Solving problems with the iPhone applications under 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
OK, we did look into depth at the 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 firmware installations for all the iPhone applications. It seems the even though the applications are compatible, the problem is with the installer used on the iPhone.
We will work hard to bring the applications to the extend possible through the free Apple channel so you can use the official and secure Apple installer. Meantime, we will give out some solutions to get the applications running.
The installer installs the folder for the owner ‘root’. The user ‘mobile’ that the application is running under is not allowed to save files in this folder. To fix the saving problem for the Go game just issue the following line after you login your iPhone using ssh:
chown -R mobile /var/mobile/Media/iGoSGF
Replace iGoSGF with another name for the Chess application or even remove it. The -R option makes it perform recursively on all underlaying files and directories.
You can also use a tool like WinSCP if you are on windows and scare to type a line in a dark command line environment.
Hi, great application, but I am having difficulties saving and loading games. You have given the instructions above how to fix this issue (under article “SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH THE IPHONE APPLICATIONS UNDER 1.1.3 AND 1.1.4″) but for the ordinary iphone user such as myself they are beyond me. can you please explain what do you mean by “Replace iGoSGF with another name for the Chess application or even remove it. The -R option makes it perform recursively on all underlaying files and directories.” I am running 1.1.4 iphone software and Chess v1.7. I am running Mac OS X. Your help much appreciated! Alex
Thanks for the help — I have firmware 1.1.4 and was having trouble saving. Additional note: I had to restart the iPhone (power off/on cycle) for the permissions change to take effect. “Save…” and “Load…” work but I’m not sure that just plain “Save” or “Load” work. I was hoping to use the default “save on exit” setting to preserve games but when I exit, I get a blank board and have to hunt for my previous game with “Load…”.
Other than that, great implementation. Really like the board zoom in. Nice.
dennis!
Hi there,
I love iGo and made a donation in thanks. I’d love to be able to turn GNUGo off and just play both sides on the iphone, such as when viewing an SGF or two-player. In any case keep up the good work.
Please, make a coordinates on a go board. It is hard to find the place you want to place a stone to if you zoom and almost impossible to do it without zooming…
In order to get the ’save on exit’ function working on firmware 1.1.4 you need to allow write access to the ‘chess.app’ folder in applications. SSH into your phone and use the following commands…
chown -R mobile /var/mobile/Media/iChessPGN
chown -R mobile /Applications/Chess.app
Cheers
Hi, I just bought un iphone running on firmware 1.1.4 and now I am looking for a chess game. Is the installer.app on your website link still the right one to download (old version?) or is there now another possibility via the apple installer as you mentioned above? I also read there will be a new firmware version 2.0 in june- will this help solve problems and is it better to wait a bit? Thanks a lot for your help!
Hello, any news on the “READ NO DATA” bug? A message box saying “Alert: Read no data” kept showing up while iGO is thinking its next move… very annoying, had to kill the program and restart every time (and lost all the previous steps!). It happens EVERYTIME when I make a complicated move and the program seems not able to handle the extensive calculations and simply crashes itself!
If you prefer, I can send you a saved game (in SGF) which will trigger this crash 100% time (after I make a specific move).
hi!
I have just installed the screenshot program but doesnt work. I have 1.1.3 version of iPhone. I’m confused whether its compatible or not.
thanx.
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I use Chess 1.6 everytime I make a move a popup comes and says “Alert” en I press OK!
I can make every illegal move. Tell me what to do. I uninstalled reboot etc etc.
I have the same problem with Chess 1.6 and 1.7 on firmware 1.1.4 - a popup comes up, no message and the gnuchess engine seems disconnected. I ssh in, did a ps -ef and saw that the gnuchess engine is displayed as “(gnuchess)”. Running from the command line will work, but I can’t terminate the program. Perhaps a shell issue? I don’t have this problem with iGo, only happens with Chess.
Ok, about the sysinfo app, I am not sure if this is the right place to post, if not please tell me, I do not know why, but I can not kill any process with sysinfo on my 1.1.4 8 gig iphone, help!!!!!!!