1. Make sure your device is connected to the computer
2. If you want to restore to the latest firmware version, just click on restore in the device menu.
3. If your device doesn’t respond and/or doesn’t turn on, put it in DFU mode. (When in DFU mode, nothing appears on the screen. That is normal. If ever you see an icon telling you to connect your device to iTunes, that is not DFU but restore mode.)
   1. Hold the sleep and home button until the screen turns off and wait 2 seconds.
   2. Let go of the sleep button but keep holding the home until your computer recognizes it and iTunes pops-up saying that your device needs a restore.
4. You can now either click on restore or Shift+Click on restore to select a firmware file (If ever you want to revert to an old firmware version)

Note: Restoring your device may make you loose all your files. It will also undo the jailbreak so you will have to rejailbreak after it has finished restoring. Make sure to backup your files so that you can put them back right after it has finished restoring.

If you get errors, make sure you have the latest version of itunes.
Try another firmware, maybe the on you are using is corrupted.

There are many little things you can do with your iPod Touch or iPhone just by pressing the “Home” and “Power” buttons in a certain sequence. This can be useful do many things. This tutorial will show an array of tricks that will aid in debugging your device or simply saving an image or text.

Debugging tricks:

Has it ever happened that your device just froze, would not respond to any screen touches or button taps. Here are a couple tricks to save you from a panic attack:

1. Reboot: Hold Home and Power Button for about 10 seconds and release both buttons, this will restart your device and bring you back you the home screen like nothing ever happened.
2. DFU Mode: If your device is royally messed up and doesn’t even respond to restarting, here is what to do, plug your device to your computer, hold Home and Power button, until the Apple logo appears on the screen, then release the Power button. Continue to hold the Home button until your computer recognizes the device.
3. SBSettings provides you with numerous power options like “Respring” and “Safe Mode”. Respring can be useful when playing around with themes or system strings, instead of restarting the device. Safe Mode can be useful after a bad installation of a Cydia package, through Safe Mode, you can go back onto Cydia and remove the package causing problems, to get out of Safe Mode, tap the Status Bar.

Did you Know?:

1. You can take a screen shot of whatever it is you are doing by pressing Home and Power at the same time. The screen will flash white and then return to normal. You can do this, no matter what you are doing on your device, whether you are watching a video or just want to show off an awesome highscore to your friends. When you want to view the screenshots, just go to the Photos application.
2. Save a picture from an application or from the internet by pressing on the images and holding, a small menu will appear, giving you the options to “Save Image”, “Copy” or “Cancel”. Once again, if saved, go to Photos application to view. The “Copy” option will save the image location URL.
3. For quick access to your music, instead of leaving your application of unlocking your device, simply double tap the Home button to bring up a small window giving you the options to Play, Pause, Skip and return to Previous.
4. If have a bit of text you would like to copy, but it’s too long to rewrite, just press and hold on the text and wait for the word you are pressing on to highlight, then you can drag the blue lines from where you want the text to start and end, then just press copy. Now just open notes or mail, press in the dialog box(where you write), wait for the keyboard to appear and press again. Press paste and voila.
5. If you happen to be browsing an extremely long web page and now want to change websites, instead of swiping your finger downward until you reach the top, simply tap the status bar.
6. On the Videos application you can delete videos directly from your iPod simply swipe your finger across the file and a red “Delete button will appear, press it and poof it’s gone.

The advantage of having an iPod Touch or iPhone is the Appstore. The Appstore provides us with more than 100,000 apps for anything you need and want. It varies from games to productivity apps, from weather apps to medical apps and more. Unfortunately, it was promised that around 70% of the apps would be free but that didn’t happen. Most of the apps go from 0.99$ to 899.99$. Thankfully, hackers and crackers united so that if one person buys an app, he will be able to share it and make other users get it for free. There are many sites that offer these cracked .IPA files and a list will be provided at the end of this tutorial. In order to be able to get free games and apps, follow these steps.

For iPod 1G, 2G and iPhone 1G, 2G and 3G. If you have 3G iPod or iPhone 3GS Click here

1. Assuming that you have already jailbroken your device, Go to Cydia



2. Go to the “Manage” tab
3. Select “Sources”



4. On the top right select “Edit” and then select the “Add” button




5. Write on the new prompt exactly as it is written here: http://cydia.install0us.com



6. Wait until the source is added to cydia
7. Go to the “Changes” tab and you will see something like this.



8. Select the “iphone.org.hk” Source package and “Install it”
   1. To Install select the package
   2. On the top right of the screen select “Install”

   

   3. A new page will come up and select “Confirm”

   

9. Once the source has finish loading, go back to the “Changes” tab and you will see something like this



10. Scroll through the packages and find Installd Patch.



11. Select Installd Patch and Install it. (Same steps as 8.1 to 8.3)
12. Once it has finished installing, REBOOT your device (This step is important)
13. Once your device rebooted, go back on cydia then on the search tab and search for install0us ( it’s a zero and not the letter “o”)



14. Install install0us (Steps 8.1 to 8.3)
15. When it is done go back to the springboard (Main Screen)
16. To learn how to use Install0us click here.

If you have a iPod 3G or iPhone 3GS please follow these steps.
1. Do steps 1 to 6 but add http://cydia.hackulo.us instead of cydia.install0us.com
2. Go to the changes tab and scroll until you find AppSync Important: Make sure it says AppSync for OS 3.1
3. Install AppSync and make sure to REBOOT your device (Steps 8.1 to 8.3 on previous tutorial)
4. Continue with steps 13 through 16

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How to Add games and apps. (Computer way)

1. Go to one of these many sites
   1. AppTrackr //Best app website Recommended
   2. Appulo.us //Slow but contains a lot of apps Password is cavern
   3. AppCake //Fast, contains a bit less apps but very good
   4. Apps 4 iPhone
   5. Hack your iPhone //May need to sign up
   6. iGui.ru //Russian but usable
   7. iPhone Bot
   8. iPhone-Heaven
   9. iPhone iPod Touch
   10. App DB
   11. Sinful iPhone
   12. Pirate Apps
   13. Direct Apps //Only through install0us
   14. X8Smile
   15. Apple9
   16. VNM Store
   17. Gu1337
   18. iApplications.ru
2. Search and download the game/app you want. (It should come in .IPA format)
3. Double click the .IPA file to add it to iTunes
4. Make sure your iPod is plugged
5. Make sure Sync Applications is checked
6. Click on Sync to iPod

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How to Add games and apps. (Mobile way)

1. To do so, learn how to use install0us

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)

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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