How to jailbreak your iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware
The long (err short) wait is finally over. The iPhone Dev-Team did a great job in releasing a working jailbreak for the iPod Touch and iPhone.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch with the 3.0 firmware using redsn0w 0.71 for Windows. First, the things that you need:
an internet connection- iTunes 8.2
- redsn0w 0.71 for Windows (10 MB using torrent). For other mirror links, click here.
- Original 3.0 firmware (258 MB). Make sure you get the correct one for your device.
You can still restore your files, notes, music and videos from backup after upgrading and jailbreaking 3.0. However, it seems that my app data such as e-Books for Stanza and files for Discover did not make the restore.
While downloading, I suggest you backup your iPod as well. Open iTunes and sync.
Finished downloading? Great, let’s start!
Restore your iPod with the original 3.0 firmware
In iTunes, Press and hold SHIFT then click Restore. Look for the original 3.0 firmware that you just downloaded.
This will take a few minutes so go ahead a grab a snack or something. After it’s done, you just successfully upgraded your iPod into 3.0. Don’t restore from backup yet.
Time to jailbreak
1. Start redsn0w and Browse for your original 3.0 firmware, the huge file you downloaded. It will process the file for a few seconds.
2. Once successfully identified, Click Next. It will start to prepare the jailbreak data.
3. Make sure Cydia is checked and click Next.
4. Power off your iPod (press power button for a few seconds until you can power it off) and plug it into your PC. Click Next.
5. Get ready to go into DFU mode. Just follow the onscreen instructions. Don’t be too conscious with the timing, they put allowances on the timer.
6. Once in DFU mode, it will automatically start jailbreaking your iPod. After a short while, you will see in your iPod that it is Downloading Jailbreak Data. Wait for a few minutes (mine lasted 5 minutes) for it to finish.
To check if you’re successful, fire up your iPod and go to the second page to check if Cydia is present. I suggest you open Cydia and do the necessary upgrades for it.
Restoring your iPod from backup
Before you restore, if you have cracked games previously installed, you need to add AppSync for OS 3.0. This is the equivalent of miPatch in 2.21 to upload .ipa files into your iPod. Read this guide on how to install from Cydia.
Open iTunes again and go to your device to restore from backup then do a sync.
You should be able to see all your apps, songs, videos and photos intact. Try playing a music and shake your iPod to shuffle to a new song.
For themes, you have to download Winterboard from Cydia (click Featured Packages, Winterboard is near the bottom of the page) again as well as the themes.
Enjoy your Jailbroken iPod Touch with 3.0!
You might also be interested in:
- How to jailbreak the iPod Touch with 3.1.2 firmware
- Quick way to jailbreak your iPod Touch with 3.1 firmware
- Jailbreak for 3.0 firmware now available but…
- Jailbreak for 2nd Gen iPod Touch is drawing near
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hi calvin….my ipod freezes..it wont open just the Apple logo…please help..thanks
hi chant, try running redsn0w again and redo the jailbreak process. if it still won’t work, repeat from the top (restoring to 3.0).
calvin..sad to say it wont open just the apple logo…(@_@), even though it is always fully charge
maybe you disconnected it before jb was done? you should see the pineapple logo. try plugging it back and run redsnow again.
hello again calvin….(@_@)…sad to say my ipod wont open anymore. the apple logo will just appear…nothing happens….
Hmm, can you backtrack what was the last thing you installed? that happened to me when i installed mipatch. maybe you installed something not compatible with 3.0.
hello again….i followed the steps…but it didn’t work for me…my ipod wont open/work anymore. (@_@)
yikes. better restore your iPod and do the process all over again. good thing about them iPods is that it’s really hard to brick them.
hey, thanks for writing this guide! the probelm i am experincing is: the iPod “…”can not be restored. An unknown error occured (10). wht do i do?
hi ryne, at what point does that happen? maybe you have the wrong firmware for the device you want to restore?
I have the same problem, when I try to downgrade my firmware from 3.0 to 3.1. I’m sure I’ve downloaded the correct firmware for Ipod Touch 2G.
if you want to downgrade i would suggest restoring your iPod first to its original state. then upgrade to 3.0 using the first part of this guide.
An error occurs whenever I tried using the said file. Could it because my iTunes’ version is 9??
calvin: are you trying to upgrade or downgrade?
i tried the link for redsnow in this page… but it is not working… i have used the link before successfully when i upgraded and jalbroken my ipod… thanks
thanks for reporting this. seems like the devteam took down the mirrors for redsn0w. i’ll let you guys know if there’s an updated link. as for now, you can probably try google.
sir, bat yung sakin pag andun na sa part na “preparing jailbreak data”, bigla nalang mgcoclose yung program.. anu dapat ko gawin? help nman..
yung redsn0w magcloclose? or yung sa ipod mismo? baka nagreboot na yung ipod mo? pag-inulit mo ba same yung nangyari?
sir yung redsnow yung ngcloclose eh..yes sir same lang nangyayari.. hindi man ako aabot dun sa window na iccheck mo yung cydia.. wala na bang ibang way para ijailbreak to? thank you sir calvin,,
hmmm i checked some forums and usually nangyayari daw ito sa Vista. can you try other machines?
sa redsn0w, meron din option to install icy. don’t check that option and see if it works.
or try downloading redsn0w again? sorry, it’s the first time i’ve heard about the error. try checking other forums na rin.
Thank you sir… Love your site.very informative..:D
does this work for firmware 3.1?
nope it says 3.0. going to put up the guide for 3.1 tomorrow after i test it on my device.
Ok, thanks, because I can’t seem to downgrade my firmware from 3.1 to 3.0.
I’ll be waiting your update, thanks!
did work well,,,THANKS let know when the oher one comes..
Just posted a guide to jb 3.1.
sir najailbreak ko na ipod ko 1g. salamat sa tutorial nyo.
kaya lang di ko na mainstall yung mga applications ko dati, pero nagwowork sya dati sa 2.2.1 na firmware. bkit ganon may error pagmagiinstall na ko using itunes 9?
pls reply. thanks
anong klaseng apps ba? pag-cracked apps yun you still need appsync 3 or appsync 3.1 para masync ulit.