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Those waiting to be able to take advantage of the Netflix app for the iPad on an iPhone seem to be in luck. That said, the experience is not said to be all that good, but at least you can.

Anyway, the details include that the iPhone was a 3G model running 3.1.2 and jailbroken. As for the bad performance, that comes in regards to the app crashing, the slow load times when used on 3G and a “huge battery drain.”

Still, if you are brave enough, or maybe bored enough and want to try this on your own — directions were provided. According to the posting over at modmyi.com;

To do this yourself

• Get app from iTunes, locate/rename ipa to zip and extract.
• Go into the .app file, located at /appname/Payload/appname.app, (show package contents) and open the info.plist
• Edit all references of OS version to show iphoneos3.1.2 (or your respective version). Save and close, done there.

Now, just copied over SSH (with permissions repair and a respring) this will show up on the phone. With Netflix though, it required the mediaplayer frameworks from the iPad. So:

• SSH, get the mediaplayer frameworks folder from an iPad, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaPlayer.framework
• Copy that to the same location on an iPhone (I’d suggest backing up the original from your phone just in case). Change permissions to 755 recursive for directories, and then go inside the folder and change the individual file permissions to 644. (Or just recursive 755 to all files/folders on the MediaPlayer.framework folder)

Now the mediaplayer frameworks are in place, all that’s left is a manual install of the app.

• SSH, go to /private/var/stash/Applications
• Copy the appname.app file there and change permissions. (I used 777 recursive for simplicity’s sake, but I’m sure the normal 775 would work).
• Launch and have fun.

That’s about it. The way I found out that I needed the frameworks file was from a crash report.

And in case you need some more evidence, there are a bunch of screenshots along with a pretty active forum thread at modmyi.com, just hit the link below.

[modmyi.com via BGR]