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iPad spirit jailbreak out!

Reed Rothchild said:
As mentioned in a post previously, it is possible to make your iphone apps run in iPad native resolution by modifying the Info.plist file of the application. There's a brief description on modmyi.com but it doesn't go into much information.

I've tried the trick on Beejive and it worked perfectly. Also did the same thing on iPeng (the brilliant squeezebox controller) but sadly, although it ran in iPad native resolution, some of the buttons at top and bottom don't work.

It is all very promising though, and hopefully means that when we get iPad specific releases of these apps there won't be too much of an "HD" tax applied for those that are trivial to convert ;).

For those that want to try it, I found the following approach worked well:

Install and launch iPhone Explorer.

Using iPhone Explorer, navigate to the app on the iPad - it will be under /var/mobile/Applications (you may need to change your root path). The folders under there will look like a load of hexidecimal numbers, but if you expand each one you'll see the name of the app in there somewhere. You then look for the Info.plist file within the specific app directory and drag it to your desktop. You then need to edit the binary Info.plist file. I find it easier to do in a text editor so first convert it to text (via command line - cd to Desktop):

plutil -convert xml1 Info.plist

Edit it using your favourite text editor.

Add the following to the bottom of the file but BEFORE the </dict> line.

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
<array>
<integer>1</integer>
<integer>2</integer>
</array>

Convert it back to binary

plutil -convert binary1 Info.plist

Drag the file back to the same folder on the iPad. You can simply drag the file from Finder into iPhone Explorer.

I found that I had to do a reboot of the iPad before the changes came through, but so far it works very nicely.

Combined with Backgrounder, the functionality of the thing has increased substantially :).
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Well, I couldn't get this to work with Beejive no matter what. What happens is now the app is entirely gone from the iPad. Weird!
 
looks like cydia is down right now, prolly saurik fixing it up. and sbsetting works great except for the processess button, and when you restart the ipad, it gets all wierd on the springboard, just respring and its fine.
 
Cydia does appear to be down, but hopefully they're just patching up the servers. I can't even imagine how hard they got hit last night. I have most of my JB apps installed, can't wait to get my hands on just a few more (like LockInfo, OverBoard, etc!)
 
I am having a ton of problems with the jailbreak. Everything worked fine to get it to actually jailbreak.

I haven't installed ANYTHING yet from Cydia, and my ipad is all messed up. Some of my apps just freeze after I open them and then crash. I noticed that some of my application icons are gone, for example my notes app is just a white icon.

its working fine on my iphone. I only wanted to JB for tethering, so I might restore my iPad because I don't need a jb on my ipad.
 
mikethebigo said:
Cydia does appear to be down, but hopefully they're just patching up the servers. I can't even imagine how hard they got hit last night. I have most of my JB apps installed, can't wait to get my hands on just a few more (like LockInfo, OverBoard, etc!)
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ok glad it wasn't me. Cydia wasn't loading for me.
 
bhsu21 said:
ok glad it wasn't me. Cydia wasn't loading for me.
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Cydia didn't load for me either but I was able to install apps normally. Just use the search button & search for the apps you want installed. I was able to update Cydia, install backgrounder, installous & add a new repo source without any problems.

My iPad is now jailbroken. WOOHOO!
 
sbsetting is the only problem for ipad i see right now, backgrounder and openssh work flawless. dont see the need for any other cydia apps for ipad.
 
sassenach74 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

That was a long time for here haha
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That's an issue the Moderators should be addressing, i.e., keeping threads clean of pirating and stealing apps discussions. That's what gets threads off topic, when the loser criminals begin posting.
 
Has anyone tried the resolution trick with iFile itself? I couldn't seem to find it in my applications directory, but perhaps jailbreak apps are stored elsewhere.

Edit: I found where the jailbreak apps are stored and inserted the code, it works wonderfully!
 
Reed Rothchild said:
As mentioned in a post previously, it is possible to make your iphone apps run in iPad native resolution by modifying the Info.plist file of the application. There's a brief description on modmyi.com but it doesn't go into much information.

I've tried the trick on Beejive and it worked perfectly. Also did the same thing on iPeng (the brilliant squeezebox controller) but sadly, although it ran in iPad native resolution, some of the buttons at top and bottom don't work.

It is all very promising though, and hopefully means that when we get iPad specific releases of these apps there won't be too much of an "HD" tax applied for those that are trivial to convert ;).

For those that want to try it, I found the following approach worked well:

Install and launch iPhone Explorer.

Using iPhone Explorer, navigate to the app on the iPad - it will be under /var/mobile/Applications (you may need to change your root path). The folders under there will look like a load of hexidecimal numbers, but if you expand each one you'll see the name of the app in there somewhere. You then look for the Info.plist file within the specific app directory and drag it to your desktop. You then need to edit the binary Info.plist file. I find it easier to do in a text editor so first convert it to text (via command line - cd to Desktop):

plutil -convert xml1 Info.plist

Edit it using your favourite text editor.

Add the following to the bottom of the file but BEFORE the </dict> line.

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
<array>
<integer>1</integer>
<integer>2</integer>
</array>

Convert it back to binary

plutil -convert binary1 Info.plist

Drag the file back to the same folder on the iPad. You can simply drag the file from Finder into iPhone Explorer.

I found that I had to do a reboot of the iPad before the changes came through, but so far it works very nicely.

Combined with Backgrounder, the functionality of the thing has increased
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I have done this and it worked great, but I have a quick question...have you stopped receiving PUSH notification banners from BeeJive since making this change? I get the icon banner, and the message tone, but no push pop-up showing I have received a new message :confused:

Thanks
 
CakeOrDeath said:
I have done this and it worked great, but I have a quick question...have you stopped receiving PUSH notification banners from BeeJive since making this change? I get the icon banner, and the message tone, but no push pop-up showing I have received a new message :confused:

Thanks
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Good to know it worked - but I've not tried it enough to test for push notifications. The ipad is on the hands of the owner playing bejewled 2 for the nth time today. When I can wrestle it away I'll try it out :). Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two things that don't work fully as it's not a universal app, but fingers crossed :).
 
Anyone have any luck with Winterboard on the iPad? I am trying to get A Better Tap to Unlock on the iPad and everytime I open Winterboard it immediately closes.

Everything else is working perfectly though.
 
jerkstore99 said:
Anyone have any luck with Winterboard on the iPad? I am trying to get A Better Tap to Unlock on the iPad and everytime I open Winterboard it immediately closes.

Everything else is working perfectly though.
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im 99% sure saurik is working on WB for ipad as we speak, thats what he said on his news update on cydia

and the same happens for me...and nothing works in the settings area of WB as well. patience.
 
Cydia's back up. Is overboard working for you guys? It doesn't give me the option to purchase, and when I just select install, I get an error. Are there other apps that do a similar function?
 
medicscott said:
what does overboard do?
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It lets me pinch out on the springboard and it'll show all my available pages and I can tap on whatever page I want to switch to.

Example:

0b3e_overboard-4.jpg
 
Jailbreaking my iPad freaked me out because my iPad was stuck in on the Apple for a while. I had to hold power+menu and restart it a few times before it did anything. But now that it's jailbroken, 3G unrestrictor is working great!
 
medicscott said:
im 99% sure saurik is working on WB for ipad as we speak, thats what he said on his news update on cydia

and the same happens for me...and nothing works in the settings area of WB as well. patience.
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Ok, thanks for the reply.

Has anyone gotten an NES emulator to work on the iPad yet?
 
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