Ipod Touch 2G - Jailbroken Yet?

gary_bre

Hi All

Recently brought a Ipod 2nd Generation ITouch for xmas, I think they are very good but Im disappointed with Itunes store and the apps that are on offer.

I understand the 1st Gen are/can be jailbroken but the 2nd Gen are not? Is this true or can someone point me in the direction when I can find info on how to jailbreak 2G Itouch?

Thanks

pleasant Co.

At this moment, no Gen 2 jailbreak is available.

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gary_bre

thanks for your inputs, looks like I'll just have to wait :rolleyes:

ironictoaster

I have bad news for you. It seems the people who jailbreaked the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G say they have no interest in jailbreaking the latest iPod Touch.

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Pod touch 2G

Currently we are not investigating the iPod touch 2G. Other people outside the Dev-Team are looking into this, but we are not at the moment. Please don’t hassle us with comments and requests about this, they’ll just be deleted and ignored. If we do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year and we’ll inform you guys if and when we commence this work.

We would like to reiterate that this is not because -

1. We are mean
2. We are turning our back on the iPod touch community
3. We have been paid off by JFK, Princess Diana or Elvis

This is because -

1. It’s not an iPhone
2. We have been busy with the 3G unlock.
3. We have been busy with the CCC talk.
4. Only one of us has a iPod touch 2G (but we’ll see what Santa brings)
5. Our employers don’t get as excited as us about hacking expensive pretty devices
6. Unfortunately our partners, parents and pets need occasional attention too.

SligoBrewer

creggy wrote: »

I have bad news for you. It seems the people who jailbreaked the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G say they have no interest in jailbreaking the latest iPod Touch.

Bleh. Stall. It's only a matter of time.. thank fook.

http://code.google.com/p/chronicdev/

Droichead

Just got a 32gb Itouch but am disgusted that I cannot do anything unless I register, etc., with Itunes. Is there any software package which makes the Itouch like my Creative Zen - drag and drop songs, pictures, videos, etc. ?

I know that I could jailbreak but I would prefer not to have to do anything that would make life difficult if I had to eventually use Itunes.

tks

Kid Nothing

Droichead wrote: »

Just got a 32gb Itouch but am disgusted that I cannot do anything unless I register, etc., with Itunes. Is there any software package which makes the Itouch like my Creative Zen - drag and drop songs, pictures, videos, etc. ?

I know that I could jailbreak but I would prefer not to have to do anything that would make life difficult if I had to eventually use Itunes.

tks

- You don't have to register to use it, that's at your on dicretion
- There is no drag and drop option on most iPod's
- You can't jailbreak the new iPod's (which yours is one of)

Droichead

Needless to say I know that I can 'use' the touch! But cannot transfer my videos, music, without registering. Is there no program that will allow full use of the touch without jailbreaking ?

Gumbo

Droichead wrote: »

Needless to say I know that I can 'use' the touch! But cannot transfer my videos, music, without registering. Is there no program that will allow full use of the touch without jailbreaking ?

you dont have to register to transfer music, images, videos etc to your touch or any ipod.
as amull87 already pointed out, its at your discression (sp) to register or not.

you cannot drag and drop onto any ipod, it all must go through itunes or another similar program.

once again, jailbreaking is not available for the new 32gb touch, ie 2nd generation.

just get in there and play about with itunes and see if you can get the hang of it. i heard so many bad things about it before i bought my first ipod, but if im honest i love itunes now.

pleasant Co.

kceire wrote: »

you dont have to register to transfer music, images, videos etc to your touch or any ipod.
as amull87 already pointed out, its at your discression (sp) to register or not.

He may be having the same issue I had with both my ipod touch gen 2 models, where you are forced to register before you can do anything (I got around this by switching my internet connection off).

For both ipods I initially selected "Register Later", but instead of being allowed to do that itunes continued with the registration process, something I could only exit by quiting the itunes application. I was being forced to register, and it wasn't until I cut the web connection that I could select register later.

Gumbo

Mactard wrote: »

He may be having the same issue I had with both my ipod touch gen 2 models, where you are forced to register before you can do anything (I got around this by switching my internet connection off).

For both ipods I initially selected "Register Later", but instead of being allowed to do that itunes continued with the registration process, something I could only exit by quiting the itunes application. I was being forced to register, and it wasn't until I cut the web connection that I could select register later.

intresting....hope thats cures it for him!
must remember that for when i get mine.

scrawmcscraw

the 2g is not jailbroken yet so is itunes the only way to add app's?? i cant even register with itunes for the free app's as the b*stards want a credit card number. any way around this??:pac::pac:

pleasant Co.

Does using an itunes giftcard work?

Harpie

I have an account on the itunes store, was able to set it up without credit card. It's easy to get around it.

You need to go to the store, search through the FREE applications, and click to 'purchase' one.

It will then ask you to create an account.

Go through the usual steps of creating an account, except now when selecting payment method, there should be a 'none' option.

Select this option, and away you go:)


worked for me anyway, hopefully I explained it well enough:)

pleasant Co.

Yeah! that's a new option!, I just checked that out myself...now I've removed my CC...

How do you filter apps to only see "free" ones..I used to know this but I haven't been on the iTMS in months!

Harpie

There's a 'Top 10 free Apps' section bottom right hand corner on the apps store, you should find some of the popular ones there

pleasant Co.

ah, there used to be an actually way to filter through free apps only so you weren't limitted to the top 100...I guess apple removed that option?

Nevermind, apple did remove that option: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/29/app-store-loses-all-free-apps-link/

Although the workaround is to do a powersearch, unfortunately then you have no way of organising things, so they'll be sorted at random.

Harpie

Maybe type free apps into the search bar? I know this works on the app store when you use it on the ipod itself

scrawmcscraw

i read it and didnt belive ya. tried it and hey presto. they changed it since last nov. thanks a million
:D

coffey-16

Heres a video demonstration of the first jailbroken ipod touch 2g done by the iphone-dev team:D http://qik.com/video/876511

neacy69

Heys guys

Just got my first gen 16gb Ipof touch.......Would you reccomend jail breaking it?

Can someone explain to an Ipod noob exactly what jailbreaking is? (i had creative before this so I have no clue about ipod)

also I cant seem to access the app store....I currently have software 1.1.15 and when I try to upgrade to the latest software it asks me pay!!!

Kid Nothing

neacy69 wrote: »

Heys guys

Just got my first gen 16gb Ipof touch.......Would you reccomend jail breaking it?

Can someone explain to an Ipod noob exactly what jailbreaking is? (i had creative before this so I have no clue about ipod)

also I cant seem to access the app store....I currently have software 1.1.15 and when I try to upgrade to the latest software it asks me pay!!!

You have to pay for the 2.0.0 firmware update as it introduced the App Store as well as a few other useful apps which Apple are trying to make money off, you can stay on 1.1.5 but to be able to install additional apps yo will need to upgrade.

As for the rest, it's quite easy to find all you want to know through Google!

Bottom line, jailbreaking allows you to add 3rd party apps which Apple may not approve for the App Store to your device mostly for free.