Why Jailbreak?

There are alot of people that ask why would I want to jailbreak my Ipod or Iphone? There are over 2 million jailbroken Ipods/Iphones out there

Rumor One - Jailbreaking your Ipod/Iphone shortens the battery life.

Truth - This is not true the only reason it would seem that way is people tend to use their Ipods/Iphones more often. My solution? Turn your backlight down or off this will extend your battery life.

Rumor Two - You can "Brick" your Ipod/Iphone by jailbreaking it.

Truth - It's nearly impossibe to brick your Ipod/Iphone to "Brick" your Ipod/Iphone you have to destroy the hardware pretty much any software issue that people say "Bricked" their Ipod/Iphone can be fixed.

Rumor Three -Jailbreaking voids your wannanty.

Truth - 99% of the time you can restore your Ipod/Iphone before you bring it back to Apple the other 1% of the time your Ipod/Iphone is so messed up that they wouldn't be able to read the software.

Rumor Four - Jailbreaking Slows your Ipod/Iphone.

Truth - The jailbreak doesn't slow your Ipod/Iphone some users Ipod/Iphones are slow because they have way to many apps on their device so if yours starts running slow delete the old apps you don't use anymore.

Now here's some reasons why you should jailbreak your device.

#1 Installous

Download almost any App Store application for free straight onto your Ipod Touch/Iphone and be able to sync them to Itunes just like if you used the App Store. Search through games, books, photography even weather to find that app that you wanted.

#2 Use Winterboard and Cydia to download and install themes to your Ipod/Iphone

Tired of the black background and boring Sliders? Well all you need is Cydia and Winterboard. Use Cydia to search through thousands of themes and find that perfect theme (I'm working on my own layout creator for download I'll upload it soon) Don't want any static background? There are backgrounds that change picture every so often and also video backgrounds.

#3 Thousands of third party apps to download

With Apple's way to strict rules of what can and can't be sold in their app store also with the 100 dollar service charge many good apps wont ever get seen in the app store but with your jailbroken Ipod/Iphone you'll have access to more apps then you can handle so go wild.

#4 BossPrefs

adds more settings to your Ipod/Iphone don't want bluetooth or Wifi on to save battery? Turn them off here partially manage your mail app here. Add a numeric battery icon to your status bar. Find out how much free disk space there is on your Ipod/Iphone without having to use your computer. Disable Apple's killswitch so they can't remove apps they don't like off your Ipod/Iphone. Last but not least Hide Icons we all have icons we don't use and don't want to look at (Itunes, Stocks, Etc. . .) with Hide Icons you can remove those pesky icons from your springboard.

#5 OpenSSH

Manually manage your Ipod/Iphone's directorys with OpenSSH thousands of possibilities. Change your themes add Roms for your emulators and much more. Caution how you use it you could delete or romove something you need.

#6 Completely Reversible

Don't like your Ipod/Iphone jailbroken? You can restore it to your old firmware easily and never have to be reminded of it again.

#7 Cycorder and Snapture (Iphone only)

Record video on your Iphone with Cycorder the fully functioning app records at 15 Fps and has sound. Saves videos as MPEG format so you can view them on your computer.

catch fast moving objects with multiple pictures with Snapture

#8 Turn-By-Turn GPS (Iphone only)

with xGPS you can get GPS with voice right on your Iphone theres no more need for that Tom Tom anymore. You can't find any GPS software on the App Store Apple wont allow it.

I hope this helps you make a decision on jailbreaking your Ipod/Iphone.

Did I miss something? If you think I should add something I missed leave your idea in the comments I'll add it as soon as i read it.

Quick Freedom Jailbreak Error Help

Here's some error codes that I've been asked about so far hope this helps! If your perticuar error isn't on this web log message me and I'll get back to you with the answer.

Here's the programs the errors will fall under

1 LibUSB

2 Quick Freedom

3 Itunes

4 Ipod/Iphone

LibUSB errors

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! AHH - haha this ones not as bad as people portray it to be its a pretty easy one to fix without having to restore your computer. Here's what you need to do.

1. Restart your computer.

2. During startup press F8 and put your computer into "Safe Mode"

3. Uninstall LibUSB and then put your computer back into mormal mode.

USB Mouse stops working - This one's simple just unplug your mouse and plug it back in.

All USB ports stop working - Uninstall LibUSB and reinstall with compatibility set to windows XP Service pack 2 and run as administrator. if you can't uninstall it because your keyboard don't work follow the steps for the blue screen of death.

Quick Freedom errors

Ipod is not connected - Reinstall LibUSB and set it as administrator.

Error occurred - Are you sure you hit the "Download Firmware" button?

An error occured during process - Close Quickfreedom, Right click and select "Run As Administrator"

Itunes errors

There is not enough memory available (XP Problem) - SSL Cache Full (Follow instructions)

1 Click Start > Control Panel.

2 Double-click Internet Options.

3 On the Content tab, click Clear SSL State.

4 Click OK, when you get the SSL Cache Cleared Successfully message.

5 In the Internet Options window, click OK.

error 1604 - Restart your computer and restart the jailbreaking process.

error 13 - (Follow instructions)

1. Restart your computer.

2. Open itunes and close all other programs.

3. Put Ipod into DFU mode

Ipod touch/Iphone error

Partial Brick(if this works your Ipod wasn't bricked) - Put your Ipod touch/Iphone into DFU mode here's instructions:

1. Unplug your Ipod/Iphone from computer and turn it off.

2. Hold power button(button on top) and home button (square button) for ten seconds, at the same time and plug Ipod/Iphone into computer(the one you were using!!)

3. Let go of Power button and continue holding Home button for about 10 seconds or untill computer recognises Ipod/Iphone.

4. Re-sync Ipod/Iphone to original firmware.

Bricked - There's no such thing, this term was created for people who messed up their PSP's while trying to hack it. It is impossible to brick an Ipod Touch.

I'll add to this blog as i come across new problems if your problem is not here message me Here.

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