Hey guys, I need some help. My jailbroken 3GS, just tonight, starting acting up. When I push the home button to leave a program it doesn't do anything. If I continue to hold it down, it goes straight to my lock screen/pad. I thought maybe that Soundhound was the problem, so I tried to delete it by holding down on the icon and then tapping the x, but it just freezes at that point. Everything seems to work ok except the home button. Any ideas?
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Backgrounder, Winterboard,Cydelete, Quickreply, Callclear, Categories, SBSettings. I just downloaded Soundhound last night, and it was the last program I played with before this started. Now any activation of the home button goes back to the lock screen.
Before I tell you to uninstall all of those applications, try uninstalling SBsettings. After you uninstall that, uninstall Activator (which is installed with SBsettings). That sounds like the issue, and it was for me.
To get into Safe Mode activate SBSettings, then tap Power in the bottom right. In the window that pops up tap Safe Mode. This will respring SpringBoard in Safe Mode. When you unlock your iPhone a new popup will open. Tap OK. Then test out some of your apps to see if the problem is still there. When you are done, swipe the status bar to get the popup back, then click Restart.
I re-installed SBSettings and did this. When I unlocked my phone, there was no new popup.
Then you're doing something wrong...or lying
Why in the hell would I be lying about this? I followed Intell's directions to the T. There is NO new popup. It goes straight to the homescreen.
I don't think you did. You need to swipe the status bar to get SBSettings to appear then you need to hit the Power icon on the lower right of the screen. Then in the pop up that pops up you need to select Safe Mode. When SpringBoard resprings in Safe Mode you need to tap OK on the pop up that says you are in Safe Mode. Then test out some apps for the problem. When you are done testing, swipe the status bar and click Restart.
There is the problem. When I select Safe Mode, it goes directly to my unlock screen. I get no screen indicating I'm in Safe Mode.
I get no sad iphone screen. It just goes straight to the keypad to unlock it. It goes from there to my homescreen. Any ideas?
OK, since something is up here, you should restore your iPhone and then re-jailbreak it.
Fellows, I'm very sorry to be asking what I'm sure are redundant questions, but here goes. My 3GS is about 6 weeks old. It is 3.1.3 (saved on Cydia). It was jailbroken with Spirit. My wife has upgraded itunes to 9.2. Can someone point me to a thread that will explain how I can restore my phone and then wait until the jailbreak is out for the 3GS? Or, can I connect to itunes 9.2 and delete the Soundhound app, which I think is probably caussing the problem? I thought I read somewhere not to use 9.2 if you had 3.1.3 jailbropken by Spirit.
thanks for any help you can give me.
Can you please point me to a thread to show me how to restore? When I went to restore on itunes, it warned me that the phone would be wiped and the newest version of software would be down loaded. Will this cause a problem?
At this point, I really don't care if I stay jailbroken or not. I just want to try and get my phone working again. Also, if I have to send it in I don't want it jailbroken. I'm sure they would raise hell about that.