Friday, January 23, 2009

StudyArcade for Jailbroken iPhones / iPod Touches

By popular request, I've submitted the StudyArcade application to the Cydia installer in MMi' repository. We're still waiting on the Apple AppStore confirmation for now.

If you're technically-savvy, you can install the application yourself right now. You'll need a Jailbroken iPhone / iPod touch with SSH installed. For more information on how to use SSH, check out the gizmodo post here; I'm going to assume you know how to transfer files to your iPhone and how to execute SSH commands.
  • Download the StudyArcade zip file here.
  • Unzip the file to extract StudyArcade.app
  • SSH to your iPhone / iPod Touch and copy StudyArcade.app to the /Applications folder
  • Execute the following command using SSH:
    chmod 775 /Applications/StudyArcade.app/StudyArcade
  • Restart your device or respring SpringBoard. StudyArcade should appear!
I look forward to hearing feedback!

Troubleshooting

If you manually installed the application and it crashes before even showing the main screen (it begins to open then immediately crashes), the problem is almost certainly that you forgot to execute the chmod statement. If you're sure you did this, please contact me using the "Email Us" link (to the right) and we will work through the problem.

Here's a video showing how to install the application:

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