BossPrefs 2.04b Update

I updated BossPrefs today and added a 3g toggle since it is frustrating to have to hit so many key presses to enable / disable the 3g. Enjoy.

Posted on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 and is filed under iPhone Apps and More. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

60 Responses to “BossPrefs 2.04b Update”

1. CH July 26th, 2008, 10:52 am

Well! A great tools!

But I experience some problems in “adding services”

I would like to let Boss Prefs to start and stop lighttpd

What I put in the start field is
lighttpd -f /usr/local/etc/lighttpd.conf

the stop field is
killadd lighttpd

and the ps x field is
lighttpd

After I save it, I see 3 blank on/off button with no action at all….. any idea?

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Here is the 1.1.4 lighttpd bossprefs plugin text:

/bin/launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.amcgregor.lighttpd.plist
/bin/launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.amcgregor.lighttpd.plist
com.amcgregor.lighttpd.plist
/Applications/BossPrefs.app/lighttpd.png

I have a lot of plugins but haven’t tested them. This is why I haven’t released them for 2.0. In theory they should all work assuming the underlying apps work the same way.

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2. zacklyn July 26th, 2008, 11:04 am

me, too :(

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CH Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I thought I am the only one!
As I google-ing this, I can’t find anyone have the same problem.

Man, we are not alone…..

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3. Ragnar Danneskjöld July 26th, 2008, 11:07 am

Awesome. My favorite app just got favoriter….uh better.

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4. zacklyn July 26th, 2008, 11:11 am

After I save service, I see 3 blank on/off button with no name and one folder “services” (not “Services”) created in /Applications/BossPrefs.app/

Fix this error, pls! I likes this app so much :D

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I’ll look into it tomorrow. I haven’t tested that portion of the app yet.

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5. Dodo July 26th, 2008, 11:26 am

Man your repo is not working ! i cant seem to refresh , it either complains about a mismatch in packages.gz or gzip error…

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am
The repo is working. I even just used it.

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6. Dodo July 26th, 2008, 11:42 am

you say that instead of just maintaining and testing !!!

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I just used the repo to install files. What more testing would be needed? It has had several hundred downloads in just the last hour alone. Everything is fine.

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7. Dodo July 26th, 2008, 11:52 am

it DOWNLOADS FINE !!!!
just run apt-get update from the terminal and see the output , its the only repo that has errors

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Here is the output from apt-get update:

Dev-Phone:/var/Code/BossPrefs2.0 root# apt-get update
Get:1 http://repo.smxy.org xena Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://apt.saurik.com tangelo Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://www.zodttd.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Get:4 http://apt.bigboss.us.com stable Release.gpg [186B]
Hit http://repo.smxy.org xena Release
Get:5 http://modmyifone.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://apt.saurik.com tangelo Release
Hit http://www.zodttd.com stable Release
Get:6 http://apt.bigboss.us.com stable Release [464B]
Hit http://modmyifone.com stable Release
Ign http://repo.smxy.org xena/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://repo.smxy.org xena/main Packages
Ign http://apt.saurik.com tangelo/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://repo.smxy.org xena/main Packages
Ign http://www.zodttd.com stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://apt.saurik.com tangelo/main Packages
Ign http://apt.bigboss.us.com stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://apt.saurik.com tangelo/main Packages
Ign http://www.zodttd.com stable/main Packages
Ign http://modmyifone.com stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.zodttd.com stable/main Packages
Ign http://apt.bigboss.us.com stable/main Packages
Ign http://modmyifone.com stable/main Packages
Get:7 http://apt.bigboss.us.com stable/main Packages [7629B]
Hit http://modmyifone.com stable/main Packages
Fetched 8471B in 3s (2381B/s)
Reading package lists… Done

Which error are you referring to? If there were errors fetching packages.gz then you would not find my packages or updates in Cydia. And as I said, they have been getting several hundred downloads per hour and no errors in the command above.

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8. Roberto July 26th, 2008, 12:02 pm

Dock scrolling is not working as nicely as before, in 114 you could scroll even if you “presed” on the app icons, now you need to put your finger in the space between the icons :(

never the less, exelent job xD

pd: you cant imagine how i am waiting for categories XD

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Yea, I spent about 4 hours on that dock scrolling thing. I will have to do major work to fix it. The same with the issue where you cant reorder the dock icons.

Categories is a couple weeks out because I have to see how I can integrate it with appstore apps in addition to porting it. Plus the issue with the dock icons not scrolling will affect categories. Fun :(

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9. thargalt July 26th, 2008, 12:04 pm

Thanks for update !
BossPrefs is now more stable :)

Hope you will update Macman to ;)

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10. TOm July 26th, 2008, 12:38 pm

thanks, u can read my mind…. great job!!

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11. Benoit Troadec July 26th, 2008, 12:56 pm

Perfect!

Works fine.

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12. Alp July 26th, 2008, 1:05 pm

hi. Just a quick question:

Cydia advertises OpenSSH with an auto-on feature. Meaning you don’t need to disable SSH for battery-saving as it’s always off and turns on automatically when you need it. Is that still the cas if SSH is set to On in BossPrefs or does it disable the auto-on ?

Thanks for the great app

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13. kkm July 26th, 2008, 2:28 pm

nice but I need example for Add Icon in shell process. can someone example run for shell process.

thx

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14. asd July 26th, 2008, 3:09 pm

Nice job! what about double tap home?? :)

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15. Mythul July 26th, 2008, 3:34 pm

Hi. can u please remake the icon to fit in the default theme pls?Thanks.Great job

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16. Matt July 26th, 2008, 6:42 pm

Keep those update coming. We will take anything we can get on cydia.

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17. Brett July 26th, 2008, 10:42 pm

Do I see a tether option? How do I do that?

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_BigBoss_ Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Well I am going on vacation this Monday and will need tethering for myself. So this is something I will figure out this weekend and add an add-on toggle.

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18. Fragnetic July 26th, 2008, 11:22 pm

I’m new to the iphone/jailbreaking/Cydia/etc scene, but just got done successfully jailbreaking my 3G. Everything is working fine, been poking around Cydia and installed NES, Macman and BossPrefs. Only thing is, I don’t see a BossPrefs icon anywhere on my springboard. The two games have icons, but no BossPrefs. Is there something else I need to enable oo install in order to have access to it? Keep up the great work, thanks!

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BigBoss Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
There appears to be a major bug in appstore / itunes which is a service that is constantly running. If you installed something and no icon shows up, you need to do this to fix it:

1) Uninstall it in Cydia
2) Reboot the phone
3) Reinstall it in Cydia

Repeat until it works.

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Fragnetic Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
That did it, thanks!

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19. Mep July 27th, 2008, 12:31 am

So I was playing around with the bossprefs and my 3G ended up getting really slow. It turned out that when I tried to open the Add Service module the iPhone froze for a few seconds, I thought that I just didn’t touch the button right, so I hit it again. Unfortnately then it opened the module and saved an empty setting, Now I have two empty on/off toggle switches on my prefs list. Is there any way to remove those. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling bossprefs but they stay.

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BigBoss Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am
In SSH delete anything in /Applications/BossPrefs.app/Services folder.

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Mep Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 12:49 am
um…but I have two services folders? one with a capital “S” and the other lowercase “s”

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BigBoss Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Empty them both. As I said, I’ll look into it later tonight.
20. Bill Wang July 27th, 2008, 4:02 am

BossPrefs 2.04b take MobileAddressBook to hidden!!!!

in MobileAddressBook.app/Info.plist, Add :

SBAppTags

hidden

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21. Thargalt July 27th, 2008, 6:25 am

I’ve got a little suggestion : Could you add a Sysinfo on bossprefs ?

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Bill Wang Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:36 am
how to add a Sysinfo on bossprefs?

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Thargalt Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I don’t know. (i know nothing about dev) but i think like Poof ?

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22. Woody July 27th, 2008, 11:19 am

Thank you, it’s a helpful application!

But disabling “Edge” or “3G Data” activates the SimLock and i have to unlock it with my pin again.

I’ve also the problem of the 3 empty buttons after adding a service. How can i delete such a service?

Greetz Woody

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BigBoss Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Yea, disable your SIM Pin. Use the iPhone password instead…

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23. Leon July 27th, 2008, 2:44 pm

great app, mate! very useful. i can’t get the double-tap-home-button to take me to bossprefs, though, it keeps taking me to my iPhone favs. Any ideas?

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24. iFonie July 27th, 2008, 2:48 pm

DoubleTab to open BossPrefs don’t work?? Any ideas?

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25. Leon July 27th, 2008, 2:57 pm

Not sure if iFonie is answering me, or reporting the same issue. :-) Just in case he/she is asking me if using the “BossPrefs to Double Tap Home” doesn’t work, no it doesn’t. It pops up the explanation window and then I click Set Me, but still double tapping the home button brings up Favs instead of BossPrefs.

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26. Ernesto July 27th, 2008, 4:29 pm

3G toggle is a real big improvement….. but it should not ask for sim code unlock after changing. Thx for the efforts!

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27. kameko July 28th, 2008, 8:09 am

i’m sorry but this app has brought me nothing but trouble. i have a jailbroken iphone 3g and bossprefs has consistently crashed and created non-killable ‘reportcras’ processes running on my iphone that is taking up at least 50%+ of cpu time.

kill -9 will not get rid of it and the only way i solved this was to re-pwn and jailbreak my iphone again.

at first i didn’t know what was causing this, but now i reinstalled the newest bossprefs 2.05b
and tried turning off edge settings again. ONCE MORE all of a sudden it freezes for a moment and then everything gets slow again. i check via terminal/top and yet again ‘reportcras’ has now come back.

so there is definitely something completely wrong with this app and i would recommend people not to install it until its found out exactly what the hell is going on. now i’m off to re-pwn my iphone just to get rid of this stupid crap.

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28. Ton Haarmans July 28th, 2008, 12:45 pm

I have an iPhone 8GB from the first generation. I have pwned with pwnage 2.01. And I have no problems at all with Bossprefs 2.05b.

Thanks!

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29. EvilSin July 28th, 2008, 6:14 pm

Thanks for all the updates and I really appreciate all the hard work. Everytime i load up Cydia and see an update i can download to my Iphone I almost cry.. hehe

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30. asa July 28th, 2008, 6:33 pm

new update with number percentage for battery is cool! Was missing this but like even better part of one app and not seperate. Thx!

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31. Monica July 29th, 2008, 9:16 am

BigBoss, awesome job, I love it !!

Is there a way to add:

“Location Services” and “Push” ???

I’d love to enable/disable those 2 in BossPrefs

Please let us know, thanks again !!!!!!

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32. chase July 29th, 2008, 3:52 pm

Great app. I really appreciate all the hard work. Not sure where requests should go, but would it make sense to switch to 2G automatically when Wifi connects? How realistic/easy is that from a coding POV? 3g reception sucks in my house, and whenever the iphone switches to 2g I always drop calls. I really don’t need 3g when wifi is available, so i’d rather just default to 2g during wifi. I’ve got coding experience, but I’m new to iphone development.

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33. Paul July 30th, 2008, 1:26 pm

Awesome application. I really missed it when I went from the iPhone to the iPhone 3G and now I have it again after following the winpwn guide. Just wanted to say thanks for making it and keep up the good work.

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34. hellbuster July 30th, 2008, 2:27 pm

Hi. great app! ceep up the god work :) but can anyone tell me were i find and how to edit the duble tap home string, it isnt in the var/root/libary/preferience/ folder like in 1.1.4 but were do i find it, and how do i decrypt it? would be nice to start appflow with duble tapping the home button! :)

and did i say ceep ut the god work, this app is so amazing! ¨¨,

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35. that guy July 30th, 2008, 9:59 pm

Is it just me, or doe 2.05b not properly detect running state of custom services?

I have a socks service, using config:

/usr/bin/socks -d -p1080
/usr/bin/killall socks
socks
/Applications/BossPrefs.app/socks.png

The application starts fine. But upon leaving BossPrefs and re-entering, the service is always listed as off, even though it is on, and verified via command line:

poopcity:~ mobile$ ps x | grep socks
56 ?? s 0:00.00 (socks)
85 s000 + 0:00.00 grep socks

Starting and then stopping will kill all instances (via killall), but its still annoying to not really know.

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36. david July 31st, 2008, 3:20 pm

Fantastic app, thanks for all of the effort you’ve put into it. I would like to second Monica’s request for a location services toggle, or instructions on how to create a custom service for that. Thanks in advance!

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Anonymous Reply:
July 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I will look into it. First I need to redo the hide icons. Then I need to get categories going. Then I can look into extra toggles. I think this one requires coding.

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37. Leon August 4th, 2008, 6:02 am

hi, just to expand on my question above (see #23), i’ve just upgraded to 2.06b and doubletapping now works perfectly (i.e. takes me to bossprefs).

thanks!!!

leon.

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38. jdizzle August 12th, 2008, 8:31 pm

saw mention that there was going to be some guidance on how to enable the tether toggle shown in the snapshots. Would love to do this … Did that ever surface anywhere?

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39. Rich August 15th, 2008, 3:10 pm

Any way to add the ‘Airplane mode’ toggle in the next version, or can I add this as a service? Thanks, great work!

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40. rich August 24th, 2008, 6:28 am

I have install lighttpd and BossPrefs, I tried to get lighttpd working. But this file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.amcgregor.lighttpd.plist
is nowhere to be found. Where is it anyway?

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41. Chad Johnson September 21st, 2008, 4:30 pm

The file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.amcgregor.lighttpd.plist does not exist for me either (I’m on 2.1). What should the contents of this file be?

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Chad Johnson Reply:
September 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hmm…plist files look like they’re not in plain text. How can we create this file?

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42. PlastiKid October 31st, 2008, 11:31 am

Any chance on placing the localization toggle button into the app?

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