Somewhat off topic, but the information may be useful to some of you if you want to put one of the T-Mobile carrier support bundles in your custom firmware. I hate repeating myself, and I'm a bundle making machine. I've been playing with PwnageTool bundles. The way they work is that Cydia has a special folder which it monitors. It will automatically install all debs found there on the next launch. It is also smart enough to automatically look for updates and install updated packages. So, after a restore. You'll have to launch Cydia. It will automatically install the packages embedded in the firmware. After which, you'll have to restart the phone.
It does suck that you have to restart the phone--that they are not available immediately after the restore.
It is possible to extract simple packages from the deb and have PwnageTool install them just like it installs Cydia, which is not a deb, but it is extracted. Unfortunately, it's not simple unless you don't care for updates. It's complicated to register the packages with Cydia, but not impossible. It's easier to modify the CydiaInstaller.bundle and dump your extracted packages in there and register them alongside the Cydia packages in it's database. I'm not going to go into that deal. My goal was to actually have ultrasn0w available immediately after a restore, but the secretive Dev Team have created installation/uninstallation compiled executables instead of scripts. I have never encountered executables before. All packages use scripts. But, most likely it modifies com.apple.CommCenter.plist to load that library somehow. To make a script that automatically does that on first run would still require a restart. The only way is to modify the plist in the firmware. Meaning, PwnageTool would have to be modified. It is too complicated.
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Originally Posted by lunercrab
quick question...i have tmo postpaid, and i'm using the bundle with the "epc" address for edge, i've noticed tho with my bb plan i have for this phone the "wap" edge addy is faster...in the bundles tho, the only one that uses the "wap" data address is the Prepaid bundle...can i use that bundle instead even tho i'm not prepaid? and if so do i just reset the network settings, unistall the current bundle in cydia and dwnld the new one?
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There is a tzones bundle, which uses wap attached by me--for testing--a couple of posts back. It is somewhere around post ~350. It's IPCC, not Cydia, which won't be updated with new packages until visual voice mail is released.
07-18-2009, 01:04 AM
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