Hacking Ipods
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This article is designed to teach you how you can change the annoying circle with a slash in it icon that says Do Not Disconnect that flashes endlessly most of the time. You can replace it with any graphic you choose. You can also change fonts and logo, power status, and battery icons if you so desire. You will need an ipod for this hack, obviously. This hack should work on most iPods. Next you are going to a Windows based PC with Apple’s iPod software already installed. Download and install the Apple software that contains the firmware that you are going to add your own graphics to. Warning: When you do this, you will lose all data as you will be restoring your iPod. Also, this will almost certainly void your warranty, so your on your own if something else bad should happen to your ipod. But on the other hand when you are finished you will your own brand of iPod and that is well worth it. Next up, download iPod Wizard. We’re not sure if Apple is going to be upset about this but it shouldn’t be a problem.
Unzip the file, and start iPod Wizard. Click Open Updater and choose the Apple Update Application you downloaded, it should be in Program files under iPod. Once open, choose the firmware for you iPod. The color one is easy, once you select the firmware you can click the arrows to see the icons, and in this case, they were in color. Find the image you wish to replace, in this case the circle with the slash through it. After you have found it, click on Save Bitmap to save the file to your system. From there simply use any bitmap editor that you want to edit the image and then save it. Click on Load Bitmap which will load in the image that you just created. Click on Write and this will allow the editing the firmware on your PC and prepare it to be restored to the iPod. Once you have completed that, open Apple’s iPod update. After determining your iPod is plugged in correctly, the iPod updater will then look to restore the firmware that can be found. In this example, it found the iPod photo and you will have the option to restore, which in turn will add the new firmware with the custom image.
Click on restore, and after about 5 minutes you will see the new image you made. Remember that this kills all your data, so be sure to back up before you do this. On a side note, Apple and all music player makers should make this part of the software that comes with their device, so that everyone can change the desktops, icons, and everything else on our computers, because it makes sense to be able to brand our music players any way the owner wants.
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