CyDelete - Uninstall Cydia packages from SpringBoard!
Author: Dustin Howett // Category: Apps, JailbreakSince the dawn of Cydia, users have been struggling to remove applications they’ve installed with it. Uninstalling a package is a seven-step operation at best: Start Cydia, Manage, Packages, (locate package), Modify, Remove, Confirm.
With the advent of CyDelete, however, Cydia packages can now be removed like any App Store applications- hold down the icon, wait for them to start wiggling, and tap the X. What was once cumbersome is now integrated into the standard iPhoneOS workflow. It is a lightweight MobileSubstrate plugin that only does anything in Wiggle Mode.
CyDelete will not remove applications that are not managed by Cydia, though they will be branded with an X. From SpringBoard’s standpoint, applications managed by Cydia and applications just sitting in /Applications are one and the same. CyDelete will also not remove Cydia itself, for safety reasons.
Without further ado, some screenshots!
With the release of 1.0.0, it is expected that some uninstallations may fail, and that some packages may incorrectly be flagged as removable when they’re not, and not removable when they are, and that there will be crashes. For that reason, there is a “Bug Report” link available on the Cydia information page for CyDelete. Please submit any failures you encounter. Here is the link.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:29 am
This is an awesome app, These features should of been in cydia to begin with!
A+ Dhowett you’ve outdone yourself
CHeers
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aide Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
thanks for this
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Sohaib Reply:
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
i need help
plz someone help me
plz
i deleted installer with cydelete and now i cant reinstall it
can i get around this
if u can solve this ur a genius and it would be helpful
plz and thanks
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March 25th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Really really awesome! As Mathew said, Saurik should add this by default to Cydia.
It works fine without problems, like you try to remove an Appstore App, no more extra opening Cydia (and syncing) to remove Apps.
Love it Dustin, great work! !
A must have for every jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch
Can somebody tell me the file-name to skin the remove “X” ?
Thanky
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March 25th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Mathew & blatz: Thanks!
blatz: It’s a 30×29 image in SpringBoard’s bundle called “closebox.png”. :)
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blatz Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 3:18 am
thank a lot Dustin :-)
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March 25th, 2009 at 4:25 am
yep awesome, i agree you should talk to saurik abouy this being integrated with cydia in future releases
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March 25th, 2009 at 5:01 am
It’s over 9000!!!!
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
It’s over 10,000! But that’s not as funny.
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March 25th, 2009 at 5:12 am
what theme is that you are using in the screenshots?
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Gradiance v3.3 Icons + Matte UI 1.1 (Aqua Variant) + Coloured Status Bar Icons
Thanks for the support :)
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March 25th, 2009 at 5:53 am
This has already been made by gojohnnyboi, called QuickDel, already on Cydia. Does the exact same thing, good job you copied an app.
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 5:58 am
The fact of the matter is, “Master”, that I wrote the code for CyDelete before Gojohnnyboi wrote his implementation. We were originally working AS A TEAM. You have NO idea what you’re talking about.
Just because you have a vested interest in appstore development with him does not mean that you need to play his bitch.
He decided to stick with 3.0.
Also, if you’ll note, his quikdel package uses some of my scripts, from previous revisions of CyDelete, when it was called QuikDel.
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 5:59 am
As for working as a team; He told me I could release the code since he moved on to 3.0.
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ipodtouchmaster05 Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Wow someone got a little defensive when I mentioned that he stole an application. Oh because you little prick, you DID. You have the EXACT same app that does the EXACT same thing, and you released yours a good week after him. bitch
Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
You’re entitled to your own opinion, you little asshole.
BigBoss Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 9:11 am
This is not stolen code. I have talked with Gojohnnyboi about this release prior to publishing it. He was fine with it.
In addition, Gojohnnyboi’s version is not released. If it is released on some private, beta repository that no one has installed, that doesn’t count for release. Nor does announcing something in a forum.
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March 25th, 2009 at 7:57 am
EXCELLENT work with this! Uninstalling was really my only gripe with Cydia and this completely fixes that. Thanks!
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March 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Excelent work Dustin. Will be great if you can unmark all un-removeable apps. Thanks
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:02 am
This app is amazing, very much needed.
A really cool addition would be to allow the hiding of any app as SB Settings does through poof. (ideally appstore and cydia of course)
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Excellent work!
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March 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am
One simple question: Will it run in the background and take up memory?
So long I’m loving it. Thanks!
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 11:36 am
It might take up a nominal amount, but just so that it might spring into action whenever you need it. It’s rather lightweight, even with the new translation code I’m adding. :)
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BigBoss Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I’ll concur. It is very light weight. It does not “run” in the background as it is a mobile substrate add-on. This means it becomes part of your springboard process. It seems to be taking less than a MB of RAM. I have it installed with no noticeable loss whatsoever. I recommend!
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March 25th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Great addon - thanks so much for this!
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March 25th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Hello. I tested this great app and found out that Cydelete does not distinguish between apps that need a respring after uninstallation and those who don’t. It just deletes the application and the icon.
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
It’s supposed to distingiush between them, unless the respring is caused by a dependency on something else (such as MobileSubstrate). I specifically added this feature.
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Dustin Howett Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Could you tell me which package it is? Thanks!
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mysterio Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I tried biteSMS. Thanks for the quick reply.
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Drumcode Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 8:01 am
cant uninstall BiteSMS either, its just deletes the icon and comes with an error. the bitealert icon in sbsettings ar still there.
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March 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
For me … it has never ever worked.
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March 28th, 2009 at 11:30 am
This is a wicked addon, great work. Only problem i notice is that “uninstall” is typo’d as “unintall” on english.lproj :)
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March 29th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Hi,
Curious to know - where can I find “colloq”? I’ve been waiting for it since the 1.x days
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DHowett Reply:
March 31st, 2009 at 12:16 am
In Cydia at http://howett.net/cydia
(HowettNET in the More Sources list)
It’s not the colloQ from the olden days, however.
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March 30th, 2009 at 1:09 am
any one seen any battery drainage using cydelete?
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March 30th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Anyone else having an issue getting to the bigboss repository? Might just be my connection but I can’t get any packages to show up on my iphone right now.
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April 7th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I’ve been trying to get this working for me.. but i cannot see the “x”. Tried a lot of apps but doesn’t work.
removed it, updated it, reinstalled… nothing works :(
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April 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Can somebody list the dependencies installed with this please, im having problems with crashing and am going to start from scratch :(
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April 9th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Sorry I take that back, its all fixed now, brilliant app btw, very useful!
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DHowett Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Thank you! :)
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April 16th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Also fixed here. Installed Winterboard and i guess that installed the dependencies for it.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
This is a very great app! It was one of the first apps I installed after my first jailbreak, and I’ve had it ever since! Thank you :)
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May 1st, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Good job biasaaaach!!!
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June 19th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
What should i do?I’ve been trying to get this working for me.. but i cannot see the “x”. Tried a lot of apps but doesn’t work.pls help..or give me link related with this problem
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Dustin Howett Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Check for other extensions installed, I know there’s at least one that interferes with the (x)s; Unfortunately, I don’t know which it is off the top of my head.
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July 26th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Just a warning if it applies to anyone else — I installed this on a more or less freshly jailbroken (redsn0w) iphone 3g 3.0; and the moment it finished installing, the iphone rebooted to the apple logo and wouldn’t turn on. After a few home/power resets it did turn on. The first thing I went to do was uninstall cydelete from cydia, but when I tried, it was no longer in the packages. I’m not exactly sure what happened, I have only a few packages installed and nothing that would seem to be troublesome (with the exception of appsync); but just wanted to give a heads up.
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Dustin Howett Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
After installing MobileSubstrate for the first time, there are some issues reloading SpringBoard. A reboot fixes it. It’s a one-time thing, and it is related to a failure on Apple’s part. There is nothing I can do about it.
Please search for the right culprit next time. :(
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August 4th, 2009 at 4:31 am
iv tried to search for the location of the cross on the cydelete as i want to change it for the one i currently use in my skin.
can anyone direct me to the exact location?
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August 26th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Hello, i just jailbreaked my iphone 3G to OS 3.0
I was trying to install cydelete and it is not working, although it was working fine on the 2.2 firmware.
i am getting this note from cydia:
“the requested modifications cannot be applied due to required dependencies or conflicts that cannot be automatically found or fixed.”
please help!
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September 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hi
I LOVE this app, but there’s one thing I can’t figure out. People have said you can theme the X that shows up on the icons, but I can’t figure out how to. I’ve WinSCP’d into every file to try and replace the Icon and can’t find it. BTW i’m using Glasklart. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated
Wm
PS Thx in advance
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Wm A Reply:
September 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
also, every file that I find called “closebox.png” ends up being the file that I WANT the icon to be, not the one it shows up as
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November 7th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Hello, I have deleted a webapp with CyDelete previous version. Now I’m without Web.App . How can I restore it? Thank you for the help.
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November 7th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Excellent blog thebigboss.org well done and I am really pleased to view : this it’s just what I needed to know. I shall be very pleased to become a regular visitor
Thanks and well done!
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November 8th, 2009 at 2:34 am
P.s. For Web.App is intended the folder /Applications/Web.app in my iPod Touch (os 2.2). Can someone upload a zipped copy of 2.2’s folder plz? Thx
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I just installed cydelete and it froze my phone, I went to uninstall the app seeing of thatwould fix the issue and I can no longer launch cydia, I would like to have the app work and be able to launch cydia, but I don’t know how to uninstall cydelete, is there some way of getting rid of it using winscp or something like that?
Please help asap
w473r801@gmail.com
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February 24th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Help me plz… I just deleted cydia using cydelete
But when I try to install cydia again via blackra1n it downloads, unpacks and resprings but cydia icon does not show??? Running 3gen iPod touch 3.1.2
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July 23rd, 2010 at 12:14 am
thanxxxxxxxxxx
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August 11th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Where do I download it? :(
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