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If Safari doesn’t seem to be storing any cookies (and you’ve made sure that you have set it to accept cookies in the Settings page), the fix is to change the ownership of the directory where the cookies are stored.  Of course, you need to jailbreak, first. chown -R mobile /var/mobile/ Explained here.

Anytime you upgrade a jailbroken iPhone, you have to reinstall all of the jailbroken apps (iTMS apps and settings are retained).  While there is no way to completely automate restoring the jailbroken apps and settings, aptbackup will automatically reinstall any Cydia apps. UPDATE: Scratch that – it didn’t work for me.  I can’t say it’s [...]

Or, “How I Got My iPhone to Do This”: Overview I finally broke down and jailbroke my iPhone.  My motivation was that June Fabrics developed PdaNet for the iPhone, but it was rejected by the App Store, so they released it on Cydia.  However, once I jailbroke, I found a wealth of apps out there [...]

I found a way to copy a file (from any directory) from a jailbroken iPhone to any computer using the USB sync cable.  After typing this up, I did find one other reference to this process, although it seems to have a couple of extra steps that aren’t necessary (i.e., manzana). This is handy in [...]

Another dumping ground – this time for interesting directories in the iPhone file structure: Voicemail: /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/ (source) SMS database: /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/ Either back it up, or Export it using sqlite Camera pix: /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM NES ROMs: /private/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES Cycorder videos: /private/var/mobile/Media/Videos Call history: /private/var/mobile/Library/CallHistory Winterboard themes: /private/Library/Themes (link to /private/var/stash/Themes.xxxxxx) Ringtones: /private/Library/Ringtones (link to /private/var/stash/Ringtones.xxxxxx)

Download sqlite. SFTP into the iPhone. Download sms.db into the same folder. Open a command window, navigate to the directory where sqlite and sms.db are, and enter the following: c:\sqlite sms.db sqlite> .output messages.txt sqlite> select * from message; sqlite> .output stdout sqlite> .quit That’s it – now you can import the messages.txt file into [...]

An interesting question was posed at PDAPhoneHome about downloading jailbroken apps on the iPhone for archival purposes.  Without getting into whether this is necessary or not, here’s how you do it: First, install MobileTerminal, run it, and then switch to root (or install OpenSSH and SSH in as root) – you can install from either [...]

I don’t have wifi at work, so I can’t SFTP into my iPhone to update the theme.  My *nix skills are a bit rusty (has it changed since 1995?), so here’s my cheatsheet. Of course, you must jailbreak first.  Also, make sure you have terminal and curl installed. Upload the new icon file somewhere and [...]