How to Activate Video Camera in iPhone 2G/3G OS 3.0

25 June 2009 by Vinay 35 Comments

Before getting started let me clear we are talking about activating video camera so please bear in mind we are not talking about recording with your iphone 3G 2G on OS 3.0 But i am sure sooner we’ll be able to record video with our 2G and 3G iPhone running on OS 3.0 This hack is a preview of native video recording application included in iPhone 3G S. the full credit goes to iSpazio team who made this hack possible and they are developing this hack. We’ll publish the every latest news so stick with us on twitter or subscribe our free daily e-mail newsletter. For activating the camera you need a jailbroken iPhone 2G/3G running OS 3.0 and SSH client (WinScp for Windows and Cyberduck for Mac). Warning please do this only if you are aware of SSH, WinScp, iPhone File system etc.

Download These Files :

Procedure to Activate Video Camera in iPhone 2G/3G OS 3.0 :

Download the M68AP.plist file to your desktop and connect your iPhone via SSH and navigate to/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app
Now find the M68AP.plist file and rename it to M68AP.bak.plist file and leave it on your iPhone, or yoou can also make a copy it to somewhere on your computer . Next copy the M68AP.plist file one you downloaded on your computer from the link given above into your iPhone.
Move the video (MOV format) you downloaded fro the link above to / var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE
Now respring your iPhone from SBSettings.
Start the camera and click the button at the bottom left to open CameraRoll. You’ll notice a new subdivision in “All Photos and Videos” and you can start the movie that you have previously uploaded.
Now you can select the area you are interested in and trim the movie.

Here are the screen shots of Video Camera on my iPhone 3G OS 3.0

View Video Camera Hack for iPhone 2G,3G on OS 3.0

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To re-enable the still camera, you need to restore the original file M68AP.plist by deleting the M68AP.plist file you uploaded and then rename M68AP.bak.plist file again to M68AP.plist. Again respring your Springboard and your still camera will be activated.

35 Comments »

yuk said:

Followed the steps and my camera screen is stuck. It won’t open the shutter effect in the start. Just like the third image above. :/

# 25 June 2009 at 1:25 am

Warut said:

I can enable the Video. However, my shutter is alway closed … How can I fix it?

# 25 June 2009 at 10:34 am

Tricks and tips said:

this procedure is limited only to activate the iphone video camera.i think more details are required to help new users.

# 25 June 2009 at 11:08 am

Vinay (author) said:

@ Warut @ Yuk At the moment this is experimental and iSpazio team is looking forward to enable recording tool read the last lines to enable your still camera again. As usual we’ll update you with each hack of iPhone so stick with us on Twitter or subscribe our free daily e-mail newsletter to update yourself regularly

@ Tricks & Tips Yes this guide is to activate only not for recording. We clearly mentioned this in our post.

# 25 June 2009 at 11:41 am

Warut said:

Ok for re-enable Still camera, Re-spring is not enough for me. I need to reboot my iPhone too. Now it works again thanks

# 25 June 2009 at 11:53 am

Sherman said:

I got camera and video mark. but can’t take either pic or video.

# 1 July 2009 at 7:01 am

Eddiedel14 said:

I am excited for setting up the video when you get an official release Vinay, thank you for all your work

# 6 July 2009 at 9:25 am

junjun said:

could you please send me the original M68AP.plist file? i accidentally overwrote on my iphone 2g:(

thanks.

# 7 July 2009 at 9:52 pm

pro_xeo said:

i can’t do this, shutter is alway closed..

# 8 July 2009 at 12:18 am

junjun said:

anyone, please email me the original version of the m68ap.plist file at ganadenj@gmail.com

thank you.

# 8 July 2009 at 5:35 am

Vinay (author) said:

@ Pro_xeo Yes it’s experimental, the work is going on to make it working.

# 8 July 2009 at 2:30 pm

Kamal said:

With regards to the iphone 2G (which I still think is one of the best phones out there), I think Cycorder is enough for video recording.

# 8 July 2009 at 3:22 pm

radio said:

How about making it so you can you cy or video recorder. record the videos, and once they record it then you can use iphone’s 3.0 video functions to edit and transfer. Can the native application see the videos from cycorder or video recorder? their mechanisms for moving the files as well as editing is still cumbersome to say the least.

# 4 August 2009 at 8:29 am

4stroke said:

anyone, please email me the original version of the m68ap.plist file at
fourstoke@hotmail.com

# 6 August 2009 at 1:57 am

bobo said:

why I can’t download IMG_0011.MOV file ? ? ?

# 23 August 2009 at 9:58 am

Prince said:

Ummm the download link is not working

# 24 August 2009 at 4:14 pm

Stacks said:

Can Someone Email Me The M68AP.plist File @ Dethustla36@yahoo.com … Thanks

# 26 August 2009 at 2:18 pm

tzezone said:

tried to download the video format from the link above but fail. I am wondering why?.. is there any other link to download the file?.
Thanks.

# 8 September 2009 at 4:11 pm

raphas13 said:

look i loved the concept and i hope it goes on, ill only (re)make it when video and camera are avaliable to SHOT…

for now, ill keep my photo camera… DD

hope this works in the future for shooting photos,videos, uploading and sharing and trimming and all the stuff that 3G[s] does but, when this probably happens, ill alrealdy have the 3G[s] D

good for me

# 13 September 2009 at 9:36 am

iphonegeek said:

just jailbreak and use cycorder..its so much easier than going through all of these steps..and a bonus you can record video and still take pics with no problems

# 25 September 2009 at 6:34 am

Mick said:

Is there anyway this could be linked to cycorder to make it more native to the existing photo camera? E.g. Use the controls that iSpazio have created and make it run cycorder? Or will they create their own native video recording app to use with the controls?

# 25 September 2009 at 10:18 am

Jackster said:

the link for the .MOV is not working fix it pls

# 3 October 2009 at 6:18 am

aCtiSyS said:

You guys can get back your ordinary file as below links:-

http://rapidshare.com/files/288451150/M68AP.plist.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2FURU0OP

Cheers… (Next time make sure you guys backup before do anything silly)

# 4 October 2009 at 12:55 pm

stan14892 said:

It froze up on the boot screen with a apple logo with a spinning wheel I’m restoring it with itunes now I would just go into cydia and use cycorder.

# 10 October 2009 at 8:52 pm

Liz said:

anyone, please email me the original version of the m68ap.plist file at eleezabetha@yahoo.com

# 21 October 2009 at 3:20 pm

Dave said:

hey my camera is stuck on the shutter picture and even after restoring to the still camera it’s still stuck!! anyone help me please~~~~~

# 31 October 2009 at 10:22 am

Dave said:

guys, i recommend you to use cycorder from cydia….
it gets stuck on the shutter screen…

# 31 October 2009 at 10:31 am

Max said:

The same thing happened with me. I have a jailbroken 2g with 3.0 OS. I deleted the new m68ap.plist and removed the .bak extension from the old one. Then i restarted my phone and camera is working again.
Then i downloaded cycorder. Now i have photo and video on Iphone 2g

# 1 December 2009 at 8:06 am

Cookie Haid said:

@aCtiSyS:

Thanks for making the original plist file available; I didn’t make a backup, but only renamed the original on my iPhone. Dunno why, but after deleting the hack and renaming the original to its (um) original name, I was able to take pictures but they wouldn’t save. I resprang and then rebooted, but no go.

BTW, the Rapidshare link’s dead; the megaupload one’s fine as of today:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2FURU0OP

@Vinay:

Very cool!!! Keep up the good work!

# 2 December 2009 at 8:53 am