Apple Web Log: iPod Touch Original Wallpapers

The first version of the iPod Touch contained some great wall papers. They were inspired by the dancing silhouettes that back then was the theme of the iPod commercials. Those wallpapers were very pretty and I wanted them for my iPhone. Unfortunately I could not found them anywhere on the. So I decided to find them myself. I looked around in various Forums and after a lot of trouble I managed to find them. I will share in this post the the details of the quest.

So I started by looking the various forums until I bumped on this post a the modmyi.com.There the suggested way was to recover them from the original iPod Touch firmware update. That was simple.
Download the .ipsw for the iPod Touch. You should get the 1.1.4 update. A link that is working is here.
Once done, the .ipsw will look like a folder and there there will be three disk images with one about 126 MB, named "022-3893-4.dmg". That s the one that contains all the required software. In there there should be the wallpapers. The problem was that the image files was password protected.
So how do we go around the password protection? Pwnage Tool. The tool to make the hacked firmware update. You can get the appropriate version for the 1.1 firmware here.
Open the Pwnage Tool. Click the Browse .ipsw. Safari will automatically decompress the zip file of the firmware and put the archive in the trash. Recover the archive. This is the file that you will give to the pwnage tool.
Select the zip file and click ok. Wait a few minutes while the pwnage tool read the firmware image. Once done click the .ipsw Builder button and that to build the custom firmware. It will ask you where to save it (select a folder eg Desktop). It will also prompt from your password. No worries give your password.
Once done the Pwnage Tool will create the custom firmware at the folder of your chioce and will name it "iPod1,1_1.1.4_4A102_Custom_Restore". Tired... Well we are not even done yet... Patience...
The problem is that the new version is cannot be opened. Well zip it : Selecting it, right click and select compress iPod1,1_1.1.4_4A102_Custom_Restore"
Now trash the original file and unzip the archive. The unzipped version now now is a folder. We are almost there. In there again you will see the "022-3893-4.dmg" file that now is not password prottected.
Mound it.
Navigate to the /Library/Wallpapers/. Yes.... those are the file.
Copy the folder to your computer and tarsh all the used files.
By this point oyu are dissapointed. You double clicked the images and there is nothing there. A big question mark looking at you. After all this work nothing.
What happened is that although the images are .png they are formated with the iPhone/iPod's own propietary image format. So you cannot view them on your computer but if you mail them to yourself then you can recover them in iPhone and then you can view them.
By looking around though I found some tools in this link that can convert the images.
Download the modified vesion of the file (here) and transfer the folder named "iPhonePNG copy" on your desktop.
Transfer in there the folder Wallpapers you retreived from the firmware of the ipod.
Now open Terminal. Type the series of the following commands:
cd Desktop/iPhonePNG\ copy/
./iPhonePNG Wallpaper/
This will create a second folder named "Wallpaper-Decoded" And in there are the so needed iPod Touch original wallpapers. By reading the comments I found the site http://zope.release78.org/beta2/iconvert/ that actually does the conversion on line.