for people who get the FATAL ERROR
How to fix Bricked ipod (fatal error)

1) Exit itunes.
2) With the touch plugged in, hold sleep and home button until it shuts off, but KEEP holding them until the apple comes back on.
3) When you see the apple, let go of the sleep button but still hold the home button until the “connect to iTunes” screen appears.
4) Then, start up iTunes and it should recognize that your ipod needs to be restored and it worked for me that time.

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13 Comments

1. ralf, December 3, 2007:

   hey yeah this recovery mode works thanx, but it says it has to update to 1.1.2 but i dont want it to. what do i do

   help!!

2. aznboi101, December 3, 2007:

   hey its tai u jus do it then use my steps to downgrade back to 1.1.1

3. marica, December 4, 2007:

   http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/ipod/sbml/osx/bundles/061-3932.20070927.p23dd/ipod1,1_1.1.1_3a110a_restore.ipsw
   above is the link to ipod touch firmware 1.1.1

   mac: hold down alt and click on ‘Choose’ to choose the file
   windows: hold down shift

4. Nate, December 12, 2007:

   Well, i’m royally screwed. I downgraded to 1.1.1 for my jailbreak and had fun with that, but heard about the iBrickr. So i tried doing that so i could get NES games for the NES application from the Installer thing when you jailbreak it. Buut…i found out i needed to downgrade again to 1.0.2 for iBrickr to work, so i did that…but instead i accidentally jumped ahead in instructions. I was suppose to do the “Shift + Check For Update” and click the 1.0.2 from the iBrickr directory…instead i did it from the saved file on my desktop…so then my iPod touch was recognized in iTunes as an iPhone, and it said it found an iPhone in recovery mode and needed to recover it. So i did, and it said “error, couldn’t complete recovery”….so basically i have no function of my iPod and it is recognized as an iPhone when it really isn’t. What do i do about that? I’m pretty sure if i took it to Apple, they would void my warrenty. *cries*

5. cory, December 15, 2007:

   THANK YOU SOOO MUCH I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK AGAIN!!! IT WORKS NOW THANKS!!!

6. tai, December 15, 2007:

   np

7. kmx, December 17, 2007:

   owch Nate, thats gotta suck. I would be like weeping my eyes out if that happened to me.. lol

8. ALFREDO BRITO, December 27, 2007:

   well my experience trying to jailbreak my ipod was horrible. when i tried to downgrade the firmware itunes showed “extracting…”, my touch restarted and then an error came “IPOD CANT BE UPGRADED”, and the conect-t-itunes logo appeared on my touch’s screen; then a message appeared “A IPOD IN RECOVERY MODE” blah blah… so the only option i had was to restore to factory settings… when i tried to do so, another message from itunes “UNKNOW ERROR -50″. Apple suggests to creat a dll called appleipod of something like that, i did it, and then again tried to restore…Well, everything looked nice, itunes downloaded the latest restore data from server and it extracted, then “IPOD CANT BE RESTORE, THE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE” OMG! It this point I was allmost crying,

9. ALFREDO BRITO, December 27, 2007:

   well, since i only have one computer i couldnt try to restore from another one. The only option i saw was to reset my system, i uninstalled itunes, installed again reboot my pc, and as a miracle, itunes restored my ipod without problems…

   It was really a horrible experience, and I guess I’ll have to wait until february to get some of the cool programs that installer offers, but i’m not trying to jailbreakit. cheers! have a happy new year!

10. Nick, December 29, 2007:

    THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO(O MUCH, i got my 16gb iTouch just YESTERDAY as a late christmas present and i already f’d it up. i was installing sources and it just went to the home screen and froze. your a life saver, thx again!!

11. tai, December 29, 2007:

    no problem

12. George, January 11, 2008:

    If I jailbreak my ipod, will it permanetly crash my safari?

13. eddie, January 14, 2008:

    it didnt work for me
    i had to buy a new one