Wow, you try to make it even easier and people STILL find a way to screw it up. Planetbeing's new GUI touchfree just guides you from the very beginning (even before you run the tiff exploit) so it is ASSUMED you have NOT done the TIFF exploit at the time you run the new GUI touchfree. IF you did the exploit BEFORE running gui touchfree then just skip the first step when it tells you to execute the tiff exploit. It's not that difficult people.
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iPod touch touchFree: GUI Jailbreak with automatic SummerBoard installation
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Wow, you try to make it even easier and people STILL find a way to screw it up. Planetbeing's new GUI touchfree just guides you from the very beginning (even before you run the tiff exploit) so it is ASSUMED you have NOT done the TIFF exploit at the time you run the new GUI touchfree. IF you did the exploit BEFORE running gui touchfree then just skip the first step when it tells you to execute the tiff exploit. It's not that difficult people.
I'd like to report my success on jailbreaking my itouch on a vista machine using both touchfree 5 or the new gui version with absolutely no problems. I then managed to copy over some of the iPhone apps such as Maps, Notes, Weather and Mail, again with no problems after following the simple directions of running the chmod -R a+x /Applications/* command after copying the apps over using WinSCP.
After spending time on this, I'm dreading a new OS release by Apple which will restore it back to stock if I choose to do it but that's life. Apple should take this as a message that people don't like to be shafted by a product that's capable of doing so much more but intentionally crippled instead.
After spending time on this, I'm dreading a new OS release by Apple which will restore it back to stock if I choose to do it but that's life. Apple should take this as a message that people don't like to be shafted by a product that's capable of doing so much more but intentionally crippled instead.
Every time I get to this point, the progress bar ceases to move forward. I restored my touch and tried again, but even now, the progress screen looks EXACTLY like this-- been waiting for 30 min +
Any ideas? Thanks.
This sounds like a USB connectivity problem. If that happens to anyone, try unplugging your iPod and plugging it back in. touchFree should detect that the upload didn't go through and try again.
Here's my dilemma...
I'm anxious to jailbreak my Touch, however I have no Wifi at home. I can either:
1) Go to my friend's house and get on Wifi there to load that page that crashes Safari, then come back home and run touchfree. Will that even work? Or does it have to be connected to your computer while it's also on Safari?
Or...
2) From my room I can pick up an open newtwork (maybe a neighbor?). During the Touchfree process when it asks for my IP adress, is that the IP of my ipod Touch, or is it the IP of the network that I'm currently using, (not mine). If I were to go this route, does it affect in any way the place where this Wifi is originating from? Because I don't know where this Wifi comes from/who it belongs to I don't use it. If I use this open network while I use touchfree (whether I'm successful or not), is there anything that can go wrong on their end?
I'm anxious to jailbreak my Touch, however I have no Wifi at home. I can either:
1) Go to my friend's house and get on Wifi there to load that page that crashes Safari, then come back home and run touchfree. Will that even work? Or does it have to be connected to your computer while it's also on Safari?
Or...
2) From my room I can pick up an open newtwork (maybe a neighbor?). During the Touchfree process when it asks for my IP adress, is that the IP of my ipod Touch, or is it the IP of the network that I'm currently using, (not mine). If I were to go this route, does it affect in any way the place where this Wifi is originating from? Because I don't know where this Wifi comes from/who it belongs to I don't use it. If I use this open network while I use touchfree (whether I'm successful or not), is there anything that can go wrong on their end?
Stuck at step 2 fix
I had the same problem, but I was able to fix it by reinstalling cygwin. After that everything worked great.
I had the same problem, but I was able to fix it by reinstalling cygwin. After that everything worked great.
...and make sure iTunes is NOT running!!! TouchFree is pretending to be iTunes, so iTunes must not be running.
All you gotta do is get Safari to crash with that website. Wi-fi or even Internet is not required after that point, so both ways would work.
I installed the Term-vt100 terminal utility and just executed the chmod command with the touch. You're also missing the -R flag in that chmod command of yours. Also make sure the 'chmod' tool is in the /bin directory of the itouch.
I'm stuck 
Trying this on my iPhone (as it's mentionned here http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11151 that it should work as well, allthough with an earlier (4) non-gui release).
I'm trying with latest 0.6 touchfree gui.
Visited jailbreak.tok2rta.com, safari got closed.
Got to step 2 and now it's "Reading iPod flash image" for nearly an hour
I noticed that the rdisk0s1 file get's up to 262'144 KB in size, then seems to reset to 0.
I also noticed that my fstab file doesn't seem to have rw access.
/dev/disk0s1 / hfs ro 0 1
/dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw,noexec 0 2
Is that expected ?
Previous (dev team) method I had tried needed rw.
I started from a fresh 1.0.2 restore, updated to 1.1.1 and then started your procedure.
What shall I do ?
Start all over again ?
Do I need to restore ? (hope not, I've lost the count of my recent restores ... lol)
TIA and keep up the great work !
Trying this on my iPhone (as it's mentionned here http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11151 that it should work as well, allthough with an earlier (4) non-gui release).
I'm trying with latest 0.6 touchfree gui.
Visited jailbreak.tok2rta.com, safari got closed.
Got to step 2 and now it's "Reading iPod flash image" for nearly an hour
I noticed that the rdisk0s1 file get's up to 262'144 KB in size, then seems to reset to 0.
I also noticed that my fstab file doesn't seem to have rw access.
/dev/disk0s1 / hfs ro 0 1
/dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw,noexec 0 2
Is that expected ?
Previous (dev team) method I had tried needed rw.
I started from a fresh 1.0.2 restore, updated to 1.1.1 and then started your procedure.
What shall I do ?
Start all over again ?
Do I need to restore ? (hope not, I've lost the count of my recent restores ... lol)
TIA and keep up the great work !
Having the same problem "reading flash image" in Step 2 for over 40 minutes. Really hope someone can come up with an answer for this so I can finally get some sleep This is driving me crazy
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Have you had any luck fixing this problem? Is there a fix other than starting over? My ipod worked great until I got "smart" and installed "summerboard". now I have the same problem.
Donnie
works great! many thanks
The only problem/issue I've run into is that my Music, Videos, Photos and Itunes icons are now at the very top of the screen and I can't access them - I figured out a workaround by installing Dock, but it would be nice to have icons all lined up (the top 1/3 of the music, video, photo, itunes icons are cut off by the top of the screen)
Should I restore and try it again? In any case, the GUI worked like a charm and was very smooth. Thank very much for putting this together
Have you had any luck fixing this problem? Is there a fix other than starting over? My ipod worked great until I got "smart" and installed "summerboard". now I have the same problem.
Donnie
sry i guess i wasn't completely clear. i ran the exploit but the program doesn't let me to past step one because it says i haven't run the exploit. i tried running the getfile command in iphuc and though it can connect to my ipod it won't let me copy anything
if we want to run the GUI jailbreak to get the summerboard stuff working correctly, but we have alreadyused the older command line jailbreak do we need to restore and update to 1.1.1, GUI Jailbreak just to get this to work?
Or can I do the GUI jailbreak over top of the orginal jailbreak
Or can I do the GUI jailbreak over top of the orginal jailbreak
help in general / also adding files
im not sure what all the step numbers people are talkin about
i just ran the touch free app and i need to know if there is anything
else i need to do to get it fully unlocked/hacked/jailbroken/whatever
also
i need to add a file to the directory/var/root/media/roms/nes
can someone tell me what to put into iphuc in order to do this
also i need to know where to position the file on my comp b4 transfer
sry for my ineptness at this lol
//side note someone said their touchfree asked them for their ip address
durrin install this didnt happen for me just wondring if thats normal
im not sure what all the step numbers people are talkin about
i just ran the touch free app and i need to know if there is anything
else i need to do to get it fully unlocked/hacked/jailbroken/whatever
also
i need to add a file to the directory/var/root/media/roms/nes
can someone tell me what to put into iphuc in order to do this
also i need to know where to position the file on my comp b4 transfer
sry for my ineptness at this lol
//side note someone said their touchfree asked them for their ip address
durrin install this didnt happen for me just wondring if thats normal