Help/Support What is wrong with my process?

[BrettMM88 0 13]

Hey all, I'm new around here. Been a long time lurker, and tried many wonderful hacks from this site. I'm a computer programmer and in college and I've recently decided to try and add iOS app hacking to my arsenal. I've been at this for almost a week now with no real results, and I'm just trying to figure out what I am doing wrong in my process. I've followed multiple tutorials, and tried to chain things together the best I can but I always come up short. So here is my process, if anyone can pin-point an error or something I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it, I'm here to learn more so feel free to be harsh if need be.

 

1. I downloaded the App from the iTunes Store
2. Copied the downloaded IPA to Rasticrac on PC, into the input folder
3. Ran rasticrac to get a cracked IPA
4. Copied the IPA to another folder, which in this case is titled IDA Hacking
5. Copy the IPA again (preserving the clean file so I don't have to find it again in iTunes folder), and pasting this one into a folder titled Attempt 1 (Obviously i've been incrementing numbers this is an example)
6. Change .ipa to .zip
7. Extract the .zip (WinRAR)
8. Go into the extracted folder and find the binary
9. Open the binary in IDA Demo (I found the download on here)
10. Find what I want to hack and modify it according the arm to hex converter for what I want. I've tried many things from ADD changed to SUB, or NOP and a BX LR. Nothing ever works like I want it to.
11. Open binary in Hex Editor and edit the hexes then save
12. Zip the package up (WinRAR)
13. Change .zip to .ipa 
14. Use Cydia Impactor to install the IPA to my phone (Have also tried copying VIA SSH and running install on phone but it always crashes this way)
15. Test game, and find out nothing has changed all functions are normal
16. Try again...
17. Finally ask for help here on iOSGods
18. Learn something!

Thanks guys if anyone is able to help me I will greatly appreciate it. I'm not sure if I am missing a step or what may be going wrong. If you want to see examples of what I am modifying I can show you those as well if that will help. 

Updated February 7, 2017 by BrettMM88

[Amuyea 88.5k iPhone 13 18.7.2]

Use 7zip or winrar instead of unarchive it and zip etc

[BrettMM88 0 13]

Use 7zip or winrar instead of unarchive it and zip etc

I do, sorry I should have specified that.