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TUAW Responds: Standalone Contacts App follow-up

by Erica Sadun Feb 1st 2008 at 7:00AM

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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Morten


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

February 16 2008 at 8:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bret Lindquist

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

February 02 2008 at 10:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
djfred

Thanks OJ.

February 01 2008 at 4:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
patrick

Best overall solution I meant to say, not next overall ...

February 01 2008 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
patrick

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 ...

February 01 2008 at 11:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wififun

By the way, Books is a great app. I use it daily.

February 01 2008 at 11:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
oj

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 "

February 01 2008 at 10:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BlueSky

Tried GoogleMaps from 1.1.3 on 1.1.2, but it does not work. Ii starts up, and then crashes. Unfortunally

February 01 2008 at 10:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

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.

February 01 2008 at 8:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

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

February 01 2008 at 7:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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