New App – BossTool 0.34

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1. BOK » Blog Archive » Apple - iPod Touch, a Unix-POV on January 13th, 2008 6:52 am:
   [...] before you are warned for “low disk space”… One app is coming to the rescue here: BossTool. It gives you the opportunity to move / relocate applications to the flash-memory and hence [...]
2. John Laffey on January 13th, 2008 7:55 am:
   

   First class I was runing out of memory and did not want to hack into the phone myself. Once again great web site and thank you for your time and effort

   Regards John

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3. Anonymous on January 13th, 2008 10:04 am:
   

   used this app to relocate, and now i cant download anything! i tried to uninstall, but didnt work!!!

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4. Claus B on January 13th, 2008 11:02 am:
   

   Works perfect! Thx a lot

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5. Nitai on January 13th, 2008 12:21 pm:
   

   I warn you, people have been having problems with this app screwing up there iphones, I wouldn’t promote it as app of the month just yet…

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6. Brooke on January 13th, 2008 2:01 pm:
   

   @Nitai…so far the app is working great on all the iPhones I have installed it on…though, you definately want to read all the information (About and More Info) before installing! And the “before you begin” paragraph above. So far though…I am totally pumped about this app!

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7. Aze on January 14th, 2008 1:42 am:
   

   Do application automatically move to the shortcut folder BossTool creates, or do I need to run the program ever so often? Hopefully that isn’t to vague.

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8. Ganis on January 14th, 2008 3:08 am:
   

   This toll working perfectly.

   Thanks

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9. Brooke on January 14th, 2008 10:12 am:
   

   @Aze…it creates the shortcut automatically. Once they are moved…you do not have to do it again. Because it is a shortcut it will just shortcut all the apps you install.

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10. Doug on January 14th, 2008 11:14 pm:
    

    So I did this hack back on the 1.1.1 firmware. All you had to do was some terminal commands to move the application directory, and then create the symlink or shortcut as you say.

    However after an update to summerboard myself and many others had busted something. Everyone in the irc channel for hackint0sh came to the conclusion it was this hack(directory shortcut) that make the summerboard update break.

    At least put up a warning in the post. . .especially if you’re going to recommend it for ‘app of the month’ please tell people to do it at their own risk

    Thanks,
    Doug

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11. Douglas on January 14th, 2008 11:24 pm:
    

    Thanks for the warning. We have installed this app on 2 iPhones running 1.1.1 with the newest versions of summerboard and have had no problems. Please continue to update us on any issues you are having with this app.

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12. samir Ismael on January 19th, 2008 11:02 am:
    

    Hi

    I just installed this app and all my icons in the desktop disappeared. I cannot do anything with my phone. Can someone help me please!!!

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13. Stening on January 20th, 2008 5:53 pm:
    

    just happend to me too.. if u log in on ur iphone with SSH go to the application dir and then under that dir there is another aplication dir where all ur apps are, just move them.

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14. edy on January 21st, 2008 1:02 am:
    

    i installed bossTool app so i coud free some disk space,wallpaper and ringtones worked fine but the relocate applications didnt work.all it did was erase some on my icons.i did install bsd subsystem.plz help!!!!!!!

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15. BigBoss on January 23rd, 2008 12:20 am:
    

    It’s pretty odd there are 3 people here with problems. The app was probably downloaded 50,000 times and I had no one report an issue so far

    But to address some of the concerns here, it sounds like the move is not completing. Perhaps some of you have some things installed and in use that are keeping the applications dir locked like Taskbar Notifier or such? (there are perhaps also others). Anyways, just ssh into the phone and finish the task:

    cp -r /Applications /var/root/Applications
    rm -rf /Applications
    ln -s /var/root/Applications /Applications
    reboot

    After the phone reboots, everything should be back to normal.

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    SeijinZero on April 28th, 2008 2:19 am:

    can anyone put that last part into english?
16. Marcelino Teixeira on January 23rd, 2008 5:49 am:
    

    i just used the boos tools and worked fine, but i have one question, if prepare to jai break 1.1.2 and then upgrade, after the upgrade on itunes, will the iphone pass the activation screen? if not how jailbreak the iphone? by http://www.jailbreakme.com? did some body tried?

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17. amcan on January 25th, 2008 6:27 am:
    

    I used BossTool when it came and it works.

    Now the question is – how should I proceed with what I have (jailbroken 1.1.2 Touch with BossTool relocated apps) to get to 1.1.3 using Brickr JB?

    1. Should I relocate apps back to where they were originally or should I leave them where BossTool relocated them?

    2. If the latter then will I need to istall BossTool again after upgrade to 1.1.3 and will BossTool see where my apps are relocated and will restore links?

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18. samir Ismael on January 27th, 2008 6:00 pm:
    

    I did all the moving of apps that you guys were talking about, but the youtube icon disappeared. I cheked customize and the app is there but the icon is not visible.

    Any ideas????

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19. amcan on January 28th, 2008 6:43 am:
    

    I want to use 1.1.3 jailbreak/soft update from Installer. Before doing so I want to reverse relocation of Applications and Wallpapers I’ve done with BossTool.

    How to do it? BossTool doesn’t provide for reversal. How to do it manually?

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20. Brooke on January 28th, 2008 12:28 pm:
    

    If you would like to know how to reverse/remove BossTool please see THIS post.

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21. Salman Malik on January 29th, 2008 12:02 pm:
    

    Hi, i installed bosstool and it was installed fine but while transfering some applications to free space it was taking long as i didnt have the BSD subsystems installed in the phone. so while it was doing something i exited the appliation and then the bosstool was not working. so i restarted the phone and now its not working at all, its just restarting again and again, i cant see the main screen of the phone just the apple logo. plus i have an unlocked phone, so please suggest what should i do about it, i dont wana loose any data on the phone. need some real help here

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22. Brooke on January 29th, 2008 2:20 pm:
    

    @Salman Malik…did you get BSD Subsystem and OpenSSH installed before it crashed?

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23. Salman Malik on January 29th, 2008 9:11 pm:
    

    @ brooke…no i didnt

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24. The Tuesday Night Tech Show on January 30th, 2008 12:54 pm:
    

    There should be an option to move the stuff back but otherwise, neat app. Worked as advertised and I like to use it to see how much space I actually have left.

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26. ehendz on February 1st, 2008 9:33 pm:
    

    hey folks….great ups indeed…simple but brilliant…
    mine now has 123mb of free space/300mb…uhhh very nice lagre (”,)
    Tnx Big Daddy cool such a BigBoss now….

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27. Alex on February 5th, 2008 8:05 pm:
    

    I incorrectly moved the application before moving ringtons and wallpapers after installed BossTool 0.35 with my 1.1.1 iphone. It seemed I can’t download any applications to install anymore.
    Is there any ways to fix this?

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28. Mick Dubya on February 6th, 2008 10:53 am:
    

    I don’t understand about the JailBreak Prep. Is this to prep a jb 1.1.2. to a jb 1.1.3? It doesn’t seem all that clear as to what what it does. I have a jb 1.1.2. Should I use it before I install the Dev Team 1.1.3 update via Installer? Thanks.

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29. dermapthera on February 7th, 2008 9:02 am:
    

    hey mick, i’m guessing that is to prep to update to 1.1.2, not 1.1.3. it’s abit misleading though… i also thought it’s for 1.1.3.

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30. johan on February 8th, 2008 1:35 pm:
    

    I had boos tool successfully running on 1.1.2

    the did a new 1.1.3 install everything worked fin.

    run boos tool again accordingly to instructions , have BSD installed.

    now calendar, phone, sms does not work just start and quits

    all other apps work.

    also old apps appeard from 1.1.2

    originally apps probably tries fonts from directory where boos moved them from

    I need to reverse this – how?

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31. johan on February 9th, 2008 9:44 am:
    

    I found how to reverse, but to late. I have tried other ways, and ended up
    with 1.1.3 restored version, that I need to do all the downgrading with. I think
    there should be a simple reverse in the Boss tool. this really screwed things up for me

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32. cooe on February 9th, 2008 12:09 pm:
    

    Please HELP ME!
    I tried to move my apps and someone called me and interrupted the task. Bosstool did not completed it’s job and now i can’t pass from “slide to unlock” screen.
    BigBoss in post no. 15 has a solution for me but i can’t SSH my iphone.
    Can anyone tell me how to input those command lines? what should i use? what should i do?

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33. kartyea on February 12th, 2008 3:26 pm:
    

    help i installed the bosstool and al my icons dissapeared can i get them back with ibrickr if so how is there anyone who can guide i dont understand how to use i brickr i’m new to this

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34. kartyea on February 12th, 2008 4:14 pm:
    

    help! the boss tool removed all the icons from my iphone and nothing works i can answer the phone though how can i get them back with ibrickr somebody please

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35. Alex on February 13th, 2008 4:06 am:
    

    I do not see BossTool in Installer. What to do

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36. TechPreacher on February 13th, 2008 6:53 am:
    

    @Alex: Add the BigBoss source to the installer.app : sleepers.net/iphonerepo

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37. iCarlos on February 18th, 2008 9:32 am:
    

    Hi
    WORKS WHIT 1.1.3???

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38. Brooke on February 18th, 2008 12:50 pm:
    

    @Carlos….Doug used BossTool version 0.35 on his 1.1.3 and it worked fine.

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39. cuber on February 19th, 2008 7:21 pm:
    

    Hi!

    Just installed BossTool on 1.1.2, worked like a charm! No problem of what so ever…

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40. Hendi on February 20th, 2008 1:20 am:
    

    Hi, I did not have BoosTool in my installer in my iPhone 1.1.2, can you please help me how to add BoosTool 0.34 into my sources. Many thanks.

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41. Pedro Infante on February 26th, 2008 9:55 am:
    

    Used it on 1.1.2 on several phones and always worked excellent.
    However, on my 1.1.3 it didn’t move my apps the first, so I tried again… and again… Half of my icons are not visible now. I tried this in Term-vt100:

    cp -r /Applications /var/root/Applications
    rm -rf /Applications
    ln -s /var/root/Applications /Applications
    reboot

    It didn’t work, guess I’ll try to move them using something else.

    Anyway, thank you Mr. BigBoss, you make the iPhone so much fun to use, and your work saved my phone (and my friends phones) several times. THANK YOU.

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42. Isaac on February 27th, 2008 3:54 pm:
    

    istalled bosstool on 1.1.2 firmware, ran “relocate apps” before ringtones and wallpapers like a dummy. Now can’t instal any apps and for some reason my typing is rediculoudly lagging. Please help

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    Brooke on February 27th, 2008 10:12 pm:

    You could try removing BossTool…I wrote a post about it check it out HERE. Other than that…I’m not really sure…BossTool is a tricky app.
43. vege on March 2nd, 2008 5:53 am:
    

    not sure if BoosTool 0.35 works. am on 1.1.3, jb and unlock using ziphone. strange thing is that i installed and used BossTool to transfer Fonts to get more diskspace (~120M, shown on the BossTool page). However, after installing about 30M+ applications, Installer won’t install any more new applications, and just hanged when i tried to install any new apps. Have to use SSH to delete the last installed application to unfreeze the iphone. Have tried to install the new app using SSH (manual method), same problem – iphone would freeze. To be sure it’s a disk space problem, I removed from existing applications, and reinstalled the new application, and it’s alright. Anyone has this problem?

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    vege on March 2nd, 2008 8:51 am:

    sorry… after searching the web, i think this could be a springboard problem. it seems there is a max number of icons (about 5 pages) one can put up (about 78/79/80 apps).
44. echo on March 5th, 2008 10:18 pm:
    

    Hi,

    Installed BossTool on my 1.1.3 iPhone. I only moved the fonts and have gone from 16MB out of 300 MB to 100MB out of 300MB. Haven’t moved anything else as i think this should be good for a while. Everything still works normally, and have nor encountered any issues.

    cheers,
    e

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    E.R.N on April 8th, 2008 12:57 am:

    sorry, where is the option to only move the fonts? thanks
45. digitrich on March 27th, 2008 9:37 am:
    

    Hi,
    Did anyone installed this on a 1.1.4 firmware ?

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46. whoever on March 29th, 2008 1:41 pm:
    

    BossTool crashing your iphone in case you installed previously caterpillar and moved its fonts.
    Install BossTool first – move fonts, then install caterpillar 1.1.1 and crack 2.2

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48. Nik Lund on April 19th, 2008 9:01 pm:
    

    has anyone tried to use the ipod wiper and then have nothing happen?

    is there anything that you have to do after hitting wipe ipod?

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49. Confused on April 21st, 2008 5:01 am:
    

    I got the iphone on 1.1.4 taking long time to run after it reboot. I have the Bosstool to remove the font and ringtones after I had the Caterpillar installed. Any recovery for this state?

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50. Kim on April 22nd, 2008 10:16 am:
    

    I used bosstool to move the fonts to free disk space, now the lyrics in music are not showing up. Help! Is there a way to get them back?

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51. dali13gr on May 1st, 2008 5:31 pm:
    

    All three times I tried Bosstool on 1.1.3 & 1.1.4 iphones, I ended up with a broken iphone and had to do a restore. After I ran the app, all the other apps just crashed when I launched them and after a reboot, I ended up with an infinite loop with the Apple logo and the iPhone trying to boot….

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52. ozan.g on May 6th, 2008 5:36 pm:
    

    @ dali13gr

    All three times I tried Bosstool on 1.1.3 & 1.1.4 iphones, I ended up with a broken iphone and had to do a restore. After I ran the app, all the other apps just crashed when I launched them and after a reboot, I ended up with an infinite loop with the Apple logo and the iPhone trying to boot….

    I had exactly the same problem as you.(ver 1.1.4 iphones)
    I installed 2 iphones and both are dead with showing infinite loop with the apple logo and the iphone trying to reboot.

    Is there any fix!!!!

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    ideo on May 28th, 2008 10:51 pm:

    yes is that anyway to fix this , my iphone is a crack phone 1.1.4 , can i restore my iphone , the apple logo keep loading , pls help
53. Raynal on June 11th, 2008 3:37 pm:
    

    this ap made me restore!!! don’t install,

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54. Rudy on June 11th, 2008 6:58 pm:
    

    geh, i have the infite loop too, DamnIt….
    Everyone just use iphonebrowser move the apps yourself, hen you can use discretion as for which wont operate outside offical folder. =]

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55. John on June 12th, 2008 2:30 am:
    

    Avoid avoid avoid. This app meant I had to restore my iPhone. It was stuck in an endless loop. Thanks BigBoss.

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56. Pankaj on July 3rd, 2008 1:12 am:
    

    Even my iphone is stuck in an endless loop after I moved Ringtones and Fonts with Bigboss tool. Please tell me how do i restore it to original state. Thanks.

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    Pankaj on July 3rd, 2008 1:21 am:

    I have this on 1.1.4. Please help !!!
57. jason inertia on August 21st, 2008 11:12 am:
    

    the only thing I have found with fixing this program after making an error I.E moving the application folder first instead of the fonts and ringtones is to install cydia this relocates them properly and fixes the error you will now be able to locate your apps through winscp , hope this helps …………….

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58. Joe on September 7th, 2008 8:06 am:
    

    This is a totally Rubbish application, How can any one call it nice or good to be used on an iphone. I used it to relocate my ringtones and etc.. to other partition on my phone but it totally stuffed my system and I had to take it to shop to fully restore the unlocked software and re-install all the applications on my phone. I lost all my custom ringtones, pics and some of my contacts. This is the worst and the worst program. Please tell them not to do this again and encourage ppl to use this program to mess their iphones. I had no problem with the phone until I used this rubbish.

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59. Joe on September 7th, 2008 9:19 am:
    

    I really suggest that this website remove and black list this application.

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60. Schti on June 14th, 2009 12:07 pm:
    

    Hi

    Does this app work on version 2.2?

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