Last October, pseudo developer “El Jabon” tried to swindle us all by submitting a fake app called idontcrash. The premise was great, but the app was totally fake. The developer had no credibility and was caught in multiple lies. The whole event was recorded in my posting in October in this post. (It’s a fun read!).

Apparently, “El Jabon” is still at it and has a whole website dedicated to his scam. In addition, he has supposedly “rewritten” the app and posted it new with astounding results!

After further careful analysis, I have arrived at the following conclusion:

This app is still totally fake! Do not install it!

Lets get into the nitty-gritty.

1) The app provided in the download bundle is a gamecube homebrew binary. It even has a boot.dol with it (LOL). Once again, this is not an iPhone app! This is some gamecube package he downloaded and didn’t even so much as bother to rename it! Wow!

2) The app’s included plist is not a mobile substrate plist file and cannot be loaded by mobile substrate. Instead, it is a hacked launch daemon plist, but it is in the wrong folder and points to binary files that do not exists. In any case, it does nothing and cannot work.

3) The description of the app has not changed. “El Jabon” still claims it works my moving memory “to the other partition”. Once again, as covered in my original post, “El Jabon” is confusing system memory (RAM) with flash memory (disk). In essence, he is saying that while your system is utterly low on system RAM, he is going to use CPU and RAM to copy files from one disk partition to another. And that is somehow going to help!

4) Even if all my other points were incorrect, would you really want to install an app by a developer that doesn’t understand the difference between RAM and disk space? “El Jabon” is about 14 years old and has no understanding of operating system or computer architecture.

5) Even renamed to dylib, the .dol files are not iPhone executable files. They cannot be loaded by mobilesubstrate even if it tried to because the dlopen functions would simply fail. If you follow the instructions to install the package, install syslogd from cydia, and then view your syslog (tail -f /var/log/syslog), then respring, you will see all the dylibs as they get loaded by mobile substrate. idontcrash is not in the log – for the above reasons. Note the log comes from mobilesubstrate not the package so “El Jabon” cannot try to use this as an excuse.

6) iSmooth, that goes along with idontcrash is also a gamecube homebrew executable and does nothing.

Anyways don’t be taken in by this scam. It is impossible that this package works.

As a final note, take note that in the forums claiming this app works (even though it doesn’t even load), SBSettings is used showing the free memory. Note that the free memory does not increase. If the app was working, the free memory would indeed increase. SBSettings uses the same method to grab free memory as apps such as top. These apps are made to monitor free memory while processes are running. You cant trick them.

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