| Issue 7: | Makes iPhone unusable - "Army of Marching Ants" | |
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What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. From what I can tell, install NES application and Ants at the same time and you have yourself an Ants virus! 2. 3. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Phone totally crashes. Turn it on, you get black and white flashing lines and an army of ants walking over the Apple sign What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? one provided by nullriver iInstaller and firmware 1.0 Please provide any additional information below. This has a text book virus feel, Very serious, had to reunlock and everything!
Sep 24, 2007
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jennytwo...@googlemail.com
Sep 24, 2007
jenny, did simply restarting your phone clear it up? this used to happen to me consistently on startup before I added code to make sure that SpringBoard/SummerBoard was running before launching Ants. it seems there's some kind of UI race condition (which produces undeniably odd behavior).
Summary:
Makes iPhone unusable - "Army of Marching Ants"
Status: Accepted
Sep 25, 2007
Gabe, Thanks for contacting me, at least my iphone is working now :) No restart did not help, did it several times. After 2 minutes of flashing you might be able to get to the menu but then it would lock, it would appear to load very slowly, as if there was a race for memory or something, or 100% CPU? . Anyway, from what your saying, it would appear that installed ants and then summerboard creates this condition if you have not first restarted. perhaps your race condition checks for an activated summerboard but not an initial summerboard install, thats probably what got the phone trapped. Hope you find the problem
Oct 30, 2007
Gabe, I'm having the same problem I can't even boot now. It just locks my iphone up to the point it won't boot at all.
Dec 3, 2007
it just happen to my phone, what will i do? no matter how i re-start it, it wont go away??
May 4, 2008
Hi, I have my iphone completely briked wiht a 2nd war ants army on it. No reboot, no answers. It gets off and on randomly. I'm waiting for the battery to fully discharge to have a full reboot. Any idea?
May 15, 2008
any solutions to this prblm found as yet?
Jun 29, 2008
I have a similar issue - I saw the flashing bars on the bootup screen and an army of ants on each side. I tried syncing while the bars were up, and iTunes was happy to do it. Next boot up gave me a home screen, seconds later covered in ants that seemed to max my cpu. I opened the Ants app, and saw that max ants had been boosted to 700000. At this point, I tried to disable, but the app was unresponsive. I used SSH to delete the Ants app and rebooted the phone. The ants were still there, though - even without the app in the Application folder, and even after another reboot. I went back into Installer.app, expecting that I could re-install Ants, then uninstall it. It was in my app list, though, so I tried uninstalling right away. Installer got hung up, I had to reboot again. This time I made it quickly to the uninstall screen before the ants could overrun the cpu. I uninstalled, and bingo - I am free.
Jul 10, 2008
For crying out loud!! The freaking ants have taken over the phone!! I thought it might be fun to see what a whole bunch of ants would do to my phone, i had a good laugh the first time, and stopped it before it gout out of hand. But, mistake number one, i left the app on the phone, today one of my friends went back to Ants, and triggered a meltdown. The last thing I've tried is to delete the Ants folder from the phone using 'DeskAid'. Surprise, surprise.. the ants are still taking over my phone. And yeah, I'm getting those flashy white bars on start up too. I was thinking back to when i used BossPrefs to move all the apps from the OS space to the main phone memory, and how the apps folder may be hiding somewhere else. Gonna try looking for it now.
Jul 10, 2008
Woo Hoo!! Figured out how to get rid of the damn app.. Apart from the Ants folder in the Applications folder, there are a few more files that u'll have to get rid off.. Here they are: Root\Applications\Ants (You knew this one) Root\Library\LaunchDaemons\net.schine.ants.plist Root\usr\local\bin\ants_daemon\ (Delete the whole folder) Root\usr\local\share\ants\ (Again, get rid of the whole folder) And thats it.. Delete all these files\folders, and ur done :-)
Jul 10, 2008
How to get rid of (uninstall) Ants app.. (For the google spiders)
Jul 14, 2008
Although I still couldn't tell you what whackiness causes the "bug", it's actually laughably easy to get around this: just hit the sleep/wake button on the top of the phone. You will immediately be launched to the home screen, as expected. |