Well, I updated to 2.2 a few weeks ago and I had quite a lot of applications installed. And, as it happened quite a lot of times with 2.1 my SpringBoard preferences became corrupted.

I wrote about reparinig the “Apple screen of death” in this post. Unfortunately I did not have SSH access to my phone this time since the upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 rendered (Cydia OpenSSH server installation not working.

Still, I knew I had to prevent “mobilewatchdog.bundle” to load (read the other post to understand why.) So this time I just deleted the files by connecting via cable. By doing this I managed to get my SpringBoard preferences working again and I quickly installed OpenSSH to get regular Terminal access to the phone and restoring the “mobilewatchdog.bundle” again.

Here are the instructions:

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Apple Logo, Screen of death, SSH

Your SSH server on the iPhone is already set up. Now you want to make sure you get all the files from you iPhone backed up? You plan to change a few files on you iPhone and want to make sure you can revert to the original files?

iTunes will not backup all neccessary files. And even if it did backup your specific file, it is not that easy to get the specic file out of an iTunes backup. (I will give you a post how to extract files from iTunes backup files tomorrow.)

So my advice is to copy all files from your iPhone to your computer. Its quite simple!

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: backup, iPhone, rsync, SSH

You just tried to login into your iPhone and your terminal gave you a massive warning?

Something like:

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: DNS, iPhone, spoof, SSH

Annoyed to search for your iPhone IP-address every time it connects to one of your (DHCP) WiFi networks? Today you find it at 10.0.1.3, tomorrow at 10.0.1.4 because your aunt maggie just happened to reserve one of your usual IP numbers while surfing on your WiFi internet connection?

I just found out a small little extra that I was never aware of: You can use the name you gave your iPhone on iTunes to login into your phone. Just add a .local to the name.

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Bonjour, IP-address, iPhone, SSH