Ever since the iPhone has come out, people have wanted to use VOIP. After all, it’s an ideal device for it, right? While applications like Fring provide VOIP, they’re limited to using WiFi, because nobody really wants to let you use VOIP over 3G. They figure that would seriously steal revenue from your mobile provider, especially if you’re making long-distance calls. Fear not, iPhone holder, as the hackers feel for your oppression. If you’re running a jailbroken iPhone, just follow the instructions below:
1) Install Fring via the App Store
2) SSH into your iPhone
3) Go to root var/mobile/applications and find Fring.app (remember, root:alpine)
4) You’ll need to find Fring.app in these folders, it should be the most recently created folder (if you just installed it)
5) Rename the patched file (you can download it below) from Fring.api to Fring.zip, then extract it
6) Copy this new Fring.app to your iPhone, replacing the existing Fring.app
7) Depending on what program you’re using to SSH in, you may need to set permissions. All the files within the Fring.app need to be set to 755 or 0755.
Fring should work right away, but if it doesn’t, just reboot!
The patched Fring.app file is here
Via iPhonefreakz.com
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December 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
what is ssh and how do i access the var/mobile/applications foles?
December 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Straight up doesnt work. Thanks for wasting my time. READERS: Look somewhere else!
December 11th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I had no trouble getting it to work. Are you using a 3G iPhone; is it jailbroken?
December 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Ricci, SSH is a method of accessing the files on your iPhone, like browsing a hard drive. You do this via WiFi and an FTP client. Your phone has to be jailbroken for this to work, and you have to install a couple of things via Cydia. There are numerous videos on Youtube detailed the process, have a look and good luck!
December 12th, 2008 at 5:52 am
A few of the commands you’ll need off the top of my head are:
Connect to iPhone
ssh 192.168.1.X
Go to applications folder
cd /root/var/mobile/applications
Rename Fring patch
mv ./Fring.api ./Fring.zip
Set permissions
chmod -R Fring.app
Can’t think of the unzip or “copy to iPhone” commands right now, someone fill in the gaps.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Sorry,
Set permissions
chmod -R 777 Fring.app
December 12th, 2008 at 11:15 am
You’d rename the new patched file on your desktop, on your computer. You don’t do it from your FTP program. Also, unzip on your computer using Winzip or Windows/Mac’s built-in unzipping utility. You’d need an FTP client, such as Cyberduck on Mac (I didn’t need to set permissions using this program either), and that’s how you copy the new Fring.app onto the iPhone after SSHing (which is FTPing) into it.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Works right ‘out of the box’. Awesome! Thanks for this.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Has anyone seen the new patched version of fring 1.0.2.4?
December 20th, 2008 at 1:16 am
I wanna the Fring 1.0.2.4 for 3G patched!
December 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
yeah, the patch is v 1.0.1.4 but it works!
i successfully made a skypeout call using the AT&T 3G network. I could notice a lag in the conversation but i guess that was there because of poor signal strength.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
the patch is down =(
good work tho
January 26th, 2009 at 4:07 am
works great!
thx
patch file can be also found here:
h**p://v3.audiosuite.at/forum/showthread.php?t=4238 (last post)
notice: when u download the patch, u better use firefox instead of safari!