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How to Record video on your Apple iPhone 3G for free

Dec 13, 2008 08:24 PM
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This video will show you how to record video on your Apple iPhone 3G for free! This is a complete guide to installing the iPhone Video Recorder on your iPhone 3G, which also works on the First Generation iPhone.

Learn how to fill in the missing feature of video recording on your iPhone by jailbreaking and installing iPhone Video Recorder, and enjoy taking video on your iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G.

In brief, jailbreak,

Launch Cydia,

Install OpenSSH,

Add www.iphonevideorecorder.com to the cydia sources,

Install iPhone Video Recorder,

Open a SSH shell to your iPhone,

Log in, username "root" and default password is "alpine",

Type in the following commands:

cd /var/mobile

mkdir Documents

chmod 777 Documents

cd /Applications

mkdir Documents

chmod 777 Documents

You're done! Enjoy recording video with your iPhone 3G.

If you want to get the files on your computer so you can email them or edit them or whatever, you're going to need to open up your FTP client on your computer, set it to use the SSH file transfer protocol punch in your iPhone's IP address login name and password and navigate to the /private/var/mobile/Documents folder, that's where the completed video recordings are stored, you can just drag and drop your files from there.

Just updated your iPhone? You'll find updated Apple Intelligence capabilities, new wallpapers, and enhancements to Calculator, PDF cropping, and Live Voicemail, among other useful features. Find out what's new and changed on your iPhone with the iOS 18.3 update.

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