SOLUTION to iPhone "freeze" after installing apps

....or you could just ssh and correct the permissions issue you had with one command.

 

Are these instructions for an unlocked phone only? What is springboard?

 

Can you elaborate? Thanks

 

For those with jailbroken iPhones and SSH installed, there is a fix "or workaround" for the infinite apple logo loop. This method disables watchdog and allows the springboard to load. Once it's reloaded, you have to enable watchdog because "as well as monitoring Springboard and killing/restarting it, the watchdog also has to periodically reset the HARDWARE watchdog, if this doesn't happen the device will spontaneously reboot. The hardware watchdog is 10 and a bit minutes, so without the watchdog installed and working your device will reboot itself every 10 minutes."

a more thorough explanation is on the link:

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49782

terminal commands to send to the device via ssh:

Disable watchdog:
mv /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/mobilewatchdog.bundle/ /
reboot

enable watchdog:
mv /mobilewatchdog.bundle /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/
reboot

 

myDictation Pro has been Freezing my Phone - Apple Genius Saves Day!

I have been thru five iPhones in less than a year, because of this one app!! I thought the phone was at fault. After exhaustive testing, I discovered with the help of "System Activity Monitor" to establish the culprit: MyDictationPro version 3. It is the only app after process of elimination that causes memory loss and constant "nagging" of the CPU eventually heating up the phone, causing poor battery performance and locking the phone up. When I removed this application, the phone operated normally. STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP. I would demand my money back and sue them for pain and suffering if I could!!! Hope this helps someone!

I had to restore my phone, and set up a set of applications, when it ran fine for a day, I'd add some more and see if the System Activity App indicated an application sucking all the CPU power. I narrowed it down to MyDictationPro. When adding only that and the Sys tool to the normal start up set of apps, sure enough, the CPU meter in the System tool, was pinned! Without that App, I would never have discovered the problem...

I spent days with a Apple employee who had me restoring and putting in apps, but not one by one, and without any feedback tool other than the phone freezing. Thanks to the Apple Store Genius in Garden State Mall, Paramus, NJ who suggested getting the System Activity Monitor for iPhone.

 

I hope this thread isnt too old...

I really need some advice here. I just came across this solution but i dont know how to do it!

Basically i need to know how to "SSH to iphone" (step 5 of the original post).

Is there software I need to download ( i read something about an 'OpenSSH')?

I could follow the instructions above if i knew how and what was involved in steps 5 and 6. I think I could figure out 6 if I got that far (I am guessing something like entering commands in terminal, but on the iphone), but I am basically clueless about 5.

PLease drop in and post if you know whats up with this process (or if you know another solution for successfully rebooting your phone after a cydia app freezes it).

(BTW, not that it matters, but mine freezes not on the apple logo, but on the lock screen. The button wont slide and nothing responds... )

 

you on a mac or a pc?

for a mac...
1.download openssh in cydia
2.download cyberduck on your computer
3.connect to wifi on both
4.open settings app in phone and get wifi address
5.open cyberduck
6.select SFTP (ssh file transfer protocol) in the dropdown menu
7.enter wifi address in the server field
8.username is root
9.password is alpine
10.hit connect and you are officialy SSHed into your iPhone

 

Wow, thats awesome. Thanks for the quick reply. And yes, I am on a mac.

Ok, so now just a few more questions remain. In the situation mentioned in the original post, where the iphone is stuck trying to reboot or is frozen, and needs to be connected to through SSH, how exactly do i do that?

I mean in the instructions it says "plug in phone,... ssh to phone" (and this is frozen phone remember), so iam wondering how that is done? I guess i just open cyberduck and try to connect through that. I mean what else is possible to do right? If the phone is stuffed?


Anyway, please let me know if aim missing something. Also I started reading the original forum that the instructions came from (http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49782), and it got me to worrying. I thought it didnt matter that my phone was freezing on the slide screen and not the . Now, at least from what i read, it seems that that may not be the case ...

I guess I'll just have to try and see what happens next time this phone goes into a coma.

 

So I'm guessing the only reason you plug the phone in is so that you know when it has started up enough to SSH into the phone?

 

(I am not sure, was this question directed at me?)

Anyway, I dont know. I am just looking at the instructions given by the OP. SSHing is something I know nothing about. I dont know if plugging it in is necessary. I guess if SSHing is done through wi-fi, then conceivably it shouldnt be.

Beats me

 

Yes, it was direct at the OP and yes SSH is over the Wi-fi connection.