How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 3G, 4G Using Greenpois0n (Windows)

Posted February 5, 2011 at 9:28pm by iClarified · 191376 views

These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G using Greenpois0n for Windows. Greenpois0n supports iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2.1 firmware. Use Limera1n if you want to jailbreak iOS 4.0, iOS 4.0.1, iOS 4.0.2.

Step One
Open your web browser of choice and navigate to http://www.greenpois0n.com. Click the Windows link at the bottom of the screen.

Step Two
When prompted save the download to your desktop

Step Three
Double click the downloaded gp_win_rc5_b2.zip file then drag the greenpois0n.exe file to the desktop. Double greenpois0n.exe from the desktop to launch the application

Step Four
Power off your iPod then click the large Prepare to Jailbreak (DFU) button

Step Five
You will now be instructed on how to place your iPod into DFU mode. You can get help with this here.

You will be asked to press and hold the sleep button for 2 seconds.

Continue holding sleep; press and hold home for 10 seconds.

Release sleep button; continue holding home for 15 seconds.

Step Six
Once your iPod is successfully in DFU mode you may click the Jailbreak button.

Step Seven
Greenpois0n will now jailbreak your device

Step Eight
Click the Quit button once the software application has completed.

You'll notice some verbose mode text scrolling on your device.

Step Nine
After the iPod restarts you'll notice a new Loader application on your Springboard. Press to launch it.

Step Ten
Press to select Cydia then press the large Install Cydia button that appears.

Step Eleven
Once Cydia has installed successfully you can remove Loader from your device. Press the Options button then press the Remove Loader.app button.

Step Twelve
Reboot your iPod then run Cydia. Let it do all the necessary updates.

***A big thanks goes everyone who made this jailbreak possible.