We’ve been reporting in these last couple of weeks about hackers successfully porting the digital assistant Siri onto iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch. This method will only work on jailbroken devices.

You can try, by following the tutorial, to install Siri on your device running iOS 5 but you won’t be able to talk to Siri. You’ll get to use the Siri GUI but it won’t connect to the Apple Server.

Before you start you need to have the following:

-Download the Siri files on your computer
-Download OpenSSH and iFile from Cydia on your iDevice
-If you don’t have a FTP client on your computer, download CyberDuck for Mac or WinSCP for Windows
-If your device is virgin, jailbreak your device following this tutorial

1. Extract the Siri files from the Siri.zip folder downloaded above.

2. Plug in your device to the computer.

Open your FTP client and select SFTP protocol for the connection. In the Host name enter the IP address from your Wi-Fi network on your iPhone (go to Settings > Wi-Fi > and click the blue arrow from the network you are connected to find the IP). User name: root, Password: alpine and click on Connect.

3. Navigate to Root/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks and copy in this directory the folder AssistantServices.frameworks that you find in the Siri files you’ve extracted at step 1.

4. Transfer all files from the Springboard folder in step 1 to Root > System > Library > CoreServices > Springboard.app on your iOS device.

5. On your iPhone or iPod touch, open iFile and get to the same directory of the previous step. You’ll find a file named N90AP.plist for iPhone or N81AP.plist for iPod touch. Add a new property list named assistant to the .plist file and set its class as Boolean while setting its value as YES and type the following:

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6. Restart your device and you should have the Siri GUI installed. Hold the Home button to activate Siri…but the server won’t answer back

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