Are you on the iPT 3G or iPad with no buttons? The native Apple multitasking will allow you to receive calls. Just don't kill FaceTime from the multitasking bar. The Backgrounder override is for people that have multitasking turned off or altered in some way.
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iPad Release: FaceTime on iPad 1G script, iFacePad
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Are you on the iPT 3G or iPad with no buttons? The native Apple multitasking will allow you to receive calls. Just don't kill FaceTime from the multitasking bar. The Backgrounder override is for people that have multitasking turned off or altered in some way.
No buttons or automatic backgrounding on the iPad. If I call myself, the iPad doesn't start ringing until I manually fire up the app.
I haven't heard of that happening to anyone else. I'll give my script a look over and see if I can find anything. But I'm am a loss as to why its doing that. As for the backgrounding, do you have Backgrounder installed or are you using Apple's multitasking?
It's a pretty stock iPad with not much in the way of tweaks except the usual (SBSettings, Gridlock). I attached a screenshot of the weird no button thing.
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Are you able to navigate to your iPad's /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUI.framework folder? Its where the buttons are located. Even though my script doesn't touch the buttons, something may be wrong with them. You should see a bottombargreen, bottombargreen_pressed, bottombarred, bottombarred_pressed, bottombarfire, bottombarfire_pressed, vc~AcceptVideo, and a vc~DeclineOrEndVideo files. If you don't, then something is rather wrong with it.
Also, do you have Winterboard installed?
Also, do you have Winterboard installed?
No Winterboard. I did nail down the multitasking problem. Basically (and presumably because of the missing buttons), the app crashes when the call hangs up.
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adamBook:TelephonyUI.framework adam$ ls -al bottombarred*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1178 Oct 22 00:06 bottombarred.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1150 Oct 22 00:06 bottombarred_pressed.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1134 Oct 22 00:06 bottombarredfire.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 2282 Oct 22 00:06 bottombarredfire_pressed.png
adamBook:TelephonyUI.framework adam$ ls -al bottombargreen*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1217 Oct 22 00:06 bottombargreenT.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1163 Oct 22 00:06 bottombargreen_pressed.png
adamBook:TelephonyUI.framework adam$ ls -al bottombarfire*
ls: bottombarfire*: No such file or directory
adamBook:TelephonyUI.framework adam$ ls -al vc~*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 521 Oct 22 00:06 vc~AcceptVideo.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 adam staff 1205 Oct 22 00:06 vc~DeclineOrEndVideo.pngEdit:
Changing the bottombargreenT.png to bottombargreen.png fixed it! Though there is still a crash happening. After the call ends, either from accepting the call and hanging up or declining the call, the app crashes (which kills the multitasking). I dug around a bit trying to find a log which maybe could have helped you, but I couldn't find one.
I would also add that the script worked great up until the point where it tried to SSH into my iPad to change the permissions. I hadn't ever tried to log in via SSH on my Macbook before, so it asked me to confirm the RSA key. Of course, this broke the scripting, and I had to run it manually. I know how hard that would be to script though.
Thanks for all the hard work! Now I can Facetime myself!
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Yea, the RSA thing is something that I've tried to make it work around. I've just left it as is. The crashing when hanging up is probably due to an incorrectly modified Info.plist in MobilePhone.app. I'm not sure if this really is the cause or not. I've ran the script on many systems and all generate a correctly modified Info.plist. Not sure why the bottombargreen had a T at the end of it. I'll add a few lines in the script to change that if it happens again. Thank you for your help.
If this will help, this is the Info.plist I ended up with (I assume from the MobilePhone app)
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It checks out fine. Although, you may want to remove it. I'm not sure if that could be considered a copyrighted thing or not. I now have no idea why it crashes when ending a call. Mine did that until I found out how to make the Info.plist work correctly. I don't think I missed anything.
Heeelllllppp
Ive installed iFacePad on 4.2.1 before and worked perfect,
Tried 4.3GM today,
And restored back to 4.2.1..
Started iFacePad
Now i get a message that IFacepad is outdated and i have to upgrade to newer version! (after selecting ipod fw)
Cant find newer version
Is there a new one out there????
Please help me out!! i loved my iPad 1G with facetime...
Ive installed iFacePad on 4.2.1 before and worked perfect,
Tried 4.3GM today,
And restored back to 4.2.1..
Started iFacePad
Now i get a message that IFacepad is outdated and i have to upgrade to newer version! (after selecting ipod fw)
Cant find newer version
Is there a new one out there????
Please help me out!! i loved my iPad 1G with facetime...
If someone can please help me out i have been trying for the last 2 days to get iFacepad working but keep running into a problem. I am running OSX 10.6.6 . I have all the files downloaded and saved to my desktop. When I launch iFacePad it i click the ipad buttom then it goes on and i select the ipod firmware . Then it hangs for about 10 seconds and gives me a message and when I click ok the app closes. i have no idea what is causing it but i was hoping someone here ( Intell? ) could help or new what the problem was. below is the screen shot of what i am getting. Thank for your help
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OP - been following this thread and really love that facetime now can now be activated via email... wanted to find out if you had a chance to look at enabling facetime on an iphone 4 or iphone 3gs via email.. i have an unlocked iphone where i cannot activate facetime and been patiently waiting for something that works properly.. hoping that you are able to get it working on your iphone 3gs and probably on the iphone 4..
I'm not sure what's causing that. But I'm working on iFacePad now so I'll look into this error.
I really haven't looked into getting FaceTime to work with email on the iPhones. But I think its going to require a complex hack. Because when Springboard has the sms key set to true, it doesn't work over email.
I did fix the error. I was almost done testing when Apple released 4.3.1. So it'll be another few days as I test and find the proper keys.
Thank you so much! I did attempt to install it manually but I used .framework files from I iPhone 4 instead of the ones from the iPod firmware so when the update to iFacePad is release will I run into any problems if I just run it over top of the other files? Thanks again.
Bumping this thread up after a year...
Hi I'm trying to get the latest version of iFacePad to work on an iPad first gen, 3G+wifi 32GB. It's on 5.1.1 jailbroken, with nothing installed apart from OpenSSH and afc2add. I'm using the trial version of Phone Disk and it says I still have 98.5MB remaining in the demo. My Mac is running 10.7.4. I have made sure that the iPad is mounted as root (Phone Disk does not seem to add (root) to the name, but it is visible in Finder as a device and is mounted as root.) I have also renamed the iPad to simply iPad. Each time I try iFacePad, it seems to be doing its thing, with growl notifications until it gets to "Installing files", then I just get this popup:
Could this be a permissions issue or something similar? Is there anything I can check?
Yep. Inside the System folder I can see that several folders have been modified today (i.e. when I ran the script):
I could try to follow the step by step instructions as in the OP in this thread (or on the iFans thread) -- but I'm not sure what changes you've made for 5.1.1 (as opposed to iOS 4.2 etc).
