Sean Kovacs

With the recent jail-break for OS4, you could imagine the millions of people jail-breaking their phone. I know Kyle at ModMyi is seeing it, as well as many others. Anyway, here is some tips to commonly asked questions:

• If I bought GV Mobile + on OS3.x, will it transfer? Yes! Just use the same Cydia login you used to purchase GV Mobile + before and it will recognize the old purchase and allow you to re-download for free.
• Why am I having problems download GV Mobile + (Host Unreachable, Error 500, etc)? See above. The repo GV Mobile + is housed on is ModMyI and it’s getting slammed pretty hard. And no, that repo isn’t running on some shitbox…Kyle has some pretty bad ass hardware behind it. Just please be patient…please. I cannot do anything for you.
• Why is GV Mobile (not +) crashing on X, Y, Z screen? The parser that pulls the information in for voicemails, history, and SMS is older than the one in GV Mobile +, so it’s not up-to-date with the new stuff Google threw in. Will I update it? Yes, when I get to it. It’s free after all…and I do have a life and job. Just sayin’…
• I bought GV Mobile when it was on the App Store, do I have to pay for GV Mobile +? While I want to say no, I can’t. Apple doesn’t tell me who bought it, so there is not AUTOMATED way for me to verify your past purchase. I reduced the price on Cydia ($1.99) so you didn’t have to break open the piggy bank. Pfft
• Sean, I’m getting a lot of SMS spam on my iPhone number, WTF man? Yea, me too. What’s the dealio? Spam filtering at the head-end…hmm. Anyone want to partner up and make this happen. Let me know.
• Are you going to update GV Mobile + to take advantage of eye-ball display, multitasking, etc…? Currently, no. I don’t own a new iPhone, nor will I ever, so there is no advantage for me doing so. UPDATE: <zombie-voice>Yes, yes I will.</zombie-voice>  <—that should be an HTML5 feature.

All good things must come to an end…perhaps. While poking around in the HTML5 SMS data feed, I discovered that there is an attribute labeled “free_sms_remaining”. I don’t recall seeing this before, but none-the-less it’s there now. To verify my findings (before Google removes it), you can spoof your User-Agent to “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16” and navigate to https://www.google.com/voice/m/x?m=list&l=sms&o=0&lm=10 (I would sign-in to Google Voice before hand). Cheers!

UPDATE: Also found “free_minutes_remaining”.

Update available to fix the “frozen” SMS/History/Voicemail tab.

This update utilizes the new data feeds for Google Voice. It will be much faster since there is less overhead.

Minor update for the free version to fix a SMS issue.

The update to the free version is up on Cydia in the ModMyI repo.
Update includes:
+Fixes to the login routine & improvements
+SMS parser update (should be no more crashing)
+Fix for long SMS messages (was getting cut off)
+Changes icon and splash gfx (icon should be right size/location now)

This update fixes the Magic Key errors and related problems. I also fixed the international offline dialing problem (+ to 011). Also, added proximity detection on the voicemail tab. I’ll be updating the free version shortly and adding some other hot stuff to the + version as well.

Should be available tomorrow…

Google Voice has always implemented ClientLogin API incorrectly…I’m assuming Google finally got around to fixing it, thus breaking a majority of the Google Voice related apps.

UPDATE: Sent in the update. Should be available in a couple of hours. I’ll be fixing the free version also…will come after the paid version is out.

I am aware of a login issue and am looking into it. Thanks for the heads up!

UPDATE: Issue should be resolved now. Seems like it was something on Google’s end.

This update addresses a couple bug fixes, including Favorites issue that caused app crashes, errors related to network instability, icon!,  and offline dialing international fix. I have a couple things in the pipes, including feature updates to GV Mobile + (full landscape support, multi-SMS, random request) and other soon-to-not-be secret stuff.