JailBreak your iPhone/iPod Touch to 1.1.3

Impatience 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.

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.

(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.