Getting MobileTerminal to Work on Jailbroken iPhone 2.1 Firmware

I did the jailbreak dance last night and installed MobileTerminal using Cydia. The app loads but then just shows a black/blank screen. Turns out the problem as noted in a comment on the wiki is the colors are set to black on black.

To fix this, install OpenSSH using Cydia and then ssh into your phone and delete the following file:

/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.mobileterminal.plist

The next time you start MobileTerminal it will rebuild the prefs and use defaults that let you see what’s happening.

This entry was written by Chris Scott, posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:28 pm, filed under Other Stuff. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Randy
    Posted September 23, 2008 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    Great suggestion! Worked for me!

    - rml

  2. Rob
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    Have you worked out how to input the escape character. Using vim is a bit difficult without it!

  3. Chris Scott
    Posted October 2, 2008 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    @Rob: use the short swipe to the upper left gesture. Or, what I did is put it on the menu. The command is the bullet character followed by esc–same as they have for the gesture.