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GriP for iPhone, an alternative to popup notifications.

jmann

jmann

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I just ran across this great alternative to pop-up in-your-face push notifications that has great potential and many possible uses. It's called GriP, it offers a growl-like notification for the iPhone. Currently it only supports notification for new emails and high CPU usage. It uses all apple approved APIs, and script can easily be written to give it support for incoming SMS and push notifications. It is still in it's early stages, but it has worked flawlessly for push email. I am definitely going to use this as a replacement for pop-up notifications, it is much better than having a disruptive box pop up that disrupts work flow. Growl users will love this. As of right now it is for jailbroken phones only. What do you think about it?

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What do you mean "As of right now it is for jailbroken phones only" ? That will NEVER be available as an official application unless Apple implements it themselves.

It looks very nice though. I'd much rather something like that for notifications. I'm assuming it relies on Mobile Substrate? If that's the case it won't work with 3.0 yet unfortunately :(
 
I have downloaded and set up this app but I never see it at work. Maybe I'm missing something?
 
I am testing this on my jailbroken 3G and I must say I love it. This is the ONLY reason I would ever jailbreak my 3G S.
 
GriP + 3.0 Stacks (check out the demo video, it's sick) makes me want to jailbreak my 3GS. Being able to Sling over 3G would be very welcome as well. Once the 3GS jailbreak is released I'd give it a try, just to see how performance is with these things installed.
 
OK, so I followed these steps...

The beta versions can be found from this site's download page. You will obtain a .deb file, which can be installed on your device with the following steps:

Create an SSH session to your device and login as root. You can follow this page for instruction: http://cydia.saurik.com/openssh.html
Upload the .deb file to /var/root/.
Start a command prompt. In there, type cd ~ ; dpkg -i «filename.deb», where you have to replace «filename.deb» with the file name of the uploaded file (without the guillemets).
If it prompts Mobile Substrate is not installed, make sure you have installed it. You can install it with the command apt-get install mobilesubstrate.
Respring your device. If you don't what is respring, simply type killall SpringBoard.

Used file name hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb

Got an error in Terminal (dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege), Who is a superuser ??

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Found this info, gonna try it... type "su" and hit return when you first launch terminal then it will ask for a password, type "alpine" then tap return and then try to install the deb.file, u should have success

OK, using su and password, seemed to complete commands.

OK, it installed, found settings off to configure it.
 
UngratefulNinja said:
Eeeek I really, really want that! But I get nervous with SSH'ing stuff. I wish I didn't have to do that. I'm jailbroken, but that still makes me nervous :D
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I hate ssh too but I usually have other ways to do things. Try this..

Open Cydia and install wget which is a command line program that downloads things and mobileterminal which is a terminal app. Open the terminal and type:

wget http://networkpx.googlecode.com/files/hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb
su (then type the root password which is alpine if you havent changed it)
dpkg -i

respring the phone and you're done
 
foob said:
I hate ssh too but I usually have other ways to do things. Try this..

Open Cydia and install wget which is a command line program that downloads things and mobileterminal which is a terminal app. Open the terminal and type:

wget http://networkpx.googlecode.com/files/hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb
su (then type the root password which is alpine if you havent changed it)
dpkg -i

respring the phone and you're done
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Man, too bad I did it the hard way. Well, at least I know for next time. Thanks !
 
foob said:
I hate ssh too but I usually have other ways to do things. Try this..

Open Cydia and install wget which is a command line program that downloads things and mobileterminal which is a terminal app. Open the terminal and type:

wget http://networkpx.googlecode.com/files/hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb
su (then type the root password which is alpine if you havent changed it)
dpkg -i

respring the phone and you're done
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UngratefulNinja said:
Hey thanks!! :D
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I want to expand on this, in case you're a dummy like me lol. After you open terminal, type:

wget http://networkpx.googlecode.com/files/hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

su <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

alpine <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

dpkg -i hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

Exit Terminal. Respring or restart your iphone. Grip should be in your Iphone settings at the bottom. Thanks again to foob, this was a great tip! :)
 
Beta will be over soon, and then people will find GriP on big boss source on cydia

Nevertheless, there are people hosting it: http://apt.hackers.nl/ source

Don´t know if it´s updated though
 
UngratefulNinja said:
I want to expand on this, in case you're a dummy like me lol. After you open terminal, type:

wget http://networkpx.googlecode.com/files/hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

su <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

alpine <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

dpkg -i hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb <HIT RETURN BUTTON>

Exit Terminal. Respring or restart your iphone. Grip should be in your Iphone settings at the bottom. Thanks again to foob, this was a great tip! :)
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You're not very ungrateful. I wonder if you're even a real ninja?

Thank for clarifying, especially the dpkg line, I left out the filename. Another tip, you can use the asterisk as a wildcard in filenames so instead of typing:

dpkg -i hk.kennytm.grip-0.1-11n.deb

I'm lazy and usually type:
dpkg -i hk*deb

It will install anything that starts with hk and ends with deb. You probably aren't going to have any other deb files, but if you ever use the terminal for something else, just make sure you use enough letters that it gets the right file.
 
Doing it from the desktop, using something like Winscp, is far easier than using mobile terminal on the iphone...
 
yeah, i tested it and got same error...but if you search, people point that adress...it´s weird

anyway, i prefer to install the deb, like the developer says...when it´s finished, it will be on Cydia for non beta-testers
 
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