Crashes

[solyd]

Just curious how often people are experiencing crashes after jailbreak. It seems that my iPod crashes very frequently (maybe once every 5-10 minutes of use) after jailbreak.

It almost makes third-party apps seem not worth it.

[gloss]

Just curious how often people are experiencing crashes after jailbreak. It seems that my iPod crashes very frequently (maybe once every 5-10 minutes of use) after jailbreak.

It almost makes third-party apps seem not worth it.

No crashes here.

[solyd]

No crashes here.

None at all? Which guide did you use? I follow the Windows manual jailbreak guide on touchdev.

[gloss]

None at all? Which guide did you use? I follow the Windows manual jailbreak guide on touchdev.

I did mine on a Mac using the guide posted on the forums here. And no, no crashes outside of the same ones I occasionally ran into with Safari before jailbreaking.

[solyd]

I did mine on a Mac using the guide posted on the forums here. And no, no crashes outside of the same ones I occasionally ran into with Safari before jailbreaking.

Mine seems to crash way too often. Even when I'm using native applications like just browsing through songs. It makes me want to restore my iPod and leave it as is until Apple's SDK comes out.

[itazark2]

Just curious how often people are experiencing crashes after jailbreak. It seems that my iPod crashes very frequently (maybe once every 5-10 minutes of use) after jailbreak.

It almost makes third-party apps seem not worth it.


No crashes whatsoever ... except when I didn't follow the proper instructions for installing the apps like MAIL or MAPS. Other than that, the iPt works smoothly without any glytch. I've got 3 pages of apps and it still runs fluidly.

[Xai]

My stuff works great...I just cant SSH for some reason....

[solyd]

Weird. Does anyone here have a Windows iPod Touch that doesn't crash? If so, which guide did you use?

[Xai]

I followed the guide here and my iPod is just fine, hence the SSH

[richab]

yea my ipt crashes a lot more now after jailbroken. I might have to try to re-jailbreak mine to see if it does any better

[solyd]

I followed the guide here and my iPod is just fine, hence the SSH

Which guide is that? There are a lot of them. Can you copy/paste the link here?

[tony Ramirez]

Weird. Does anyone here have a Windows iPod Touch that doesn't crash? If so, which guide did you use?yeppp i do it works greattt no crashes at all

its a video tutorial
on youtube and theres 3 parts
it'll take like 10-15 minutes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UG7mA0bztc8 part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6cybNZxkFoI part 2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lB1GVq6xRZo part 3

[Aaleck]

i was thinking the same thing... Turn mine on and go for music and it'll play and once in a while music will crash... I go back open it up, it'll crash right away, do it again and does it again, then it'll go to the lock screen, then it'll work... Only thing I really want is the iPhone applications, dont really need anything else...

[solyd]

i was thinking the same thing... Turn mine on and go for music and it'll play and once in a while music will crash... I go back open it up, it'll crash right away, do it again and does it again, then it'll go to the lock screen, then it'll work... Only thing I really want is the iPhone applications, dont really need anything else...

Same EXACT thing happens to me. I'm not sure if jailbreak is worth it if this keeps happening. Has anyone had this situation before, but it no longer occurs? If so, how did you fix it? Maybe used a different guide?

[Vigilante]

None whatsoever (well other than Summerboard, but I just took it off). Used the one click Jailbreak, it was worth the 3 day wait. :)

[Aaleck]

Same EXACT thing happens to me. I'm not sure if jailbreak is worth it if this keeps happening. Has anyone had this situation before, but it no longer occurs? If so, how did you fix it? Maybe used a different guide?

I'm hoping its just some program causing the conflict and not just the jail break... I unintalled most of the programs that I had installed, and im going to see if that will help... I knew 2 where always running in the background, so I hope it does the trick

[Aaleck]

I'm hoping its just some program causing the conflict and not just the jail break... I unintalled most of the programs that I had installed, and im going to see if that will help... I knew 2 where always running in the background, so I hope it does the trick

Nope....Was using RSS and it kept crashing everytime i opened it. Went to music to see if it would do it and it crashed everytime i tried to open it, then locked and everything is perfect again... Weird

[Mystikal]

No crashes here.

Same.

[Aaleck]

Same.

Question, do you have summerboard installed?

[solyd]

Are those people without crashes running SummerBoard? Or Trip1Pogo?

[PowerFullMac]

SummerBoard is alpha so it can cause crashes...

[ywc19]

SummerBoard is alpha so it can cause crashes...


Just finished jailbreaking my ipod touch last night on my vista pc. I added some apps and had no problems so far, and no freezes. I used Planetbeing's touchfreegui.exe program, downloaded from the website below. Do a search on this forum for touchfreegui.

this may only be for pcs, not macs:
http://www.slovix.com/touchfree/

[Cointreau]

I have Jailbroken my touch and everything worked without crashing until I installed Summerboard. After that, it would randomly crash while playing music, watching video, whatever. So I went to uninstall Summerboard. My dock got locked up at the top.

As a result, I restored the iPod, re-jailbroke it (all on a Windows machine mind you) and re-installed all of the other applications, minus Summerboard. Everything runs just fine, no crashes.

I hope this helps narrow down what is plaguing you. My personal thought is that it is the alpha version of Summerboard.

[codingmonkey]

so what does one use instead of Summerboard?

[uburoibob]

I crashed quite frequently, and found myself restetting the iPod touch once an hour or so. And I was having problems with iTunes hanging up while syncing with the touch. So, today, I restored the touch, and re-jailbroke the touch. Had one hangup while installing the SSH part, where the touch apparently shut off. I turned it back on and the install continued. All seems to be well - I am in the process of putting my stuff back on the iPod right now. I believe I will stay away from everything but the iPhone Apps (ie: no 3rd party stuff).

Thanks again for this very easy-to-use program (iJailbreak 0.3).

Bob:)

Again, thanks for this FINE program.

[Aaleck]

I have Jailbroken my touch and everything worked without crashing until I installed Summerboard. After that, it would randomly crash while playing music, watching video, whatever. So I went to uninstall Summerboard. My dock got locked up at the top.

As a result, I restored the iPod, re-jailbroke it (all on a Windows machine mind you) and re-installed all of the other applications, minus Summerboard. Everything runs just fine, no crashes.

I hope this helps narrow down what is plaguing you. My personal thought is that it is the alpha version of Summerboard.


Agreed. I'm putting my money on Summerboard. I uninstalled it and everything works great so far. No crashes or anything for anything. Theme might be gone but thats a small price to pay for it being stable.

[solyd]

Agreed. I'm putting my money on Summerboard. I uninstalled it and everything works great so far. No crashes or anything for anything. Theme might be gone but thats a small price to pay for it being stable.

I just restored my iPod, in the process of putting the Applications back. I am straying away from SummerBoard for the moment and sticking with only Trip1Pogo and the other Applications. Let's see if this results in less crashes.

[adamsweeting]

The problem is if you have pogo and summerboard installed.

I had the same problem, now I'm just running summerboard and it's fine now.
Some people have said that just uninstalling pogo screws up your ipod so you have to restore. So I restored, re-jailbroke, and installed summerboard instead of pogo.

[Chris F]

If you are crashing constantly something is wrong, likely you either messed something up or a 3rd party application is behaving badly.

If you plan on running Summerboard only use the 1.1.1 alpha version.

Look at the RSS feed on touchdev.net for updated pages they often have incompatibility tips and stuff like that.

Since the 1.1.1 jailbreaks are still very fresh there are going to be alot of incompatibility problems. Best to jailbreak get yourself a known working basic configuration (say jailbreak + iPhone apps + installer.app + springboard mod) and run with that for a few days to ensure stability. Once you know its good then you at least can attribute instability to some 3rd party instead of your jailbreak/setup.

[solyd]

The problem is if you have pogo and summerboard installed.

I had the same problem, now I'm just running summerboard and it's fine now.
Some people have said that just uninstalling pogo screws up your ipod so you have to restore. So I restored, re-jailbroke, and installed summerboard instead of pogo.

That wasn't the problem. I had only SummerBoard (the one from the website) installed; I skipped Trip1Pogo during the manual jailbreak.

Anyways, I am now running Trip1Pogo instead of SummerBoard, and there are no crashes. So I guess SummerBoard is still too alpha.

[bwanac]

my problem proved to be the swedishviking hack to improve my app capacity. check out the post in there, about how it should be done on the touch to make it work correctly! :P

[thesdx]

Ever since I've installed Summerboard, Safari likes to crash ALOT. It seems to happen in bunches. Sometimes it never crashes, but other times it crashes 8 times in a row, all in a 1 minute period.

[solyd]

my problem proved to be the swedishviking hack to improve my app capacity. check out the post in there, about how it should be done on the touch to make it work correctly! :P

I never tried that hack, but this might be useful to some users out there.

[Cache]

No crashes whatsoever, used planetbeings 1-click touchfree program (the one without auto summerboard installment) like 5 days ago I think. Then I manually installed the alpha summerboard and haven't experienced any crashes or lockups. Well one time it reset, but that was because of TTR. :P

Weird so many people have problems, while some have none. :(

I'm not complaining though. :P

[notation]

Safari crashes constantly on me. I can't go 3 minutes without Safari crashing and closing. Also, when I'm playing music while web browsing, the first song that plays will always stop less than a minute later. If I try to restart the song by pressing the home button twice, Safari and the song will crash.

I've jailbroken my Touch using touchfree, and the only programs I've installed are the Calender fix and Community Sources, all through the Installer. I've tried restoring my Touch, but the same problems still occur.

I'm not sure if this is a common problem, or if I should take my Touch in for a replacement.

On a related note I can't connect with my Touch, even after going through 4 different FTP programs. They all time out. I've made sure the IP address and user/pass are correct, but no luck.

[solyd]

Safari crashes constantly on me. I can't go 3 minutes without Safari crashing and closing. Also, when I'm playing music while web browsing, the first song that plays will always stop less than a minute later. If I try to restart the song by pressing the home button twice, Safari and the song will crash.

I've jailbroken my Touch using touchfree, and the only programs I've installed are the Calender fix and Community Sources, all through the Installer. I've tried restoring my Touch, but the same problems still occur.

I'm not sure if this is a common problem, or if I should take my Touch in for a replacement.

On a related note I can't connect with my Touch, even after going through 4 different FTP programs. They all time out. I've made sure the IP address and user/pass are correct, but no luck.

Which version of the touchFree program did you use? Version 5 installs SummerBoard automatically.

It would be hilarious to take your Touch in for a replacement though.
"Hi, I would like a replacement for my iPod Touch. I can't seem to hack it right."

[notation]

Which version of the touchFree program did you use? Version 5 installs SummerBoard automatically.

It would be hilarious to take your Touch in for a replacement though.
"Hi, I would like a replacement for my iPod Touch. I can't seem to hack it right."

I used ver 0.6. Looking at the page it says it installs an alpha version of Summerboard. Can I use Touchfree without installing Summerboard?

[solyd]

I used ver 0.6. Looking at the page it says it installs an alpha version of Summerboard. Can I use Touchfree without installing Summerboard?

If you can get your hands on the older versions, they don't install SummerBoard. You can also just do a manual jailbreak, this way you can understand the steps better. The instructions are pretty easy to follow:
http://www.touchdev.net/wiki/Windows_jailbreak

[ywc19]

I have Jailbroken my touch and everything worked without crashing until I installed Summerboard. After that, it would randomly crash while playing music, watching video, whatever. So I went to uninstall Summerboard. My dock got locked up at the top.

As a result, I restored the iPod, re-jailbroke it (all on a Windows machine mind you) and re-installed all of the other applications, minus Summerboard. Everything runs just fine, no crashes.

I hope this helps narrow down what is plaguing you. My personal thought is that it is the alpha version of Summerboard.


Regarding my post #22, I did not install Summerboard, and after reading this, I won't.

[dellavoce]

I have a similar problem. A certain program will shut itself down repeatedly then go to a wake screen. Then fine. Its not bad enough yet to warrant doing anything but I feel better knowing I'm not the only one

[sibilly]

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I used the fully automatic jailbreak all you hafta do is reset a few times, i used windows,never crashed mine,try restoring n use that jailbreak, i think its called touchfree or jailfree,its super easy!!'

[solyd]

I'm 99.9% sure that SummerBoard is causing all the crashes. I restored my iPod and am now using only Trip1Pogo, I am getting no crashes whatsoever. I do miss the eyecandy and some of the customization, but I'd rather wait for a more stable release than have my iPod crash all the time.

[i0Nic]

i had the crashing problem too, so I restored and hacked it again, this te skipping summerboard and no no crashes at all.

[lordjonny]

use ijailbreak its awesome and super easy as i have no crashes here just a quick tip though apparently the summerboard installer app isnt up to date and doesnt work so you have to manually install, there are guides somewhere, i fiddled with old and new summerboard components dodgy i know but now works amazingly, maps, mail, NES, notes the whole lot its AWESOME:D just follow guides for iphone apps etc that is the main source of crashes due to missing frameworks along with summerboard which once working is good but missing alot of the old feaures i noticed when it didnt work and but the dock at the top :S but...

NO CRASHES:D
GD nite
lordjonny:apple:

[Ronnoco]

Jailbroke 8G Touch here (no Summerboard)...done on a PPC G4 PB Firewire 800...not a single problem now in the 4 days since...just lovin' this thing...

[Aaleck]

I'm 99.9% sure that SummerBoard is causing all the crashes. I restored my iPod and am now using only Trip1Pogo, I am getting no crashes whatsoever. I do miss the eyecandy and some of the customization, but I'd rather wait for a more stable release than have my iPod crash all the time.

Yep. Agreed.