Apr

Author : rAwks

There are so many mixed feelings and thoughts about which jailbreak to use. I can’t give you a DEFINITE answer on which one to use. All I can do is write a post about my jailbreak experiences to express how I feel about them. Then it’s your choice on which one to use.

When I first started writing for ipodtouchhacks.com, I used Ziphone 2.6 and I did stumble upon a few obstacles. I ran into the BSD root error, my permissions for the notes app was messed up, and my mail app was always crashing. All these problems that occurred were easily fixed by either doing a hard reset, changing the permissions to the correct ones, and installing a fix for it. This jailbreak lasted me a great amount of time and I was really pleased with Ziphone. Then Friday night I was uninstalling applications I hardly used to give me less pages on the home screen. I found out I did something wrong when I plugged in my iPod into my laptop and it wouldn’t connect anymore. I got that annoying “Can’t connect to iTunes” blah blah blah error. I don’t have a lot of time on my hands, but I had to do it…I restored my iPod to factory settings. Since, Ziphone came out with 3.0…I decided to use that. The jailbreak was quick and it was nice that it installs BSD Subsystem, Installer, and OpenSSH at the same time. It seemed like everything was fine, so I installed a few applications onto my iPod. I plugged in my iPod to put some songs on it, but same thing….”Can’t connect to iTunes” blah blah blah error. I did this maybe another 2 times and the same outcome occurred. I decided to use iLiberty this time. I liked how this jailbreak gave you a choice to install recommended applications while it was being jailbroken. The jailbreak seemed fine, but my iPod kept on freezing. I tried this jailbreak again and the same thing happened. I noticed I still had my original Ziphone 2.6 program on my laptop still, so I used that. Guess what happened…my iPod is working PERFECTLY!!!

It’s tough to give recommendations about which jailbreak to use because there are so many pros and cons for certain people. I used Ziphone 3.0 on my cousin’s iPhone and it worked perfectly. Dloader girl used iLiberty and she supports it 100%. So…all I can say is to choose one and try it out. If it doesn’t work for you, then try the other one out. If none of them work, use Ziphone 2.6…haha. Hope all goes well!

12 Comments

devon, April 14, 2008:

I wiped my ipod touch, reinstalled my firmware 1.1.4, and used iLiberty. It worked great, but I seem to be having the apps crash pretty consistently, particularly the browser or anything that uses the keyboard.

My problem seems to be isolated though, I highly recommend iLiberty.
bob91, April 14, 2008:

i used ziphone
kobak, April 14, 2008:

ziphone.
Bishop, April 15, 2008:

I used Ziphone and apps crash pretty consistently as well, especially anything with the keyboard.
dbabbs, April 15, 2008:

IJAILBREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or of course ZIPHONE. I prefer ijailbreak because it gives you the software upgrade
someone, April 18, 2008:

I used ZIPHONE and it worked perfectly. No troubles yet.
Poiseidon, April 20, 2008:

befor i never can get jailbreak using ziphone 2.6
Now after jailbreak using 3.0 e have varios problems, i try like rAwks sad and works perfect!!
All working and no more crashs!!
Thx man!!
Slavko, April 22, 2008:

PWNAGE is the easiest I think. I had no problems at all with the process and no bugs afterwards.
rAwks, April 22, 2008:

To Slavko…

I wrote this before PWNAGE came out. I haven’t used it yet, but it sounds pretty easy.
godchild, April 25, 2008:

i need help i dont know if its able to fix but i was tryin to jailbreak my ipodtouch and everything was goin good. BUT wen it got on the black screen with the white writing coming down the screen. it was takin long so i unplugged it the ipodtouch cable form my desktop and did a hand reset but now everytime wen i turn on my ipod the apple logo would come on then after that the black screen with white writing would come on the screen it wont even detect no more just the writing on the screen would cum on. can it b fix? if it can plz write me back at j_starmand_1@msn.com
bob91, April 28, 2008:

godchild:

plug it into itunes and click restore u will lose all ur music/videos/pics but at least it’ll be useable
vince vuola, June 25, 2008:

Ok i need help bad or im in alot of trouble ok so the Bsd Root Error thing happened and i held down the home button and the power button and it turned off i didn’t let go of either till the apple sign cam up then i let go of the power button and kept holding the home button but the white text gibberish cam up again, so i redo it. I did it probably six times and the white text kept comming up and wouldn’t go away it kept saying “BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0″ over and over again pretty slowly and its my friends ipod so i am in trouble. When i reset and the apple sign shows up the white text comes back up and will not stop …

Help me please
thanks

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