Comments on: FontSwap 0.1b-1

By: Amaan

Amaan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:25:04 +0000

I’ve tried this on 2.2 aswell, and now i cant change it back
any ideas Brooke or Doug?
Been searching thru modmyi and forums for weeks!

By: dimitris

dimitris — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:30:28 +0000

….oh that happened on 2.2 jailbreaked iphone….

By: dimitris

dimitris — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:29:45 +0000

It ruined my iPhone! I tried to put a system font then hit install & restart iphone and then my phone stucked at the boot apple logo. while i was trying to enter in DFU itunes didn’t recognize my phone and it came up with a 2001 error… luckily i tried over and over and for some reason itunes did see the iphone and i finally got it restored, no pwn for now

By: ren

ren — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:13 +0000

i have the same problem…. any help please please please…

By: Tommy Murphy

Tommy Murphy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:36:57 +0000

YESSSSS. Eventually got this workin. Thanks so much for the specific expanation.

Tommy

By: Tommy Murphy

Tommy Murphy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:30:24 +0000

Thanks very much for that. I have spent 3 hrs trying ta figure this out n eventually released got it working. I jus spot the error on the Font”s”wap now n changed it.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Appreciate it cuz i was rlly wanting ta get this working

Tommy, ireland

By: Rye

Rye — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:33:28 +0000

Guys, I got far as restarting my iPhone (following The SHogun’s instructions.) FontSwap icon appeared on my iPhone, but when tapped, nothing happens. Just a blank screen and goes back to the home screen. What could be the problem? Any help? Would certainly appreciate.

Also “chmod ug+s /Applications/FontSwap.app/FontSwap” should be typed pasted in the tex box of the console paying attention to the upper case of the letter “S” on FontSwap.

By: Aussiephone

Aussiephone — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:36:09 +0000

BTW. Downloaded .zip file, added via Cyberduck, permission set to 755, and used terminal on iPhone to “chmod” app. NADA!

By: Aussiephone

Aussiephone — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:33:04 +0000

AAGGHH!!! Done this over and over, rechecked, over and over. DOES NOT WORK!!! Frustrated? You bet. Wasted a whole morning on this. Any other app do this?

By: THEshogun

THEshogun — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000

okay…after some initial headache ive been able to get this to install and work.

im running 1.1.4

this is what you will need to do…if it still doesnt work…you didnt follow directions. if you dont understand what and how to use the following applications, there are plenty of tutorials out there to help.

i was unable to find the application in a repository anywhere so i downloaded and unzipped it from:
http://www.touchrepo.com/Utilities/FontSwap.app.zip

i use winSCP 4.10 installed on my PC to connect to my iphone. to use this program you have to turn on your wifi and connect to an active wifi network on your iPhone. Copy down your IP addess you will need it to log in.
Plug your iphone to your computer using the white USB cable that came with your phone
Start winSCP – start your session. The host name is your IP address that you copied down. The port Number is 22. The User name is: root the password is: alpine the file protocol is is SCP. Press login.

(you might get some cache-thing popup…just click yes…its no big deal)

The left side of your session is the file directory of your computer
The right side is the file directory of your iphone

navigate both side to the respective locations…hence the left side to the location that you unzipped the FontSwap.app to. The right side to the Applications folder

Drag the FontSwap.app over to the Applications folder.
Then double click the FontSwap folder so that you can see its contents.
Once that is done click on the Info.plist file, then right-click on it.
Select properties. The properties window pops up. If it isnt already the Octal should be: 0755 Then press Okay.

Back yourself out of the directory back in the Applications directory.

Find Fontswap folder right click on it go to properties The Octal will say 0755, if it doesn’t change it to 0755

Right below that there is a Checkbox: “Set group, owner and permissions recursively” Select it. Click Okay.

Open up a Terminal. (Press control-T – If your not using winSCP, find out how to open up a terminal or another shell session)
I wondow pops up with a text box, enter this EXACTLY. (yes the CAPS and lowercase matter!)

chmod ug+s /Applications/FontSwap.app/Fontswap

restart your phone (turn off then turn on)

All of this information is available by reading all the bits and pieces of previous posts. This is EXACTLY what i did and its is working on my phone with no issues or crashing. I have not decided on adding any additional fonts to FontSwap itself…well….just because i havent read anything yet that says it really works all that well.

Goodluck!