Restore Your AppleTV in iTunes Through Mini USB… or Just Jailbreak It

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If, for whatever reason, your brand new iOS-driven AppleTV gets thoroughly corrupted, rest assured you won’t need to take it to your local Apple store: you’ll be able to restore iOS to your AppleTV yourself just by hooking it up to iTunes like any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

It’s a little different, of course: the AppleTV doesn’t have an iPod Dock Connector, so you’ll use a standard mini USB cable. You also need to make sure that neither the power nor HDMI cables are connected, or the AppleTV won’t show up in iTunes.

More interesting than just the ability to restore, though, is what this means in theory: the AppleTV can be jailbroken by tools like the Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool, and if it can be jailbroken, the AppleTV can be taught to run unsigned code… and maybe even apps.

Accordingly, TinyUmbrella has been updated so you can save your SHSH blobs. May as well do that now, just so you’re ready to jailbreak when the time comes… hopefully sooner rather than later.

[via The Apple Press]

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