[BlackWolf]

hi there,
I'm currently facing a problem with my iPhone I just can't solve myself ....

It's actually pretty simple: I wanted Insomnia to autostart when my iPhone boots, so I don't have to manually switch it on (which I forget most times ). So I read it up and found out that on Mac OSX "launchd" is responsible for autostarting programs.
So what I did:
I put a file called com.imalc.insomnia.plist in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/. The content of the file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.imalc.insomnia</string>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/private/var/stash/Applications.xAdcpH/Insomnia.app/Insomnia</string>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>mobile</string>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>

(I also tried some variations of the above)

and then I executed
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.imalc.insomnia.plist
which seems to have worked, because when I execute it again it says "already loaded".

Problem: It just doesn't work. Insomnia does not get executed at startup.
Any ideas why or how to do this?

thanks

[jakecigar]

thanks! I haven't needed to know this (YET)... but it's good to know.

[BlackWolf]

well ... seems I was wrong. I worked once yesterday but doesn't work anymore now (or I imagined it yesterday, I have no idea).
this is really driving me nuts ... my .plist file seems to work perfectly and when I type
launchctl start com.imalc.insomnia
insomnia starts fine. It just doesn't autostart when the iphone boots and I have no idea why.

So I'm still open to suggestions and stuff ^^ I really want this to work

[Sayen]

Hi BlackWolf

Did you get it to work?
I need the same as you. :-)

[BlackWolf]

not really. I got the wiki2touch server to autostart which worked fine, so I guess the problem is that insomnia does not qualify as a "daemon" and therefore cannot be autostarted (wiki2touch server was a daemon and autostarted fine). But I didn't really find any solution on how to autostart normal apps ... still hoping someone will help me, because I would really like to kick insomnia from my homescreen and just have it run in the background all the time.

[Kev1000000]

Any resolution on this? I am trying to do the same with NemusSync