Cycorder crashing on start?

Jan 16

Cycorder crashing on start?

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If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you've probably availed yourself of Cycorder, the ad-supported video recorder that records decent video (like this).

You probably also followed these instructions, "Easily share Cycorder videos off jailbroken iPhones", using Air Sharing and Mobile Terminal or OpenSSH to make the videos easy to get at.

However, if you update Air Sharing, the directory in which Air Sharing lies may change (something like D4C0BF5B-05F5-42E0-8D89-D86014122F26/... in /private/var/mobile/Applications/)). That means that the symbolic link you created above is now stale.

If Cycorder is crashing immediately upon launch, you probably have updated Air Sharing (such that it's directory has changed) and now have a stale symbolic link that is pointing your /private/var/mobile/Media/Videos directory (where cycorder expects to store videos) to a non-existent directory in /private/var/mobile/Applications/.

To fix it:

Start up Air Sharing.
SSH into your phone: ssh root@10.0.1.34 (or whatever Air Sharing reports as your iPhone's IP address.)
Change directories to where your apps are at: cd /private/var/mobile/Applications

Now, you need to figure out which directory Air Sharing is in. I'd suggest just using find:

root# find . -name "Air Sharing" -print
./FA299166-2613-4F36-9043-A52711FA9123/Documents/Air Sharing

Change directories to where Cycorder expects the Videos folder to be: cd /private/var/mobile/Media/
Move the current symbolic link to somewhere else: mv Videos Videos.2.bak
Create a new symbolic link to point Videos/ at the Air Sharing public directory: ln -s "../Applications/FA299166-2613-4F36-9043-A52711FA9123/Documents/Air Sharing/Public" ./Videos

(Note that the cryptic directory, FA299166-2613-4F36-9043-A52711FA9123, will probably be different for you.)

After this, Cycorder should operate as normal.

Tags: cycorder, fixes, hacks, iphone, jailbroken, upgrade

8 comments

§ Eddy said on : 02/07/09 @ 15:08
Just want to give my shout-out that this worked EXACTLY! Thank you for the fix!!!!
§ Vee.. said on : 02/21/09 @ 22:25
I corrected the problem thanks to your fix. Then realized I wasn't getting any videos forwarded to Air Sharing. So I tried redoing the hack to get cycorder to forward all videos to Air Sharing and now I screwed it up again...and this time your fix would not rectify the problem. Have you run into that problem anyone?
§ Vee.. said on : 02/21/09 @ 22:28
So now...my cycorder is crashing upon opening and Air Sharing is not getting anything forwarded to it
§ joe® said on : 02/22/09 @ 00:12
it's probably a permissions problem or the link isn't pointing to the right place.
§ Vin said on : 11/18/09 @ 19:59
OK, I am a rookies at the entire iphone SSH. I did try removing the Air Share application all together and I am still having the same problem with Cycrder. It keeps crashing. Is there any chance you can give me a step by step process to fix this. Much of the above information looks like it is for someone who knows the basics of the iphone... I don't, sorry. I am using Fugu to get into my iphone directory if this helps. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
§ joe® said on : 11/19/09 @ 11:27
Unfortunately, all I can recommend here is that you uninstall and reinstall cycorder, which will stop the crashing. This isn't the kind of thing that is amenable to novices, alas.
§ Hemorrhoids said on : 11/26/09 @ 02:49
For some reason I can't install this properly on my iPhone 3G 16gb. It keeps on crashing on me. What is going on? Please help. This works well with my previous iPhone 3G 8gb and now it won't work with the 3G 16gb. Please help anyone?
§ joe® said on : 11/28/09 @ 11:56
you might reinstall air sharing and cycorder.