Mood: Blur
Listening To:  Dream Theater - Hollow Years










Before I start off, I'm going to learn Dream Theater's As I Am and Hollow Years.  Two very fun song.  One extremely easy, and the other would be ..Dream Theater standard.  It'll take me probably a year just to complete every part of that song.  Yay.

Back to the iPod:  I thought my jailbreaking spree came to an end, Vanesa tossed me a link to someone's wordpress, and my goodness.

They've finally jailbroken the iPod Touch's 1.1.3 I've been complaining about.  Finally an installation file that'll allow you to get every single thing that the 1.1.3 offers - after you pay the small fee to Apple.

Finally, I'll be able to see my icons wriggle like a bunch of Ricky Martins and arrange my iPod's Springboard PROPERLY.










Goodness me.  XD.. But this process is going to take quite a while.  My iPod Touch has to download the 1.1.3 software update, which means that it'll be 160mbs.  But before that can happen, I have to download a few programmes to prepare the iPod Touch from suffering from any side effects.  For those who're interested, get BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH and Services (??) installed before proceeding with the 1.1.3 jailbreaking process.










For those who didn't research properly, you need to start off with either a jailbroken 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 before you can jailbreak 1.1.3.  If you're familiar with jailbreaking 1.1.2, you need to jailbreak or install Oktoprep in 1.1.1 to prepare it for it to be jailbroken.  Same goes for 1.1.3.  You need to prepare either 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 to prepare it for it to be jailbroken in 1.1.3.

With that said, you should downgrade it.  There're several ways to do so.  In iTunes 7.5, for Windows, shift + click your Restore button with your iPod connected via USB port, and get it downgraded to 1.1.1

In iTunes 7.6, I think the easiest method (instead of going through all those MS-DOS nonsense) would be to connect your iPod Touch to the computer, switch it off, then switch it on, but hold down on the Sleep/power button and the Home button for 10 seconds.  When that happens, the iPod should show a blank screen after the Apple logo like it was switched off.  Now, release the sleep button and keep on holding the Home button for another 10 seconds.  With your iPod plugged, your iTunes will detect the iPod in recovery mode.  With that done, Shift-click restore and get it to load the 1.1.1 *.ipsw file.

Once that is done, wait probably a thousand years for everything to be done to get your iPod back to 1.1.1 .. Get online, enter Safari from your iPod Touch, then go to http://jailbreakme.com, scroll all the way down, then Install SnappApp.  Safari should close, and it will automatically install Installer.app into your iPod.  Now the iPod is jailbroken.

If you plan to upgrade to 1.1.2, read on.  If not, skip.  If you made it this far and if you're still reading but do not own an iPod and you're getting lost with whatever is being mentioned, exit this site.

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Jailbreaking 1.1.2
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Once the installation is complete, enter Installer, scroll through All Packages, or go into Tweeks 1.1.1 and install OktoPrep.  This will prepare your iPod to be jailbroken once it updates to 1.1.2.  Using the Shift-Click method, this time, Shift-Click on Update in your iTunes, and get it force-updated to 1.1.2 instead of updating it to the latest version.  Remember to Shift-Click on Updates, and NOT Restore.  If you Shift-Click Restore, it will "reformat" your iPod and it will lose the jailbroken information being implanted and written by OktoPrep.

Now once you update to the 1.1.2 version, you will notice that you've lost your Installer.  With this, you need to download a file, that's availble on youtube.com, under the keywords "ipodtouchmaster 1.1.2".  Follow his video about how to jailbreak 1.1.2, and get the iPhuc file that he uploaded.  In that file that you're downloading from Rapidshare, the rest are not important, but if you're a Mac user, start the OSX file.  If you're a Windows user, start the Windows.bat file.

Remember that you need JRE installed in your computer or your MS-DOS won't function and the jailbreak won't even take place.

After you open either one of the files, just let MS-DOS do everything for you.  In the JavaScript popup, check "Install SSH" as it'll be quite useful in the near future when you want to upload emulator ROMs and customized themes through SummerBoard.

Once everything is completed, reboot your iPod.  After doing so, click "OK", and MS-DOS will reboot your iPod again.  After doing so, your Installer and SSH should be made available

Once you do that, you'll be able to use your Installer application with ease on your 1.1.2 - meaning to say, it's jailbroken.

To get all your iPhone applications to work on 1.1.2, enter the Installer Application, then go to Sources and add a new one:  http://applerepo.com.  Head back to the Install page of the Installer Application and search for the iPhone Applications for 1.1.2, and you'll just have everything there which is available in the iPhone.

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Jailbreaking 1.1.3
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Now that all that is done, all you need to do is to head to the Installer Application, and if you haven't, make sure you have these installed into your iPod Touch:

- BSD Subsystem - Required.  6.6 MBs
- OpenSSH (Should come along when you've jailbroken 1.1.1, but you can try installing it.  Will update once I jailbreak my 1.1.3)
- Services (???)

Remember you need a good Wi-Fi connection, or you're going to face the same problem like me at the moment.

With that said, head back into Installer, and enter a new source.  Currently, there are two sources which provides the jailbreaking service:

. ipodtouchmaster's repo - http://ipodtouchmaster.com/files/repo.xml
. ijailbreak's repo - http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist

Either one of these two works, I think.  But I would stand on ijailbreak's repo because you're able to jailbreak your iPod when it's still in 1.1.1.  ipodtouchmaster would be on 1.1.2, I think.

Head back to Installer, and depending on which repo site you've used, you'll be able to search it on your application list.  for ijailbreak.com, you'll find it under iJailBreak Mobile.  Get either the 1.1.1 or the 1.1.2 update file, depending on your iPod's current software version.

Either way, the next process is going to take most of your time.  Have your iPod Touch plugged in to be charged.  Once this takes place, your iPod will take about 35 mins to 1hr 35mins for this process to be done.  What the iPod is going to do at this point, is to download the 1.1.3 software update from Apple.com, which is at a 160mbs.  As that happens, BSD Subsystem is going to jailbreak it as your iPod updates itself.

From what I heard, it should automatically reboot itself, and when it does, you'll see your iPod with a new interface with the applications which was supposed to be there ages ago - Notes, Mail, Google Maps, Stocks, Weather, and the brand new Springboard Customizer - where you're able to make your icons dance like William Hung and arrange it to your desire.

Well, that's about it.  I'm still trying to get my iPod Touch jailbroken.  With this connection, I honestly doubt I'll be done by tonight.

Edit:  Don't follow ijailbreak.com.  I don't think it really works.  Getting it up to 1.1.3 jailbroken isn't a problem.  I tried updating straight from 1.1.1 and it didn't really show good results.  I didn't get the benefits of the January Software update.  As per getting to 1.1.3 from 1.1.2, the programmes doesn't work.  On the last step, it says that there's something wrong with the programme.  Right now, I'm trying out the ipodtouchmaster.com/files/repo.xml sources, and it's far easier.  Just continue off from your jailbroken 1.1.2 and everything should be fine.

Currently waiting for the iPod to finish downloading the *.ipsw file from apple.com .. again, for the 3rd time today.  Bah.










*smokes cigarette*

Mood: Headached
Listening To: Silverchair - The Greatest View









After 13 hours of research, endless youtube videos, forums, websites and an UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING SLOW STREAMYX SHIT CONNECTION, I managed to get my iPod Touch jailbroken in its 1.1.2 firmware state.

And as I completed this, the 1.1.3 jailbreak is released, in a very technical way.  But no thanks to Malaysia's moodswings, I can't seem to access anything at some period of time.

More to like, period of hours.

One thing about this jailbreaking process, you need a very stable connection for both your laptop/PC/Mac and iPod.  If neither of this is going to cooperate, then nothing's going to go your way.

But after 11 hours of jailbreaking the iPod, twice, everything's running smoothly now.  With a better-than-yesterday-but-still-shitty connection, I managed to connect the laptop to the iPod without using the USB cable, but using an FTP-based programme.

Been years since I last used that.

Besides that, MS-DOS.

God.

FTP = File Transfer Protocol.  With that, I connected to the iPod's IP address, and I checked out everything that's available in the iPod.  Meaning, I was accessing its HDD at that time, scanning every single *.dat *.bat *.ihateslowconnectionshereinmalaysia files there, and managed to overwrite file properties.

And yes, with an amount of submissions and wrestling this damned iPod with a dead connection, all's well now..




XD.. What freakin joyyyyyyyyyyyyy XD.. I've learnt how to put a custom wallpaper instead of it being sleek black all of the time.. And so on.

And that video was taken before I installed the GBA emulator.. Downloaded Earthworm Jim and it worked fine.  Just that the controls are.. on the screen.  So you can pretty much imagine hitting the L/R buttons.. Lol.. I wonder if I should just spoil the iPod (literally) by inserting a PSX-emulator?  XD










Back to reality:  I need food.. Only if I can afford it of course.. -_-..

I've got like, RM50.32 in my bank account left, and guess what?  I exceeded maybank's 4-withdraw-per-month thing, and it says there "insufficient cash to withdraw" when the ATM only offers RM50 notes..

I've got only.. RM16.70 in my wallet.. And after reading Schizzow's summary of what's going on, having those unfortunate events happening, I really do hope that I'm not next in any ways. t__________________________t

But shit lah.. the cops gave Daniel a damned ticket for "wreckless driving"?  Cops were always retarded, so can't they retardedly write "made a wrong turn" instead of wreckless driving.. What nonsense la.. Fuckin Malaysian cops..

And shit, I didn't know that Angelene got snatched.. T_T

And busses are starting to sound dangerous..Makes me not want to travel back to Penang so often.. Gah..










Best to stay home and not to get choked by dust, and die of asthma or something.. -_- ..










Sometimes, I wonder, how IS everybody doing.. And sometimes, it's weird how friendship blinds us, and we fail to see who people really are..

Mood: Tired
Listening To: Dream Theater - Erotomania









I managed to pay a visit the iPod Reseller store that I got my iPod from, in Low Yat today to get some things right.

Besides that, I also met someone I'd never expect to meet in KL.  MagicY2L..

Hello XD.. And good luck for your engineering quizamawig.. XD

This journal would be more to like, the precaution for those who expects to live with an original (meaning - never Jailbroken) iPod Touch.  Tough luck, boys.  It's never going to happen.

As stated in a few journals back, the 1.1.3 update requires you to pay USD $19.99 to get the additional applications which were never in the iPod Touch.  The applications that you're able to use in the iPhone and so on.  Problem is, even if you're willing to pay USD $19.99 to get the applcations up and running, you won't be able to do so.  Why?  It's fairly simple.  Like South Park blaming Canada in the movie for teaching the children how to swear, you should blame Malaysia instead.

Because Malaysia does not have an iTunes Store branch here, you are not able to perform that purchase to receive your application goodies.  This is why I boycotted against the iPhones, and with that being said, I'm hating iPod Touch at the moment.

Because of someone else's mistake from a company, we have to pay an additional fee to enjoy additional products.  Like as if we're not paying enough for the bloody device.

So here we go, I have my 1.1.3 firmware installed, and I have to say that I like it better than the 1.1.2 version.  This is because the iPod runs a bit faster in every applications.

But I'm downgrading my iPod as we speak.  So, for those who are interested to achieve their jailbroken iPod Touch states, here's what you can do:

1) Switch off your iPod Touch
2) Connect it to your PC/Mac/laptop through the USB cable, and hold both the power and home button for 10 seconds.
3) Right after 10 seconds, your screen should not show the Apple logo; release the power/sleep button, but still continue to hold your home button for another 10 seconds.
4) Release your home button, then open iTunes.  It should be able to detect your iPod in Recovery mode.  From there, you can restore your iPod Touch with the previous *.ipsw files (if you've downloaded from the official Apple site, not through iTunes.) by holding down "Shift" and clicking on "Restore".
5) Wait for probably 1,000 years for the iPod Touch to be restored to that specific version.

Now, to jailbreak it and allowing other applications to be available on your iPod, that's fairly simple.  I won't provide the tutorial here as it's around youtube.com.  Just search for the user called "ipodtouchmaster", and you'll see how to do things there.

By referring to his videos, you will realise that he uses the technical way to downgrade the iPod Touch from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1 through iPhuc.

All required links for downgrading are included in his descriptions through his tutorials, so refer to him instead.

Here's a hint though; if you're planning to update your firmware version from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2, remember to force-update it if possible with the *.ipsw file in your computer.  To force update, hold down the "Shift" key, and click on "Update" in your iTunes.










If only I knew that this bloody iPod requires the iTunes Store somehow, I wouldn't have even fuckin' bought it.  Until the 1.1.3 SDK is jailbroken, I'll stick to the 1.1.2.. and probably have GBA emulators in it this time.. XD










Ah.  Downgrade completed.  Time to jailbreak this motherfucker.. Google Maps, here I come.. XD