Hidden iPod touch Settings revealed (including Album Shuffle)

[BlackWolf]

hi there,
I played with the Preferences.app a couple of days ago and discovered that the iPod touch (as well as the iPhone) have some hidden settings. Some of them are really useful and I don't understand why apple hid them.
I know that some (or most) of the stuff I discovered has already been discovered long ago. But I found some stuff I didn't see anywhere else AND I couldn't find a topic about this in this board so here we go.

First let me say: This works for touches ONLY. Don't copy my Preferences.app if you use an iphone! You can ask me for single options and I can tell you how to add them to the iphone, but dont download the Preferences.app from below!
Also note that I'm not accountable for any damage this does to your iPod. I don't see how it could if you made a backup, but do this at your own risk!
Now lets get started ...

Install it
What you do is you SSH into your ipod and go to /Applications/. when you are there, make sure you make a COMPLETE BACKUP OF YOUR PREFERENCES.APP FOLDER.
If you did that download this file (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Preferences.zip).
Unzip it into your /Applications/-Folder on your iPod so the Preferences.app-Folder that is in there gets overwritten. Don't delete your Preferences.app! My Folder only contains the files I actually changed, so it overwrites those. But you still need all the other files that are not included in my zip file!
Update: It seems some people were unable to access the new settings. I guess this is because of wrong file-rights. Make sure the Preferences.app as well as the files within it are chmodded to 755. It should work perfectly fine if they are. But again, this shows the importance of a backup(!)

After you did that you will have the new settings (you dont even have to restart/respring the ipod). Just go to your settings and you will notice that I not only added preferences, but I changed the menus a little. If you don't like that install your old Preferences (the backup you made) and ask me how to install the stuff you want. I will tell you how to do it then.

What are the new settings?
So now for the interesting part. Thew new stuff.

Statistics: You can access the Statistics-Menu from the bottom of the main menu. This is a menu I found hidden on the ipod. I don't know if this is actually used on the iphone. Unfortunatly it doesnt work very well on the touch. The "Power-Logging"-Switch just determines whether or not the statistics should be activated. Below you see the time you used your ipod and had it in standby since your last full charge. Unfortunatly, these counters reset every time you restart or respring. Also, the standby-counter seems to be increased even when you use your ipod. So the actual standby time is "Standby minus Use". I still found it to be interesting so I added it
General & Tweaks: This is where all the other changes are. I changed the structure of this heavily so it looks a lot different from the usual General menu. I think all the old settings shouldnt be hard to find so I won't mention them here. Below is a list of all the stuff that I added/changed
General & Tweaks -> Display -> Brightness: You'll notive you can see your brightness as a numeric value now. Thought that to be useful.
General & Tweaks -> Display -> Screen-Lock: Previously called Auto-Lock, this option determines after how many minutes of idling your ipod screen locks itself. This option was there before, but I added some times like 30 Seconds or 10 Minutes.
General & Tweaks -> Display -> Screen-Dim: This is a new thing. This determines after how many minutes your ipod dims the screen to save battery. Please note here that, when you set Screen-Lock, the iPod automatically sets this to "Screen-Lock minus 15 seconds". So after you have set Screen-Lock you have to set this option since it gets overwritten. Also note that every value equal to or bigger than the Screen-Lock is useless.
General & Tweaks -> Sound Effects: This is a complete new menu I found hidden on the iPod. No idea why apple hid this, its actually very helpful. You can enable or disable some of the system sounds like the clicking when you type something with the virtual keyboard or the clicking when you unlock your ipod or when you get/sent mail.
General & Tweaks -> Keyboard -> Autocorrection: I added the possibility to enable or disable the ipod autocorrection while typing. I hate the autocorrection so I really love this option.
General & Tweaks -> Shuffle: Now one of the most surprising and interesting things I found. The iPod touch, as well as the iPhone, actually has an "shuffle album" option, it just cannot be accessed. What you set here will be the new "shuffle" when you play music. So if you set this to album and turn on shuffle when you play music, it will be album shuffle. You can turn it back to songs anytime you like.
General & Tweaks -> Display -> Sleep Controls: Found that and think its useless but still added it so the "Shuffle"-Option doesnt feel alone. With this you can deactivate the music playback controls when the ipod screen is locked (if the ipod is locked you can double-tap your home-button to bring up the music controls. This gets disabled. Note that you still HAVE music controls as long as the ipod screen is not locked)
General & Tweaks -> Carrier Text: Fun option. You can change the "iPod"-Text in the statusbar to anything you like. If you want to add own options see the how-to below this list.
General & Tweaks -> Numeric Wi-Fi: Shows your Wi-Fi Signal Strength as a numeric value. Don't know the exact range, but I believe it to be 1-100. You have to respring or reboot your ipod for this to take effect.
General & Tweaks -> Faked Time: A switch to turn off and on the faked time. See the option below for further information.
General & Tweaks -> Faked Time Text: You can set a text that is displayed instead of the time in your statusbar. Again, to see how to make your own textes see the how-to below this list. Note that you also have to set the switch above this to "on" to make it work.
General & Tweaks -> Numeric Battery: Shows your battery status as a numeric value (1-100). Found it to be better than the symbol. You have to respring or reboot your ipod for this to take effect.


So I hope you lik these things. If you don't want to use my Preferences.app (for example because you don't need some of the new stuff or you dont like the new structure) you can ask here how to add some of these options by yourself. I don't explain it here because it would take a little :D

HOW-TO: Own Carrier-Text and Faked Time
In the new "General & Tweaks" menu you got a "Carrier Text" and a "Faked Time Text" that you can set. Now, the options you have there are very little and very unimaginative. So you probably want to add your own. Very simple.
SSH into your iPod, go to /Applications/Preferences.app/ and open up the "General.plist" file that you'll find there.
If you want to set your own Carrier-Text search for "SBFakeCarrier", if you want to set a fake time search for "SBFakeTimeString" (without the quotation marks).
Whatever of those two you search you will find these lines two lines below your first search result:
<key>validTitles</key>
<array>
after these two lines is where you put in your new options. So let's say you want to add the Carrier-Text "1337". You search for "SBFakeCarrier", two lines below that you see the "<key>validTitles</key><array>"-stuff and you create a new line below that and enter:
<string>1337</string>
if you want to add another option then create a new line below your first new option and do the same. Always make sure its <string>Your Text</string>
Unfortunatly we are not done yet. What you do now is you look a few lines below the lines you just created. You'll see
<key>validValues</key>
<array>
Its just 3 or 4 lines below your lines. You do the exact same thing below those two lines either. So if you enter <string>1337</string> before you enter the exact same thing again below the "<key>validValues</key><array>"-part. what's really important here is that its the SAME ORDER as above. when youre done save the file to the ipod, restart your settings and you should see your new options.
just so you understand what you did: what you first entered is what the ipod displays in the option screen. the second thing you entered is what it actually writes in the preference file.
so you dont get confused here is an example how it could look after you changed it:
http://nachdenki.m8an.de/changedcarrier.png

HOW-TO: Localize the new settings
Maybe some of you like my settings and want to use them, but have not set their ipod to english. Since I didn't localize my new settings you will get some ugly texts. Loalizing the settings is pretty easy and takes about half an hour. First you SSH into your ipod and go to /Applications/Preferences.app
From there you download the folder that is named like your language. So if you have your iPod set to french you download the folder "French.lproj".
After you did that you can start localizing. Just use this page to convert every file you want to edit (otherwise you will see only gibberish):
http://140.124.181.188/~khchung/cgi-bin/plutil.cgi
I will now give you a list of what you have to edit to make it work. Below the list is a very well explained example, so no fear:

Settings.strings

[General] - "General & Tweaks"
Media - "Media"
Applications - "Applications"
[USAGE] - "Statistics"

General.strings

[General] - "General & Tweaks"
Preferences - "Preferences"
Brightness - "Display"
[INTERNATIONAL] - "Regional"
Tweaks - "Tweaks"
Shuffle - "Shuffle"
Songs - "Songs"
Albums - "Albums"
Sleep Controls - "Sleep Controls"
Statusbar Tweaks - "Statusbar Tweaks"
Carrier Text - "Carrier Text"
Numeric Wi-Fi - "Numeric Wi-Fi"
Faked Time - "Faked Time"
Faked Time Text - "Faked Time Text"
Numeric Battery - "Numeric Battery"

Brightness.strings

Display - "Display"
Sleep and Lock - "Sleep & Lock"
Screen locks after - "Screen locks after"
Screen dims after - "Screen dims after"
[Screen Lock] - "Screen Passcode"
4_MIN - "4 Minutes"
7_MIN - "7 Minutes"
10_MIN - "10 Minutes"
Wallpaper - "Wallpaper"

International.strings

DATE_AND_TIME - "Date & Time"

Date & Time.strings

[CALENDAR_TEXT_1] - "Time Zone Support always shows dates and times in the calendars time zone."
[CALENDAR_TEXT_2] - "
When off, everything will be shown in the local time zone." (This has a newline at the beginning. Just press "enter" then type your translation)

Keyboard.strings

Enable Autocorrection - "Enable Autocorrection"

Usage Statistics.strings

Power-Logging - "Power-Logging"
[USAGE_HEADER] - "Time since last full charge ...";
[USAGE_ELAPSED] - "... in use"
[STANDBY_ELAPSED] - "... in standby"
[USAGE] - "Statistics"
About - "About"



Alright, example. We take
Settings.strings -> [General] - "General & Tweaks"
So what you do now is you open the Settings.strings. The square brackets around "General" mean that this is nothing you have to add, but something that is already in that file and has to be altered by you. So you search the file for "General" (without the quotation marks) until you find this line:
<key>General</key>
leave that line unaltered! never change an already existing <key>-line! below this line you see a line that says
<string>something</string>
Between <string> and </string> is where you place your translation. To make it easier for you my list also tells you what you have to translate. So now you have to find a good translation for "General & Tweaks" in your language, type it in beween <string> and </string> and you're done.
Another example: My list also says
Settings.strings -> Media - "Media"
No square brackets around the first Media means that this is not in the file yet and you have to create it yourself. To do this open Settings.strings, scroll to the end of the file where you'll see
</dict>
</plist>
ABOVE that lines you type in
<key>Media</key>
(Media is the first media here. If the line was Media - "Settings" you would still type in <key>Media</key>).
BELOW the newly created line your type ing
<string>Your translation for Media</string>
(this is the second Media. If the line was Media - "Settings" you would type in <string>Translation for Settings</string>)

Do that for every item of my list and you will have a complete localization. Doesn't take as long as you might think at first.
Note: The iPod does not take some special characters like & If you have a special character look it up in this list (http://www.handheld-basic.com/documentation/text/page_599.html), take the "Decimal Code"-number of that character and in your .strings-file, instead of your special character, you write
&#decimalcode;
So for example © is replaced by © or & would be replaced by &
This does NOT mean that every character that is in that table does not work on the ipod. if for some reason one of your settings-menus is empty on the iPod its most likely due to a faulty special character, so check for them in your .strings-file.

List of localisations
I totally forgot I already did the german translation (since I'm from germany ;-))
German localisation by me (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/German.zip)
just overwrite the already existing German.lproj in /Applications/Preferences.app/

And now have fun with this!
Regards

PS: Some screenshots for you:
http://nachdenki.m8an.de/set1.jpg http://nachdenki.m8an.de/set2.jpg http://nachdenki.m8an.de/set3.jpg http://nachdenki.m8an.de/set4.jpg

[DerekVOF]

Wow - you're really going low-level here. I'll have to give this a try later :-)

[BlackWolf]

Wow - you're really going low-level here. I'll have to give this a try later :-)

unfortunatly not as low-level as I'd like to get. except for the general, brightness and statistics menu all menus are "bundles", so they are real excecutables and therefore unchangeable. and even the three accessable menus are bound to very strict rules. for example I was unable to put the "Sound Effects" menu where you can determine where the system sounds (like clicks) are outputted into the new sound menu I found. seems like the ipod has not all variables avaiable in every menu.
But there is actually some more stuff. I found a "Touch"-Menu which is clearly from the developers (you can set a value there that determines how far away from your finger the ipod detects the tap. so if you set this really high you tap the screen at the top and the ipod thinks you tapped it in the middle or something. I left that out for security reasons). also there were some strange options like "HideYouTube" (which, apparently, hides youtube). wondered why apple hates youtube :D
just left this stuff out since its kind of useless.

well, hope you and some others enjoy the hidden settings.

[Zach23]

Hey,

I used this on my iPhone... I know about the warning, but I just wanted to change some things than put the normal preferences app. I changed battery number and wifi number on, and then changed it back and everything works fine. So anybody that has an iphone and wants to do that I tried it and nothing bad happens. Make sure you have a back up of your preferences app.

Thanks,
Zach

[BlackWolf]

Hey,

I used this on my iPhone... I know about the warning, but I just wanted to change some things than put the normal preferences app. I changed battery number and wifi number on, and then changed it back and everything works fine. So anybody that has an iphone and wants to do that I tried it and nothing bad happens. Make sure you have a back up of your preferences app.

Thanks,
Zach

well, the settings themself wont do any harm yon your iphone. It justs that if you copy everything its possible settings you had on your ipod before are disappearing, since I wasnt sure if I took out any of them.
also, you wont get the the changed main menu on the iphone. but if it works I'm glad, but still, I don't guarantee iphone support.
If you upload your backup of the Preferences.app maybe I can do an iphone version that works for sure if I have time. No guarantees I'll do it.

regards

[csdonz]

nice find, may try later. I'd like to disable autocorrection too

[Chunk]

Tremendous find! I can't wait to get the numeric battery and wi-fi strength.

Only thing missing now is numeric volume (or have I missed a setting somewhere?).

[Chunk]

nice find, may try later. I'd like to disable autocorrection too
If you *only* want to be able to toggle autocorrection, you can install Kb2.

[poopymath]

Nice find, downloaded and put onto my iPod.

[BlackWolf]

Tremendous find! I can't wait to get the numeric battery and wi-fi strength.

Only thing missing now is numeric volume (or have I missed a setting somewhere?).

no, I'm actually missing that too :D
unfortunatly, you would to rewrite and recompile the music player application to get numeric volume. it's not controlled by a setting (or at least not that I know of) so I can't add that, sorry. I still hope apple does that in their next firmware, since I'm really missing numeric volume.

btw: installer repository is almost ready to go :-)

[kinex]

I have SSH on my touch but how do I "SSH into it?"

[Chunk]

Not sure if you mentioned this but you can change back and forth from the numeric battery and wifi strength to the old graphics by touching the numbers (or graphics). Very cool.

Also, I think the RSSI (wi-fi) max value is 60.

[BlackWolf]

Installer Repository ready

Unfortunatly, the forum software doesn't let me edit the first post here, so I can't add it there. But here is the instructions to install the preferences via Installer:

1. If you installed my Preferences before and want to do it with the Installer now, make sure you uninstalled them first. The Installer-Script will make a backup of your preferences.app. If you have mine already installed it will backup them which would be completly useless.

2. Add http://m8an.de/installer.xml to your sources list (Installer->Sources->Edit->Add). Let the sources list refresh

3. Go to "Install" and then go to "Tweaks".

4. Tap "Advanced Preferences" and then "Install"

5. That's it. Enjoy your new Preferences. Updates will be provided through the installer (if there are any) and you can uninstall them quickly and easily via installer which should give you your old preferences back.

PS: Note that this is my first installer repository/package. I tested it intensly and think it should work fine. If any problems occur and you are not able to get your Preferences back, download the original Prefs here (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences.zip) and copy them to /Applications/ on your iPod.

[darkchicken50]

I REALLY love what you have done here, but is it at all possible to use it with FW 1.1.1 as i really cant be arsed upgrading to 1.1.2 and doing all that jazz, not going to bother until 1.1.3 has been fully haxed nice and good.

Thanks 4 all replies!

edit: (just a heads up, i'm not some huge noob, just a small answer will be fine. btw lol at "how do i ssh INTO it?".... reminds me of zoolander... the files are INSIDE THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!)

[BlackWolf]

I REALLY love what you have done here, but is it at all possible to use it with FW 1.1.1 as i really cant be arsed upgrading to 1.1.2 and doing all that jazz, not going to bother until 1.1.3 has been fully haxed nice and good.

Thanks 4 all replies!

edit: (just a heads up, i'm not some huge noob, just a small answer will be fine. btw lol at "how do i ssh INTO it?".... reminds me of zoolander... the files are INSIDE THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!)

well, some people are just not into all that computer stuff, so you can't really blame them for being nubish. everyone is somewhen.

to answer your question: I can't tell you. I never had 1.1.1 running except for when I jailbroke and I don't know the files 1.1.1 uses. but you can try. When you install via apptap installer, it should back up your Preferences.app folder. If your settings don't work you should be able to simply uninstall it and it will use the backup to bring back your old Preferences.app, so it shouldn't do any harm if it doesn't work. I just wrote FW 1.1.2 only because I'm not sure if it works with 1.1.1 and didn't want anyone to get the settings screwed. but try it, I think it should work fine.

oh, btw, i totally oversaw the "how do I SSH into the iPod"-question: there are numerous threads how to do it. you have to download WinSCP for windows or cyberduck for mac, enter the IP of your ipod (Settings->Wi-Fi->Blue arrow next to your network->IP-Adress) as the server-ip, root as username and the password you set when you jailbroke as your password. after that you can browse your ipods hard drive and upload files to it. But since I did the installer repository you should be able to avoid SSHing.

[kinex]

Lol, well thanks... But yeah, I'll just stick with the installer method.

[Zach23]

well, the settings themself wont do any harm yon your iphone. It justs that if you copy everything its possible settings you had on your ipod before are disappearing, since I wasnt sure if I took out any of them.
also, you wont get the the changed main menu on the iphone. but if it works I'm glad, but still, I don't guarantee iphone support.
If you upload your backup of the Preferences.app maybe I can do an iphone version that works for sure if I have time. No guarantees I'll do it.

regards

That would be amazing if you made an iPhone version...
Here's Preferences:

NVM I don't know how to upload the folder, should I up it to RS?

[BlackWolf]

That would be amazing if you made an iPhone version...
Here's Preferences:

NVM I don't know how to upload the folder, should I up it to RS?
Well, upload it to whereever you want :D I just need it to modify it.

thanks :-)

[darkchicken50]

It works!!!!!

Wew, the only thing i found that didn't work was Asian Fonts section.

Great work blackwolf! GREAT!

Absolutely brilliant, i don't know how you found this stuff! It looks like you rewrote the whole app!

Brilliant

[Zach23]

Heres my original iPhone preferences.app

http://rapidshare.com/files/81610518/Preferences.app.rar

[BlackWolf]

It works!!!!!

Wew, the only thing i found that didn't work was Asian Fonts section.

Great work blackwolf! GREAT!

Absolutely brilliant, i don't know how you found this stuff! It looks like you rewrote the whole app!

Brilliant
thanks a lot, but I actually changed very little of it :D most of it is unchangeable unfortunatly :-(

Heres my original iPhone preferences.app

http://rapidshare.com/files/81610518/Preferences.app.rar
thanks. I think I should be able to create an iphone version. I will put it in the installer repository if finished and of course create a post here, but it could take a little since some people are still having problems/questions regarding the touch version. But I'll do what I can.

[bobbit]

<3!

Thank you :)

[csdonz]

thanks very much, is it 100% safe to install this, I quite fancy making my own repository, how do I make one and is it free?

[BlackWolf]

thanks very much, is it 100% safe to install this, I quite fancy making my own repository, how do I make one and is it free?
have a look at this file:
http://m8an.de/installer.xml
you have to create an xml file similair to this. first there is an info-section with information about the repository itself which you can see when you tap on the repository in your sources section in the installer.
after that comes a package-section which holds all packages of that repository. I think most stuff should be self-explaining. theres always a key that tells the installer what the data represents that follows after the key. so let's take this example:
<key>name</key>
<string>Advanced Preferences</string>
name tells the installer that the following data is the name of the package. after that the package name follows, whereas "string" is the data-type (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_type, string just means "text"). I believe the installer only knows string, integer and real.
well, I think I used most or all the keys the installer knows in my xml file. so for example he knows the key location which is the location of the package, or description or category ... just take a look at the file.

may sound a little complicated at first, but I think if you have a look at the xml structure you should get it. just play with it a little.

[csdonz]

I think I'll pass lol is this 100% safe to add the new preferences

[BlackWolf]

I think I'll pass lol is this 100% safe to add the new preferences
it's not that complicated, you just have to understand the structure of the .xml file

yeah it should be. if you don't like it you can always uninstall it. absolute worst case szenario is that you have to connect to your iPod with SSH and copy the normal prefs in there by hand, but thats very very unlikely if you do it with the installer (actually I can't think of a way how this should happen ... but in my years working with PCs I learned that nothing is impossible when you made something and other people use it :D)

oh btw: I will upload an update in the next hour or so together with a iphone version. you might wanna wait or just update later. should be the same.

iPhone-Version & Update
well, even though there are some (very little) people who can't install my prefs through the installer (god knows why) I updatet them a little. The update doesn't do much except put some original settings back in I accidentally kicked out (noone seemed to have noticed ... well, anyways :D)

Bigger news is that the iPhone-Version is ready. Available through the same installer repository as the iPod-Version (http://m8an.de/installer.xml) you can find it in the "Tweaks"-Category. Just make sure you install the IPhone version not the iPod touch version.
Since I don't have an iPhone I can't test everything myself, so please gimme feedback. I don't know which settings are more important on an iphone. I assumed phone and sounds was important so I put it on the main page at the top. I also added some stuff to the "Home Button Double Tap"-Option. Please test it and let me know if this works.

enjoy :-)

[Shufflexx]

Great job BlackWolf, most of these settings I have been looking for ;)

[csdonz]

if i install your preferences from the installer will i lose all my settings like internet passwords and email settings?

[BlackWolf]

if i install your preferences from the installer will i lose all my settings like internet passwords and email settings?

no you will not. it just modifies the application, the interface, that allows you to change your settings. your settings are not modified until you want them to!

[Zach23]

Thanks so much for the iPhone version... However I can't seem to find the PIN lock to lock the phone.

Also, can u link me to the download not on installer..

once again thank you soooo much!

[BlackWolf]

Thanks so much for the iPhone version... However I can't seem to find the PIN lock to lock the phone.

Also, can u link me to the download not on installer..

once again thank you soooo much!
download would be
http://www.m8an.de/iPhone_Preferences_1.0.zip

with PIN lock do you mean the screen lock/pincode lock for the screen? if so it should be found in general & tweaks->display->screen lock

if you meant something else can you tell me where it was originally located on the iphone?
one thing I'm particularly interested in: do the new, additional home-button options work? I know they are displayed in your settings but do they actually WORK? :D

thanks ^^

[Zach23]

Kk yeah I found screen lock, thats what I meant.

The additional home-button options unfortunately do not work. All the ones beginning in GO dont work.

Zach

[BlackWolf]

Kk yeah I found screen lock, thats what I meant.

The additional home-button options unfortunately do not work. All the ones beginning in GO dont work.

Zach
too bad. will take the settings out then.

unfortunatly since too many people have complained about problems since I updated the installer.xml I had to put it down to prevent anyone from maybe getting serious problems (after recieving a feedback mail that said that one person installed my prefs and they disappeared from the home screen. Don't know how that can happen, but it happened)
I will have a further look at it and the installer.xml will be back online as soon as I resolved the problems with this. unfortunatly, school started again today so it might take a little.

Sorry for all the inconvenience. I don't really understand all the problems, I installed it like 30 times with all the different installer.xml-versions I had and every time it worked perfectly.
I will take a look at it as soon as I can.

In the meantime, iPod touch user may use installer2.xml since it seems to work much better. I will edit installer.xml so it works like installer2.xml for iPod and iPhone as soon as I can!

[Jim Danner]

Hi BlackWolf,

Thanks for putting all this together. You did a lot of work! I tested the iPhone version, and it has a lot of interesting settings. Considering that you probably don't have an iPhone, I'm impressed!

I have a few suggestions for things that might make it even better. Would like to hear what you think.

The variable SBEnableOverlayControls is set in your General.plist, but it's already included in the default Home Button.plist. It regulates whether the music controls pop up when the Home button is double-clicked outside Music Player while music is playing; not only when the phone is locked, but also otherwise (for people who always want to go to Favorites when they double-click Home). So it's not specifically "Sleep"-related.
It would be great if you could include some hidden settings that are unique to the iPhone. One that comes to mind specifically is SBUseNewDock (from com.apple.springboard), which enables us iPhone users to have that nice shiny reflective dock of the iPod Touch. You could take a look at this blog post (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/18/tuaw-hack-mess-with-your-iphone-settings-screens/) and the pages it links to (one link contains some code that you could more or less copy-paste).
The settings for "fake time" and "fake carrier" would be more flexible if instead of the limited selection of fake names (currently "", "iPod" and "iPod Touch" -- not useful for phone owners), there would be free text entry so you could actually set your own name. I took a look at some code, and I think it's a matter of replacing the SBFakeTimeString section in General.plist with something like this:
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSEditTextCell</string>
<key>detail</key>
<string>PSDetailController</string>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBFakeTimeString</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Text</string>
<key>placeholder</key>
<string>Text that replaces time</string>
</dict>

A similar thing applies to SBFakeCarrier.
When uninstalled, your package leaves some settings behind that didn't exist before. For example, SBFakeCarrier and SBFakeTime normally don't exist. In a way this is inevitable, because the Settings application has to create variables for every setting it controls. However, it can lead to problems. Maybe it's a good idea to make a backup copy of /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist (where these settings mostly reside) during installation, and put it back during uninstall.


I posted about your work on an iPhone forum (see here (http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22038)) and there were positive reactions. The only worry was the settings variables left behind at uninstall (the last of my list above). One user said: "Does anyone know how to get your carrier image back? I installed this and even when i didnt tell it to change the carrier image, it changed it to ipod or blank and I cant get my t-mobile carrier back. Help".

Anyway, a good piece of work. Thanks!

[BlackWolf]

Hi BlackWolf,

Thanks for putting all this together. You did a lot of work! I tested the iPhone version, and it has a lot of interesting settings. Considering that you probably don't have an iPhone, I'm impressed!

I have a few suggestions for things that might make it even better. Would like to hear what you think.

The variable SBEnableOverlayControls is set in your General.plist, but it's already included in the default Home Button.plist. It regulates whether the music controls pop up when the Home button is double-clicked outside Music Player while music is playing; not only when the phone is locked, but also otherwise (for people who always want to go to Favorites when they double-click Home). So it's not specifically "Sleep"-related.
It would be great if you could include some hidden settings that are unique to the iPhone. One that comes to mind specifically is SBUseNewDock (from com.apple.springboard), which enables us iPhone users to have that nice shiny reflective dock of the iPod Touch. You could take a look at this blog post (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/18/tuaw-hack-mess-with-your-iphone-settings-screens/) and the pages it links to (one link contains some code that you could more or less copy-paste).
The settings for "fake time" and "fake carrier" would be more flexible if instead of the limited selection of fake names (currently "", "iPod" and "iPod Touch" -- not useful for phone owners), there would be free text entry so you could actually set your own name. I took a look at some code, and I think it's a matter of replacing the SBFakeTimeString section in General.plist with something like this:
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSEditTextCell</string>
<key>detail</key>
<string>PSDetailController</string>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBFakeTimeString</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Text</string>
<key>placeholder</key>
<string>Text that replaces time</string>
</dict>

A similar thing applies to SBFakeCarrier.
When uninstalled, your package leaves some settings behind that didn't exist before. For example, SBFakeCarrier and SBFakeTime normally don't exist. In a way this is inevitable, because the Settings application has to create variables for every setting it controls. However, it can lead to problems. Maybe it's a good idea to make a backup copy of /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist (where these settings mostly reside) during installation, and put it back during uninstall.


I posted about your work on an iPhone forum (see here (http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22038)) and there were positive reactions. The only worry was the settings variables left behind at uninstall (the last of my list above). One user said: "Does anyone know how to get your carrier image back? I installed this and even when i didnt tell it to change the carrier image, it changed it to ipod or blank and I cant get my t-mobile carrier back. Help".

Anyway, a good piece of work. Thanks!
thanks a lot for your feedback. I really need this for the iphone-version since I don't own one myself. to answer your suggestions:


you're right. that's actually something from the ipod touch version. for some reason you cannot set the doubletap-action on the touch and SBEnableOverlayControls switches the playback controls in sleepmode on and off. but on the iPhone its different, I will take that out.
I noticed yesterday that I forgot SBUseNewDock. I wanted to add it today anyway, but thanks.
Thanks a lot! I was actually searching for "PSEditTextCell". I wanted to create a textfield but couldn't find the code how to do it! I will add that in the next version!
I know about that problem. I thought about backing up the preferences files. The problem is that ALL settings you changed would be lost. And I thought that was even worse than some remaining settings. I'm aware of that problem, though I havn't found a good solution for this. If most users prefer that the changes they made get lost when they uninstall my prefs I can backup the com.apple.springboard.plist. Also I am aware of the carrier logo problem on the iPhone. Unfortunatly, I have to figure out how/where the iPhone controls the carrier logo before I can change that. I guess the iPhone has to have a variable that controls if the fake carrier should be on or off. I have to take a look at that.

thanks for your feedback. right now, the iPhone version is down unfortunatly since many people reported problems with installer.xml installation since I added the iphone version. I will create a new version of both iPhone and iPod settings and when I'm done the installer.xml will be re-uploaded. Since school started again today I can't guarantee I will get it finished today (It's 6pm here now) but I will work as fast as I can ;-)

but actually, the most important thing is to find out why the installer does not install correctly sometimes. since my instller.xml modifies the preferences.app it has to work correctly, since messing up the settings really sucks.

regards
PS: a user told me the new doubletap-actions I added don't work. is this true? if so, any ideas why?

[Jim Danner]

Unfortunatly, I have to figure out how/where the iPhone controls the carrier logo before I can change that. I guess the iPhone has to have a variable that controls if the fake carrier should be on or off. I have to take a look at that.


It's basically that SBFakeCarrier variable (a text field). If it exists, even if it's equal to "", the normal carrier logo is not displayed. To get the logo back, the SBFakeCarrier must be deleted from com.apple.springboard.plist.

The way I usually do that is with the plutil command (a file that can be downloaded from here (http://ericasadun.com/ftp/EricaUtilities/)). When that is on the phone, the command
plutil -r SBFakeCarrier /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist
really removes the variable.

You could include plutil with the installation package and issue this command at uninstall. Of course the problem remains that you never know whether the user wanted to keep that setting - but it's more likely that they don't. If there was a way to ask during uninstallation, that would be best, but I don't know whether Installer is able to do that.

[csdonz]

how do i type my own carrier text with these new preferences

[Jim Danner]

On second thought, if people don't uninstall the tool but simply delete the fake carrier name from the text field, they will have this same problem (the SBFakeCarrier value will still be present, equal to "", and the regular logo will not be displayed).

Considering all this, plus the fact that there is a dedicated application for the fake carrier (Make It Mine), I would think that the best solution is perhaps to leave this setting out of your package.

[BlackWolf]

It's basically that SBFakeCarrier variable (a text field). If it exists, even if it's equal to "", the normal carrier logo is not displayed. To get the logo back, the SBFakeCarrier must be deleted from com.apple.springboard.plist.

The way I usually do that is with the plutil command (a file that can be downloaded from here (http://ericasadun.com/ftp/EricaUtilities/)). When that is on the phone, the command
plutil -r SBFakeCarrier /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist
really removes the variable.

You could include plutil with the installation package and issue this command at uninstall. Of course the problem remains that you never know whether the user wanted to keep that setting - but it's more likely that they don't. If there was a way to ask during uninstallation, that would be best, but I don't know whether Installer is able to do that.
that's exactly the problem. I can't really delete the variable. I figured out that setting it to <integer>0</integer> at least causes the normal carrier text to be shown on the iPod. I would assume that it also causes the carrier logo to be shown on the iphone. I think I'll work with this.
as for the remaining settings ... do you think it would be enough to just put a confirmation into the uninstallation routine. so when you uninstall it says something like "all settings will remain as they are. if you want to change settings that are not available after uninstall you will have to install advanced prefs again to change them." I think it's not the best solution but ... well, it's a solution :D I mean it's not actually much settings that remain. its shuffle, carrier text and fake time. the numeric stuff can be switched by just tapping the number ... . do you think this would satisfy people enough? because I really dislike the idea to copy old preferences in when my prefs are uninstalled.

how do i type my own carrier text with these new preferences
I wrote a how-to in the first post of this thread. but I'm currently working on a new version that most likely will be released in a few hours where you have a textfield and can just enter the carrier/faketime text you want :-)

On second thought, if people don't uninstall the tool but simply delete the fake carrier name from the text field, they will have this same problem (the SBFakeCarrier value will still be present, equal to "", and the regular logo will not be displayed).

Considering all this, plus the fact that there is a dedicated application for the fake carrier (Make It Mine), I would think that the best solution is perhaps to leave this setting out of your package.
thought about that too. don't see why people should use it anyway when they can just copy in cool images as carrier logos. well, I believe I can put in a switch to activate/deactivate the carrier logo. like I said, I believe <interger>0</integer> as the value should bring back the carrier logo. Maybe I'll try that and if people like it I leave it in. if not, I'll remove it.
damn, <integer>0</integer> doesn't work as I expected. seems like I just have to kick it out on the iphone.

[BlackWolf]

New installer.xml | New Updates

Alright, here we go. I hope you (especially the mods) don't mind the doublepost, but I thought this would be better suited in a new post :-)
The new installer.xml is ready!
URL: http://m8an.de/installer.xml
I think this one should really really be working now. I now set the filerights through the installer and improved the whole install routine a little. It now makes use of the way installer2.xml installed the prefs, since this worked for most people.
Unfortunatly, this new installer.xml requires you to uninstall all previous versions of the Prefs! The script will tell you that if you try to update/install.
You should definetly try this one. I think it should work for all of you (or at least I hope that).

Updates:
Together with the new installer.xml I introduce version 1.2 of both the iPod Touch and the iPhone version of my Prefs.

The iPod Touch version now has textfields where you can type in the carrier/faketime you want. Should be a lot nicer that way. Thanks to Jim Danner for the hint.

The iPhone version was improved even more. I removed the carrier possibility since I cannot provide a switch between carrier text and carrier logo, thus making it impossible to get the logo back without 3rd party tools or SSH. I of course added the textfield for the fake time. I kicked out "Sleep Controls" since that does not apply for the iphone and replaced it with a switch to switch between iphone and ipod touch dock.
I also made another try with the home button. I don't know if this works, but please let me know. If you go to Home Button Menu you now will have to enter another submenu to change the home button. I added several possibilities here and I desperatly want to know if they are working at all. It may require a restart of springboard. Please let me know if they are working instantly or after respring or not at all!

Enjoy it. I really hope this works flawlessly now!

PS: I renamed the script to "Extended Preferences" ... thought it suits better

[DerekVOF]

Worked fine for me - uninstalled and reinstalled and everything is good :D

[Zach23]

BlackWolf, the home buttons work perfectly this time.. good job!

[BlackWolf]

BlackWolf, the home buttons work perfectly this time.. good job!
yeah, that's what I wanted to hear :D if there are any apps that I should add to this that could be important on the phone let me know. I may write an how-to on how to add own apps to this tomorrow. glad that it works.

[Jim Danner]

do you think it would be enough to just put a confirmation into the uninstallation routine. so when you uninstall it says something like "all settings will remain as they are. if you want to change settings that are not available after uninstall you will have to install advanced prefs again to change them." I think it's not the best solution but ... well, it's a solution :D I mean it's not actually much settings that remain. its shuffle, carrier text and fake time.

You never know beforehand what users think of it... We'll see!

On the iPhone, the Shuffle settings are restored every time Music Player starts -- so that will not be a problem. As for fake time and the numeric WiFi/Battery values, if they want to remove them they'll just have to reinstall the package, remove them, and re-uninstall. That is such common sense that most users will understand it. (Same with the well-known application Customize: I uninstalled it, but the changes I made with it are still valid.)

Really the only problem was with Fake Carrier, because here the package made a change that it could not undo.

I've installed the package again, and i think it looks good. All the options for the Home button work (I have tried them all). Just three user-friendliness issues:

The warning message during installation. In the first place, the wording is slightly confusing: instead of "Do you have uninstalled previous versions?", you probably mean "Have you uninstalled all previous versions?". Secondly, there must be a way to avoid asking the user about this. I assume you're afraid to overwrite the backups of original plist files with modified ones from earlier versions of your package. Maybe you could just check if the folder Preferences.app.bak is present, and if it is, give a warning or stop the installation.
The requirement to have the BSD subsystem. That's very strange, because most packages can install themselves without that. I assume you need the chmod command. Anyway, this would make it unavailable for a number of users.
The size of the Preferences.app.bak folder (about 1.4 MB on iPhone 1.1.2). This sits there taking up a lot of disk space on a 300 MB system partition, while you actually need only 10 kB for the plists and 5 kB for the English-language strings.

To combine the last two issues, I think it's better to make a backup of /Applications/Preferences.app/*.plist or something like that, and to put only those files back in their original place. This also takes away the need to change any permissions (with chmod): only the folder and the Preferences file have to be executable, and they don't change. I would suggest putting this backup in a subfolder of Preferences.app so it doesn't get deleted by a careless user.

I see you have figured out how to ask the user a "yes/no"-question in Installer. Would this make it possible to give the user the option of restoring the original settings during uninstall? (You'd have to make a backup of com.apple.springboard.plist during installation, of course.)

Overall, it starts looking better and better. Well done!

[BlackWolf]

You never know beforehand what users think of it... We'll see!

On the iPhone, the Shuffle settings are restored every time Music Player starts -- so that will not be a problem. As for fake time and the numeric WiFi/Battery values, if they want to remove them they'll just have to reinstall the package, remove them, and re-uninstall. That is such common sense that most users will understand it. (Same with the well-known application Customize: I uninstalled it, but the changes I made with it are still valid.)

Really the only problem was with Fake Carrier, because here the package made a change that it could not undo.

I've installed the package again, and i think it looks good. All the options for the Home button work (I have tried them all). Just three user-friendliness issues:

The warning message during installation. In the first place, the wording is slightly confusing: instead of "Do you have uninstalled previous versions?", you probably mean "Have you uninstalled all previous versions?". Secondly, there must be a way to avoid asking the user about this. I assume you're afraid to overwrite the backups of original plist files with modified ones from earlier versions of your package. Maybe you could just check if the folder Preferences.app.bak is present, and if it is, give a warning or stop the installation.
The requirement to have the BSD subsystem. That's very strange, because most packages can install themselves without that. I assume you need the chmod command. Anyway, this would make it unavailable for a number of users.
The size of the Preferences.app.bak folder (about 1.4 MB on iPhone 1.1.2). This sits there taking up a lot of disk space on a 300 MB system partition, while you actually need only 10 kB for the plists and 5 kB for the English-language strings.

To combine the last two issues, I think it's better to make a backup of /Applications/Preferences.app/*.plist or something like that, and to put only those files back in their original place. This also takes away the need to change any permissions (with chmod): only the folder and the Preferences file have to be executable, and they don't change. I would suggest putting this backup in a subfolder of Preferences.app so it doesn't get deleted by a careless user.

I see you have figured out how to ask the user a "yes/no"-question in Installer. Would this make it possible to give the user the option of restoring the original settings during uninstall? (You'd have to make a backup of com.apple.springboard.plist during installation, of course.)

Overall, it starts looking better and better. Well done!

thanks. well, you're right about the options. since I removed the carrier text it should be no problem anymore.
as for the wording you may be right, my english is not that good since I'm from germany. I will change that.
the BSD subsystem ... well, the problem is that my last installer.xml did not work for a lot of people. I think lots of those problems were cause by wrong filerights, so I have to make sure that they are correctly. Since BSD is used for a lot of packages I just assumed that 90% of the users have it installed anyway. It may not be the best method, but I think it's better this way than if it doesn't work at all for some people or if the preferences get screwed or something, so I believe I will leave the requirement to have BSD installed in. I don't really like it, but I think its just the best way.
As for the package size: I waited for someone to complain about this :D The funny thing that the required space hasn't actually changed.
Before, I created a backup of the preferences and then I had my zip-file. that zip-file only contained the files I actually changed, so it was about 20kb in size. those files were copied into the preferences.app folder. all other files in the preferences folder remained unchanged.
I noticed that this caused problems for some users. the installer didn't seem to like copying to a location that already existed. so the new system is: the installer creates a backup, then deletes the preferences.app folder. my zip file now contains the complete preferences.app folder (thus making it about 1.5MB in size, which is about 5MB unpacked, which is the same size as the preferences had before) and copies it to the ipod.
so before I had the backup folder and the preferences.app, and now its the same. there are just more files you copy over from my zip files, that's it.

I figured its a little much disk usage, so I'm currently thinking about a method to provide an update to you that copies the backup to the second partition. If I'm able to do this, the preferences.app won't take any space in reality. You download 1.5MB and unpack 5MB, but that's the 5MB the preferences.app already had before. I think I can do it without forcing the user to uninstall again.

[Jim Danner]

Just one thing -- in the default 1.1.2 iPhone, the Preferences.app folder is just 1.4 MB. It grows to 5 MB when all the extra languages are added to it. I guess your original source for the folder had done that... My installation (unchanged since jailbreak) has English, German, French and Italian .lproj folders.

[BlackWolf]

Just one thing -- in the default 1.1.2 iPhone, the Preferences.app folder is just 1.4 MB. It grows to 5 MB when all the extra languages are added to it. I guess your original source for the folder had done that... My installation (unchanged since jailbreak) has English, German, French and Italian .lproj folders.

alright, I will change that with an update. I put together the iPhone version today and wondered why it only had 4 languages while the touch had like 15 or so. I thought I accidentally deleted them and re-added them. But if it was a mistake, I will delete them with the next update.

[celebi23]

Just one thing -- in the default 1.1.2 iPhone, the Preferences.app folder is just 1.4 MB. It grows to 5 MB when all the extra languages are added to it. I guess your original source for the folder had done that... My installation (unchanged since jailbreak) has English, German, French and Italian .lproj folders.

Same thing with me. I've got an iPod Touch 1.1.2. When I installed this, it created the Preferences.app.bak, which was the same size as the default Preferences.app of 5.8MB. When I deleted it, the Preferences app that remained was 1.4MB. The difference in .app size was the fact that there were files missing in the .lproj folders besides the English.lproj folder. Some folders were missing some/ if not all files. That was my only problem with this. It just shocked me a bit at first to see the size difference :rolleyes:

[F.Gozalo]

Hi there, first, great app! I've just installed the iPhone version, works as advertised. I have one doubt though, where is the wallpaper settings located, I mean, i've read a few pages back and it is supposed to be under the dispay settings, the problem is, in my case, it's not there. Can anyone else check to see if its just me, or somehow that is indeed missing in the iPhone version? Cheers.

Once again, thanks, I really enjoyed it!

[RJT]

Legendary, thank you m8. :)

Edit: I'm getting a "Script Execution Error", anyone?

[BlackWolf]

Legendary, thank you m8. :)

Edit: I'm getting a "Script Execution Error", anyone?

New version
I hope to fix the main script execution error for a lot or all people know (oh man I so hope that). try again all of you and cross your fingers. unfortunatly, you again have to uninstall all previous versions, even 1.2. I'm very sorry for that.
btw: I kicked out unneeded languages from the iphone version so its gotten a lot smaller!

Hi there, first, great app! I've just installed the iPhone version, works as advertised. I have one doubt though, where is the wallpaper settings located, I mean, i've read a few pages back and it is supposed to be under the dispay settings, the problem is, in my case, it's not there. Can anyone else check to see if its just me, or somehow that is indeed missing in the iPhone version? Cheers.

Once again, thanks, I really enjoyed it!
oh I think you're right. can anyone else with an iphone check that? I believe you're right. unfortunatly I have to go now but I will fix that when I get home. Sorry.

[RJT]

New version
I hope to fix the main script execution error for a lot or all people know (oh man I so hope that). try again all of you and cross your fingers. unfortunatly, you again have to uninstall all previous versions, even 1.2. I'm very sorry for that.
btw: I kicked out unneeded languages from the iphone version so its gotten a lot smaller!


It installed, but now I don't seem to have any "settings" option at all. The icon has completely disappeared from my touch. :(

Edit: And I have no option to "uninstall"

[F.Gozalo]

New versionoh I think you're right. can anyone else with an iphone check that? I believe you're right. unfortunatly I have to go now but I will fix that when I get home. Sorry.

No problem at all. Once again, many thanks, this is minor compared to the greatness of this app.

Cheers!

[RJT]

I'd just really like to know whether or not I can get my regular settings back without doing a full restore/jailbreak again - I really don't feel like losing all the data I have in there right now.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[BlackWolf]

I'd just really like to know whether or not I can get my regular settings back without doing a full restore/jailbreak again - I really don't feel like losing all the data I have in there right now.

Thanks in advance for any help.
did you install 1.3? because this should not happen with 1.3.
do you have mobilefinder installed? if so, use that, otherwise: do you know how to access the touch with SSH?

whichever way you take, move to /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/
there should be a Preferences.app.bak present there. rename it to Preferences.app and then copy or move it to /Applications/
this should bring back your original settings.

I heard some (very few) people complain about their settings disappearing, but I thought that should be impossible with 1.3.
btw: if your settings disappeared after trying to install 1.2, your Preferences.app.bak folder is found in /Applications/
remove /Applications/Preferences.app/ if it exists and then rename your Preferences.app.bak to get your prefs back

Sorry for the trouble!

If anything else fails, download
http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences.zip and access your touch with SSH and then copy the content of the zip to /Applications/
(those prefs are for ipod touches, if you have an iphone I can upload the settings for that for you)

If the installer keeps screwing some peoples preferences I will remove the Installer installation and get back to manual installation, because if 1.3 doesn't work I can't think of anything why it doesn't and I can't keep this up if it possibly screws your settings.

[Damitu]

I downloaded this from the installer and, as someone had mentioned before my
settings dissapeared..!!!

I downloaded the original setting and, SSHed them into my touch...

My settings tab came back after a reset but, there is nothing there....
It will show a blank screen then will shut down by itself..:o

Can someone PLEASE HELP ME either get my original settings back
or get the extended one....

Thanks for any help on this..

David

[BlackWolf]

I downloaded this from the installer and, as someone had mentioned before my
settings dissapeared..!!!

I downloaded the original setting and, SSHed them into my touch...

My settings tab came back after a reset but, there is nothing there....
It will show a blank screen then will shut down by itself..:o

Can someone PLEASE HELP ME either get my original settings back
or get the extended one....

Thanks for any help on this..

David

if you copied the settings in by hand it's most likely because you havn't set the correct filerights. SSH to /Applications/Preferences.app, mark everything and set its rights to 755 (often called chmod in SSH-programs)

sorry for the trouble.
did this happen with 1.3 or an earlier version?

[F.Gozalo]

Hi there BlackWolf. In your next realease of the extended preferences app for the iPhone, can you add the wallpaper settings?! That's all I miss from the original one.

Thanks! Cheers.

[Damitu]

I SSHed the whole original preferences into applications..

Yes, it was 1.3

I will go into the file and check that it is all at 755

[Damitu]

Ok, I think that was my problem...

I had originally just set permission on the whole pref's file but, I went
in and individually set them all to 755 and lo and behold my settings are back!!

Thanks for helping a noob...My touch has been jailbroken for a long time and,
I didn't want to have to do it over......

Keep up the good work and, again.

THANKS!!!:D

[BlackWolf]

Ok, I think that was my problem...

I had originally just set permission on the whole pref's file but, I went
in and individually set them all to 755 and lo and behold my settings are back!!

Thanks for helping a noob...My touch has been jailbroken for a long time and,
I didn't want to have to do it over......

Keep up the good work and, again.

THANKS!!!:D
glad it works again. enjoy.
Hi there BlackWolf. In your next realease of the extended preferences app for the iPhone, can you add the wallpaper settings?! That's all I miss from the original one.

Thanks! Cheers.
yeah, I know I kicked that out by accident. I will add it in a new release. unfortunatly I'm very busy these days because of school, but I will release a new version the next days.

[coli warburton]

guys please tell me how to get the new prefferences app because i dont know how to do it

[Blackwidow74]

could you please post a link for the new version for the iphone? thank you

[BlackWolf]

guys please tell me how to get the new prefferences app because i dont know how to do it
just go to your installer.app, add "http://m8an.de/installer.xml" to your sources and then it will be in your tweaks category ready to be installed.

could you please post a link for the new version for the iphone? thank you
It's not ready yet. Like I said, school is keeping me busy these days, but I will do it on the weekend (so probably today or tomorrow). It will be ready as an update in installer once its finished. But the location will be http://m8an.de/iPhone1.4.zip ;-)

[RDTymko]

I installed v1.3 and some how lost carrier text. I tried it on my wife's phone and carrier text does not show up at all.

Do you have the original preference.app file for the iphone. what version is it programmed for. 1.1.1 and/or 1.1.2?

Excellent work by the way. Are you expecting to release 1.4 soon?

SBFakeCarrier does not show up in the preferences.app General.plist. Where do I find it?

Thanks

[BlackWolf]

I installed v1.3 and some how lost carrier text. I tried it on my wife's phone and carrier text does not show up at all.

Do you have the original preference.app file for the iphone. what version is it programmed for. 1.1.1 and/or 1.1.2?

Excellent work by the way. Are you expecting to release 1.4 soon?

SBFakeCarrier does not show up in the preferences.app General.plist. Where do I find it?

Thanks

thanks for the compliment.
to answer your questions:
it runs on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 (at least on the ipod, I'm pretty sure its the same for the iphone)
I took out the carrier text for the iphone version, since the only way to get back to an actual carrier logo is to completly delete the SBFakeCarrier-String from the preferences file (just putting in an empty string won't do the job unfortunatly). since I cannot do that in the settings I took it out, because not everybody knows where the settings are stored and how to take the SBFakeCarrier string out of them.

but if you want it back in there (own risk) I can explain how to do that. since you know about the general.plist I suppose you are familiar with accessing the touch using SSH?
if so, download this:
http://m8an.de/General.zip
and extract the General.plist it contains to /Applications/Preferences.app/
this should give you the carrier text option.

and btw, yes I will most likely release a new version this weekend. It will probably not contain much new (most stuff I found didn't work, at least on my ipod) but it will bring back the wallpaper-menu to the iphone :D

[Clash]

Hey can someone help me here please? I installed the extended preferences but I got the "dock bug", a weird dock is now displaying (previously my theme had no dock but it'd put like a default one there) and it also has no reflection, I've been searching for like 1 hour and haven't found the fix... thanks and sorry for the newbie question

Snapshot of how the dock got messed, I think it repeated the default dock twice and it's the size of iphone's dock
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1834/snap161024bm9.png

[BlackWolf]

Hey can someone help me here please? I installed the extended preferences but I got the "dock bug", a weird dock is now displaying (previously my theme had no dock but it'd put like a default one there) and it also has no reflection, I've been searching for like 1 hour and haven't found the fix... thanks and sorry for the newbie question

Snapshot of how the dock got messed, I think it repeated the default dock twice and it's the size of iphone's dock


and this is related to my prefs how ... ? Don't see that this has anything to do with it. anyway, try to go into your SMBPrefs and turn "Theme Dock" to off and back to on. I think the dock should be back to your themes dock afterwards.

[grhellas1]

hi blackwolf,

i installed the app on my iphone through the installer unfortunately that didnt work. my background was black but i think the setting were still there but when i klick them the phone hangs up. so i restored the backup renmaed it and copied it in the applications but still my background is back but when i klick the setting the phone freezes. can some one send me his preferences.app or is there any other way to get that fixed ?

thanks

tim

[BlackWolf]

hi blackwolf,

i installed the app on my iphone through the installer unfortunately that didnt work. my background was black but i think the setting were still there but when i klick them the phone hangs up. so i restored the backup renmaed it and copied it in the applications but still my background is back but when i klick the setting the phone freezes. can some one send me his preferences.app or is there any other way to get that fixed ?

thanks

tim
this has nothing to do with the prefs themselves but with the filerights they have. although the installer sets the filerights of the Preferences.app-Folder to 755, it seems that on some devices the files within that folder are not set to 755 and therefore it doesn't work sometimes.

what you do is: access your iphone, go into /Applications/Preferences.app/, mark everything and set the filerights to 755 (in many SSH programs its called "chmod").
after that your prefs should work again. if you do that AFTER installing the extended prefs thorugh the installer you should get the extended prefs.

[fedge3]

blackwolf,
thanks for putting up the link to install your preferences app through installer. i just installed and it worked fantastic. it is very useful, which is not something you can say about a lot of sources. nice work

[grhellas1]

hi,

ok thanks did what you said (thought i have done that already but didnt) kinda works now but still 2 problems,
first thing is the settings are dual language now ^^ half german half english.
and second in the installer tool there is no uninstall possibility for the tool, is that planned os you can only uninstall it via ssh ?`

thanks and keep up the good work

tim

[BlackWolf]

hi,

ok thanks did what you said (thought i have done that already but didnt) kinda works now but still 2 problems,
first thing is the settings are dual language now ^^ half german half english.
and second in the installer tool there is no uninstall possibility for the tool, is that planned os you can only uninstall it via ssh ?`

thanks and keep up the good work

tim
well, since you copied it in by hand and not via installer of course there is no uninstallation-option now. you have to copy in the original prefs to get them back. if you want an uninstallation option you can try to copy your old prefs back in, chmod them 755 and then try again to install the new prefs with the installer. maybe it works.

as for half english half german: I guess you set your iphone to german?
I haven't created an iphone-version of my german localization until now. you can try to localize them by yourself (I wrote an how-to on the first page) or maybe I'll create one in the future, but right now the iphone version has english localization only and the ipod touch version comes with english and german translation.
you could try to copy the German.lproj-Folder from
http://m8an.de/iPod1.3.zip
in your /Applications/Preferences.app/ folder on your ipod, but I won't guarantee that it works, so back up your old German.lproj folder before you do that. I guess it will work, but I'm not sure!

[BlackWolf]

I just wanted to tell you about a little update I finally made today:

• Installer-Repository was improved. The bug where people just saw the background of the prefs, but the prefs themselves didn't load should be fixed now

• I created an info-page for the package (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/ExtendedPreferences.html). It can be found when you tap "More Info" on the package's screen in installer.

• iPhone version 1.3.1 released. It brings back the wallpaper menu and allows you to show the GSM strength numeric

regards

[total0wnage]

hey darkwolf can u please explain to me how to change the battery thing to a numeric value. thanx -for ipod touch(if that matters)

-xX RoHiT

[BlackWolf]

hey darkwolf can u please explain to me how to change the battery thing to a numeric value. thanx -for ipod touch(if that matters)

-xX RoHiT

1) it's blackwolf, but whatever :D

2) Just go to General & Tweaks -> Numeric battery, turn it to on and after that you can tap at your battery icon to switch between icon and number.

regards

[total0wnage]

omg sorry lol anyway oo thats awesome i didnt think about tryin that.
thanx for that fast response, was expecting you to answer till later tonight or tomorrow.lol
i actually have 1 more question. i changed my carrier text but i would like to change the wifi bars to signal bars how would i go about doing that?

[BlackWolf]

omg sorry lol anyway oo thats awesome i didnt think about tryin that.
thanx for that fast response, was expecting you to answer till later tonight or tomorrow.lol
i actually have 1 more question. i changed my carrier text but i would like to change the wifi bars to signal bars how would i go about doing that?

customize can change images (can be found in the installer). although you'll have to find the signal bars yourself and put it in there. but I'd bet they are somewhere stored on the iPod since they have to be on the iPhone.
It's late here now, but if I have time I'll look for the signal bars tomorrow, maybe I find them.
but download customize. there are a lot of customize theme, maybe somewhere you have like an "original iphone theme" or something.

[total0wnage]

k thanx. i actually tried some tmobile 1s i had but they didnt work(or did i have to tap the screen? i didnt try that)

[grhellas1]

Sooo du bis tja deutsch dann muss ich ja nicht mit meinem gebrochen englisch ankommen ^^
also ich hatte es per installer installiert ursprünglich, und es gab keine uninstall funktion. naja ich hab jetzt alles wieder in den ursprungszustand gesetzt und hab nochmal angefangen mit deiner neuen version 1.3.1 per installer installiert leider gin es nicht der preferences.app ordner war sogut wie leer nur paar dateien drinne(im installer keine möglichkeit zu deinstallieren), also habe ich sie wieder restored und dein paket per hand eingefügt, jetzt geht es ohne probleme.
eine kleinigkeit noch ich kann beim besten willen nicht den GSM Numeric text finden zum umschreiben in deutsch in der general.string is ja wifi numeric usw aber gsm fehlt ?

mfg tim

[RJT]

did you install 1.3? because this should not happen with 1.3.
do you have mobilefinder installed? if so, use that, otherwise: do you know how to access the touch with SSH?

whichever way you take, move to /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/
there should be a Preferences.app.bak present there. rename it to Preferences.app and then copy or move it to /Applications/
this should bring back your original settings.

I heard some (very few) people complain about their settings disappearing, but I thought that should be impossible with 1.3.
btw: if your settings disappeared after trying to install 1.2, your Preferences.app.bak folder is found in /Applications/
remove /Applications/Preferences.app/ if it exists and then rename your Preferences.app.bak to get your prefs back

Sorry for the trouble!

If anything else fails, download
http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences.zip and access your touch with SSH and then copy the content of the zip to /Applications/
(those prefs are for ipod touches, if you have an iphone I can upload the settings for that for you)

If the installer keeps screwing some peoples preferences I will remove the Installer installation and get back to manual installation, because if 1.3 doesn't work I can't think of anything why it doesn't and I can't keep this up if it possibly screws your settings.


I can't even get the IP address of my ipod to SSH into it - and now it seems to be deteriorating even more (way more crashes, nothing will install).

I realize this has worked for tons of people just fine - but it has been nothing but a headache for me. Have no idea what to do. :)

Edit: For the record, I did just restore, jailbreak again, and try downloading it again - and it seems to have worked, so it must have just been a freak thing with 1.2

Edit 2: No I'm not. Now I can't install anything from the installer, and the settings are gone again - I also have no /applications/ folder anywhere that I can see, so I have no clue as to what you mean about copying the file.

Please advise.

[RJT]

Meh, screw it - this is totally not worth the headache. I'm just going to restore and not even bother with this.

http://forums.ilounge.com/images/smilies/thumbsdown.gif

Edit: By the way, Blackwolf - I don't want you to think I'm not grateful for your efforts - this is definitely neat progress - it just didn't work for me for some reason. Still, thank you for your effort.

[morphtk]

Pals,

Firstly, thanx to blackwolf for nice app. Its a nice effort you've put in.

Couldn't find this information being discussed elsewhere.. so thought it would be a new discovery.. also, blackwolf made a special app for these settings.. I wonder would that really be needed.

1. I just recently discovered that if you move your finger over (not merely tap) the battery and/or wireless signal strength displays.. they switch from image displays to numeric displays...
2. The numeric value for the signal strength is the wi-fi network strength.. so it shows a max of 54 (54g wireless router) for me..

Anybody else, gave this a try... plz confirm..

BTW on the sidelines... I installed the Extended Prefs on my iphone 1.1.2 and changed my settings; like for display dim, kbd correction etc.. but then uninstalled it.. just to get my original wallpaper & about menu back.. But it seems that the setting changes I made remain in effect.. as I didn't bother to restore my preference.app.bak since I'm fine with those settings... so my point here is... the discovery that I made (as mentioned earlier) is it because of the Extended Prefs..install/un-install or was it present out-of-the-box..
OR could be once you set numeric displays ON for these(through Extended Prefs.)... then only can you switch between image/number.

Enjoy !

morphius

[BlackWolf]

Sooo du bis tja deutsch dann muss ich ja nicht mit meinem gebrochen englisch ankommen ^^
also ich hatte es per installer installiert ursprünglich, und es gab keine uninstall funktion. naja ich hab jetzt alles wieder in den ursprungszustand gesetzt und hab nochmal angefangen mit deiner neuen version 1.3.1 per installer installiert leider gin es nicht der preferences.app ordner war sogut wie leer nur paar dateien drinne(im installer keine möglichkeit zu deinstallieren), also habe ich sie wieder restored und dein paket per hand eingefügt, jetzt geht es ohne probleme.
eine kleinigkeit noch ich kann beim besten willen nicht den GSM Numeric text finden zum umschreiben in deutsch in der general.string is ja wifi numeric usw aber gsm fehlt ?

mfg tim
ok dann auf deutsch: seltsam das es per installer nicht geht aber per hand schon. dein problem hörte sich ganz so an als wäre zuwenig freier speicher, aber wenns per hand ging muss er ja verfügbar gewesen sein. naja, solangs funktioniert.
die GSM numeric geschichte gibts nur in der iphone version 1.3.1, in General & Tweaks und dann in der "Statusbar Tweaks"-Sektion. dort sollte es eigentlich "numeric GSM" geben wenn ich mich nicht völlig vertan hab und das falsche zip hochgeladen hab

I can't even get the IP address of my ipod to SSH into it - and now it seems to be deteriorating even more (way more crashes, nothing will install).

I realize this has worked for tons of people just fine - but it has been nothing but a headache for me. Have no idea what to do. :)

Edit: For the record, I did just restore, jailbreak again, and try downloading it again - and it seems to have worked, so it must have just been a freak thing with 1.2

Edit 2: No I'm not. Now I can't install anything from the installer, and the settings are gone again - I also have no /applications/ folder anywhere that I can see, so I have no clue as to what you mean about copying the file.

Please advise.
sorry it doesn't work for you. but it sounds like your app partition is full. that would be strange since you say you just restored, but if you can't install anything from the installer that clearly points to a full application-partition. uninstall something you don't need at the moment, install bsd subsystems and terminal-vt100 and type in "df -h" in the terminal. first line is your app-partition. if the "Use%" row shows like 95% or more I think here is your problem.

Pals,

Firstly, thanx to blackwolf for nice app. Its a nice effort you've put in.

Couldn't find this information being discussed elsewhere.. so thought it would be a new discovery.. also, blackwolf made a special app for these settings.. I wonder would that really be needed.

1. I just recently discovered that if you move your finger over (not merely tap) the battery and/or wireless signal strength displays.. they switch from image displays to numeric displays...
2. The numeric value for the signal strength is the wi-fi network strength.. so it shows a max of 54 (54g wireless router) for me..

Anybody else, gave this a try... plz confirm..

BTW on the sidelines... I installed the Extended Prefs on my iphone 1.1.2 and changed my settings; like for display dim, kbd correction etc.. but then uninstalled it.. just to get my original wallpaper & about menu back.. But it seems that the setting changes I made remain in effect.. as I didn't bother to restore my preference.app.bak since I'm fine with those settings... so my point here is... the discovery that I made (as mentioned earlier) is it because of the Extended Prefs..install/un-install or was it present out-of-the-box..
OR could be once you set numeric displays ON for these(through Extended Prefs.)... then only can you switch between image/number.

Enjoy !

morphius
that is because of the extended prefs. by switching the numeric stuff on in the extended prefs you actually switch on the ability to tap your statusbar to switch between number and icon. you can still use that after uninstalling my prefs because the settings still remain in the settings-file. that's completly normal. if you wanna get rid of this install my prefs again, switch it to off and then you can uninstall them and everything will be back to normal.

[RJT]

sorry it doesn't work for you. but it sounds like your app partition is full. that would be strange since you say you just restored, but if you can't install anything from the installer that clearly points to a full application-partition. uninstall something you don't need at the moment, install bsd subsystems and terminal-vt100 and type in "df -h" in the terminal. first line is your app-partition. if the "Use%" row shows like 95% or more I think here is your problem.



Nah, that definitely wasn't it - because I had already done the work-around for my app partition.

Believe me m8, I tried just about everything I could to try and get this to work - and the only time I have been able to get it to work successfully I wasn't able to install anything else at all. I haven't got a clue as to why it just doesn't seem to want to work.

[BlackWolf]

Nah, that definitely wasn't it - because I had already done the work-around for my app partition.

Believe me m8, I tried just about everything I could to try and get this to work - and the only time I have been able to get it to work successfully I wasn't able to install anything else at all. I haven't got a clue as to why it just doesn't seem to want to work.

strange thing. only thing I could advice you now is to put the stuff in by hand - this seems to work for everybody. but well, it's your decision ;-) If you ever find out why it didn't work let me know.

[RJT]

strange thing. only thing I could advice you now is to put the stuff in by hand - this seems to work for everybody. but well, it's your decision ;-) If you ever find out why it didn't work let me know.

Will give it a shot once finals for interim are out this week - need my ipod desperately for a few days. :p

[total0wnage]

hey black wolf did u happened to find any of those signal bars?

[BlackWolf]

hey black wolf did u happened to find any of those signal bars?

I did.

wait a sec, I'll create a zip-file for ya ...

edit: ... here you go. download http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Bars.zip
copy the content of the zip to
/private/var/root/Library/Customize/WiFiImages/
on your ipod. then start customize, go to wifi images and select the iphone bars.
it actually looks pretty nice, I'm gonna use that now :D

[total0wnage]

k thanx just tell me how ur going to send it to me- or are u going to upload it to some fileupload site?

[blablaman]

Hey guys, having big problems today. First of all, I was using this script earlier and absolutely love it. Now on to the problem.

I have modmyifone as one of my sources in installer, and it seems they came out with an app called Extended Preferences as well. Not knowing that it was a different app, installer prompted me to update it and I tried. It then failed and I am also now unable to install blackwolf's Extended Preferences (Main execution script error). To add to it, it removed my settings from my springboard but i managed to recover that by downloading the original and placing it in my applications folder. The problem with that is that it doesn't work, it just loads a blank screen for about 5 seconds when i press settings now, then goes back to the springboard. Anybody have any suggestions on what to do? I really don't want to restore and re-jail break.

[PSUBALL10]

blackwolf I went to get the extended preferences on my itouch. Added the source 2 my installer and everything looked good. Started the download and got this error "bsd subsystem must be present to continue. Install it first" I'm not sure if this is common or not. Im not sure where that subsystem is to install it, can anyone help me out?

[DerekVOF]

BSD Subsystem allows many of the applications (including Extended Preferences) to work. It allows the developer to use Unix command rather than having to roll their own for common tasks (moving files, setting permissions, etc.). You can find the BSD Subsystem in the System category.

[PSUBALL10]

awesome, got everything figured out and works great!

[Murasameee]

help!
i downloaded your extended preference thing a while ago and it worked all fine and everything
but recently today, when i tried downloading the update that was made recently, so i shrugged it off
then recently i realized the settings icon wasnt there and i cant uninstall the extended preferences app either!
it said "main script execution failed"
help!

[Jim Danner]

help!
i downloaded your extended preference thing a while ago and it worked all fine and everything
but recently today, when i tried downloading the update that was made recently, so i shrugged it off
then recently i realized the settings icon wasnt there and i cant uninstall the extended preferences app either!
it said "main script execution failed"
help!
Is it possible you have the same problem as blablaman above?

[BlackWolf]

I took the installer-repository offline today. I'm just way too fed up with it. It seems this doesn't work properly with the extended settings because I'm dealing with an app that already exists. or I'm just too stupid to do it, I have no idea. I checked my installer.xml three times now and every action seems correct to me. for no reason the installer doesn't copy my stuff properly sometimes or just gives a main execution error.

since my final exams are nearing I just don't have the time to troubleshoot people all the time, even if it works for like 80% of you. manual installation seems to work for anyone. So here you go. If anyone with some experience in creating apptapp repositories is able to build me one that actually works fine I'll gladly put up a new one.

PS: all people who got screwed over after installing an update on january 15th: I just wanted to let you know this wasn't my fault. modmyifone set up a package with the same name and the same identifier (most unlikely thing ever), so the installer thought it was an update to MY package. couldn't foresee it or do anything about it, very sorry.

Basics: How to access the Touch/iPhone with SSH
To perform any of the steps below you need to know how to do this:

1) Download an SFTP-program. I prefer winSCP for windows and cyberduck for mac. just google it, it's freeware and found easily.

2) Make Sure SSH is installed on your device: You should have installed it when you jailbroke (there was a little checkbox that said "include SSH" or something). If you havn't, install "OpenSSH" from the installer.

3) Find out your IP: If your settings are still available you can just go there, then on wifi, then tap the blue arrow next to your wifi network and there is your IP-Adress. If you found it, go to step 4. If your prefs are not available anymore (they disappeared) then you have to install "BSD subsystems" and "terminal-vt100" from the installer. Start the terminal after you installed it and type in "ifconfig" (without the quotation marks). You wil get an output that looks something like this:
http://nachdenki.m8an.de/terminalip.png
I already highlighted the important thing. Find the word "inet" and the number after that is your IP-Adress as long as it is NOT 127.0.0.1! Write down that adress and let's go to the next step:

4) Find out your password: If you installed SSH when you jailbroke and entered a SSH-password back then (default was alpine) you can go to step 5. If you don't remember your password or you didn't install SSH and installed OpenSSH afterwards do this: First make sure BSD subsystems and terminal-v100 are installed. open terminal, type in "passwd root" (without quotation marks). after that the terminal will ask for a new password. type it in twice (you won't actually see that you're typing because it's a password. just type it in and tap return, then type it in again and hit return again). This is your new password. Proceed ...

5)Connect (wohoo!): Open your SSH-program. I think WinSCP opens a "new connection" window up right from the start, on cyberduck you might have to click something like "new connection" or so. Anyway, the program will ask several information from you.
Sever IP/Adress: The iPods-IP adress from step 3)
Port: 22
Username: root
Password: The password from step 4)

after that, connect. you are now connected :-)

Help! My Settings disappeared
1) First download the original preferences that fits your device:
iPod Touch (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences.zip)
iPhone (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences_iPhone.zip)
to your home PC/mac.

2) Extract the zip-file so you'll get a directory called "Preferences.app".

3) Connect to your ipod/iphone with SSH as described above.

4) Go to the directory "/" (root-directory, the directory that contains everything else) and then to "Applications".

5) If there is a Preferences.app folder already in there, delete it.

6) Copy the Preferences.app folder from the zip-file to /Applications/

7) Enter the Preferences.app-Directory and make sure the file "Preferences" has the rights 755 (It's called "chmod" or "filerights" in WinSCP/Cyberduck. Just right-click the Preferences-file and you'll find it somewhere. Most likely in the settings of that file).

Help! My Settings start but just show the background!
1) Access your device with SSH

2) Go to /Applications/Preferences.app/

3) Enter the Preferences.app-Directory and make sure the file "Preferences" has the rights 755 (It's called "chmod" or "filerights" in WinSCP/Cyberduck. Just right-click the Preferences-file and you'll find it somewhere. Most likely in the settings of that file).

Start your prefs, they should work now.

Install the Extended Preferences
1) Download the Extended Prefs for your device. Current versions are iPod Touch version 1.3 (http://m8an.de/iPod1.3.zip) or iPhone version 1.3.1 (http://m8an.de/iPhone1.3.1.zip). Extract the zip-file so you get a directory called Preferences.app

2) Access the device using SSH

3) Move to /Applications/ on your device

4) Rename the already existing folder "Preferences.app" to something else like "Preferences.app.bak"

5) Copy the Preferences.app folder from the zip-file to /Applications/

6) Enter the Preferences.app-Directory and make sure the file "Preferences" has the rights 755 (It's called "chmod" or "filerights" in WinSCP/Cyberduck. Just right-click the Preferences-file and you'll find it somewhere. Most likely in the settings of that file).

You got the extended prefs now. enjoy.

Uninstall the "Extended Preferences" after installing it manually
1) Access the device using SSH

2) Move to /Applications/ on your device

3) Make sure the backup folder you made (I suggested to call it "Preferences.app.bak" above) is still there. If not, download the original prefs for iPod Touch (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences.zip) or iPhone (http://nachdenki.m8an.de/Orig_Preferences_iPhone.zip) and use the "Preferences.app"-Folder from the zip-file instead of your backup.

4) Delete the folder "Preferences.app" in /Applications/

5) Rename your backup-folder to Preferences.app, or, if you used the zip-files from above, just upload the folder from the zip to /Applications/

You should have your old prefs back now.

So you really want the installer?
If you really really really really want the installer, then I won't force you to do it manually. Just know this: I won't give any support! Anything you need to know to solve problems is in this post. If you didn't understand it, don't use the installer repository, since I won't help you if you get any problems! If you really want to use it, the repository is found here: http://m8an.de/ownrisk.xml. Own risk, no support!

Enjoy :-)

[DerekVOF]

Sorry Blackwolf - not your fault. Some guys on the ModMyiFone.com repository put up an iPhone package and named it the same thing. Unfortunately, Installer.app isn't smart enough to distinguish the two applications :(

[RJT]

I have to say the amount of effort you've put into this is staggering, Blackwolf - thank you again just for that.

:)

[Murasameee]

thanks! :B

[blablaman]

Thanks very much BlackWolf. You solved all my problems and provided perfect instructions. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all that you have done. Just one more quick question if anybody has the answer to it. It's not really a big issue at all but just a little bothersome. In my installer it still has Extended Preferences listed there and I'm unable to uninstall it or anything because it gives me a script error or something. Anybody have any idea how to remove it so it doesn't say it's installed? Thanks again.

[JYogi]

OK
I have done this.
I have Cyberduck as I am on a Mac
I found my IP on the ITouch under
the service menu.

I reinstalled SSH and BDS with no problems

I have SSH on I put in all the info
and tried to connect but it wont connect?

Do I need to have the ITouch plugged into my
Mac or something?

Heck, if I must I will delete everything and just start
over if its possible.... All my music is on my ITunes
so its not a big deal I guess although I will lose some Emails

[BlackWolf]

OK
I have done this.
I have Cyberduck as I am on a Mac
I found my IP on the ITouch under
the service menu.

I reinstalled SSH and BDS with no problems

I have SSH on I put in all the info
and tried to connect but it wont connect?

Do I need to have the ITouch plugged into my
Mac or something?

Heck, if I must I will delete everything and just start
over if its possible.... All my music is on my ITunes
so its not a big deal I guess although I will lose some Emails

does it give you any kind of error message?
please note that of course your touch and the computer from which you are connecting have to be connected to the same wireless network. if so and you entered everything correct, it should work perfectly.

[jennilee]

blackwolf, thank you so very much for this. i followed all your instructions and everything worked perfectly.

i do have a question about going into the general.plist to change the carrier and fake time text. on the first page you say"Whatever of those two you search you will find these lines two lines below your first search result: <key>validTitles</key><array>" But these lines do not exist in the exact way represented here, so I am confused on how to do it.

The following is what shows up in my general.plist file:

<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSEditTextCell</string>
<key>detail</key>
<string>PSDetailController</string>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBFakeTimeString</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Faked Time Text</string>
<key>placeholder</key>
<string>Nothing</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSSwitchCell</string>
<key>default</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBShowBatteryLevel</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Numeric Battery</string>
</dict>

[BlackWolf]

blackwolf, thank you so very much for this. i followed all your instructions and everything worked perfectly.

i do have a question about going into the general.plist to change the carrier and fake time text. on the first page you say"Whatever of those two you search you will find these lines two lines below your first search result: <key>validTitles</key><array>" But these lines do not exist in the exact way represented here, so I am confused on how to do it.

The following is what shows up in my general.plist file:

<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSEditTextCell</string>
<key>detail</key>
<string>PSDetailController</string>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBFakeTimeString</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Faked Time Text</string>
<key>placeholder</key>
<string>Nothing</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSSwitchCell</string>
<key>default</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBShowBatteryLevel</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Numeric Battery</string>
</dict>

this is because in the newer versions the list of choices is replaced with a textfield. so there is no need anymore to add your own options, you can just enter whatever you want directly in the prefs ;-)

[aaron7114]

extended preferences is showing up under update on installer app like it needs to be updated. So I went to it and went to more info and the page it takes me too says IT WILL NOT WORK ON IPOD TOUCH.

Why does it say that when it should be the one for the touch?

[JYogi]

Here is how the problem started and
below is what has happened when trying to use Cyberduck
Please help me here... As it says if I have to start over tell
me. I have all my music and contacts backed up. Just tell me
how to restore to the start, the one thread I have read about it
has told me most of the people had problems restarting.


I have been having NOTHING but problems since I installed this
(this being Extended Preferences Version 1.3).
First my ITouch froze, then I reinstalled (from its online installer)
then it started working for a day, now my "settings" icon is gone
it just vanished, was there one second and then when waking up
my ITouch it vanished.

I try going into the installer and uninstalling it but get

"Main script execution failed!"

I see I have 1 update avail on my installer and thats
Extended Preferences version 0.3.2

So I decide to try and update it as that may solve my
problems or make it so I can uninstall it.... I get the
same problem "Main script execution failed!"

What should I do?
Heck, if I have to and can reset it to like new and start over
I will do that... This is just annoying to say the least.


OK
I have done this.
I have Cyberduck as I am on a Mac
I found my IP on the ITouch under
the service menu.

I reinstalled SSH and BDS with no problems

I have SSH on I put in all the info
and tried to connect but it wont connect?

Do I need to have the ITouch plugged into my
Mac or something?

Heck, if I must I will delete everything and just start
over if its possible.... All my music is on my ITunes
so its not a big deal I guess although I will lose some Emails

[JYogi]

OK
I got frustrated and reset my IPod
my settings are back and no problems.
I am not using 1.1.3 and will hope there is a hack
for it in the future. I miss having my programs like Solitare.

Can I Jailbreak this?
Are there still games (not web games) that I can DL?
Or do I just have to wait?

Funny thing is even though I did a full restore and lost everything
my battery and web strength are numeric

[BlackWolf]

OK
I got frustrated and reset my IPod
my settings are back and no problems.
I am not using 1.1.3 and will hope there is a hack
for it in the future. I miss having my programs like Solitare.

Can I Jailbreak this?
Are there still games (not web games) that I can DL?
Or do I just have to wait?

Funny thing is even though I did a full restore and lost everything
my battery and web strength are numeric

sorry you had to restore. the numbers are still numeric because the settings are stored on the same partition as your music so you don't loose all your settings when you upgrade your firmware ;-)

@aaron7114: this is a package with the same name modmyifon put up. don't use the installer anymore. read my post about manual installation one site before.

[RJT]

Well, it's a shame - but after messing with the three different programs out there for extended preferences I've had to downgrade and restore 3 times.

Lesson learned: None of these prefs is worth all the headaches involved with getting them to work consistently. Even when they did work, it was only a matter of a day or two before my "settings" icon disappeared and I'd inevitably have to go through the whole process again.

[JYogi]

RJ BlackWolf's is great....
The whole headache came into play as someone
release an update for another program under
the same name as his so it messed up stuff
for some of us, it was not due to his program.

BW thanks for all the help and effort.

[RJT]

I've "successfully" installed his software twice now - and it worked for about a day and then proceeded to remove any settings options at all from my ipod. The suggested fix (moving/renaming preferences to app folder) also did not work, and in reality made things far worse.

I'd look up the name of the other extended preferences app, but I'm in the middle of my 3rd restore in as many days right now - so it's not possible at the moment - but that one was even worse and completely bricked my touch to the point of force restore.

The only preference that i even want available is the one that allows me to turn off autocorrect.

[BlackWolf]

I've "successfully" installed his software twice now - and it worked for about a day and then proceeded to remove any settings options at all from my ipod. The suggested fix (moving/renaming preferences to app folder) also did not work, and in reality made things far worse.

I'd look up the name of the other extended preferences app, but I'm in the middle of my 3rd restore in as many days right now - so it's not possible at the moment - but that one was even worse and completely bricked my touch to the point of force restore.

The only preference that i even want available is the one that allows me to turn off autocorrect.

you can just install "kb" from the tweaks menu of the installer then, btw

but for my prefs working for a day and then not working: you definetly did not follow the manual installation instructions correctly then. settings don't "just disappear after a day", this is just impossible :D manual installation works 100% perfect when you do it right, I promise.

[RJT]

you can just install "kb" from the tweaks menu of the installer then, btw

but for my prefs working for a day and then not working: you definetly did not follow the manual installation instructions correctly then. settings don't "just disappear after a day", this is just impossible :D manual installation works 100% perfect when you do it right, I promise.


Don't know what to tell you man - I followed the instructions exactly as they're written in this thread - to the letter. I went over them repeatedly just to make sure I didn't miss anything because I didn't want to deal with a 3rd jailbreak - but within a day the settings icon disappeared again.

My prefs folders are there, just no way to access them.

[DerekVOF]

No clue, but I've been using BlackWolf's Extended Preferences since they first came out, and I haven't had a single problem.

[BlackWolf]

Don't know what to tell you man - I followed the instructions exactly as they're written in this thread - to the letter. I went over them repeatedly just to make sure I didn't miss anything because I didn't want to deal with a 3rd jailbreak - but within a day the settings icon disappeared again.

My prefs folders are there, just no way to access them.

well, then your ipod seems to be broken or something, I don't know :D
I just ran some tests and the only thing you need is:
A folder in you /Applications/ called "something.app" (in the case of the prefs its Preferences.app).
inside of that folder there has to be a "Info.plist". for the preferences it has to contain this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>Preferences</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.Preferences</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<string>????</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>PreferencesAppController</string>
</dict>
</plist>

that's it. the filerights have no effect, they don't matter. these two files won't make the prefs work (since there is not even the "Preferences"-executable in the folder) but if these two files (in fact it's only one file and one folder) are present the prefs should at least APPEAR on the homescreen as long as they are not hidden by customize.

[jig]

When I have shuffle set to album it gets reset back to shuffle by song after turning off the touch.

Is this normal or is my install messed up? All my other tweak settings are staying.

Not having shuffle by album is really keeping me from using the touch more and making me continue using my nano for music.

[jennilee]

Oh, right. Duh. Thank you! :)

[BlackWolf]

When I have shuffle set to album it gets reset back to shuffle by song after turning off the touch.

Is this normal or is my install messed up? All my other tweak settings are staying.

Not having shuffle by album is really keeping me from using the touch more and making me continue using my nano for music.

mh .. I heard that the iphone does that, though I though the ipod shouldn't. at least my ipod didn't when I tested it. but do you really turn of your ipod that often? I turn it off ... never ... to be honest, so I wouldn't care anyway :D

Anyway, I will test it when I get back home after school and edit this post.

[jig]

mh .. I heard that the iphone does that, though I though the ipod shouldn't. at least my ipod didn't when I tested it. but do you really turn of your ipod that often? I turn it off ... never ... to be honest, so I wouldn't care anyway :D

Anyway, I will test it when I get back home after school and edit this post.

I should have said put it to sleep instead of turning it off.

I set it to album shuffle, then go to music. If shuffle is already on it will still be in song shuffle. I have to press the shuffle icon to turn it off then press it again to turn shuffle on. Now it's in album shuffle.

Now I put it to sleep, it has to be asleep for more than 30 seconds or so. Wake it up, unlock it, it goes straight to music, it will now be in song suffle. Also if you notice the shuffle count will be reset back to 1. as in song 1 of 1000. And when you go back to the settings it will be in song shuffle.

Hopefully this makes some sense.

[BlackWolf]

I should have said put it to sleep instead of turning it off.

I set it to album shuffle, then go to music. If shuffle is already on it will still be in song shuffle. I have to press the shuffle icon to turn it off then press it again to turn shuffle on. Now it's in album shuffle.

Now I put it to sleep, it has to be asleep for more than 30 seconds or so. Wake it up, unlock it, it goes straight to music, it will now be in song suffle. Also if you notice the shuffle count will be reset back to 1. as in song 1 of 1000. And when you go back to the settings it will be in song shuffle.

Hopefully this makes some sense.

yeah, I know what you mean. maybe the ipod does that when you go to sleep while playing a playlist? because mine doesn't go back to album shuffle if I put it to sleep while no playlist is playing.
anyway, I can't do anything about it, no matter what reason it has ...

[Sneakerhead11]

Is the repo down?
The repo site shows under the uncategorized section of the installer.

[pele_2600]

A little thing i just noticed that is pretty cool; i changed my iPod text to "Hi!" and turned on the numeric wifi and numeric battery, and when i upgraded to 1.1.3, all three of these settings were still active...

[BlackWolf]

Is the repo down?
The repo site shows under the uncategorized section of the installer.
yeah, if you read my posts you know why ;-)

A little thing i just noticed that is pretty cool; i changed my iPod text to "Hi!" and turned on the numeric wifi and numeric battery, and when i upgraded to 1.1.3, all three of these settings were still active...
yeah, you're right, the settings should be preserved when upgrading. but be careful with this: as long as 1.1.3 isn't jailbroken, you cannot CHANGE THEM BACK while running 1.1.3

[batter]

BlackWolf - what I don't understand is why don't you or modmyifone change the name of the app, so they don't get confused when using installer. I am not a programmer by any stretch, so I do not know if this would be complicated to do or not or if you can't because of how apple has done the software?

I am sure it can't be done or one of you would have, but thought I would throw it out there and see what the answer is.

Or why don't you submit your app to modmyifone or conceited to avoid this complication when an update comes out.

If I load your app manually, how will get updates if there are any?

I want to tell you thanks for the work you've done bringing these hidden features to light for us and good luck at school.

[BlackWolf]

BlackWolf - what I don't understand is why don't you or modmyifone change the name of the app, so they don't get confused when using installer. I am not a programmer by any stretch, so I do not know if this would be complicated to do or not or if you can't because of how apple has done the software?

I am sure it can't be done or one of you would have, but thought I would throw it out there and see what the answer is.

Or why don't you submit your app to modmyifone or conceited to avoid this complication when an update comes out.

If I load your app manually, how will get updates if there are any?

I want to tell you thanks for the work you've done bringing these hidden features to light for us and good luck at school.

thanks.

well, the problem with this is that

a) This would require the package to have a different identifier, therefore the installer would list it as a different package (and the installer wouldn't recognize that its an update for the existing package)

b) since so many people have had problems with the repository anyway I thought about taking it down anyway

updates will be posted here, although I don't think there will be much more updates, most stuff that should be in there / needs to be in there IS in there.

[batter]

I did a manual loading of your app and first I got a background only when I hit settings, then I lost settings icon all together. I put backup copy back in and I have settings icon but when I hit I get background only and after about 10 seconds goes back to springboard main screen. I was doing some reading a I checked my "info.plist" and here is what is in there, since I saw someone else was having a similar issue:

bplist00Ø

_CFBundleDevelopmentRegion_CFBundlePackageT ype_CFBundleSignature_NSPrincipalClass_CFBun dleExecutable_CFBundleVersion_CFBundleIdentifi er_CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersionWEnglishTAPPLT?? ??_PreferencesAppController[PreferencesS1.0_com.apple.PreferencesS6.0

This does not look like what you posted, so I am hoping you can help me. I really don't want to jailbreak again or go to 1.1.3 and lose all the 3rd party app's I've imported. I am using an iPhone v1.1.2. I am in using windows and WinSCP. I also am not following the part about 755. I can not find 755 or chmod or filerights anywhere when I go into applications and open that file and then right click on preferences and click properties. I only a permissiions area with read/write and an octal with the number 0644 in the box.
I will try to figure out your 755 comment until you respond and if i figure out will update post.

[batter]

I also do not have the proper software on my computer to open up permissions file.

Don't know if that makes a difference or not.

[pele_2600]

you want to type 755 into the box where it says 0644, that will change the permissions.

[batter]

I was able to get my settings back with the extended prefences. I had to go and and change all octal numbers that were 0644 to 0755. I was able to figure this out by reading the earlier threads on pages 4 and 5 between you and Damitu and doing some research to figure out what you were talking about by chmod. When Damitu said he would go through each individual one I figured there had to be quite a few to be checked and when he said that worked and the octal was the only thing with a number I just took a chance and it worked.

I also made the same changes to the original copy that is now the backup copy in case I have to restore, because I am sure I would forget to do later.

Once again thanks for all the work you did on this. I still don't know why apple didn't make this stuff available from the start.

[BlackWolf]

I was able to get my settings back with the extended prefences. I had to go and and change all octal numbers that were 0644 to 0755. I was able to figure this out by reading the earlier threads on pages 4 and 5 between you and Damitu and doing some research to figure out what you were talking about by chmod. When Damitu said he would go through each individual one I figured there had to be quite a few to be checked and when he said that worked and the octal was the only thing with a number I just took a chance and it worked.

I also made the same changes to the original copy that is now the backup copy in case I have to restore, because I am sure I would forget to do later.

Once again thanks for all the work you did on this. I still don't know why apple didn't make this stuff available from the start.

glad you got it to work. actually, it should have been enough to just chmod the "Preferences"-file, but whatever.

and btw: the info.plist file you posted IS the same as the one I posted, you just didn't convert yours before ;-)

[06ankara]

hi

i installed your settingspack

and i restore my own prefs back
everything is back to normal by my iphone
but only one little problem
my operator logo is not my own logo
it's changed to "iPod" :)

can we solve that little problem
because i hate it soo :)

i tried witch customize but it's not helping

thx for the help


(EDIT: Problem solved with "make it mine")

[aaron7114]

this has worked just fine for me until just the other day when my settings icon disappeared from my home screen.

I downloaded the original prefs and copied them over to my ipod overwriting the previous preferences.app.

Changed the one thing to 755. However my settings icon is still not there!

Also dont know if that matters or not but I have two folders on my ipod one is "preferences" then the other is "preferences.app"

[Sneakerhead11]

Anyway you can add "App Reveal" and touch sensitivity options?

[BlackWolf]

hi

i installed your settingspack

and i restore my own prefs back
everything is back to normal by my iphone
but only one little problem
my operator logo is not my own logo
it's changed to "iPod" :)

can we solve that little problem
because i hate it soo :)

i tried witch customize but it's not helping

thx for the help


(EDIT: Problem solved with "make it mine")
which version did you install? this was a problem in an early version and because of it I took the carrier text thing out of the iphone version.
anyway, unfortunatly you have to manually bring back your carrier logo.
if you don't know how to SSH into your ipod, take a look at this:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97

after that, browse to /private/var/root/Library/Preferences and download com.apple.springboard.plist to your computer.
after that, convert the file using this page:
http://140.124.181.188/~khchung/cgi-bin/plutil.cgi
and after that search for
<key>SBFakeCarrier</key>
in the file. below that line should be a line that says <string>iPod</string> (or at least <string>something</string)
delete BOTH lines. best thing is to make a backup of your com.apple.springboard.plist file before in case something goes wrong. if you're done editing, upload the file back to your ipod and overwrite the old one. make sure you restarted springboard (I wouldn't recommend restarting the entire ipod. if syou did something wrong you should be able to copy your old prefs back in and if you restart your ipod you'll get a new IP that you might not be able to look up). you should have your carrier logo back :-)


this has worked just fine for me until just the other day when my settings icon disappeared from my home screen.

I downloaded the original prefs and copied them over to my ipod overwriting the previous preferences.app.

Changed the one thing to 755. However my settings icon is still not there!

Also dont know if that matters or not but I have two folders on my ipod one is "preferences" then the other is "preferences.app"
are you sure it isn't there? if the icon disappeared and you copied the prefs back in it is possible it is now the last icon on your sprinboard, so maybe you just have to scroll to the right to see it?
if it still doesn't appear, make sure you restarted either springboard or your entire ipod after you copied it in! changes on the sprinboard need a restart to take effect!
if it STILL doesn't appear delete both the preferences folder and the preferences.app folder and try my tutorial again. this works 100% if you do it right, I promise.

Anyway you can add "App Reveal" and touch sensitivity options?
I could add app reveal, but I left it out because it seems pretty senseless to me. you can hide only youtube and safari as far as I know.
as for the sensitivity options: I was asked about that several times now and I think I need to make something clear: those options are NOT in any way related to your touchscreen sensitivity! what those options do is determine how far away of your finger the touchscreen will perform the actual touch. so the standard value of 3.5 means that if you touch your screen the actual location of the touch that is send to the processor will be 3.5 pixels away from that (I guess because of finger-thickness, this seems to be a good value). again, I could add them, and I would if they really had something to do with sensitivity, but since they don't I don't see a point in adding them.

[Sneakerhead11]

^^
Someone figured out how to use App Reveal on most 3rd party apps by adding a simple command to the info.plist.
It's on the other forum, not sure if it's okay to link...


Great work by the way.
I added the ext. prefs manually and it's been working perfectly.

[n0m0n]

Ok I have gone through this and I am spinning.
I have a iPhone v 1.1.1.
Is there a working extended prefer for me?
War there any issues because I noticed in another forum that they were taking about some pref hack that had issues.
I like what I saw here but as a NEWBIE I am clueless.

If there is a stable prefereence app available for me can you direct me as to where to find it?

Thanks

[BlackWolf]

Ok I have gone through this and I am spinning.
I have a iPhone v 1.1.1.
Is there a working extended prefer for me?
War there any issues because I noticed in another forum that they were taking about some pref hack that had issues.
I like what I saw here but as a NEWBIE I am clueless.

If there is a stable prefereence app available for me can you direct me as to where to find it?

Thanks

hi,
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97
it links to the newest version and gives a pretty good tutorial on how to install the prefs I guess. if you still have questsions ask them here.

as far as I know this version works pretty well, but I won't give you any guarantees, especially on an iphone, still I don't own an iphone and I can't test with iphones. so don't hold me responsible if anything goes wrong.

[Shufflexx]

Ok BlackWolf, I have been having some problems.

My settings went haywire a while ago, so I replaced them with the old preferences, that arent edited.

For one, how can I get installer to know that I don't have extended preferences anymore, because when I try to uninstall it says main script execution failed.

And what other files were edited when I installed extended preferences? I want to reinstall when everything is fresh ;)

[n0m0n]

hi,
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97
it links to the newest version and gives a pretty good tutorial on how to install the prefs I guess. if you still have questsions ask them here.

as far as I know this version works pretty well, but I won't give you any guarantees, especially on an iphone, still I don't own an iphone and I can't test with iphones. so don't hold me responsible if anything goes wrong.


Great work I like the added options that your app offers.
THANK YOU

Question:
Did your app ever have the ability to change the touch screen sensitivity?
I thought I had one that did, it was a nice addition.
If yours does can you tell me where because I have been looking if not is it something that can be added?

Thanks

[BlackWolf]

Ok BlackWolf, I have been having some problems.

My settings went haywire a while ago, so I replaced them with the old preferences, that arent edited.

For one, how can I get installer to know that I don't have extended preferences anymore, because when I try to uninstall it says main script execution failed.

And what other files were edited when I installed extended preferences? I want to reinstall when everything is fresh ;)

go to
/private/var/root/Library/Installer/
since you have to alter the LocalPackages.plist you might back it up before altering it. anyway, open the LocalPackages.plist and search for
"<string>com.apple.Preferences</string>"
for the ipod and
"<string>com.apple.iPhonePreferences</string>"
for the iphone (without quotation marks).
you should find a result, and a few lines above your result you'll find the line
<dict>
take everything starting from that "<dict>" to the next "</dict>" that appears in the file and delete it. this will be like 40 lines or something I guess.
to sum it up: search for the text I told you above, take the nearest <dict> ABOVE that and delete everything from that <dict> to the </dict> that comes first BELOW.
(including <dict> and </dict> themselves!)




Great work I like the added options that your app offers.
THANK YOU

Question:
Did your app ever have the ability to change the touch screen sensitivity?
I thought I had one that did, it was a nice addition.
If yours does can you tell me where because I have been looking if not is it something that can be added?

Thanks

as for the sensitivity options: I was asked about that several times now and I think I need to make something clear: those options are NOT in any way related to your touchscreen sensitivity! what those options do is determine how far away of your finger the touchscreen will perform the actual touch. so the standard value of 3.5 means that if you touch your screen the actual location of the touch that is send to the processor will be 3.5 pixels away from that (I guess because of finger-thickness, this seems to be a good value). again, I could add them, and I would if they really had something to do with sensitivity, but since they don't I don't see a point in adding them.


I think I'm only speaking in quotes from now on. this is cool :D

[n0m0n]

I think I'm only speaking in quotes from now on. this is cool :D


Ok sorry either I missed it or I said it wrong.
I have found no option the remotely reflects any Touch option.
I have something in settings that says General & Tweaks.
Once there the normal general option appear and below are about 4 tweak option.
None of which are related to Touch.

I was hoping hat you could share with me where I might find this and or if its there.
I have installed the iPhone Tweak on my iPhone 1.1.1..
Thank you

[BlackWolf]

Ok sorry either I missed it or I said it wrong.
I have found no option the remotely reflects any Touch option.
I have something in settings that says General & Tweaks.
Once there the normal general option appear and below are about 4 tweak option.
None of which are related to Touch.

I was hoping hat you could share with me where I might find this and or if its there.
I have installed the iPhone Tweak on my iPhone 1.1.1..
Thank you

well, because I didn't add the touch option since it's pretty useless. 3.5 is the default value which seems to be the best value.

but if you want the options badly do this:
access the touch, download /Applications/Preferences.app/Brightness.plist
open the file, search for this lines:

<string>DevicePINPane</string>
</dict>

and below them insert this:

<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSGroupCell</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Touchscreen Projection</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSSliderCell</string>
<key>default</key>
<real>3.5</real>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.springboard</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>SBFingerProjection</string>
<key>max</key>
<real>16</real>
<key>min</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>showValue</key>
<integer>1</integer>
</dict>

like I said, this if the offset from your finger to the position where the screen recognizes the touch. so if you set this to 16 you might have some difficulties setting it back. it still works so you don't have to be afraid, I'm just saying.
for example if you have this set to 16 and touch an option the option ABOVE the one you touched is the one where the touch will be recognized :D

[n0m0n]

Blackwolf:

So this is location on the screen, and not sensitivity?
I was hoping to get the keypad to identify my input better.
(Fingers a bit thicker then the keys, o=i t=r etc.)
Also it seems (not sure) that I am loosing sensitivity on the screen.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[BlackWolf]

Blackwolf:

So this is location on the screen, and not sensitivity?
I was hoping to get the keypad to identify my input better.
(Fingers a bit thicker then the keys, o=i t=r etc.)
Also it seems (not sure) that I am loosing sensitivity on the screen.

Any ideas?
Thanks

you shouldn't loose sensitivity if you screen works correctly.
the screen uses an electrical field plus some sensors on the edge which measure the voltage or something, don't know exactly how it works. anyway, the only way the sensitivity could be decrased is if either the field was distorted somehow or the sensors at the screens edges get broken or something, I don't know.

anyway, if you have thick fingers those settings could help you. you have to play with them a little, but they could make your life easier if you increase the number a little ... maybe 5 or something. try it.
but no, these settings are not the screens sensitivity, sorry.

[Ninja21]

I have just tried this and I dont see anything relating too what you say Advanced Preferences in tweaks?
im running 1.1.2 jailbroken obviously, and ive searched folders tweaks 1.1.1, tweaks 1.1.2 and tweaks.

Dave

[BlackWolf]

I have just tried this and I dont see anything relating too what you say Advanced Preferences in tweaks?
im running 1.1.2 jailbroken obviously, and ive searched folders tweaks 1.1.1, tweaks 1.1.2 and tweaks.

Dave
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97

[n0m0n]

you shouldn't loose sensitivity if you screen works correctly.
the screen uses an electrical field plus some sensors on the edge which measure the voltage or something, don't know exactly how it works. anyway, the only way the sensitivity could be decrased is if either the field was distorted somehow or the sensors at the screens edges get broken or something, I don't know.

anyway, if you have thick fingers those settings could help you. you have to play with them a little, but they could make your life easier if you increase the number a little ... maybe 5 or something. try it.
but no, these settings are not the screens sensitivity, sorry.


Ok thanks for the work on this app, and help.
Much appreciate it.

[Ninja21]

http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97

Just followed these instructions and cant seem to get your settings to appear

21

[BlackWolf]

Just followed these instructions and now my settings have disapeared completely, have renamed my original folder so have both in my applications directory but despite what I do I cant see any settings on my device.

I am a telecoms/networking engineer so this stuff is basic to me but I just cant get anything to appear.

21

if you really followed the instructions it should work fine.
note that if your settings icon disappeared and you brought it back it may have been moved to the end of your icon list. so scroll to the last home screen and make sure the settings are not just at the end of the list.
this may sound dumb, but you can oversee stuff like that easily. When I tested with the prefs and my settings disappeared for the first time I thought they were gone too and then discovered that they were just moved to the end of the list.

anyway, if it's still not there read this post I made some while ago:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1202977&postcount=116
make sure that those "requirements" are met. if they are, you should definetly have a settings icon. I triple-checked the stuff I wrote in that post so I'm absolutly sure it is like I posted there. :-)

hope you'll get it to work. should work just fine with my tutorials

[Shufflexx]

Blackwolf, do you know if this would work fine with 1.1.3? I dont see why it wouldn't but then, you never know ;)

[aaron7114]

Blackwolf, do you know if this would work fine with 1.1.3? I dont see why it wouldn't but then, you never know ;)
working so far for me...

[DanDe1]

I had the settings icon disappearing problem and followed BlackWolf's thread on getting it back by reinstalling the Preference.app folder. Worked great and I thank him for that! I wanted to uninstall the Extended Preferences 0.3.2 that appears in the Installer program but of course I get the main script execution failed error. I tried doing the detailed edit of the LocalPackages below and it remove all the installs except the "Installer". Of course it didn't remove them from the iPhone, just from the "uninstaller" It may be difficult for BlackWolf to help here since he doesn't have an iPhone but I wonder if anyone had luck just deleting Extended Preferences without deleting the rest. Would like to delete it so I can install BlackWolf's version.

TIA

Dan

I think I'm only speaking in quotes from now on. this is cool :D

Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackWolf
go to
/private/var/root/Library/Installer/
since you have to alter the LocalPackages.plist you might back it up before altering it. anyway, open the LocalPackages.plist and search for
"<string>com.apple.Preferences</string>"
for the ipod and
"<string>com.apple.iPhonePreferences</string>"
for the iphone (without quotation marks).
you should find a result, and a few lines above your result you'll find the line
<dict>
take everything starting from that "<dict>" to the next "</dict>" that appears in the file and delete it. this will be like 40 lines or something I guess.
to sum it up: search for the text I told you above, take the nearest <dict> ABOVE that and delete everything from that <dict> to the </dict> that comes first BELOW.
(including <dict> and </dict> themselves!)

[BlackWolf]

well, deleting it from the uninstall section should be enough because I don't think there is anything left from the package in your iPod. I don't know that since its a package from MMI and I never installed it. but if it modifies your preferences you've overwritten anything it did when you installed my prefs - so I think if you just delete it from the LocalPackages.plist you should be fine.
oh btw: you don't have to remove all the installs in the LocalPackages.plist! that would be crazy! just delete the preferences packages and leave the rest in!

[DanDe1]

Ok BlackWolf,

Yes, I understand, and btw thanks for getting my settings icon back on the iPhone, great job! Maybe I didn't explain it well enough but when I do the <dict> to </dict> edit that you outlined it removes ALL the items from the uninstaller of the "Installer" except the "Installer' itself. This would be bad I think since I would have no way to uninstall my additional third party apps via the "Installer" since it no longer knows that they are installed. I just want to remover the MMI extended preferences and not everything but the "Installer" which is what happened when I did the edit. I can check again but I thought I removed just from the <dict> above to the </dict> below. Also and I able to just keep it in there without the edit and install your extended preferences since I am having trouble editing the MMI version out?

Thanks again and great job.

Dan

[BlackWolf]

Ok BlackWolf,

Yes, I understand, and btw thanks for getting my settings icon back on the iPhone, great job! Maybe I didn't explain it well enough but when I do the <dict> to </dict> edit that you outlined it removes ALL the items from the uninstaller of the "Installer" except the "Installer' itself. This would be bad I think since I would have no way to uninstall my additional third party apps via the "Installer" since it no longer knows that they are installed. I just want to remover the MMI extended preferences and not everything but the "Installer" which is what happened when I did the edit. I can check again but I thought I removed just from the <dict> above to the </dict> below. Also and I able to just keep it in there without the edit and install your extended preferences since I am having trouble editing the MMI version out?

Thanks again and great job.

Dan

nah, you did something wrong then. you have to make sure you just delete the preferences package out, nothing else.

but in the end, you can just leave it in there and install my prefs and done. it won't do any harm except you have an unneeded entry in your uninstall-section, that's it. so maybe you just leave it in?

[DanDe1]

Ok Thanks,

Will have a look at it again. Hard for me to figure out what just belongs to the extended prefs package Will play around with it a bit more and if I can't seem to figure it out I will just install yours. Thanks again.

Dan

[n1gh7mar3]

okay im pretty new to this but that doesnt mean i dont know what im doing i sshed the pref app over to my phone fired it up and all i get is a back ground with no options. so i deleted the app and moved the orig pref app back over and i keep getting a blank screen?!?

[n1gh7mar3]

nevermind i figured it out....

[ilfaan]

Hey every one/Blackwolf, I am a new iphone user and I am hoping one of you can help me out. I am trying to uninstall the extended preferences tool of my iphone but I keep getting the error that says

"main script execution failed error"

Does any one know how I can get it off so I can get my normal preferences back??

[ilfaan]

Hey every one/Blackwolf, I am a new iphone user and I am hoping one of you can help me out. I am trying to uninstall the extended preferences tool of my iphone but I keep getting the error that says

"main script execution failed error"

Does any one know how I can get it off so I can get my normal preferences back??

[upd]

Question: when will this be made available for 1.1.4? Right now, installer is telling me that I need 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 firmware to install. Is there any way around this?

Thanks. I love the program btw, and if I could have it on 1.1.4 then I would be perfectly happy with this firmware version.

-up'd
[Matt]

[BlackWolf]

Question: when will this be made available for 1.1.4? Right now, installer is telling me that I need 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 firmware to install. Is there any way around this?

Thanks. I love the program btw, and if I could have it on 1.1.4 then I would be perfectly happy with this firmware version.

-up'd
[Matt]

I removed the firmware version check from the ownrisk.xml. since that file is unsupported anyway, you might as well install it on any firmware you like :D

[upd]

I forgot to write back. Thanks so much for fixing this! I was tired of the other prefs mod that added useless iPhone controls to my touch, like airplane mode.

Thanks once again.

[George1984]

Blackwolf,

I addded http://m8an.de/installer.xml to my source list and it seemed to update but when I go to install --> tweaks the Advanced Preferences package does not appear.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[BlackWolf]

Blackwolf,

I addded http://m8an.de/installer.xml to my source list and it seemed to update but when I go to install --> tweaks the Advanced Preferences package does not appear.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

well, the repository doesn't exist anymore. read this thread on how to install the prefs manually:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showpost.php?p=1201205&postcount=97

it also contains the link to an unsupported(!) repository that you can use, but only if you know how to deal with problems, because the installer installation sometimes causes problems.

[upd]

Not to mention it isn't called "Advanced Preferences," but rather "Extended Preferences." So if you were looking for the former then of course you weren't finding it!

[Enigmafan420]

Hello!

I have installed the new preferences and get the new menus-including numeric battery and all that...

I even SEE the option to shuffle Albums-however, when i choose it, the iPod still shuffles SONGS.

Sorry if this has been asked previously-what am I doing wrong?

jack

[xlamina]

Hi there...this a great application...however I am having a small problem, while trying to change the Date and time format the application crashes.

1.1.4 Iphone.
:confused:
General & Tweaks > Regional > Date & Time > it goes back to springboard.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[BlackWolf]

Hi there...this a great application...however I am having a small problem, while trying to change the Date and time format the application crashes.

1.1.4 Iphone.
:confused:
General & Tweaks > Regional > Date & Time > it goes back to springboard.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

I'm starting to believe this is a problem with 1.1.3/4
I never had this problem before, but I heard it 2 or 3 times from people using 1.1.3/4.
I will see what I can do, but right now I have very little time and the time I got I use mostly to learn developing native iphone apps.
But maybe I can figure it out.

edit: by time format, do you mean the region format or the actual date/time?
I checked both but they seem fine to me.

[Damionix]

I'm starting to believe this is a problem with 1.1.3/4
I never had this problem before, but I heard it 2 or 3 times from people using 1.1.3/4.
I will see what I can do, but right now I have very little time and the time I got I use mostly to learn developing native iphone apps.
But maybe I can figure it out.

edit: by time format, do you mean the region format or the actual date/time?
I checked both but they seem fine to me.


Hi Blackwolf,
I just wanna say thanx for the great work. But I also have the same problem for 2 days now. I have been reading all stes, then I decided to come back to the forum here where I got your ext. preferences.app files.
Have you found any solution for this yet? I have copied the default date and time.plist and tried to replace, but to no avail, changed permission, chmod, and all, nothing worked. Please can u fix this?
I really love this app, and dont want to go back to my native preferences. Help please

Damionix


:o

[elaurent]

BlackWolf you are awesome. With a little help from tysiphonehelp on youtube, who taught me how to "ssh into my iPod", you managed to teach a complete noob how to get her iPod touch to Album Shuffle. I consider myself fairly computer literate but I never would have guessed I could do this...THANK-YOU. It's amazing what one can do with the internet and little bit of determination to get what you want...:D

[elaurent]

Hello!

I have installed the new preferences and get the new menus-including numeric battery and all that...

I even SEE the option to shuffle Albums-however, when i choose it, the iPod still shuffles SONGS.

Sorry if this has been asked previously-what am I doing wrong?

jack

I was very excited as you can see from my previous post...but now I'm in jack's boat...here's me hoping it's user error and you can tell me what I'm doing wrong :confused:

[BlackWolf]

I was very excited as you can see from my previous post...but now I'm in jack's boat...here's me hoping it's user error and you can tell me what I'm doing wrong :confused:

we discussed that in another topic, I guess one of the solutions mentioned there should get it going for you :D

http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=224460
important things are: don't use "shuffle" from one of the music menus (so for example browsing a playlist), this will not work. so just go ahead, play a playlist with more than one album by just playing a random song from that playlist. when it's playing, go ahead and tap the album cover. if shuffle is already enabled tap it twice to disable and re-enable it, if it is not enabled then just enable it. this should get album shuffle to work.

regards

oh, and thanks for the kind words ;-)

[elaurent]

Thank-you again! and sorry for the tunnel vision...I never even thought to look for other threads on the subject. You're kind and patient and talented...what a gem ;)

[Damionix]

Help? Anyone? Can't still change date.

[Alec Rave]

can i just know how to or where to get a file that can enable app reveal?

[WallyWaldo]

For the most part I know how to FTP into my iPod touch and all that other stuff. I've messed with directories before. I attempted to do the Extended Preferences and somewhere along the line my settings do nothing but show the background for about 10 seconds and goes back to the homescreen. YES, I did set the permissions to 755 and yes I followed every step. SO, with it doing this I proceeded to just put it back to normal. I put the original Preferences.app directory back in and set the permission to 755 and it's still showing me a background screen of the settings with nothing else. I don't know what to do exactly.

Thanks for any help,

Waldo

Edit: I used the repo to see if it would fix it.. Everything works now.

[paige722]

Hello everybody, my name is Paige and I am french !! (sorry for this) thank you very much for this tuto :-) my question is: what does "shuffle" mean?? I can not understand, my english is too bad...and I try to enable or diseable this fonction but I don't see any difference..thank you for your helm :-))

[WallyWaldo]

shuffle generally comes on many audio players and audio programs which allows you to play songs at random (skipping/shuffling around) rather than the songs playing and going in order and just going to the next track under it. On your iPod touch or iPhone, whichever you have, you can create playlists and use a shuffle function as well as shuffle by all songs or by any genre which makes the songs skip around. This gives you more variation of songs.

In the easiest terms possible to understand: it doesn't matter if you use it or not, it doesn't hurt anything. There really isn't anything to disable or enable.

Hope this helps!

[paige722]

Thank you very much !!! I've understood everything :-) thanks a lot :-)))

[tmaxx445]

Black wolf could you please put it back up so i can get it on installer?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!? You could send it to iSpazio


thanks tmaxx445

[mrmetro]

Sorry, you will probably think this a dumb question. But, I have already jailbroken my itouch with Ziphone. How do I SHH my phone. I really, really want album shuffle. I can't believe that app was never included with the original package.

[Enigmafan420]

Has anyone (Blackwolf!) been able to get this to work with 2.01?

I have pwned to 2.01 but when I install the extended preferences, and choose settings-the screen immediately returns to the home screen.

Thanks!

Jack

[maggot2duhmax]

I have an iTouch with firmware 2.0.2. There is a problem when I replace my folder because the app folder provided with the new settings does not include the updated mail and contacts settings. Therefore my mail and contacts don't work. I was wondering if someone could isolate a few settings for me. They include: changing dim timer and including a 10 and 15 minute auto-lock. Any help is much appreciated :D

[maggot2duhmax]

Ignore my last post for help on some isolated settings. I found that if you replace your app folder and change settings, you ipod will save them. When you change your app folder back with a backup, your settings menus on your ipod are back to normal, but your changes are not. e.g.- I changed my dim timer to 30 secs and my sleep to 10 mins. I changed my app folder back to its default and, although the dim timer doesn't exist and the sleep timer doesn't have 10 mins, my sleep timer is still 10 mins and my dim timer is 30 secs! I hope this can help others, especially those with the 2.0 or higher updated because of the new settings on included with the new app folder provided in this thread. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for all settings like turning off auto correction. If anyone finds how to leave auto correction off please tell :)

[Enigmafan420]

Ignore my last post for help on some isolated settings. I found that if you replace your app folder and change settings, you ipod will save them. When you change your app folder back with a backup, your settings menus on your ipod are back to normal, but your changes are not. e.g.- I changed my dim timer to 30 secs and my sleep to 10 mins. I changed my app folder back to its default and, although the dim timer doesn't exist and the sleep timer doesn't have 10 mins, my sleep timer is still 10 mins and my dim timer is 30 secs! I hope this can help others, especially those with the 2.0 or higher updated because of the new settings on included with the new app folder provided in this thread. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for all settings like turning off auto correction. If anyone finds how to leave auto correction off please tell :)

Have you gotten the shuffle songs to work on this?

[adser_theblade]

hi can anyone help me chnge just the battery header in the iphone 3g on 2.1,please
thanx

[adser_theblade]

ok ignore my last question there.getting the numeric battery header is as simple as going into boss preffs and tunring on the numeric battery from there.its in the ''more'' tab.thant's all you need to do.appart from jailbreak so you can get boss preffs i guess

[ninja.]

hello, maybe you guys can help me with my problem.

i was surfing the web with safari, and all of a sudden this box appeared that I had never seen before:
ht tp:// imgs.kni ght47 .co m/users/p ublic/h2 0925IMG _0009f93.png (remove spaces, sorry for the hassle)

so i was messing around, and i guess i accidentally removed the safari icon, and settings icon.

now i don't know what i did exactly to get that settings box there, and all i need to know is how to get it back up so i can undo what i did. all i'm asking is how can i get that settings box back? i have no idea what i did to open it up like before.

any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.!

[ss5gogetunks]

Hello, for some reason every single link I click on here doesn't seem to work. they all say "error, this page cannot be found." I can't really use the installer if I can't find it, alas, and album shuffle was one of my favorite features on the old ipod so installing this is would be really awesome.
I really appreciate you doing this, and working so diligently on it to get it to as many people as possible as safely as possible, and am sorry to make this harder than it needs to be. :D

[GOONER82]

Please Help, The Link Is Not Working For Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sayangbagus]

Hi,

I notice you're posting is from 2007. I just got an iPod Touch 2G and want to know how to turn on the "Album Shuffle" preference. Can you tell me how to do that?

Thanks!
Jeff