Dan’s View

2008/03/16

Cydia

Filed under: Apple,Security,iTouch — Tags: — dan @ 16:06

So I’ve been playing with this little iPod Touch the last few weeks. First I had the BSD Subsystem installed, it was quite buggy. Now I have discovered Cydia. This rocks, its a port of the apt package manager and so far everything I have installed has been without bugs! Even metasploit! Now things can be REALLY funky whilst on a WiFi network.

I recommend this to anyone who uses their iPhone/iPod Touch as more than just a Media Player/Web Browser/Game’s Platform.

Cheers,

DanBUK.

2008/03/07

1.1.4 Jailbreak iTouch/iPhone for MacOSX (Soft)

Filed under: Apple,Hardware,Jailbreak,iTouch — Tags: — dan @ 22:41

To reach a 1.1.4 version on my iTouch I have performed the following steps.

Restored 1.1.1

Ran OKToPrep

Upgraded to 1.1.2

(Basically the above steps I followed the instructions on this page and stopped once I had a 1.1.2 and Installer on my SpringBoard.)

This is a modification of the Windows version I found here.

The MacOSX version can be found here.

Open up a terminal and execute the following:
cd ~/
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
curl -o 1.1.4_Jailbreak_MacOSX.tar.bz2 http://danb-uk.net/~dan/files/1.1.4_Jailbreak_MacOSX.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf  1.1.4_Jailbreak_MacOSX.tar.bz2
cd 1.1.4_Jailbreak_MacOSX
./jailbreak.sh

Now wait, if it doesn’t restart then just power off your iTouch and wait a few seconds, then power it back on!

I have only tested this once and I can confirm that my About info is 1.1.4, any feedback is appreciated.

Cheers,

DanB UK.

Update: So I had some issues with Installer.App failing to install some packages, but that might just relate to 1.1.4 compatibility of those Apps… Researching further… Update: Just Re-Install the Installer and relaunch it then everything was fine! 1.1.4 Here I am!

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