Third Party Apps ported to iPhone 1.1.1
This morning, we were having a lot of trouble getting third-party iPhone apps to show up properly and run on the home screen. Despite the fact that Apple has added extra protections to SpringBoard and created a list of approved identifiers, iPhone hacker asap18 has managed to port several applications to the iPhone and gotten them to appear properly on the home screen. For now, only 15 icons can be added this way--the last spot appears to be reserved for iTunes. The apps have been tested and are working fine.
He has also tracked down an option for International capabilities in SpringBoard, which may lead to foreign language Application support. This will be needed in countries like Germany and France, where the iPhone will shortly debut.
This is a developing story, and we'll be keeping an eye on it but remember this success is only in regards to running apps on the 1.1.1 firmware. Unlocked iPhones still run the danger of being bricked when upgraded to the 1.1.1 firmware, so if you have an unlocked iPhone do not upgrade to the latest firmware.
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Pete Zich said 8:34PM on 10-08-2007
Praise you all, great work everybody.
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Aleks said 8:39PM on 10-08-2007
I can see a 1.1.2 update coming tonight =)
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Alex said 8:39PM on 10-08-2007
Awesome work Erica & the rest of the Dev Team! :) Hopefully we can get 3rd party apps on the iPod Touch as well as the other iPhone apps on the Touch ie; fully functioning Calendar, eMail,Notes, Weather, Maps & Stocks. Again, AWESOME WORK!!
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mr. Obsession said 8:44PM on 10-08-2007
Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!
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ukickmydog (NDF - Earth) said 8:47PM on 10-08-2007
thank god, good job all of you for your hard work, hopefully apple will one day see that user created apps are the future
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Matt H said 8:48PM on 10-08-2007
This is awesome. I don't even own an iPhone and i'm ecstatic.
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bklynjava said 8:50PM on 10-08-2007
Excellent It shouldn't be long... =)
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matt said 8:51PM on 10-08-2007
See, this is of sufficient interest to the general Apple fan population to be posted on TUAW. All the hacking liveblogs and tedious minutiae of previous days were unspeakably uninteresting.
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Aron Trimble said 8:54PM on 10-08-2007
Wow - exciting times!
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Oli said 8:56PM on 10-08-2007
What about those of us who WANT to upgrade the firmware?
Are the devteam going to sort us out so we can do it?
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Wiz said 9:10PM on 10-08-2007
Great job guys. I wish I could help. I strongly support what you are all doing. It's time company's like apple build product strictly for the consumer and not for themselves. If I wanted to be controled I'd move to China.
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kirankonathala said 9:12PM on 10-08-2007
That means, it is jailbroken and Apps installed :) Don't you think this hack is good for those of us who wanted to cingular and not sign a 2 yr contract?? that had be great, my donation goes to erica this time ;)
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Matt harlum said 9:14PM on 10-08-2007
So, it uses the TIFF overflow or something?
How does this work for people who haven't activated with an AT&T sim?
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akessler said 9:17PM on 10-08-2007
So does this mean we upgrade a phone already jailbroken and it is OK, or do we restore, upgrade and apptapp it? Someone please explain?
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webmacster87 said 9:18PM on 10-08-2007
You know, this is getting annoying. TUAW used to be a great blog to get all kinds of Mac/Apple news and other things happening around the Mac community, but now, it seems like practically every other post is about trying to hack the iPhone. And as someone who does not have and does not want an iPhone, I REALLY DON'T CARE. Couldn't you guys maybe come up with another, separate blog to track iPhone hacking and things like that, and get this site back onto what it should be about: news about Apple?
I'm sorry to sound like I'm whining but it's just rediculous around here.
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Bobby Dale Bailey said 9:22PM on 10-08-2007
The iPhone Dev Team is the best competition that the Apple Inc. has; Apple will have to provide a compelling reason to get people to upgrade past 1.1.1.
What could it be? GPS? Google Earth? VOIP? Open it up to Flash? Free Ringtones allowed? WIreless Sync? Voice dialing? Landscape keyboard?....
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Luigi193 said 9:22PM on 10-08-2007
Fine TUAW folks.
It seems there are a few people who don't like this hacking/iphone news. Maybe you could go the engadget route and get the separate feed without those kind of posts. IT wouldn't just make them happy, it would stop all the whining!!!!!!!
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JonStieglitz said 9:32PM on 10-08-2007
@16
How about A2DP?
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Jack said 9:34PM on 10-08-2007
@17
There is one of those...it's on yahoo pipes, I believe.
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ScottAG said 9:40PM on 10-08-2007
This sounds great! I won't run hacks on my iPhone, but I'm just hoping Leo will stop whining already!
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