

You can fix this problem by SSHing into your iPhone, but there are some people that have SSH turned OFF or even worst, they didn’t install it in the first place. IPhones get stuck at the Apple boot logo due to what is most probably a screwed up file.This can happen for many reasons, the main one being improper installation/uninstallation of packages (main script execution failed) via Cydia. A few months ago, we wrote a tutorial on how to fix iPhone stuck at Apple logo, but that was in a way too vague, and maybe not accessible to all users. The second method is much more efficient if you are stuck at the boot logo. ( i.e for the tutorial we wrote back in the 2.x FW days: HowTo: Modify Cracked iPhone. This method is (probably) the fastest method you can use for different tasks that you might want to perform. A simple search string in Google will give you tons of such web apps. You can also use the various web-based binary to xml plist converters. When you SSH into your device you will find Erica’s Utills to be installed to /var/root/bin Notepad of Wordpad will do just fine, but i really suggest you use a good word editor like notepad++. Once they are converted to xml, you can copy off your device and open them with any text editor. The package contains an app called “plutil” that will convert binary plists to xml format. You can install Erica’s Utilities via Cydia on your iPhone or iTouch. You either let them be, or precisely follow various tutorials you might find. If you do not know what to do with them, do not fool around. The easy short way for advanced users, and the easy long way for really curious advanced users. Ok, so how to we edit such files on Windows? Well there are two different ways. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications, a task served by the resource fork in the old Mac OS. Property list files are often used to store a user’s settings. plist, and thus are often referred to as plist files. Property list files use the filename extension. plist files? In the Mac OS X Cocoa, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files are files that store serialized objects. This is a bit tricky, but not impossible and quite an easy process.
