gaurav's rants » break http://blog.gauravgiri.com mostly iPhone stuff Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:44:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPhone 3.0 and FontSwap [fixed] http://blog.gauravgiri.com/2009/06/iphone-30-and-fontswap/ http://blog.gauravgiri.com/2009/06/iphone-30-and-fontswap/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:18 +0000 gaurav http://blog.gauravgiri.com/?p=536 so most of you have upgraded to iPhone 3.0..
trouble is the newest release breaks the FontSwap app as the applications are not allowed to run as root anymore..
i haven’t figured out a solution to this problem as yet, i’m sure other devs are also trying to find a workaround to this problem..
the app will be updated as soon as a workaround around the restriction is discovered..

for the time being you may switch back to the earlier method of overwriting files in the system fonts folder
/System/Library/Fonts/Cache

the problem with this approach is that it’s a bit complicated for new users and involves the problem of SWOD if font files are ported incorrectly..
so keep a backup and keep wifi and ssh on to restore stock fonts in case something goes bad.

you *will* not need to do a device restore if you keep wifi and ssh on, even if something goes wrong. so it’s always recommended to keep those things as always on, on jailbroken devices.

EDIT: Dustin Howett [author of the app CyDelete] has suggested a fix for FontSwap for 3.0 and i’m going to release an update soon..
thx Dustin.. :)

UPDATE: the fix has been released on Cydia. please update to FontSwap 1.4 :)

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