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iPod touch touchFree: GUI Jailbreak with automatic SummerBoard installation

OdynOOb said:
Just saw you released a new alpha.

Any word regarding my issue and if you consider it could be caused by the fact I'm runing it on an iPhone ?
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Hmm, I don't think your issue is caused by that. The image size for the iPhone and the iPod should be exactly the same. Even if they're not, the iPhone's shouldn't be SMALLER.

OdynOOb said:
Do you consider your procedure to be working on iPhone ?
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It'd work for jailbreak, but not for activation or enabling YouTube, etc. I have no expertise there, and I do not have an iPhone to test on.

OdynOOb said:
Regarding my suggestion to integrate "activation" in your procedure, you could ask us to rename the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.exe generated online to iactivate.exe (f.ex.), and run it when required, i.e:

rename lockdownd to lockdownd.1.1.1
issue killall lockdownd
run iactivate.exe (which we've generated online and renamed accordingly)
rename lockdownd.1.1.1 to lockdownd
issue killall lockdownd
ask us to reboot our activated phone :)

Easier said than done, I know ! :p
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I've done some reading and it sounds like you need to overwrite the device's root certificate for activation. Then this website (https://ookoo.org/iphone/iasign.php) will be used to generate a server to accept activation requests from the iPhone.

Why does the lockdown daemon need to be changed? I understand it may need to be killed to effect the root certificate change, but that website doesn't seem to imply that it's uploading anything to the iPhone.

Anyway, I'm considering including activation into the process, but I do need to understand it completely first.
 
Whats the easiest and quickest way to get the Iphone apps onto my touch? There's a real quick way of getting it jailbreak'ed, touchfree GUI, so how about the Iphone apps?
 
Hey planetbeing, I heard your email read by Tom & Molly on Buzz Out Loud. That was you, right?
 
I would like to say Thanks :) for touchfree. Version 6 wasn't working right, but i downloaded touchfree5 and it worked like a charm :p. i just have one question: how can i get NES ROMs onto my ipod without using something like WinSCP? iPhuc seems to almost do this, but when i try to make the directory (var/root/Media/ROMs/NES) it puts it under file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dylan/Desktop/touchfree5/var/root/Media/ROMs/NES on my iPod. Is this normal? i want to create a Folder at var/root/Media/ROMs/NES
(C:/Documents and Settings/Dylan/Desktop/touchfree5 is where iPhuc is currently located and is running from). am i doing something wrong?
ANY help is appreciated. :)
Thanks again for the Jailbreak.
 
First time poster here. Took me about an hour or 6 to get this working and it was sweet. Then like a dumbass I installed Summerboard from the Installer.app and got the messed up buttons that wouldn't go away, even after uninstalling it. So many restores, computer reboots, and hanging Touchfree install attempts later I get the brilliant idea of reinstalling Touchfree. Sure as hell it FINALLY worked again. Just another idea for you all to try before throwing your IPT into a wall. :D
 
Planetbeing,
I used the automatic touch free and it went smooth and everything is great. I want to thank you for your hard work and answering all these questions. However I only have one problem. When I go into installer.app and try to download summerboard themes, about half of them say you must install summerboard first, but the other half install without a problem. Is there a fix for this?
 
Just used it now, its great, everythings fine, and I got SummerBoard without having to install it manually! Thanks!!!!!!
 
ckylesworld said:
Planetbeing,
I used the automatic touch free and it went smooth and everything is great. I want to thank you for your hard work and answering all these questions. However I only have one problem. When I go into installer.app and try to download summerboard themes, about half of them say you must install summerboard first, but the other half install without a problem. Is there a fix for this?
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Its because some of the themes are not compatible for the iPod Touch version of SummerBoard that touchFree installs.
 
I jailbroke my Touch using Touchfree, and everything went smoothly. I am however confused as to if I still have to install SummerBoard. After I jailbroke it with Touch free I got 2 new icons SMBPrefs and Installer. When i select SMBPrefs it goes to a new menu titled SummerBoard. So do I still have to manually install SummerBoard? If not, how do I get my own Wallpapers on the Springboard? I am confused.
 
Installer update?

First of all I have to say that touchfree worked so easily so thank you for developing it and I love my ipod touch even more.

My question is that when you start using the "Installer" it wants to update to version 3.ob3. Do i update it? will it mess anything up?
 
Tom Servo said:
I jailbroke my Touch using Touchfree, and everything went smoothly. I am however confused as to if I still have to install SummerBoard. After I jailbroke it with Touch free I got 2 new icons SMBPrefs and Installer. When i select SMBPrefs it goes to a new menu titled SummerBoard. So do I still have to manually install SummerBoard? If not, how do I get my own Wallpapers on the Springboard? I am confused.
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You dont need to naunally install SummerBoard as it gets installed automatically, but I believe there is a update which makes it more stable that you can get from the Installer.
 
Planetbeing, I tried your latest alpha version, and it seemed to work ok. However, you wrote that no ssh is being installed with this version, and that one instead can install it via Installer.app. However, I don't find OpenSSH in Installer.app... I didnt find it in the old version, and when I updated to the latest 3.0 version, and latest Community Sources... I still can't see it. Where is it supposed to be located?

And it also seems that I cannot exit out from Installer.app to Springboard... seems I have to try a hard reboot of my touch...
 
Please can someone help?

I have managed to install summerboard and installer.app via touchfree, its working great.

Where do I now go from here? I would like to install some NES Roms etc

I cant find anywhere what I am meant to do.

HELP PLEASE!!!!
 
help me out plz!

i intstalled everything! after that i tried addind a background but i didnt work. so, i turned off my ipod then turned it back on. when it turned on my music, viedeos, photos and itunes icons went to the top if the screen and un accesible. i cant get into any of them.....
 
Where does TouchFree(0.6) cache files during the process? Can I delete them now that I'm complete?
 
Does any version of SummerBoard offer a GUI version to change the wallpaper on the springboard, where you don't have to mess with the code?
 
Question

I am new and need a question answered. How long is step three of the touchFree 6 program take. Please answer as soon as possible. Thanks. :apple:
 
Ok, it seems that a lot of missing packages started to show up once I rebooted my iPod touch. I can now see the OpenSSH package, for example. This might be a problem with the Installer.app. I saw that one of the reported issues is that the Home button was not working after upgrade to 3.0, and indeed it wasn't after I did the thouchFree procedure. I had to do a hard reboot to get up and working again.

Also, for more feedback on the alpha touchFree. It does indeed tell me to reboot once, but once you do that, it reboots itself a second time when it has reached Springboard. The second reboot takes much longer time, and gives the impression that the iPod touch has locked up.

I haven't had any real crashes with the touch yet, maybe because Trip1Pogostick was not installed. That was also the reason I tried the alpha, because I have read that Trip1Pogostick cannot be uninstalled so easily... and it might not like SummerBoard to be installed at the same time.

Anyways, so far so good, and thanks for this easy touchFree procedure!

Edit: BTW, is the Springboard patch included in this alpha version of touchFree? I am about to install more programs, and I wonder what happens once I have covered the whole screen... will it enable scrolling down, or switching to a new second springboard page?
 
reading ipod flash image for ever

I have tried several times, all i ever get is reading ipod flash image last attempt was an hour, i have no itunes programs open, rebooted, restored, tried various usb ports. IT still just sits there i saw some post about it earlier but did not see a fix. Any help would make you my hero.
 
jailbreaking touch for someone...

I did mine second day after the hack using command line version 3. Should i stick with command line or do GUI version?

It seems a lot of people having problems with GUI?
 
I was able to jailbreak my Touch on the first try using the GUI. Easy as pie.

Then went to youtube...watched three part video on installling Apps (links to apps included in video)...bingo...and brand new PDA/Touch/Game Machine/Ipod.

Thanks for the GUI!
 
Touchfree 6 install jumps to "Finish" after step 2

I started the touchfree install process. It went through all the steps perfectly, up to the "restart" after step 2. When restarted and the coninue button is clicked, it goes staright to "Finish" without rebooting, and there is no new icon on the phone. Please help?
 
I also had an excellent experience with Touchfree. It worked cleanly and perfectly and I'm very happy. I would encourage those who use it and appreciate it to use the Donate link on his webpage. I did.
 
I restored my iPhone to 1.0.2 then updated to 1.1.1 then tried to run iTouchFree v0.6.

It keeps stating I need to visit the jailbreak URL even though I did, and I can confirm it worked by using iPhoneBrowser to verify the symlink exists.

Seems like some type of problem with its verification.

I ran touchfree 5 jailbreak.bat instead, and it worked fine, but it didn't create an afc2 service so browser utilities wouldn't work. I did that manually.

Does touchfree 6 attempt to create the afc2 service?
 
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