If you own a iPod Touch 2G, and your also wary of what a Jailbreak is, your most likely losing sleep the past few days, running around in joy and F5'ing www.redsn0w.com constantly.Just yesterday, the Dev-team has confirmed redsn0w being the codename to a iPod Touch 2G jailbreak! The first imminent clues of a iPod Touch 2G jailbreak appeared when the iPhone Dev Team released many updates abruptly through their site, twitter and such.
It was then followed with a image released on their new site, mysteriously named "www.redsn0w.com" (Image shown below)
Typically, rumours flew around everywhere and the smart ones found out it was most likely a 2G jailbreak due to the coding in the center of the image, which relates to the coding on the 2G processor. The thing is, almost everyone knew or believed that it was the 2G jailbreak, yet the iPhone Dev team continued to tease 2G owners with their stupid "subtle" hints...-cough- MuscleNerd-cough-
The hex # in upper lefthand corner of http://redsn0w.com is an escrow hash. That particular hash is a very good one for iPod Touch 2G."A very good one for iPod Touch 2G" ... Like, what the fuck?!
So what is a Jailbreak, some would say? Basically, unlocking the true potential from the 2G, thus giving you option to:
- Finally ditch the yucky, plain, black background with many themes.
- Load emulators onto your touch, such as GBA, NES, PSX... The PSX literally sucks on the touch tho.
- Install third party apps that never made it into the appstore, such as iHalo. Trust me third party apps are GREAT, cmon, they didn't pass Apple's Appstore guidelines... How can't it be uber cool?
- Download "cracked" apps (Free apps) onto your touch, although it is illegal.
- ...And more!
Update 1: Here is the first screenshot of a jailbroken iPod Touch
2G. Right now the jailbreak process is far too manual to be useful to most people. But this is a first step (well, second step if you include the initial exploit).
When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us. So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak. But we are putting a lot of energy into it.
Update 2: A picture is worth a 1000 words but a video might be better in this day of Photoshop and fake YouTube videos. So we’re thinking of doing what we did before Christmas for yellowsn0w — show a demo of the jailbreak on Musclenerd’s Qik account (announced via his twitter account over there on the right hand side). Since Qik provides a live chatroom right next to the video, we’ll probably be in there too right after the video’s over. Note: anybody posing as any devteam member on that chat right now is faking it. We won’t be on that chat except for a very specific time that we’ll announce. (We may possibly not even do the chat since it’s so ripe for abuse).
Update 3: It looks like we’ll do the Qik broadcast on Saturday afternoon (California time). It’ll be announced through MuscleNerd’s twitter. Unfortunately the Qik chatroom seems unmanageable, with no way to control the nicknames being used. So we’ll avoid it altogether — nobody on the Qik chat claiming to be us is actually us, so please don’t be fooled.
When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us. So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak. But we are putting a lot of energy into it.
Update 2: A picture is worth a 1000 words but a video might be better in this day of Photoshop and fake YouTube videos. So we’re thinking of doing what we did before Christmas for yellowsn0w — show a demo of the jailbreak on Musclenerd’s Qik account (announced via his twitter account over there on the right hand side). Since Qik provides a live chatroom right next to the video, we’ll probably be in there too right after the video’s over. Note: anybody posing as any devteam member on that chat right now is faking it. We won’t be on that chat except for a very specific time that we’ll announce. (We may possibly not even do the chat since it’s so ripe for abuse).
Update 3: It looks like we’ll do the Qik broadcast on Saturday afternoon (California time). It’ll be announced through MuscleNerd’s twitter. Unfortunately the Qik chatroom seems unmanageable, with no way to control the nicknames being used. So we’ll avoid it altogether — nobody on the Qik chat claiming to be us is actually us, so please don’t be fooled.
Yeah, I also find the picture pretty damn boring, but hey, this means the jailbreak is pretty damn close to being released. So you don't own a 2G and you find this Jailbreak interesting and want to give it a go? Do not fear! There are Jailbreaks released for the iPod Touch 1G and iPhone 3G, no I will not give you links...use something called google my friend :)
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