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Jul
13

SSH Basics

Author : rooster


In order to customize and edit the theme of your device, one needs to be able to SSH into the device.

1. You need an FTP client.

* CyberDuck for Mac (You can also use Fugu or iPhone Explorer)

  • SmartFTP for Windows

2. Install OpenSSH and SBSettings to your iPhone.

  • SBSettings will help you toggle SSH on/off

Tip: change your devices root and user passwords periodically

3. Now follow the appropriate instructions below:

  • iPhone Explorer users – plug in your phone and launch iPhone Explorer and it should automatically populate your iPhone file system, then skip to step 5
  • Most other FTP clients:
  • -Get on a WiFi network

    -Record your iPhone’s IP address (Setting-> Wi-Fi ->blue arrow next to the network you are connected to)

    -Launch your FTP client

Tip: SSH is a huge battery hog, so keep it off unless actively using it

4. Enter your iPhone’s IP address and set port to 22. Your username is root and the default password is ‘alpine’ (without the quotes). Click connect or continue. You should now have a list of all your iPhone’s files.

Tip: Keep your device plugged in during this process to ensure that your battery doesn’t die

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5. Now merely click Library —> Themes to find all the themes you have downloaded.

Tip: Go to Settings -> Autolock -> Never. Sometimes your SSH client will show an error screen when the device sleeps; this ensures that will never happen.

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20 Comments

  1. J.Drizzle, July 19, 2010:

    It works

  2. thoms m., July 20, 2010:

    can some one help me on how i can jailbreak my ipod touch 2g with windows

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  4. steven marks, August 19, 2010:

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  5. steven marks, August 19, 2010:

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  6. daft punt, August 19, 2010:

    i love it

  7. josh, August 22, 2010:

    im doing it on the terminal on my 2g ipid touch and it keeeps asking for my root# , how can i find out whag it is ?!

  8. nick mccue, September 21, 2010:

    how do i jailbreak

  9. mick taylor, September 23, 2010:

    bloody nerds these days

  10. Shayaan Khan, October 17, 2010:

    Hey, I have a 3rd gen, ios 4.0 ipod touch, Im wondering how to use ssh so i can update, does any1 know how? thanx

  11. yermom, October 30, 2010:

    what are you people stupid? do you know know how to read?

  12. travis, January 19, 2011:

    WHATS an ftp ?

  13. Ross, January 27, 2011:

    How do I jailbreak my ipod

  14. Bradley, February 6, 2011:

    To Jailbreak 2G and prior just point safari on the itouch/phone to jailbreakme.com a move the slider that’s it. Newer phones are more difficult and require specialized software, or versions of software. Generally Itunes 9.2 can do most of everything, but to backtrack firmware on newer devices research a program called Umbrella.

    You will find several “snow” titled websites that do Jailbreak all current devices, but its called a tethered Jailbreak and that’s something you don’t want, because this means every time you restart your ipod needs to be connected to a the same PC.

  15. Bradley, February 6, 2011:

    @josh Your root is “/” this was in the instructions above. Its asking for the root path.

  16. wave, March 27, 2011:

    hi umm im doing this on my ipod touch 3g 4.2.1 using smartftp on windows xp and i enter my name as root password as alpine and the ip address and it doesnt show any file i have SSH turned on on my ipod anyone know whats wrong.

  17. hay, April 11, 2011:

    I’m trying to back up all the stuff I downloaded from Cydia, where are deb files kept in the iphone?

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  20. Douglas, January 16, 2012:

    Does it work for iPod 4th gen iOS 5.0.1

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