eh... that doesnt look like the itouch...

Im getting an iPhone soon, with the sale of my iPhone Linksys WIP300 I used for 2 years, 1 year $300 deposit refund from my buddy Darth and the sale of my mint Razr V3.

What I will not be doing is ruining it with hacks. I truly do not understand the purpose of it. I will update it and polish it, caress and love it, it will be a passionate relationship. I will <3 my iPhone, not hurt it like you other Gizmodoans.

@foxinyablox: this isnt an iphone though, its an itouch... and i bet you that ur gonna be adding apps. unless u like using nothing at all.

that looks like the touch sitting next to me...oh and the purpose of hacking is to simply have applications that apple is too slow to put out. i personally have gotten 10 times more than i ever expected out of the purchase of my touch. i know others who have discovered the same with their iphones.

is it really worth the hassle, besides the little calendar fix what else does the 1.1.2 firmware do for me?

whats the updated in itouch upgrade guys? can someone sum it up for the rest of us? that will be a helpful post...

and POXINYABLOX - we are not hurting the iphone... think of it as - we are making it eat multivitamins... it lacks vitamin D and B12... and some minerals and iron... so we kinda are taking care of it... :p

@xaflatoonx: haha, very true, it lacks its vitamins...

@foxinyablox: @xaflatoonx: I have a better analogy; Since you bought your computer, that 3 yr old Viao laptop or that brand new Mac Pro, did you install any software? Works not cutting it for you, so you picked up Office?
The iPhone is a mobile computer. To paraphrase Helio's slogan, don't think of it as a phone. Honestly you're wasting your money if you're not intrigued by what the dev community is putting out there.

Ok, first of all, this hack has been around for a while, at least since 1.1.2 was released. If have the jailbroken 1.1.2 on my iPod touch.

So, what does 1.1.2 add? Well, besides the great calendar fix, the whole ipod is faster,music sounds better, and safari is faster as well.

This is totally worth it, and is very, very easy.
If anybody has any questions about hacking it, just email me at jadphoto14@gmail.com

I need advice. Should i buy a 16GB touch or an iphone? I ask cos' the touch has all that functionality i want from the iphone without having to jailbreak it...but, i love convergence and the iphone has a phone and "camera". Problem with the iphone is you cant use wifi, ipod, or anything without going through the risky process of jailbreaking.

Is it worth the hassle or should i take the albeit easier but gimped route of the touch?

@alukard: I think you need to do a lot of research... Coming from a 16gb iPod touch owner, the only benefit of the touch is more gb and smaller size (and no AT&T). The touch doesn't have all the functionality of the iPhone, unless you hack it, no email no weather no stocks no maps...

"Problem with the iphone is you cant use wifi, ipod, or anything without going through the risky process of jailbreaking."

I dont think you understand jailbreaking. It allows you to instal 3rd party applications like games and customizable UI and has very little to do with the iPod or wifi. The iPod and wifi work right out of the box...

@Giz-modo:
It doesn't? That's odd. It is an iPod Touch. Were you trying to make a joke?

This might be interesting except that 1.1.2 offers nothing to someone who has already jailbroken 1.1.1
:-)

i will stick with my 1.1.1 iphone for sure, 2 of my friends already turn their iphone into ibrick yesterday, trying to upgrade to 1.1.2(we're all jailbreaked and unlocked)

@Chris2812: I think he was referring to using the iPod and wi-fi without activating the phone with AT&T. Out of the box, an iPhone only lets you call 911.

I think all the Jailbreaking and everything is great and I would do it if I had one, but I think the thing that bothers me is the time involved. I don't have the time to fix my phone every time an update comes out and bricks it. Can't Apple just allow third party already. ;( I know it's coming but come on already.

This jailbreaking stuff is nice and all, but since Apple plans on actually making all this development stuff official come 2008, we at least have the comfort of knowing the hoops to jump through for app adding is temporary, though it really should've been that way from the beginning.

@ElChupaCabra: Man i got my iPod Touch (1.1.1) yesterday - syncing 6 GB of my media took 3 hrs, jailbreaking it over an adhoc network I set up at home with a 128K connection took 5 minutes! Trust me - as long as you read all the methods and comments on their success/potential problems, jailbreaking is easy (for v1.1.1)!

@Kaiser-Machead:
Exactly best part is the iPod touch can be restored with no hassle via iTunes and the firmware (downloaded or through iTunes) - the only place where jailbreaking the iPhone has its problems.

@hughjass: the demensions and the camera angle make it look shorter and fatter. but i can tell it isnt an iPhone. at first it looked like an itouch ripoff

This story is kind of about more than a week late. 95% of the people who are going to do this have. Those who have not, haven't done so as they have yet to get the device. See tuaw.com or ipodtouchfans.com or macrumors.com ipod hacking forum.
Rj

Well, when I first got my iPod touch I ended up just following a guide I found on You Tube. This leaves me jail broken, on 1.1.2 and it took about 10 mins to do (less the downloading of the firmware, which with my connection speed wasn't too long at all).

I don't see a major benefit, however.. if you're starting from scratch; Why not?

Confirmed! Did it last night. :D
Now I can use Apollo in German for no particular reason!

I'm getting an error when trying to downgrade to 1.1.1. "the iphone could not be restored. An Unknown error occurred (1)." I have tried everything… I have even tried both versions of the 1.1.1 firmware. I get the same error. I can restore and update to 1.1.2 just fine, but I need to get to 1.1.1 to jailbreak, so I can jailbreak 1.1.2. Any help?

I was just wondering
has anyone been known to have any problems with the iPod touch after jailbreaking it?
I'm thinking of jailbreaking it but thought i better check everything on this first.
Also if anyone knows if any sites are better than each other for downloading help is apprecciated.
Oh and can you pick and choose which features you include e.g. the bright light feature?

please help, it should be obvious i have no idea :)

@jamie.k: This is an old post, but if you need info, I'll tell you this: It's a lot like installing applications on a computer. You launch installer.app by touching it, choose something to install, and press install.

It doesn't just automatically download everything.

My IPOD has 1.1.3 will this still work? and I can't get it to go into recovery mode. What am I doing wrong the home key is the button on the bottom in the middle right?