Hi everybody,
I'm experiencing some weird problems with my jailbroken 3G (latest FW 2.1):
My actual status and the reason for this post is as follows:
- iPhone appears to boot normally
- SSHing works
- I can accept calls (although the call window closes immediately, see below).
- Homescreen is as it was before the backup, except for changed sequence of icons, lost Winterboard theme and lost Five-Icons-Dock. Categories are present, though.
Here comes the problem:
- None (!) of the apps works - neither stock apps nor third party ones. Whenever I try to start one, it just comes up for a second and closes again; I return right back to Homescreen, then.
The story behind it:
I had made a backup of all my data with iBaRes before restoring a fresh jailbroken Firmware. When I tried to restore the backup, I suffered some severe problems - the iPhone wouldn't start at all and was stuck in a boot loop, plus assorted different problems. Eventually, I overcame those with the help of the iBaRes developer, who helped me via e-mail (my best guess is that iBaRes didn't like that I had changed my root / mobile passwords away from "alpine").
The last major problem (that I solved) was that after booting, the homescreen icons kept flying inwards onto their positions from the outside in an endless loop (just like when you quit an app). I adjusted the permissions via SSH as follows:
chown -R root *
for /Applications
chown -R mobile *
for /var/mobile
chmod -R 755 *
for both
This stopped the icons from flying - but now I'm stuck with a homescreen without any working apps... I strongly suspect this to be a permission issue, so any help is welcome, esp. re the standard permissions / owners / groups of the various folder structures...
Thanks,
hs
I'm experiencing some weird problems with my jailbroken 3G (latest FW 2.1):
My actual status and the reason for this post is as follows:
- iPhone appears to boot normally
- SSHing works
- I can accept calls (although the call window closes immediately, see below).
- Homescreen is as it was before the backup, except for changed sequence of icons, lost Winterboard theme and lost Five-Icons-Dock. Categories are present, though.
Here comes the problem:
- None (!) of the apps works - neither stock apps nor third party ones. Whenever I try to start one, it just comes up for a second and closes again; I return right back to Homescreen, then.
The story behind it:
I had made a backup of all my data with iBaRes before restoring a fresh jailbroken Firmware. When I tried to restore the backup, I suffered some severe problems - the iPhone wouldn't start at all and was stuck in a boot loop, plus assorted different problems. Eventually, I overcame those with the help of the iBaRes developer, who helped me via e-mail (my best guess is that iBaRes didn't like that I had changed my root / mobile passwords away from "alpine").
The last major problem (that I solved) was that after booting, the homescreen icons kept flying inwards onto their positions from the outside in an endless loop (just like when you quit an app). I adjusted the permissions via SSH as follows:
chown -R root *
for /Applications
chown -R mobile *
for /var/mobile
chmod -R 755 *
for both
This stopped the icons from flying - but now I'm stuck with a homescreen without any working apps... I strongly suspect this to be a permission issue, so any help is welcome, esp. re the standard permissions / owners / groups of the various folder structures...
Thanks,
hs