(Mac) Porting iPhone apps and more to iPod Touch

    (mac only, win user please click here)

    EDIT: This guide will not work for iPod Touch 1.1.2. ONLY for iPod Touch 1.1.1 or lower.

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    Let’s get the great stuff in this tiny and sleek iPod Touch. Currently, iPod Touch is a closed platform and cannot install any real applications. (Web 2.0 application for iPod Touch cannot be accessed anytime anywhere.) Apple’s Steve Jobs said there will be a SDK in the next year. But now, thanks to the iPod Touch hacking team, you can get those native apps running on iPod touch now.

    This guide is only for Mac OS X. You don’t even need Fugu (SSH client tool) during the process. There is another guide for Windows already.

    After you follow this guide for mac, you can

    1. Add new calendar event directly in iPod Touch.
    2.Running the missed iPhone application

    3.Running the cool native applications that comes from community. Customize iPod Touch with your style.

    Stage 1: Jailbreak and porting iPhone applications

    Step 1. Backup and Restore your iPod Touch. Make sure it is with iPod Touch firmware 1.1.1. And, you didn’t click “Open iTunes when iPod connected”. Close iTunesHelper through Activity Monitor.

    Step 2. Download and extract iJailBreak 0.3. Make sure you copy the whole folder (with iJailBreak itself and resources) to whenever you want.

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    Step 3. Click “Jailbreak” and wait for a few seconds, it will tell you to navigate your iPod Touch to the specific webpage. Go for it, type the address in the Safari.

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    Step 4. Your Safari will be closed automatically (crashed). Click okay on your Mac OS X.

    Step 5. It will then ask you whether to install iPhone applications on the iPod Touch. Yes. Why not?

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    Step 6. Now it will go for jailbreak, wait for a few minutes. For our experience, it takes 9 minutes.

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    Step 7. The wait is over, slide to power off your iPod Touch and than turn back on. Click OK when you have finished. Make sure iTunes is not running when you click OK.

    Step 8. Restart it one more time. Click OK. Than it will turn you to restart again when it finished installing SSH. This time, when iPod Touch loads, it will automatically restart. If not, you need to try again from step 1. If yes, than click OK when it finished loading.

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    Step 9. It will tell you the password for SSH your iPod Touch. Remember it and it will be useful.

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    Step 10. Slide to unlock, and now you will see those missing iPhone applications on the springboard.

    Step 11. Click the Installer icon. We suggest you to upgrade the installer first. Than install Community Resources, and then you can choose what other native applications you want.

    Stage 2: SSH and enable adding calendar events

    Step 12. The calendar fix original is in the Installer, but it disappears now. So, SSH into your iPhone using Fugu. Go to “/System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app” and download the N45AP.plist file.

    Step 13. Under the terminal, navigate to the folder and type “plutil -convert xml1 N45AP.plist”.

    Step 14. Edit it with Text Editor, add the following line so it looks exactly the same in the picture (put the following string under capabilities.

    <key>editableUserData</key>
    <true></true>

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    Step 15. Convert it back to binary, so open Terminal again and type “plutil -convert binary1 N45AP.plist”

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    Step 16. Upload the file back to iPod touch in the same folder, that is “/System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app”. Overwrite the file and restart the iPod touch.

    Step 17. You should now be able to add events with calendar. A true PDA.

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    In the future, when you restore iPod Touch and get the error, press and hold “Home” + “Power” button for few minutes, than release the “Power” button when the screen turns dark completely. Release the “Hold” button also until your iTunes detects your iPod Touch in recovery mode.

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    12 Comments

    • 1.   (Win) Porting iPho&hellip replies at 22nd October 2007, 11:52 pm :

      [...] (win only. mac user click here) [...]

    • 2. Mac_Lover replies at 11th November 2007, 2:43 pm :

      Please, please, someone tell me how to change the background and/or icons on an iPod Touch using Macintosh.

    • 3. admin replies at 11th November 2007, 3:06 pm :

      Mac_Lover,

      install the Summerboard from Installer.app

    • 4. kukita replies at 15th November 2007, 10:27 pm :

      After ijailbreaking my ipod touch and enjoying it for a couple of months (thank you) I have updated the ipod touch to 1.1.2 and it is hanged!!!!!. Somebody can help?

    • 5. admin replies at 15th November 2007, 10:51 pm :

      kukita,

      use this new jailbreak tool for iPod touch 1.1.2:

      http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/09/iphone-testing-the-1-1-2-jailbreak/

      downgrade it to 1.1.1 first.

    • 6. VICTOR replies at 26th November 2007, 1:37 am :

      I need some help to downgrade my ipod touch to 1.1.1. I always restore to 1.1.2, I never get the option with itunes to choose the restore file I want. Whta can I do?

    • 7. admin replies at 26th November 2007, 2:57 am :

      VICTOR,

      Try to downgrade your iPod Touch by press and hold “Shift” key, than click “Restore” in iTunes

    • 8. VICTOR replies at 28th November 2007, 6:18 am :

      thanks a lot for the tip. I succeded to upgrade to 1.1.2 and jailbrake from there too. Just in case you have a -48 error, the shift+update will allow you to manualy update the ipod and it works. S long so good. Many thanks again.

    • 9. james replies at 22nd January 2008, 1:01 am :

      my ipod is 1.1.3 version what can i do to upgrade?

    • 10. angww replies at 13th March 2008, 11:47 pm :

      my ipod is 1.1.4 version what can i do to upgrade?

    • 11. Ipod Dude replies at 7th May 2008, 12:23 pm :

      Hey Guy’s I have a Ipod Touch 16Gb and i did the jailbreak with ijailbreak , and i get ”BSD root: Md0, Major 2, Minor 0” and i can’t get back to the recovery mode can anyone help me out please.

    • 12. admin replies at 8th May 2008, 2:26 am :

      Ipod Dude,

      Use ZiPhone for your iPod Touch

      http://www.ziphone.org.

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