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randyest posted:Me neither. Been using it since he first jailbreak and never an issue. Maybe people are accidentally setting their button(s) to do something weird or something? How would you accidentally set anything on Activator? It's pretty goddamned obvious what the settings mean.
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I had exchanged at least half a dozen emails with Ryan Petrich regarding bugs with Activator "taking over" functions, even when no action was assigned to them. The Home button issues back with iOS 4 were the most obvious. With stock iOS (non-jailbroken), the Home button "worked as expected": Push it quickly and it does something, hold it a little and it still does something. Hold it long enough, and it triggers Voice control or Siri. ...but not with Activator. Back in iOS 4.1/4.2.1, with Activator version 1.43, 1.44, ... 1.53 (etc), it would cancel out the Home button push if you didn't use it *just right*. Quick press? It sometimes worked. Held for a long time? It sometimes worked. Not quick press? (longer than a quick tap, but shorter than the long hold) It canceled-out/ignored the button press completely. Basically, if you had your finger on the Home button for the "wrong" amount of milliseconds, it would be like it wasn't registering a press at all - and this was when NOTHING was assigned to the Home button. The developer's response? "This is the expected behavior" ... Um, nope. I have to admit, since reporting all the bugs back in iOS 4 and since getting my iPhone 4S with newer versions of iOS and Activator, I haven't really noticed any problems with it. The Home button issue was supposedly fixed back with version 1.5.4 (in the iOS 4.3 days). However, if you do notice your Home button acting up, or your Sleep buttons, or you Volume buttons, or a screen-swipe not registering when you swear you pressed it correctly, just remember that Activator is monitoring everything you do.
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Mar 5, 2013 21:58
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Xenomorph posted:The developer's response? "This is the expected behavior" ... Um, nope. This seems like a recurring theme with you and jailbreak devs.
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Mar 5, 2013 22:08
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I posted about this in the games thread too, but I figured people here might have a better idea: Does being on jailbroken 6.1.2 break Fairway Solitaire? It was working just fine until I upgraded and re-jailbroke and now the daily level menu crashes the game.
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Mar 5, 2013 22:37
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:90% of that is SBSettings and toggles/themes for SBSettings. As Activator is a dependency to SBS, SBS (and everything tied to it) needs to go as well when you remove Activator. I'm hoping you've found a solution, I'm interested in this too.
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Mar 5, 2013 22:43
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The Rokstar posted:I posted about this in the games thread too, but I figured people here might have a better idea: Does being on jailbroken 6.1.2 break Fairway Solitaire? It was working just fine until I upgraded and re-jailbroke and now the daily level menu crashes the game.
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Mar 5, 2013 23:27
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Diabolik900 posted:This seems like a recurring theme with you and jailbreak devs. Which ones are you talking about? The one in Activator that was incorrectly doing something, but was fixed, or the one in NCSettings that was working correctly, but then broke?
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Mar 6, 2013 00:07
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Ezrem posted:You never once had to push the home/power button more than once in the iOS 4.x days? That was the biggest bug I can recall. It wasn't even always the same behavior, sometimes it would work but with a delay, sometimes the press wouldn't register at all. Also, it was just some of the time. Enough to make you think...maybe I didn't push it hard enough...or maybe the button is wearing out?
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Mar 6, 2013 00:22
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Xenomorph posted:Which ones are you talking about? The one in Activator that was incorrectly doing something, but was fixed, or the one in NCSettings that was working correctly, but then broke? No literally all your posts about jailbreak problems are you talking with the devs and butting heads with them. I love Activator.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:45
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Zigmidge posted:No literally all your posts about jailbreak problems are you talking with the devs and butting heads with them. This is what I meant, except that I'm much more sympathetic to your position. The stuff you can do with Activator is great, but the problems you described with it were definitely real (at least in the 4.x days, I haven't been regularly jailbroken in a while now), and shouldn't be written off as expected behavior. And it's basically been the same story with a bunch of other tweaks too.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:07
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Ah I didn't mean to seem unsympathetic. Just wanted to throw in my Activator two cents while it was still the topic. I like to follow Xeno's posts because his jailbreak experience seems to be completely opposite mine. The only trouble I've ever had that wasn't fixed with a simple respring is Quasar's weirdness causing apps to crash on me but that's something I deemed acceptable before I went for it.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:29
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My complaint with it is that I literally went from IOS 3.1 to 6.1 and in the old days SBSettings worked perfectly on its own with no dependencies and therefore no Home button issues on the old 3GS.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:54
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I just blacklist everything in Activator, so I can keep SBSettings, yet not have to deal with it interfering with my button presses. It's still kinda dumb that SBSettings lists Activator as a dependancy, though.
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Mar 6, 2013 13:10
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As someone who HATES Activator, I installed it for something that ended getting uninstalled but kept it for Springflash. On my 5 I haven't noticed any slowdown/lag of any kind and Springflash is pretty drat handy so I'm keeping it for now only for that.
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Mar 6, 2013 13:17
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Is the respring cache fix still necessary with 6.1.2 and the newest evasi0n? I just updated and rejailbroke last night and was not certain.
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Mar 6, 2013 14:53
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Yes. The cache bug is not fixed.
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Mar 6, 2013 14:56
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I've yet to see any information on what this "cache bug" is. What cache, and where?
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Mar 6, 2013 15:27
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Aight, what's the best tweak to block texts from numbers? Your mother won't leave me alone.
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Mar 6, 2013 15:43
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Xenomorph posted:I've yet to see any information on what this "cache bug" is. What cache, and where? The app icon cache can get corrupted and cause blank or the wrong icon on random apps.
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Mar 6, 2013 16:03
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Xenomorph posted:I've yet to see any information on what this "cache bug" is. What cache, and where? Not sure what specific cache but I believe it was something related to files/logs created when the phone repsring that were not being deleted so they just kept piling up.
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Mar 6, 2013 16:09
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bobfather posted:Yes. The cache bug is not fixed. Cool thanks. If anyone needs the repo it's http://rpetri.ch/repo/
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Mar 6, 2013 16:31
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Xenomorph posted:I've yet to see any information on what this "cache bug" is. What cache, and where? This is the one in question. http://modmyi.com/content/9956-respringcachefix-cleans-junk-files-created-resprings-ios-6-1.html
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Mar 6, 2013 16:34
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Anyone having an issue with Chrome? My app crashes constantly, since the update, and I can only assume its because I'm jailbroken. This is on my iPad.
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Mar 6, 2013 17:06
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No there's a bug in the new chrome. If you can you can rush to the settings before it crashes, and turn off reporting back to google. That will fix it for the time being.
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Mar 6, 2013 17:11
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There was a post earlier in the thread about it with a link to a google page but the gist of it is that it's related to crash reporting. Just reinstall and enable it if you can't get to settings in time.
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Mar 6, 2013 17:11
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Ev posted:Anyone tried Touchpal? It's a swipe keyboard and works pretty well (so far). The app's in Chinese so you have to search for it in Cydia (actually hit the search button) but it's kinda cool. Looks like the same developer has a version of it in the regular app store too. Oh god, this is so good. This (and MyWi) immediately raced to the top of my "this is why I jailbreak" list. It's the ONE thing I missed about Android phones. Screenshot for people unfamiliar with the concept of swype keyboards - basically you just stab at the keyboard and the keyboard AI figures out what you type, with a far better interface than the default iOS keyboard.  Plus having to puzzle out random Chinese interface elements makes me feel like I'm a Cyberpunk 2020 character. The only problem I've had with it is in typing out email addresses which the predictive input utterly fails at. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 18:09
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That isn't swipe text input. That's T9 input. Swipe input is dragging your finger from one letter to the next to spell words.
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Mar 6, 2013 18:52
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I know, I switch back and forth between the two - mainly I am nerdgasming about the better predictive input which works for both.
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I asked in the general apps thread but it might be better suited to here. I'd like to be able to use my idevice as a wireless network file storage for small files that I use daily between machines that aren't specifically mine namely regular texts and my keepass file. I already carry around my idevices to these same places so I'd rather not have to carry around a usb key as well. Is there an app that can masquerade as a network place that I can access through windows explorer? This would let me automate a few things rather than manually launch and access a wifi web server that so many of these file management apps do on top of an extra layer of security (You need my idevice as well as the master password to access keepass). I already use Dropbox for work but can't leave my keepass file there, not to mention needing to remember to sync it every single time I use it is more trouble than dropbox is worth (I really hate how dropbox is crippled by apple's sandbox philosophy). tldr: I'd like to set keepass to point to a local network directory share to access the master file that is on my idevice when I'm on the local wifi network. I need an app that can share my idevice that Windows and macs can see as another network location.
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Mar 6, 2013 18:58
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Lum_ posted:The only problem I've had with it is in typing out email addresses which the predictive input utterly fails at. If you tap the little book that has an A on it you can turn off the predictive text/autocorrect to make it easier to type email addresses. If I don't turn it off it gets really annoying trying to type my email to login anywhere.
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Mar 6, 2013 20:33
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Is there a better version of the T9 keyboard out?
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Mar 6, 2013 20:48
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OptimusMatrix posted:This is the one in question. I've seen that before - it gives *no* information on what the bug actually is. "If you respring, STUFF with FILES will happen!" ok... what stuff? what files? Logs? Something's cache? evasi0n has been updated half a dozen times to fix various things. UIKit and WinterBoard has been updated as well to fix issues with things not working right. When bugs were identified, core jailbreak developers (including saurik) jumped on it. If this is such a problem, why haven't any of them acknowledged it? It's not that I don't trust the "FIX" developer, I just want to know what the actual issue is.
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real_scud posted:It shouldn't, I can continue to play Fairway Solitaire and the daily missions without any problems. It seems to have magically fixed itself this morning, so v  v
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Mar 7, 2013 01:04
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Is there a tweak that let's me hold down the shift button and hit backspace to delete whole words, like on Windows/OSX?
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Thirst Mutilator posted:...hold down the shift button and hit backspace to delete whole words, like on Windows/OSX?  edit: actually, I just tried this on Win7 and it didn't work - is it just an OSX thing?
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Mar 7, 2013 20:16
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Yeah, I think it's control on Windows and CMD on OSX specifically (it's muscle memory), not shift, oops
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:
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Mar 7, 2013 21:04
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The Dave posted:It depends on the program I think but yes it's pretty common. You don't think devs delete by character all the time do you? That's the thing - I knew there were some programming environments / text editors that did this. I didn't think it was a system-wide feature (and as far as Windows goes, it doesn't seem like it is.)
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:That's the thing - I knew there were some programming environments / text editors that did this. I didn't think it was a system-wide feature (and as far as Windows goes, it doesn't seem like it is.) It's pretty widespread on Windows. Notable exception off the top of my head is Notepad, I think it tries to insert a Unicode character but it just looks like a box. Anyways, no one knows of a tweak that does this?
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Thirst Mutilator posted:It's pretty widespread on Windows. Notable exception off the top of my head is Notepad, I think it tries to insert a Unicode character but it just looks like a box. Just hold down backspace? That's been a standard iOS feature.
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