Resolved I seem to have lost my jailbreak

Hmm. iPhone5, jailbroken, worked fine for a few days, suddenly I found my phone in "safe mode." Thought I got out of "safe mode" by shutting down phone and rebooting while holding the "UP" volume button but though the Cydia icon is still on my home page, none of the Cydia apps are working and they don't show up in the settings, either, but Winterboard shows up on my second home page.

I rebooted again. No "safe mode" showing, but I still have Cydia on my home page.

I'm pretty much stumped at this point. Any suggestions?


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Whoops...killed the Weather icon from Cydia and did another reboot and all came back.

Weird stuff.

Frenchjay said:

When you're in safe mode everything is disabled so you have the ability to deleted/disable a package so it doesn't go into a boot loop or re-spring. To exit safe mode just turn th phone off with the power button only and turn it back on with the power button only. If it still hasn't changed, re-spring.

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Thanks. In my case, the jb's came back just as mysteriously as they disappeared. I think it was related to my downloading the new "weather" icon from Cydia, but I didn't see any error messages I could understand. Once I dumped the icon, the jb's came back after turning the phone off and on a few times.

It's too bad you cannot back up and restore your Cydia and apps simply from a backup app that isn't dependent upon the jb being up and running properly,