Apple is once-again charging iPod Touch users with a fee of $9.99 but we have yet again come up with a hack to help all iPod Touch users do it for free and what makes our hack different is, that it has been tested on a real iPod Touch and actually works for both iPod Touch 1G and 2G. Just follow the steps below and soon you will be having an updated iPod Touch with firmware 3.0 absolutely for free.
- Download the latest iTunes from here.
- Connect your iPod Touch 1G or 2G to PC/Mac with iTunes.
- Click on Restore while holding Shift (for PC) and Option (for Mac).
- Browse to the Firmware 3.0 for your device and select it.
Sit back and enjoy while iTunes does the rest! There you go, did it without even paying a penny!
Download links for the Firmware 3.0 are provided below:
iPod Touch 1Ghttp://rapidshare.com/files/243265074/iPod1G_3.0_Final_Restore.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/243266616/iPod1G_3.0_Final_Restore.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/243267211/iPod1G_3.0_Final_Restore.part3.rar
iPod Touch 2Ghttp://rapidshare.com/files/243878648/iPod2G_3.0_Final_Restore.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/243880235/iPod2G_3.0_Final_Restore.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/243881290/iPod2G_3.0_Final_Restore.part3.rar
Use HJSplit (for PC) and Split&Concact (for Mac) to join the parts into one file. Once you download the firmware locally on your PC or Mac, follow the steps above to update iPod Touch to Firmware 3.0.
July 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Has anyone tried this yet?
July 4, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Its Tested and 100% Working. No doubt
July 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM
I'm so worried about bricking my iphone with one of these but if enough people do it with no probs, it should be alright and i'll go for it. thx
July 14, 2009 at 11:35 PM
i downloaded all the files and HJ-Split can't find them...
July 15, 2009 at 5:06 AM
i got the files joined but i couldnt get it to work,it only looks for .ipsw files. Help?
July 24, 2009 at 7:06 PM
i downloaded the files and each part was exactly the same per the HJSplit software. tried loading just part one and everything worked i now have BT and the new formats but now iTunes thinks my iTouch is an iPhone and is not recognising it...HELP!
July 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM
i retract my previous comment, it works when i plugged it in using my cord at work, could an old iPod cord really affect this?