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Sunday, March 9, 2008

So you want to install customize on your 1.1.4 iPhone?

How to install Customize on 1.1.4:(no.10) this is based on what worked for me, using various sources (I don’t know all your names but you know who you are) and personal experience in modding permissions using the Command Line Interface (CLI) in Linux

1. Download the Customize Modded Version 3 for 1.1.4 (I did not mod this, I'm only providing a link to it. If the owner of the app wishes, I can take this link down, just let me know.)

2. Extract the Customize.app folder on your PC (remember where this is or just keep it open.)

3. You can use Cyberduck (on Mac) or WinSCP (on Windows) to transfer the Customize.app folder into the /Applications folder of your iPhone.

4. On your iPhone, run term-v100 app and login with "alpine" as the password.

5. After every command please press enter, taking care to put exactly what is written here (you could mess your iPhone since you are logging in as root, I can't stress this enough!)

Commands:

/bin/chmod -R 755 /Applications/Customize.app

/bin/chmod +s /Applications/Customize.app/Customize

6. Now exit term-v100

7. Open Terminal app (you did install this, right? Its no. 7 on the customization guide above it’s different from Terminal and Mobile Terminal)

8. You are instantly on your home directory as user "mobile" not root so you can't mess up the root system of the iPhone.

9. Type the following command then press Enter to start the app

Command:

/Applications/Customize.app/Customize

(It’s normal to see the cryptic stuff on the screen)

10. It should start and probably crash, wait till it crashes completely (if it doesn't crash reboot just the same AFTER exiting the app) then REBOOT your iPhone (press sleep button till "Slide to Power Off" pops up, remember?)

11. You should see the Customize icon on your home screen. Press this and see if it will start. If not, be patient and repeat step no. 9. It should start, and then exit the app. If it fails to exit (like mine did, it wouldn't return to the home screen and it had the Customize options instead.) REBOOT again!

12. At this point when you press the Customize icon, it should launch flawlessly! (Not sure why and how it worked, but this is what I had to do to get it working)If it still doesn't run, please start from step no. 9 again until it does. It will work eventually!

Thanks & Shoutouts:

Thanks to the iPhone dev team, (you know who you are) especially those who made all this possible.

Thanks to the maintainers of the sources and repo’s and the amazing app developers! Here’s hoping you keep the juices flowing and continue developing for the iPhone and offering these apps for all.

Thanks to all members of the iPhone Community, those who are just joining and those who have been there from Day 1.

Shout Outs to all the Forums and Communities for the help and know-how especially (in no particular order): ModMyiFone, AppleIphoneSchool, Philmug.ph, Philmug.org, and Hackintosh!

2 comments:

aemreunal said...

Can you give me a link to the 1.1.3 version of the cutom Customize or redirect me to the developers website?

pongster said...

Hi, I'm sorry but I don't have the link to the 1.1.3 version of Customize. Some have had success using this method:

http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/third-party-applications/customize-1-21-works-with-1-1-3-a-21829-3.html

I'm just not sure if the source is still up, though.