Let’s Jailbreak using Zibri’s ZiPhone Ver 2.0 Method for Mac OS X

This guide is for Intel Mac OS X users only. Please look elsewhere for a Windows’ guide. Alternatively, this guide’s method will work on any Mac and PC.

A few days ago I came across this and with the release of version 2.0, I gave it a shot and have successfully jailbroken my iPod touch with it on my Mac Pro. Below is my complete guide to help you along. Do it right and your iPod touch will be jailbroken in under 60 seconds.

System Requirements:
An Intel Mac (it doesn’t work on PowerPC, yet.)
Mac OS X Leopard (I’m pretty sure Tiger is fine too. No, it does not work in Tiger.)
iTunes 7.6 (I don’t know if it works in 7.5.)
iPod touch 8GB (lots of reports are saying it only works on the 8GB model.)

PART A - PREPARING THE IPOD TOUCH FOR JAILBREAKING

1. Download this zip file.
2. Unzip the content, and copy the following 3 files to your Home folder.
   • ziphone
   • zibri.dat
   • libMobileDevice742.dylib

   Where’s the Home folder? Go to Finder and select “Home” from the “Go” menu. A new window will open. That’s the Home folder.

3. Launch iTunes 7.6. Here’s how to dismiss the JSU nag screen.
4. Click the “Restore” button, and allow iTunes to restore your iPod touch to firmware version 1.1.3 (and not 1.1.1 nor 1.1.2).
5. Select “Don’t Back Up” from the pop-up prompt, and then click on “Restore” in the next pop-up prompt.
6. After restoration, everything that was in your iPod touch (music, videos, 1st and 3rd party apps, and whatever hacks you previously used to jailbreak) are erased. The process takes about 3:30 minutes. If the restoration process fail, just quit iTunes and repeat the process from Step 3 again.
7. After your iPod touch reconnects and re-apears in iTunes, make sure you carry out the following seemingly trivia but important steps:
   • Click on “Set up as a new iPod“, and then click “Continue”.
   • Un-tick “Automatically sync songs to my iPod” and then click “Done”.
   • Un-tick “Open iTunes when this iPod is connected“, and then click “Apply”.
   • Finally, click the “Sync” button. Don’t worry; it’ll only waste ONE second of your time to sync. Just click it. In fact, I click it twice just to be sure.
8. Your iPod touch is running firmware 1.1.3 and ready for jailbreaking. The Installer.app is, of course, not in it.

 

Preliminary Review of Zibri’s ZiPhone “True Jailbreak”

This is not a tutorial. The complete installation guide is here.

I found this “True Jailbreaking” method from here.

Despite all the negative comments on failed attempts, I’m very pleased (and very surprised) it works on mine. I didn’t expect it to work.

It’s amazing.

It jailbroke my “fresh” 1.1.3 iPod touch (yup, not an iPhone) in like… 60 seconds!

I’m going to install all the apps and play around with it for a bit before commenting more.

But if you have my setup (as follow),

No Thanks, Apple! Really. Enough Already!

One of the most annoying thing ever on iTunes (or Mac OS X for that matter) is the “No Thanks” button simply doesn’t work for some of us. Prior to today, clicking it even brought up an error message afterwards. At least Apple have fixed that error for me, but now the nag screen simply won’t go away. Since when did Steve Jobs become so bitchy and nags his worshippers?

To get rid of the nag screen, click the little “x” icon when you connect your iPod touch, and say “I’ll buy it once you operate an iTunes Online Store for Singapore.”

Remember Singapore?

Jailbreakme.com Improved & Upgraded AppSnapp

I must have for the pass few days went to Jailbreakme.com over 10 times to install AppSnapp. I was writing a new complete guide to jailbreaking and gotta re-jailbreak again and again to verify what I wrote.

But you know what? Never once did I ever read any of the links in jailbreakme.com. So imagine my surprise when I read the Features section and find out the following:

8. New! 2/1/08 Automatically oktoprep’s (for easy 1.1.2 upgrade functionality, no need to install the package anymore).

What? There’s no need to install OKtoPrep?! Gee, how come no one tells me about it?

I should have just taken their words for it and amended the guide. However, being a responsible blogger I decided I shall jailbreak one-last-time just to verify the new feature before I do the amendment.

Look ma, there’s nothing in the Dock!

Quite cool eh?

Just wiggle away those docked icons to the next page. The Dock need not be occupied.

That’s the handsome Gee Theme, in case you’re new here.