If you remember , i told you guys that im sure that somebody will port the video camera to the 3G as well. Well somebody did, and its the amazing guys at iSpazio. So all credits goes to them, just to be clear. They found out that they can port the function that was only available to the 3Gs by now, to the 3G and 2G.
At this time, the mod is successful , meaning that it will enable the video camera and you can trim and use it as you should, but you cant take pictures anymore. If i understand correctly ( because my italian sucks , scusate bella Italia ) , they are trying to fix, so you can take pictures as well as shoot video.
What do you need?
- Jailbroken iPhone 2G/3G running OS 3.0
- SSH client ( yes you need to SSH )
Download
- M68AP.plist
How to do it?
- Download the .plist file to your desktop and than connect your iPhone and SSH to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app
- Backup the original M68AP.plist file in your iPhone and then copy the one you just downloaded. NOTE: you can backup the file by renaming the original (something like M68AP.bkp ) and leave it on your iPhone, or just copy it somewhere on your computer (make sure you wont overwrite the one you downloaded ). Next you copy the one you downloaded into your iPhone, and if it asks you to overwrite, just do it.
- Copy a video (MOV format) in cameraroll. You can download this for example: IMG_0011.MOV and put it in / var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE
- Now respring your iPhone.
- Start the camera and click the button at the bottom left to open CameraRoll. You’ll notice a new subdivision in “All Photos and Videos” and you can start the movie that you have previously uploaded.
- Now you can select the area you are interested in and trim the movie.
NOTE: To re-enable the camera, you need to restore the original file M68AP.plist
NOTE 2: just to be clear. YOU CAN NOT RECORD at the moment. This is just a preview, and it’s in the works. You can now just upload your own videos , trim the videos and upload to youtube and send them as MMS ( not tested with youtube, seems to work with MMS )
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
not that big a deal if you cant take pictures anymore, there are plenty of camera apps that would take its place.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Does this make it possible to send the video as a MMS? Same as the 3GS?
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Gonna try that out right now…..I figured we'd end up having everything the 3G "S" has eventually anyway. It's just a matter of time. Thanks for the info as always Murda
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
yep as long as the video you shoot, its saved in the camera roll, you will be able to find it and send it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I guess we can have everything except what's related to the new hardware & figures in the name…. SPEED!!
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
ok. I thought it would let you shoot a new video as well. I was sadly mistaken… Great progress though. I liked the trimming feature.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
It worked! I'm still in 2G so this is exciting for me. This is the 3Gs video app ported to 3G and 2G, and it only took me a matter of 30 seconds to tweak. lol
iSpazio did a great job on this and hopefully taking shots will be possible soon.
Thanx again murda!
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
It's needed "firmware 3.0 beta Jailbroken"
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
yep thats what they say, but nobody is on beta right now, and it works on final 3.0
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
so is this the sort of thing that will eventually be ported to cydia?
June 24th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
anything new?
June 24th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Would a program like iPhone Browser be able to do the same thing or would I need to get WinSCP?
June 24th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Hopefully, I dont like to play around in SSH, unless its with themes.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
So while doing this I accidentally hit the respring b4 I added the m68ap file and I had already renamed the old one. So now my phone just keeps respinging. Could someone please help me! Any help/tips would b apreciated.
Thanks
June 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Will you make a new post when the app can finally take pics and record videos?
June 24th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
any one try this video any you now it is compatible whit 3g
June 25th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Judy, i did the same thing you have to restore the iphone no other way around hold sleep/wake and home button down and when the apple logo shows release sleep/wake keep holding home till iTunes and the usb shows up
June 25th, 2009 at 1:42 am
hmm, i just tryed.. and works!! But i need a cam to so when back to orig. Keep me up to date when a good version will hit
June 30th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
So, does it really works on the final 3.0 3g Iphone? because I have tried it and it does not open the shutter, it remains close but the icon on the bottom right is showing…
Got any ideas?
Thanks
July 1st, 2009 at 9:29 am
can you email the vids as well as MMS ?
July 8th, 2009 at 12:18 am
hmm, can someone email me the original .plist? i overwrote mine on my iphone 2g…
thanks
ganadenj@gmail.com
July 10th, 2009 at 2:15 am
If you cannot see uploaded videos, just change the extension to upper case (from .mov to .MOV)……worked for me
July 31st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I could not donwload the M68AP.plist, seemed lilke the link is removed/broken. Can someone please help i.e a new link? or email me the M68AP.plist file?
Thanks!
Sweetie
vaiovgnn11m@yahoo.com
August 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Where did the download link go?