Flash on iPad: Installation Guide

08 Jul 2010 | Jailbreak |

Frash mobile plugin hack

Guess you have already read about Comex’s new achievement, haven’t you? The guy ported Flash 10.1 to the iPad some time ago, and guess what? The files are now available on the Net, so you can also run Flash on your iPad provided that it is jailbroken. Frash, which is the name of the plugin by Comex, does not allow the playback of video yet. Still, you can already play games and animations on your iPad without any problems. Here’s a little manual on how to install Frash to the iPad. It’s not as easy as it could have been but I hope you will still be able to make it with its help. So, here you go:

How to Install Flash on Your iPad:

First of all, answer one simple question: is your iPad jailbroken? If it is, then proceed with the next steps. If it is not, then click here (if you are a Mac OS X user) or here (if you are Windows user) to get the guide telling you how to jailbreak.

1. Download Frash.deb file and remember where you downloaded it.

2. Choose the way you will transfer files to your iPad.

If you are a Mac user, it will be simpler than you can imagine: go ahead and install Netatalk. That will pop up your iPad right in the Finder’s Sharing list automatically.

If you are a Windows guy, you need to install and run OpenSSH and use WinSCP. Whatever way you choose, root is the login and alpine is the password.

Be careful with the following steps: if you do something wrong, you can mess things up in a real serious way.

3. As soon as the abovementioned steps are taken, move to /var/root/Media the way it is shown below:

Filesystem in iPad

4. When you make it there, open the folder called Media and create another folder called Cydia inside it.

5. Go to the Cydia folder and create one more folder. Name it AutoInstall.

6. Upload Frash to freshly created AutoInstall folder.

7. The most difficult part is now over. Restart your iPad once or, even better, twice.

8. Bingo! Feel free to test your device’s new functionality by visiting any page offering non-video Flash content in your Safari browser and hitting the F logo provided there. Don’t forget that now Frash does not play video – only games and animations. We had to deal with a couple of crashes but the overall performance was alright – and the point is that it will only get better with time.

Steve Jobs could have predicted that something of this kind would happen in the end. Go ahead – try running Flash content on your iPad with that Frash plugin and let me know how you liked it. I will be waiting for your comments. If something goes wrong, restart the Springboard with the help of SBSettings or the respring app. Anyway, we did well even without it. Just for your info: we disclaim any responsibility for unexpected outcome – everything you do to your iPad is at your own risk.

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