Apollo IM is a native 3rd party iphone app developed by “Arminius” which has just released its first beta that now gives you the power of instant messaging via AIM on your iPhone.
Appolo IM has just got better. With help from the iPhone community, the new Apollo IM (Rev 2) is more polished and feature packed than ever before. Now supporting AIM, .mac, ICQ, and MSN, Apollo IM delivers communications beyond any individual network’s limits. Your feedback supports ongoing development. Future releases are expected to add support for Yahoo, Jabber, GTalk, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour and file transfers.
The codebase and source code for the app is also available at google code here if you wish to contribute to the next version.
Note: If you are having problems with server connections we recommend you switch to using MobileChat app instead. Find the instructions here.
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hi,i have a question. i have an unlocked iphone and i really want to get this program on my phone because i use icq all the time.
if i install it would it lock my iphone?
that happened to me the first time I tried to use cyberduck, I restored my ipod to its normal settings, than i got the installer back and all my apps I had from before. after that i tried using cyberduck and it work, I noticed that if you restore your ipod, the host or something changes. so it may be a pain but I’d try restoring your ipod, it worked for me so…
i get “the host validation failed…” when trying to connect on the cuteftp program. Can someone help?
after recieving this message “failure to authenticate host” i used iphonebrowser and pasted the hosts file in applications/apollo/ rebooted my iphone and succesfully logged into msn
i followed the steps but i can’t seem to connect my iphone via wi-fi. I get this “failure to authenticate host” message. Any idea why?
Hi guys,
Well tried the above, but all i get after it connects is a white screen, and that’s it..! Grrr
Any ideas ??
Wow! It definitely works. Thx Hossam!!
The instructions seems a bit complex to follow. When will the new version of Apollo coming out? Is it going to include this fix on ‘unable to authenticate’ problem?
make sure u reboot ur phone after you replace the file!!
Are you sure you followed the instructions properly? I followed the instructions and it worked for me
1. go to this link and download the file
2. then go on to cute ftp pro or cyber duck and go to applications/apollo/ than save the host file you got off the link, and remember to over right the file.
3. than go onto your apollo app after your done with step 2. log on to your msn account, than it should work.
I followed all the instructions as directed above, but apollo still gives me the same error prompt. Any suggestions as what else I could do to fix the “can’t authenticate…can’t connect” problem.
WOOW JOEL!! thank you soo much…ur a genius!! MY MSN WORKKSSSSS on my iphone!! ur story will be told everywhere i go and cure the cancer of unathuntication of Apollo now and forever!! LOL in other words thanxx alot man u really did it!
i finally figured it out everybody! First what you need to do is download “Apollo” on the ipod. Once installed, make sure you also have downloaded “BSD Subsystem” and “OpenSSH” in the ipod system applications (found in the installer). Then, be sure to download the “service” utility application (also found in the installer). The service utility application allows you to make sure that your ability to use SSH is turned on.
Then you download (on your computer) a program called cuteftp pro. (it must be the pro edition). I used Azureus, but i’m sure you could just use a trial version.
While that’s downloading, download the file to your desktop. It should be named “hosts”. Now, on your cuteftp pro program, click file>connect>connection wizard. It will ask you for the Host Address. This is your ipod’s IP address. You’ll find this on your ipod under settings. You click on settings, wifi, and then the blue arrow to the right of your wifi connection. Put that number into the line on your cuteftp pro program on the computer. Click next. Under user name type “root” for password, type “alpine”. Click next. It will connect your ipod to your computer via wifi. If anything else comes up click yes, or next. When it’s finally loaded it will show you as being in the directory “/private/var/root” Zoom out of your directory (clicking 3 times) on the folder with the little green arrow. Double Click on Applications. Double Click On Apollo. On the left hand side, locate the file “hosts” that you saved earlier. Once you find it, just click and hold the “hosts” file and drag it to the right hand directory which shows all your Apollo system files. It will ask you if you’d like to replace, select yes – and after it clears 100%, msn messenger should work fine for the ipod touch!
My apollo app works with msn now!! thanks hossam!
just save the file or that script to ur computer with no extension. Like,,dnt save it as a txt file or anything!! Just save it as is. Then connect to ur iPhone via ssh or something and replace that same file called hosts in /applications/Apollo.app
Heyy okay so i go to this link …wat do i do with it ? and wat u mean download it? (HOw)
Thanx
sorry,,try this one..
I meant link* instead of like
that like doesn’t work, it said the requested url can’t be found. do u have another link to download the file.
download the host file here:
replace it in
/Applications/Apollo.app
reboot!
enjoy!