Comments on: Stop unsigned binaries from being killed.

By: Adorada

Adorada — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:35:08 +0000

Tried all the above suggestions, even the suggestion from Cydia FAQs, having the same problem with it crashing. Anyone get it to work properly? Granted, it’s still in progress, but really want this app to work. Fantastic application. Love it.

By: zebrum

zebrum — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:01:59 +0000

I heard typing this command makes you unable to connect to unsecure wifi and possibly other problems. The proper way to get your apps working is to sign them with ldid, exactly how Cydia does it. Ldid writes a SHA hash into the binary which the iphone 2.0 requires in all binaries.

First do this:

export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform//Developer/usr/bin/codesign_allocate

(if you don’t do this you will see “codesign_allocate: unknown architecture specification flag: -a armv6 208″ in the next step )

Then:

ldid -S HelloWorld.app/HelloWorld

If successful there will be no output, then scp your binary on to the phone. I found ldid on Saurik’s site where Cydia is hosted.

By: Shubham

Shubham — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:18:58 +0000

Thanks for this tip, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

After typing the command, do we need to restart the SpringBoard? What should the permissions for the file be? Thanks.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:17:29 +0000

Cydia and other apps use ldid to sign the application, this works aswell.

Max

By: zebrum

zebrum — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:15:13 +0000

This works great for development but what about releasing apps? Has Cydia been signed or does it use a different work around?