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(Win) Porting iPhone apps and more to iPod Touch
(win only. mac user please click here)
EDIT: This guide did not work anymore cause TouchFree is removed from the developer’s page
iPod Touch can now act as PDA. It does not have Mail, Stocks, Weather and Notes. You cannot add new events under Calendar. Those are pretty useful but Apple just wipe it.
Now, you can install applications that you want, but this is not official. So, here is the guide to let you enhance the power of iPod Touch.
This guide only for Windows, for mac click here. After you finished the guide, you will be able to:
1. Add new calendar event
2.Running the missed iPhone application
3.Running the cool native applications that comes from community. Customize iPod Touch with your style.
Stage 1: Making installer on the springboard
Step 1. Backup and restore iPod Touch. Make sure it is iPod Touch firmware 1.1.1.
Step 2. Download the touchfree. Choose the stable version 0.6. Alpha version doesn’t have SSH preinstalled, so it’s not recommended.
Step 3. It will ask you to navigate your iPod Touch to specific address. Do so and click the button to continue.
Step 4. When you finished Step 2, you will need to restart iPod touch as stated. Click the button once you finished.
Step 5. It will ask you to restart the iPod Touch once it finished updating the files. Also, click the button once you restarted the iPod touch again.
Step 5. It will now upload the Installer.app and SummerBoard into iPod Touch. Once it is finished, you will need to restart again.Notice this time the iPod Touch will automatically restart again after you restart it, click the button when it finished loading.
Step 6. Now, click ‘exit’ cause the iPod Touch have already restarted itself.
Step 7. You should get something like this on iPod Touch’s springboard.
Step 8. Now, you will be able to install any applications you want. Click Installer.app on iPod touch, update it to 3.0b4 and install the Community Sources first.
Stage 2: Porting iPhone applications
If you have iPhone 1.1.1 on hand, and would like to port the applications in iPod Touch, follow the steps below. Download WinSCP to SSH into iPhone and iPod Touch.
Step 9. Copy those iPhone 1.1.1 applications you want. We copied Notes, Stocks, Weather, Mail and Maps from iPhone’s “/Applications”. Copy the .app folder.
Step 10. Copy the whole iPhone GMM.Framework folder “GMM.framework” from iPhone’s “/System/Library/Frameworks”.
Step 11. Copy the whole MobileMail settings folder “MobileMailSettings.bundle” from iPhone’s “/System/Library/PreferenceBundles/”
Step 12. Now, connect iPod Touch to Wi-Fi, check the IP address.
Step 13. Than, run WinSCP again. enter the iPod Touch login information. Use the correct IP address, “root” as username and “alpine” as password.
Step 14. Upload those applications we copied to iPod Touch’s “/Applications”. Make sure you choose “Binary” as the type. Right-click to chmod programs to 755, and click set permission recrursively.
Step 15. Than upload the “GMM.Framework” to iPod Touch’s “/System/Library/Frameworks”
Step 16. Upload the MobileMail Setting “MobileMailSettings.bundle” to iPod Touch’s “/System/Library/PreferenceBundles/”
Stage 3: Enable adding calender events
Step 14. Download the pre-patched calendar modified files here.Extract it.
Step 15. Upload it to “/System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app”, replace the existing file. Restart the iPod Touch. And you should now be able to add some new event.
53 Comments
1. (Mac) Porting iPho&hellip replies at 22nd October 2007, 11:51 pm :
[...] (mac only, win user please click here) [...]
2. qingxc replies at 27th October 2007, 10:17 am :
thanks and everything is working except mail and maps, under preferencebundles, I only have mailsettingbundles, some file missing? don’t know if this is a proble, in addition, I installed a few programs through installer, but cannot find them
3. admin replies at 27th October 2007, 2:17 pm :
qingxc,
no. please read Step 11 and 16 again
4. qingxc replies at 28th October 2007, 9:50 pm :
thanks, did again, now mail is working, but maps still not, please advise
5. admin replies at 28th October 2007, 11:43 pm :
qingxc,
is that it pops out once and freeze?
6. qingxc replies at 29th October 2007, 11:46 am :
not freeze, but go back to main screen
7. genenio replies at 6th November 2007, 5:38 am :
Looks like you have to have both an iPhone and iPod touch to get these moved over? I have only an iPod Touch and of course a PC wit windows. Can you advise?
8. devil replies at 6th November 2007, 9:58 am :
http://www.sharebig.com/share.php?id=s4bcbekqmkJEHKPB
OR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GN9CKYJX
for iPhone apps.
genenio,
here you go. and don’t tell others. LOL
9. Vitor replies at 10th November 2007, 8:04 pm :
Hello. I have a question in the beggining of stage2. When you say “Download WinSCP to SSH into iPhone and iPod Touch”, do i have to put also in the ipod touch root, or just in my pc? If it’s also in the ipod, how do i do it? I tried all de steps. I got the icons on my ipod touch, but the apps don’t work. they open, but they stay in blank, i can’t do anything. Please give me a hand. Thank you.
10. admin replies at 10th November 2007, 9:39 pm :
Vitor,
Did you chmod the program to 755?
11. trent replies at 12th November 2007, 10:41 am :
i have install jailbreakand now i have no space on my itouch
12. trent replies at 12th November 2007, 10:45 am :
i did not chmod the program to 755? how do you do that
13. viettxx replies at 12th November 2007, 11:56 am :
uh, i try to use that winscp thing i put in my ip adress as the host name, i put in user name as root and password as alpine, and then i try to connect and all of a sudden it says “network refused” what do i do? my internet has a wepkey, does that have to do with anything?
14. admin replies at 12th November 2007, 9:41 pm :
viettxx,
try again to install “OpenSSH” from Installer.app.
15. admin replies at 12th November 2007, 9:52 pm :
trent,
right-click the file and choose “properties”.
And what do you mean by no space ? is it left 300MB?
16. trent replies at 13th November 2007, 12:29 am :
i have no space n my ipod after installing jailbreak, what d i do now
17. trent replies at 13th November 2007, 12:32 am :
right click on what program ?
18. trent replies at 13th November 2007, 12:37 am :
i’m confused i dowload the th winscp for my itouch and it has some log stuff. do not know what needs tobe in the fill also it talks o some key.
19. trent replies at 13th November 2007, 1:06 am :
hello
20. vinspire replies at 13th November 2007, 11:59 am :
how to do this without having iphone. I dont have iphone. Is that possible i can do install the applications from my Windows XP?
Please guide me…
21. trent replies at 13th November 2007, 9:33 pm :
having problem getting safari to download winscp
22. jeroni replies at 14th November 2007, 1:19 am :
I have just upgraded to firmware 1.1.2 , doh! am i fooked or is there a way to jailbreak this firmware, or downgrade back to 1.1.1.
23. Thomas replies at 16th November 2007, 10:48 pm :
my iPod Touch is jailbroken and updated to 1.2.2, I have copied Maps, Weather, and MobileMail from the “Stuff.zip” download, but the apps do not work. I checked and they have 755 permissions. Does anyone know what else I need to do?
24. admin replies at 17th November 2007, 1:13 am :
Thomas,
sorry to say that this guide is not work for 1.1.2. It is stated clearly. Better to read every each sentence next time.
25. Matt replies at 17th November 2007, 7:38 pm :
Hey. I wish to install these applications to my iPod Touch, but when I press the restore button in iTunes it say that it will restore and install the newest firmware. That is 1.1.2 Is it very important to restore before installing, or is it anything else i can do? Thank you for your help!
26. Brad replies at 18th November 2007, 8:32 pm :
I’ve gotten everthing to work with 1.1.2 except mail. I’ve tried everything I can think of. Mail launches and then as soon as it shows that mail is being downloaded, it immediately closes. Then the mail icon shows how many e-mails I have…only I can’t get to them.
Craziest thing!
27. admin replies at 19th November 2007, 12:17 am :
Brad,
Great!!! I would like to know how do you get it work for 1.1.2? Is it just following the same steps? I thought it won’t work for 1.1.2
28. joel replies at 26th November 2007, 5:19 am :
hello I have ipod touch but it is not possible to go on the ipod to the site jailbreak.rta2… com what I have to do gladly mail
29. admin replies at 26th November 2007, 9:36 pm :
joel,
reportedly, the site doesn’t work today. I think you can try later on.
30. Ele replies at 27th November 2007, 2:51 am :
hello.. i’m sorry but i can’t find where to download firm 1.1.1 for my iPod touch… where can i find it?
31. admin replies at 27th November 2007, 2:55 am :
Ele,
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bundles/061-3932.20070927.p23dD/iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore.ipsw
32. Ele replies at 27th November 2007, 3:27 am :
Tnks so much!! *_*
33. ashley replies at 5th December 2007, 2:35 pm :
the touch free link dont work anymore. is there another way we can download it?
34. Alice replies at 7th December 2007, 4:23 am :
Can someone please tell me in simple terms how to downgrade my ipod touch back to 1.1.1 ( I upgrade by accident) so I can jailbreak it. Please ! please ! please !
35. admin replies at 8th December 2007, 3:59 pm :
Alice,
press “Shift” and click restore.
36. manhdung replies at 31st December 2007, 12:15 am :
i don’t run with win XP
37. jose replies at 12th January 2008, 11:49 pm :
pls help me how I get my touch 1.1.2. back to 1.1.1. i have tride everything help!!!
38. admin replies at 13th January 2008, 1:21 am :
jose,
Downgrade your iPod Touch by clicking Shift + Restore. Than choose the following file you downloaded:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bundles/061-3932.20070927.p23dD/iPod1,1_1.1.1_3A110a_Restore.ipsw
39. jose carlos replies at 13th January 2008, 1:41 am :
help me I update my tocuh to 1.1.2. by accident how i put it back to 1.1.1. i have try restor and backup help
40. jose carlos replies at 13th January 2008, 1:43 am :
thx, man how i get to open ijailbreak for the app
41. jose carlos replies at 13th January 2008, 2:12 am :
how i open touch free help pls !!
42. sara replies at 13th January 2008, 5:28 pm :
can you please send me a link to the touchfree because when i download it itts not going any further than step 1
thanks
43. admin replies at 13th January 2008, 6:25 pm :
jose carlos,
You can now jailbreak your iPod Touch using jailbreakme.com
To jailbreak is easy, just navigate to jailbreakme.com and it will be done automatically.
44. AdZ replies at 21st January 2008, 1:57 am :
Will this work to 1.1.3?
45. jj replies at 28th January 2008, 1:19 am :
Hi there, thanks mate. I am having problem after adding them. all the programs are beeing showed on my ipod touch, but it aint working. After clicking on the app, it starts but nothing happens. Have I done something wrong??
46. gln replies at 29th January 2008, 12:58 am :
how can i downgrade to 1.1.1 when im in 1.1.3? is it the same as 1.1.2, because i already tried the link you post and it didnt work, it says that there’s an error.. so what will you recommend me to do? or is it capable for 1.1.3? can it be soon?
47. admin replies at 29th January 2008, 1:44 am :
gln,
this guide will not work anymore. Please read the headline. Sorry.
48. nathan replies at 29th January 2008, 3:58 pm :
admin, currently i have an ipod touch with version 1.1.3. I’ve tried downgrading with that link you posted jan 13th. Yet, nothing has worked, i need help.
49. H.H replies at 5th February 2008, 6:58 am :
admin– how can i get the touchfree software bec the website isn’t working?
50. Urban replies at 13th February 2008, 12:45 am :
Does this mean GPS will work while on the move or only when aroung WI-FI. Also, how can I unlock my iPhone so I can use it with another carrier.
51. zifnab replies at 26th February 2008, 11:29 am :
admin-
All of the apps work on 1.1.2 with these instructions except mail. Is there any way to get it to work? It will open, then crash and return to springboard. Any ideas? Thanks!
52. nishank replies at 29th February 2008, 12:32 am :
how do you port iphone apps by winscp??
53. admin replies at 1st March 2008, 1:26 pm :
nishank,
This guide is pretty old, take a look of new guide here:
http://www.winandmac.com/tips/how-to-jailbreak-ipod-touch-113-with-iphone-apps/
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