accessing the .GeneralPreferences.plist in the mobile directory

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accessing the .GeneralPreferences.plist in the mobile directory

jorgeleo opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Jorge Varas commented 9 years ago

Hi,

Trying to use the SDMMobileDevice to access the .GeneralPreferences.plist and I cannot figure out how... any ideas?

Jorge

Samantha Demi · Answer 1 · Mon Oct 12 2015 22:52:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I haven't tried to access that file myself, depending on what version of iOS you are using it may be inaccessible due to tightening of access around files on the device. Could you elaborate on what you have done to try to get access to this file so far?

Jorge Varas · Answer 2 · Tue Oct 13 2015 05:00:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

to change values in that file, I have been modifying a backup and then restoring only that file (tricky, but doable)

But that path makes a reboot of the device that I want to avoid.

Samantha Demi · Answer 3 · Tue Oct 13 2015 06:13:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

A reboot is not required immediately after you apply a partial backup, you can delay it such that it can preserve the changes to be applied after the next reboot happens (this was defined behavior in iOS 8 and earlier, I don't know about iOS 9 yet)

Jorge Varas · Answer 4 · Wed Oct 14 2015 23:43:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I tried that, but the fact that the changes are not applied until the next reboot does not help me to avoid the reboot, and because the things I do after, I cannot delay it. Which is why I though, maybe there is a property list service that take the new values and applies them immediately.

Samantha Demi · Answer 5 · Thu Oct 15 2015 06:59:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I do know that some changes can be applied pre-reboot using that method but this is apparently not one of them. In that case I don't know if there is a way to forcefully reload that without a reboot. This isn't the most inconvenient thing as you can command it to reboot via the power diagnostic service.

Jorge Varas · Answer 6 · Thu Oct 15 2015 07:42:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

can you? how?

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I do know that some changes can be applied pre-reboot using that method but this is apparently not one of them. In that case I don't know if there is a way to forcefully reload that without a reboot. This isn't the most inconvenient thing as you can command it to reboot via the power diagnostic service.

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Samantha Demi · Answer 7 · Thu Oct 15 2015 07:44:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

https://github.com/samdmarshall/SDMMobileDevice/blob/master/iOSConsole/iOSConsole/power.c

Samantha Demi · Answer 8 · Sat Nov 21 2015 07:26:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Closing this as it hasn't been updated in a while and seems resolved.

Jorge Varas · Answer 9 · Sat Nov 21 2015 08:27:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

thank you for closing it and for your time. unfortunately for the flags to be applied I have to reboot immediately :(