findme – LowJack for your iPhone

40 Responses to “findme – LowJack for your iPhone”

1. jk111 on February 26th, 2008 11:47 am:
   

   Wow, she comes up with amazing apps. That is so neat. Going to be installing that later.

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2. jk111 on February 26th, 2008 12:33 pm:
   

   I believe this will help if you want to stop the tracking for a period of time:

   Use utctl and stop com.sadun.tweet

   then to start:

   Use utctl and start com.sadun.tweet

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3. Shai on February 26th, 2008 12:37 pm:
   

   this is available in installer via my source http://ride4.org/shai.xml

   I’m currently working on making sure it runs in the background.

   Its called Quasi Low jack under utilities

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   Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:27 pm:

   This is a fan update to Ericas findme, and has been edited fromteh first version she put out. Her new version adds the pindrop feature that the one from your source adds. As Erica is the developer, I would strognly recommend getter her version, rather that a hacked version. But I will leave your link up, as people may prefer the easy route of Installer.

   I do assume though that your install does not automatically add the launchdaemon, or tweet code?

   

   Billyboi456 on November 2nd, 2008 1:03 pm:

   Whenever i try to install it through installer it says “Error: Unable to decode package more info at http://www.hackthatifone.com/forum/index.php?topic-49.0“
4. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:25 pm:
   

   Erica has updated her findme, it now has better location finding, and pindrop on google maps.

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5. jk111 on February 26th, 2008 1:31 pm:
   

   @jacob it seems this does not work if my iphone screen is not powered on

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6. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:33 pm:
   

   I have a fix for that!

   Erica wrote:

   This drops a pin but the big change is in accuracy.

   As for running, it does run, even when the phone is in standby–but if wifi isn’t enabled, nothing much happens.

   I uploaded a modded version of pingwifi to the TUAW folder. At the beginning of your tweet script, just run it and wait 10 seconds
   e.g. /var/root/bin/pingwifi; sleep 10

   and it will force wifi on and then try to report in.

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   Shai on February 26th, 2008 1:35 pm:

   Thank you jacob. That pingwifi sometimes works. At the moment it is included in my installer package however it doesnt work reliably.
7. Shai on February 26th, 2008 1:34 pm:
   

   This is NOT a hacked version.
   As you can se by erica’s comment’s she helpped me along the way:
   http://ericasadun.com/?p=179#comment-1736

   It is her original files. It installs/sets up everything according to her instructions. v 2.1 on my source does contain the newest findme that includes the pindrop and much better accuracy. The package on installer does everthing aside from setting your username and password in the tweet file. The user still needs to go in and change their username and password.

   Again, this is not a hacked version, but rather an installer package that I put together to help people out setting this up. Thats all

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   Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:36 pm:

   Awesome! I stand corrected, I will try this out later to confirm, but I have read through your convorsation with Erica and I already believe that this will work just fine!

   

   Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:38 pm:

   So when you say that you are working to make it run in the background, I assume you mean you are adding pingwifi to your installer package and the tweet script?
8. Shai on February 26th, 2008 1:38 pm:
   

   Thank you for the reply Jacob.

   The only part I have to figure out is how to make sure the daemon runs while the phones asleep. This doesnt seem too hard as the mail checking daemon runs fine

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9. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:40 pm:
   

   I think it should be easy to add pingwifi to your install, and just edit the tweet script? correct?

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   Shai on February 26th, 2008 2:07 pm:

   Thats exactly what I did. However Its still not running in the background. v2.1 on my source includes the pingwifi and the tweet file that runs pingwife waits 10 seconds then runs findme and updates twitter.

   I think again the problem is the com.sadun.tweet.plist doesnt run when the phones in sleep mode. At least not ATM as my phones sleeping and theres no updates on twitter. about 20 seconds after I slide to unlock, BAM theres an update on twitter.

   

   Jacob on February 26th, 2008 2:39 pm:

   I have heard that adding the entry to the CRON job will make it run while asleep. But I wouldnt know how to edit that through installer, nor have I tried that myself.
10. jk111 on February 26th, 2008 1:57 pm:
    

    @shai when I use your installer app, I get lat (null) lon (null)

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    Shai on February 26th, 2008 2:04 pm:

    Sometimes this will happen. Thats a known bug, you can double up the tweet script but its not recomended. That null bug is uncommon though and only happens once in a while
11. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 1:58 pm:
    

    Is your wifi active?

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12. jk111 on February 26th, 2008 2:03 pm:
    

    @jacob yes

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13. T Webb on February 26th, 2008 2:06 pm:
    

    jk111 are you in the Bermuda Triangle? That may explain you null lat and lon values. I see references to WiFi alot, this does work over EDGE/GPRS, right.

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    Shai on February 26th, 2008 2:08 pm:

    yes in my experience. Although I have heard reports that its not consistant
14. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 2:21 pm:
    

    hmm.. I am at work atm, and have 1 bar with edge. Slowly I am updating my sources and should get this installed soon. I will report back what I find.

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15. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 2:44 pm:
    

    I am just running the findme from Tapp.app and gotten 3 null/null’s in a row. I am on a very weak edge signal atm, but it is there, going outside to try it out.

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16. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 3:41 pm:
    

    I went outside, with full bars on edge. and got null/null 5 times. :-/

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17. Ethan on February 26th, 2008 5:17 pm:
    

    hey, it keeps saying in putty that my username and password is unknown…??? and one more thing how do you check your updates on twitter thanks p.s. i also checked the file permissions those are fine..

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18. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 6:15 pm:
    

    login to your twitter to check your updates.

    Not sure why putty isnt letting you in.

    mobile/alpine is the login/pw, or sometimes root/alpine

    BTW: I downgraded to the original findme, and it is working just fine!

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19. Ethan on February 26th, 2008 6:17 pm:
    

    hey jacob thanks for the info but i found it out but i go to twitter and then check my updates then click the google maps link and it loads google maps and it just stAYS THERE it doesnt show my location?//?????

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20. Eric S on February 26th, 2008 7:04 pm:
    

    Its working for me … kinda .. my twitter says my lat and long is “null”?

    Any ideas?

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21. Eric S on February 26th, 2008 7:49 pm:
    

    UPDATE: to the NULL ERROR The new version included inthe installer doesnt work.. I dont know why as of yet but if you SSH into your phone and replace with the old findme. It works fine.

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22. Jacob on February 26th, 2008 8:51 pm:
    

    No the new updated findme isnt working at all, it doesnt even return a location, it does send whether you are on wifi or edge, but just returns null to twitter.

    It is not working becuase you need to edit ‘tweet’ to add your username and password.

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23. Jacob on February 27th, 2008 11:17 am:
    

    Findme-better seems to be working again. Must have been a block on Skyhosts part that is now resolved.

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    Zeits on February 27th, 2008 2:30 pm:

    Is just install via installer by http://ride4.org/shai.xml, register on twitter and edit ‘tweet’ to add your username and password?

    Thanks!
24. flood on March 10th, 2008 9:05 pm:
    

    i can’t make it work please help me im runing 1.1.3 and i install from ride4 i put my twitter username and password but is not working

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25. Nate on March 12th, 2008 7:34 pm:
    

    When mine updates it just says where i am on my twitter in longitude and latitude. How do you add the link to google maps?

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26. Nate on March 12th, 2008 7:59 pm:
    

    Nevermind, i installed the one from shai’s source and now it works. This is great! I love it!

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27. Nick on March 15th, 2008 5:43 pm:
    

    I did it all manual at first, then when I SSH’d to my iPhone, I did /var/root/bin, then I did ls, still all fine, after that findme, that also worked fine, but if I runt he command tweet, then it says “could not authenticate you”. Any idea why it is doing this? I set up a new account at Twitter, and logged in and out several times. I’m sure I entered the correct username/password. I even tried Shai’s app, and then edited the tweet file. Nothing worked, it keeps saying “could not authenticate you”..

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28. anon on March 19th, 2008 3:38 pm:
    

    Thanks a lot for this. I was just wondering if there is some way to make curl work with https:// (ssl) for security purposes. I tried just changing it to https in the script, but it failed.

    Seriously, great job

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29. Jash Sayani on March 26th, 2008 11:47 pm:
    

    Ok. Does it work with 1.1.4 ? And is there a newer version of it with a login interface so no SSH is needed? And what is the version and source ? Pls reply to comment.

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30. Steve on April 17th, 2008 9:36 pm:
    

    what folder do i put findme in? (1.1.4)

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