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PsychoTea

[Tutorial] How to install Filza with Meridian

Tutorial

Yo folk. I never needed to use Filza personally, so I didn't bundle it directly with Meridian. But it's actually really easy to install, so I figured I'd drop you guys a guide. 4 steps; you ready?

Prerequisites:

  • An iDevice jailbroken with Meridian
  • Your iDevice running in a jailbroken state (with SSH running)
  • An SSH client (whether that's an App Store app, Windows PC/Putty, or a Mac)

Guide:

  1. SSH into your device. You can do this from on-device, via an app like Terminus, or on Windows with Putty, or on OSX using the built-in ssh. Make sure to use port 2222 (that's 4x 2's)!

  2. Download the .tar with the following command: wget dl.sparko.me/Filza.tar -O /meridian/Filza.tar
    This will download the .tar and save it under the /meridian folder.

  3. Extract the .tar to /Applications with the following command: tar -xf /meridian/Filza.tar -C /Applications
    This will extract the Filza.tar (containing Filza.app) to your applications folder.

  4. Run uicache. This updates SpringBoard and will present Filza on your homescreen.

Enjoy!

Note: Filza is missing a few daemons so writing directly to / isn't allowed, but you should be able to write to most other areas of the filesystem.

Posted Jan 12, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

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Yolomonster11122•

Great work!

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Jamdoog•

Thank you mate, worked flawlessly for me!

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ryannair05•

I can't ssh my device. I got median to succeed pressed done. I login using root then alpine and then I get "server unexpectedly closed the network connection". Do you know how to fix this? Am I doing something wrong? (iOS 10.3.1)

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Jamdoog•

What port are you using?

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ryannair05•

2222

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Jamdoog•

Try re-impacting, jailbreaking and then SSH'ing. I don't know to much myself

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xRobert1016xiPhone 7 Plus, iOS 10.3.2•

If you are using winscp, that might be the problem. I got the same error.

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eamonpowelliPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10.3.2•

Thanks again PsychoTea! Once I'm back from holidays I'll be sure to check it out

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MedoooMedoooiPhone 6s, iOS 11.1.2•

Can this be done with LiberiOS too? I think both have same JB method. Or ?!!

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grandcb•

you can already run it on 11 with liberios

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MedoooMedoooiPhone 6s, iOS 11.1.2•

I don’t mean FilzaEscaped, i mean install it depends on LiberiOS. FilzaEscaped contains the exploit itself and don’t need LiberiOS to run, however it keeps fail to open like 90% it doesn’t open just white screen then reboot.

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grandcb•

try the jailed one

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Yeah, I think so. The only thing you'll have to do is resign Filza.app/Filza as sha256 with jtool.

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MedoooMedoooiPhone 6s, iOS 11.1.2•

Thanks.

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bassamziPhone X, iOS 11.1.1•

I downloaded jtool but don't know how to sign Filza, could you please assist ?

I moved Filza to applications folder and jtool to root. i ran jtool --sig but that is the limit of my knowledge

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chromia19iPhone 7, iOS 10.3•

Can I replace hosts/shuttersound/fonts file?

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Should be able to, give it a go :)

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chromia19iPhone 7, iOS 10.3•

Hmm...Filza says "don't have permissions to move any files" so couldn't edit files.

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mrshariqiPhone 7 Plus, iOS 11.2.2•

Same :(

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Jake336612iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 10.3.1•

have you found any solution to this? Thanks in advance

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chromia19iPhone 7, iOS 10.3•

Nah i can't fix it.

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ryannair05•

I can't ssh my device. I got median to succeed pressed done. I login using root then alpine and then I get "server unexpectedly closed the network connection". Do you know how to fix this? Am I doing something wrong? (iOS 10.3.1)

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VeNT_AjayiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.3•

It worked, is it ok if i delete cydia.app and reinstall with meridian.

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

You can just use the 'Force Reinstall Cydia' option in Meridian pb4 to do so.

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ryannair05•

I can't ssh my device. I got median to succeed pressed done. I login using root then alpine and then I get "server unexpectedly closed the network connection". Do you know how to fix this? Am I doing something wrong? (iOS 10.3.1)

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VeNT_AjayiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.3•

Use port 2222

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ryannair05•

I did

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lelonghp•

Works like a charm for me! Finally able to change my iPhone 7 10.3.1 resolution. Thanks so much u/PsychoTea

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kenstrife•

did you change it to plus resolution?

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lelonghp•

No 7 plus resolution is way too much. I use 828x1472

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yanxijianiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.3•

Run rm -R /Applications/Filza.app Then run uicache

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GRIMWEED25•

Ok so on my other IPhone I have 7+, IOS 10.3.3 I have got all these steps done and now that I have Filza up and running, what is the best way to transfer/ copy the root folders I want to my MacBook Pro

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

I'm getting Killed: 9 after login and type every command Can't even see the dir list

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Are you using MTerminal by any chance? You've gotta use SSH instead.

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

No, using Putty, this always works before, but today I'm getting this error. I'm gonna install the last beta and try to re-jailbreak

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

What did you use? When I used WinSCP it didn't worked, but with Putty it did.

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Getting this: Wget: invalid option -- '0' Usage: whet [OPTION] ... [URL] ...

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

-O for Orange, not 0 the number.

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

-O for Orange, not 0 the number.

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Ohhh, here on my device really looks like an 0 Thanks Just uicache says that failed to rebuild

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Update to the latest pb.

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

I'm already did, I'm on pb 4 Edit: done, I reinstall the cydia with done button and now apears, thanks

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filoh123iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

I've saw some people saying that can change Resolution with filza, is that possible? iPhone 7 10.3.1.

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RStYLES1990•

You can but most chances are that it will screw up your device and then you have to update to latest version

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Dropbear is installed by default...

Also, how do I upgrade from one build from another?

Just install the new IPA.

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dchky•

Any time I access "Music library", "Apps manager", or settings, around 3 or 4 seconds later I get:

"Main binary was modified. Please reinstall Filza"

Then the application exits.

Is this normal for now or a bug? (I reinstalled, same issue)

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AppleDude1976•

Same exact issue, I tried deleting the folder that showed up when I did "find / -name "filza*"" and then entirely reinstalled it yet the same thing is still happening.

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dchky•

Looks like the binary is not being modified on the filesystem, not sure what the cause was, in the end I switched to one of the other jailbreak methods and installed filza from Cydia.

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dchky•

Login: root Pass: alpine

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ryannair05•

Thanks. That helped I still get the same error though!

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AppleDude1976•

First off just wanna thank you for Meridian man, just had a quick question. Whenever I enter the Filza settings, after a couple seconds I get an error saying that Filza needs to restart because of a change in the main binary. Is this happening to just me or has anyone else experienced the same thing too?

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sgt_bugiPad Air 2, iOS 10.3•

Same issue here. Just don't go into Settings.. :P

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AppleDude1976•

Well for the past hour or so it's been giving me that error even if I'm not in settings.

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min89iPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Can I use this to change fonts? Can I delete cydia to avoid JB recognition in my banking application?

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i0ntempestiPad Pro 12.9, iOS 10.3.2•

Successfully installed and got it running, but I keep getting 'main binary modified' error and it just crashes

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Seems to only happen if you open the preferences menu. No idea why.

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i0ntempestiPad Pro 12.9, iOS 10.3.2•

Any idea how to fix dpkg killed 9 error? I’d like to install some packages that does not require substrate.

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PPPL5•

If dropbear by default installed with this jailbreak then I want to know does Dropbear allow ssh over Wi-Fi?

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PsychoTeaOPiPhone 7, iOS 10.3.1•

Yup

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MomskirbyokDeveloper•

In Ben We Trust

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Baselt95iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 11.0 Beta•

Filza is installed, but can’t open it, it keeps crashing

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