Problem with AFCFileRefWrite: 12

[eternityofmagic]

This is what appears in my Terminal when im trying to modify icons.
Problem with AFCFileRefWrite: 12

whats wrong

[CyberGreg]

This is what appears in my Terminal when im trying to modify icons.
Problem with AFCFileRefWrite: 12

whats wrong

Do you remember the scene from My Cousin Vinny where he describes what happens when you drop a screw down the carburator? Yup, you're fracked.

Sorry, it happened to my iPhone yesterday and I was not able to resolve the problem so I had to restore.

Does iTunes see the phone when you plug it in? If so you're restore will go easy. If iTunes doesn't see your iPhone or gives you an error you'll have to boot up in Restore mode (hold power and home until yellow triangle shows up).

Good luck

[JakeyBoy]

Before you try that run jailbreak and make sure you unjailed it right and then try again and if that doesnt work then you can go restore.

[eternityofmagic]

Im still getting this damn message like 10 hours later.... i have followed these directions to a T, and i wouldnt consider myself a computer illiterate either. I've correctly run jailbreak and opened the iphone interface....but this message appears right at the final step when i putfile the new icon.

why...

[Cody Overcash]

did you use iFantastic or wtvr its called to install ringtones?

[eternityofmagic]

yea a while ago, but many restores since then have changed that.

im going to do it again from square one and post my terminal session

Last login: Sat Jul 28 23:26:46 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Infinity:~ Century$ cd phonedmg
Infinity:~/phonedmg Century$ ./Jailbreak
[jailbreak 1.0] by ziel w/ special thanks to GeoHot and the rest of the #iphone-dev crew.

Looking for iPhone...
Sending Files...

*** If iTunes is running, please close it.
*** Hold the POWER and HOME buttons for approximately 25s.
*** Release when the display says 'Please Connect to iTunes'.

Sending More Files...
Booting iPhone...

Waiting for iPhone to finish booting...
Moving files into place...
Cleaning up...
Rebooting iPhone...

Enjoy your newfound freedom. Thank the devs at #iphone next time you see them for making this all possible.
p.s. Like most other useful tools, this one may be dangerous if used carelessly. Always remember -- You brick it, you bought it.

p.p.s. I have no idea how 'My Humps' could possibly have gotten set as your ringtone.

Infinity:~/phonedmg Century$ ./IphoneInterface
iPhoneInterface v0.3.3 built on Jul 11 2007

Waiting for phone... established.
iPhone state: Activated
type "help" for help
iPhone:/# cd /Applications/Stocks.app/
iPhone:/Applications/Stocks.app/# putfile icon.png
Problem with AFCFileRefWrite: 12
iPhone:/Applications/Stocks.app/# exit
Infinity:~/phonedmg Century$ ./IphoneInterface
iPhoneInterface v0.3.3 built on Jul 11 2007

Waiting for phone... established.
iPhone state: Activated
type "help" for help
iPhone:/# cd /Applications/YouTube.app/
iPhone:/Applications/YouTube.app/# putfile icon.png
Problem with AFCFileRefWrite: 12
iPhone:/Applications/YouTube.app/#

[CyberGreg]

The only thing I noticed is where you "cd", the line ends with a "/". I don't do it that way, nor do the instructions. I use:
iPhone:/#cd /Applications/Stocks.app

Questions:
1. Can you putfile Services.plist back onto your iPhone or does that also give you the error?
2. Can you still sync with iTunes?

I hope we can fix you up, although, how much modding have you done? It might just be easier to do a restore.

[eternityofmagic]

Ive restored about 10 times because i dont lock the phone at the end...whenever i get this error message(everytime) i just quit terminal.

So at the current point...my iphone is factory settings atm

[arthursdomain]

i have a quick question, is the icon.png in your phonedmg directory?

[eternityofmagic]

Yes but its in a folder. Like phonedmg/icons/Calculator/icon.png


should it be different?

[Kyle Matthews]

Ha, sometimes its the easy things, eh?

Yah, you can't put it in a folder. It has to be in the root of phonedmg.

[eternityofmagic]

gimme an example here just so i can clarify lol..


phonedmg/Calculator/icon.png?

[Kyle Matthews]

Nope.

phonedmg/icon.png

You gotta put them in there one at a time.

[eternityofmagic]

oh...wow ok this is a longer process than i thougghttt.

OK! here we go....again.

32942th time is a charm.

[Kyle Matthews]

Yup. Easy once you've done it. We're working on simplifying it.

[eternityofmagic]

Waiting for phone... established.
iPhone state: Activated
type "help" for help
iPhone:/# cd /Applications/Stocks.app
iPhone:/Applications/Stocks.app# putfile icon.png
iPhone:/Applications/Stocks.app#

does that mean it did it?

[Kyle Matthews]

Yup.

[eternityofmagic]

finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy it looks great!


now one tiny thing. itunes reads a 300 MB hard drive...did i do something wrong?

[Kyle Matthews]

Yup, you did. You didn't put the Services.plist file back on after modding. Open up iphoneinteface again, and do an ls (and return). If you see the Applications directory, etc, then issue the following commands:

cd /System/Library/Lockdown/
putfile Services.plist

Then restart the phone.