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Cydia Crashing

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hotnts

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Mar 26, 2009
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My phone is jailbroken with spirit. It has been for about a week or so and i love it. I recently tried to install rock on my phone and about halfway through the install my phone just rebooted. After that cydia opens to the reloading screen then it crashes. I have resprung, rebooted many times and still the same result. Every other app runs fine, it seems that cydia somehow was messed up during the failed install. Would anybody have any incite on how to fix this? Without restoring:rolleyes: Thanks in advance to any help you could give!
 
trublu304 said:
Search this forum and there are plenty of answers out there.

check out https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/859639/

I had to try delete all the updates a couple of days ago under var/lib/dpkg/updates

I was having the same issue earlier :eek:
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i guess my only problem would be downloading iFile or open ssh. How do i do this considering cydia does not work? I do have installous for try before buy purposes but thats it. it there another way to get something to delete the update file?
 
hotnts said:
i guess my only problem would be downloading iFile or open ssh. How do i do this considering cydia does not work? I do have installous for try before buy purposes but thats it. it there another way to get something to delete the update file?
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any help would be appreciated:confused:
 
hotnts said:
any help would be appreciated:confused:
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Did you not already have SSH on your phone?

It's a staple of jailbreaking. If you have it, just turn it on in your SBSettings(another staple) then download iPhone Browser, or WinSCP3, or any of the file browsers available.

Then go to the directory mentioned above and delete all the updates from that file, and you should be good to go.

If you don't have any SSH capabilities, you are looking at a restore and rejailbreak.
 
IndianBird said:
Did you not already have SSH on your phone?

It's a staple of jailbreaking. If you have it, just turn it on in your SBSettings(another staple) then download iPhone Browser, or WinSCP3, or any of the file browsers available.

Then go to the directory mentioned above and delete all the updates from that file, and you should be good to go.

If you don't have any SSH capabilities, you are looking at a restore and rejailbreak.
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Are there any App store Apps that have the same ability as openssh? I saw a few in the app store to purchase, would something like that work?
 
hotnts said:
Are there any App store Apps that have the same ability as openssh? I saw a few in the app store to purchase, would something like that work?
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i do not believe that will work, but i could be mistaken

as tight is Apple is about keeping things closed source, I don't think such an app would exist in their app store
 
this was happening to me and i deleted everything in var/lib/apt/lists and it fixed cydia but now i have no sources and no packages...
so the only way to uninstall stuff would be to restore right?
 
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