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iFuntastic v3 Released: You now have permission to go nuts

Submitted by Michael Johnston on August 29, 2007 - 3:36pm.
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The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived. iFuntastic version 3 is here, and chock full of new features. Of course, the biggest feature request of all has been fulfilled - support for PowerPC processors. It also includes a real file browser which allows installing apps, uploading NES ROMs, and other miscellaneous files. But that's just the beginning.

One of the most important new features in v3 is "Unshackling". No longer will you have to un-jail and re-jail your iPhone for every modifiaction. Once you unshackle, you're free to make any modifications you please while simultaneously maintaining iTunes' ability to access the phone. Very sweet.

The Home Screen section has been significantly updated. Just as you could in previous versions, iFuntastic allows you to rearrange the icons on your home screen, but it gets even cooler. You can now have multiple home screens with a different set of icons on each. Take that, Spaces. On top of that, you know have the ability to put backgrounds on each home screen as well as rotate them. Can you say "useful"?


Ringtones has also been updated. Remember that handy tip on getting free ringtones from iTunes? Now you can use iFuntastic to rip iTunes previews for you. Simply create a playlist of songs from the iTunes Music Store and drag the exported version into iFuntastic. The songs are downloaded from the store and uploaded right into your iPhone.

The new File Manager is awfully cool. It can be used to install new applications, save and delete files, and everything in between. iFuntastic also allows you to fiddle with system images and change the carrier logo, as you could in the past.

According to bitSplit, (summarized) changes since the last version are:

* PowerPC support! Finally. Thanks for keeping the faith :-)
* One-time unjailing - called 'Unshackling'.
* Drag and drop any file onto the phone in the new 'File Manager' (formerly Browser :-)
* Edit text files directly on the phone.
* Drag and drop installation of native applications - no restart of the phone necessary.
* Info page: a one-stop-shop for all documentation (still sparsely populated right now, sorry.)
* Troubleshooting page: a one-stop-shop for pummeling the phone and inquiring about its status.
* Much improved ringtone installation.
* Drag and drop replacement of system sounds.
* Completely reworked Home Screen Editor. Place applications anywhere you want them (gaps are OK.)
* Support for multiple home screen 'pages'. Have up to 80 applications at your fingertips!
* Custom home screen 'wallpaper', better called home screen backgrounds, to distinguish from the 'real' wallpaper.

Requirements:

  • Mac computer with USB 2.0 port

  • Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
  • iTunes 7.3 or later

Get iFuntastic v3.0.3 here. Big thanks to the guys at QuickShareIt for hosting the file. If you ever need to send files to someone, check out their nifty little Mac app.

Please post questions, problems, and feature requests in the Third Party Apps forum, and not in this story's comments.

Enjoy!

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 4:07pm.
been using it for a couple days, its great! great work on this one guys... (i'm on powerpc )

If you have any problems, search for "iFuntastic" in your user Library and trash everything that comes up. That seems to be the best way to solve problems.

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 4:20pm.
Guys what is Ppc? I used the earlier version on my mac at home. Does that mean i can use it with Vista? I want to start messing with this at work. Please help.

Yeah!

Submitted by iamse7en on August 29, 2007 - 4:48pm.
This is sick nasty...

Great work.

Submitted by iPhoneWriter on August 29, 2007 - 5:01pm.
I can't wait to geek out tonight after class!

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 5:01pm.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Guys what is Ppc? I used the earlier version on my mac at home. Does that mean i can use it with Vista? I want to start messing with this at work. Please help.

PPC is what Apple used before them moved to intel. It still doesn't work with Windows, but their will probably be work put into a windows version at some point in time.

I'm getting stuck in the last step

Submitted by Frans (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 5:23pm.
Hi there and thank you for your great work with iFuntastic. Everything seems to go as planned, but in the last step of the Unshackle I get stuck. I've tried it 3 times all over again, I've tried to disconnect, I've tried to restart, but nothing works. I keep getting the message "Waiting for iPhone ..." and finally a pop-up saying "STOP-Communication Failure". Any clues here?

Let me know if you want more info, use xtruhgoy - at - yahoo/ dot com

Submitted by thememyphone (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 5:30pm.
Im really loving the fact that you can set a wallpaper on your home screen! awesome work guys.. it works great!

tommy
iPhone Wallpapers

Submitted by bitSplit on August 29, 2007 - 5:50pm.
@ Frans
Well, that's not acceptable! Sorry to hear that.
What is your computer model?
You can 'Keep Trying' a few times to extend the time.
Let everyone know what works (or doesn't.)

Submitted by Dash2 (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 6:17pm.
This looks AMAZING!
(now we just need windows support!)
=D

Restoring...

Submitted by iamse7en on August 29, 2007 - 6:31pm.
Must the iPhone really be fully restored in order for the unshackling to work? Or is it just a recommendation. I'd hate to get rid of all my installing and modding that I've done.

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 6:33pm.
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Originally Posted by Frans View Post
Hi there and thank you for your great work with iFuntastic. Everything seems to go as planned, but in the last step of the Unshackle I get stuck. I've tried it 3 times all over again, I've tried to disconnect, I've tried to restart, but nothing works. I keep getting the message "Waiting for iPhone ..." and finally a pop-up saying "STOP-Communication Failure". Any clues here?

Let me know if you want more info, use xtruhgoy - at - yahoo/ dot com
Im having the same issue as well

installation

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 6:40pm.
does anyone know how to install it? are there any steps?

thanks.

Submitted by Unregistered113 (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 6:42pm.
@Frans
that happened ot me to first...
but after i did a restore of my entire iphone
i tried again and it worked fine...

one question though for anyone who might have the answer:
How can I change the names of the apps...
right now my phone is called MobilePhone... my Mail is MobileMail...
i cant seem to figure out how to change the names back to the originals...
i see in the screenshot that it has the original name...
so if anyone has any answer to this...
it will be a great help...
thanks alot

how do you install on PC?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 6:47pm.
how do you install on PC?

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 6:54pm.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
does anyone know how to install it? are there any steps?

thanks.
First off, you need to have a Mac (intel, or PPC)

Then all you need to do is open up the package and drag the icon to your applications folder and then start it up! Just following the steps and you'll be good.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
how do you install on PC?
You cannot currently install on PC, it is not out for you guys yet

Submitted by nofim on August 29, 2007 - 7:00pm.
cant update home screen so im switchin to the old version

Problem with the last step

Submitted by anemic (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 7:03pm.
Hello, great work but just to let you know the last step does not work for me as well. It keeps trying to connect to the iphone and finally times out. I am running firmware 1.0.2 in the iphone and a MBP running iFuntastic. All other releases worked great, just this one is having some problems.

Communication Failure

Submitted by yoYo (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 7:20pm.
Everything works.. It says that I get it "Unshackled" but when I try to do anything I get "Communication Failure" it just keeps timing out? I know it is connected cause I see it in Itunes. Tried to restart phone and computer. Anyone else running into this?

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 7:35pm.
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Originally Posted by yoYo View Post
Everything works.. It says that I get it "Unshackled" but when I try to do anything I get "Communication Failure" it just keeps timing out? I know it is connected cause I see it in Itunes. Tried to restart phone and computer. Anyone else running into this?
I've had it give me that error multiple times in a row, i just kept choosing "try again" (or whatever the choice is), and it eventually started to work.

Dang

Submitted by YoYO (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:02pm.
Yeah.. I tried to "keep trying" a ton of time, and still dice.. Tried a total restore too. Nada.. just keeps trying to connect.

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:12pm.
I've downloaded the zip file 3 times and it keeps getting hung up on Expanding "printenv" to "desktop". Anyone have the same problem?

app names

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:13pm.
Why have some of the apps been renamed, like "Mobile Phone, Mobile etc"? And how can i give them their old names back?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:17pm.
do any body know when there will be a PC virson out.

Mac or PC

Submitted by Deerector (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:31pm.
Does this work with a regular MAC? All these custom programs are for PC's and intel based MACS. Whats the deal with this man? How come nothing is available for the regular MAC?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:33pm.
I have found how to change the names, but for some reason it only works on the bottom (phone, mail, safari, ipod) to do so you go to File Manager and than click on the big folder and go to the bottom and choose application names. Click on Localizedapplicationnames but it only works on the the bottom and i can't get the others to change there names.

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 8:34pm.
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Originally Posted by Deerector View Post
Does this work with a regular MAC? All these custom programs are for PC's and intel based MACS. Whats the deal with this man? How come nothing is available for the regular MAC?

It works on PPC (POWERPC), which you have. Read the first post and it tells you that its avaliable for PPC. So it will work on any Mac now.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
I've downloaded the zip file 3 times and it keeps getting hung up on Expanding "printenv" to "desktop". Anyone have the same problem?
I haven't had that problem. I've just downloaded it again and it worked fine for me. Maybe there is something wrong on your end.

Zipped

Submitted by Help Me44 (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 8:41pm.
how do i work the zipped file and stuff on windows on this version

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 8:51pm.
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Originally Posted by Help Me44 View Post
how do i work the zipped file and stuff on windows on this version
This program doesn't work on windows. If your trying to unzip it on a windows machine and then moving it over to a mac, you can use WinZip. But i doubt thats the case. As you will read above, there is not a PC version yet, and we do not know when there will be one.

Submitted by mitey (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 9:18pm.
Are we able to change the Page 1, 2,3,4 icons to lets say an arrow?
I keep replacing it but it wont stay....

Also, why cant we change the dock background?

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 9:41pm.
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Originally Posted by mitey View Post
Are we able to change the Page 1, 2,3,4 icons to lets say an arrow?
I keep replacing it but it wont stay....

Also, why cant we change the dock background?
I just did a quick look through, and it looks like you can change the 1,2,3..etc. Go to

Code:
/Applications/Page1.app/
And the file icon.png represents the numbers.

As far as the Dock Background, that shouldn't be too hard to change. Just need to find the image representing it and change it manually. I'll take a look and see if i can find the file.

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 9:44pm.
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Originally Posted by Pepper View Post
I just did a quick look through, and it looks like you can change the 1,2,3..etc. Go to

Code:
/Applications/Page1.app/
And the file icon.png represents the numbers.

As far as the Dock Background, that shouldn't be too hard to change. Just need to find the image representing it and change it manually. I'll take a look and see if i can find the file.
Hi!

I found the files and replaced them with what I want, but they wont stay... Think you can try and see if it works for you?

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 9:48pm.
hmmm.... i am not going to try it, because i would probably get the same result. Its probably because when it hooks up to iFuntastic, it automatically changes it back. There is probably a way around it, just gotta figure it out

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 9:50pm.
Wipe that sucker clean before trying to unshackle. Then do Installer.app's script to put itself on and away you go. Or, now that we can, drag it straight on. I feel dumb.

Apps

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 9:52pm.
Pardon my ignorance, but is there a convenient place to download 3rd party .app files to add to the phone via iFuntastic? I had previously used the installer.app ./get_intaller.sh method, but I like the idea of having multiple springboards.

If someone knows a quick and easy answer to my question, send me a message at cwicseolfor at gmail dot com

Thank.

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 10:06pm.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Pardon my ignorance, but is there a convenient place to download 3rd party .app files to add to the phone via iFuntastic? I had previously used the installer.app ./get_intaller.sh method, but I like the idea of having multiple springboards.

If someone knows a quick and easy answer to my question, send me a message at cwicseolfor at gmail dot com

Thank.

I use the installer.app on my phone and iFuntastic. Just install the apps you want, plug your phone in, and then the new applications show up in your applications list in iFuntastic and you can then place them where you want on your phone.

Submitted by iPhoneWriter on August 29, 2007 - 10:10pm.
I haven't done a full restore, as suggested, and the app seems to "sorta" work overall... the shackling seems to work fine. That said, not all of my applications are showing up within the application, no matter how many times I "refresh". Maybe a restore before use would address this. I might try that this weekend, as it is preventing all of the applications from showing on the Home Page... within iFuntastic, they continue to show up on the iPhone itself just fine... basic app's too, like Stocks or Settings.

Also, no amount of rearrangement of the Home Screen seems to be working either, so the app is either buggy or a full restore really is the best way to go. I may test later, but not tonight.. at least, no plans for doing that tonight anyway.

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 10:36pm.
here is a example of a page i created.... (ya, i didn't use the screen capture script)

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 10:38pm.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Guys what is Ppc? I used the earlier version on my mac at home. Does that mean i can use it with Vista? I want to start messing with this at work. Please help.

Ppc = Power PC = Older mac processors (ex: G3, G4, G5, etc)

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 10:48pm.
Cant get it to extract from the zip file. Tried both mirrors and same thing. It hangs on "expanding printenv to documents"

Submitted by Hans on August 29, 2007 - 10:52pm.
alright i got a problem
all my icons say stuff like mobilesms, mobiletimer, mobilenotes
in the pictures they all have normal names, mine are all messed up
anyone know about this?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 10:55pm.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans View Post
alright i got a problem
all my icons say stuff like mobilesms, mobiletimer, mobilenotes
in the pictures they all have normal names, mine are all messed up
anyone know about this?
I had the same thing and I believe it was because I did not do the last restart... After I installed it, where the "troubleshoot" box is, it said restart but i didnt do it... and well that happened... so i restored my phone.. tried installing it again, did the reboot and now its all good

Question

Submitted by Bum-G (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 10:56pm.
How can I install some of the themes from modmyiphone.com...example gunmetal theme or Metal Blue theme...?? or do I have to manually change the icons for each app if so how do I do that....

Windows. .

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 10:58pm.
I'm really wanting to use this app! Hurry up and get a windows version! If I had access to a Mac this wouldn't be an issue, but. . I Don't!

Submitted by OpenIntro (not verified) on August 29, 2007 - 11:08pm.
Get this available for the PC!

Submitted by Pepper on August 29, 2007 - 11:12pm.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=

If there are anymore comments asking for a PC version, they will be deleted. Please refer to the ifuntastic Feature Request Thread for the place to post any request.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=

why not Windows?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 30, 2007 - 12:07am.
is there a reason for not supporting the most popular platform, Windows?

Whiny Snatches

Submitted by FukWindows (not verified) on August 30, 2007 - 12:40am.
Quit the moaning about no Windows. Maybe the developer only has a Mac, maybe he hates PCs, maybe he has evidence that the majority of iPhone users are also Mac users (WTF cares about the majority of PCs anyway, it's iPhone users that matter for this program), whatever the reason...it's Mac only. Deal with it. At least now there's a PPC version. Go to a Kinko's or something. Your tears may have convinced mommy to buy you this toy, but it won't convince developers to re-code this thing any faster.

Rant's over. This is a giant step forward from 2.0 and 2.5. Minor thing: I echo the bug reported earlier that "Mobile" appears before a number of Apps on the main screen (MobileSMS, MobileCal...). I unshackled with a freshly restored OS (1.0.2 -- could that be the prob?), tried soft and hard resets. No luck. Also, is it me or do the fonts that display the name look a little watered down?

All in all, spectacular work! Huge props. Can't wait to play Mario on the train (although it's no small feat to get Mario's feet to repond to commands!)

Submitted by scouty (not verified) on August 30, 2007 - 12:46am.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
I have found how to change the names, but for some reason it only works on the bottom (phone, mail, safari, ipod) to do so you go to File Manager and than click on the big folder and go to the bottom and choose application names. Click on Localizedapplicationnames but it only works on the the bottom and i can't get the others to change there names.
I was able to do this too but could not find the other names of the apps above the bottom bar. Anyone know its location so that we can get rid of the "mobile" prefixes?

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 30, 2007 - 12:54am.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
I've downloaded the zip file 3 times and it keeps getting hung up on Expanding "printenv" to "desktop". Anyone have the same problem?
you need to update to the latest version of stuffit

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on August 30, 2007 - 1:03am.
I just don't see a "reset" [set back to normal] feature when you change your background or do changes to the apps.

Also, "blank/Empty" spaces are not really empty. They were replaced by a "forward -> Back to main page" application. So if you don't click on the app but on the empty space, your screen will turn black and bring you back to the main Window....

Are these being addressed? Kinda bothersome..

But other than that IT'S AWESOME, way to go.. PC people, stop complaining... Is not like there so much software already for you guys out there that isn't on the Mac..
Be patient.. it's time for us Mac users to have all the fun.. (Not like we never do)
Just go do some power point presentations or a spread sheet of how much you complain... (sorry.. had to get it out..)