Ipod Touch 2.1 Download Links

  • Posted on: September 9th, 2008
  • 70 Comments

Thanks to commentators I obtained the links for Ipod Touch 2.1 firmware upgrade. Ipod Touch 2.1 Upgrade contains some bug fixes and battery life yet I have not seen copy paste feature which I was expecting to see in this release.

UPDATE: Download 2.2

UPDATE: Since 2.1 links are broken or not working , go to “This Link“ upgrade to 2.0 , after that just update your iPod Touch via iTunes to 2.1. Works for me and many others! See last coments.

To upgrade your ipod touch you have to have iTunes 7.7 +

Download the file > Open iTunes > Connect your Ipod Touch > Navigate to Ipod Touch and HOLD Shift Key and press Upgrade with your left mouse > Browse to the file you download and upgrade will start.

If you are Mac user HOLD Option button!

Please digg this story.

Thank you!

  1. Axel said on September 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    THANKS A LOT!!! U FRIGGIN ROCK!!!

  2. Cory said on September 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    Download speed is slow. But if it works, Well worth it.

  3. Cory said on September 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    I came up with an error. Figures.

  4. Paul said on September 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    I couldn’t get it to work either. When it eventually did download Itunes was unable to use the file.

  5. live crunch said on September 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    @Paul: Worked for me just fine, what did you do? Describe Steps Please

  6. tafele said on September 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    it showed eror(5)

  7. henk said on September 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    I did this: and HOLD Shift Key and press Upgrade with your left mouse > Browse to the file you download and upgrade will start.

    but after it extracted it said: ‘The iPod could not be restored An unknown error occured (5)’

  8. Will said on September 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Thanks alot!!! Been looking for it for awhile

  9. cloudbyday said on September 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    in itunes 8.0 press down on the shift key and press the restore button. the windows explorer button pops up. locate the file on the computer and press open. let it run its course

  10. jigman said on September 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    Didn’t work for me. Saved it. opened itunes. shift + update. extracted. unknown error.

  11. Your mom said on September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    the second link doesnt work anymore

  12. live crunch said on September 10th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

    @jigman: ill check on it thanks for report

  13. live crunch said on September 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    @henk: looking into this error, try the 2.0 then if you don’t have it yet see this link

    works 100%

    http://www.livecrunch.com/2008/07/11/ipod-touch-20-upgrade-download-link/

  14. Judy Hooks said on September 10th, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    I need help. I downloaded Mirror 1 to my desktop, what’s next?

  15. live crunch said on September 11th, 2008 at 7:40 am

    @Judy Hooks: Sent you email

  16. Jan said on September 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    where is the damn link?

  17. live crunch said on September 11th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    @Jan: Read the post (bold part)

  18. Jan said on September 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    haa… here is the link folks :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yiphJEfjTk

  19. matt said on September 12th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    this shit doesn’t work

    youtube link is down and no link on this page

    some help

  20. live crunch said on September 12th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    @matt: i removed link please read the text in bold.

  21. Adam said on September 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Where are the 2.1 links. i found the 2.0 ones but i see nothing here.

  22. XV said on September 18th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    The second like gave me error 5. Im assuming its because its the iPhone firmware (the filename says iPhone). Downloading the first one now, and the filename says iPod, so im also assuming that the people who got error 5 have downloaded the second 1 and the ppl who got it working were patient enough to download the first one first lol

  23. live crunch said on September 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    @XV: I didn’t even realized until now. I removed the link and I apology’s

  24. XV said on September 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Just to verify, downloaded the first one (now the only one :P ) and it works. Woot! Enjoy people!

  25. lupu said on September 18th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    i can’t find the correct link. please post it here. i got the same error(5) :( (

  26. live crunch said on September 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    @lupu: There are no links yet, Go to the link above and upgrade to 2.0 then just download the regular upgrade which is going to be free anyways.

    And delete the upgrade you have, its probably iphone upgrade not ipod.

  27. lupu said on September 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Thanks for the answer. I tried 3 or 4 versions of files from different sites and the same error. Right now i am at 61% downloading the files from your site. hope it works. i got an Itouch 32Gb with software 1.5 and is not jailbreaked.

    i’ll post again in an hour :) . 40kb/sec

  28. lupu said on September 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    everything worked smoothly. Thanks. just install 2.0 from the link above. There is no error. and then you can update to 2.1.

    Thanks again live crunch

  29. matt said on September 21st, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    i cant do it:( help?

  30. Harveym said on September 21st, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    o snap it actually worked i downloaded a version from other websites and it didnt didnt work but this one did 10/10

  31. tville fella said on September 21st, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    thanx for the download man it worked fine and i was using 8.0 itunes :D

  32. kakitiss said on September 22nd, 2008 at 6:47 am

    I’m on a European MPB, I don’t have an option button, I do, however, have “alt”. But holding the option button and clicking upgrade doesn’t bring up a menu! Help! Im on iTunes 8.0

  33. Punkt6 said on September 26th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    Here you can find de current link to the latest IPod (touch) & IPhone Firmware directly from Apple:
    Link :)

    much Fun!

  34. masa said on September 26th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    thank you a lot

  35. live crunch said on September 26th, 2008 at 10:53 am

    @Punkt6: Thanks for sharing Punkt6 did u also verify if it works?

  36. Punkt6 said on September 26th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    oh yeah! i updated my ipod touch 16GB from version 1.15 to version 2.1! it’s great! When the restore to version 2.0.2 was done, iTunes will upgrade to 2.1!!

    Have a nice weekend!
    nice greets Punkt6

  37. Ryan said on September 28th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    I get unknown error (1403) when I try to install any software. 2.0 or 2.1

  38. live crunch said on September 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    @Ryan: Many people installed both of them, tell us what do you have on itouch and what itunes version you have

  39. mary said on September 29th, 2008 at 4:36 am

    where is the link???

  40. kakitiss said on October 1st, 2008 at 3:43 am

    I get the same error as Ryan, I’m on iTunes 8.0 and my iTouch is on 1.1.5! Anybody?

  41. mary said on October 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am

    i can’t find the link to download update 2,1……….plz tell me where it is..i have already the upadate 2,0

  42. JoJo said on October 1st, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    I think what you have to do is upgrade to 2.0 then from there upgrade to 2.1 after that just hope it works and make sure when updating to 2.1 to have iTunes 8. Here are some places to grab the FW:
    http://www.trejan.com/projects/ipod/
    http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/

  43. mary said on October 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 am

    i have already downloaded the upgarde 2,0 from livecrunch and now i downloaded the upgrade 2,1 from http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/…When I was installing the upgrade 2,1 it tells error 5…what can i do?

  44. Paco said on October 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Im looking for the 2.1 firmware, where can i find it for hte ipod touch

  45. guy said on October 6th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    it says error 5 and puts my ipod in restore mode i have itunes 8 and 1.1.15 firmware on my ipodtouch pm me at khoosherman@gmail.com

  46. gusslozz said on October 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Its works great, you have to upgrade to 2.0 firts, after you go with 2.1, well that’s what i did. Use itune 8 to upgrade to 2.1, just press and hold the shift bottom and them click restore with the left bottom of your mouse, after that get the file you downloaded before and that’s it. I downloaded the file in http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
    Remember choose ipod1_2.1
    Thanks….

  47. jonno12345 said on October 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    i upgraded to fw 2.0 fine but it will not update to 2.1 when i open itunes… it just syas 2.0 is the current update.

    what can i do???

  48. jello said on October 13th, 2008 at 4:37 am

    Hello.

    My Ipod is currently under 1.4.4. I have to upgrade to 2.0 first before 2.1? Could I do that while in recovery mode?

  49. jello said on October 13th, 2008 at 6:26 am

    Hi!

    Do I have to upgrade to 2.0 before 2.1? I currently have 1.1.4. Also, my touch is currently stuck on recovery mode. I can’t seem to DFU it. Could I still upgrade?

    Thanks in advance

  50. Sandra said on October 17th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    yay! thiis sooo worked thanks soo muchh (:

  51. live crunch said on October 17th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    @Sandra: Sweet!

  52. Dan said on October 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am

    I updated my ipod touch to 2.0 using a downloaded ipsw file… now I can’t update to 2.1? Any thoughts? Looks like it’s downloading if I try and purchase from apple…. then just disappears!

    Driving me round the bend!!

  53. Sharon said on October 24th, 2008 at 3:18 am

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  54. leo said on October 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    hey i downloaded the link and when i tried putting it into my ipod using alt and upgrade it said error…help! What can i do???

  55. fountainhead said on November 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 am

    Hi, upgraded to 2.0 after downloading the link given above. But then got stuck.

    When I check for update this is what i get :

    “This version of the iPod software (2.0) is the current version”

    Googled and found many people are facing the same problem but could not find any solution.

    Would appreciate any help.

    I am using the latest itunes 8.01

  56. DJ said on November 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    thnks!!!! the downloads pretty fast compared to the 2.0 firmware which took exackly 7 hours 36 minutes to open, then another 10 minutes to update.

  57. kim said on November 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Hi had simliar problem error 1403 as well. Pls help! email to kimzh_horizon@hotmail.com. Thanks!!!

  58. Samuel said on November 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    A MILLION THANKS!!!

  59. mervyn buttigieg said on November 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    thanks works fine

  60. david said on November 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    worked! thanks

  61. raf said on November 27th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    do u need a jailbroken ipod?
    since i might jailbreak my ipod.
    and can i just get 2.1 on itunes for free then?
    and what if i have the 2.1, where do i download games then?
    & is it the same way to put it on the ipod like putting the 2.0 software on the ipod?

    many thx.

  62. kj said on January 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    It worked!!!

  63. Jeroen said on January 4th, 2009 at 9:58 am

    hmm… i’ll try it but thx in adv. if it worked

  64. blahblah said on January 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    yeah, when i do all those steps..
    it says “unknown error 5″ or something
    a lot of us are having that problem, someone help :(

  65. live crunch said on January 21st, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    @blahblah: I think u got that error because your version of itunes must be 7.7 or 8.+

  66. Sarah said on March 1st, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    ive got itunes 8, 1st gen ipod touch
    i hit shift and restore after downloading 2.0 mirror it took hours
    and unknown error (1403) came up

    i only need the update to get the wireless to work on my ipod for uni, the IT guy said i’d need to update it before i could connect to the uni’s wireless network because it doesnt work

  67. Spencer said on March 20th, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Hi, I’ve been on the apple store line for over 2 hours trying their troubleshooting ideas. I tried this and the first time I tried it updated it to 2.0 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

  68. Emiliano said on March 30th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    i browsed to the file and did all the steps and it said error 1403.
    please please please help me

    i have the 1st gen. ipod touch and i have version 1.1.4 and it sucks please help

  69. Emiliano said on March 30th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    how do i do this it says error 1403 when i do it!
    please help please..

  70. LStacey (Lee Stacey) said on January 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    @Suomikiss Try this: http://is.gd/evsk

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