How to install afc2add and other packages without WiFi connection
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
In my last post I explained how to jailbreak your iDevice with iOS 7.x completely offline, but as I said, once you finish the jailbreak process and connect the iPhone to your computer, it won't appear as jailbroken. I mean, you won't be able to see the entire filesystem.. As you might know, you'll need to install afc2add
, but you can't do it locally yet (via the Cydia Autoinstall folder or SSH) because you can't access your phone as I explained before.
The solution is to create a Cydia repository locally with the required packages, add that repository to Cydia in your iPhone and install what you need from there, instead of obtaining the packages from internet. You have two options:
- Place the repository in your local Web server, and connect your iPhone to an Ad-Hoc WiFi, AP, and enter the URL of your local computer.
- Place the repository inside your iPhone, which is faster and does not require connecting to any WiFi at all.
Below is how you can do it using the 2nd alternative. I'll assume that you only want to install afc2add
and Erica Utilities
, which is a dependency of afc2add
:
-
Create a text file named
Packages
. The content of this file should be something like this:Package: us.scw.afctwoadd
Name: afc2add
Version: 1.01
Architecture: iphoneos-arm
Description: Package to add afc2 service for USB browsing of filesystem. Adds the afc2 service and reboots the phone, to fix issues for folks unable to use USB browsers (like iPhoneBrowser) with blackra1n.
Depiction: http://some-url.com
Author: NetMage scw@scw.us
Section: System
Size: 1136
MD5sum: 624641d8ce8ee0c4035faf1997bf5df6
Filename: afc2add.debPackage: com.ericasadun.utilities
Name: Erica Utilities
Version: 1:0.4.2
Architecture: iphoneos-arm
Description: A collection of command-line utilities for various purposes.
Depiction: http://some-url.com
Homepage: http://modmyi.com/info/ericautilities.php
Maintainer: Erica Sadun <apptapp@ericasadun.com
Author: Erica Sadun <apptapp@ericasadun.com
Section: Utilities
Sponsor: ModMyi.com http://modmyi.com
Size: 55410
MD5sum: 89a3bb9791c2deee6f530773089ee43d
Filename: erica.debYou're basically saying that your repository will contain two packages. Be careful with
Size
,MD5sum
andFilename
fields. The size must match the exact size of the file in bytes (du -b file.deb
in Linux, or just click on Properties and see theSize
field in Windows). TheMD5sum
field must be the md5 checksum of the file. Finally, theFilename
field must match the filename of the.deb
files you'll be including in your repository. -
Compress the file. Cydia allows multiple formats, but I usually use
.bz2
. Just runbzip2 -k Packages
on Linux. For Windows, you can use 7-Zip or use bzip2 for Windows. You should have a filePackages.bz2
now. - Open
iTools
oriFunBox
and navigate to theDownloads
folder (or any other folder you see there, likeBooks
orPurchases
). - Copy the
Packages.bz2
and all the included.deb
files (afc2add.deb
anderica.deb
in this case). - Open Cydia in your phone and go Manage > Sources.
- Add a new source and enter the following URL:
file:///var/mobile/Media/Downloads/
. ReplaceDownloads
by the folder where you copied the files. - After you add the repository, a new source will appear in the list. Click on it, and you will see the two packages you included.
- First install
Erica Utilities
and thenafc2add
. - Reboot your phone if it doesn't reboot automatically after installing
afc2add
.
That's it. You didn't require any internet connection (except for downlading the .deb
files) and you now have complete access to your iPhone ;)
By Oscar Mederos, Category: hacks
Tags: ios / jailbreak / hacks /
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