Cui – On My WayiPhone:Binary DisplayOrder.plist ONLY!
This morning I’ve been googling for a long while for a .plist Windows-version editor, but got nothing. Just when I was gonna give up, I read this from here:
The conversion tool I am using is http://homer.informatics.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/plutil/plutil.cgi/. And here is a much more easier web page for the conversion. iPhone recognizes both binary and text/ascii format of Property list, you don’t need to convert it back to binary.
So I upload the modified ascii/text DisplayOrder.plist to my iPhone.
However, after that my iPhone couldn’t reboot any more. iPhone kept rebooting himself automatically. All that I could see is a flashing Mac logo, again and agian.
Finally, i had to run the recovery 
, you know, the pay of hacking..
After a further reading, i knew the author never tried DisplayOrder.plist himself, but only this:
iPhone supports both binary and text/ascii format of these files, at least for these languages files. So you don’t need to convert them back to binary.
Hi, buddie, why not just put these words in your first post?!
Update(Feb.1,2009): If you are looking for a plist editor on Windows platform, try this pledit_10c.rar(via weiphone forum(Chinese), author qlmiao). Or you can also try plutil developed by Erica Sadun mentioned by George Zhu.
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August 15th, 2007 at 12:44 am
[...] Later I m gonna reorder the DisplayOrder.plist, you know, to make the desktop not so fully occupied, after i found a good plist editor/converter on Windows. [...]
August 27th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Some forum posts seem to indicate you can put a text format DisplayOrder.plist if it is properly formatted. I haven’t been brave enough to try yet.
Instead, I created a perl program to convert plist files between text and binary so I can edit on Windows. It should work on Linux as well.
Find it at http://www.scw.us/iphone
August 27th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I WAS brave enough, but.. you knew the result already
As to the exact format that iphone supports, it may all depend on the application itself. I mean, if the original plist is binary, we’d better make it binary after the modification; if original is ascii, then modified ascii should be ok.
Thanks for the plist converter program. Sure i’ll try it later myself when available.
It would be perfect it could be a win application, you know, for Windows users like me, are used to that kinda tools. If in perl, we have to install perl first. I’m lazy, and i know that