Archive for December, 2008

How to manually install iPhone packages

Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Here is a the manual way to install .deb files from Cydia. This is handy if you want to revert back to an older version of an application:
1) SSH into your iPhone the .deb file var/root/
2) Start MobileTerminal and type:
su
- enter your password
- type
dpkg -i /var/root/<deb file name>
3) check permissions of your newly installed App and Respring/Restart

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Offline Maps problem resolved

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I am quite surprised how little information is available to address a recent issue with the Maps application not reading offline map tiles on the iPhone/iPod touch despite creating system links. Turns out the existing MapTiles.sqlitedb is not compatible with the latest 2.2 firmware and the database needs to be converted. More information here:

http://imapsmanager.com/mapConverter/mapConverter.htm

and

http://www.touchpodium.com/2008/04/13/view-google-maps-locally-with-maps-offline-01

Once converted, simply SSH over the converted file to the ~/Library/Caches/MapTiles folder. I have tested it and works perfectly now. You can use Touchcmd to quickly configure and rename files to swap map tiles if you intend to use multiple geographic locations. Otherwise, simply replace over the MapTiles.sqlitedb and you should be up and running again.

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