The other day I made the terrible terrible mistake of trying to upgrade my iPod touch to a cracked version of 1.1.3, up from my jailbroken 1.1.1. I was unable to get it cracked using Zibri's app (kept getting the same thing a lot of people are getting, hangs at "BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0"), so I decided to try a vanilla version of 1.1.3 out, just for kicks. After restoring my iPod I got this screen:

 Okay… so how do I manage my music and sync settings and stuff? There are no tabs appearing to do that, and clearly the iPod is highlighted right now… I'll click off the ipod to something else, then click it again and see what happens…

Oh what? I don't want to pay $20 for apps that should have been on there to begin with. Screw you Apple. Hm… I still can't manage or sync my iPod. Maybe if I just click "No, Thank You" I can move on from this screen…

Oh well that's cute. Fine, I'll click "OK" and then go back and click "remind me later". I really don't want to be reminded later but apparently because the iTunes music store is out on a drinking binge with all of its college buddies, it is unable to process my request at this time. I'll wait until it has sobered up and had a few cups of coffee.

Well I'm really not enjoying my vanilla, nagging version of 1.1.3, so now I'm starting to think maybe I just go back to a cracked 1.1.1 and pretend none of this ever happened? Yeah… let's do that.

I'd like to tell you that went smoothly, I really really would, but it was a terrible nightmare. Every time I tried to downgrade to a clean version of 1.1.1 I got  "Unknown error [1]". Don't you just hate Unknown error [1]?? After some Google research I found a few Youtube videos that show you exactly how to get past UE1. You can't just simply put your iPod into recovery mode like you would think you could. You have to put it in recovery mode a very specific way, by holding the buttons down a very specific length of time. Well shit, who knew! So I did that… and GREAT SUCCESS! That is until Unknown error 1604 crashed the party. Apple help has a section on error 1604 in their help, that pretty much sounds like a total hail mary:

"Uhhh… try rebooting. No? Okay umm, what about unplugging all your other USB devices? Still no? Hmm okay well… why don't you try polishing the Apple logo on the back of the iPod. Still no, hey? Oh, maybe try doing the restore on a different computer. BINGO." 

Yeah. After hours of anguish and torture I finally restored my iPod on a different computer. Why should I have to resort to that?? That's just insane. Now, I'm back exactly where I was a week ago (minus the 10 years that debacle took off my lifespan) with a cracked 1.1.1… NEVER AGAIN. 

I used to love Apple products because they "just worked", but I'm really not feelin' the love lately.