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You're looking for one of two things:
Tethered means being basically "attached" to your computer in a way; you must boot your device by running code on it to make use of an exploit.
 
   
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* [[Tethering]], which shares your cellular data connection with another device, such as a laptop.
==iPod touch 2nd generation==
 
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* [[Tethered jailbreak]], a form of [[jailbreak]] that requires a command to be run from the dock connector upon bootup.
 
The iPod touch 2nd generation was jailbreakable only as a tethered device until recently, when the hybrid dev team released the [[0x24000 Segment Overflow]], and the 2nd generation iPod touch became fully jailbreakable, permanently. The codename for the tethered jailbreak was Redsn0w.
 
 
==Linux==
 
 
Currently, certain devices are capable of booting to Linux. The downside is that this is a tethered boot.
 

Revision as of 15:53, 13 August 2010

You're looking for one of two things:

  • Tethering, which shares your cellular data connection with another device, such as a laptop.
  • Tethered jailbreak, a form of jailbreak that requires a command to be run from the dock connector upon bootup.