HOWTO: Cydia and Installer Is Hidden After Upgrade and Quickpwn
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, Operating System, iPhone
I upgraded to 2.2.1 using iTunes and was hoping to install all my Cydia based apps afterwards. I use quickpwn and decided to install both Cydia and Installer. What I forgot to do was to move Cydia and Installer out of Categories (a 3rd party software to hide icons and create folders). Basically all apps that were hidden using the Categories are now hidden without any way to access them (SSH was not installed after quickpwn).
I found a solution:
- Enable Restrictions by going to Settings -> General -> Restrictions and key in a pass code
- Go to home and disable the restrictions (by going through the same menu above)
After I do that, all my applications shows up again (except for Cydia based apps which are deleted by the upgrade process).
Fine Tuning Synchronization of Google Mail, Contacts Calendar with iPhone
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, iPhone
Google has just launched a service where you can sync your Google mail, contacts and calendar with iPhone through the use of Exchange connection. The method described on the Google’s main page will delete all contacts and calendar. However, I only want to sync my Calendar and not my Contacts. So, instead of using the automated method, I manually fine tune what I want to sync by doing the following:
- Go to Settings -> Mails, Contacts, Calendars
- Create a new Exchange account
- Set the information as follows
- Email:
@gmail.com - Username:
@gmail.com - Password:
- Server: m.google.com
- Email:
- Choose which you want to sync
Tags: Calendar, Contacts, Google, iphone
NemusSync Failure to Sync with Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, iPhone
After upgrading my iPhone to firmware 2.2, I had a problem with NemusSync. Everytime I try to sync, I received an error message “Failure to Sync” then the error code “Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1″. After scouring the web I found that I had to delete 1 file. Just to be safe, I actually move the file.
The file that needs to be removed is/var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb. There are some sites that talk about changing the permission, but I have not tried that. If you want to try changing the permission, you should try changing it by running the command chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb
NOTE:If you have calendar events on your phone that you haven’t sync to GCal, it will be erased after removing the Calendar.sqlitedb. Also after you move the file, you will need to run the calendar apps at least once.
Tags: Calendar, Google iphone, NemusSync