Hunky Doray

I don’t know what it is, but I can never be satisfied with just having something, and using it, and leaving it alone, and being content. No, I have to mess.

My iPod touch has been jail broken several times. Every time it worked, eventually. Then came pwnage.

I can’t blame the tool for what happened next of course. It was my own fault. I didn’t pay attention to the firmware I had downloaded to use. It turns out your iPod touch can’t pretend it’s an iPhone, no matter what firmware you (try) to throw at it.

Anyway, I ran the tool and everything was going swimmingly. I knew as soon as it didn’t turn back on immediately that something had gone slightly awry. So, as the first wave of panic and nausea passed, I tried what I’ve always tried in situations like this, I tried the old two finger salute, hold own the home and power buttons for ten seconds and you’ll drop into DFU. iTunes will then tell you that you need to restore your iPod, and you go to bed saying a little prayer to his Jobness, repenting from your sins and promising you’ll never try anything like that again.

Not this time.

Nothing worked. The iPod showed no sign of life. No Apple. No reassuring ping. I’d have chewed an arm off just for a beachball. By this stage, I was trying to get my story straight for Apple. Would they believe that the iPod had played the Last Stand and simply keeled of its own volition?

All the forums were ablaze with people weeping and gnashing their teeth about how they had bricked themselves (some of them really had by the sound of it), and lots of other people telling the first crowd that they were idiots and should never breed.

The general consensus is that you cannot brick an iPod touch. But here I was with one that would not boot, which the computer could not see, and which consistently refused to acknowledge the two finger salute. Then, lo and behold, as I was now trying to get my story straight for Apple and the missus, a final stab at the TFS saw iTunes burst into life.

Now I know for sure that the iPod firmware has a built in idiot-cac-himself feature designed to stop the less gifted from messing and simply being happy with having a fully working iPod:

Get RANDOM_NUMBER
If how_many_tfs != RANDOM_NUMBER then ignore_tfs
Else oh_alright_then_but_dont_do_it_again_you_little_rascal

Dear Jobiness, forgive me, for I have sinned. No, I will never try it again.