qTweeter – temporary cracks

April 26, 2009 :: Posted by - chad :: Category - News

If you use twitter you’ll LOVE the new client qTweeter. Think iRealquicksms for tweeting. App allows you to update both twitter and facebook at the same time, from ANY app!!! It’s available in cydia, but there is a trial limit of 15 updates before you must ‘donate’ to unlock the full version. Minimum donation is only $3.95, so get this people!!!! Great app!!

As a temporary work around, here’s two solutions thanks to 3744111 & Takuro over at xsellize. These require a bit advanced knowledge to edit these files.

Temp Fix #1
If you run out of the 15 free updates, you can use this to get another 15 updates over and over.

Locate and use editor to edit

/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.efiko.qstatususer.plist

You’ll remove a few lines of text from this file. Click HERE for a screenshot of the highlighted text to delete. Save and override original file via ssh.

Temp Fix #2
Using this method you’ll have unlimited updates, BUT you will not be able to open/change the settings of theapp, so you need to make sure you have all the settings the way you like them, run this crack and you’ll have no issues.

via Takuro:

“I ran the main binary through a hex editor and basically replaced any occurrence of “tweetsleft” with “tweetsmore.” I then created a new value in the plist called “tweetsmore” and set it to 15.

It was sort of an experimental thing. The end result is that the when you tap the app’s icon to edit preferences, the app crashes, but the main background process still runs fine, so you can still use it to post updates. An interesting side effect is that, in my com.efiko.qstatusbar.plist file, the “tweetsleft” field is now running negative. I tried posting 30 updates in a row, and it hasn’t complained about exceeding any trial limits. I think the background process is using the “tweetsmore” counter to determine if the trial exceeded, but the counter never decrements so it never expires.

So in a nutshell, I think I discovered a very dirty hack that makes the counter run negative. It’s a very unusable hack because it sacrifices the ability to ever update your preferences.”

Respring or reboot after changes and presto :-) Remember just a temp fix, buy the full version!!!! @chad420

3 Responses to “qTweeter – temporary cracks”

  1. Brandon Says:

    So far dirty hack crack has worked for me with no adverse effects. I can still open the main app… I'm using xvi32 and modified the qsprefs file. Changed tweetsleft to tweetsmore and I'm riding dirty. If you can't get to your preferences after doing this, you can modify the plist file with login info, etc. Thank you very much

  2. SoSly Says:

    would you mind uploading your qprefs file so I can test yours and then test mine so I can see what the difference is.. I did it but I can't open the app

  3. fubar Says:

    you can also increase the tweetleft and suddenly you have 1000 tweetsleft ….

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