying the application couldnt initialise. the touchfree app is that generic picture..it looks like it wouldnt open. "0xc0000135" is the error i get. any help here would be great.

For the record, you need .NET Framework 2.0. I should've said that up front.
 
Me too Spazer...Excited about my new improved device!



I used WinSCP http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=winscp&filename=winscp404setup.exe&use_mirror=easynews
to login to the ipod and then drag & drop the apps to Applications folder and the GMM.framework folder to System\Library\Frameworks and MobileMailSettings.bundle to \System\Library\PreferenceBundles

Then I had to go back into Putty and type /bin/chmod -Rf +x /Applications/ because the Apps would just crash on the ipod. Now all is right with the world...until the next update

THANKS PLANETBEING!!!

I sent you a PM.
 
so are the direction in the first post up to date and work? If not can someone make an up to date guide.

Those directions are the README.txt file inside the zip file verbatim. The new version has updated and clarified directions. Slightly, anyway.
 
guys oh my god please help me i feel like such a noob. i went to that link just for kicks (i didnt read the warning), and now all my stuff is gone and my computer wont even reckognize my ipod. what do i do!:(:(:(:(:(:(
 
guys oh my god please help me i feel like such a noob. i went to that link just for kicks (i didnt read the warning), and now all my stuff is gone and my computer wont even reckognize my ipod. what do i do!:(:(:(:(:(:(

you have to do a restore, sorry I did that 3 times you have to reload all your stuff.

btw I re-download the zip files

still no luck, stuck at the touchFree six

Will output 1024 bit rsa secret key to 'dropbear_rsa_host_key'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Will output 1024 bit dss secret key to 'dropbear_dss_host_key'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Reading iPod flash image...
Patching iPod flash image...
Writing iPod flash image...
Please reboot your iPod now. Push enter when this has been done.


Stage two (type 'touchFree.exe two' at the command line to resume from here in t
he future
Checking for fstab validity...
Installing SSH/SCP/SFTP and shell utilities...
Creating dropbear folder...

Stage three (type 'touchFree.exe three' at the command line to resume from here
in the future
Uploading all files...

Stage four (type 'touchFree.exe four' at the command line to resume from here in
the future
Verifying all files...
Exploiting /usr/sbin/update...
Please reboot your iPod now twice. Push enter when this has been done.


Stage five (type 'touchFree.exe five' at the command line to resume from here in
the future
Resetting /usr/sbin/update...

Stage six (type 'touchFree.exe six' at the command line to resume from here in t
he future
Please find out the IP address of your iPod
Go into Settings -> Wi-Fi and click the blue arrow next to the wireless network
your iPod is connected to.
Enter the IP address:

Stage six (type 'touchFree.exe six' at the command line to resume from here in t
he future
Please find out the IP address of your iPod
Go into Settings -> Wi-Fi and click the blue arrow next to the wireless network
your iPod is connected to.
Enter the IP address: 192.168.1.103
Resetting media folders...
Uploading Installer.app...
Fatal: Network error: Connection refused
 
That h##p:// whatever website you gave, i go to that on my ipod right? well when i did sarfari on my ipod said "website is not vailiad" or something ????:confused:
 
help please

ok i got the zip file and i put the itunes mobile device file into the same folder as touchfree and now when i open touch free it just sits at reading ipod flash image...
usbmuxlistenervreate: no error

please help
 
HELLLP!

I it was all going prefect until i put my IP adress in it said that network error thing so i had to start again, but now my ipod wont turn on? and nothing works???
 
Thanks for the excellent tool, unfortunately I'm getting this error when running:

Stage one (type 'touchFree.exe one' at the command line to resume from here in t
he future
Will output 1024 bit rsa secret key to 'dropbear_rsa_host_key'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Couldn't create new file dropbear_rsa_host_key
Reason: File exists
Will output 1024 bit dss secret key to 'dropbear_dss_host_key'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Couldn't create new file dropbear_dss_host_key
Reason: File exists
Reading iPod flash image...
Patching iPod flash image...

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'c:\Us
ers\Tony\Documents\touchfree2\rdisk0s1'.
File name: 'c:\Users\Tony\Documents\touchfree2\rdisk0s1'
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, I
nt32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions o
ptions, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access,
FileShare share)
at touchFree.Program.replaceInFile(String fileName, Byte[] before, Byte[] aft
er)
at touchFree.Program.StageOne()
at touchFree.Program.Main(String[] args)

I'm running Vista 32bit and have followed the instructions exactly up to this point. Any ideas? Is there some dependency I'm missing?
 
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