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iPhone – Rock App Causing Devistation

by Tony Mattke on May 15, 2010



Recently, an update to all jailbroken phones could of caused major damage to anyone who uses Rock… There were several community updates in the last few days due to the iPad and new Jailbreak release. Saurik believe that Rock is ignoring some key fundamentals of being an APT client, which has caused critical system files to be deleted including diskdev-cmds. If you’re a victim of this, you will only realize when you try to reboot your phone (which you should not do until you’ve verified that you’re phone is OK) Upon reboot your phone will show the Apple/Pineapple logo as normal, but 8 – 12 seconds in, it will shut off. If you enable verbose booting via redsn0w you will see that you’re getting a fsck failed message…

Verification

SSH into your phone, check the /sbin directory… make sure you see fsck, fsck_hfs – if these are missing, your phone should NOT be rebooted. The following screenshot is from a phone that has been trashed.
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OS X Leopard Hacks

by Tony Mattke on June 11, 2009



Here are a few settings you can change using the OS X defaults command to access some system parameters. As always, proceed with caution, and don’t mess with things of which you have no clue. I have only verified these in OS X 10.5 – no promises if they work in any other version. Some of these require a full restart to take effect.

Menubar

  • Remove translucency in menubar, turns it white.
    sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 1
  • Remove translucency in menubar, turns it grey.
    sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 0
  • Reverts back to default translucent menubar.
    sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables'

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