So here is the first part to my ipod (Nano) hacking tutorial:
WARNING: You will MOST LIKELY fuck up your iPod a few times so if you are afraid of having
to hit that "restore" button in iTunes, this tutorial is not for you!
PART 1 - The beggining.
Download iPodWizard:
http://www.ipodwizard.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=14115&d=1172611299
After that extract the .zip somewhere you will remmember it.
Start iPodWizard and make sure your iPod has only a tiny amount of battery power left so you
have time to do stuff in iPodWizard.
in the top left of iPodWizard click the dropdown box and set it to "iPod" then plug in your
ipod, on the right near the top it should come up with your ipod's name so then click "Load
iPod Firmware" next to the dropdown box that is set to "iPod"
DO NOT switch windows while it is loading the firmware or you will most likely screw it all
up.
After it has loaded it you should see a little picture, once you see this click "Save All"
on the righthand side of the screen. then save them all to a new folder somewhere, now the
fun part!
Edit any of those pictures you want how you want! you should be able to tell what they are
by looking at them...
RULES OF THUMB:
1. The color white is automatically transparentized by the iPod so don't use it unless you
want something to be trasnparent...
2. No need to edit EVERY picture there, just edit what you want to change.
3. DO NOT change the sizes, they MUST stay the same size!
4. Read the above.
After you have edited them to your liking go back into iPodWizard and load your ipod's
firmware again, but this time select the "Load All" button and select the fodler you saved
all of those pics in, if they don't load (You can check by clicking the drop down just above
the little picture and going through them) you will have the fun job of going through one by
one hitting "Load Bitmap" and selecting the corresponding picture
After all of that is done hit the "Write" button at the top left of ipodWizard.
You will get a popup READ IT! I cannot stress this enough! READ THAT FUCKING POPUP!
After it writes, this can take upto 10minutes but this BETA version is uberfast, just unplug
your ipod and let it laod the new images, once it is loaded enjoy your new skin!
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If for some reason it it plays a little jingle and just keeps rebooting it means something
fucked up, so just plug it in and restore it via iTunes and do the whole process again
No one said it was going to be easy...
But just for all you guys out there (and gals) that have 1.3.1 as their iPod's version and
has a nano here is a theme I made for the ipod (Based on windows Vista) all you have to do
is hit "load all" and select the "Vista iPod" folder, or you may have to do it one by one...
http://rapidshare.com/files/27447600/Vista_iPod.rar.html
And for another them I made (Named it Ares after my favourite windowblinds skin) same goes
for this one, downloade then hit laod all -> Ares ipod or one by one if needed :S
http://rapidshare.com/files/27447737/Ares_iPod.rar.html
ENJOY!
WARNING: You will MOST LIKELY fuck up your iPod a few times so if you are afraid of having
to hit that "restore" button in iTunes, this tutorial is not for you!
PART 1 - The beggining.
Download iPodWizard:
http://www.ipodwizard.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=14115&d=1172611299
After that extract the .zip somewhere you will remmember it.
Start iPodWizard and make sure your iPod has only a tiny amount of battery power left so you
have time to do stuff in iPodWizard.
in the top left of iPodWizard click the dropdown box and set it to "iPod" then plug in your
ipod, on the right near the top it should come up with your ipod's name so then click "Load
iPod Firmware" next to the dropdown box that is set to "iPod"
DO NOT switch windows while it is loading the firmware or you will most likely screw it all
up.
After it has loaded it you should see a little picture, once you see this click "Save All"
on the righthand side of the screen. then save them all to a new folder somewhere, now the
fun part!
Edit any of those pictures you want how you want! you should be able to tell what they are
by looking at them...
RULES OF THUMB:
1. The color white is automatically transparentized by the iPod so don't use it unless you
want something to be trasnparent...
2. No need to edit EVERY picture there, just edit what you want to change.
3. DO NOT change the sizes, they MUST stay the same size!
4. Read the above.
After you have edited them to your liking go back into iPodWizard and load your ipod's
firmware again, but this time select the "Load All" button and select the fodler you saved
all of those pics in, if they don't load (You can check by clicking the drop down just above
the little picture and going through them) you will have the fun job of going through one by
one hitting "Load Bitmap" and selecting the corresponding picture
After all of that is done hit the "Write" button at the top left of ipodWizard.
You will get a popup READ IT! I cannot stress this enough! READ THAT FUCKING POPUP!
After it writes, this can take upto 10minutes but this BETA version is uberfast, just unplug
your ipod and let it laod the new images, once it is loaded enjoy your new skin!
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If for some reason it it plays a little jingle and just keeps rebooting it means something
fucked up, so just plug it in and restore it via iTunes and do the whole process again
No one said it was going to be easy...
But just for all you guys out there (and gals) that have 1.3.1 as their iPod's version and
has a nano here is a theme I made for the ipod (Based on windows Vista) all you have to do
is hit "load all" and select the "Vista iPod" folder, or you may have to do it one by one...
http://rapidshare.com/files/27447600/Vista_iPod.rar.html
And for another them I made (Named it Ares after my favourite windowblinds skin) same goes
for this one, downloade then hit laod all -> Ares ipod or one by one if needed :S
http://rapidshare.com/files/27447737/Ares_iPod.rar.html
ENJOY!
