I just want to thank you for such an awesome app!! Seriously, this app is the app that makes everything else that much more enjoyable! Your hard work is greatly appreciated!!!

Ill be great to create some sub-folder, just a tougt.

Hi, I just discovered this nice App (new iPhone user)! Could You make more customizing please? E.g. different folder designs/colours und other font colours besides white. The grey folders look a bit…at least for me. The reason for the font colour is that is just discovered winterboard, too and I changed the background. XD

Thanks again for this fantastic program (both Categories & CategoriesSB). Being an app junkie, this has given me a way to organize the hundreds of programs on my phone.

I just want to make another plug for a feature since you’re re-writing the icon selection interface. Can you include support for icon sub-folders? Maybe it can be logical (i.e. sub-directories) or virtual (i.e. based on author/filter name like “ks03_purple” or “ranova”)? First icon would be the icon for that folder? Bold or underline the icon_text_name to indicate it’s a folder? Just throwing out ideas here as I type. Would be nice instead of having to page all the way to the bottom to select the icon you want.

Anyway, thanks again for this great program!

Hello Thanks again for this great app. today I upgraded from the previous version and now when I create a new categorie Im not able to select the icon I want like i was able to in the previous version.
Do you know how to fix this?
thanks a lot in advance

hm, give me a hint where to look. i downloaded it today via Cydia. Works fine sofar. I discovered that I can change font colour inside the folder but I would prefer a different colour on the main page (I think it is the “springboard thing” – sorry Im not an english guy). I only found the little exclamation mark inside each folder and the app itself. nothing inside the iphone setting. i have parallel installed “winterboard and backgrounder”

found it. didnt know i could edit the folder itself. nice app.

I haven’t updated as yet, so I’ll look out for this.

But…this sounds like the issue other people had mentioned on iTunes. Symptom is that you’ll receive notification from iTunes for an update, you download it, but it never takes.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2240411&tstart=285

I’ve experienced this problem myself. It’s my belief that it’s an iTunes-App-Store-driven problem.

My only solution so far is to wait a day when the problem occurs. After a day, download the update(s) again with iTunes and see if it takes and the badge/icon changes. After this, then sync your iPhone with iTunes. (If you don’t wait, you’ll have to delete the app, then sync it back again.)

Of course, this doesn’t mean it’s not a JB-app-driven problem. Just that other people are having it and it started weeks ago.

Hi
is there à page where I can Download the previous versions of the categories App? It’s because since I Updated to Version 2.28 and later2.29 I cannot delete à Folder that I created with an older version. So I thought I’d install for example version 2.26 again to delete that folder.
Thanks in advance. Bye

You didnt even read the main post before commenting did you :(

You can delete the folder out of /Applications using ifile or SSH (winscp or such).

Is it possible to return to the folder instead of the springboard? I’m guessing it falls under the same problem that one would have if one tried to delete from the folder.

I have done this (using iFile), but the application still appears in Categories, although the name of the folder appears as “(null)”. If I hit edit > delete for this folder, then when I respring and relaunch Categories it is still there.

What can I do?

This is more or less my plan (icon groups).

Since version 2.27, there are now two parts to a category: the directory under /Applications, and a preferences file. For example:

/Applications/Games.app
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.bigboss.categories.Games.plist

You must delete both of these.

Coming in the next CategoriesSB release.

According to your findings, it sounds like the problem is SmartScreen, and has nothing to do with Categories.

However, if you find that there is a problem with Categories (or CategoriesSB) please drop me an email.

thanks guys!

just updated to 2.29 after updating to os 3.1.2. When I add icons to folders, they stay on the springboard, but also show up in the folder. Ive used to cydia to uninstall and then reinstall categories, but that doesnt help.

how can I fix this?

Alright sweet! I’ll try that an see if it works/hurts performance. Thanks!

Oh and any support on blank apps? There used to be a pseudo way but it doesn’t work now :(

Wow, instant navigation! (Using Categories 2.29 and CategoriesSB I mean.) The time has finally come for me to replace Springjumps (also a brilliant app) with this more flexible approach.

But I have one concern and a few suggestions:

First, is this risky in any way? Can I permanently lose access to my apps by if an inopportune crash occurs? What folder(s) should I backup to prevent this?

Suggestion 1: A back navigation button was suggested above (presumably to be placed in the title bar). In addition to this, I’m sure theme designers would like to have an option to place Category shortcuts inside the folder itself. Then you could teleport instantly to related folders, or have up/previous/next buttons, go to the root, etc. This would also enable navigation for people who disable the title bar.

Suggestion 2: I’m sure you’ve already had requests for populating folders with drag & drop – I second this. Finding the correct 16 apps for a folder in a long alphabetical list is a major pain, especially when the phone resprings every time you exit to check the springboard. If this is not forthcoming soon, how about at least an option to sort the list by what springboard page each app appears on? Many people probably have the apps they want in a folder grouped together on the springboard.

Thanks for a great app!

I just paid for Categories SB and boy was it worth it. this is the best iphone app ever (and the only one I have paid for).

It would not hurt to mention in the upgrade screen that your old folders may disappear. Mine did when upgrading from ver 2.26 and it is no fun to recreate everything. Caveat emptor.

I also am having the same exact problem… All my old folders are there with the same apps i had in them but the icons are missing and replaced with (null) (#) and when i try to edit with the arrow it crashes when i do a swipe and the menu pops up it crashes after i select icon. Please help i love the app. Also is it possible to get a built in back up system so categories will put the apps back in the the folders after a restore. This would be extremely helpful!!!

This is coming in CategoriesSB version 1.4.

I’m having a difficult time figuring out how to mainstream the theming of categories due to the new name system.

Before I would ask end-users to create folders labeled “More Games”, “More Apps”, and “More Utilities” and would only new to make background images for More Games.app and More Apps.app, etc. Now that they are now being created as “Category000.app” and “Category001.app”, this is going to create a mess for themers. The end-user will then need to find the name of the category in the app, then SSH into their phone and rename the folders.

I try to make themes as easy as possible to install. Is there any other way around this?

Yes. I meant the latter. From what you stated, it doesn’t even sound possible. That’s too bad for clumsy people like myself who often push the wrong icon. Going back to the folder would be convenience. Thanks for replies.

i’ve got this problem. After i installed Categories, i deleted my game app from the folder that i created. Everytime when i open that folder, it will show up my deleted app icon for an sec, then back to the normal screen.

This happened to me. I ended up deleting them manually.

Go to private/var/stash/applications

Find the folders then delete them (“Games.app, Apps.app, etc).

For me, they still showed up as “null” in the Categories app, so I had to go into private/var/mobile/library/preferences and deleted the plists for them (“com.bigboss.categories.games…”, something like that).

Thank you for your great contributions to the iPhone community, BigBoss. Categories is definitely the most useful package available. Without it my springboard would be absolute mess.

Categories has worked just fine for me, and the only errors I have encountered have been minor. Not only that but they were Easily fixed with a respring. Thanks again.

-DcMeese

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Please email me with the details of your problem.

(This site is not a support forum, and I do not often read the messages here).

Just open up that folder, wait for that icon to disappear. Then close the folder immediately. Next time you open the folder up again your icon will be gone.

great job, one problem I found last night:

I have a folder with security stuff, I wanted to add kirikae, but categories will always show the load icons , please wait screen. I can scroll and it entered kirikae there, but that looks like a small glitch to me. Got a syslog if you need one

I seem to have an orphaned category titled ‘Food’ on my Springboard. Note: I just upgraded to 3.1.2.

I had a similar null problem that a commenter above did. I also had an extra Food category.

If I recall, I deleted these files:
/Applications/Food.app
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.bigboss.categories.Food.plist

and then I wiped clean & redid ALL my categories.

For some reason the ‘Food’ category is still there. In fact, I have two of them called ‘Food’. If I click the ‘good’ one, I can see my food apps. If I click the bad one, it just flashes for a second and then returns me to the springboard.

I can’t seem to delete this extra one.

With the upgrade to categories 2.29 you now use this structure:
com.bigboss.categories.Category000.plist
com.bigboss.categories.Category001.plist
etc.

This numbered categories within the Categories app exactly matches the number of categories I have, which is 8. But the extra Food category makes 9.

Where else might this orphaned category live?

The name of an icon (not just category icons) comes from the applications Info.plist file. You might try looking through all of your apps in /Applications and /var/mobile/Applications to see if any of the Info.plist files contain “Food”. A simple grep would probably be the easiest way to do it.

If you still have trouble, please send me an e-mail.

You da man!

Ran this from those 2 folders:
find . -type f -name “*.plist” -exec grep -i “Food” {} \; -print

and found the file I needed to delete. I had renamed it to ‘temp’ when I was having the null problem and then must have forgotten I called it ‘temp’.

All is well!

anyone else seeing this, its in all my categories

i did the latest update,everything is fine worki ng,the bug here is that on the screen were the apps added each category ,dosent show the (!)button to make changes,appears black with blank apps dock
thank you for your hard and great work hope you will fix this soon
;-)

Webclips are not supported, only applications.

Sorry :(

hi. i’m having the same problem (only gray folders – no icons but i can change colours). how do i get the “hundreds of icons” to show up so i can apply them to my folders? cydia upgraded my categories app the other day and i’ve had lots of trouble trying to delete old folders i couldn’t edit, so i’m not sure if i’ve got a crappy install or not. i’m also still only on v3.0, does that make a difference to this version of categories? do i need to install anything else? thanks..

This is a great application. How ever I just realised that if I have more than 100 items in the categories, it will block the youtube – m.youtube.com. Is this a constraint in Iphone OS or it is a bug in Category?

Thanks

can i get the apps icon and games icon i a 128×128 size and not a 60×60 size

The good news is your apps are lost. The icons to the apps are hidden.

You can always unhide them using one of the popular utilities. I use SBSettings and that works pretty well.

If you haven’t loaded it yet, I’d also recommend SpotBright. It enhances the iPhone’s Spotlight search feature so you can run hidden apps.

Also, you might try to Email the author through the application’s Author link in Cydia. He may need a file or two to determine if there’s a bug that needs to be fixed.

Best of luck.

great app!! but plz plz add the ability to include webclips in folders.
If not, do u know of an easy way to convert bookmarks into apps?

RE: No Splash Screen (i.e. Default.png)

I am using Whitoken theme and created 4 Categories Folders (Home, Media, Apps, Games) for it. I wonder why the splash screen (i.e. Default.png) doesn’t show up whenever i get into each folder?

Thanks.

Are you at the bigboss@thebigboss.org address?

placing categories on the dock with saurik’s five icon dock causing crash. i was using 4 folders + 1 app on the dock.

I’d like to know when there is a fix to this. I’m having the same problem.

I can’t edit folders I created before the update to v2.29. They don’t show up in categories at all.

Is there a way to save my categories, so that when I update firmware & re-jailbreak, I won’t have to recreate the categories manually? Thanks

I’ve noticed a possible bug in Categories. In creating new categories, the category /Applications/Category002.app does not show up on the Springboard. Category001 does, and so does Category003 and subsequent numbers (thus far). Respringing, restarting doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Might be just my device, but didn’t know if others have had a similar experience. My workaround is to create the Category002 folder, label it “Bug” and just not put anything in it.

Steve

I was hoping to see this problem listed so as maybe to find a solution, but after upgrading to the most recent version of Categories, my battery has been completely out of whack. I’ve been using Categories for several months with no problems, then recently I added a new folder and now my battery will deplete in about an hour. At first I couldn’t figure out what was going on, but after a bunch of trial and error and deleting various apps, I narrowed it down to Categories.

It’s at the point where as soon as I add the app back, my phone immediately starts losing battery power at about 1% a minute. The instant I remove it, the battery stays at whatever percentage it was at and begins operating normally again. I have a friend who is experiencing similar problems, so I was hoping I wasn’t alone and maybe someone would have a solution.

Other than this issue, which is a major one for me and caused to have to keep Categories off my phone, the app actually functions fine. No missing icons, no folders that I can’t delete, none of the problems described by everyone above. It’s just totally killing my battery.

Great app! But what do I do after a firmware restore or upgrade? it wipes out all the folders and it’s a pain to re-create every time. Is there a way to back up the configuration files (where are they stored?) so I can put them back? Or is there another solution? Anyone run into this?

Just adding my request for this feature as well, if possible.

I am having a battery issue as well. But mine is different. I am getting a strange error when my battery is low.

Getting this message.

Low Battery
345678% of batter remaining

This happened after I upgraded Categories.

I second that!

Btw, I have the same problem as mentioned above, my old categories I can no longer edit now… Anyone has a solution?

I third that!

I’m just upgrade categories from 2.22 to 2.29,
then the old created folders disappeared in new categories, but they still on my springboard.

How can I solve it?

I also have the same problem and also have 2.22 in the folder and 2.29 in Categories.. seems odd.. hope there’s a fix.

Been using cat for a long time now, I could have sworn I read sumwhere that it’s impossible to support icons for safari bookmarks, can sum1 confirm this as never, or just not yet as this is the only thing I can find from making this possibly the most useful app on all of iTunes/cydia/etc thx

Great app. I just got into the jailbreak thing over the holidays. Have to admit I doubt I will ever go back to the default look.

I see my question has been addressed a bunch here so I will just say that I am looking forward to the icon selection remake. I was sure it was a memory issue the way it would crash out.

Thanks for making my iphone experience much better!

Scott

Do I have to remove apps from the categories folder before I uninstall. Will uninstalling Categories without moving the apps out delete the apps?

Somehow I have V2.22 installed, with one folder that I created with apps in it. The folder cant be removed.

Is there a way to download this same version so I can reinstall it to remove this folder and update to the newer 2.29

It as if the apps is not installed because I cant add/remove apps, or make new folders either.

Please advise

Is there a way to backup and restore the Categories settings? (like folders / icons etc.)

Is there a place where we can get active replies to our problems? I see tons of questions/issues here and no reply or help. I have posted on diff boards and even PM bigboss and no reply. I loved cat app, worked great, then got update and now acts as if new install, will not see any cats that was made b4 update, no way to remove apps from cats either, basically stuck with what I got.

HELP PLEASE.

Where do we get some replies?

SJ

I have a problem with the latest version of Categories, in that I *cannot* DELETE a category I’ve created. It won’t remove it from the SpringBoard, either. I have to manually remove the folder for it, but then I’m left with an entry in Categories that says:

(null) (0)
/Applications/

*where is the name I gave it.

Both of the ones I’m having trouble with have a space in the name; one is called WiFi Apps, the other Text Apps.

How the heck do I get rid of them? There used to be a text file we could edit to remove entries, but that seems to be gone, or at least not in the same location. I’ve tried hitting edit in Categories v2.29 and then deleting the (null) entry, which makes it go away, but as soon as SpringBoard is restarted, they show up in Categories again! :(

Sorry for 3 posts in a row. Appears my last one is a big NEGATIVE. New Categories folders (with the name of Category00x, where x is a sequential #), do not have this key. Changing said key in the other ones do not change the text color. :( Still testing, however, perhaps I’ll stumble on a solution. :\

My story, I should never have upgraded from Categories 2.22 to this new 2.29 version. I have had nothing but dramas. I have done every thing mentioned in this blog & others & then some. The new 2.29 version will not show more than 1 folder on the desktop of my iphone. I have created a total number of 4 with no naming conflicts with other programs etc all have unique names. The new folders have all been created OK i.e.: /Applications/Category000.app & so on. By the way this is the only one that is visible the rest as in /Applications/Category001.app onwards are not visible. I have removed all reference of the previous versions folders on the desktop & within the /Applications/ directory. I have uninstalled & reinstalled all boss apps including categories etc & reinstalled them time & time again but with no luck. I also removed all reference to any left over boss entries in the /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/.

Can Categories 2.22 version be added to cydia downloads for those of us with drama’s with the new 2.29 version? The 2.22 version worked perfectly for me on my iphone which by the way has got firmware version 2.2(5G77). Everything worked great for me up to now & I’m happy with current firmware. Sorry for the Mills & Boon story, any help to solve this would be appreciated as it is very frustrating to say the least. Cheers, Regards Rob K.

Can someone help me out with this app major problem… I have iPhone 2.2.1 had installed Categories v2.2 created folders and put Categories app in one of the folders then I saw an update on cydia and installed the new one v2.29 then when I started it up it said that there’s no files to manage only to create new folders but on my sb are the folders with my other apps inside them and I have no way to remove them out of the folders????? Tried uninstalling Categories then re-installed still no luck

Me too. Categories is a great, great app. Being able to add Safari favorites saved on the home screen to categories folders would make it perfect. Hope you find a way to add it! Thanks again.

I have the same problem, can anyone help please?

must create a Category00x.app folder: Folders in a xxx.theme and aply in winterboard

HeLp mE please,
all my icons are stucked inside my 3 folders, i am trying to retrive to home screen but its just stucking at all!! I need your help PleaZzzZzzzz
Best regards,

Same problem as Josh. I upgraded my 2G phone to 3.1.3 from 3.0.1 and reloaded Cydia apps with AptBackup. I placed all my apps in the their categories folders. Everytime I start Categories I get “…Damaged/partial folders…>Repair”. This gives me a null folder of “/Applications/plist.app” I do not see /Applications/plist.app to delete. I SSH to the iPhone and tried ls -a and ls -A.
rm /Applications/plist.app does not find it. I have Categories.app and Category000-005.app for my 6 folders.

Found the problem in /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences there was a couple of entries like

com.bigboss.categories.SomeTrashCharacters.plist

I deleted the files

There is a flaw with catergories when i try add some apps into the folders, they are big and will not let me sort them out without putting others onto it, please if anyone else is having this problem write here

Using Ipod touch 4g