Comments on: Installing the same app twice on the iPhone

By: Youri

Youri — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:30:52 +0000

- Edited Info.plist in SomethingElse.app

I meaned: – Edited Info.plist in GetItDone.app

By: Youri

Youri — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:29:30 +0000

Tried the above with the App ‘Done’, didn’t work, crashed on launch.

But I managed to get it work with the following approach:

- I copied Todo.app from /var/mobile/Applications/A7657E…-…-ETC/ to /var/stash/Applications.(random chars) with iFile.

- Changed the bundle name from Todo.app to GetItDone.app.

- Edited Info.plist in SomethingElse.app:
CFBundleDisplayName: SomethingILiked (doesn’t matter)
CFBundleIdentifier: net.chillidesign.getitdone (was net.chillidesign.done, a 2 at the end also should have worked)
CFBundleName: GetItDone (should be the same as the bundle name in the Applications directory!)

- Did a respring, was happy.

The difference is that I also changed the bundle name and the CFBundleName in the Info.plist, otherwise the App will interfere with his twin brother/sister (and crashes on launch)

By: js

js — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:14:36 +0000

i have a question to point 3 “save the file”:

save to which format?? after i used the editor i saved the info.plist. than i tried to copy the folder into root/applications. but all the other folder in aplications end wit .app!!! do i have to change the name of my folder???

By: tdoosqs

tdoosqs — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:49:45 +0000

SSH into you phone to /private/var/stash/Applications.(Random Characters) ,
Right Click on your duplicated Folder ,
open Properties and set Permission to 0777 dont forget check a box for permission “recursevily” dont have to restart Springboard .

By: Riaz

Riaz — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:30:31 +0000

i tried this with the mxit app… and it keeps on crashing can you help me out???

By: Jerod

Jerod — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:09:44 +0000

Is there a reson that it crashes? Or does it really just matter what app you are trying to duplicate?
Thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:58 +0000

Great blog but How about for cydia apps?

Cheers

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:43:57 +0000

Ah, you didn’t modify the iTunesArtwork file to change the icon?
I tried it that way to have a different icon in iTunes, too.
And BTW which programm did you use to transfer the files to the phone?
I used PhoneView, so maybe that’s causing the failure, perhaps due to wrongly set permissions.

By: Brian Minor

Brian Minor — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:33:28 +0000

I just tested out the free version of the app and it is also working. You may want to try deleting the app from your itunes and re-downloading it. and using that version to modify. As long as you don’t delete it from the phone too, you shouldn’t lose any setting.

If you use cydia to install winterboard and then install themes then you can find and add icons to the themes. When you SSH into you phone the themes are located in the /var/stash/themes.(random characters)

in the themes folder you will see a icon folder you can add a created icon there with the same name of the app to set the new icon.

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:10:59 +0000

Thanks for testing, Brian.
As I wasn’t aware of “your” NewsTap, you obviously wasn’t aware of \mine\.
I meant the Usenet Newsreader NewsTap by Alexander Clauss
That’s the one that doesn’t work.
BTW: How do you change the application’s icons?