My house caught on fire and collapsed. Luckily nobody was hurt, however we lost all of our possessions.
All future apps are on an indefinite hold, meaning Cowabunga Lite Py won't release by the end of the summer, as I have no way of developing or testing it.
Update: we found the macbook and it turns on perfectly fine, albeit a bit smoky. We didn't find my ipad though.
Tysm everyone for the kindness. We are good financially, so we don't need any more donations. Donate to the Red Cross or another charity to help others in need!
Update: I retrieved my ipad and one of the phones I had for testing. Also got the ssd from my desktop.
Some surviving items were stolen from the house. A lot of keepsakes like my baby photos were destroyed.
Thank you everyone for the continued encouragement.
The new siri ui and rcs can be enabled through backup modification, including Cowabunga Lite
I could make a custom operation for it but it would only be for mac
For CVE-2023-42824, vm_object->vo_copy now has an extra generation count.
In vm_object_copy_delayed, after setting vo_copy, it now does vo_copy_generation++;
When comparing vo_copy, it now also compares vo_copy_generation.
(Thanks to Fame_G_Monster for the diff)
Cowabunga Lite beta 1 for iOS 15.0-16.4+ is now out to patrons! Patreon is here:
Join the discord for more updates regarding Cowabunga Lite in the future:
Date in status bar without status bar overrides or jailbreak (not a breadcrumb this time)
(ignore that it is off center i will fix that later)
can be made into pretty much anything and go anywhere on the screen
There appears to be no file size limit for the new exploit. If this is true, then cowabunga v11 will become a reality with no compression or bootloop risk!
We are still living in a hotel and looking for a place to live. Not the best experience...
I think I can post this, so here is the interior of the house.
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How to do it on Cowabunga Lite Windows:
1. Open up Cowabunga Lite
2. Connect Device
3. Make sure SkipSetup is checked
4. In file explorer, go to %APPDATA%/CowabungaLite/Workspace, find the UUID, then go to SkipSetup/ManagedPreferencesDomain/mobile
Insurance is luckily going to cover everything that was lost. Most of my stuff survived since the fire didn't enter my room and the apple devices seemed to have survived the water damage.
Everyone else in my family lost all of their belongings though. It's covered at least.
Thank you everyone for the support and kind words. We are all alright and have a temporary place to stay.
Financially, we are doing fine. Hopefully insurance pulls through on this.
iOS 17.2 added this screen after using Cowabunga Lite. If you see it, click "Continue with Partial Setup"
If you tap big blue button without reading, that is on you
3 widgets currently working: date, network up speed, and network down speed
black bar is just for size visualization and will not be in the final version
also it works in any app as well, here is an example
widgets arent customizable yet but will be in the final version
device temperature and amperage widgets complete, same with adding multiple widgets in the same spot
I never found anything open source about getting the device temp, so if anyone wants to look into it, I made a gist about it:
Cowabunga Lite for mac still needs 2 more additions before release, but windows will take much longer. It is possible I may release the mac version by itself and introduce windows support later.
I have been very busy lately and have not had much time to work on anything, sorry
Here is the current Cowabunga Lite feature list:
- easy shortcut theming (with no banner)
- status bar tweaks (custom carrier)
- ota killer
- supervision
- LS footnote
- mute module in CC
- other minor toggles
if you are on 16.1.2 or below definitely DO NOT update
Next cowabunga lite update I will work on a lot of QOL improvements and accessibility upgrades.
After that, I plan to work on an app organization feature (will not require you to restore your device!)
Cowabunga v10 is finally stable enough. Almost no compression, consistent applying, and theming clock app! Beta available to patrons with a public release at a later date.
I was wrong about there being no file size limit for kfd, it still has that limitation. However, it can read and write to more paths than mdc, making it more powerful.
found a way to show the second carrier even when no sim cards are in the device (works for both MDC and Lite)
Is this something you would like to see added?
shutdown sound on unsupported devices using cowabunga lite, now available to patreons (watch with sound on)
Thanks twitter for failing at the draft feature
Since everything is pretty stable, the final release date for Cowabunga Lite will be this Wednesday, the 17th. Discord server boosters will get it early now
Helium v3.2.5 has released!
A whole host of new features have been added. Check the patch notes for everything.
Download:
Thanks to AsakuraFuuko, Helium will continue seeing updates! Please welcome them to the dev team!
Merry Christmas!
Helium v2.0.2 has released!
This should fix many of the stability issues experienced in the previous version. I am still working on getting it to match the status bar color.
Download:
very basic ui right now but no kopen thing because yes
i will make it a lot better and add features like custom locks from cowabunga, hoping to release some time this week
Cowabunga Lite beta 3 is out
Cowabunga Lite updates are on pause for a short time as it is being rewritten in rust
Soon it should work on all platforms, Mac, Windows, and Linux
Exact version compatibility is currently unknown
i will continue development for helium for ios 17 users (and those who don't want a full jb) until they get a jailbreak, then i will go back to updating cowabunga lite
Most tweaks now work on windows cli, only missing icon theming, cc customization, and status bar (status bar will be the most difficult to add)
It is a little difficult to use so I may just try to make a gui wrapper in python
Been really busy with college lately, sorry for the slow progress. Cowabunga Lite v2.0 should come this weekend for Mac as well as the first version of Helium
this is my only twitter account, please do not believe any other lemin or cowabunga account, and please report their account
the only official website for cowabunga is
I am not going to do anything with kfd or any exploits anymore for the time being.
Other tools will come along and people will port cowabunga anyway, so my contribution won’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
This has to be said, the disrespect from the jb community is NOT OKAY. If I remove an update due to bootloops, do not raid the discord or harass me saying that I only removed it for the money. People need to learn patience.
With iOS 17, apple started signing developer disk images. This makes things like Location Changer and AltStore's JIT a lot more difficult to get working.
I am trying to make TSS requests for Cow Lite (pain) so hopefully loc sim will work on 17.
Status update in 5 hours? 💀
Figured out how to bypass that annoying "Partially Set Up" screen!
I will try to update all versions, though unfortunately I cannot guarantee Windows will be updated (I will still try)
I am not continuing Cluckabunga/kfd, no motivation and it is really annoying to work with.
Cowabunga Lite will continue being developed as long as it continues working.
passcode theming *might* be possible on cowabunga lite (and kfd) using symlinks, just gotta figure out how to make that work
so far it can be reliably read by kfd, just need a way to write similar to what resolution changer does
Basic poc of icon overlays now working!
Ignore how ugly it looks, I just found some png online for testing
Some fixes needed obviously, this is just to prove what it will be like
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