Update release January 10; Update Link and Info is available Below
First up a huge thanks to the creators of the touch hack - they have given my iPod a new lease of life.
Secondly my greatest regards to theislander for his help & permission for modifying his hybrid hack.
For all those who don’t know many months ago the iPod 6th Gen looks that is the split screen was imported to the iPod 5G & 5.5G by a group of geniuses.
If that wasn’t enough happiness they went a step further and successfully brought the iPod Touch icons and a similar dock to the 5 & 5.5G iPods.
As they creativity knows no limits 1 of the guys thought to do a hybrid version of the touch & classic he was in beta and still is however a genius by the alias theislander successfully brought that hack to life.
I have now modified theislander’s firmware with images and strings of my own liking (theislander himself helped me a lot).
Here is what the firmware will make your iPod look like:
A small FAQ for the guys new to this:
1. What does installing this do
This is like the firmware you get from apple; all you are doing is updating the firmware nothing else.
2. Will this is affect my Songs; Videos and other data on the iPod?
No. This will not affect anything, your songs; videos; contacts everything remains intact.
3. How different is this from Linux & Rockbox?
Very Different. Linux and Rockbox are totally different OSs for the iPod, whereas this 1 is the same Apple Firmware.
Now -How to install this:
Download iPodWizard - Download Page
First up we will backup your existing firmware:
1. Start iPW
2. In Edit Mode drop down at the top choose ‘iPod’
3. Press Load iPod Firmware on the side
4. Click on Updater which is next to Themes below
5. Press ‘Extract Firmware Binary from your iPod’
6. Choose a location and save
7. Wait
Now let us load the new firmware:
1. In Edit Mode drop down at the top choose ‘Firmware File’.
2. Press Open Firmware next to it.
3. Select the downloaded Firmware.
4. Wait.
5. Now press ‘Write To iPod’.
6. Read the Disclaimer & Instructions.
7. Once successfully prompted your done.
8. Safely remove your iPod and enjoy. 
There are some images that need to be re-done in Photoshop so will keep on doing it and will release the resources only.
How to Update:
0. U need to have the hybrid re-touched hack installed on your iPod.
1. Connect iPod to computer.
2. Start iPW.
3. In Edit Mode drop down at the top choose ‘iPod’.
4. Press Load iPod Firmware on the side.
5. Now you should see a bluish image in the window below the ‘pictures’ tab.
6. On the right you should see ‘Load All’ Button.
7. Click it and direct it to the folder extracted from the zipped file.
8. Wait.
9. Press ‘Write’ at the top.
10. Done.
Edit: I just found that some one has made a video demo of the hack and has aptly named it New “ipod touch” BEST firmware for ipod 5G, thank you 
January 10th, 2008 at 1:40 am
How long should it take ipodwizard to install it, i open the firmware and pressed write to ipod but it dosent seem to be doing anything.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:09 am
is this for 5g or 5.5g
January 10th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
this is for 5G
a 5.5G version: http://dajavax.googlepages.com/hybridretouched
January 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
couple of things i noticed:
1. When album artwork is displayed the title, artist and album title is shifted to the right alot, that should be easy to fix
2. at a high brightness setting the volume bar background is a greenish color not black, again easy to fix.
3. when going through the menus you shoul make it so the white on the menu(background) is raised few pixels….. that might be a bit harder.
email me if you fix these
January 11th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
1. When album artwork is displayed the title, artist and album title is shifted to the right alot, that should be easy to fix
Ans: Restart ur ipod it will rectify it itself
2. at a high brightness setting the volume bar background is a greenish color not black, again easy to fix.
Ans: Some images are fixed some are being … watch out for v2
3. when going through the menus you shoul make it so the white on the menu(background) is raised few pixels….. that might be a bit harder.
Didnt quite get u on this 1
January 12th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Hi! Thanks for your work! I actually liked your firmware a lot but trying to help you I’m here to tell some “things” I found out:
1- The image that displays as a default album artwork when u don’t have the custom album in the now playing a faulty image but in the “classic” menu is ok.
2- as the guy just said “When album artwork is displayed the title, artist and album title is shifted to the right a lot, that should be easy to fix ” I restarted my iPod as u answered to but it still does these.
3- A freaking error: When in the now playing screen, the right thing is the artist name in the middle but sometimes it is on the place of the song name and the song in the middle. I don’t know the logic of it but with some bands it happens with some musicas and some not.
Well, thank you so much for the work, and I hope you fix this issues to improve your great work.
THX
January 12th, 2008 at 5:15 am
well the third issue I mentioned occurs when i have the album artwork of the music/band and so the music name is in the place of the artist name in now playing screen, just like I said. =/
January 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am
First up - thank u guys for the interest and taking the time to give me feedback
1- The image that displays as a default album artwork when u don’t have the custom album in the now playing a faulty image but in the “classic” menu is ok.
- v1.1
sorted out
2- as the guy just said “When album artwork is displayed the title, artist and album title is shifted to the right a lot, that should be easy to fix ” I restarted my iPod as u answered to but it still does these.
- i cant figure this 1 out coz initially it happened on my pod but now its not happening so i will have to take a look at the original firmware im used …. il check it out
3- A freaking error: When in the now playing screen, the right thing is the artist name in the middle but sometimes it is on the place of the song name and the song in the middle. I don’t know the logic of it but with some bands it happens with some musicas and some not.
- no idea man … never happened on my pod will do some more r&d
thank u again for ur time
January 17th, 2008 at 6:51 am
k so when your like browsing your songs or artists or whatever….. the white area on the screen if the selector bar is all the way at the bottom there is like 2 pixles of white underneath it just try it and you will see what i mean
January 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
@eric about the 2 pixels: ya i realised this and will be rectified in v2; i am waiting for the *official* hybrid hack from the touch hack developers; it will eliminate a lot of bugs which are there in the current firmware hack, once that is done then i will port this theme to that firmware which will take care of a lot of bugs right now
January 17th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I’m having a couple bugs with this, this major, but a few of the pictures have some errors, such as in the now playing window, if there is no album art, the picture behind has some pixels that are black instead of what colours they are meant to be, same thing with the arrow in the top left hand corner in the now playing window.
Also, if my song does have album art, the text at the top is getting some weird alignment issues, it moves over to the right side.
I’m on a 5G iPod.
Also, I found a startup picture that’d like to put in, would you care to point me to a tutorial on how to change this.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
hello adam; thank you for ur interest in the theme
the bug u are referring to ie. the album art problem, i have released v1.1 the link is in the blog itself at the bottom use that it will take care of some bugs in images most importantly the album art problem
the alignment issue is something that happens and not happens at its own wish and is an issue with the hybrid firmware i have used, v2 will most probably eliminate this; restarting the ipod is a quick fix for this problem (switching it off and not putting it to sleep)
changing the boot apple logo i have only found this link see if it helps!!
January 18th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Thanks, that fixed it, also, that link worked, and I have a different startup image now.
I’ll be sure to keep a look out for an update to fix the alignment issue.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
hi..i tried to do this to my ipod… and i did everything u said.. the only thing i didnt understand was “Select the downloaded Firmware” … by that u mean select the firmware we saved? or what firmware…… well anyways i choosed the firmware we saved and then did everythin else.. and the resuslts were pretty much the same original them but with some different images.. what can i do? or what did i do wrong? i would apreciate an answer to this… post here or add me to msn…..dark_cloud11@hotmail.com thank you in advancee
January 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
sorry for the late reply my internet was dead
u need to download the firmware from the download link given above; once u have downloaded the firmware (its in the zip file) then u need to load that firmware on ur iPod; once u have done that then follow the steps for the 1.1 update
January 25th, 2008 at 4:57 am
what file is the firmware?? because on the ipod retouch 1.1 i just have a bunch of image files and a thumbs file.. and ipodwizard there is not a firmare.. or what file do u mean?
pd sorry im dumb but i dont have experience about this jeje
January 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
see for v1.1 you need to first have v1 …. so from the download page of v1 you will get an archive - unzip it; the file u extract from the zip is the firmware file; write this file on the ipod as instructed and then as instructed apply the v1.1 following the instructions
January 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
oh now it works…..its amazing i love it.. ty man for helping me installing this to my ipod.. i was wondering if u knew any other hacks or tricks for ipods jejeje ty
February 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I did everything like it said and by th way thanks the theme is niccce but when i click photos or video or extras and settings it just takes me to different parts of the music submenu like if i click photos it will take me to playlists i restarted and it didnt fix itself did i do something wrong thanks
February 19th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
u will have to change what is displayed on ur main menu as in u will have to navigate to settings and set ur main menu to display only the following options:
Music
Photos
Videos
Extras
Settings
only these things, i hope u understood, please feel free to contact me regarding any issues and thank u for the lovely comments
February 27th, 2008 at 8:55 am
hey can you tell me how you made the transitions between menus so smooth?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I had previously a iPod touch hack in my iPod, but this one works a lot better!! Good job , thanks for your hack , it looks awsome!!
Melvin
Baldwin
April 1st, 2008 at 2:03 am
another error found
other languages won’t show up after the update. i have songs in korean, chinese, and japanese but only the japanese shows up, korean and chinese just are blank spaces or question marks. i’ve tried restarting/reseting but no luck.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
yes there are some problems with other languages as support for them was not included in the hacked firmware i used, i will come up with a solution for this
April 27th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Hi!
The issue with false links at the menu was solved a few comments above.
I’ve got a problem that seems to be the same but in a different menu.
When i select the music menu and try to open “playlists” it starts simply playing something.
Interprets is now playlists and so on. Solution?
April 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Hi Flo,
I am dumb founded by the problem, I haven’t come across it and neither has any1 brought it to my notice.
I cannot actually think of a solution to it, I would recommend you to try re-installing it.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:30 am
hmmm, when i use this hack, the version of the ipod changed to 1.21, should i update to 1.3??
May 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
@RE rida: No, doing that will result in loss of the theme, this theme has been made on the firmware 1.2.1 and therefore it shows so in the iPod properties, incase you find any problems then update, else don’t if you want the theme.
PS: there are no major changes in 1.2.1 or 1.3
May 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
ok, so the update is a way of bak, ty, another problem, the video image clip showed on the “now playing” are too small to cover the image behind it nor do some of the alum image which made it looks bad, anyway to fix it? thx
May 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Thanks a lot for reminding me about that, there was a mix up in the update package which caused the issue, I will be coming out with some another update which will rectify most of he image realted problems.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
just to remind that im using a 5.5g
May 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
and i dont know how to use update… i read it, tried it, didnt seemed to work, lol blame myself
May 7th, 2008 at 10:42 am
@RE rida: You are using 5.5G, that is the problem, I made the hack for 5G, it was ported to 5.5G by a forum member where I had posted this hack, I am not sure whether he has added the update too
May 8th, 2008 at 10:16 am
thx for the answer, i really love the theme, just found a few bugs hope he/u will soon fix it, thanks for the theme a lot tho
May 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am
@rida thank you for taking out the time to let me know of the bugs. Appreciate it :p
May 9th, 2008 at 4:52 am
man i need to talk to u bout my ipod got a lot of questions, u have a msn or something?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Sure, check here:
Contact
May 28th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Manan dude, I have just bought a iPod Classic 80 GB and it does have cover flow feature. so is it 5G or 5.5G?
May 28th, 2008 at 4:02 am
iPod Classic is 6G and has to have Cover Flow.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Thnx dude, also i keep my music organized (alum art and all), but some of my music misses the artist and genre etc. So how can i import the music details from sites like wikipedia? here is a page from widipedia that contains info abt eminem album, how do i import this details into my songs collection? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slim_Shady_LP
May 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Hey Ashish, no problems, anytime.
Go through this guide I have written:
iPod Power User Guide
For importing song details, you will either have to edit the album details manually or use Winamp and use the Auto-Tag feature for all songs.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:41 am
help! ipw doest seem to load the firmware!
well the loading box appears but it doest load.
if u get what i mean =S plz help!
July 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Hey zak: Wait for some time, it does appear to not load but after some time it will. If you are not getting any error, then wait for some time.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hi there, just like to say, wiked mod for ipod.
Buttt… i have one problem, when i play a song and go back to the main menu, then i get this white screen which fills the top 11/12ths of the screen and when i scroll down, it follows and fills the bottom 11/12ths, why does this problem occor,
i have tried reinstalling the app buh alas no avail.
could u help pls thanks
July 21st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hi Kumi, nice to see you here, thank you for the compliments. Have you tried updating to v1.1?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
yehhh the theme is v1.1
July 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
No idea! Never had that problem
Try re-installing it. I will re-test it on my iPod and see if something like that happens.
July 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Hi… great work!! I’ve just installed and looks pretty terrific
Thankyou indeed.
[ Just a little "bug":
In the 'now playing' screen (if the track playing has album art) the default image (the black headphones on the CD)appears behind the actual Cover Art. I dunno if my album images are so small for this hack ^^ ]
July 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
The headphone image is the default size of album arts. So if your album art is small then the image will be shown.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Ok.. I’ll try another way for loading album art in the files (I manage my Ipod with Winamp)
BTW, very important for me.. the Lyrics screen is gone????
I’m English learner so that feature is pretty helpful for me (I also add lyrics of my fav english songs)
July 29th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Please some one help me. This is my first time doing this. What is an ipw and where do i get it. Help!!!!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Dude, read the post, all the information has been given in a detailed manner.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:10 am
hello,this is my first time trying your hack and im having an issue. =( when i try to write the firmware to my ipod it gives me an error “code: -1,22, 22898541″ help please!!
July 31st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Is your iPod the 5G? This hack is only for the 5G iPods.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:09 am
No Music appears No Video No photos No games … after the update and installation of the firmwire, and iTunes says its all there, i just cant see it in my menu’s….Any suggestions???
August 7th, 2008 at 2:11 am
nevermind fixed it…just had to let Itunes sync some junk onto it…Very Well done…I applaud you…5 Stars!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:39 am
how come no lyrics?!?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
@Stan, glad you liked it, thank you for the appreciation.
@FranKLin: I came to know that the lyrics is giving some problems, will see if I can pin-point the problem and release an update.