JailBreak your iPhone/iPod Touch to 1.1.3

iJailbreakImpatience seems to be something of a virtue to many an iPhone or iPod touch owner in this day and age. Constant demand for new “JailBreaks” to the new software updates is another step in the somewhat endless cycle of new updates that break JailBreaks, and then finding the exploits necessary and re-JailBreaking again. Well, it seems as though the latest iPhone/iTouch update has indeed been broken, and until now its been super difficult to do, but today that has changed for the better.

Yesterday, 2 methods for ‘breaking the iPhone/iTouch were released. iJailbreak, the super user-friendly method that requires the pressing of a single button, and the Dev team’s own personal (and much more technical) method, lovingly called Jailbreak-1.1.3. I took the risk of putting my own iPod touch through iJailBreak’s paces.

iJailbreak welcome!

Although I don’t really have a problem using Terminal, whenever there’s an option, I like to just make it easier on myself and use a GUI. So, I headed here and grabbed a copy of iJailBreak. After hitting the “Jailbreak” button, the app correctly identified that I was running 1.1.1 on an iPod touch, and i told it to continue. It starts by downloading a copy of Apple’s 1.1.3 firmware, and then patching it, and then uploading it to the device. Once it’s on the device, it tells you to go into Installer.app on your 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 (Dev team says only 1.1.2) device and download the “1.1.3 soft upgrade” from the System tab in Installer.

iJailbreak welcome!(I found the instructions window after moving some things around)

I was starting with a Jailbroken iPod touch (1.1.1 but then updated via OkToPrep), and then used iJailbreak for the rest of the dirty stuff. It really wasn’t difficult to do, but I had to make sure to refresh the sources manually in Installer.app to get “1.1.3 soft upgrade” to show up. Now, there’s supposedly another method from the “true” Dev team available on Installer, but as I had already used the other method, I can’t verify that it works.

But, I can tell you that I’m currently up and running with a 1.1.3 iPod touch complete with iPhone apps et all, and all it took was a little perseverence and a lot of patience. Check out the iJailbreak page for more information.

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8 Responses to “JailBreak your iPhone/iPod Touch to 1.1.3”

  1. Ipod Tune » Jail Break your iPhone/iPod Touch on January 30th, 2008 2:35 am

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  2. L on January 30th, 2008 8:49 am

    i have a jailbroken ipod touch running 1.1.1 – i have installed a lot of programs on it and have personalized its look and feel with software like customize. i wonder if my programs + customization will remain intact if i decide to upgrade to 1.1.3 with ijailbreak. has anyone attempted to do so?

  3. Miles Evans on January 30th, 2008 9:25 am

    I would hold off on 1.1.3 if you use an iPhone…AFAIK it is still using the old 1.1.2 baseband. Most of your apps from 1.1.x will also not work on 1.1.3, I just took my 1.0.2 iPhone, virginized it, restored to 1.1.1 and installed 1.1.2. The new procedures are soooo much simpler than it used to be!

  4. TyrannicWinter on February 2nd, 2008 10:45 pm

    iJailbreak hangs at Patching ipod touch os im using 0.4.1 version of iJailbreaker, but I keep getting missing 1.1.3 files can any one help me?

  5. Blue General on February 13th, 2008 2:19 pm

    Yeah, all ur personalizations are lost if u upgrade. Ull also lose all the shortcuts to ur programs, so it’s best to reset ur ipod before.

  6. Chris on March 3rd, 2008 7:59 am

    Does this work with 16GB iPod touches?

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  8. Sveen on October 10th, 2008 10:53 am

    There is just a white blank page in the top left corner when i try to install, looks like it doesn’t work

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