ipeq activation issues

If you're encountering problems during activation (well, they only happen if you firstly try to use ipeq without license), then try removing the /var/mobile/Library/Application Support/ipEQ directory.

Why? I'm also not quite sure about it.
ipEQ creates this directory (license file will be stored later in it), obviously as mobile:mobile (because Music.app runs as mobile). However, if the server returns a "No payment" error, nothing will be stored in it and the user may try to quit Music.app. Then somehow this directory becomes root:wheel. I don't know why exactly this is happening, but it might be kind of a security feature in iOS to chown suspicious, empty directories to root.

finalizing builds

Many of you already asked me when I'm going to push out some updates to ipEQ and BatteryInfo.
So I'm giving a clear statement now.

I had some problems with backward compatibility, but I was able to solve them.

ipeq and ios7

Apple released iOS 7 some months ago and a stable jailbreak hasn't been released, yet.
As you might already know, winocm updated his opensource jailbreaking tool (opensn0w) and gave it some iOS 7 support. (iPhone 4 only)
Fortunately, it also patches the vm_map functions in the kernel! This means that MobileSubstrate should be working on iOS 7.

sound stuff ..

During the last 4 weeks I turned my attention to iOS 6 sound processing. As far as I know, there isn't really an app that adds a REAL equalizer to iOS' native music player, yet.

iphonetunnel-windows +++ an usbmuxd proxy

Last week i came over that post on marcan's blog:
http://marcansoft.com/blog/iphonelinux/usbmuxd/

What is usbmuxd?

As already described on marcan's blog, usbmuxd stands for "USB multiplex daemon".
By connecting to your iDevice, this library provides a powerful gateway to the iPhone's TCP ports and is able to talk over USB to them.

batteryinfo update v1.2

Hello friends.

During the last days I made a few improvements to BatteryInfo.

• Dashboard X support (since 1.1.2)
• Paging dots fix (since 1.1.2)
• NotificationCenter Mix fail (since 1.1.2)
• NotificationCenter Mix fail fixed (since 1.1.3)

Today I'm going to release BatteryInfo v1.2 .

So what's new?

Here's a screenshot:

Now there is full landscape support. I know, this addon didn't look very nice on iPads first, but I hope now it does. :-)

Cheers.

battery stuff n more

Some of you might have already heard about my new NC-addon BatteryInfo...For those of you who don't know what this is, here's a screenie:

So what is it exactly about? 

That's a really dumb question. Just look at the title of the addon.

It displays all necessary information about your iDevice battery. Inspired by coconutBattery, it displays two different bars. 

The upper one shows the charge of the battery, the lower one shows the capacity of the battery.

Charge and capacity are two different words with two different meanings.

Charge:

Electric charge is a physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when near other electrically charged matter. Electric charge comes in two types, called positive and negative. Two positively charged substances, or objects, experience a mutual repulsive force, as do two negatively charged objects. Positively charged objects and negatively charged objects experience an attractive force.

Capacity:

A battery's capacity is the amount of electric charge it can store.

The lower your battery capacity is, the faster your battery discharges.

Features:

• Current battery charge, displayed in mAh.
• The maximum charge capacity of the battery, displayed in mAh.
• The current battery percentage.
• The current battery state.
• The current total possible capacity of the battery, displayed in mAh.
• The original design capacity of the battery, displayed in mAh.
• Battery temperature (in °C and °F)
• Battery loadcycles (how often the battery charged)

The main purpose of this tweak is to show if a battery is ok or faulty. 

You can get this addon in Cydia for $0.99 (I know, it's a bit expensive, but maybe you could give it a try ;-) )

(Should) support:
iPod Touch: 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G
iPhone: 2G, 3G, 3Gs, 4, 4s
iPad: 1G, 2G

Installation:
is simple.

UPDATE #1:
Ok, I got lots of e-mails. Many people are complaining about the size of the addon, so I made it a little bit nicer. I half-sized it, and enabled paging. The tweak does now consist out of two pages.

You may have noticed the new "time remaining" feature. This is very, very, very buggy. This tells you the remaining time until the battery is discharged and, when charging, it is fully charged.

I don't know if I'll keep this feature or if I'll replace it with another one.