need some help

[Stray]

Hello everyone. I recently lost my iphone somewhere in my house and can not find it anywhere. I can however ssh into it and was wondering if i could turn on an alarm or something through a command. If not i guess that ill just have to try harder. Thank You.

[Simon]

Sorry, but that is a little funny

[i.Annie]

Don't know about being able to trigger it through SSH... Call your phone? Or look harder lol, I think you're out of luck with SSHing.

[Stray]

Yeah i guess i am just going to have to look harder. I also find it funny that i can still ssh into it. That does make me feel better that i know that it is not lost somewhere other than my house. Thanks anyway. I guess you can close this thread.

[Stray]

Okay so i just had a thought, i have a passcode on it and if it is connected to a different wifi network would i still be able to ssh into it. The reason is because i think it may be at my cousins house and it is connected to their wifi as well as mine.

[Simon]

No, you would only be able to SSH into it if it is on your network.

[Stray]

No, you would only be able to SSH into it if it is on your network.

That makes me feel way better. Thank You and yes i clicked thanks.

[whereswaldo]

Could you use Veency on it and make it do a noise or anything?
Maybe you should of updated to 4.2.1 so you could use Find my iPhone

[Stray]

Its not an iphone 4 its a 3gs and i needed to keep the unlock so i didnt update it. How should i install veency if i dont have the iphone. Like what steps can i do to get it into the iphone.I checked google and it seems like it could work

[whereswaldo]

Your phone would need veency from Cydia

[Simon]

So you are still able to SSH into it now?

[Stray]

Yes, luckily when i lost it, it was still 100% and right now i am using winSCP and it is working fine.

[Simon]

I know it was asked before but have you tried calling it?

[Stray]

Yes, the problem is that it is on silent and i made it so it wouldnt vibrate too. I looked at the veency and it looks like it would work if i turned on music or something, but i didnt know that i would lose it and just learned about it right now so i dont know what to do and i cant get a new phone until my contract ends next may.

[Simon]

There has to be a way to tell the iphone to play music I would think. I know you can reboot the phone and launch apps using a SSH command, not sure what playing music would be

[Stray]

Yeah i really am hoping there is a way and thanks for taking the time out to help me.I am just hoping to find a way by the end of today because i am afraid the battery is gonna die out before i can do anything.

i can make it reboot through the commands though if that helps.

[Simon]

I see fro here you can launch apps: How to start an iPhone GUI app over SSH

Just need to figure out how to make it play once launched.

[Stray]

how would i unlock the iphone. I tried the command line and it said
iPhone:~ root# launch com.apple.Calculator
2010-11-28 13:27:08.947 launch[178:107] *** Assertion failure in -[UIApplication init], /SourceCache/UIKit/UIKit-1262.60.3/UIApplication.m:510
2012012012012012012012012> 0 CoreFoundation 0x344ss + 114exceptionPreproce
> 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x33975811 objc_exception_throw + 24
> 2 CoreFoundation 0x344aad15 +[NSExceptio 2 CoreFoundation 0x344aad15 +[NSExceptio 2 Co9b32f -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethodbject:file:lineNumber: 2 CoreFoundation 0x344aad15 +[NSExcepti1ace9a9 -[UIApplication init] + 128
> 5 launch 0x00001d90 main + 252
> 6 launch 0x00001bec _start + 312
> 7 launch 0x00001a88 start + 24
> )
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
> Abort trap
> Muhammads-iPhone:~ root# launch com.apple.Calculator
> 2010-11-28 13:27:08.947 launch[178:107] *** Assertion failure in -[UIApplication init], /SourceCache/UIKit/UIKit-1262.60.3/UIApplication.m:510
> 2012012012012012012012012012012078:107] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'There can only be one UIApplication instance.'
> *** Call stack at first throw:
> (
> 0 CoreFoundation 0x344aaed3 __exceptionPreprocess + 114
> 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x33975811 objc_exception_throw + 24
> 2 CoreFoundation 0x344aad15 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 68
> 3 Foundation 0x3329b32f -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethodbject:file:lineNumber:description:] + 62
> 4 UIKit 0x31ace9a9 -[UIApplication init] + 128
> 5 launch 0x00001d90 main + 252
> 6 launch 0x00001bec _start + 312
> 7 launch 0x00001a88 start + 24
> )
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
> Abort trap

[Simon]

Sorry not really my field of expertise. I don't use SSH or command line very often.

[Simon]

Maybe you should ask how to do this on twitter to some of the iPhone devs. Maybe Erica Sadun since she is mentioned on that other thread.