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How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Posted February 4, 2013 at 7:22pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch 5G or iPod Touch 4G on iOS 6.0 to iOS 6.1.2 using Evasi0n for Mac.

Step One
Ensure your iPhone is on iOS 6.0 to iOS 6.1.2 then perform a backup of your iPhone using these instructions.

Step Two
Create a folder called Pwnage on your desktop and download the Evasi0n utility into the folder. You can find download links for Evasi0n here.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]


Step Three
Double click the Evasi0n dmg file from the Pwnage folder on your desktop to mount it.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Four
Drag the Evasi0n application from the mounted dmg into the Pwnage folder on your desktop.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Five
Right click (or Control+Click) the Evasi0n app icon then select Open from the contextual menu to launch the application. If prompted to confirm, click the Open button again.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Six
Ensure your iPhone is connected to the computer via a USB cable if you haven't already.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Seven
Remove any lock screen passcodes on your device then click the Jailbreak button to begin.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Eight
The app will retrieve information from the device to generate jailbreak data, inject stage 1 jailbreak data, reboot the device, wait for the device to be ready, inject stage 2 jailbreak data, upload Cydia, and upload the Cydia packages list.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Nine
You will then be asked to unlock your device and tap the new 'Jailbreak' app icon. It is imperative that you only tap the icon once. The app will open and immediately close.
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Ten
Evasi0n will then inject the remount payload, remount the root filesystem, prepare the final jailbreak data, inject the final jailbreak data, and complete!
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]

Step Eleven
Your iPhone will now reboot with Cydia on the SpringBoard!
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 5G, 4G Using Evasi0n (Mac) [6.1.2]


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Shay Evelyn
Shay Evelyn - September 14, 2013 at 5:01pm
What happens if you delete the app of your mac? Will that delete it off your ipod?
Nouf
Nouf - June 19, 2014 at 10:37pm
انا ارغب في الجلبريك
hasoos
hasoos - May 17, 2013 at 2:15am
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Bryan Gama
Bryan Gama - March 17, 2013 at 4:18am
when i downloaded 'evasi0n-mac-1-1.5.3-f284166e164e33735163af64b0af4e6336654345-release.dmg' on my mac, it said "the following disk images couldn't be read"
Ivan Can
Ivan Can - April 11, 2013 at 6:43pm
when i downloaded 'evasi0n-mac-1-1.5.3-f284166e164e33735163af64b0af4e6336654345-release.dmg' on my mac, it said "the following disk images couldn't be read"
Sam Rajski
Sam Rajski - March 9, 2013 at 4:28am
I get to the screen that u have to press jailbreak and it wont let me click it
aa2007
aa2007 - March 15, 2013 at 11:32am
you waited too long. it only takes less than 5 mins. u have to press it quickly
Daniel
Daniel - February 6, 2013 at 3:44am
Awesome job on this tutorial! I found it simple and straight forward. Keep up the good work. Lovin' the new JailBroken iPod Touch 5g! Not sure why I waited this long to update it!
AZOOZ
AZOOZ - March 1, 2013 at 12:08am
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Kaka
Kaka - February 5, 2013 at 12:25am
how can i download instalus. or any other source.
Froshen
Froshen - February 4, 2013 at 9:18pm
I was wondering how to add battery percentage now that I jailbroke it. Any ideas?
Shay Evelyn
Shay Evelyn - September 14, 2013 at 5:03pm
No, but can you delete the app of your mac without it deleting jailbreak off of ipod??
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