I’m not sure if any other users are experiencing this but the categories update messed up my folders. The apps within the folders no longer launch; it just returns to the springboard.

The new update messed up my folders, too.
Reinstallation does not help. Please fix it.

Just got the 2nd update today and it works great again…Thanks BigBoss!

thanks for the second update BigBoss!

Above comment was mine. I updated notes hoping it fixed the problem. Still can’t cancel autocorrection when hitting the “X”

I’m having the same issue, though I compounded it by messing with the files in iPhone browser, now I can’t even get it to display a list of apps in the folder without it going back to Springboard. Even bigger problem, Cydia is sitting inside one of the folders!

Anyone know how to get apps out of a Category folder without being able to open the folder?

As a followup to my previous post. Anyone having the same problem as mine can fix the problem by ssh’ing into your iphone and renaming the file:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

To something like this:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist.orig

Then reboot.. you can run cydia where you will find the 2nd update.. while you are downloading the update (and before it finishes the download) move the file you renamed above back to the original name and let cydia finish.. reboot and everything will now be as you expect. Hope this helps someone.

Yea i noticed this too

Doug, you are awesome. Thank you! I have my apps back!

Edit to my above, I guess you could say I found a bug:
It does control my ringer and internal GUI music volume, but what it does not do is turn unloking/locking sounds of my phone down.

These are controlled by ToneFX, another 3rd party app.

Thanks as usual for your excellent work BigBoss, a question, is there a way to change the position of toggles in SBSettings? or could it be implemented in a future update, thanks in advance

This is the exact same for me, it would be the most useful toggle for me too.

How about a send fast note to notes button inside fast notes? =)

Or also a fast todo =)

we’d love you even more in such cases =)

hi
So far exelent work with SBsettings.
please consider to make a ssh on restart toggle, as it exists in bossprefs. because the ssh is always on when i restart my iphone.

and will it slow down the phone and drain the battery???

what does a safari download plugin even do?

you should get it automatically though.

lets you download stuff.

Hi BB,

Playing with the new volume widget you added on SBS I noticed if you keep clicking Volume tab it keeps opening up new slider bars on top of eachother.

Not sure if this is a potential bug or not but thought I would let you know!

Thanks!
Asa

in your router change the client lease time to forever.

My Deep HUD SBSettings Theme v1.06.01 is submitted to BigBoss i hope it will be soon available in Cydia.
It includes new brightness and Wifi icon and supports the Widgets Fast Notes, Close App and Volume.

+1 that would be a really useful feature!

Hi
my girlfriend and i both have an iphone 3g (officially unlocked) and we both jailbroke it with the latest quickpwn, everything works great except the categories app, as soon as it opens it just goes srtraight back to the springboard, i have tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but no change,
i also must mention that it worked for a brief period (enough time to put all my games and apps into folders) i can still access the folders i just cant acces the categories app anymore,
have i done something wrong?

Please help

Thanks :)

Do you ever visit this page? There is a full article about why it does that and why it stays like that.

I updated it. It should be there now. Thank you for the theming support :)

This does not sound like a problem with SBSettings, but a problem with whether or not the iPhone thinks its connected to WiFi or not.

But i have de installed sbsettings and then it worked fine. Do you have any clue?

Hey Guys,

I tried to turn my SSH on after the new update, and my phone is COMPLETELY froze. It wont even reboot. Ive held down the power button for as long as I could.

Its froze with SBSettings on the screen..

I’ve tried to SSH in to reboot and its not working..

BB i just saying what r u thing making a program the tell u how many apps r running or how many memory u r using in the phone ?? is just a idea ,, or i dont know if is already in cydia , thakx

hi, bigboss
i have updateded the app as soon as the two updates were available but no difference,
what can i do next?

What was that nonsense? It surely wasn’t English.

Hi Bigboss,

everytime i reboot from sbsettings i go into safemode

00:03:07 localhost SpringBoard[79]: *** Assertion failure in +[SBRemoteNotificationServer unregisterAllPublishersExceptForBundleIdentifiers:], /SourceCache/SpringBoard/SpringBoard-716.45/SBRemoteNotificationServer.m:258
Dec 4 00:03:07 localhost SpringBoard[79]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘remote notification server must be running before publishers can be unregistered’

Hi Bigboss,

a bit hats off of SBSettings, excellent work. I showed it to my brother last week and the first thing he said is “I want that now!”

Oner suggestion, I find that the swipe gesture to open SBSettings is way too sensitive. I find myself accidentally opening it when I do things like touch the top of the Safari window to scroll to the top of the page.

Would it be possible to make the required swipe gesture more like the unlock slider, i.e. the full width of the status bar? I think this would solve the problem.

Thanks!
–dhl

sorry about my english im not from here

Regarding this new updates for Categories, I crashed every time I was in the app (always happen after I exited 1 folder and enter the next folder to choose app during scrolling) which follows to auto Hard Reboot.

The previous version of Categories crashed everytime too, especially scrolling up and down 200 apps to choose which to assign, it always crashed and auto restart Spring Board.

I really adore this app because it’s amazingly helpful, but can you look into this?
I would suggest to remove icon previews (or make it small icon as BossPref, which never crashed during scrolling), and have an alphabet sorting for all apps names, if possible, maybe have a Search Bar. I think this crash caused by icon preview for my case, what do you think?

PS: I tried to lauch Categories after reboot so there won’t be any memory being used by other apps, it still crashed though… I never turn on Intelli Screen or any other apps too…

Oh My God, you won’t believe that after hard reboot caused by Categories crash, all my sorting icons in my iPhone was reset, All hidden apps/icons were reset to default.

It’s going to take me a long time to organize them.

BigBoss,

I have a 2G iphone with Categories and SBSettings with the most recent updates and most recent version of iPhone software.

The manual lock button (top of the iPhone) is no longer working. In order to lock successfully I have to use SBSettings to lock, power off, etc. Any suggestions?

Beyond that, I downloaded the most recent update and I don’t see the volume widget/toggle avaialable.. What did I miss?

Thanks for all the cool stuff you’ve done man.. Brian

BigBoss,

Great job with SBSettings. Just wanted to suggest a toggle for Location Services. I always have this setting off to conserve battery life. When I need to use Maps or other apps that ask for your location I have to turn it on. It’ll be really usefull to just open SBSettings and toggle location services on.

I’ve tried really hard to get this (version 2.22-2) to work. Not sure what happened, I loved this app previously, but over the last few days it has crashed repeatedly (goes back to springboard).

I’ve tried:
Restore, jailbreak, backup then install categories
Restore, jailbreak, set up as new phone, then install categories
Erase all content & settings (took 2 hours!), set up as new phone, restore, jailbreak, backup (from after the erase), then install categories.

Still it crashes!
Prior to these attempts I was also experiencing quickgold 1.3.4 crashing to safe mode but the above attempts were without installing quickgold.

What should I do next apart from give up? I’m using Quickpwn if that makes any difference…

Now iPhone freezes after changing anything in the folders, have to hard-restart it, although changes apply.

Just an FYI. I saw BB reply to a similar request in one of these comments & he said he doesn’t plan on changing the sensitivity or method of activation. So, if ever at all, it will definitely be a long way down the road.

Don’t kill the messenger. :)

By the way, I just mean it is lame that it happened to me. I know this is all stuff people are working on in their own free time and I do appreciate the service these kind people provide. It is just frustrating that I spent two hours of my night organizing everything only for this to happen :(

it seems that at the bottom of the page there are those free ads that is what has been causing my categories folder to keep on crashing, as soon as i put my iphone on airplane mode nothing crashed anymore (i hope this is the same for you ) cos now my categories app works just fine

I think I have found a bug that no one else has encountered yet. It involves Add/Remove program command from a folder and the subsequent sorting mechanism. I deleted Cycorder from a folder that also included the YouTube app. A copy of the cycorder landed on my springboard, but another copy of the app also remained in the folder— and what’s more the Youtube app has magically disappeared from my springboard and folder with no trace whatsoever. The youtube video player still exists, as it still works through safari, but the springboard app is gone.

How can I get my YouTube app back on the Springboard? From my limited understanding it seems possible , but I don’t know where to start or how to do it.

I sure wish Categories had the option to automatically sort/alphabetize the entries of a category for you. My GAMES page has like 60 entries on it and is a bitch to keep them in any sort of order!

create multiple folders for your games maybe?

Sorry, I know of no hard reboot bug that results in all apps on springboard :(
I would need exact steps to reproduce this in detail.

Also would it be possible to put a lock button right in there and not in the power menu?

BigBoss,

In the course of installing SBSettings and using it, the lock button (top of the iPhone) no longer works. When I click it, nothing happens, springboard remains as is. I restored my iPhone once before (after having this issue once before) and the lock button functionality worked normally again after synching the iPhone.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Brian

Taylor.. Thanks.. The point is that SBSettings should not take away from standard iPhone functionality or render it inoperable. I’m aware of the ability to Lock using SBSettings, but software that eliminates other standard functionality, is, by definition, broken..

Please add an option to use the categories setup application without icons, to save memory. I don’t know how many apps you are using for your testing, but Categories crashes all the time if you have many (100-150) installed apps. Most of the time I can only add 3-6 apps successfully to a folder before another crash happens. I hope you can imagine how much time it takes to sort 100-150 apps with all these crashes.

Even worse, older versions of Categories only forced an automatic Respring, but your current (and 1-2 previous updates) produces freezes that trigger a complete reboot of the iPhone.

The only background applications I am using are SBsettings and Quickgold. I don’t use Winterboard, IntelliScreen or something else that could cause those problems, so assuming that your software has no memory leaks or capacious bugs, the only remaining explanation for those crashes is the larger number of apps I am using, but that’s the main reason for using Categories – if I only had 30-40 apps I wouldn’t need folders at all.

Hi anomousny,

You described my crash perfectly! That’s why my earlier post suggest to have No Icons Preview, plus Sort Alphabetically (I do not understand the current sorting method though).

What really disappoint me is the current version produces freezes that trigger a complete reboot of the device, and one of the reboot reset all my icons, so I hope the developer will release an update very soon as I had been helpful to describe the details and so do your comment.

I’m just wondering if any Cydia’s developer can break the 9 pages limitation to limitless, or enable direct jump to each page by tapping on the Small White Dots indication below (as the page number), that will be great and realistic since iTunes apps has hit thousands…

My other idea for Categories is to make it an app with each Category Names like the current AppStore, just plain text without icons with alphabetical sorting, similar to AppFlow but with custom Categories.

addendum: If you don’t have enough apps and therefor need a beta tester for your update, I would be very pleased to help you.

Categories is a fantastic app. It’s the most important app on my iphone.

Unfortunately, it just keeps crashing in ways the force me to reboot. When adding apps to folders is when it usually happens. The last reboot “unhid” everything, and now Categories doesn’t seem to hide items after I add them to folders. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling Categories.

I’m sad that I will probably have to wait until it is more stable to use it again.

I’ve a little problem with SBSettings:

the hdd free space on / and /var/ doesn’t seem to be updated, since it keeps showing me 143mb and 12500mb. however, in itunes and in the “about” section of mi iphone it shows I have 12,0gb free.

okay wut this app really needs is a safari download toggle if it had this i would totally get rid of bossprefs but o yah it needs to keep SHH off after turn it on!!!
cuz its on when i turn it on and it was off before i turned it off HELP PLZ
ill pay u if u made that widget!!!

and another thing is having a vista theme for sbsettings

Hi
i have a problem with the sbsettings, I install the application and now i´m unable to use the 2 first rows of icons of my iphone, i uninstall the application and i install again but i have the same problem.
i´m on the 2.2 fw, any help will be greate.
thanks in advanc

I was so stupid updating to 2.2 without emptying the categories folders.

So i lost a lot of apps. When i tried to reinstall the apps it didn’t work. Itunes installs them but i don’t see the apps.

I removed the apps on the ipod, on itunes and removed categories and then tried to install, without result. All apps are invisible. Also deleting manually the app in the var/mobile/application/ folder doesn’t help.

Who can tell me what to do to use the apps again?

I’m another person having the issue with Categories v2.22 continually crashing.

I also experienced the horrifying issue where after coming back from one of the crashes, all of my apps/games that were within folders were suddenly put back on the main springboard pages (giving me well over 9 pages of apps) ..

Because of that problem and the repeated crashing, I figured something must be wrong with my phone.. I just finished completely restoring my iPhone to the 2.2 firmware, re-jailbroke it and installed Categories v2.22 .. same problems with a “fresh install”

I do not have hundreds of applications on my phone at this point like someone else mentioned — I only have maybe 20 or 25 apps and the crashing from withing the Categories app is still happening.

Is there anyway for the many of us experiencing these crashes to “downgrade” the Categories program to v2.21? I never had any of these crashing issues with the previous version(s) of Categories I was using..

I got a request for a change to the fast notes toggle in SBSettings, and can’t find a better place to put it…

Can you make the SBSettings window ‘roll up’ when the fast notes window is open? That way, I can still see some of the screen that I am taking a note off of… Or make a transparent theme for SBSettings??

Good morning, Categories one is excel application! I meetings two problems with this one, impossible to put “Webclip” in repertoires, and also for the applications accents of which names include.
Have we a means to solve these, or a next evolution?
Thanks

PLEASE HELP!!!

i recently accidently updated my ipod touch 1G to 2.2.1 and i tried to jailbreak it but cydia and installer didnt show up on the SB so i thought maybe the jailbreak i used was faulty so i downgraded my ipod back to 2.2 and re jailbroke it and cydia and installer still didnt show up i think the problem might be that i had those apps in a catigories folder before my ipod got updated and i was wondering if there was any way to get them to show up again(maybe a categories download that i could send to my ipod from my computer or something i could change in the /root folder on my ipod) thanks in advanced

Dear Big Boss,

Will there be a update soon for Categories?? I found that Categories begins to crash constantly as the numbers of apps are increasing. This issue makes Categories not possible to use. Still Categories is a very powerfull tool thanks.

Yep, Categories needs to be more stable and not ignoring a lot of apps (especially webclips!)
Why is there a folder template for webclips as they are not recognized…?

Hi

Bosspress is messing up my springboard aswell. I have catagorie on it and like to put all the aplications in the folders.. When i do a respring with bosspress all messed up again.. Also Enable numeric battery is not working.. I’m runnning OS 3.0 now Maybe that’s the problem

Marco

I have a 1.1.1. iphone from USA at first it was unlocked og noe i have jailbroken it with Pwnage 3.0.

It is now faster and funnier, BUT whenever I have sent or recieved a SMS it is deleted when i close the sms application. I have biteSMS,SMS and the standard one.

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