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October 12, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Putting Installer.app (AppTapp) on your jailbroken 1.1.1 iPhone

by Ben Wilson
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The recently posted instructions for jailbreaking iPhones running software/firmware 1.1.1 is being met with difficulty for some, but has been successful for most. If you're having trouble, read the tips in our initial report.

Several readers have inquired how to put Installer.app -- the wondrous native iPhone application for finding and directly downloading other native apps to the device -- on their jailbroken iPhones. It can be done, and is relatively simple. Here are the steps for a Mac OS X system (this assumes you have jailbroken your iPhone, installed the ssh tools, and enabled the springboard patch to show third-party apps via this guide):

  1. Download AppTapp for Mac OS X and unzip it, but don't launch it.
  2. Right-click (or hold the control key and click) on the AppTapp icon, then select "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu.
  3. Drag the enclosed file "Installer" (this is actually the iPhone application, and its full name is Installer.app) to your /Applications folder.
  4. Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities) and type the following: scp -r /Applications/Installer.app root@IPADDRESS:/Applications/ replacing IPADDRESS with the IP address of your iPhone (you can determine your iPhone's IP Address by tapping Settings, then "Wi-Fi," -- tap the arrow next to the name of the Wi-Fi network to which your iPhone and look at the IP Address)
  5. Restart your iPhone.

You'll now find Installer.app on the home screen of your iPhone, and can install apps to your hearts content. For a list of apps that work with iPhone software/firmware 1.1.1 see this iPhone Dev Wiki page.

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by hightechdad October 11, 2007 11:02 PM PDT
Good tips! I wrote up some as well on my blog related to this whole process. My experience was complicated and a bit scary so I figured it deserved some documentation.
Post is here: http://tinyurl.com/2dv5hd

Thanks,
HTD
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by Aquia33 October 12, 2007 8:08 AM PDT
IsorelymissallmyappsinstalledbyAppTapp.ButIthinkIamgoingtowaittillAppledoessomethingabout3rdpartyappsontheiPhone.Thiscat&mousegameisjusttoocumbersomeforyourcasualventurerintothedarkworlofhacking.

Iwouldhopethatattheeventscheduledfortheendofthemonth(Leopard?)wouldincludesomeannouncementfor3rdpartyappsontheiPhone.
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by Aquia33 October 12, 2007 8:10 AM PDT
Ok, how do I get spaces in my posts???
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by Aquia33 October 12, 2007 8:15 AM PDT
I sorely miss all my apps installed by AppTapp. But I think I am going to wait until lApple does something about 3rd party apps on the iPhone. This cat & mouse game is just too cumbersome for your casual adventurer into the dark world of hacking.

I would hope that at the event scheduled for the end of the month (Leopard?) would include some announcement for 3rdparty apps on the iPhone.

Last post was don with NetNewsWire, and it will not take spaces.
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by Olve1 October 12, 2007 9:38 AM PDT
Umm - What am I missing here? It sounds like this copy job goes via Wi-Fi, not USB. Do this mean I could copy any file I wanted to any iPhone in range whose IP address I know (i.e. from looking at the DHCP tables of my Wi-Fi access point). Or even over EDGE?
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by hightechdad October 12, 2007 12:29 PM PDT
Doing SSH over EDGE won't work. Really should be via Wi-Fi. Too much latency over edge and I couldn't even get it to work over EDGE ("connect to host 32.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Operation timed out")

-HTD
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by James P Reid October 12, 2007 11:02 PM PDT
Got everything to install on 1.1.1 and got the installer.app load too. Now when my iPhone syncs with iTunes it says my iPhone has a capacity of 300MB instead of the 3.xxGB that it is suppose to be. Anyone else have a similar problem.
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by James P Reid October 12, 2007 11:11 PM PDT
I figured it out. I had to delete the Media symbolic link and rename Mediabackup to Media using Mobile Finder. Now I have all my storage back.
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by AlenShapiro1 October 14, 2007 3:10 PM PDT
You probably should not:

"Drag the enclosed file ?Installer? (this is actually the iPhone application, and its full name is Installer.app) to your /Applications folder."

Doing so will put an iPhone application in your Mac's application area. Instead (perhaps), make an iPhone directory in your Home folder and copy the "Installer.app" file, which, after you do the ?Show Package Contents" is located in the "Contents/Resources", to this new folder. From there (after doing a "cd ~/iPhone") you can do the:

scp -r Installer.app root@IPADDRESS:/Applications/

which will result in "Installer" being placed in a usable location on the iPhone.
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