How To Enable Google Street View on iPod Touch 2.2

Posted by Owaeis On April - 27 - 2009

Apple provided support for Google Maps Street View in the iPhone OS 2.2 but didn’t allow it for iPod touch. Either they considered iPod Touch users less worthy or it is by mistake, you don’t need to get worry about! Somebody at iPod Touch Fans Forum provided a hack to enable street view on iPod Touch 2.2. But you need to jailbreak your iPod first! Here is the detailed hack method:

1. get this file via ssh: /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plist
2. convert to xml at http://iappcat.com/plist/bin2xml
3. add

<key>telephony</key>
<dict>
<key>maximumGeneration</key>
<real>2.5</real>
</dict>

underneath

<key>standAloneContacts</key>
<true/>

4. save then using that website again reconvert to binary
5. rename original file N45AP.old
6. copy new N45AP.plist in (make sure permissions are 644)
7. reboot ipod

Update: to get the proper preferences back:
/Applications/Preferences.app

1. in this folder rename Settings-iPhone.plist, to Settings-iPhone.old
2. copy out Settings-iPod.plist and rename to Settings-iPhone.plist then copy back in
3. reboot
all settings will be available as before (music prefs back)
(make sure permissions are 0664)

Cheers!!

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