Also available at StagHacks.com
Cydia, a popular installer has been the best way to jailbreak your iPod Touch. There is a new package handler that has recently been released Kryptes.
Kryptes has created a new option for jailbreakers that want to download third party software. The team behind it was at sleepers.net
According to their site, their source would not be accepted as a default repo for Cydia and Installer. They therefore decided to branch off and create a new way to download. To download Kryptes, open Cydia and add the source (without parentheses) “http://www.kryptes.net/kryptes”.
This hack is not ready for the primetime but if you are thinking about trying something else for your iPod Touch then give this a try.
Today is the release of the “news” of the untethered jailbreak for the iPod Touch 2G. This means that you will soon be able to jailbreak a 2G easily just like an iPhone or 1G. What they announced is that Quickpwn will be updated quite soon for the 2G. I know you are skeptical about this. Don’t worry. When the Dev Team announces a release, it will come out soon. If you are a hardcore hacker, go to their site and get the code now. If you are like the rest of us, just wait.
When it comes out, I will write a new post on how to jailbreak and create a video for it. Soon we will have a whole lot of new people to add to the jailbreaking scene. Get ready to hack.
Lone Stag
Hello again. This is Lone Stag. I haven’t written anything for a while for a couple of reasons.
- There wasn’t any interesting news
- I created something new
My new creation, in cooperation with iPodTouchHacks.com, is my new website StagHacks.com. It is a general hacking site, not just restricted to iPod Touch hacking. I will be covering a whole lot of different topics having to do with basically hacking life. I will be delving into how to hack Soda (Pop) machines, elevators, Windows, Macs (if I ever get one), and of course, Apple products. As of now, it is still in the initial stages. The look is not permanent, and any suggestions would be extremely helpful. I hope to see some comments on the site, and as always, I promise to answer any and every email that I receive.
Hope to see you there
Lone Stag
StagHacks and iPodTouchHacks
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.
All of you torrent users out there will love this news. If you own a jailbroken iPod/iPhone, torrents can be in the palm of your hand. It is simple to use, whether you want it on your iPod or on your computer. Here is how to do it.
1. Download Stuff
- In Cydia, download dTunes. This will download dTunes and Safari download plugins. The plugins do exactly what they say: they allow you to download any file from Safari.
- In Cydia, download Mobile Terminal. You need this later.
2. Download files from thepiratebay.org.
- You can download files from inside of dTunes, but it is hard to navigate n its window. In Safari, you have more control and it will work the same way.
3. Get the torrent running
- Once you have downloaded the torrent file, open dTunes. Click on the torrent file. Click OK.
4. Open Mobile Terminal
- Inside Mobile Terminal, type “./gettorrent” (without the quotations). This will start the downloading process. Depending on your internet connection and the amount of seeders, the speed will vary. Mine peaked at about 400 kbs.
5. Get the files
- If you want to actually get the files instead of having them just be on your device, ssh (howto here) into your device. Your downloaded files will be in root/var/mobile/Library/Downloads. You can then find the files there and move/copy them from there.
Lone Stag
There is a lot of big news coming from the iPhone Dev Team. Some of this news is good, while some is going to upset you. First of all, the good news.
We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.
- The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
- This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
- You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
- The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
- Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.
Good news for you 3G owners. You will be able to unloack your iPhones relatively soon. As for the long awaited iPod Touch 2G jailbreak, well…
Currently we are not investigating the iPod touch 2G. Other people outside the Dev-Team are looking into this, but we are not at the moment. Please don’t hassle us with comments and requests about this, they’ll just be deleted and ignored. If we do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year and we’ll inform you guys if and when we commence this work.
This is because -
- It’s not an iPhone
- We have been busy with the 3G unlock.
- We have been busy with the CCC talk.
- Only one of us has a iPod touch 2G (but we’ll see what Santa brings)
- Our employers don’t get as excited as us about hacking expensive pretty devices
- Unfortunately our partners, parents and pets need occasional attention too.
I guess they bring up some good points, even if people might not agree with them. I would suggest not complaining to them until after the release of the 3G unlock. They have done their best to make a mojority of the people happy, so you 2G owners will just have to wait your turn.
Zibri, the creator of ZiPhone, is leaving the business of jailbreaking and delving into personal issues. Even though he hasn’t contributed to the 2.0 jailbreaking scene, he was still a major part of the 1.1.X jailbreaking effort. He made my extremely time-consuming (1 hour) instructions for jailbreaking 1.1.3 (here), into a process that took about 2 minutes. Here are the words from the man himself.
It was an incredible ride, guys, and I’m sincerely grateful
to everybody who made this happen.
As some of you may know, from the 7th of November 2008 I’m a father.
All my efforts are now focused on my family then, later, I’ll start some other project
maybe related with the iPhone, maybe not.
So, from now the ziphone.org domain (Pagerank 6 on Google) is FOR SALE.
I don’t really get what the whole domain sale is for, though. It won’t be the same for whoever actually buys it. Zibir, we won’t forget all the hard work you put into the jailbreaking community. Thank you.
I personally don’t own a Mac. I would love to own one, but I unfortunately do not have the money. For the lucky few of you who do own Macs, this warning from BigBoss is for you.
This is a general warning to all your MAC owners. The OSX update to 10.5.6 disables DFU mode in the USB drivers. It works the same way that it works on the new Macbook Airs. You cannot pwn or quickpwn without DFU mode and in many cases DFU mode saves you from restore issues in general. Rumor is that you can still restore or use DFU mode if you hook up to a USB hub rather than directly connect to the MAC. I suggest that you avoid updating to 10.5.6 until the dev team can work out a solution to this issue. Otherwise, you may have issues trying to get recognized during the DFU stages of pwnage and quickpwn.
For those of you with this problem/upgrade, take heed of his warning.
Sleepers.net, originally the home of BigBoss, has been starting work on the new repository ever since BigBoss left them to venture on to new pastures. Now, they finally have the new repo that we all have been waiting for.
We would like to announce the re-birth of the Sleeper.net iPhone hosting repository. We have made several changes to the system and we think both developers and users a like will have a good experience with it.
As of today, you would have to manually install it into Cydia. Since it only has a few packages (just themes that I saw), it isn’t a necessity to have it now. Since Sleepers is a big name in the hosting scene, Saurik (Cydia creator) will be making the repo a part of Cydia. It should become a part of community sources or will be in an update soon. For those of you who don’t want to wait, do this:
Open Cydia
After Cydia fully loads navigate to Manage the click on Sources
Next click on Edit [upper left hand corner]
Then Click Add [upper right hand corner]
A window will open that says “Enter Cydia/APT URL” type: http://repo.sleepers.net/cydia
Then click Add source and your set to go!
Go to Sleepers.net for more information.
Those of you who have been in the jailbreaking scene should be familiar with the name BigBoss. He is the hoster of countless apps in Cydia, and previously Installer. He has generously created a timeline of milestones he has achieved, which I found interesting. I actually remember these occurring, back in the day.
September 2007: BigBoss repository was born and run on my home computer at a markmon.mine.nu address that is now a dead link. The repository was for installer (1.7 at the time) and hosted a few small packages and fixes. The repository was started purely for fun as a side project. The repository was named “BigBoss repository” at that time (named after its owner, BigBoss), a name that carried through for months.
December 2007: BigBoss was looking for a host because it was too much traffic for his little home network connection. Sleepers stepped up to offer hosting. The repostory, still “BigBoss repository” moved to sleepers.net for hosting.
Feb 2008: BigBoss enters community sources in installer 3 thanks to Nullriver and Drudge. BigBoss only has 25 packages at this time.
March 2008: BigBoss registers “thebigboss.org” domain name and moves the repository to that domain, its permanent home through today. Hosting at that time was still hosted by sleepers.net
May 2008: Drudge gives Conceited Software to Bigboss. BigBoss merges this well-known community source into his own. This provided enough packages to surpass STE packaging and BigBoss become the largest community source. Repository kept its name, “BigBoss Repository”.
May 2008: Cydia side of the repository is born on 1.1.x platforms.
June 2008: Skylar gives his community source to BigBoss. Repository is still known as “BigBoss Repository”.
June 2008: BigBoss partners up wtih planet-iphones and repository is known as “BigBoss and Planet-iPhones”. Themes are done by planet-iphones and other done by BigBoss. This is actually very helpful because up to this point, BigBoss did all his own packaging. Now the work is divided. Partnership still exists today.
May-July 2008: BigBoss gets 6 more servers to host the high traffic generated by becoming a community source.
July 2008: The 2.0 iPhone software is released. The 1.1.x installer repository is abandoned with over 275 packages – the largest repostiory on 1.1.x. At this time, a new repository is born for 2.0 from scratch. Cydia is all that’s supported since no installer exists at this time for 2.0.
August 2008: Installer 4 beta comes out. BigBoss repository moves to installer4. But due to bugs with the beta and unmet dependencies only found in Cydia only a small amount of packages are migrated to installer 4.
July – Sept 2008: BigBoss gets another 10 servers to handle the bandwidth.
October 2008: BigBoss moves hosting of the packages file away from sleepers.net hosting the repostiory on his own servers only. (The 16 some file servers did not change). Since the domain was always thebigboss.org or bigboss.us.com (same domain) there was no change noticed or required for users.
November 2008: BigBoss gets a 2nd dedicated server to handle cpu and connection count issues.
December 2008: BigBoss repository has grown to 850 packages across 18 servers!
Wow. I know. A lot of stuff. Personally, I would like to thank BigBoss for all of the hard work he has put into the jailbreaking community. Good job, and keep up the excellent work. For more information, go to http://thebigboss.org/.
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