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How to jailbreak Apple TV 3, Install NitoTV and Kodi

Everyone, please note Apple has just performed an update on their end due to the AppleTV+ app update and thus rendered this exploit unusable, I hope #EtasonATV updates his exploit to a newer signed version of iOS, if anyone can figure out how to get around an unsigned IPSW please leave a comment below

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About Apple TV3 and This Jailbreak

How to Jailbreak the Apple TV 3

Install Kodi

Install NitoTV

About Apple TV3 and This Jailbreak

I know what your thinking… Apple TV3? you know the Apple TV4 and 4K are out, right?

Yeah, yeah I know, however, this jailbreak for the Apple TV 3 was only made available this year, I have had an Apple TV 3 for 7 years and let me tell you, ever since I purchased it I kept hoping for this jailbreak.

Tired of waiting I used the DNS exploit, for Plex Connect, if you never checked it out I created a step by step guide, I believe still works today, what this allows someone to do is, have the ability to use the trailers app to access your Plex media server, and in turn access your Plex Media library and Plex channels.

This article will be divided into 2 parts, a text part, and a video part, as even those following the video will need to copy the commands to install NitoTV and Kodi.

Before we begin, I would like to advise you this is based on Apple TV 2 compatible software, this means NitoTV and Kodi will be older versions, let's hope the developers bring us some new updates to applications compatible with this jailbreak!

Here is the video to follow along with:

How to Jailbreak the Apple TV 3

If you are reading this and have your AppleTV updated to the latest version you will need to restore it to the previous version, we need the Update 7.4, 8.4.3_12H876 version, there are 2 hardware versions of the Apple TV 3, in my case, I didn't know what version I had so I downloaded both, you can download your IPSW file from here if you are already at the required version go to the next steps.

To verify your Apple TV software, head over to Settings, General, and About, look for Apple TV Software

Apple TV 3 Jailbreak

To restore your Apple TV 3 to the correct version, make sure you have iTunes installed, and a micro USB cable, unplug the HDMI from the Apple TV and you will notice a micro USB port directly below the HDMI port.

Power up your Apple TV and plug it into your computer, fire up iTunes and you should see a tiny AppleTV icon at the top left.

Now you should see a page with your Apple TV serial number and current software version, if you are on a PC, hold down the Shift key, and click Restore Apple TV, this will open a window to select the ipsw file you downloaded earlier, I'm not sure but I believe on MAC you can do the same by holding the apple key.

iTunes will restore the Apple TV software, this will take some time

Once the process is complete, plug the Apple TV back to your TV and let's install the jailbreak!

Let the Apple TV load
Navigate to Settings, General, Network, if you are on Wi-Fi select Wifi, on Ethernet, select Ethernet, go down to Configure DNS, set it to Manual, and configure the following DNS IP

046.166.144.059
Hit Done

Navigate back to the General section
Highlight Send Data to Apple and double click the play/pause button on your remote
Click Add Profile, OK and enter the following URL

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers.cer

Click Submit, and head back to the home screen
Open the Trailers app, and you should see the following

Just hit the select key and watch the magic happen
Downloading Resources should display, followed by Running stage 2 exploit
Once complete your Apple TV will reboot at come back to the home page

Head back into settings, General, Network, Ethernet/Wifi, and change DNS from manual back to automatic, and take note of your IP Address
Now to finish installing the Jailbreak, we are going to SSH into the Apple TV, now if you are on a MAC, all you need is terminal, and Windows 10 CMD should work but might give errors, I'm on Windows 10 however I found the best to work with this was Putty, grab it here if you need
In putty, simply punch in your AppleTV IP address and click Open, if you are in Terminal or CMD type in

ssh root@192.168.(your IP)

Login as root
Password is alpine

The first time you SSH into the Apple TV PuTTy will provide a scary warning message, at this point, it is imperative that you say YES

if any other button is clicked you will have to start over

Putty Security Alert

Now to finalize the Jailbreak copy the command below and past it into your terminal

dpkg -i /var/root/untether.deb

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

reboot

Once you run the reboot command, your Apple TV will restart and your jailbreak is complete

Install Kodi

Let's install Kodi now, the version we will be installing is 14.2(Helix) if you still have putty command line up, right-click the top bar and select Restart Session

Log in again, user Root, password Alpine
Copy the following commands, make sure to wait for every command to complete

apt-get install wget

wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add -

echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

echo "deb http://mirrors.kodi.tv/apt/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list

apt-get update

rm -rf /Applications/AppleTV.app/DefaultAnimalPhotos

rm -rf /Applications/AppleTV.app/DefaultFlowerPhotos

rm -rf /Applications/AppleTV.app/DefaultNaturePhotos

apt-get install org.xbmc.kodi-atv2

wget --no-check-certificate http://mirrors.kodi.tv/apt/atv2/deb/org.xbmc.kodi-atv2_14.1-0_iphoneos-arm.deb

dpkg -i *kodi*.deb

rm *kodi*.deb

reboot

At this point you should have a new icon on your home screen, as Kodi should be installed

Install NitoTV

Once again, restart the session and log in as root
Run the following commands, again make sure the command completes before you proceed

echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

apt-get update

apt-get install com.nito.nitoTV

killall -9 backboardd

That should install NitoTV on your Apple TV 3, with it you can now install custom software just like with Cydia.

If you have successfully installed both Kodi and Nito TV without issue you are good at this point however it is recommended to run 2 more commands:

wget http://joshtv.net/party.sh

bash /private/var/root/party.sh