Jailbroken iPhone 3GS gets FaceTime... sort of
Jailbreaking team iPhoneIslam has managed to enable FaceTime on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS... sort of. iPhoneIslam's app, "FaceIt-3GS," is currently available in the Cydia store, and allows users to enable FaceTime in the iPhone 3GS's Settings app.
However, the functionality is quite limited. The most obvious stumbling block is hardware-related -- without a front-facing camera, the FaceTime experience will be quite limited on the iPhone 3GS no matter how creative jailbreakers get. iPhoneIslam's FaceIt-3GS app doesn't enable FaceTime via the 3GS's rear-facing camera either, though, so the only added functionality this hack appears to give 3GS owners is the ability to accept FaceTime calls from an iPhone 4, newest-generation iPod touch, or Mac, and view the sender's video stream.
Not being able to use the rear camera for sending video is disappointing, but if your iPhone 3GS is already jailbroken, you might want to give this a try anyway. Only being able to view someone else's FaceTime video is limiting, but it's better than having no FaceTime on the 3GS at all. You can see a video of the hack at work above -- but make sure to turn your volume down before you get to the end of the video.
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Jailbreaking team iPhoneIslam has managed to enable FaceTime on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS... sort of. iPhoneIslam's app, "FaceIt-3GS," is...
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Not sure why you would want to jailbreak just for this. 3Gs can easily run both Tango or Fring to do video chat on 3G network. Get creative on using the rear camera, but it works.
November 08 2010 at 12:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe important thing here is voice calling. Screw the video.
November 08 2010 at 10:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou know someone's going to hack together some kind of snap-on mirror attachment to make the 3GS camera front face, right?
November 08 2010 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyiSnapMe. Been out for a while. :P I think it's going to get a lot more customers very quickly. xD
November 08 2010 at 10:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replymr.Colin ZeteBoy
it's not appropriate to talk like that about Islamic countries
terrorism is some thing even real Muslims don't except it
terrorism is not any thing near Islam
and it seems to me that u don't know any thing about Islam
The Repo is down for me...anyone else experiencing this?
November 08 2010 at 2:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyim sorry but u r a bit old
it actually enables the camera the video u show is their first video
they put up another video where the camera works
just go se their website i wont link
please correct ur post :)
For reference,
FaceIt-3GS requires you to add the iPhoneIslam.com repository.
In Cydia
Go to Manage
Sources
Edit
Add Source
Repository URL = http://apps.iphoneislam.com
Confirm and it will now show up when you search for it.
Sam
me n friend already got around the hardware limitations. its the the most eloquent solution but isnapme works pretty good. but we been using it with tango. i wish someone would make a case with an easy snap on snap off periscope style camera
November 08 2010 at 1:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust tested it on my 3GS, works perfectly, and it DOES use the rear camera, so it is true FaceTime... Well, more like WallTime, but that's a different issue. It does do live video chat, and even works on the T-Mobile network. (With using SMS to activate, I wasn't sure if it would or not.)
November 08 2010 at 1:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThen i guess the race is on to see who can develop the best mirror/case so they can see you out of the rear-facing camera!
November 08 2010 at 12:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm on TMobile, I just got everything set up but I'm "Stuck on Activation". What should I do?
November 10 2010 at 4:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyor you could just use tango which is in the app store
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