How to Install Flash on your iPhone 4 ?

Posted by shan on September 1st, 2010

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. Flash player is available free of charge for common Web browsers, some mobile phones and a few other electronic devices.

Now a days Apple’s mobile devices continue to grow and hold the largest marketshare for mobile web browsing devices. If they don’t allow Flash on their devices, the largest group of mobile web browsers (Apple’s iPhone, iTouch and soon iPad) will have no access to their site or services on their mobiles. Companies that have invested in flash (and their customers) will be affected adversely, business and revenue will be lost.

Apple iPhone still does not support flash all thanks to the owner of the company itself. But now there is a way out you can now install flash on your IPhone –How? We will guide. Well to start with the guide you should gather all your iPhone goodies with you and have a Flash installer kept right beside. That’s what we do before cooking we gather the ingredients right!Now, Staring off we will have to get an iPhone for ourselves and next we will have to jailbreak it with any of the jail breaking tool like Ultrasnow or JailbreakMe once that is done your iPhone is ready to get flashed! Also, once that is done you need to get the Flash for iDevices called FRASH that can be done from here.

1, Access you iPhone via ssh and navigate to /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall (the last two folders may not be there so create them)

2, Copy frash.deb downloaded above into the AutoInstall folder

3, Reboot your iPhone, open cydia and download anything ( a theme, a tweak or anything)

4, Reboot your iPhone again

5, Visit any flash based site and enjoy!

Once you are done with these steps you will be able to view Flash content on any of your favourite sites. These steps will work even if you are using the iPhone 3G or 3GS instead of the iPhone 4.