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iPhone 101: You've got iPhone or iPod touch jailbreak! What next?

by Erica Sadun Oct 29th 2007 at 10:30AM

You've run the TIFF exploit jailbreak and your iPhone or iPod touch now has Installer.app on your main page. So now what? Here are some tips and ideas for you.

Add Community Sources. Most third party applications are found under Community Sources in Installer.app. Until you add this feature, you won't see most of the dozens and dozens of available applications from repositories like SMXY and Conceited Software.

Try out some great apps. My personal favorites include my own Voice Notes recorder (for iPhone only), Apollo IM instant messaging client, and Mobile Colloquy for irc. There are productivity apps, games, and utilities, all available for your mobile device.

Add direct file access. Install the BSD subsystem and (in Community Sources) Open SSH (both from NerveGas). Once you've installed ssh, you can use any sftp client to transfer files onto and off of your unit. On the Mac, you can also install MacFuse and sshfs to gain Finder access to your units. Remember that the new iPhone and iPod touch 1.1.1 password is "alpine", not "dottie". Many GUI sftp clients may not see the entire directory tree. In this case, you may want to enable afc2.

Know when things go wrong. The latest Installer.app has been hammered by new users. If you get a "package" error when trying to install, just do a re-install. You may need to uninstall first, depending on the progress when things failed. If you touch an app icon and it launches, pauses and quits, make sure you've installed the BSD subsystem. Failing to install BSD is the number one reason most app launches fail.

Know about restoring. If you ever change your mind about a jailbreak, just restore your iPhone or iPod touch using iTunes. Assuming you haven't unlocked, your iPhone or touch will be identical to one shipped from a factory.

When things slow down A number of people have reported system slow-downs after jailbreaking. Unfortunately, a roughly equal number have reported the same problem without jailbreaking. If this happens to you, just restore your iPhone or touch and re-jailbreak.

OMG, OMG, OMG restore failed This isn't that uncommon. Try restoring again once or twice. If iTunes fails to see the iPod or iPhone, google for iphuc dfu mode.



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maria

hello
I have 1.1.2 iPhone. By mistake I tried installing installer.app of 1.0. versions. Then I restored with the back-up, but now when I try to install version 1.1.1 nothing happens - I just see the blue question mark. Can I still do something to install installer.app?
Thank you

November 26 2007 at 5:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
deano

Hi again, to clarify #35 post, i meant upload from PC directly to the Touch without going online and downloading an ebook off a collecting site? I've got a ton of ebooks and reading offline is a higher measure of value to me than music/video/pics/geek-value :-).

October 31 2007 at 11:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
deano

Firstly many thanks to Erica and the many other contributors and tippers of info on this forum. I'm trying to get my iPod Touch online via wireless at office network but couldn't until i found the MAC address (in Settings>General>About scroll to bottom) for the iPod). While I await for my IT folks to add that on to permit me through, I was just wondering if there is a way to upload basic txt files etc to read offline on an ebook reader app?

thanks in advance

October 31 2007 at 11:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

Could someone PLEASE tell me how to put NES ROMs on my iPhone or point me somewhere that would help. I have searched around but no luck so far...

Thanks!

October 31 2007 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chrisbe

Kriss. How does your YouTube work now that you have Jailbroken your iPod Touch? My YouTube is not working properly at all.

October 31 2007 at 9:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kriss

Just a small update, I was able to get the sftp working through Windows Vista using CuteFTP. I basically set my IP address of my Itouch to a static IP on my wireless network. I created a new SSH connection in CFTP using this IP address as the site to connect to. Bing, bang, boom, it got on. The file hierarchy was familiar but unfamiliar as I couldn't find any photos or identifiable files. I noticed my music was listed as NMVX.mp3 with random letters for each song. Who knows what that means? Anyway, it works great, thanks to all the people who made this possible. If anyone knows how to decipher the file system, I would be interested. Many thanks.

Kriss

October 31 2007 at 12:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oli O.

Hi, I jailbroke my phone yesterday and everything has been working great up until 5 minutes ago. My speaker has started to muffle all the clicks and rings that usually come from the phone. Is this a common problem? Is there a way to fix without a complete restore?

October 30 2007 at 11:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kriss

Hi everyone. I just did the jailbreak to my new Ipod Touch by going to jailbreakme dot com and it worked perfectly. At first the installer app didn't have much in it, then my touch decided to do some kind of update and all the new apps were there. When I did as the moderator suggested and added the community services, a whole bunch of new apps appeared. This is UBER cool. Trying to get the sftp part to work.

October 30 2007 at 11:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chrisbe

#27, how do I check the file permissions within the ".app"?

October 30 2007 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chrisbe

I jailbroke my iPod Touch. And like others Youtube no longer works properly. I am able to play some of the videos I had previously bookmarked but none of the others.

October 30 2007 at 9:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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