just tried this and it did not fix the problem

Thanks, it worked for me.

hey,
thanks for the app bosspref as it worked well on 2.2. however, after doing a fresh 3.0 update, jailbreak and unlock on my 2g phone cydia was working just fine. during the install of sbsettings it went to the apple icon screen and stayed there for a very long time. eventually the phone came back up. ever since then cydia crashes on open. i tried the fix here and there are no packages in the lists directory but the app still crashes after being on the loading data screen for a few seconds. i’ve tried restarting the phone after as well. it’s odd because what prompted me to upgrade to 3.0fw was cydia crashing on my 2.2fw after updating bosspref. am i going to have to reinstall the 3.0 again and stay away from sbsettings and bosspref to avoid this issue??

This program worked for me.

My steps:

1) Downloaded and unzipped file.
2) Connected iPhone 2G 8GB to computer and backedup with iTunes.
3) Closed iTunes.
4) Ran .exe and clicked button.
5) When the program was finished, I disconnected the iPhone from the computer.

For those of you that are still experiencing the crash, delete all the files in /root/private/var/lib/apt/lists/ except for the partial subfolder.

i try deleting just the apt.bigboss

and clearing the whole list folder except for the partial

clearing whole list folder AND clearing the stuff inside partial

all yield the same result. work on first launch of cydia and than it will crash after loading everything at the “reloading screen” afterwards cydia will have same problem, open for under 5 sec than close.

this sucks

I have no idea why TheBoss chose such a convoluted technique for fixing this problem, where doing it by hand is much simpler:

Find the folder /var/lib/apt/lists (may have to backtrack to the var folder – default log-in isn’t always the root folder where var is)

I opted to back up all of the files I was deleting simply by dragging them to a folder on the desktop – you don’t have to, but having a way to undo stuff is usually a good option to have.

Delete all of the files except for the partial folder

Disconnect the SSH connection in your program

Restart cydia, done.

Also, not everyone affected by this has SSH installed.

always install SSH. it leave a way in. in case of problems

sorry, iphonemodding is the source, application/cydia/sources

right click on iphonemodding and delete, it will automatically make a back up just in case, at lease it will with iPhone Browser.

Take care guys!!

worked for me first go. phew! cheers Optimo for the info.

yahoo!!!!!!finally can use cydia again…..thanks a bunch….

ThanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

A bundle………….A lot ThanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

Very happy today……………dont have to restore 5th time…………. ;)

some help me
i just did A RESTORE,,,,AFTER INSTALL ALL THE SOURCE I NEED,,,20 MINS LATTER CYDIA CRASH,,
FILP MOTHER LOVER ,,,PLS HELP ME

I know I am off topic but how can I get the keyboads to work; for some reason since I updated they have never worked for me.

cydia-crashing-fix-for-july-18th
ok i got your cydia fix
you need to ssh or if you got ifile on your phone if not you can get it on icy . The app is called ifile or ssh then go to var/lib/dpkg/updates
And delete all the number files only i repeat only the number files it looks like this 00000 1111111 00000222222 delete all of them.
It should be one file left with a word thats only file in that folder
Then reboot the iphone or ipod that mean turn it off turn it back on
and cydia will be working

You are AWESOME!!!! this worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

ANYONE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS REFERENCE MY POST #15 & 16 AND IT WILL WORK FINE

i dont have an iphonemodding source showing..so your post did no help :(

Thankyou – this worked for me

Has #28 been helpful to anybody ? Just say thanks iphonehiphop!

Hello

My iphone 3gs is not coming up, theres the sign of the apple…

The cydia fix doesnt work and I do have .NET framework…

Please help me

Delete all files except partail folder ? Thats alot of files !!! On my iphone anyway !

Hi everyone, I was also having the crashing cydia problem after I upgraded my mobile substrate. The solution on this website didn’t help me at all!
But I finally found a solution and fixed it.

I believe all you have to do is reinstall cydia. I used the lastest deb version of cydia and installed it on a previous version of mobile substrate. It worked, and I updated to the latest version of mobile substrate and it is all working fine, even cydia!
Although, I would suggest not restartinng your phone, I am not sure, but I think it will cause problems in cydia again. maybe someone can try it out!

Thanks worked like a charm.

I got it working, but all sources have been deleted and it will not let me add them – any suggestions?

worked like a charm for me after i rebooted my phone after i ran this. thanks!

Yes this finally worked after hours of forum discusions

FYI you must disable the password lock on ya iphone if you have one for it to work

Deleteing the files in /var/lib/apt/list did not work for me but this did.

THANKS Iphonehiphop!!

This worked for me. My question is now that it is up and running, it is prompting me for an upgrade. Do i ignore it or should i upgrade it i think it is for the mobile Subtrate.

And i mean with iphone 3Gs

@Jon – I didn’t have the iphonemodding repo installed. Tried next solution

@optimo – I removed all the files in the var/lib/apt/lists folder. Restarted IPhone/cydia…UGH, still not working!!..

@iphonehiphop – I did have 1 file that was all #’s (0000) so I deleted it. Removed Big Boss source as well.

In addition, I decided to download/run the cydia cache clear tool from above as well. Restarted IPhone/cydia….YES!!.. I’m back in business!!..

Whew… Thanks everybody for all the help. Awesome

restore it

that’s what I’m doing right now;-)

Is CYDIA down today?

hey guys, is there a new BigBoss source?

I have been looking like everyday all day since I encountered this problem on July 18th!! This is the fix i have been looking for. I loaded the file … ran it…and it worked exactly the way you said it would…THANKS a million!! I am a new iphone owner as of a few months ago and i because this was soo helpful i am joining this forum IMMEDIATELY!!!!

;-) MOE

Hay guys just install Iphone PC Scuit http://www.ipcsuite.com/

connect your iphone with it. Go to application>Installer Source> add souce apptapp.saurik.com

updated souce and install cydia

you can add other source too. no need of wifi to install any application ;)

yep, worked fine…

…initially i just removed the file pointed out on the PDF but then i i decided to actually use the recommended directions and “delete everything apart from the PARTIAL SUBFOLDER”.

cydia is back online

]n[
smile within my shadow

3G iphone – 2.2.1 (i can wait for the next pwn)

only working method for me…
Props to you Iphonehihop!

Thanks to Iphonehiphop I finally got Cydia on one of my iPhone 3G 3.0 working again. Nothing else was working for me and I really didn’t want to restore and jb again.

Thanks again Iphonehiphop!!!!

thanks iphonehiphop!
Great work!

did what big boss said ran it on my windows and on my 3g phone and worked thank you very much

THIS IS THE ONLY METHOD THAT WORKS!! THANKS!!

OMG thanks alot! been trying to fix cydia for couple days now tried a whole bunch of different things.

thanks

this worked even for cydia problems not related to july 18 update

This Is Fucking Crazy . Dont Do That Guys . It will Lock Your Phone . Coz You Deleting Yellosn0w Files …So Rest Of Up To You Guys

Cheers, i had this problem on the 27th after updating all sources, this fixed it.

i deleted partial how can i fix it?
everything else hasnt worked

WORKS , tried all the above methods , none worked , this on the other hand worked like a charm ! thank you very much

I haven’t upgraded, added, or changed anything. (3g on 2.2 firmware) Just turned off and turned back on my phone because it had been a while. Cydia won’t load now. Will this work to fix this problem? No idea what happened. Thanks for your help.

I tried to ad ashman beta reopo and cydia just went down. I tried all of those things from above,deleting some or all repo,don’t have anything in upgrade folder. Tried also this
Open putty and connect to your iphone’s ip address using the SSH protocal
login using username: root / password: alpine (or the password you changed it to when you installed OpenSSH on your iphone)

Type in: apt-get remove cydia
you’l be prompted to confirm with: Yes, do what I say!
If you don’t confirm correctly you will receive an abort message

once uninstalled type in: apt-get install –force-yes cydia

Cydia will reinstall.

got message anable to install 2 esential. Uninstalled Cydia on Icy and reinstall. Nothing works. If i start clear cydia cache i get message system cant find the file specigfied.

Help…

But then you are assuming that people actually have the ssh serversoftware installed in their iphone.

I havent installed such a package so I cant use ssh to reinstall Cydia.

All other fixes didnt work for me. So, at this point Cydia still isnt working. When starting Cydia it pops back to springboard straight away.

Hi Guys,
My cydia stuffed twice on the new 3.0 so I had to re jailbreak…painfull as!!!! so I heard how to use “disk aid” to ssh into the phone then delete all sources except the partial folder. all done works great but how the hell do I add big boss again as I want to get sb settings??

Cheers

Icy is working like a charm. So switch to Icy till Cydia became as it was. I was missing cydia for two days and now…like i was born with Icy,and UI on Icy is more iPhone like than Cydia.

will this not lock the phone??

Hey

Thanks so much!
i love you guys for helping me out!
It’s working again!
Your solution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are all welcome glad to see that this way helped
iphonehiphop say spread it around.  those ## files is a bug

This worked for me as well!

Just create a folder named partial with the same permissions as the folders before it (probably 0755) hope i helped :)

hi to all

i have problem.
when i open cydia and the it serach for internet.and then when i click on manage.in 10 to 15 second cydia gone and close.and main page of iphone come.

what that problem ?

this tutorial is fix my problem

i dont know what SSH is on where to find it. I am having the sam problem as everyone else and really would like to get cydia to work. Can anyone help

Man, thanks for the info. I had been without Cydia for three days. This was the only thing that worked for me.

Hi Ofer,
I’m in the same situation. My cydia crashed and I was able to delete some files. I deleted the boss repo, because libhide which is in boss repo crashed my cydia. So I got rid of it, and later was able to get into cydia. Now I tried to manually in Bigboss repo but cydia can not find the repo. I type in the correct url address. Did you find a solution, or does anyone know how to add repo a different way besides entering on cydia?

Thanks this worked for me too, after trying for hours to sort Cydia out its back working, Cheers !!

i dont have openssh. I need to fix cydia.
Cannot ssh to iphone

Cdyia

Ssh reinstall cydia

my cacheclearing program shuts down when i click the button
help plz… n wuts .NET

ei, nice, it works on my iphone. thanx a lot man.

@yk3-bug hey i deleted all the files on ssh like you said and then i disconnected and rebooted my ipod and cydia still crashes and i did save the files on my comp so its ok but what should i do

U know thos ## files
ok so one of mine say repo.smxy…######## and then it has numbers
I’d that the big

Been trying things for 2 days. This was the only one that worked!! Thank you SOOOOO much.

Thx It worked!

will this erase any of my data like apps or jailbreak apps?

BION I’m ipmsersed! Cool post!

i need help i have no clue how to do this but its exactly what i need to fix my cydia