So first things first, we need to brick this sucker so we can make it call proof without a SIM card. So you have 2 options now, you can head over to http://iphone.unlock.no and pay $25 dollars for a universal iPhone hack or you can do a bit of research and you can alternatively do it this way. First we need to get a program called “redsn0w” and you can get it here or here. Now for this article, and instance I personally used redsn0w 0.8 which requires the iphone firmware version 3.0 or 3.0.1. You can find those firmwares plus loads of others from here.

After you have downloaded the firmware and redsn0w its time to move on to the next step. When you run redsn0w and give it the location to the firmware it will ask you for if you want into install cydia, icy, and or unlock. For this because there is no support or demand for childrens applications on the hacked app install database, its not needed here so im going to just unlock the phone.The next screen will prompt you for the boot loaders. Yup because this is a older original iphone you need 2 separate boot loaders. You can aquire those here or here.

So now we get to a tricky part. redsn0w will have directions on the program window that are greyed out and become active on a timer that you can see. Follow the directions verbatim. When the phone hits the rescue mode redsn0w will take over and the magic will start to happen. Once the process is finished (10 minutes or so) its time to start adding some media suitable for a 2 year old onto the device. So I decided to drag out some of my babies favorite DVDs. One of which happens to be Mary Poppins. So in order to continue from here we have to rip the DVD and encode it to a portable format. Now there is no need for me to get into an explanation of how to rip a DVD in this article so, you can find a nice step by step tutorial here that uses free software. The rest as they say is history. I did take the time to move all but a few of the icons on to an auxiliary window on the ipod so they wouldn’t reside on the home screen. Buttons such as the phone, text messages, and so on. In return I replaced the missing buttons with some nice free games from the apple app store such as “bubble wrap”, and “tap tap revenge”.