The iPhone Keyboard Auto-Correction

If you’re like me, and you’ve been running the BossPref Keyboard hack, then the new keyboard Auto-Correction features in firmware 2.2 don’t work.  No matter what you try, enabling and disabling the autocorrect feature under settings seems to do absolutely nothing, even after uninstalling the SBSettings KB autocorrect.  After a little bit of digging around in exactly what this “tweak” did, I discovered that the SBSetting KB autocorrect really didn’t “do” anything.  It simply renamed the TextInput directory, so there were no dictionary files.  When you uninstall the “tweak”, it also didn’t clean up after itself, failing to rename the directory.  So, if you’ve been using this “tweak”, and it was auto-installed by AptBackupRestore, when setting your jailbreak iPhone back up, then you just need to rename to directory to start using the new 2.2 firmware keyboard fix.  Simply rename:

/System/Library/TextInput-bak

to

/System/Library/TextInput

Reload the Springboard, and you can now use the Auto-Correction under Settings->General->Keyboard.  The Apple fix to this annoying feature, offers a lot more options, allowing you to still use other keyboard tricks, without using Auto-Correction.

This is also a great time to point out that AptBackupRestore is one of the best little apts in the Jailbreak toolkit.  Since Jailbreak is nothing more then deb packages, this little apt creates a text file of installed Jailbreak programs, and then with a single click of “Restore”, all your apps show back up after a firmware install.

Zooming in iPhone Webclips

The ability to make Webclips (or url links on the iPhone springboard) is yet another one of the nice features of the iPhone.  However, the lack of control over the icon, and the positioning of the web page upon re-launch of the page has always frustrated me.  Back in August, I explained how to make custom icons for your Webclips with a Jailbreak iPhone, and how to zoom in on a image to make better icons for non-jailbreak users.  The only thing I really didn’t like about the zoom option, was that whenever you re-launched the site, the webclip was zoomed into the image location.  As it turns out, this is controlled in the plist file for the webclip.  Jailbreak users can simply open up the plist file, with the Property List Editor, and change the scale back to 1, and the position back to 0,0.  This will scale the page back to its normal size, and re-position the page back to the top left corner.  It’s amazing what you can discover with the plist editor, and 10 minutes to waste on a Saturday afternoon.