Comments on: iPhone Google Reader/Gmail/Facebook Cookie Fix

By: Brad Zimmerman

Brad Zimmerman — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:47:55 +0000

My cookies file got horked after I upgraded to 2.2.1. I figured it was a permissions issue or something like that and sure enough… Besides chown’ing I also chgrp’d; the owner was set to root and the group was “507191″ instead of mobile. Seems ok now.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:03:31 +0000

Thanks!! Worked using winscp and open ssh’d my phone

By: QuickPwn 2.2.5 Released for Windows - Page 6

QuickPwn 2.2.5 Released for Windows - Page 6 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:43:57 +0000

[...] What you need to do is either set the owner on the Cookies folders to ?mobile? instead of ?root?, chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/ chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist or you need to allow write/modify access to the Cookies to all users. chmod 777 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies chmod 666 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist What I did was change the owner to ?mobile?. Your phone must be jailbroken, and have SSH installed. You can use Putty to SSH to your phone and do the fix. here’s more info too [...]

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Anyone else have cookie issues with iPhone? — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:41:27 +0000

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By: Facebook constantly logs out in Safari | Rick Tech

Facebook constantly logs out in Safari | Rick Tech — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:04:37 +0000

[...] seems that the /var/mobile directory is owned by the root user instead of mobile and is causing some of these problems [...]

By: Ben.geek.nz » My Year in Review: Good News, Bad News

Ben.geek.nz » My Year in Review: Good News, Bad News — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:26:45 +0000

[...] In March I added what turns out to be one of my most popular posts ever (how to fix a bug on a hacked iPhone). [...]

By: Reading Never Got So Busy…and Mobile | FINAL COLUMN

Reading Never Got So Busy…and Mobile | FINAL COLUMN — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:36:41 +0000

[...] Update: Find yourself logging in everytime you access Reader on your iPhone? Read this article at Ben.geek.nz… [...]

By: akiss

akiss — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:30:19 +0000

Worked for me!THANXX

By: paz

paz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:19:52 +0000

You are awesome!!!!!

By: adhyetha

adhyetha — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:35:38 +0000

thanks dude…. it worked… u rock