if i press the button “i” to change the setting into the folder..i still see “v 2.22″ at the top of the screen..

and..just another thing..i know that i’m not the only one that ask you this..but..
give us the rounded icons..
all these edges make me crazy XD XD XD..

However..thank u 4 ur work..u r great! ^^

Just tried the new version. Although I notice there still many crashes due to the leak of memory (very nice that you can see the current memory status at the upperright), but it won’t freeze forever again which make you have to press down the home and on/off button in order to restart the Iphone. I’ve been waiting for a upgrade of Categories for a while. This upgrade definity makes a good progress.

Also there was a problem which occurs after Categories crashed. And that is all the apps that are added to a folder appear at Springboard again. And you have to use SBsetting to hide the apps again. Also SBsetting crashs alots when you want to hide an icon. I think this is due to the memory leakage of the Iphone. Great works and great apps.

Looking forward to giving it a try. I went all the way back to 2.16 to find a version that seemed stable enough to use. Thanks for your work!

Okay, am I the only one having issues with 2.23? Every since updating, I can’t open the actual categories app, as soon it opens, it immediately crashes! :-( I can open the one category I made though. I’ve tried reinstalling numerous times, still not working. Any advice? Do I need SSH into phone and delete stuff that way? What about my folder that actually works with the apps in it. Can I use the Boss Prefs app to unhide them?

I’m having the same issue. You can unhide the icons using “Poof!”

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling categories. Funny thing, when I uninstalled categories, my categories folder still worked. I’m gonna try and SSH into the phone and delete categories manually. I’ll let you know if it works.

I believe this is caused by backgrounder. Try uninstalling backgrounder.

Try changing your wifi to data (or data to wifi) depending on how you’re loading it and see. It may be fault of admob.

Thanks for your response, but unfortunately same behavior for both data and wifi.

Dumb question and I am sure it has been answered but I guess my googling abilities are zero for this topic. I love this app but how can I make it look like the iphone after setting up my folders? For example, I just want the nice looking curved icons. I know I have seen it somewhere but I can’t find the theme or however it was done. Any thoughts would be magnificent.

+1 on adding ability to include Webclips into Categories folders.

+1 on Backup/Restore.

+100 to BigBoss for his work on this — please keep it up!

My iphone blocks of nothing, I connect it to the PC and the itunes says that this in way of restoration, what can i do ?
I already restore it to all the versions and jailbreaks that exists and the problem persists, please help me :D

Sorry if I sound pissed but when you’ve gone threw what I have you’ll understand.

Man frack Categories! 13 frackin’ times in the last 36 days I’ve had to restore my iPhone, I’m sick of it! No wonder Apple never allowed such a thing cause it is unreliable! If I sound angry thats because I am, don’t like it when things don’t work. My advise to those who are considering to download this is… Don’t waste you’re time on it unless you want to spend your time restoring your unit every week.

It’s free, dumbass. You probably have some other interfering program causing that many crashes. Unfortunately, Apple had to lock down the iPhone for morons like yourself.

Unfortunately, Aaron, you have not provided any data except your emotional state, which is irrelevant. Without specific data, it is absolutely impossible to help you.

First, Categories will not cause you to have to restore your iPhone under any circumstances. If you are restoring due to your own lack of knowledge, you should seek help and ask questions rather than falsely assume you have to restore then be pissed off. Nor does categories cause you to have to reboot your device constantly.

If you would like help you may contact me with specific questions. I will not help you with “it fracking does not work” and I am not psychic. If you give good details and leave your emotional state elsewhere, I will try to help you.

Once the folders are set up, it does not leak memory or cause any iPhone instability issues. The folders do not stay running unless you have enabled backgrounding. Nor do you need to reboot when setting up folders. Exiting the app frees all the memory.

Finally, you have said you will never pay for the app. That’s good. No one ever will because I do not charge for it nor do I accept donations, and I never will. If you don’t want to use it again, that is fine. If you want help you can contact me in a reasonable manner and I can try to help you. My email address is easy to find.

Hello, I restore my iPhone, I used the AptBacup Application but when I restored it seems that my apps that were in folders using the categories app are there but no folder was actually re-install after the restore from AptBackup so I tried to creat the foldes again to see if the apps appear but still not…so now I now the apps are there as I used the iPhonebrowser but they are not on the screen. I need help on how to restore this properly. Any advice?? thanks in advance!

Hello, Thanks for the prompt reply. Problem Solved. My Best Regards!

Hello,

just installed 2.2.3 and encounters a strange little problem.

The first time I started Categories and tried to create my first folder, I was presented with several pages of icons to customize its look. That was fine. But the application crashed, and after one or two crashes, I’m now presented with only one page of icons to personalize my folders. And of course, the coolest ones are the ones that seemed to have vanished.

I connected my phone with iPhone tunnel and went into the application folder. I the saw an icon subfolder that I transferred to my PC and saw that the cool icons were still there. Anyone knwos why they don’t show up in Categories anymore? The permissions seem identical for all (644 if I remember well). Strange problem. Not critical, but a bit annoying.

Anyway, thanks for your work. I also use SBSettings, this is the best system add-on along with MObileStack from Steven Troughton-Smith (I always add both apps).

Regards,

Rich

First, thanks for a great program that fills a real need in the original OS! Having that said, please consider releasing an ad-free version! This program is a wonderful concept, and I would gladly pay for something so helpful, but the ads make it all but impossible to use. When selecting an icon for the categories, all goes well until the ad changes. If I haven’t completed the icon selection by that time, the program crashes immediately upon the ad changing. I’m running categories v2.23 on an iPod touch with firmware 2.2.1. Thanks for your consideration and/or any insight you may have into this problem.

I have been having many instances (2-3/day) of springboard opening in safe mode. I have backtracking my steps of my loading procedures and it appears as though my problem is either with categories or lockdown. Just thought I would post in case there is a bug problem pattern. I am running 2g iphone, 2.2fw.

Just wanted to follow up and say I have had very few (and very minor) issues with this new version. The crashes still happen, but they are not nearly so serious.

And no, I don’t mind the ads.

Thanks Big Boss!

Will there be a update in the near future which make it possible to back up or restore the folders where I put my apps in it. I’m struggling rather I update my firmware or not because once I did I will have to organise all the apps again and that’s going to take a lots of time. And It will also be very nice if SBsetting has the same function which I can restore the apps which I have hidden.

Fantastic!! Thanks so much for your post. I had this issue too and no search I tried yielded results. I figured it was something minor like this… And was about to email bb or post a question but wanted to exhaust all possibilities on my own first. I appreciate the unsolicited post as it answered my issue in 5 minutes of scanning this forum (all interesting, some rather amusing…!)perhaps make it impossible to name a category using the symbol “&” (just as trying to include “/” will not even work)! Thanks to Bigboss for the awesome app and all of your great work!

Just want to give a big thanks to the developer for the update and continuing work on this essential program. I’d much rather have a phone full of apps I use rather than an extra 5G of music I won’t listen to.

Still crashes (a lot) but the results are not nearly as devastating as before. Would love to see it able to use webcuts and apps with symbols in the title.

But the main problem I have are the freezes I get when trying to add an app more than about halfway down the app list. Frustrating. I would gladly pay for an optimized version of Categories. Thanks again Big Boss! Hope you continue to perfect this app!

Thanks for that post – I too had the issue with the “&” character. I almost uninstalled Categories as I thought I might have lost the items in the folder…

I’m guessing that the app will improve over time with even fewer crashes and I look forward to that.
Steve

As a new user of Categories, thank you for a great application. I suppose I am one of the lucky ones that hasn’t had any problems with it.

My question is about the behaviour of Categories. I have a folder called Card Games. If I select a card game, then quit that game, I come back to the springboard, not back into the Card Games folder. How can I change this so that when quitting one card game I come back into the card games folder so that I can choose another card game?

I have clicked on the i symbol, and have turned ‘Keep Resident’ on but it doesn’t seem to help.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

where exactly is the location of the hidden apps:
/??/??/??/??
i cannot seem to find it anywhere
thank you

bugreport :
- in categories, the app name is “truncated” : letters like ‘g’ will appear more like a ‘o’ beacause the string is not drawn downside.
- “App Store” is renamed “AppStore” (w/o space) in categories
- AppStore does not get the selected theme icon (probably related to the previous bug)

feature request (some are utopias ;-)):
- badges in categories (and some kind of indicator telling the user there is a badged app in a categorie)
- folder icon chooser organized by icon set (should also reduce memory while choosing an icon) and perhaps ability to change all the folder icons in one step (from one set to another)
- ability to select a theme for all the categories in one step or to use the current winterboard theme
- springboard-like icon reorganisation
- springboard-like app removal
- option to hide loading screen icon or use the categorie icon instead if possible

to be a little clearer on my question:
my icons have the right size and are displayed properly in the right size on the springboard. categories scales the icons down. is there any way to prevent this?

Well my iphone went into the infinite boot screen and I restored my iphone, the problem is that I had 3 folders with apps that are now ‘missing’ from the home screen, which includes the ‘categories’ app when I reinstalled it. What do I needa do to make my app’s visible again?

Hiya, love this app! thank you so much.

Is there any chance that when you have time in future releases you consider:

* Web Clips – ability to add them to categories
* Five columns for the categories
* Five rows for the categories
* Font – ability to change weight

I would love to have a go at doing this myself but i haven’t seen the source anywhere…

thank you so much
take care

Dannii

I made a category called Tools and when i restart springboard the folder is not on my springboard. Help please?

I have an issue with Categories.
I have 3 main folders.
Games, Utilities, and ROM’s.
Games has 3 folders, Utilities has App Store applications like Converters, and ROM’s has emulators.

The Games folder has Paid Games, Free Games, and Installous Games.
Paid and Free meaning exactly what they mean from the App Store.

The main problem is that when I open an application, it’ll show the app’s loading screen, then exit to springboard immediately.

The problem happens in the folders;
Paid Games, Free Games, and Utilities.
The emulators in ROM’s all work.
And the cracked app’s in Installous work.

As you can see, all my legitimate applications just won’t work with Categories.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.

I am enjoying your app very much in conjunction with the vista perfection 4.0 theme. Great job!

However I do have one request. Is there any way to have a “list view” in the folders? It would be awesome to have a list view option that can show a scrolling list of apps with a mini-icon on the left side. I think this view would not only be more functional but more pleasing to the eye. Thanks again!

I’m trying to make an cydia package for the donator’s version of my theme. Can you tell me how to make one of these Categories add-on packages? I’ve searched some good iphone sites (modmyi, bigboss.org, sleepers.net, …) but haven’t found a hint.

To be clearer in my question: can we save one folder or a set created with Categories, with icon and content, to reload it later ? Otherwise which path for finding the file pref. to copy to my Mac and later copy it to my iPhone ? (sorry for my english, I’m frenchy :-)

It would be helpful if you could install syslogd, run the apps that are crashing, then post last few pages of /Private/var/log/syslog starting just before you tried to run the app. That could show what’s causing the crash.

Thanks for this app.
Great improvements would be :
– round icons (please, please!)
– faster load time
– less crashes when editing
– alphabetized sort order when choosing an app to add

Is there a 2.3 in the pipe?

Thanks for such a great app, I second for possible changes that would make it perfect;

- round icons
- faster load time
- less crashes when editing
- alphabetized sort order when choosing an app to add

plus

-remove loading icon and have blank screen instead
-fix icon titles from getting cut off (like y letter, etc)
-remove i icon from folder page

He is using a theme with rounded icons and he enabled the background folder option in the folder settings screen.

Had to restore my iPhone. Performed a jailbreak, restored from last iTunes backup 3 days ago, installed APTBACKUP, performed a restore in APTBACKUP and some apps are back except the ones that used to be in Category folders. I see in POOF that they’re hidden but how do I get them back in their respective Category folders?

I un-Poofed them all and now where I used to have 7 full pages of apps (112), after un-poofing everything and deleting the plist to rebuild the Springboard, now I only have 3 pages of apps (48).

Is this an issue with Categories or APTBACKUP having not backed everything up?

Three hours later I finally have everything back in place, minus Categories. As much as this was my favorite app, until it comes with a backup/restore feature, if you ever have to do an iTunes restore, it simply adds at least twice the time restoring.

I have a problem with this apps… When I tried to use Categories… I put this apps in one of the Categories…then when I restore my iphone (due to restore to factory setting) … when I do restore a backup of my application, I cannot locate this apps … I tried to reinstall Categorise several times…but the icon does not show up… can anybody fix this? Thank you

Am I alone with this bug ?

I have a problem here. After installing Categories and creating folders, i.e. Games, Entertainment, etc. I closed out of it and many of the apps from the bar on the bottom are gone. For example Music and movies are gone and are not in any of the folders i created. Any Ideas???

Ah, solved it.

I just went to setting > general > restrictions.

Set restrictions on a few items then unset the restrictions. After that, everything showed up on the home screen.

I have a strange problem. I don’t know if ‘Utils’ is a reserved word and shouldn’t be used as a category name, but I created a category called Utils. Put cydia, categories, etc. in there as well as some ‘settings’ app in there. But I don’t know when this happened, it did work atleast a day after I did that. But yesterday I noticed that my ‘add’ list is now the list of apps in the utils folder, but if I go to the utils folder, it shows all the icons/apps from my springboard. When I go out of categories, springboard looks fine and all the categories with the exception of the ‘Utils’ category, load fine. If i go into utils category from springboard, it shows all the icons from springboard again. And I can’t find the cydia/settings/categories icons.

Luckily I have quickgold installed and it finds the apps fine. So categories just messed up somehow. Maybe because I put the settings icon in there or maybe because I called it Utils, or maybe unreleated. Reinstalling categories didn’t help. Restarting SB also didn’t help. What else can I try?

Hi when I delete an app from a folder the app does not reappear on my springboard. How can I fix this? Any help would be much appreciated.

Where is the icon folder in the root? can i add more icons to library of categories?

I have rearranged my icons with Categories, great app. But I also moved the Settings icon to a folder and after a firmware update of the iPhone I dont see the applications on the Springboard that used to be in categories folders. I also put the categories icon to a folder so I cant access that either… kind a stupid… but s–t happens. any ideas?

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Hello. Not seeing these items addressed so thought I would check it out here:

1) Categories does not appear to be working w/3.0 (?) Is there an update needed -or- maybe I’m totally missing something.

2) Categories ( Restrictions. Turn Restrictions on, click home… return and turn Restrictions back off. This will load ALL your icons to the desktop and then you re-categorize.

This worked for me on the same problem. Now if I can just get Categories to work at all I can clean up the billions of icons floating around

Ok. Sorry everyone. I need to break this one post up to get it to post. Hope someone will delete these bad entires.

Hello. Not seeing these items addressed so thought I would check it out here:

1) Categories does not appear to be working w/3.0 (?) Is there an update needed -or- maybe I’m totally missing something.

3) Speed. What can I do on my end to speed Categories up? I don’t have any of the directories overloaded w/applications nor use any fancy a icons/graphics.

*) TIP: If you lose your icons on the 3.0 upgrade try the following:
General > Restrictions. Turn Restrictions on, click home… return and turn Restrictions back off. This will load ALL your icons to the desktop and then you re-categorize.

This worked for me on the same problem. Now if I can just get Categories to work at all I can clean up the billions of icons floating around

Please please PLEASE add a sorting option into the categories! I have over 60 items in my games folder and it’s a bitch to keep them in any sort of alpha order

I just love the BB apps and Categories is one of my favorites.
This is just a small thing i’m thinking of, but on 2.2.1 when a category folder was opened the background was still showing when the loading folder appears. Now on 3.0 the background goes black when the folder loads and when the loading is done the background is shown again.

I know it is small, but having the background shown during the loading like it was before looks much better. I hope it is possible to fix this.

Some of my icons have turned to question marks, how do I fix this ?

Im having the most trouble ever with Categories for some reason. PLEASE PLEASE someone help me!!!!

Last night i tried to upgrade my unlocked iphone 2g with 3.0 firmware to the 3.0.1 firmware and it totally screwed me over. After about 3 hours sitting at my computer trying to unlock it again i finally got everything back except for all of the cydia apps i downloaded INCLUDING categories. All the apps that were in specified categories were lost but my iTunes and my iPhone still insists that i have these apps– but theyre NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! i really want my apps back. can you please help me??

–all the categories i came up with are gone. and wen i clicked on the actual app it had the names within but said “(0)” next to each one so I just deleted it all. I reinstalled Categories from Cydia thinking maybe something would happen and it didnt.

Big Boss please help.

Hmmm and how does he keep the Dock icons when in a category ?? Is it a non-clickable dock icons background image or is there a way to do that ?

And how to use a theme with rounded icons in Categories ?
And i’m using “Keep Resident” but still got a fast “Loading” page, is it normal ?

Thanks thanks bigboss !

BUG in Categories:
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if you have all your categories nice done after 2 hours of work and your wife change the iphone language to german all icons will be copied to the 8 main iphone screen!!

regards fabrizio

I did create some folder and I do have some applications in. But since I upgrade to the latest version I can’t access the application in the folder, I seem them but soon I click on it bring me back to the page I have the folder. Anyway to correct this situation?

Hi,
I created a category named ‘Etc.’ And later, I tried to edit it with categories app, but the ‘Etc.’ category doesn’t show in the category list of the application. (I can see the category on SpringBoard though)

Could you help fix this? Thanks in advance.

Hey was wondering if anyone knew if a non-click able blank app could be assigned into a folder created by categories.app?

Do you have any plans to make this work for the iPad? There’s a real need for something like this for the iPad.