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iPod touch Google Street View Is A Go!

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · iPhone

Alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I have a very cool hack for you iPod touch 1G users! I have a hack for you guys that will enable Google Street View for you! Now I say iPod touch 1G because we do not have a jailbreak for iPod touch 2G users to share right now… 🙁 Anyways, this is a simple hack that will enable those pesky missing features.

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING FIRST, IT REALLY ISN’T AS MUCH WORK AS YOU MIGHT THINK!

All you have to do is:

*Retrieve the N45AP.plist file from /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plist

*Convert the .plist to a .xml file (to do this, go pay our friends at iAppCat a visit http://iappcat.com/plist/bin2xml

*Add the following string to the N45AP:

<key>telephony</key>
<dict>
<key>maximumGeneration</key>
<real>2.5</real>
</dict>

put it below the part where it says

<key>standAloneContacts</key>
<true/>

*save the file!

*Go back and pay our friends a visit again at http://iappcat.com/plist/bin2xml and convert the xml file back into a binary.

*Now rename the old N45AP.plist file to N45AP.plist.old

*SSH the new modified N45AP.plist

*Reboot!

*SSH back again (To fix some issues)

*Navigate to /Applications/Preferences.app

*Download the Settings-iPod.plist to your desktop

*Delete the Settings-iPhone.plist and the Settings-iPod.plist files still in the iPod touch.

*On your desktop, rename the Settings-iPod.plist to Settings-iPhone.plist

*Reboot!

Now you are done. If you want to fix the “No Service” issue:

1) Install the following packages from Cydia:

Erica Utilities
MobileTerminal

2) Run these commands in MobileTerminal (named “Terminal” on SpringBoard/Home screen)

su

alpine

plutil -c xml1 /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plist

plutil -c xml1 /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/SpringBoard.strings

* SSH to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj,

* Copy and Paste SpringBoard.strings, and name it one SpringBoard-2.strings

*Open the original in any text editor.

*Hit Ctrl + F (Cmd + F for Mac) and search for: No Service
or you can look about 2/5 of the way down where it says:

<key>NO_SERVICE</key>
<string>No Service</string>

*Replace the stuff in between <string></string> with what you want it to say.

If you want the “iPod” back, it should now read this:

<key>NO_SERVICE</key>
<string>iPod</string>

*Reboot

Now you are done! There is only 1 small issue remaining. That is that the activation popup will still be there. Now this may look like a lot of work but it really isn’t. Well guys, that’s it for now!

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