Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs had posted an open letter elaborating on the reasons why Apple has chosen not to allow Adobe Flash on their platform.
But that hasn’t stopped Comex, developer of jailbreaking tools like JailbreakMe and Spirit from figuring out a way to hack iOS to get Flash content to work on Apple’s iDevices.
You might remember that he had figured out a way to get Adobe Flash content to run on a jailbroken iPad, using a compatibility layer. He had managed this by porting Android Flash runtime to iPad. Comex is calling the port of the Android Flash runtime for the iPhone as Frash.
But it was a little complicated to install it on iPad. He Someone has made it even easier to install Frash on the iPhone by releasing it on Cydia though we must warn you that it is still an alpha version so might be a little buggy.
You can follow these instructions to install Frash on your iPhone:
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If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone then use JailbreakMe to jailbreak it.
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Launch Cydia from your jailbroken iPhone homescreen.
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Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.
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Tap on the Edit button and then tap add to add the following repo URL to add sources: http://repo.benm.at/
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After it is successfully installed, tap on the Search tab and search for frash.
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Tap on frash to install it on your iPhone.
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Reboot your iPhone.
You’re set! Now just navigate to a page in Safari with non-video Flash content and tap on Flash to play it.
You can checkout the video of Flash content working on iPhone 4 after installing Frash:
Update 1:
You can also install the Frash Toggle for SBSettings so you can enable and disable whenever you want.
Update 2:
Flash seems to work quite well but it seems to be buggy currently as Safari crashes quite frequently. It also seems to detect non-Flash content as Flash.
Update 3:
RICKDOEZ has pointed out that Comex was not the one to release the package on Cydia. Comex has noted that Frash is not ready for prime time yet but looks like someone released it without his permission so please don't spam him with email asking him to fix the issues. He will release it officially when it is ready. Thanks RICKDOEZ for pointing it out.
Please don’t forget to drop us a line in the comments to let us know how it goes.
First for the first time!!!! This sounds great but will wait till couple bugs are off
safari is crashing freequntly …………………..
I agree with Mario, this is great news but I'll wait a while also.
Have got 1 question 2 ask the hacking world! Does any1 else have the problem of their phone freezing and throwing u out of apps since uve used jailbreakme?
Doesn't work correctly…
doesn't work for me on 3GS running 3.1.2, im getting "Unexpected error" :/
yep happen to both my iphones 3g and 3gs and 4
jailbrakeme crashes my apps on all three of my iphones
It works great wow what is there these guys cannot do
Glad it's not just me:)
cool cant wait to get it and use it, the toggle is a nice feature so you can save battery life
Yep. It kicks out from app. B4 jb it was quite good, i feel jbme is not ideal as spirit. I thought may b app not compatible with ios 4.01, but compatible apps too crashes.
Doesn't work on my iphone 3gs 3.1.3
. Getting unexpected error.
this is still n alpha/cancel install. dev-team did not give the green light. i uninstalled,she's not ready for my iphone 4 yet… "no thanks" but this is get news.
Oh fuck you internet, fuck you.
i managed to build this myself, and now this….BRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBR
doesnt work at all
this works.. why is everyone complaining?
Works fine on my iphone4 and iPad .tried it using perfect browser ,don't know if that makes a diff!?
Works fine for me on 3GS 3.1.3 in Safari and Perfect Browser. I'll try in on the 3G 4.0.1 here in a bit and hopefully post back.
Works on my IPhone 4 so far been using it with fox news.
crashes when loading hulu.com but I am sure that the developer will work out the kinks. heck he just jailbroke every version of the iphone with a single swipe so cut the guy some slack. or do it yourself and let the rest of us write negative reviews on you.
what i hate about it yo have to click on flash content to load not auto lunch
this is great news just wait for the bugs to be taken out of it next update maybe
It's not for video content as it says in the blog post.
Now just navigate to a page in Safari with non-video Flash content and tap on Flash to play it.
Thats why most of these people are having crash issues.
Well I have an iPhone 4 and 3GS which work awesome no problems the where both jailbroken with jailbreakme
Which apps are needed to install for running flash contentand how ?
One more thing there is one thing I didn't like thought where the wallpaper enabler and the Miley tasking for iPod. And by the way thanks comex awesome work !!
I worship the Comex God!
I get unexpected error when I click on a video,I used Safari and also Perfect browser and still get the same results. I tryed it on the iphone 4,I guess ill just wait until they fix it but Thank You for Jailbreak! I appreciate it very well
i jailbreakme 9 iphone today and it took less than 1 hour to finish all. so far no cydia apps got any problem at all.
I lost visual voice mail with this J/B , Does anyone know how to get it working?
I'm guessing its only for OS 4? i'm still on 3.1.3, haven't checked cydia yet for compatibility.
Jobby boy is beating his stolen liver with a stick!!!
Love to hear this news!
keep clicking voicemail and ending the call, evantually itll ask for the voicemail p/w. once you enter that itll work perfectly again
worked for me
Well its great news at last even for Steve J. as he will wait when the final unbuggy version of frash will be released and then will copy the code into IOS 4.5 and announce that we have finally done it. (Like it was with the multitasking). I still remember clearly the statements about the multitasking that it was a bad idea and steve was against it strongly. After Jailbreaked app for multitasking came out it took a while to copy the code and make a new theme for it but apple did it and they stole the idea and i guess the code as well. Mark my words WE WILL SEE THE SAME WITH FLASH!!!
I own a Iphone as well but this is stupid what apple is doing. Wining about the jailbreak community and making life difficult but in the end implementing the stuff that hackers are created.
I dont understand is there only Steve who makes the IOS cause whats taking them so long to make a software if they have so much people working on it.??
Can this be used for iPad (running 3.2) as well, or only iphone4 ?
FIX: Delete 1 free appstore app and then install it agian
after installing open any official app
this should fix it
Can confim its working on iPhone 3gS on iOS 4,01
this flash only works on porn sites and maybe others and comex never said this was ready anyway… damn u geeks why???? lol
I agree with risto, jobs has been doing that all along. Taking all the hackers work and then saying it's there idea! Hahaha what a bunch of crap.
i just read from comex twitter, that this app is not his.and "you people" are emailing big bad comex about a app thats unstable http://www.twitlonger.com/show/30kmei
…. im uninstalling this trash!! this clown stole his work!!! go dev-team.
Thanks dude,
its really good and working,
but sometime its nothing playing falsh videos,
can we get any chance to upgrade this software
please……………………….
Thanks dude,
its really good and working,
but sometime its nothing playing falsh videos,
can we get any chance to upgrade this software
please……………………….
Actually I had that before I ever jailbroke my phone. Jailbreaking my phone fixed a lot of it (not all), but with jailbreakme it seems more stable for me.
I get an error depends on gsc.armv7. Where can I get this?
Well not to bust ur bubble but this is how it's been scenic the beginning of ps's for any major platform. The big companies would say how something is a bad idea and is useless. Until they let one of the little guys make it and then steal the idea and repackage it it's called business.
Actually this is from benm's repo and many a fine products I have used came from him and his repo.
Works great…..
Great work Comex
like i said this is not comex app its in alpha stage! we are not to use this and email him for a fix, that he already knows about. for all we know comex has bata 3 running good and this benm gives us a alpha lol uninstall until its ready! enjoy ya day friend and your broken frash.
Thanks RICKDOEZ for pointing it out, we've updated the post.
Not working it says it need a dependency gsc.armv7
by the way, it doesnt work on 3G 8gb mc models, don't waste your time……