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.
BigBoss Authors: Mark Bruce & Kory LeeTags: brandon, el jabon, idontcrash, iphone app scam, iphone scam, scam
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 am
Thanks BB! Keeping us safe from stupid hacks, one app at a time!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
“El Jabon” = “The soap”…
where is this guy from ? :/
pd: somehow, when i read the description, i managed to understand that his apps “swapps” inactive apps from ram to the media partition…
im not saying that it works or anything, im just saying that either i read something else, or his lie is not AS bad as before :P
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I agree, although I don’t think using his young age to discredit him is appropriate. There could be legit, talented, and great developers for the iPhone that are around that age. I was coding multiple open source projects and online games when I was 14.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
He specifically says it moves “to the other partition from the system partition”. That is purely a file copy. When I have queried him more that is also what he explained. No matter. These aren’t even iPhone apps so they dont do anything. Perhaps someone should pull out a gamecube and check them out.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Thanks for the clarification. Im deleting it now.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I am Having trouble accessing the iSpazio server is someone having the same issue?
April 4th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I am using it right now, and it works dude.
Use FreeMemory to watch the free ram change dynamically as space is cleared out of ram for running applications.
I don’t know how it works, but how else could I use Torrentula, AIM, Safari with multiple tabs, play music, AND run Hero of Sparta without any of them crashing??!?
The program is NOT a mobilesubstrate plugin. Doesn’t even use Mobile Substrate.
If you can explain away what I have said, PLEASE email me with the response, as I do not frequent this blog. I would really appreciate it.
April 5th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Of course I can explain away what you have said:
1) Springboard cleans up RAM automatically. That has nothing to do with this app. That explains why FreeMemory shows RAM changing.
2) It is not a mobile substrate plugin because it is a gamecube app. Not an iPhone app. But the installation instructions tell you to install it as you would any mobile substrate plugin right in mobile substrate’s DynamicLibraries folder. Nothing uses that folder but mobile substrate. The iPhone OS ignores it otherwise.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I don’t suppose the date of DeadDude’s statement had anything to do with it?
April 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Nevermind… I’m an idiot! I was thinking April Fool’s
April 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Okay, so then can you explain what the heck is going on with my device? How am I seemingly able to run so much stuff at once, whereas before specific games would cause *everything* to close in the background?
I am an educated individual that is uneducated on Mac and Linux… but I have begun learning Terminal and whatnot to better debunk or uphold these claims…
Does a fresh boot really help the memory management that much? Would it allow the device to work that much more efficiently at maintaining so much MORE in RAM at one time? Nothing closed.
I still have the files on my device, but I see no way they are ‘called’ or ‘linked’ or ‘activated’.
How ‘illusionary’ is this correlation?! Logic says one thing, but my device is leading me somewhere else!
April 11th, 2009 at 11:26 am
DUDE!!! RENAME THE DOL FILES TO ZIP AND UNZIP ‘EM!
One is a MP4 file of a guy with a dummy doing a mind reading trick and the other unzips into an iMobileCinema installer jacking into iTunes…
WTF? (in case WTF is unacceptable here… sorry- it fits)
April 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Convinced now?
Yes, nothing calls, links or activates those except mobile substrate since that is mobile substrate’s private folder otherwise unknown to iphone. Mobile substrate wont do anything with them as dlopen will fail since they are not iPhone executables.
Yes, a fresh boot makes an immense difference sometimes. Even a fresh respring helps. Mail app seems to leak memory over time, safari runs in the background everytime you use it once, etc.
The fact that you can run all those apps at once isn’t that uncanny. The whole premise behind the app “backgrounder” is that the iPhone can multitask.