iPhone hack - Add native IM to your iPhone with Apollo IM

24 Comments

1. 1 Project D   |   September 25th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

   Any idea if this will work with an iPod Touch or not?

2. 2 Greevis   |   September 26th, 2007 at 5:59 am

   Native apps don’t work with the iPod touch yet. The iPod touch’s firmware does not show up as an option inside of the Installer.app. However, this may change. We’re working on it.

3. 3 Jaime Acosta   |   October 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm

   after i intalled apolo I get this message. Apollo requires the “BSD subsistem” package. What is that?

4. 4 LYNHDAN   |   October 12th, 2007 at 3:13 am

   FOR SOME REASON, AFTER INSTALLING BSD AND APOLLO, MY AIM DOESN’T WORK. IT WILL LOG ON, BUT I WILL AUTOMATICALLY GO BACK TO THE HOME PAGE. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME OUT. ?

5. 5 iphone newb   |   October 15th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

   sorry if this is obvious, but will using this application come out of your SMS text messages if you don’t have unlimited?
   i’m looking for a way to IM without using my SMS since i only have the 200 plan, is there something out there?

6. 6 JR   |   October 15th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

   @ newb: No, it won’t come out of your SMS. This uses either your data or wifi.

7. 7 dlucas   |   October 15th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

   hi newb,

   no apollo uses the IM protocol which is different than SMS, so you won’t burn your texting minutes using it. however, this is a native app which requires hacking your iphone and there are some issue with doing that now that apple has released firmware v1.1.1.

   i recommend you try one of the web-based IM tools like Meebo which works with many of the IM clients out there.

8. 8 Klikopelo   |   December 13th, 2007 at 8:03 am

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9. 9 celpjefscycle   |   January 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   Thanks for information.
   many interesting things
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10. 10 Chloe   |   January 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Hi, I want to add msn to my apollo, what do i enter in the server and the port fields… sorry, i’m seriously dense when it comes to this stuff!

11. 11 Soccrosse   |   January 30th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Can you guys make it work for firmware 1.1.3!!! I think this is the coolest program for a jailbroken ipod touch. It basically turns your ipod into a computer. I loved talking to my friends on it.

    This would be awesome if you guys could get it to work!

12. 12 mick   |   March 1st, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    so yea.. I want to get my msn running. But,how can i get the info about the port server?? Please

13. 13 xhris   |   March 4th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Hi,
    I had the same Problem,
    I save my acc data, want to Login,
    Error-Can’t connect to host, so i want to save New host data, but I can’t write anyrhing in this Box!!
    What is wrong?

14. 14 sudarshan   |   March 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    i have the same problem. cannot connect to host. can anyone help?

15. 15 lono   |   March 27th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    same problem here… Sometimes it will connect but 99.8% of the time I get a can’t establish connection and I can’t edit connection settings… any ideas out there?

16. 16 B-josi   |   March 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    I also have the roblem with “server” and “port” when adding a MSN account. PLs help!

17. 17 JMPlant   |   April 6th, 2008 at 5:36 am

    .. I have message telling it could not connect to authentication server : could not resolve host name. Any ieda what needs to be done ?

18. 18 BB   |   April 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Does anybody know the server and port information for AIM in order to set up Apollo on the iPhone?..Thanks

19. 19 Ali   |   April 14th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Have the same issue but came across an answer on modmyiphone forum, posted by blue_wind. The posting is:

    backup your /etc/hosts
    and edit this file with text editor on your PC. Add this red color text and save then put it back.
    (red text is everything below localhost):

    ##
    # Host Database
    #
    # localhost is used to configure the loopback
    # interface when the system is booting. Do not
    # change this entry.
    ##
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
    ::1 localhost

    64.12.161.185 login.oscar.aol.com
    65.54.179.216 nexus.passport.com
    65.54.183.203 login.live.com
    65.54.239.20 messenger.hotmail.com
    65.54.239.21 gateway.messenger.hotmail.com
    65.54.179.193 loginnet.passport.com

    reboot the iphone.

    Please, note that I have not tried this yet.

20. 20 teschio   |   April 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    @Ali

    Tried now, seems to work

21. 21 Pat   |   May 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 am

    Everytime I try to log into my aim sn on either mobile chat or apollo it logs in but immediately my screen turns black and brings me back to the main menu screen of my iphone.
    Any ideas on what is happening and what i should do?
    I have an Iphone unlocked with T-Mobile

22. 22 lee   |   May 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Everytime I try to log in it always says could not connect to authentication server: could resolve host name

23. 23 Liebling   |   June 25th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    Yes, the entry in the hosts-file made the connect
    Thanks man

24. 24 DF   |   November 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 am

    When I open ‘Installer’, I don’t see a icon for ‘Community Sources’ (neither under Categories or Sources. How do I fix this?

    Thanks in advance.