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Although I first jailbroke my iPod touch with iLiberty+, it was not working. I could only install Cydia and Cydia would not work.

Not being sure I could restore the iPod (I still have DFU troubles), I just jailbroke it again with ZiPhone on my Windows XP laptop.

ZiPhone installed a working version of Installer.app (compiled in 2019). This is all I wanted.

The little games on my repo are quite fun.

http://apptapp.philippe97.ca/

I finally found why some packages on my AppTapp source were not installing.

It turns out that the "size" property was important and must be set to the size of the zip file. Otherwise, I get a download error.

I previously thought it meant the approximate size of the installed package, but no.

I successfully added my AppTapp repo in Installer.app !

http://apptapp.philippe97.ca/

I can download games and apps.

I just received my first generation iPod touch on 1.1.5 and managed to jailbreak it with iLiberty+ !

I first uninstalled iTunes, QuickTime and "Apple Mobile Device Support" and then installed iTunes 7.7.1.11 on my Windows XP laptop.

See
https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/ITunes#32-bit
for the download link.

After some fiddling around, iTunes finally saw the iPod ! Using iLiberty+ was easy at that point. (I had some trouble getting iLiberty+ to see the iPod too).

I managed to activate afc2 and install Cydia. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to install OpenSSH through Cydia. And iLiberty+ no longer includes support for installing Installer.app.

I tried to put Installer.app on the device through "iPhone Explorer" over afc2, but it does not launch. (It just stays stuck on the splash screen and then closes.) I assume there is some permission error. I'm not even sure permissions cat be set over afc2...

The whole point I went into this project for is that I have made an AppTapp repo with every app and theme I could find for iPhone OS 1 :

http://apptapp.philippe97.ca/

I need to test it on a real device since I have gzipped the XML file and I'm not sure Installer.app will accept it as-is.

The power went out and my PCs are on a UPS.

Not knowing when the power was going to be back, I shut down my work PC.

When the power came back a minute later, I turned back on my work PC.

Then, it starts beeping and saying that the BIOS is corrupted !

That really scared me. I need that PC to work.

Fortunately, it fixed itself and booted normally.

I just changed the two filters in my water cooler. They were six month old and the "filter" red light began to flash today.

We got the filters in the mail last week. We bought them in advance.

They provide instructions with the filters.

1. Close the valve
2. Change the filters
3. Open the valve
4. Let the cold water flow for two minutes

While I was watching old episodes of Hannah Montana, I found out on Wikipedia that there was a 20th anniversary special.

I just torrented and watched it.

It got me a little emotional.

I first found out about Hannah Montana six years ago. I didn't watch it as a kid.

I just hope it won't spoil me watching old episodes too much.

I particularly liked the massive knife switch that turns on the lights.

I just redid my repo from scratch. I found the old one too fragile and complicated.

The last time I touched the repo code was back in 2013. Feels like a lifetime ago...

http://apt.philippe97.ca/

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I tested it with the iPod touch 1G I bought. I jailbroke it this morning with Spirit (firmware 3.1.3).

We have exceeded the 500 GB monthly limit for our Local Priority service plan.

The download speed is now lowered to 1 Mb/s until the 28th.

It seems that we can still do blurred FaceTime calls, but online live TV (TVA channel) is not working.

My website will be slower than usual (we have about 0,5Mb/s upload right now).

Fortunately, the TV shows I watch are already downloaded on my server, so watching them does not go through the Internet.

I bought a first generation iPod touch to restore it to 1.1.4, jailbreak it with iLiberty+ and finally test the Installer 3 repo I made.

After dozens of tests, I figured that this iPod has a broken DFU mode.

It is currently on 3.1.3. I have a Windows XP laptop.

I can successfully restore it to 3.1.3 with iTunes 16. That works both in normal mode and in recovery mode. I cannot activate it on the XP laptop, but I can activate it with Finder on my iMac (macOS 14.6.1).

But when I put the iPod in DFU mode (black screen, laptop makes sound when plugged in), neither redsn0w nor iTunes can talk to it. I tried various iTunes versions from 7.5 to 8.2.

Redsn0w sees it as a first gen iPod touch in DFU mode, but it just says "USB communication error" when you try to do anything.

No version of iTunes shows anything while the iPod is in DFU mode. I can only get iTunes 16 to see it in normal or recovery mode.

When I give iTunes 16 the ipsw I want to restore with (I tried 1.1.4, 1.1.5 and 2.2.1), it just says "error 20" and leaves my iPod stuck in recovery mode. Apple says "error 20" is hardware related (cables, etc.). I tried another cable.

Older versions of iTunes do not want to see the iPod. 3.1.3 is too recent for them. Both in recovery mode and normal mode.

I will try to buy another iPod. I give up on this one. I found one on eBay with 1.1.5 already installed on it, although it has some screen issue.