If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone (which, btw, is now possible with firmware 2.2) you can easily control it from your Mac (or PC). Check it out:
What does this mean? How do you do it?
Being able to control your iPhone using VNC means:
- Full keyboard support on your iPhone – type fast, save drafts, save notes, copy-paste from computer to iPhone
- Access iPhone from any computer in any room on your local network
- Be as lazy as possible; avoid reaching or moving to check text messages
- Remote control iPhone’s iPod when connected to your home stereo
- I suppose you could port forward and access your phone from anywhere, but then, why wouldn’t you be with your phone?
Installation is a breeze; open Cydia, search for and install Veency (thanks to author Jay “Saurik” Freeman), restart springboard.
Go into Settings, Wifi, click the blue arrow next to your network (
), note your IP address.
To connect to your iPhone you’ll need a VNC client like Chicken of the VNC (free) — Mac’s Screen Sharing app doesn’t work for some reason.
In CVNC, setup a Connection Profile for your iPhone – make sure to map the middle and right click, also set Color to “thousands.”
Connect to your iPhone’s IP address using the Connection Profile you just created (go to File: Open, instead of File: New to use a Connection Profile).
Once connected, you click and drag just like using your finger (which is represented by a small cursor). Left click for clicking, middle click to lock screen (you can even drag-to-unlock), right click for home button.
You can set middle button in Chicken of the VNC, I use a double click of the command key. You can even “flick” the screen up and down if you time your click-drag-unclick properly and double click the home button on the lock screen for your iPod control (or whatever you have double-click set to in Settings).
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Nice. Have you tried to access the phone via edge or 3G? Via wifi is great but doesn’t seem that useful as it implies you are close to the phone. Via edge and 3G opens a whole new world of possibilities..
Just tried via data ip address w/o wifi… no luck :(
Connection is great, but can’t get home key emulation to work. The post mentions “double click of the command key.” The closest thing I can find to this in CVNC is “Multi-Tap” Modifier Key “Command” Number of Taps “2″. This doesn’t seem to have any effect. Without the home key there’s no way to navigate the iPhone remotely.
OK. So the answer is “Control/Click” is the equivalent of hitting the Home key. Since I’m already using USB Overdrive to program my mouse keys by application, I turned off emulation completely in CVNC. Then I added CVNC to my applications list in USB Overdrive. I set the center (wheel) mouse click to be a single “Control/Click” and set the right mouse click to be a double “Control/Click” — the same thing as double-clicking the Home button. This allows you to access whatever shortcut you have set up for the Home button in Settings/General on the iPhone. I still haven’t figured out how activate “lock screen”, which is also mentioned in the post.
Option = Lock Screen
BTW, “Multi-Tap” Modifier Key “Command” Number of Taps “2″ does work, just tap command twice. Then I have “Multi-Tap” Modifier Key “Option” Number of Taps “2″ for lock screen, tap Option twice to lock.
Hope that helps!
Does anyone know how to port forward the phone so you can use it from any computer even if you’ve left the phone at home?
Also my screen keeps timing out. The phone thinks I’m not using it. Is there a way to keep it alive while using it other than changing the actual timer in the iPhone settings? If I did that and it was for too long, even after I was finished with it, the phone would stay on and the battery would drain!
1) it’s not possible
2) that’s the only way
Is there an app like this but for regular AT&T iPhones? (not jailbroken)???
Melita, That’s why we jailbreak, so we can have a REAL smartphone! So the answer is no. :) SAD IPHONE…. In the South Florida Area contact iclearsolutions@yahoo.com to hook your phone up!!!!