So today I want to quickly show you two rather awesome hacks for your iPod touch. The first one, this one, will effectively make all the applications you have noticeably faster. It’s a real short thing, but super effective. My friend Allen Lowe (aka ZeroFill) has shown me this, I have tested it, and it works perfectly.
If you have a jailbroken iPod touch like I do, and you keep on installing apps from the Installer.app repositories, you might eventually see a very annoying message that you run out of disk space. And here’s the worst part: it’s true. See, the iPod touch is divided into two partitions – one for the OS, Applications, and some data. The other one is for the rest such as your precious music and videos.
This hack can only be done when your iTouch is jailbroken, as you need the SSH service to run. So to start this, do these things:
- Go back to your Home Screen
- Go to Settings, Wi-Fi, select the network you are connected to, then tap the “>” in the blue circle, to find out your IP address.
- Then, go back to your Home Screen.
- Now, on a Mac, start up the Terminal application. On Windows, it might be best to use puTTY.
- If you don’t have SSH installed on the iTouch, please install this now via Installer.app and set a root password.
- On a Mac (or any other Unix like system) you can do a
ssh -l root here.is.your.ip
Once you are logged in, do these commands, in exactly this order:
cd /
mv /Applications /var/root/
ln -s /var/root/Applications /Applications
exit
- Restart your iTouch by turning it off entirely (“slide to turn off”), then turning it back on again
If you made it right, you will not see any change whatsoever on the interface. But, you might see that its slightly smoother, apps open faster, and apparently they run faster too.
What you have done is moving the entire Applications folder into the root partition, where you have as much space as iTunes tells you that you have available.
So next time when visiting the lastest in Installer.app, the annoying message should be gone.
Moving on to turning your iPod touch into a VoIP phone!
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