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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store [Pulled]
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I checked after it was pulled and it was the 2nd top paid app,and I think 3rd highest grossing, right after Angry Birds. Now I just rechecked and Apple pulled all of the stats down. I wonder how many downloads happened? What was Apples cut of the big pie?
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1) In Windows 7, go to Control Panel and open Network and Sharing Center
2) Select "Manage wireless networks"
3) Click "Add" and select "Create an ad hoc network"
4) Enter in a Network name (make up one), choose your "Security type" (No authentication (Open) if you don't want to bother with a password, or WEP if you want to specify a password)
5) Connect the iPhone to the Ad Hoc network you created, assign it a static IP of 13.37.13.37 and Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
6) In Windows 7, go back to "Network and Sharing Center" and click on the active Ad Hoc connection to bring up the Wireless Network Connection Status window
7) Click on "Properties", highlight "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" and then click "Properties"
8) Select the "Alternate Configuration" tab and enter in an IP address of 13.37.13.38, Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0 and click OK. The address 13.37.13.37 should now be pingable from a command prompt.
9) Open Firefox and goto "Tools" and then "Options"
10) Select "Advanced" then "Network" and click on "Settings"
11) Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter in, SOCKS Host: 13.37.13.37, SOCKS Port: 1337, select SOCKS v4 and click OK
12) In Firefox, type "about:config" in the address bar and click past the warning prompt
13) IMPORTANT STEP!!! Scroll down to "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" and change this value to TRUE
14) Close Firefox
15) Open HandyLight on your iPhone and do the BRY top right corner sequence
16) Open Firefox again and you should now be able to browse
Why does this work ok in OS X without much effort and not in Windows 7 you ask? It seems that OS X will automatically forward DNS lookup queries through the SOCKS proxy. Windows doesn't work like this, at least not when using the proxy settings and you specify in IE. It seems someone else a couple posts before this got Safari to work under Windows 7, so I'm guessing Safari will automatically forward DNS lookups through the SOCKS proxy. Firefox has this capability too, but you need to mess with the about:config to turn it on. No clue how to enable this to work with IE, and Chrome is pretty much screwed as a result since it uses the proxy settings you specify in IE. I'm sure someone can figure it out to get all browsers to work.
Just like with Windows 7, you should be able to get Firefox to work under OS X by typing in about:config in the address bar and changing the "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" value to TRUE. Don't forget to select SOCKS v4 when you put in the proxy settings in the Firefox connection settings as I wasn't able to get it to work when it was set to SOCKS v5.
these are not my instructions and it say chrome wont work but it just did for me
You're welcome
1) In Windows 7, go to Control Panel and open Network and Sharing Center
2) Select "Manage wireless networks"
3) Click "Add" and select "Create an ad hoc network"
4) Enter in a Network name (make up one), choose your "Security type" (No authentication (Open) if you don't want to bother with a password, or WEP if you want to specify a password)
5) Connect the iPhone to the Ad Hoc network you created, assign it a static IP of 13.37.13.37 and Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
6) In Windows 7, go back to "Network and Sharing Center" and click on the active Ad Hoc connection to bring up the Wireless Network Connection Status window
7) Click on "Properties", highlight "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" and then click "Properties"
8) Select the "Alternate Configuration" tab and enter in an IP address of 13.37.13.38, Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0 and click OK. The address 13.37.13.37 should now be pingable from a command prompt.
9) Open Firefox and goto "Tools" and then "Options"
10) Select "Advanced" then "Network" and click on "Settings"
11) Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter in, SOCKS Host: 13.37.13.37, SOCKS Port: 1337, select SOCKS v4 and click OK
12) In Firefox, type "about:config" in the address bar and click past the warning prompt
13) IMPORTANT STEP!!! Scroll down to "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" and change this value to TRUE
14) Close Firefox
15) Open HandyLight on your iPhone and do the BRY top right corner sequence
16) Open Firefox again and you should now be able to browse
Why does this work ok in OS X without much effort and not in Windows 7 you ask? It seems that OS X will automatically forward DNS lookup queries through the SOCKS proxy. Windows doesn't work like this, at least not when using the proxy settings and you specify in IE. It seems someone else a couple posts before this got Safari to work under Windows 7, so I'm guessing Safari will automatically forward DNS lookups through the SOCKS proxy. Firefox has this capability too, but you need to mess with the about:config to turn it on. No clue how to enable this to work with IE, and Chrome is pretty much screwed as a result since it uses the proxy settings you specify in IE. I'm sure someone can figure it out to get all browsers to work.
+1 but I'm on AT&T. My airport light is yellow instead of green after changing SOCKS Proxy settings. Any advice?
They are my instructions, and I tried everything to get both IE and Chrome to work but couldn't figure it out. Are you positive Chrome was working? Sure it wasn't just loading cached pages?
If he really is 15 then Apple would do best to let this quietly drop. They don't need yet another PR fiasco.
//////////////non jailbroken iPhones///////////////
anything is possible when jailbroken.
With reported Q3 profit of $3.25 Billion I doubt that a few thousand bucks that this app probably earned before it was pulled matters to them at all.
Ok here's the deal. I did this and I got connected fine. The thing is, now that I'm trying to connect back to my wifi network, it won't let me. I erased all re settings I put in on both the Mac and iPhone setting the tethering up. However when I try to connect to my network on my iPhone, it says the password is incorrect. I made sure it was correct. I tried a hard reset. No luck. Now for my Mac. When I try to connect on my Mac, it takes a while to find the ip address and when it can't find one it self assigns it therefore not connecting to the Internet. I tried resetting the computer and the airport card. No luck with that either. Anyone encountering this problem? If so, do u have a fix? Thanks.
With reported Q3 profit of $3.25 Billion I doubt that a few thousand bucks that this app probably earned before it was pulled matters to them at all.
Hey, money's money.