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TUAW Responds: Standalone Contacts App follow-up
The other day, I posted about a safe and simple way to add a stand-alone Contacts app to your iPhone's home screen. At that time, I joked that ModMyiFone would probably come out with a user-friendly Installer-based solution about five seconds later. Sure enough they did.
Kyle Matthews, aka poetic_folly, the co-founder of forum and news site ModMyiFone, has uploaded his one-tap fix to Installer's community sources. This solution is based on TUAW reader OJ Dorson's simplified solution, which Dorson posted in our comments. You'll find the patch in Installer's Productivity section, called Contacts | HomeScreen. It's a tiny little update. The entire solution is less than 1 KB in size.
If you'd like to show your appreciation for this little hack, post off your thank you note here and say thank you to OJ in the comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sam said 7:43AM on 2-01-2008
Has anyone tried copying the newer maps (or any of the other) apps to a 1.1.1 jailbroken/unlocked iphone?
given the 1.1.2 phone app worked and fixed a load of issues, it'd be useful :)
cheers
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DistortedLoop said 8:00AM on 2-01-2008
I originally posted a plist change was probably all that was needed on the original thread, and OJ Dorson confirmed it with the line we needed to edit.
I thanked him there, but I'll thank him again for pointing it out.
Customize did this on earlier iPhone apps, and no doubt it will add the feature when it becomes 1.1.3 compatible.
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OJ Dorson said 10:42AM on 2-01-2008
Thanks for the credit... It did take me a while to find the right change to make. I read TUAW regularly and have always appreciated your iPhone efforts as well.
Could anyone tell me how (if possible) to just comment out specific plist lines instead of deleting them? I'm guessing "
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wififun said 11:44AM on 2-01-2008
By the way, Books is a great app. I use it daily.
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patrick said 12:01PM on 2-01-2008
As of last night, there is now a Speed Dial app from Big Boss, which lets you create one-tap to dial speed dial entries (and assign pics to them), and also loads the Contacts app within its main screen - I think this one may offer the next overall solution yet ...
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patrick said 12:02PM on 2-01-2008
Best overall solution I meant to say, not next overall ...
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djfred said 4:09PM on 2-01-2008
Thanks OJ.
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BlueSky said 1:04PM on 2-02-2008
Tried GoogleMaps from 1.1.3 on 1.1.2, but it does not work. Ii starts up, and then crashes. Unfortunally
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bret lindquist said 11:46PM on 2-02-2008
The new contacts button is great! What prevents apple from getting these added conveniences to us?? I guess we'll never know.
Bret Lindquist
Http://bretlindquist.com
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Morten said 8:05PM on 2-16-2008
What am I missing?
I've installed the hack using installer, but nothing happens?
There's still no icon on my screen.
I'm running a standard OTB 1.1.2 jailbroken phone with StealthSIM
Thanks
Morten
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