Manually Launch Applications on the iPhone

Posted: February 13th, 2008 | Author: Kevin Jung | Filed under: Tutorials | No Comments »

If you are living outside of United States, unlocking the iPhone is the only path. While jailbreaking and unlocking, we sometimes run into troubles and this is a short tutorial on how to manually launch apps on the iPhone.

DISCLAIMER: I will not take any responsibility. Do this at your own risk!

This will only work if your iPhone is SSH enabled. This tutorial is done on OS X but the steps are almost the same on Windows.

  1. SSH into the iPhone using terminal.
  2. “ssh root@youripaddress” and it will ask you for the password, type “alpine”
  3. Now type these commands line by line
  4. cd /Applications
  5. ./ApplicationName.app/ApplicationName
  6. to close the opened application, enter CTRL+ C

Let say for example you are trying to launch Installer.app manually. For step 5, you would type in ./Installer.app/Installer

The application will launch on the phone, when you are finished doing what you need to do, hitting home button will not bring you to the home screen, to close the manually opened application, go back to terminal and type CTRL + C.

UPDATE: Visual always helps right?

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  1. 1 Kevin Jung » iPhone 1.1.3 Installer Crashes to Springboard Fix said at 9:08 PM on February 14th, 2008:

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  2. 2 iPhone Software said at 9:08 PM on March 12th, 2008:

    Interesting stuff here, i will have to try this out. thanks for posting.

  3. 3 Corey Garst said at 6:40 PM on October 8th, 2008:

    Hi Kevin,

    Any thoughts on doing this on newer (2.1) firmware? Doing this now results in the process launching as root, but not displaying on the UI. I suspect this may have something to do with needing to run it as the mobile user. Unfortunately, launching any app as mobile brings up an instant “Killed” in the terminal.

  4. 4 Kevin Jung said at 11:09 PM on October 8th, 2008:

    @Corey Garst Hey, honestly, I would just do a simple restore to fix the problem.

  5. 5 Luiz Thadeu said at 6:56 AM on January 23rd, 2009:

    Hi Kevin.

    I was try thi in a PuTTY Terminal, and doesn’t work. When I call a app the terminal frooze and the iPhone dont do nothing. Do you have idea whats happening.

    Sorry about my english.

    tks…

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  7. 7 Amr said at 4:18 PM on October 17th, 2009:

    This does not seem to work on the iPhone using OS 3.1.2?

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