Strange iPhone tricks: Installer.app shows up automagically?
by John Biggs on October 20, 2007


I don’t know what happened, but on or around last Wednesday afternoon my iPhone got sick and hiccuped up Installer.app in the 1.1.1 firmware. Here’s what happened. I installed 1.1.1 last week had been using for a few days. I installed Installer.app by hand, just copying it via SCP to the iPhone’s Applications folder. It didn’t show up, as was expected, and I resigned myself to my fate.

Suddenly, on Wednesday Installer.app showed up. It just appeared. No warning, no resets, no nothing. In fact, I haven’t reset my phone — or shut it off — since I upgraded to 1.1.1 out of fear. It just happened. My GPRS also started failing on T-Mobile — looks like the Safari proxy is busted — but Wi-Fi works. I was then able to install third-party apps, all of them worked on 1.1.1, and I became strangely elated. What happened? Did Apple push an update? How did they push an update if I was on T-Mobile? WTF?

Comments

hi john. how did you do this again? (step by step pls) im confused.

 

what are you confused about? upgrading or the magic?

 

i understand the upgrading, cause ive upgraded to 1.1.1 before, and ive gone back and forth to 1.0.2 just to figure out how to get apptapp on 1.1.1 . once you upgraded to 1.1.1 - how did you ssh into your phone w/o having open ssh?

 

how did you ssh into your phone after upgrading to 1.1.1? ive gone back and forth to 1.1.1 then back to 1.0.2 just trying to get apptapp on 1.1.1.

 

WTF R U 2 TALKING ABOUT ASHLEY AND JOHN

 

I MEAN JEEZ A FKING PHONE THING WOOPED D FKING DO

 

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