[purpl7duece]

Finally took the time to fix mine and it worked! Thanks much!

[mike1114]

I went through the steps outlined in this thread an in all the folders mentioned, there were'nt any files for me to delete.

All of a sudden about 1.5 weeks ago my cydia started crashing just like everyone describes. It seemed to happen to me after I did the carrier update to get MMS working with ATT.

Anyone have any other ideas on what to check? Maybe a source that isn't working???

3.0 jailbroke with purplerain

[exsequor]

Originally Posted by leroy67

I had the exact same problem same log file. I was able to use iphone browser and go to var/lib/dpkg/updates and delete all files in the update folder. Cydia has worked fine since

Thank you so much. I love google and forums. I just jailbroke my iphone 2 days ago and saved myself days worth of research with this forum in particular. Thanks!

[mike1114]

Cydia still isn't working for me. Can anyone offer some advice?

[lkhendek]

Originally Posted by grandeabc

:-P
Well, my problem isn't the UPDATES folder, instead it was in the apt/Lists folder, where one file was crashing my Cydia (in thrue Cydia was not starting). Since my hacked iPhone had not SSH enable, i did the follows:
1 - go to DiskAid - USB Flash Drive for iPhone & iPod Touch. Transfer Files betwen your Computer and your iPhone or iPod Touch. and installed DiskAid (30 days free trial)
2 - plug iPhone in USB
3 - open DiskAid and at the left botton corner choose: RootFolder (next, read the message and click OK)
4 - navigate to: var/lib/apt/lists where, in my case (again, IN MY CASE), the problem was the following file:
apt.bigboss.us.com_repofiles_cydia_dists_stable_ma in_binary-iphoneos-arm_Packages
5 - delete this file or another one if necessary. I detelete one by one until find the problem's one. You do not need to restart your iPhone for this. Just delete the file and try to open Cydia in your iPhone.
Hugs

i cannot open cydia as well, i was downloading a theme in cydia and halfway through my iphone crashed an restarted...now cydia will not open. so i tried this method above but for some reason i cannot open the rootfolder it is greyed out i tried iphone explorer as well and cannot open the rootfolder either. so any suggestions how to fix cydia.

just a side note, my cousin overseas jailbroke my phone i am clueless on how to jailbreak so just trying to find the easiest way to fix this problem

thank you for your input