Oh Cydia! I have made a mess...

[techgirl]

Okay Cydia is having issues and I was desperate for new apps, so I tried to fix instead of just waiting it out... I have made a mess.

I followed a combination of fixes, deleting all but partial folder, etc, but didn't work. So just deleted cydia and cydia.app. Why did I do that? I backed up however and added them back, but no use.

Bigger issues now... Every time I select an icon it freezes, then spinning wheel, then restart. Doesn't constantly reboot or anything. It will restart back to springboard, but if I touch an icon - wheel o death.

Please help. I have over 500 apps (no comments) and a ton of mods that I love. I don't want to re-jailbreak, so please let that be your very last suggestion.

Thanks family!!!

[blkcadi]

If you can still SSH into your phone you can reinstall Cydia with a deb file.
Go here and it explains it a bit more.
Cydia Crashing

Other wise you will have to restore and re-jailbreak. sorry.

[techgirl]

This is my issue... I use phoneview to ssh into my phone, and it has no command line. But I have also never understood how if your phone is on a reboot and you can't access settings, how you would find your ip address to issue commands anyway.

Thanks for your quick response by the way!

[blkcadi]

Wow, not sure really. I don't believe there is a way without it. May be time to restore. I know that's not the answer you want but you may have no choice. Sorry.

[Zwayne]

If you take a look at you network router you can find your iPhone Ip address or the one it is using.

[techgirl]

Zwayne - please explain. I'm on a macbook using snow leopard. I use a wireless router. It is routed through time capsule if that means anything. Thanks for any help guys. My phone is on again - sbsettings works, so does anything that I run through the lockscreen, but if I press an icon, I know that will be it.

cydia_1.0.3044-65_iphoneos-arm.deb (looks like this?) Thought I knew what was doing until this bs. FML.

[blkcadi]

if you have and can open SBSettings you can see the wifi addy there, so you can ssh in and install the deb file.

[techgirl]

Can you please tell me how to do this? I can get the ip address. Where do I put the deb file to issue the command. Read the above post. Doesn't explain where to put it. Thanks

[blkcadi]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw3g-xlEeRE]YouTube - How to install a Deb File on the iPhone[/ame]

How To Install / Uninstall .deb File on iPhone | iPhone

[techgirl]

Thanks so much. Thanking you formally too!

[blkcadi]

You are so welcome, girls helpin' girls. lmao. Cool beans.