Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
Hacks: Caption Crunch loads custom messages onto your iPhone
Remember I wrote about that bunch of undocumented SpringBoard prefs? Ecamm has grabbed the bull by the horns (or possibly by the implanted iPod dock) and produced "Caption Crunch", a simple utility that adds a custom message to your iPhone using the fake time preferences.
Caption Crunch works by modding the com.apple.springboard.plist file that gets stored on your personal computer in the backup files and actually talks to your iPhone and convinces it to upload a new copy of the prefs file. The iPhone will perform a "pseudo restore" and may reboot. I tested on an iPod touch and it worked great.
Cool stuff indeed--but even cooler that Ecamm seems to have taken Mac/iPhone communication up to a new level. No Jailbreak necessary.
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Scott Lawrence said 1:46PM on 1-07-2008
if you have jailbroken it, i added it to my "More Prefs" package, available at http://umlautllama.com/app.xml from your Installer.
I basically combined everything i found on the net for undocumented/unimplemented settings into a settings panel.
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Pete Zich said 3:38PM on 1-07-2008
That's really clever, using the iPhone's backup files to make changes to the system, but isn't that stuff authenticated in some way?
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AriX said 4:29PM on 1-07-2008
Nope, they're not ;)
I've done this before manually (replacing the iPod Touch default dock with an iPhone dock) through iTunes backup files. I was hoping to find a way to jailbreak it this way, but I have given up :(
Jim said 5:29PM on 1-07-2008
Pretty cool - are there any other "no Jailbreak necessary" iPhone tweaks, and if so, where can I find them?
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Phreak said 6:55PM on 1-07-2008
what do i need to add manually in my plist for this to work since i don`t have a mac? i have all of erica`s other pref. add ons. thanx
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Napua said 9:37PM on 1-07-2008
I lost my ATT connection when I tried this, including two periods in my text string (a la URL.) Restoring the time restored my signal.
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