August 14, 2008

Newbie's Guide to Installing Full Apps [iPhone]

There are two methods as far as I know, the direct method (SSH copy) and the ipa/iTunes method. For both methods you must already have jailbroken your iphone and installed openssh. If you are unsure how to do this, please go find one of iClarified.com's iphone jailbreaking tutorials (e.g.: iClarified)

Direct method:
1) Download the Full game/app and extract the ApplicationName.app folder to your desktop.
2) Copy ApplicationName.app into /Applications via SSH or SFTP and set it's permissions to 755 (chmod 755 ApplicationName.app )
3) Create a folder called “Documents” in /var/mobile/ and set permissions to 777. (*only needs to be done once)
4) Reboot your iPhone


iTunes method:This requires replacing a framework file on your iPhone first, but then makes the installation of apps very easy (double click on the mac/pc):

How to install Full IPA's:
1) Using SSH, navigate to: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework/"
2) Rename the file "MobileInstallation" to "MobileInstallation.bak"
3) Download this patched file - MobileInstallation
4) Copy the patched file over to "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework/" set permissions to 755
5) Reboot your iPhone

To install the full .ipa apps, simply double click them and sync them with your iPhone!

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