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FWChanger For iPhone And iPod Touch: Gone But Not Forgotten

July 17, 2010 by Dusty 16 Comments

This application, which was available from Cydia for free, has unfortunately disappeared, and most missed out on the opportunity to download it. Let me explain what this app actually does. FWChanger simply tricks your iPhone or iPod Touch to think it has a certain firmware such as 3.1.3, 3.1.2, 3.1.1, 3.0 and so on…

The benefits of this app are, when you upgrade applications in the Apple App Store and there is a firmware update required. FWChanger tricks the iOS device so you no longer get an incompatibility message from the App Store. Pretty nifty right? Another great thing about this app is, it has a beautiful user interface and is very simple to use!

Though this app is no longer available via Cydia, you can still SSH the files into your iPhone or iPod Touch (only recommended for people who actually know what their doing when SSH-ing).

Note: FWChanger does NOT give you the FEATURES of the firmware entered, and is NOT compatible with iOS 4.

FWChanger For iPhone And iPod Touch: Gone But Not Forgotten [Cydia Tweak]

How To install

  • Simply download the FWChanger.zip file from the iJailbreak Downloads page.
  • Unzip it, drag and drop the FWChanger.app folder into applications on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
  • Using Terminal, enter these commands:
chmod -R 755 /Applications/FWChanger.app
chmod -R +s /Applications/FWChanger.app

Are you going to try out this jailbreak tweak? If you do, let us know down in the comments of how it worked out for you.

Comments

  1. Matthers says

    August 13, 2010 at 3:09 am

    Thats good, but how do you invoke the program once permissions have been given to system?

  2. Matthers says

    August 13, 2010 at 3:23 am

    All good. You reboot! Cheers! Now can you find out what happened to Grooveshark in Cydia? Its gone!

  3. 1ph0n3 h4ck3r says

    October 10, 2010 at 11:51 am

    I’m using an OS 3.1.3 iphone 3G and this app keeps crashing. Any help?

  4. Halliberry05 says

    November 4, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    im currently on 3.1.2 and i installed the fwchanger through winscp but when i try opening it on my ipod it closes right back please what am i doin wrong?

  5. Esteban says

    December 11, 2010 at 3:21 am

    hey i got this msg in terminal “chmod: invalid mode: ‘-R’ ”
    so what am i doing wrong ???

  6. Teban says

    December 11, 2010 at 3:29 am

    u mean the “Applications” folder inside the “mobile” folder or the one located in “root” ???
    plz email me… estebanroatoiATgmailDOTcom

  7. H8no1777 says

    December 29, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    you MUST login as root open terminal and type login and username is root password is alpine

  8. H8no1777 says

    December 29, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    the root foler

  9. H8no1777 says

    December 29, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    have you changed the things through mobile terminal? see above

  10. H8no1777 says

    December 29, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    change the settings with mobile terminal

  11. Satyajeet says

    January 30, 2011 at 11:56 am

    My original firmware was 3.0.1 (7A400) .I used fw changer and changed it to 1.1.1 to test. I then set it back to 3.0.1 using the custom setting as the max preset in my version of fwchanger was 2.0. Now iTunes seems to think my phone is firmware 1.1.1 and no matter what I do it wont recognise my original firmware. How do I fix this? Thanks

  12. Satyajeet says

    January 30, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Never mind. I rebooted the phone and now iTunes recognizes the correct firmware :)

  13. blendergeek says

    July 28, 2011 at 4:21 am

    it still crashes, just not until immediately after the splash screen

  14. Ichigoku says

    August 28, 2012 at 10:22 am

    I put in the applications folder using i fun box then i logged in as root and i gave the commands..
    nothing happened..
    please help

  15. Ambitious Ƅiƪƪu says

    September 19, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Try it in safemode it should work because it worked for mE ….

  16. KhaosHiDef says

    July 15, 2013 at 7:23 pm

    i load up terminal on my ipod it says users-iPod:~ root#
    i type in the chmod -R 755 /Applications/FWchanger.app and it says chmod: cannot acess ‘/Applications/FWchanger.app’ : no such file or directory

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