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hacksugar: Install the 3.1 Clock on your 3.2 iPad

by Erica Sadun Apr 11th 2010 at 10:25PM

Do you like the iPhone clock? Do you miss the iPhone clock? Do you wish the iPhone clock would install and work on your 3.2 iPad? Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has posted some handy how-to instructions on his personal blog. The secret lies in getting hold of a 3.1 compiled build (normally via jailbreak and sftp), editing its Info.plist file, and re-signing the app so it can be installed via Xcode.

This is a developers-only solution, and not for the faint of heart. The application can be signed and installed only onto those iPads that have been registered with Apple at the developer portal. You'll need to be comfortable editing Info.plist files (using a property list editor or text editor), and installing apps using the Xcode organizer window.

Although I confirmed that the install process works (it did not, by the way for Weather or Stocks), I have not been able to test the actual alarm features because, well, I don't actually see an alarm interface when I run the app. But it's still early days as far as this hack goes, and maybe I missed a step somewhere.

Stroughton-Smith reports that many features work fine in the sandbox and can still set system alarms. That's a pretty handy feature for anyone who wants the iPad to wake them in the morning -- even if I still can't quite figure out how to do it.

I had no problem using World Clock. The Stopwatch worked fine. But, along with the alarm, I couldn't get the Timer to work. If you have some work-arounds for those features, jump in into the comments.

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David Frantz

Interesting to say the least. Another problem that could be easily solved by giving user apps real background capability.

As to Apple not suppling iPad with a clock app I think it is all about freeing up as much RAM as is possible. Sad if you ask me.

What is even sadder is that I use clock a lot. Great for unscheduled naps. The stop watch is great for work and other timing tasks.

As a side note the modern cell phone is a lot like the pocket watches of old that conductors carried with them on trains and businessmen wherever they went. Think about it a bit but many people run business around their cell phones these days. Imagine a conductor stepping off a train and being handed an iPhone or iPod Touch for that matter in the late 1800s.

Dave

April 12 2010 at 3:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cougar

@ Tylenol: clock apps from the store don't run in the background.

April 12 2010 at 2:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
voidref

If you want an alarm for the iPad every morning, just use the calendar app.

April 12 2010 at 2:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Designs

Can't see the point. Expect all this functionality back when 4.x comes to iPad in Fall.

April 12 2010 at 1:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cocotutch

Mine. AniClock for iPad. Rewritten entirely for the new Beast unleashed on the world by Apple Inc.....

April 12 2010 at 12:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Loren

So let me get this straight. This is to get the iPhone world clock app working on the iPad? So it'll be upscaled/pixelated and function as only a simple clock and stopwatch? What a colossal waste of time and energy. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Is there really no iPad clock app in the app store?

April 12 2010 at 12:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jtb

The MobileTimer process *is* a background app.

April 11 2010 at 11:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DHowett

... No it's not. It registers a sleepless timer with SpringBoard.

April 12 2010 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Randy

What exactly the point of this exercise? The average person who wants the old clock is not going to be able to do it anyway.

April 11 2010 at 11:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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John.B

Did you miss the "hacksugar:" part?

April 11 2010 at 11:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wosuh

why was it not on the iPad in the first place?

April 11 2010 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bruce

Yeah that's what I have been wondering. Why would they not have the basic clock program that has alarms, world clocks, and the like on the iPad? There is simply no acceptable, rational reason for leaving that out. It's actually my biggest complaint about the iPad. It's a small little app, but it's so basic, so fundamental, so small, and so useful. I shouldn't have to pay even 99 cents for some souped-up 3rd party clock/alarm application. What was Apple thinking leaving out the most basic of programs, something that's fairly basic to a visual OS... and something they already have made - porting it over to iPad from the iPhone/iPod wouldn't take more than five minutes of Apple's time. WTF?

April 12 2010 at 1:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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