Second, how is this done? Well, it is more simple than you could imagine, a noob could do this (no offense intended, it is just that easy) - here's the procedure:
HOW TO: Go to Settings on your device, select Safari, scroll down, clear your cache, clear your history, clear your cookies, hard-reboot the device (that means full power down and restart). Once you are back at your homescreen, open Safari and visit http://jailbreakme.com/ on your device
you should be taken to this page
Follow the on-screen instructions, "slide to jailbreak", practice your patience and you should be good to go! NOTE: It make take a couple minutes to get started (some saw wait times up to 15-minutes from posts I read last night). Do not get discouraged if this does not work the first or second time, there are a lot of people hitting this site because it was only released within the last 24-hours. @saurik was working on scaling the hosts last night and said it should be GTG now, regardless, be patient and come back to it later if it does not work right away.
Took me 3.5 minutes on my Pod Touch 2G (non-MC model) running iOS 4.0. This is an untethered jailbreak (means you do not have to have it plugged into your computer system to work, AND you can hard-reboot while jailbroken - bonus!!), the process is recommended to be performed on WiFi, not 3G (let me know if you get it to work on 3G, I'm curious).
IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR iOS 4+; there is an important update to Cydia that I had to get done in order for the default repositories to function properly. It took me a few hard-reboots to get it to automatically download, but eventually it did and everything functions as expected - you can try to force the update if you do end up having problems with Cydia being able to cache the default repositories; here's the package details:
Package Name: "Base Structure"
The default version is 1-3; you need it to be version 1-4 in order for the default repositories to work, such as the one that allows you to download ROCK (rockapp).
Third, what do I think?
Well, I'm happy to be jailbroken again, I missed my radar loader most of all. One major drawback, but not technically an issue - since the iPod Touch 2G on iOS4 does not support user wallpapers on the home-screen, neither does the setting in Winterboard (this is by default from Apple, only the iPod Touch 3G can do this. Also notable is the fact that the iPod Touch 1G & 2G CANNOT multi-task under iOS4, again only the 3G model has the capability). HOWEVER, themes downloaded from ROCK or Cydia that contain homescreen wallpapers DO work. You can still customize the lock-screen though (thank you @ceoSteveJobs). One thing to be mindful of is that most of the apps in both Cydia and ROCK (as of this blog posting) are NOT compatible with iOS4 (such as the popular ANDROID LOCK app, which is only avilable for iOS <3.2). This upset me initially because I happen to like the ANDROID LOCK. Now that there is a JB for iOS4+, my hope is that the hackers of the app worlds will unite quickly and roll out updates.
Some of you may ask, "when is the Geek gonna release some dope apps?" Well, all in due time my friends, all in due time.
Cant wait to do backup an give it a try....
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