Comments on: Unbricking Your iPod Touch with the Manual DFU Procedure

By: Carlete

Carlete — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:19 +0000

Life saver… thought my iphone was dead :P… all of this for trying to crack intelliscreen :S

By: bobnoxious

bobnoxious — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:47 +0000

Your method was the only one that has worked for me. I think my iphone was stuck in a DFU loop and was not being recognized by iTunes. Thanks you are a lifesaver.

By: CPAV

CPAV — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:51:22 +0000

thank you. i love you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:04:28 +0000

Thanks you so much, a friend of mine had her ipod touch bricked. And she just bought it, this saved her a trip to the store and possibly the warranty being voided.

Again, thanks a bunch!

By: Nick Charles

Nick Charles — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:33:47 +0000

mate you are a life saver!! i have been searching the net for the past hour trying to find out how to stop my ipod, which was stuck in a DFU mode loop, untill i found you

thank you so much

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:08:19 +0000

I tried this but only get the “USB device not recognized” message on my computer, and the recovery screen on the iPod Touch. Any other tips?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:45:14 +0000

Damn, thanks for this guide: 18 hours into ownership I bricked it as well, didn’t know I had to disable the lock code, itunes doesn’t initialize properly with it enabled apparently…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:55:05 +0000

Jat,

To my knowledge, you cannot change the root password but you should be able to restrict ssh access by editing sshd_config to only allow people to connect using key-based authentication instead of password-based.

Good luck!

By: kat

kat — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:02:44 +0000

Man, good thing i found this. I was having same problem. I changed the password via terminal on mac. And this went wonky.

So there’s no other way to change the password? I’m stuck with alpine?

By: Hawkins Dale

Hawkins Dale — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:53:12 +0000

Dave:

I have documented my little iPod freak-out (pretty much identical to yours) on my blog, and plagiarized your instructions blatantly (with attribution). I hope you don’t mind.

I kind of think that this is important. I didn’t find anything on the Apple support site that explains how to set an iPod Touch to I AM A BRICK PLEASE FIX ME mode.