Hey! I got a new phone - iPhone.
Okay, but the first problem is — I’ve Google Reader keep forgetting my login information on the Safari…..
HEY! That’s really annoying! Make the browsing experience even worser than on my Treo 650! Totally unacceptable!
If you’ve the same problem, a good news is: There is a fix.
I found that the reason is iPhone’s Safari Cookies folder is not writable: /var/mobile/Library/Cookies by Safari.
Just go into the console of iPhone and chmod 777 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies, chmod -R 666 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/*
Everything is fine now!
You know what’s the implication of this thing?
I means, iPhone is really a cool gadget, and really looking nice (everyone star at me now, when I’ve my iPhone on my hand), but it is really a geeky tools for geeky people. If you can accept that sometime your phone will keep rebooting and you need to ssh into it and fix some problem, that’s fine. Or else… hmmmm
8 responses so far ↓
1 Ben // Mar 16, 2008 at 3:13 am
Hey man, this is strange, I searched for AGES for the problem, and eventually came up with the solution myself, then found your site
2 Hubert // Apr 19, 2008 at 3:22 am
I think you mean chmod -R 666. I wonder why Apple ships it like this?
3 chpapa // Apr 19, 2008 at 4:03 am
Hubert, you’re right. Thanks!
4 Si // Apr 23, 2008 at 8:07 am
THANK YOU! This was annoying me for ages.
5 Brad // May 15, 2008 at 4:30 am
Actually, Apple doesn’t ship iPhones like this. The cookie problem is a well-known problem caused by Jailbreaking (hacking) your iPhone. Restarting and re-booting issues are also symptomatic of a jailbroken iPhone, particularily with SummerBoard installed. Don’t blame Apple for the problems you caused yourself.
6 chpapa // May 15, 2008 at 11:19 am
@Brad But I know friends who have not jailbreaked the iPhone but have similar situation… they’re frustrated because they don’t even know how to jailbreak and ssh into it and fix it…
7 Ma² // May 29, 2008 at 3:41 am
hi!
tip from a french iphone blog :
juste delete the cookies older via SSH …
launch safari, everything’s OK!!!
bye
8 Ma² // May 29, 2008 at 3:55 am
I wanted to write “cookies Folder”
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