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Nullriver’s installer contains graphic images

Posted by Dan Moren | Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:32 AM PT

AppTappThe Terminal’s a scary place—I understand. For those of you who decided to forego hacking your iPhone if it required delving into the land of green text on a black background, the time for excuses is now over. The folks at Nullriver, who brought you the iPhone Installer, have now released a GUI installer for the installer, meaning that bring third-party apps to your iPhone is now as simple as it’s going to get without help from Cupertino.

You can download the new installer, AppTappInstaller, from their site, and you’ll be well on your way to installing a handful of nifty third-party applications. I haven’t gotten a chance to try this out yet, but as soon as I restore my phone and upgrade to the 1.0.2 firmware (with which the Installer is totally compatible), you can bet it’ll be the first thing I fire up.

Now, Apple: are we going to keep playing this silly game of cat and mouse? I don’t want to have to reinstall my apps every time you come out with new firmware. I think it’s time for you to let go.

Comments (14)

Does it work with the new update (1.0.2)? I have not used any hacks yet, but it is getting very tempting. What is the worst that can happen? I can deal with having to restore my iPhone, but is it possible to render it unusable?

August 23, 2007
12:37 PM PT

"Cat and mouse"?

Apple's not playing games with iPhone hackers with their software updates.

The updates install a known-to-be-good image of the iPhone if the software on it isn't what is expected. This is exactly the same as the general fix for windows machines... reformat the drive, and reinstall everything.

It's simple, and fixes any issues the phone may have.

It's actually helpful for hackers, since they always have a convenient method of returning to the factory state, and so are free to take risks with their $600 phones without worrying about turning it into a warrantee voided brick.

T.
August 23, 2007
12:53 PM PT


Once installed how do you use the apps that come with the installer? I selected the ringtones app and it said it installed, now what?

Steve Rokicki
August 24, 2007
1:30 PM PT

Is there a list of the available applications that work with the installer?

August 25, 2007
3:42 PM PT

I have recently bought an unlocked iPhone. In installer i can see only thing i.e. Installer Version 3.0b5 from NullRiver. I just want to ask if i run this application then will it lock/damage my iPhone or not?

Kindly do let me know.

Thanks

Irfan
October 29, 2007
2:02 PM PT

I have bought an unlocked iPhone. In installer i can see only thing i.e. Installer Version 3.0b8 from NullRiver. I just want to ask if i run this application then will it lock/damage my iPhone or not?How do I uninstall the No 1 showing on the Installer icon n my main menu.

Kindly let me know asap.
Thanks

Ayesha.

Ayesha
November 06, 2007
8:51 AM PT

Same case as others..

I have the installer ver. 2.63 in my iphone

I'm using the iphone outside USA with firmware 1.0.2. For obvious reasons I would like to upgrading up to 1.1.1 (so far). I don't have clear de process (and not yet better) the result of that, and if it is worth it or not (because so far I'm very happy with what I have right now)

Thanks for any answer in advance..

Charlie
November 15, 2007
3:05 PM PT

Hi
i have installer on my iphone like you, i want to know did u update it to 3.0b8
Thank

Pouya
November 16, 2007
11:01 AM PT

I have bought an unlocked iPhone. In installer i can see only thing i.e. Installer Version 3.0b8 from NullRiver. I just want to ask if i run this application then will it lock/damage my iPhone or not?How do I uninstall the No 1 showing on the Installer icon n my main menu.My firmware is 1.0.2 and insataller version is 2.63.

rajesh patel
November 17, 2007
6:38 AM PT

My iPhone has a version of 1.1.1 n I want 3rd party aplications with installer apptapp. What can i do??

juan
November 29, 2007
8:20 PM PT

Juan, plug into iTunes and update your iPhone.

Brandon
December 07, 2007
5:57 PM PT

Hi,

Does anyone know how or from where I can download installer ver.3.0b.8?

Help pls
Thanks

Leowomen
December 12, 2007
2:00 PM PT

hi this is haroon by mastake I remove my Instller please help me to re instal i am from pakistan

Haroon
December 22, 2007
7:02 PM PT

Hi i recently bought an iphone for me and my mate.
I recently went overseas where unlocked iphone market is large and they upgraded my istaller to 3.0 how do i do this to my mates phone?

and when activate wifi and connect to my modem and i try to download something on installer it just says cant find host (same when trying to refresh it says "could not refresh") what do i do to find the host (edge in australia is pretty slow it froze the phone) HOW DO I FIX THIS?

Thanks.

JJ
January 14, 2008
4:05 AM PT

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