Srange Icon Spacing on Springboard after JB

[LearningMan]

I just upgraded my wife's 3gs that was suppose to be a week that was untethered and it ends up that it's tethered after all. Not that big of a deal. Anyway...

I upgraded, then I restored with PkgBackup. Ever since the restore, I have almost a "half row" below the task bar that is empty space and all the springboard icons are squished together with much tighter spacing vertically, for lack of a better way of describing it. Spacing between the task bar and the springboard appears normal. It's like there's almost 3/8 to 1/2 inch of unusable space at the bottom now.

Anybody else seen this phenomenon and have you found a solution? It's got to be something that installed with the restore but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is because I put everything back at once with the restore.

Ideas short of a restore and starting all over? It's not worth that but it sure is a nuisance.

[iYeow]

The best thing to do is a restore , setup as a new device and install all your stuffs manually without using any backup restore.

[LearningMan]

I'm sure that's the best thing to do but I'm equally sure it's not the most efficient methodology too. What is the point of packages like Pkgbackup if it can't be used for purposes such as this?

I'd still be interested to know if there is an answer to my direct question as opposed to the standard canned response when people don't know the answer of "restore and start over".

Thanks.

[iYeow]

When you restored your iphone, did you setup as a backup restore iphone?

If you have setup as a new iphone and then use the pkgbackup restore, you shouldn't be having this problem.

[LearningMan]

I never restored as i from iTunes if that's what you're asking.

This was an existing 4.1 phone that was jailbroken.

I updated everything from Cydia (and the App Store, for that matter). I then ran Pkgbackup and sync'ed with iTunes (which ran the backup that I never ended up having to use so far). I ran the update to 4.2.1 in iTunes for my phone. Everything fine so far. Ran redsn0w and installed Cydia and updated everything for the base Cydia and booted tethered as needed. After everything was at stable-state, I DL'ed Pkgbackup in Cydia and installed. Ran the restore in Pkgbackup an rebooted tethered. Ran the restore once more in Pkgbackup to get everything else that the first couldn't get because of dependencies and to get my Layouts since the base was solid now. Ran fine. Rebooted tethered and noticed the problem. The one piece I'm uncertain of was whether the problem existed between the first Pkgbackup restore and the second. I can't honestly say that I even took enough time between the two to notice.

My iPad from 3.x to 4.2.1 went fine as did my 4.1 iPhone 4 (which I did AFTER the 3GS we're talking about above). I did the iPad first since I didn't feel like I had much to lose on that one and it would be pretty easy to put back from scratch anyway but it went fine. I then did the 3Gs my wife inherited from me when I got my 4 since it was the next most "complicated" one and had the problem above. Even though I had concerns after what happened on the 3Gs, I proceded to do my 4 anyway and it had no problems. All three devices, for all intents and purposes; had essentially the same software installed both from the App Store and Cydia. Her phone was essentially a clone of my 4 (done from scratch, of course, while following the list of Cydia apps in Packages on my 4).

I dunno. I wish I had an answer. I don't mind doing the restore so much but what I do mind is repeating exactly the same process expecting a different result the second time. Given that, I'm not above having to redo it from scratch but it wouldn't be my first choice of how to spend the evening. LOL There's a LOT of crap on that phone, hence the reason I depend on Pkgbackup.

She can live with it as is and is willing to but I refuse to make her. I may just re-do it from scratch tomorrow or the next day. What I'd really like to know is is there an answer short of doing it all over from scratch. There sure seem like there ought to be to me. I guess the real question to me is what could be installed that "could" be causing this. If I knew this, I could simply remove it. It really seems to me that it should be just that simple but maybe it's not.

[LearningMan]

Not sure if anybody cares but the culprit was the "Transparent Dock" in Winterboard. This has to be it because toggling it produces and eliminates the problem at will. I knew in my mind it had to be something in Winterboard so I just started turned everything off and started turning things on one at a time until the problem reared its head.

Not sure why it doesn't seem to matter on my iPad or my iPhone 4 but it doesn't.

Bigger problems in the world than my wife not having Transparent Dock on the springboard. LOL

Thanks for your help, iYeow. I really do appreciate it.