Comments on: Download and Test iPhone Apps Before Buying From the App Store

By: menoob

menoob — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:33:33 +0000

ed, what exactly do you mean by updating?

By: ed

ed — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:18:41 +0000

Ive jailbroken my firmware 2.2.1 itouch using winpawn and installed installous. Installed apps using installous and works fine but i prefer downloading the ipas by computer and sshing in download folder of installous and install it using installous and it seems to work just fine. The problem im trying to solve is NONE of the apps i installed thru installous are updating. Ive been searching in google if other people are having similar problem but with no luck so im assuming every1s installed cracked/test apps are updating just fine. Can any1 tell me how to get all my cracked/test apps installed thru installous to start updating? Also tried syncing with itunes but it doesnt update as well although the apps was synced successfully.

By: menoob

menoob — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:33:33 +0000

ed, what exactly do you mean by updating?

By: ed

ed — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:18:41 +0000

By: deniedMac

deniedMac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:01:17 +0000

btw the permission 0775 is the same as 775…?

By: deniedMac

deniedMac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:34:16 +0000

hey man what;s up…
I have done everything u said, but when I c the app in my iPhone and touch it to play it says “The application cannot be opened”….
what can I do man…? need some help…

By: menoob

menoob — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:34:03 +0000

I would recommend that you follow this tutorial instead:

http://menoob.com/2008/11/24/looking-for-mobile...

The steps are very easy and you don't even have to install mobileinstallation! :-)

By: troy

troy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:23:23 +0000

ok i got the sftp client downloaded.....i just need to figure out how to:
# Using an SFTP client software on your Mac or PC, connect (SSH) to your iPhone (default username is root and password is alpine).

# Navigate to the iPhone folder: “/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework” (MobileInstallation.framework is a folder).

# Backup the file “MobileInstallation” from the directory above(rename it to MobileInstallation.bak). HELP PLEASEEEEEE!

By: troy

troy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:09:33 +0000

sorry i'm new on this, i'm stuck on step two….where do i get a free sftp client….really have no idea on this proceedure… help please…… i have a non 3g iphone 2.1 bought it pre hacked, jailbroken….. i have openssh installed, i saw it on my cydia, i'm gonna need help on how to make all these apps loaded to my iphone though…..thanks in advance!

By: menoob

menoob — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:19:59 +0000

Once you have downloaded AppShare and Installous from Cydia, you don't have to use them if you don't want to, but you can still download ipa files from your favorite websites and install them manually from iTunes to your iPhone 2.2.

AppShare for me is great without lags.

By: XxX

XxX — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:03:18 +0000

Appshare is too laggy for my liking. Where do I get the MobileInstallation file for 2.2?

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By: menoob

menoob — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:27:07 +0000

Thank you for the kind words! This motivates me to do better :-)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:58:37 +0000

This is the best, most “detailed” set of instructions I've found yet. I appreciate you taking the time to go STEP by STEP and leave NOTHING out. I was about to pull my hair out because the cracked .app I had installed would NEVER show up on my springboard. I didn't even know about having to replace the “MobileInstallation” file because the sources I was following the “install cracked .apps” from never mentioned it. I guess those places just assumed I had already replaced my default MobileInstallation file with the 2.1 patched file or, at least, knew about it. As with the old saying, “assumption is the mother of all f-up's” which, in my case, was their assuming was causing me to f-up! I'm still learning this whole jailbroken, cracked app installin', modifying, etc. stuff for my iPhone 3g, so it takes a while to learn this stuff and when people who write tutorials, blogs, etc. don't include every little bit of information, or, at least, try to be thorough then if makes it harder to accomplish hacks and learn this stuff because when something doesn't work out correctly then it's probably due to some small, minuscule file or piece of information that was left out of the tutorial or blog. Thank God for google though!! :)

I downloaded a cracked “Readdle Docs” .app file to check it out and could never get it to show up on the springboard even after changing all the permissions and adding the “Documents” folders. The missing piece to the puzzle was upgrading the patched “MobileInstallation” file. Thanks again for the great info! Your blog is definitely getting bookmarked by me. :)

By: Andre Momm

Andre Momm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:38:39 +0000

Works PERFECT. Thank you very mutch.

By: smat

smat — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:42:20 +0000

thanks guys I simply pressed skip and so far so good; everything worked out…

Can you guys help me out with something please? I was playing spore last night for about half an hour or so and when I exited the game I checked the battery and it was over half full and this morning it was at %20 in the red. Do you guys know why it drained so much overnight (half of the battery)? Perhaps part of the game was still running in the background, or other games that I have tried? I’m on iphone 3g 2.1 FW 3G was on wifi was off and so was BT…

Any suggestions?

By: menoob

menoob — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:59:27 +0000

You're welcome! :-)

By: menoob

menoob — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:58:46 +0000

I'm not sure what is that particular application that gives an error, but try “skip” and see what happens.

By: ninjazx

ninjazx — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:04:24 +0000

smat
as far as i can see you dont change that below
'applications/0EB970F5-5AD8-47FC-9B50-09ADDA32EF6D/library/preferences/com.apple.peoplepicker.plist'

just permissions of the applications folder

By: ninjazx

ninjazx — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:59:16 +0000

i followed the instructions that you gave and so far its bin spot on thanks
3g on 2.1

By: smat

smat — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:56:27 +0000

Hello,
please help; I can't change the permissions of the folder “applications” in the mobile folder in Private/var… When I change it to 777 and check reclusive then OK i get an error: “cannot change properties of file 'applications/0EB970F5-5AD8-47FC-9B50-09ADDA32EF6D/library/preferences/com.apple.peoplepicker.plist'.” it gives me the option to either abort, retry, skip, and skip all… I think i'm going to just skip it and see what happens but your help will be appreciated… i'm on iphone 3G jailbroken on 2.1 FW..

By: MobileInstallation 2.1 for iPhone 2.1 | menooB

MobileInstallation 2.1 for iPhone 2.1 | menooB — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:26:44 +0000

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By: menoob

menoob — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:22:30 +0000

Hmm, not sure how. Can you point me to the link?

By: HC

HC — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:14:53 +0000

hi, i have an app i need to ssh into my iphone but it has several folders, which i don't know where to place them..

i've installed other .ipa & .app but here i'm lost.. please help...

in the main folder:
-abc.app
-abc.framework folder, which has within it has abc.dylib
-library folder, which has within it has a folder named abc, which has within it has a file named abc.sqlitedb
-system folder, which has within it has a library folder, which has within it has a coreservies folder, which has within it has a file named springboard.app

By: menoob

menoob — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:37 +0000

At least you finally got it working. Now, have fun testing those apps!

By: Matt (again)

Matt (again) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:18:28 +0000

OH JEEZ… I found out what went wrong. Eh, I feel so stupid. I erased the file extension for mobileinstallation AFTER i put it SSH’d it into the iPod. I just tried it again thinking it would actually work but instead erased the file extension BEFORE putting it in.

By: menooB

menooB — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:03:55 +0000

Maybe a problem on how you pwned it? Try pwning it again.

After your iPhone gets updated to 2.0.1, perform this tutorial again. Syncing to iTunes will bring back your apps.

By: menooB

menooB — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:03:55 +0000

Maybe a problem on how you pwned it? Try pwning it again.

After your iPhone gets updated to 2.0.1, perform this tutorial again. Syncing to iTunes will bring back your apps.

By: PwnToolediPhone

PwnToolediPhone — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:14:34 +0000

iPhone 2.0.1, pwnd with PwnageTool latest version, keep getting the boot logo wont go further, iTunes does recognize it tho, can sync etc… any other way to install tryout games?

By: PwnToolediPhone

PwnToolediPhone — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:14:34 +0000

iPhone 2.0.1, pwnd with PwnageTool latest version, keep getting the boot logo wont go further, iTunes does recognize it tho, can sync etc… any other way to install tryout games?

By: menooB

menooB — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:54:45 +0000

Oops, it does work on 2.0.1. You just have to perform the procedure again.

By: menooB

menooB — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:54:45 +0000

Oops, it does work on 2.0.1. You just have to perform the procedure again.

By: menooB

menooB — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:32:59 +0000

Well, it looks like this method no longer works with firmware 2.0.1. :-(

By: menooB

menooB — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:32:59 +0000

Well, it looks like this method no longer works with firmware 2.0.1. :-(

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:56:42 +0000

I was wondering if this would work on the new 2.0.1 firmware for the iPod touch. I did it and it seems to get stuck at the apple boot logo. To fix this I just had to delete the cracked mobile installation file and used the backup. Does that mean that a new mobile installation file would have to be cracked for the new firmware? Seems likely and logical. Great blog by the way. Thanks, respond if you can!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:56:42 +0000

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