SpringDial

Version: 0.9996

Description:

SpringDial puts speed dials of your contacts on the SpringBoard of a jailbroken iPhone. The advantage of this is over using the Webclip method is that it is more of a true speed dial. Safari doesn't have to load, and you are not asked to confirm the call. If you happen to have a photo for the contact in your Address Book (don't know what Apple is doing for windows users, so this is probably only available for Mac OSX users, but you can edit the contact on the iPhone to add a photo), then it is what is used as the icon for the contact.

News:

A few people have shown an interest in "buying me a beer." If you would like to buy the next round, go ahead and give me your email address and the amount you would like to donate.
Translation: Springdial is actively being translated into other languages; French, German, Spanish and Hebrew. If you would like to help with this, then here is latest Localizable.strings file. To read more about translating (known as localization) please look at Apple's site. If your able to make a translation, please send it to me at springdial AT-SIGN mineshaftgap DOT net.
Users where experiencing a bug, where speed dials where not being displayed, this was due to the BSD Subsystem not being install, it now is not longer needed, so if you experience this issue, be sure to upgrade to newest version.
Icons: I have heard a lot of rumblings from people that are not big fans of the default icon. I can't say I blame them, I am a developer and not a graphic designer. If anyone would like to make an icon for me to use, I would gladly consider using it. Those contacts that don't have a photo now use the iPhone telephone icon.

Features Summary:

Now installable from the Community Sources repository.
Speed dials now can still function if you uninstall SpringDial. This is the default behavior if you choose "Eternal" mode.
In order to help solve bugs with the many different jailbreak environments users can now report bugs including a debug log, from SpringDial itself. Bug reports and logs are only submitted with the user's authorization and no personal information is included.
Show the image of the contact so you can dial by image
The created SpringDial apps are quite small.
SpringDial vs Phone->Favorites
- Less clicks then Phone->Recents->Contact
- Has an image of the contact
- Limited only by the number of apps you can display
SpringDial vs WebClip tel:
- Image is added automatically if available
- Don't have to wait for Safari to load

Video by dborup

Install:

SpringDial is now in the Ste Packaging repository, in Community Sources. If you want to make sure to have the newest as soon as I release it, add my repo to your sources of Installer:

Open Installer.app
Click "Sources"
Click "Edit"
Click "Add"
Type "http://i.mineshaftgap.net/"
Look for the new category MineShaftGap and install SpringDial.

Since my repository will always have the newest version of SpringDial, you might see an "upgrade loop" which will always say you have an update for SpringDial. This is caused by Installer.app seeing two different versions of SpringDial available, and will continue until the new version is in Community Sources. If you get confused which version to have installed, the newest is always found on this page.

Known Issues

WinPwn users, it's been reported that WinPwn doesn't correctly set up the iPhone file system, making SpringDial fail on creating speed dials. There is a technical fix. If you aren't that technical, find someone who can help you, I don't have time to help. SSH into your iPhone and issue these commands:
- rm /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
- ln -s /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
SpringDial creates new applications on your SpringBoard, different version of the firmware/Summerboard have different applications limits. If you go over the application limit, SpringBoard might will fail to load. If you reach the smallest application limit (80) then you will be warned of this, but you are allowed to override this as long as you acknowledge that you are aware of it.
It appears that with certain jailbreaks methods you might have to create the symbolic link to "/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib" mentioned below in the Download section.

Download:

The easiest way to install is by using Installer.app, and this is highly recommended. If you still want to download it, instead of installing though the repository method mentioned above, then do so here: SpringDial. Be aware that it may not work without first creating the directory "/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib" and making a symbolic link in that directory pointing to "/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib" (this should be done for you by Installer). The reason for this is the way SpringDial works is by adding a symbolic link in the /Application directory, to do this there is a small program that needs to be run as root (SUID). The new Apple method runs most applications under the mobile user. When the mobile user runs the SUID program it needs to be able able to use libgcc_s.1.dylib, creating the symbolic link allows mobile to see that library.

Here are the commands you will need to run as root on your iPhone:

mkdir -p /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib

Future features:

Rounded corners for the pics to be more like buttons
Update icon if image added/changed
Change delete to use swipe

Images:

Here is the location of all images, Default.png is the background image when launching, icon.png is the SpringBoard icon. SpringDial relies heavily on symbolic links, but you can change the images to suit your needs.

SpringDial Application:

/Applications/SpringDial.app/Default.png
/Applications/SpringDial.app/icon.png

Individual speed dials:

/Applications/<SPEED_DIAL_NAME>.app/Default.png
/Applications/<SPEED_DIAL_NAME>.app/icon.png

Default used if no images are available for the contact in your address book:

/Applications/MobilePhone.app/icon.png

Contact:

Questions, bugs, features? If you can, please submit them with the new "Feedback" button in SpringDial. With a bug, this is most effective if you submit right after the issue, without restarting SpringDial. In other words, if it you cannot create a new speed dial, try creating a different speed dial without exiting before submitting the bug report, this way I can see where something went wrong. If the application won't launch, you can submit a bug report from the command line: /Applications/SpringDial.app/SpringDial --sendFeedback "Your message here". If for some reason you can't use that method, email me here: springdial AT-SIGN mineshaftgap DOT net. No matter which way, please let me know what jailbreak method (if you remember) you used, if you manually installed SpringDial, and if you are running SummerBoard.

Thanks:

Thanks to Sean Heber from iApp-a-Day for having the code open to resize an image. NerveGas for his great book. Special thanks to Erica Sadun for not just all the incredible work she has done for the community (including the OpenURL which is what the dialer is based off of), but also explaining how appLoad works. Thanks to Michael Kraft for the German translation, David Llama for the Spanish and Sanaa El Jaouhari for the French. Much thanks for the help I have gotten from fellow developers in irc.freenode.net #iphone-hackers.

Also I would love to see examples of this being used, so send snapshots of your SpringDial speed dials!