A bit on my experience with a hacked iPod touch

November 5th, 2007 by Mike | Posted in info, random |

So, let’s see here… I got my iPod the day before it was officially released (9/27/07) and I hacked my iPod… I don’t recall. Somewhere around early to mid-October, a few days before iJailbreak was released. But since then here’s what I know has worked for me and what I currently use:

Working:
Installer (duh)
All of the iPhone apps (Mail, Google Maps, Weather, etc.)
Summerboard (plus all of the themes even if they are missing icons for some apps)
iToDoList
All of Erica Sadun’s apps except Widgets which was very buggy for all widgets I tried (simple and complicated)
NES minus the sluggishness when multiple sprites on screen or multiple movements are occurring, but having NES games still rocks
All of the Mobile- apps
Light
Sketches
Ants
Apollo
FireflyMediaServer
Mines
Tapp
iCountDown
iSplit
Vista
SendSong
iBlackJack
Tiff Exploit Fix
Taskbar Notifier
Kind of working:
Customize (I could launch the app, but couldn’t change anything…)
Stack (It works, but I wasn’t able to customize the stack(s) and also my ‘dock’ was missing an icon as the stack took up to spots)
Services (Bluetooth?)
VNSea (everything connects, but I get a jarbled screen on my MacBook and Windows XP desktop)

Not working:
weDict (I tried multiple dictionaries with no success)
Colloquy (No idea why this won’t work, even after multiple installs)

What I’m currently using: (Straight from Installer.app)
Installer (duh)
iBlackjack
NES
VNSea
MobileFinder
MobileToDoList
Sketches
CommunitySources
iApp-a-Day
BSD Subsystem
MobilTerminal
Summerboard
Tiff Exploit Fix
Erica’s Ported Utils
Erica’s Utilities
Taskbar Notifier

And yea. If you’re looking to jailbreak your iPod Touch, look no further than http://jailbreakme.com/ which, if you navigate there with your iPod Touch, will jailbreak your iPod Touch with one click on and on top of that, install Installer.app and fix the TIFF exploit in Safari which allows for this whole install to occur. Awesome right?

Anyways, if you have any questions I am more than willing to answer them.

-Mike