Contacts Icon

[zaibatsu]

is it possible to make Contacts Icon to be shown in homescreen without using customize?? if yes, how??

[marvinp]

From Erica Sadun:

1. Locate MobileAddressBook.app It lives in your iPhone's /Applications folder.

2. Copy it to another Applications folder. I personally use /var/mobile/Media/Applications/ but you can use any other folder on your Media partition that you've set up for Application use. Try not to overfill the main /Applications directory. Your OS partition has limited storage. Some people prefer to make a symbolic link from /Applications to ~/Applications. I prefer using the (sneaky) /Widgets folder for my symbolic link rather than /Applications for its relatively high safety factor. (Yes, any application placed into /Widgets gets recognized by SpringBoard as an application.)

3. Give it a new bundle identifier. Edit the Info.plist file in the application bundle to give it a new, unique id. Any non-standard (i.e. not com.apple.MobileAddressBook) string will do. You'll probably have to convert the Info.plist from binary to text form. My plutil for iPhone will do this. (plutil -c xml1 Info.plist) This lets you run a second copy of the application without messing with the original and without conflicting with the bundle ID.

4. Remove the SBAppTags section. This consists of an array with a single string, "standAloneContact". You need to remove all 4 lines: from the key to the end of the array.

5. Restart SpringBoard. You can reboot the iPhone or use any number of restart utilities. Once re-started, your new version of the Contacts app will simply pop into place now that you've re-identified it and gotten rid of the app tags.

Enjoy.

[zaibatsu]

thanks man. /no1 it works. but i didnt copy the mobileaddbook to another applications directory, what i only did was back up the file and edit the info.plist then restart and the mobile add book appears. now i can easily accs my contacts with this./no1

[torero]

Contacts/Homescreen Application now available in Installer! Now I have the Contacts icon that i miss from 1.1.2 in my 1.1.3!