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5Row Alternative Keyboard for iPhone submitted to Cydia

Erik — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:33:27 +0000

5Row Alternative Keyboard is simply an add-on to iKeyEx Keyboard developed by KenntyTM~. The add-on will hopefully be available in cydia soon. This will help users avoid the nightmare of installing the add-on manually through SSH.

Note:

Make sure to use mix and match 5Row Alternative with an input manager and put a name for the keyboard bundle if it doesn’t show up automatically.

Updated iPhone Modified Keyboard

Erik — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:02:38 +0000

The author of iKeyEx Keyboard, KennyTM has updated his great software! You can download it here

I also updated and optimized my keyboard layout. You can download it here

Screenshots:

iPhone Mail Exchange Server Support

Erik — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:10:48 +0000

I’ve been using the the iPhone mail app to sync my contacts, calendar and emails through exchange server. One thing I noticed was that there was no setting to limit the file size of every email received. Even if you set the email limiter on server side, the iPhone wouldn’t recognize it. This is very crucial especially to KB/bandwidth based data plans since every kilobyte cost money. After getting frustrated about it, I began to study the behavior of the iPhone mail app and realized that Apple automated everything to prevent users from making mistakes but sacrificed user control.

So how does it work?

WIFI

If your iPhone receives the email through wifi, the iPhone will automatically download any email below 1 MB (regardless of any setting like number of preview lines and etc). So if you have an email with 999KB worth of text and 800KB attachment file, iPhone will download them all even if you didn’t view the email. The number of attachments do not stack, it will download any attachment below 1MB and let you manually download beyond 1MB whether you like it or not.

3G/GPRS

If your iPhone receives the email through GPRS/Edge/3G, the iPhone will automatically download any email below 125KB. The difference here is that if the email content does not have any attachment and it is below 125KB, the iPhone will download it automatically even if you didn’t view the email. But if the email has an attachment, the iPhone will just download the header(will show the preview lines if set but will not download more than that). When you start to view the email with attachment, that’s the time where the iPhone starts downloading anything below 125KB. The rule is the same with wifi where the attachments do not stack up, each attachment will be checked if it’s under 125KB.

Hopefully I managed to give the iPhone mail users insights on how it works with exchange server.

iPhone Modified Keyboard

Erik — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:09:43 +0000

I’ve been using the iPhone 3G for months and it’s really hard to get used to the standard keyboard. I tried to look for alternative keyboard layout and I found ikeyex keyboard developed by KennyTM. The tool can be only installed in jailbroken iPhones. You can download the latest release from his site which is “hk.kennytm.iKeyEx3-0.1-99j.deb” and make sure to also download “hk.kennytm.5RowQWERTY-0.1-99h.deb”. I’ll be including my own keyboard layout and feel free to use it.

How to install a deb file.

1. Go to cydia and download OpenSSH. After installing the file, restart your device.

2. Download WINSCP .

3. Check your Wifi IP address in your iPhone by going to Settings>General>WIFI>IP

4. Load winscp and input your iPhone’s IP address. User: root Password: alpine

5. After successful connection winscp will show your iPhone files and directories. Copy the 2 ikeyex files anywhere in the iPhone.

6. Load the console window and type dpkg -i hk.kennytm.iKeyEx3-0.1-99j.deb. After finishing the install type dpkg -i hk.kennytm.5RowQWERTY-0.1-99h.deb.

7. Respring your iPhone

8. Go to settings and you will see a new option.

9. Set the keyboard you want. (You’ll be able to use the 5 Row QWERTY Keyboard by KennyTM)

If you want to install my personal keyboard layout:

1. Download the file here

2. Step 1-6.

3. Extract the rar file and make sure it’s 5Row.keyboard folder when extracted.

4. Copy the folder in your iPhone – /Library/iKeyEx/Keyboards

5. Respring your device

6. Mix keyboard in ikeyex settings and you will see a keyboard named 5Row.

7. Add the keyboard layout.

8.Respring your device.

It should show like these.

Enjoy!

iPhone All-in-One Jailbreak Soon

Erik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:51:04 +0000

George Hotz, the first person who successfully jailbreak and unlocked the iPhone will release a new tool named BlackRa1n. The tool will jailbreak all iPhone and iPod touch firmwares (even OS 3.1).

http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/