I mean mobile terminal showed up but automatically closes as soon as I open it. I tried putting Cydia.app in the same way as you described and it put the Cydia icon on the springboard but the same thing happens- I open it and it immediately closes.
My Cydia vanished after uninstalling something called safari tweak. I have 5.0.1 also. I'll be trying the above to recover cydia. Thanks
Thanks for the help, I copied mobile terminal and cydia deb files to root and used ifile to install them both. That was all I did.
Ah, well. Having iFile would make all the difference. Too bad allieverything doesn't have it; it'd make things much easier.
Okay, here goes. We'll be using UnlimTones instead of Activator because it has the proper directory structure. Please read through all of the instructions several times before you start. It is especially important that you not delete the file UnlimTones in step 2. By the way, I tried this method for installing MobileTerminal on my phone and it worked for me.
1. Download the attached zip file. Unzip to your desktop. You should have a file called UnlimTones.app
2. Using iFunBox, delete everything in the folder /var/stash/UnlimTones.app/ EXCEPT for UnlimTones and de.lproj.
3. Using iFunBox, copy UnlimTones.app from your desktop to /var/stash/
4. Using iFunBox, rename the following files:
/var/stash/UnlimTones.app to Terminal.app.
/var/stash/Terminal.app/UnlimTones to Terminal
5. Respring your phone. You should have Terminal on your desktop. Open it to verify that it works.
6. Use iFunBox to copy cydia_1.1.6_iphoneos-arm.deb from your computer to the root folder / on your iPhone.
7. Open MobileTerminal and login as the root user by typing login root and entering the root password when prompted. The default is password is alpine.
8. Enter the following command exactly: dpkg -i cydia_1.1.6_iphoneos-arm.deb
9. Close MobileTerminal. Respring your iPhone.
10. You should now have Cydia on your springboard!
Let me know how it comes out!
Should I delete UnlimTones_ file as well?
Thanks a million again! Just installed ifile
Just reinstalled terminal, installed openssh, and afc2 lol. Not doing this again. Perhaps someone can sticky this? I searched all over the internet and found nothing that worked until your suggestion. Thanks mate, owe you a million.
login root [enter password when prompted]
apt-get update
apt-get install Cydia