How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 4G Using RedSn0w (Windows) [4.3.3]
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Posted May 6, 2011 at 1:15pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPod touch 4G on the 4.3.3 firmware using RedSn0w for Windows. The Mac version of this tutorial is here.
Step One Create a folder on your desktop called Pwnage
Download RedSn0w from here and place it in the Pwnage folder. Likewise, download the latest 4.3.3 firmware from below and place it in the same folder.
Extract the RedSn0w zip file into the same folder.
Step Two Connect your iPod touch to the computer and launch iTunes.
Select your iPod touch from the list of devices on the left. Now hold down Shift and click the Restore button. Restore is preferred as it won't create any wasted space on your iPod touch.
Navigate to the Pwnage folder on your desktop and select the 4.3.3 firmware ipsw. Click the Choose button to continue.
Step Three Once iTunes has finished updating your iPod touch to the desired firmware open the Pwnage folder on your desktop and launch the redsn0w application from the redsn0w folder we extracted earlier.
**Windows 7 users may need to run RedSn0w in Vista Compatibility mode. You can do this by right clicking the executable and selecting Properties from the contextual menu.
Step Four Once RedSn0w opens click the Browse button
Step Five Select the 4.3.3 firmware ipsw we placed in the Pwnage folder on our desktop then click Open.
Step Six Once the firmware has been verified click the Next button to continue.
Step Seven RedSn0w will now prepare the jailbreak data
Step Eight From this window you can select the jailbreak options you would like.
Make sure Cydia is selected and click the Next button to continue.
Step Nine Please plug your iPod touch into the computer and make sure its OFF then click the Next button
Step Ten RedSn0w will now guide you through the steps to get into DFU mode. You can find more help with DFU mode here
Hold down both the Home button and the Power button for 10 seconds.
Release the Power button and continue holding the Home button until RedSn0w detects the device.
Step Eleven Your iPod touch will now reboot
Step Twelve RedSn0w will then begin uploading the new RAM Disk and Kernel.
Step Thirteen Once this is complete you will be notified that RedSn0w is done. Click the Finish button. When your iPod touch finishes rebooting (5 minutes or so) it will be jailbroken with Cydia on the SpringBoard.
*As usual a big thanks to the iPhone Dev-Team and I0n1c for their hard work and contribution to the iPhone community. **Windows 7 users can try running RedSn0w as an administrator in Windows Vista or XP compatibility mode if you experience any difficulties.
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hw do i change th restore file to that cube? in itune it dont pick up the zip file, i extractd it but wat do i choose???? pls asap, i hav an ipod touch os 4.3
i tried this jailbreak everything goes well UNTILL it reboots then gets stuck at the apple logo... what do i do.. im confident i did everything correctly cause i tried t several times and on both mac and windows machines.. my ipod is a 4G and is on 4.3.2. PLEASE HELP!
it says download the latest 4.3.2 firmware... but what if my iPod touch is brand new which is already running on iOS 4.3.2. do I download the firmware too? can i know how is it done if my ipod is already running on 4.3.2... thanks in advance... :D
if your device is already 4.3.2 than skip the updating part thing. also yes you have to download the ipsw to be able to load it up with redsnow . cheers :)
it works up until the reboot after everything downloads and after it finishes rebooting it just goes to a screen that shows a picture telling you to connect the usb cable to itunes. what is going on here? can anybody help
Help me, i stuck at "exploiting using limera1n" while jailbreaking my ipod touch 3g 4.3.1. Ive tried almost every method for "stuck at uploading ramdisc".
problem solved, there are actually different versions of firmware 4.3.1, make sure while jailbreaking use the firmware for specified ipod generation, 4 or 3 generation, if not, while jailbreaking using redsn0w, it will get stuck at "exploiting using limera1n".
do we need to restore device to 4.3.1 in order to jb cuz in the new update rc11 of redsnow it say it works on existing jb i tried it on my itouch on 4.1 jb bt nothing happen no error i got all the black screen in which there r lot of command being typed bt firmware didnt change nothing happened to my itouch plz reply
how do i make the ipsw look like a lego block because it just downloads as a zip file and redsnow keeps crashing with a windows saying that it stopped working ? any help would be greaty appreicated
go to redsn0w properties and set it to Windows XP (service pack 3) Compatibility mode and run as administrator.....it should work then.. it workd for me everything was done in less then 5 mins
@Steven
Make sure you're running redsn0w as admin (if applicable). Mine hung at the upload for a solid 10 minutes before I cancelled and re-ran it as admin.