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

POST

MAIL

Posted February 4, 2011 at 2:09pm by iClarified

These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G using Greenpois0n for Mac. 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 Mac link at the bottom of the screen.

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

Step Two
When prompted save the download to your desktop

Step Three
Double click the downloaded greenpois0n-osx_rc5.zip file to extract the archive. Quit iTunes then double click greenpois0n from the desktop to launch the application

Step Four
Connect your iPod to the computer, power it off, then click the large Jailbreak 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 3 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 the jailbreak will begin.

Step Seven
Click the Complete button once the software application has completed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow iClarified

omidjan - September 28, 2014 at 4:03pm

4.21

Reply · Like

Rhea17 - March 10, 2011 at 8:02pm

when i was jailbreaking my itouch there are some errors.. i finished the download and it shows the logo of greenpoison.. but why is my icon loader on the springboard white, when ts suppsd to be green?

Austin - March 7, 2011 at 10:48pm

What kind of jailbreak is this root/mobile (I guess that's root/userland?) It seems there is a default user, sometimes that's root, sometimes that's mobile, which one is Greenpois0n use? How can I tell right off the bat? If I install lighttpd+php & run a whoami, is that a lighttpd user or the username I'm looking for?

hamed rajabi - February 17, 2011 at 5:02pm

Hey guys,i'm facing problem with my iPod Touch 3G. i can't put it in DFU mode so i can jailbreak it, can any body help? regards

steve - February 4, 2011 at 5:23pm

why bother at all 4.3 out in 10 days ffs

Tulga - February 4, 2011 at 4:00pm

What about iPod Touch 2G MC Model? (8GB) I have no idea is my iPod 2G MC moel or 3G. Will GreenpoisOn work on iPod Touch 2G MC models?

Val - February 5, 2011 at 10:35am

if you have an 8 GB ipod it is 2G for sure. also be advised that this is the final ver. (4.2.1) for this ipod no more updates. i want to know as well will it support this model because redsn0w for some reason doesn't support this device and this device is always forgotten. please make some effort in making it support it. this will be the last of it.

3G Unlocker - February 4, 2011 at 2:43pm

What about unlocking the phone as well?

Reynard Fennec - October 17, 2010 at 4:28pm

For what it's worth: 1. Read the documentation 2. Always make a backup 3. Relax; dont' do this or any other such things in a hurry 4. Your mileage may vary 5. Re-read and repeat. Glad to see another option out there; I upgraded my iPT3G to 4.1 on Thursday PM right after the Limera1n jailbreak came came out; did my backups with TInyUmbrella, made sure my blobs were where they were supposed to be and then proceeded to install and run Limera1n. It took about 5 tries to get it right, but it did work. Patience is a definite virtue when it comes to jailbreaking... Congratulations to the Greenpois0n crew; keep up the good work and here's hoping I don't need it, as the Limera1n worked just fine.

asdf - October 17, 2010 at 9:10am

I have an iPT 3G and when I tried using this it failed at the verbose stage. It said that it couldn't find a file and so it actually told me "giving up" lol When I tried to restart it, it got stuck at the apple logo too so I had to just restore it through iTunes. I lost everything but its better than it not working at all.

Malik34 - February 4, 2011 at 7:19pm

i had the sae problem however im on iphone 4 but all u do is keeping holding the home button till texts appear on the iphone and they move quick

v3nom - October 17, 2010 at 2:35am

I did the JB with this on my iPT 3g and after I went to verbose mode, and completed until the installation of cydia - it hangs.. after couple of minutes my iPT went back to Apple logo and can NOT restart.. PLEASE HELP! I can't do anything now.. it's stucked at the Apple logo!

Austin - March 7, 2011 at 11:44am

Does it show up in iTunes? Can you do a restore there? if not, try putting it in DFU mode, then try using iTunes to restore it