Sunday, August 30, 2009

SwiftFix 02: Cydia Keeps Crashing and Won't Open

If your Cydia app keeps crashing and won't even open, you can try this SwiftFix.

**NOTE:  This is primarily pertaining to people that had Cydia working at one point on the firmware they are currently on, but might also solve other problems.

**NOTE:  You should try just rebooting your device first before doing this, as it might just be a memory issue.

1.  Open the folder "/var/lib/dpkg/updates/" on your iPhone or iPod Touch. 
               This can be done by:
                           The app iFile
                           The app Discover
                           Using an SSH client
                           Using iPhone Browser

2. Delete the numbered files in that directory.  These are the files that are in this format:  0000, 0001, 0002, etc.

3. This should fix your Cydia crashing.

**NOTE:  If it doesn't, try rebooting again. If that still doesn't work, go on to re-jailbreak your device.  Finally, if none of these things work, pretty much your only option left is to restore your iPhone/iPod Touch.



Remember, if you have a new idea, just email me at zortrox.blogspot@gmail.com!

1 comments:

Sharad said...

Superb....Thanks. Was struggling since long to fix this.

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