Features:

1. The Solitaire Background is now fixed ( The solid green background is back!)
2. The stopwatch and the lock background is now back and fixed (brushed metal!)
3. The 4-bit color font change is now included!
4. The white squares in the legal section are now fixed!
5. The white frame at the bottom of now playing is now fixed!
6. The titlebar will now be placed good
7. It will never reboot by itself!

There are some extra resources that you can add yourself later on

1. Remove Solitaire Background (replaces with the normal background).
2. Remove Stopwatch Background (replaces with the normal background).
3. Remove Screenlock Background (replaces with the normal background).

How to install:

1. Download the firmware and extract it to your desktop
2. Open iPodwizard and in the dropdown menu select “firmware” then select “Load firmware” and select the firmware.



3. Now modify what you want. For example: Themes, Font color, Strings, Resources etc.
4. You are now done. click on “Write” and then “eject”

Other PS: when installing these firmware, it might delete the bootloader. So you will have to install it again

How to add multiple background

24322 is the default background picture at index 140, which you have to edit and add the second background at the right left corner.
14015 is the clock (?) at index 7. You have to load your now playing background there.
It will add this missing corner.

Now you have to edit left, top and right values to get these images to right place

# Select ID 24322
# Scroll this window to right, so you could see “left”, “top” and “right” values.
# Click on 83 and change it to -144. It is the left value. (It means how many pixels from left side of the screen)
# Click on 6 and change it to -126. It is the top value.
# Scroll back, select ID 14015
# Scroll this window to right, so you could see “left”, “top” and “right” values.
# Click on 0 (top value) and change it to -23
# Click on -7 (right value) and change it to -144
# Open Pictures tab
# Load your backgrounds to Index 140
# Load now playing background to Index 7
# Press write to iPod button, eject and enjoy!

Here is a list of what will be released very soon.

Tutorials in different languages!

• French
• Spanish
• Italian?

We will add a lot of iPod Touch tutorials

• How to use Cydia in depth  (in progress)
• How to use SFTP Clients such as Cyberduck (mac) and WinScp (Windows)
• How to Chmod files and folders
• How to use SbSettings
• The biggest list of Cydia Sources
• Starter apps for new jailbreakers
• iPod Touch tips & tricks
• Update top apps and add-ons
• BlackRa1n fixes
• Misc Fixes

We will also add more iPod Nano Tutorials

• Change your iPod Nano Font color
• Perfect Nano Background hack
• Small/large album art
• Full NOW PLAYING in Titlebar

We are going to host our own repository which will cleaner, faster and better than any other repositories out there. It will include

• Cracked Cydia apps
• Starter packages
• Favorite themes
• Best add-ons
• Mods and Tweaks
• Much more

Website updates:

• We were also thinking of adding a Remote Assistance service which we will ask for a small fee, create an appointment and be with you when you need help in jailbreaking, modding your iPod video or anything else we can do through our own computers. With your approval we will control your computer over a safe software named TeamViewer. You can have more information by visiting this site http://teamviewer.com/index.aspx. Please tell us what you think of this service ( If we should implement it or not)
• New iPodstuff Logo
• Integration of difficulty meter per tutorial
• Sorting tutorials by difficulty with a easy search feature
• Fix spam issues
• Increase traffic
• Help forum for the different tutorials
• Themes database?
• If the website gets big, bigger and faster servers.

Please comment so that I can see what you, the user, think of these changes and what I should add.

Also don’t forget to share this website with your friends.

What is the IPL Bootloader?

The iPod Bootloader is a menu that will let you access extra options on your iPod.

For example you can install iPodLinux, RockBox, iBoy, iGPSP, extra themes, Iarcnes and many others. When you install iPodLinux you automatically get a bootloader but the only options that come with it are

1. Apple  OS (The original iPod operating System)
2. iPodLinux (Enables you to launch iPodLinux
3. Sleep (Puts your iPod in deep sleep. To turn on just press and hold menu + center)
4. Disk mode  (Same as when you press and hold center + Play when the iPod is connected. Useful when your computer cannot find your iPod)

As I wrote earlier you can add even more options by editing the Bootloader file and here is how to do it.

Note this works with iPod Video 5G, 5.5G and Nano

Thank to an example of a loader.cfg file provided by Y2KCPI1 I will show you how to edit the file. The file is called loader.cfg and is located in the root of the iPod.

1. Make sure you installed iPodlinux
2. Make sure your iPod is plugged
3. Go to Start > my computer > “Your iPod”
4. Find the file name loader.cfg
5. Right-Click and open with Wordpad

You will see something like this:
#iPodLoader 2.5 config File

Apple OS @ osos

iPodLinux @ (hd0,1)/linux.bin

Sleep @ Standby (To Put The iPod To Sleep)

Disk Mode @ diskmode

6. To add another menu option you must put the code in a new line

Here are all the option you can add/ modify

Note: All the menu choices for iPodLinux, Rockbox, iBoy, IArcnes etc are given in each of the respective tutorials.

#iPodLoader 2.5 config File

backlight = 1 (Backlight On) (Must Be 1)

timeout = 10 (How Long Before It Chooses The Default)

default = 1 (Which One It Chooses If No Response)

# Here Come The Menu Choices:

Apple OS @ osos (This Is The Regular Apple Software)

iPodLinux @ (hd0,1)/linux.bin (This Is If You Have iPodLinux)

Rockbox @ (hd0,1)/.rockbox/rockbox.ipod (For Rockbox)

Sleep @ Standby (To Put The iPod To Sleep)

Disk Mode @ diskmode (To Put The iPod Into Diskmode)

___________________________________________________________________

Extra Settings (These Are Not Required)

debug (To Debug Differnent Settings)

• 1 – print messages to screen and pause for a few seconds before the menu appears or an image is started.
• 2 – print messages to screen and wait for a keypress before the menu appears or an image is started.
• 4 – print messages to screen and pause for a second after each printed line.
• 8 – lines counting from 1 to 15 will be printed. This is to test the scroll feature (see below) .
• 16 – to show a test screen in which you can adjust the contrast, turn backlight on/off and test the keys.

contrast = 0 (The Contrast Used For The Menu Screen It Goes From -10 to +10)

How To Set Colors >> Provide Numbers From 0 – 255 For The Three Colors

bg_color = (red,green,blue) (Menu Background Color)

• (Default is (0,255,128)

hilight_color = (red,green,blue) (Menu Hilight & Selector Color)

• (Default is (128,128,0)

bg_gradient = 1 (To Have A Gradient BG Ranging From Black To The bg_color To Have A Plain Background Just Put 0)

• (Default is (1)

beep_duration 50ms (The Duration Of The Click (Has To Be In milliseconds(1/1000))

beep_period 30 (The Pitch Of The Beep (Could Go From 20 To 40))

You can Also Download an example file that I personally use.
Here is the download link.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nj0kmeg0ijm/loader.cfg

To modify/hack iPods, it is very important to know

1. What iPod you are using
2. If the iPod you have is hackable*
3. What firmware version it is
4. Hacking an iPod might not work the first time

iPods that are NOT hackable:

• iPod nano 2nd generation
• iPod nano 3rd generation
• iPod Classic 6th generation
• ipod Shuffle Any generation

Reminder you cannot hack these iPods.

iPods that ARE hackable

• iPod video 5th generation and 5.5 generation (Scroll down to find out which one you have)
• iPod nano 1st generation (The black and white ones)
• iPod Touch 1st generation, 2nd generation, 3rd generation (late 2009)* (Scroll down to find out which one you have)
• iPhone

A fast way to find out what generation your iPod video is (Either a 5th or a 5.5 generation iPod) follow these steps:

1. Hold the menu button until you go back to the iPod’s main screen
2. Select the music option
3. Scroll down to the bottom

If you have the Search > option, you have a 5.5G iPod video if not you own a 5G

This table has been taken from the Apple website

Click on the iPod name in order to differentiate them.

Icon	Model	Year-Month introduced	Navigation Controls	Capacity
	iPod shuffle (3rd generation Late 2009)	2009-09	Apple Earphones with Remote	2 GB or 4 GB
	iPod classic 160 GB (Late 2009)	2009-09	Click Wheel	160 GB
	iPod touch (Late 2009)	2009-09	Multi-Touch display	32 GB or 64 GB
	iPod nano (5th generation)	2009-09	Click Wheel	8 GB or 16 GB
	iPod shuffle (3rd generation)	2009-03	Apple Earphones with Remote	4 GB
	iPod classic	2008-09	Click Wheel	120 GB
	iPod touch (2nd generation)	2008-09	Multi-Touch display	8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB
	iPod nano (4th generation)	2008-09	Click Wheel	8 GB or 16 GB
	iPod shuffle (2nd generation Early 2008)	2008-02	Control Pad	2 GB
	iPod touch	2008-02	Multi-Touch display	32 GB
	iPod touch	2007-09	Multi-Touch display	8 GB or 16 GB
	iPod classic	2007-09	Click Wheel	80 GB or 160 GB
	iPod nano (3rd generation)	2007-09	Click Wheel	4 GB or 8 GB
	iPod shuffle (2nd generation)	2006-09	Control Pad	1 GB
	iPod (5th generation Late 2006)	2006-09	Click Wheel	30 GB or 80 GB
	iPod nano (2nd generation)	2006-09	Click Wheel	2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB
	iPod nano	2006-02	Click Wheel	1 GB
	iPod (5th generation)	2005-10	Click Wheel	30 GB or 60 GB
	iPod nano	2005-09	Click Wheel	2 GB or 4 GB
	iPod with color display	2005-06	Click Wheel	20 GB or 60 GB
	iPod photo (also known as iPod with color display)	2005-02	Click Wheel	30 GB
	iPod mini (2nd generation)	2005-02	Click Wheel	4 GB or 6 GB
	iPod shuffle	2005-01	Control Pad	512 MB or 1 GB
	iPod photo (also known as iPod with color display)	2004-10	Click Wheel	40 GB or 60 GB
	iPod (Click Wheel)	2004-07	Click Wheel	20 GB or 40 GB
	iPod mini	2004-01	Click Wheel	4 GB
	iPod (dock connector)	2003-09	Touch wheel	20 GB or 40 GB
	iPod (dock connector)	2003-04	Touch wheel	10 GB,15 GB, or 30 GB
	iPod (Touch wheel)	2002-07	Touch wheel	10 GB or 20 GB
	iPod (Scroll wheel)	2002-03	Scroll wheel	10 GB
	iPod (Scroll wheel)	2001-10	Scroll wheel	5 GB

Great now that you know what iPod you have and can head straight to the Tutorials!