Why is installing an app not working?

[woeful agate]

I used the plus icon and its just stuck here. im installing a modded version of the game beatstar. how do I fix this?

[slender iris]

Support Ticket

We want to help you to the best of our ability, but first we have to ask and make sure you have taken the proper steps to installing SideStore before we can help.

Ensure The WiFi AND VPN Are On

Without WiFi AND the WireGuard VPN, SideStore cannot function correctly. Try toggling the VPN a few times.

Ensure You Don't Have AltStore

If you have AltStore installed as well as SideStore, you will only be able to install 1 or NO apps in SideStore!

Ensure Your Anisette Server Works

If you are using the official SideStore server you can check https://ani.sidestore.io/ in Safari for a text output.If there is no output, ping a Project Developer immediately!

Provide SideStore Log Files or Screenshots

Please provide as much information about the error you are experiencing. You can send the minimuxer.log file from inside Files > SideStore as well as in-app screenshots, and that would help us diagnose your issues much faster!

Finally, The Hardest Requirement...

Patience! Please have patience with our Helpers and Developer staff, we are all open source maintainers who do all of this for free on our own time. Thank you!

[gloomy coral]

same for me with all apps

[willow berry]

restart your phone

[woeful agate]

Ok, I’ll keep you updated. Today I tried it again and now StosVPN was giving me an error. Will this fix that too?

[willow berry]

for stossvpn turn the vpn on from settings

[woeful agate]

Thanks, these worked. Though, I thought I was able to install three apps? What were the limits again?

[willow berry]

you have the utm app installed

find it in your app library and delete it

[woeful agate]

Oooh shoot that was old. Thanks

I’m guessing I have all three now? I can’t install any more? Why r there 7 app ids but only 3 installable apps?

[willow berry]

because some apps take more than one app id

and they expire after 7 days

[woeful agate]

But I still have 4 ids right? Can I install more things so long as they aren’t over 5 ids?

Like maybe dolphin and meloNX?

[willow berry]

the max app limit is 3 apps per device

the app id limit is 10

[woeful agate]

Dang, I wanna have beatclone and dolphin. Is there a way to enable jit on device without having it use an app space?

[woeful agate]

Or is the only on device jit via stickjit?

[willow berry]

stikjit only ondevice jit rn

[woeful agate]

Dang. What was the method for doing it on Linux again? I might just use my pc to have both apps

[gloomy coral]

there is a pr build of sidestore from jkcoxcon, its an unofficial build rn but has idevice built in so u wont have to install stikjit, they will make a build with idevice and most likely extended memory entitlement built in soon tho as an official build

[woeful agate]

So soon SideStore will have jit built in? When should I expect this and will there be an announcement?

[frigid ocean]

I have the exact same problem, tried everything that is suggested here but it still won’t work.. any ideas?

[woeful agate]

Do you have app ids still available?

[woeful agate]

R u signed in with StosVPN on

And double check pairing file

[frigid ocean]

Yes yes and yes

I tried virtually everything I could think of, even did a clean install all over again but nothing seems to work

[frigid ocean]

For whatever reason everything I try to sideload through a repo/source works fine, it’s only when I want to manually sideload that this happens

[willow berry]

try restarting your phone

[gloomy coral]

yes, correct, the pr build from jkcoxson is now merged with sidestore:develop and is a nightly build, this most likely means that soon it will be in a official stable release

[gloomy coral]

right now you can get it from github actions, https://github.com/SideStore/SideStore/releases/ or you can go to the sidestore website, click “get started” click “just want the downloads instead?” and download the latest nightly

[frigid ocean]

Already tried that, even a hard reset but nothing seems to work.

Maybe the ipa is trash, it’s a nightly release of provenance

[woeful agate]

I installed the nightly but JIT seems to not be working

[gloomy coral]

are you on stos vpn

[woeful agate]

Yes

[woeful agate]

Would you like a screen recording?

[woeful agate]

Any ideas?

[lone cliff]

Install StikJIT

[woeful agate]

StikJIT works, I tried installing the nightly because stikJIT only leaves me with one app to sideload. I heard the nightly had JIT implementation built in, so I’m trying to use it

[cedar ginkgo]

LiveContainer

[woeful agate]

After some quick research, this looks very interesting. So it’s basically an ipa launcher without fully installing? Am I still able to use jit on app ran through it?

[cedar ginkgo]

Yes

You can use StikJIT

[fringe stump]

Once you find out, pls lemme know. Exactly the same problem. No idea how often I’ve de- and reinstalled this. De- and re-paired it, tried StosVPN and the other App with the config file, I’ve burned several hours trying to make this work. Goddammit

[cedar ginkgo]

SideStore with 2 apps, 1 for LiveContainer and StikJIT. You can use Pojavlauncher inside of LiveContainer and the same goes for other emulators such as melonx or PPSSPP with StikJIT for better performance.

[woeful agate]

How have I never heard of this? And how does it work/how does a launcher bypass the limit?

[cedar ginkgo]

How does it work?

Patching guest executable

Patch __PAGEZERO segment:
Change vmaddr to 0xFFFFC000 (0x100000000 - 0x4000)
Change vmsize to 0x4000
Change MH_EXECUTE to MH_DYLIB.
Inject a load command to load TweakLoader.dylib
Patching @executable_path

Call _NSGetExecutablePath with an invalid buffer pointer input -> SIGSEGV
Do some magic stuff to overwrite the contents of executable_path.
Patching NSBundle.mainBundle

This property is overwritten with the guest app's bundle.
Bypassing Library Validation

JIT is optional to bypass codesigning. In JIT-less mode, all executables are signed so this does not apply.
Derived from Restoring Dyld Memory Loading
dlopening the executable

Call dlopen with the guest app's executable
TweakLoader loads all tweaks in the selected folder
Find the entry point
Jump to the entry point
The guest app's entry point calls UIApplicationMain and start up like any other iOS apps.
Multi-Account support & Keychain Semi-Separation

128 keychain access groups are created and LiveContainer allocates them randomly to each container of the same app. So you can create 128 container with different keychain access groups.

Limitations

Entitlements from the guest app are not applied to the host app. This isn't a big deal since sideloaded apps requires only basic entitlements.
App Permissions are globally applied.
Guest app containers are not sandboxed. This means one guest app can access other guest apps' data.
App extensions aren't supported. they cannot be registered because: LiveContainer is sandboxed, SpringBoard doesn't know what apps are installed in LiveContainer, and they take up App ID.
Only one guest app can run at a time. This is much more like 3 apps limit where you have to disable an app to run another (switching between app in LiveContainer is instant).
Remote push notification might not work. If you have a paid developer account then you don't even have to use LiveContainer
Querying custom URL schemes might not work(?)

https://github.com/LiveContainer/LiveContainer

[fringe stump]

Exactly! Same here! But it won’t let me add the sources I wish. (See my post in quick support). So- double trouble…👿

[cedar ginkgo]

I think it doesn’t let you because of restrictions

It’s way better to download the ipa files and import it

[fringe stump]

Restrictions? Aren’t we all here to circumvent those?

I can’t import them, when I do and try to install, the installation gets stuck at 70-80%.

[cedar ginkgo]

Piracy

https://ipa.cypwn.xyz

Use that

Download the files manually and import them

[cedar ginkgo]

WiFi issues make sure you’re whitelisted from your WiFi because it might stop some suspicious activity

[fringe stump]

it’s whitelisted bro

[cedar ginkgo]

Then you’re using dns that blocks Apple domains

[fringe stump]

Im using 8.8.8.8

That’s Google

[woeful agate]

So to enable JIT in my apps under live container i just enable jit for live container because my system views the apps running under livecontainer as just livecontainer?

[frigid ocean]

I mostly download them straight from the GitHub sources