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iPhone I reinstalled Mobile Substrate, and still no apps in settings. EDIT: fixed!

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wildonrio

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Aug 15, 2008
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Everyone is saying that they can get by the outdated Mobile Substrate by just reinstalling it after every reboot, and then respringing. This isn't working for me though. None of my apps show up in the Settings app. What can I do?

EDIT: fixed by uninstalling and then reinstalling Mobile Substrate.
 
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I was having the same issue. Reinstalling preference loader seemed to do the trick. Although now I can't open stock apps like Safari or Mail, not sure if that's related or not, still trying to chase down the cause.
 
I would suggest ANYONE with a jailbroken idevice at ios 7 just to jailbreak it and LEAVE it alone until all the tools & apps are updated.
If you are having issues now due to being inpatient, take this opportunity to start fresh and jailbreak again and LEAVE it alone.
If not you may find once the signing window closes you have a screwed up idevice and will find yourself with no other options then going stock.
At this point this Jailbreak is nothing more than ROOT for the most part without an updated MS.
Having a clean ROOT'ed idevice is what its all about.
 
wildonrio said:
Others are having success by reinstalling mobile substrate. I am not, hence the question. It looks like I'm not alone.
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Definitely not alone (using a 5S here). Fortunately, f.lux is my one essential tweak, and it has a springboard app so does not require access from the settings app, so I'm just holding tight until the MS update.
 
I reinstalled Mobile Substrate, and still no apps in settings

cyber16 said:
I would suggest ANYONE with a jailbroken idevice at ios 7 just to jailbreak it and LEAVE it alone until all the tools & apps are updated.

If you are having issues now due to being inpatient, take this opportunity to start fresh and jailbreak again and LEAVE it alone.

If not you may find once the signing window closes you have a screwed up idevice and will find yourself with no other options then going stock.

At this point this Jailbreak is nothing more than ROOT for the most part without an updated MS.

Having a clean ROOT'ed idevice is what its all about.
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This guy hit the nail on the head.

The reason you are having issues is because you don't know what you are doing. People who have been in the jailbreak scene for a long time realize how things play out. The way they play out is the jailbreak is released and then you wait and keep waiting until things are slowly updated.

How do you think ios7 would look if they just released it without open beta? Get some perspective .

Hackers in the jailbreak scene are happy enough with file system write access.
 
oplix said:
This guy hit the nail on the head.

The reason you are having issues is because you don't know what you are doing. People who have been in the jailbreak scene for a long time realize how things play out. The way they play out is the jailbreak is released and then you wait and keep waiting until things are slowly updated.

How do you think ios7 would look if they just released it without open beta? Get some perspective .

Hackers in the jailbreak scene are happy enough with file system write access.
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Been jailbreaking since 2007. I know what I'm doing. I only bring this up since some people are successfully getting apps to show up in Settings right now. I want to know how they are doing that. It's not a "Just wait for it" thing.
 
Install the MS Reload fix tweak from the http://devbug.me/apt/
It's an unofficial patch to MobileSubstrate which fixes the issue of settings disappearing after a reboot. It apparently just makes sure MobileSubstrate actually starts up on boot.
 
Explicitic said:
Install the MS Reload fix tweak from the http://devbug.me/apt/
It's an unofficial patch to MobileSubstrate which fixes the issue of settings disappearing after a reboot. It apparently just makes sure MobileSubstrate actually starts up on boot.
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Thank you very much for actually trying to help instead of telling me I don't know what I'm doing! I really appreciate your suggestion. For the record it did not work; I still see nothing in Settings no matter what I do. I bet it will help others though.

Anyone have another idea? Would redoing the jailbreak offer any possible benefit?
 
I fixed my problem by completely uninstalling Mobile Substrate and then reinstalling it. Good luck anyone else looking for this information!
 
wildonrio said:
I fixed my problem by completely uninstalling Mobile Substrate and then reinstalling it. Good luck anyone else looking for this information!
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It works, but some things won't work either way. I installed KillBackground7 and it worked at the beginning but then I had the same problem and reinstalled MobileSubstrate and it is visible in the Settings app, but it won't work.
 
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thieverycorp. said:
It works, but some things won't work either way. I installed KillBackground7 and it worked at the beginning but then I had the same problem and reinstalled MobileSubstrate and it is visible in the Settings app, but it won't work.
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Well I fully expect things not to work. I was just jealous that others were able to see apps in Settings and I wasn't. Now we just have to wait for updates to apps.
 
wildonrio said:
Been jailbreaking since 2007. I know what I'm doing. I only bring this up since some people are successfully getting apps to show up in Settings right now. I want to know how they are doing that. It's not a "Just wait for it" thing.
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If you don't know what you're doing obviously you don't as you've hit a bump here, sit back and wait like everybody else.
 
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