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Just bought this and after installing it, my 2G immediately dropped into the endless reboot loop even though I don’t currently have a ton of apps installed. :(

Disabling the mobilewatchdog service allows springboard to regenerate to completion, and it works great until the phone reboots due to lack of response from watchdog. If I re-enable watchdog and then go straight to Cydia and uninstall Categories SB and then reboot the phone, it boots to completion and springboard comes up just fine.

I’m guessing that it may not be getting along with another extension. The only other non-free mobilesubstrate extension I’m using is Orbit (MobileExpose), which is working great no matter what. Any ideas?

Hi Daremo,

I’ve received a few reports that others are also having issues (though not an endless loop). A copy of your syslog from immediately after the crash could help me track down the problem.

Sorry for the trouble :(

- ashikase (gaizin AT gmail)

lol. gotta love competition.

pogoplank comes out, works beautifully, and categories starts to improve.

Actually, I made CategoriesSB (an earlier version) half a year (actually.. a year?) ago, but never released it.

But I agree, the timing of this release does make it look kind of bad :)

please fix this fast, you should not be charging money for something that is so buggy, now almost all my apps are crashing and the phone is going into safe mode. please make this a first priority to get an update out, considering your charging for this. this is excatly what categories needed, but not at the expense of all other apps

I’ve uninstalled this app now.
I was really liking it, worked great for a couple of days, and then I had 3 random crashes, each time it restarted in safe mode, and I nearly had to restore once, as all my Cydia packages disapeered!
Never had any crashes before installing this, so its got to be the problem.

I’ll redownload once its updated, but it is a bit poor that I’ve paid for something that causes nothing but trouble!

This is the best thing I’ve added to my phone in a long while. I have a 3GS, running 3.1.2 with hundreds of apps, & everything works perfectly for me. Right now I have to use SBSettings to disable it if I need to make preference changes to a Categories folder, but that’s not much of an inconvenience considering the fantastic speed and appearance advantages.

It would be fantastic if it were possible to Categorize Web Clippings. I realize, of course that this is difficult because those are not really apps, but how about creating a little utility to convert a Web Clipping to a real app? Then they could be added. Just an idea.

Thanks to both BigBoss and ashikase!

Latest version working great here as well on 3GS, eith 3.1.2. Best buck I ever spent. Catagories now feels like part of the phone!

Thank you for the update, still though, no labels on icons and some icons missing entirely.

ashikase: I added this to your issues page for kirikae, but thought I would mention it here as well.

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-kirikae/issues/detail?id=43

Categories SB support in kirikae favorites would be great.

Also, not mentioned in my bugreport is that when using spotlight and choosing a categories icon, the categories submenus come up but the keyboard still remains.

I did read something about changing the alpha channel on custom backgrounds and getting them to work in categoriessb. If anyone has any more detail on how to do this, it would be appreciated!

Great App. Made me rejailbreak my iPhone.

Badges support for the folders would be great to see in a future update. For example: if you got a messenger folder with 3 unread SMS and 3 aol messages = a “6″ badge in the folder.

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I recently used Blackra1n to JB my 3G v3.1.2 iPhone but didn’t see the warning about Icy until afterward. I used the latest Cydia to remove Rock and Icy and reloaded all Cydia apps I had previously used. I also have BossPrefs loaded. I have loaded and reloaded Categories v2.26 a bunch of times – rebooting, etc. The Categories icon is there on the Springboard, but any folders I make in Categories do not show up on the
Board. Also, any apps I move into the folders are not hidden from the ‘Board. The folder name can be seen in Poof. I have spent three days trying to figure this out – can anyone point me in the right direction? Will I have to completely rebuild my iPhone from restore on? Thank you.

Ugh. I figured that was probably going to be the case. Thanks to BigBoss for hosting this forum and for all of the great people in this place, like ashikase who take the time to help others out. We really appreciate it!

I have a jailbroken 3GS using blackra1n. I did install ICY and Rock. Never downloaded any apps with Icy or Rock. Then decided to uninstall Icy and Rock.

My phone works great. Stable. I purchased Categories SB and it also works great.

I do want to change the black background to the background used in the theme I am using. I tried replacing the background.png image with the theme background image. The black screen still shows.

Any idea on how to change the folder background image?

I actually like the black background when opening the catagory, its a nice contrast to my theme

Anyone care to help :) ? Or it’s a out of this world question?

Awesome combination of Categories and Categories SB. I paid my $0.99 on Cydia based on the reviews here. It works great and hasn’t crashed once yet (knocking on wood). Looking forward to the next version.

ohoo…i got it!! i download the SBsettings and turned those hiding app off..this annoyed me for really long time…im so happy^^

Great add-on that really makes Categories feel like it’s a part of the iPhone OS. Love the rounded icons and icon badges.

The only thing missing is the optional badge that Backgrounder adds when an application is running in the background. I’m surprised that wasn’t there give it’s the same developer; ashikase – are you planning to add this?

One last nit and I’ll stop picking. If you open a Category/folder/whathaveyou it pops up a page with a titlebar and icons. Someone else already mentioned that being able to edit what’s on the page from within the page would be nice. My request is a little simpler. If you touched the wrong icon or just opened the wrong category you need to go hit the Home button to close the page and go back to the springboard. It would be nice to have a close icon in the title bar so I could just hit that with my thumb on the hand I’m holding hte phone with and not need to use two hand or contort the one to punch a button. If not a titlebar icon maybe just double tapping on the page where there isn’t an icon or something.

I second Podperson’s request to not have to hit the home button to ‘go back’ but rather — that there (optionally) be a “back” button at top left of the category screen. Or, if Left/Right scroll is ‘off’ then — assign “swipe left” to mean “quit — go back to ‘previous’ screen (i.e. SpringBoard).

Hi Peter,

Can you let me know what you did?

Some way of going back once your in a folder would be a big improvement (other than that it looks good)

I just installed CategoriesSB 1.6 and then 1.6.1 and encountered an odd bug. When I open a category it removes apps that are running in the background from my dock, even stock apps like phone and safari. This is very annoying. The icons come back after a respring or sometimes just after an odd period of time. Although, all that happened on 1.6, in 1.6.1 it started doing the se thing but I just roved all icons from my dock regardless of whether they were backgrounder or not. The only conflict I can think of is with CategoriesSB and Backgrounder. The problem could also be that all my apps are in a category but I have their icons unhidden with SBSettings. I’ll test some things and see if I can figure it out.

Bug with latest version….When you update an app from the appstore, after it downloads and installs, the icon for the update disappears from the category. For example, say you have a category named “games” and in that category, you have a game, let’s say “Plushed”. When you update the app from the appstore, go back into your game category, and you’ll see the “Plushed” icon is gone, you have to delete it, and re-add it in the category.

Also….If you add “mail” or “safari” into a category, the settings for those disappear from inside your iphone’s “settings” program.

When placing a program into a folder, categoriessb shows me TWO icons for the same program (but only for some apps). If I add both icons, one is a blank space and the other is the actual program in the folder.

How can I eliminate the “fake” or “blank” one from my list?

Also, before updating an app, do I have to remove it from the category and/or delete the actual app before installing the newer version?

Thanks :)

What I miss is the possibility to put Safari Bookmarks (icons on the SpringBoard) into a category.

Hi,

The “show cumulative badge” doesn’t work right. The folder I created shows notifications only from 1 app inside it instead of the 2 that has notifications. Please advise.

Thanks!

Just downloaded this app and love it. It’s the kind of simple polish that can make an old phone feel new again. Thanks very much to the dev!

Yeah, just tried with my facebook login too. Seems to come down to: do you want to purchase? Then let cydia troll your account (google or FB) for data.

That sucks. I’m not buying any cydia app until it will allow me to say no and continue.

I installed this added aps into the folder but I didnt like it so uninstalled it, but the folder was still there along with the aps that were still inside but I cant remove it
helppppp!