Cerebro open beta
Apple’s Mobile Feature called Find my iPhone has been available since the 3.0 launch, the only problem is that 99 dollars a year is a hefty price to pay for a service that you hopefully never have to use. Today I am releasing CALocationService, an application that records your GPS coordinates, live track your iPhone, and much more. Due to Apple’s App Store restrictions, this app will only available via cydia.
To get started, open Cydia, navigate to “Manage->Sources” and add this source to your repository
http://chrisalvares.com/apt
Then click on the chrisalvares.com repository and install Cerebro.
You might have to respring after you install CALocationService to see the icon.
Open the app and follow the instructions.
[update] Changed name from CALocationService to Cerebro.
Tags: CALocationService, Cerebro, location
91 Comments
Sweet app, came up with my GPS location right away, sonar worked immediately, a few PHP errors popping up on the website here and there, but no big deal.
Cylay also has a feature which prevents the user from turning off the phone once it is reported stolen, this would be a great feature to add. Perhaps even a power-off password. Another great feature would be a power-on password, I would hate to have to enter a password every single time I check my phone at the lock screen, but wouldn’t mind having to enter one only after shutdowns or reboots.
I imagine more often than not when stolen, the thief probably does not have an iphone charger on-hand, and may take several days to get one or sell it, meaning the battery will go dead, and this is where a power on password would be great… perhaps inputting more than 2 or 3 incorrect power on passwords would automatically activate the theft mode.
Cylay also has a remote wipe feature, which would be great considering somebody just jacked my 3gs with naked pics of the g/f on it (doh!) Unfortunately I didn’t have Cylay, or mobileme, or cerebro on it so I’m just screwed.
This app just doesn’t work well enough. It’s got an 1150meter accuracy. You might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack. And the updates just don’t work. Nice though but it’s just not ready for prime time. Maybe move this back into beta or something…
I just downloaded the upgrade to 1.1 from Cydia, will this help reducing battery consumption or what else can I do, otherwise altough I like the app I will like to delete complete from my phone, can you tell me how?
any update on this?
@Thomas
It hard on the battery at least on the 3Gs!
I think iLocalis is way better than this…
@Norberto cydia > cerebro > uninstall
thanx for the great effort,,,, your doing well
Hi
I received the following message when installing the application:
“Note: You can not activate:Live Updates, Sonar, and Send Message from the Cerebro iPhone application if you Cerebro username is linked to that iPhone”
I changed my iphone for a new one, and I had this app on the former one, this has any implication?
What I can do?
I am looking for my iphone, need help!
This doesnt work. I have a 3gs and it doesnt work at all.
@Pablo Bastidas
I have the same thing in mine when I log in. Also I didnt see the app in the source, I found it in cydia through BigBoss. Things arent working right at all on my 3gs 3.3.1
Hi Chris, I’m having trouble accessing my account. I try to fill in the retrieve password but it says I dont have the correct email. Also you say to delete /users/library/preferences… how do you even do that? Thanks
i have installed cerebro on my iphone and the first time i run the app, it requested for an email and a password which i provided.. i cant access it anymore. anytime i open the app, i see a which screen with “http://cerebro.ifindmyiphone.com and it stays there till ever… what do i do??? please help!
I love Cerebro, but I’m wondering if it will work with iOS4? Any news on that front?
This Shit Doesnt work!!!…. It Doesnt Let Me See The Map On The Web Page. And Why Does It Need My Phone Number To Create The Acount…. I Deleted The App Doesnt Work For Me
Which applicationis better Cerebro,Cylay, iLocalis ????
compared with the price and the quality of these application.
It works with iOS4 but then he keeps on sending GPS data. Even if you switch that off, after a while it starts sending again. So the battery is empty in half a day.
Hello, how do you uninstall cerebro? I saw “cydia > cerebro > uninstall”, but I’m just not seeing any sort of uninstall option. Please help!
Using an iPhone 4 (4.0.1). When I send the “Sonar” push, nothing happens on my iPhone. When I try to “send a message to iPhone” I get a “NOK: Cannot connect to Gateway” error message.
I installed this on my IP4 using 4.01 and it works well and gives good results…the only pain is, it keeps respringing every 10-15 mins!!!!! Why does it do that? Btw i installed it via Cydia. Pls update.
Trabaja de lo mas bien,,,,Awesome app! Thanks for making this and having it available for free.
Hi I installed Cerebro and registered on my iPhone 4.
But I cannot login through the website.
The website is at www2.ifindymyiphone.com
Had to leave a positive review for this app. Been using since it’s original release has successfully helped me find a stolen and 2 lost iPhones!!!!! Thanks Chris
Super app, can I make an donation ?
Keep it up
greets and thanks
Kevin
Error: GPS Coordinates not available for this device?
hi, i lost my iphone, did you find yours? can you find them if you havent already installed the ap? can you find them if you have been issued a new sim card and im using it in another phone?
Great app… hope to see it updated. Work fine for me..
Hi I’ve loaded this on my iphone (8gb 2G original iPhone), all seems to work, and if I log on from the phone I can track my movements etc, however, if I try to log onto the website http://www2.ifindmyiphone.com all I get is this error message:
You Have No Devices
http://www2.ifindmyiphone.com/admin/noDevices.php
Where I’m I going wrong…
hi chris,
using cerebro 1.1 on an iphone g2. works perfect except it still reports coordinates to the ifindmyiphone.com-site and not the one i set up in the options. the plist in the cerebro-folder on iphone shows default values. any hint what i can do?
as an extra i’d love to have cerebro log gps-coordinates to an text file on the iphone (timestamp tab coordinates). in case there is no signal or i wanted to save on a data plan.
thanx for the good work,
tsw.
i downloaded cerebro everything was working perfect i registerd on my iphone and could see my location, i thought it was amazing that i could never lose my iphone again. So i decided to see if i can see my location online from my computer, i try to log in and it says that i never registerd. So i register with the same data i resgisterd on the iphone and it says u have no devices, what did i do wrong and how can i fix it?
thanks
Could you pls delete my account? found apples iOs 4.2.1 to be a better solution.
Hey is there perfect prog than cerebro
my iphone need to be connected to wifi for it to find the location? if somebody stole my iphone where thereΒ΄s no wif .. 3g ..then i will not find the location on the site Cerebro? Sorry for my bad english iΒ΄m brazilian, thanks.
@Janb. yes.. all tracking apps require a working data connection either through wifi or through the phones internet access.
Now that apple has opened findmyiphone for all iOS devices, you dont actually need other services. Try me.com and signup…
Yea everythings is good the only thing that doesnt work like the old one i think is the sonar, it only works when u open cerebro idk y but thats how it is for me
I go cydia and install, its say can’t find link or source package. how can i download?
pls reply to my email. thanks a million
Want to install it to find where my friend is at she is missing
It would be cool to have a “sms alert on sim change” to know the new number of your smartphone and, above all, the possiblity to use remote command through sms. For example, I don’t need localization enable all over the time but just if my phone is missing. So, enabling it through a sms would be better. Same thing for data connection!