For those of you who remember using WinPwn to jailbreak your iPod/iPhones, you remember how easy and beneficial it wasw to use. For those of you who don’t, it was good. You could personalize your device, from boot logos to packages already installed in Cydia every time you restore your device. What you would do is create your own personalized firmware, based off of an existing firmware, and installl it through a ‘pwnd’ iTunes.

Unfortunately, WinPwn hasn’t been updated in a long time. People today rely on QuickPwn to jailbreak their devices. There is no way to customize your device to the core. It is now a time for change, thanks to Jailbird.

Jailbird (http://getjailbird.com/) is the new alternative to WinPwn. While it is still in the beta stages and not yet released, it shows much promise. THe program itself will be able to jailbreak any iPod Touch 1G, iPhone 2G, or iPhone 3G. Also, when asked about jailbreaking the iPod Touch 2G, they said, “If the ability is there to do it, it will be built into Jailbird.” We will just have to wiat for the release of “redsnow” to see.

On a side note, I am working on a new project. It is not specifically associated with iPodTouchHacks, but will involve such topics found here. It is almost finished, and I will be releasing it soon, but I thought I would just tease you all with that knowledge.

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1. Feor, January 22, 2009:

   ohhhhhh good! we just need to w8 [jailbreak iod touch 2g]

2. robbiesonic3, January 23, 2009:

   Im glad the 2g ipod touch is jailbreaked no longer have to be bored of not doing much with it .

3. Collin, January 23, 2009:

   So this is what we use to jailbreak the ipod touch 2g?
   Sry kinda dumb

4. mark medina, January 23, 2009:

   i’ve been waiting for this for so long am so ready for i could finally jailbreak my ipod touch 2g.

5. Jesse, January 25, 2009:

   I’m also newb to the jailbreaking scene…

   I think it would be a great idea if one of you experts (Lone Stag, rooster, raWks, etc.) would be kind enough to make a post on

   - where to find jailbreak tutorials (updated for 2G touches like Cydia or JailBird or Quickpwn) and
   - how to get the most out of it (the possibilities like customizing boot screens, fonts, app background, app folder configurations) and
   - must-have things like NES, GBA, or PSX emulators, top-paid games (Rolando, Monkey Ball, etc.)
   - and your personal favs (either apps or little tidbits like being able to have a “Game Apps” folder)

   That’d be awesome

6. David, January 26, 2009:

   When I jailbreak my 2g ,will I be able to have installer and cydia or only cydia?

7. pedro, February 17, 2009:

   Why is it taking so long to release a jailbreaking programme for the ipo touch 2g, when a more complex iphone 3g came out ages ago?:S