I just accidentally deleted cydia!

[#1 Guitar Guy]

I don't know what to do. I have a 4g touch. And I want to get cydia back but I don't want to do something stupid and ruin it. What do I do.

[Stray]

What is your firmware. Do you have your shsh's saved. If you are on 4.2.1 I doubt you do. The only way is to restore and rejailbreak.

[lanulos]

What is your firmware. Do you have your shsh's saved. If you are on 4.2.1 I doubt you do. The only way is to restore and rejailbreak.

Not necessarily! If you have iFile or OpenSSH installed on your phone, you can easily reinstall Cydia.

Reinstalling with iFile (easiest way):
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Reinstalling via SSH (requires OpenSSH on your phone):
Download this file on your computer:
http://apt.saurik.com/debs/cydia_1.0...honeos-arm.deb
It is the new version of Cydia.
Use an SSH client on your computer (like WinSCP, for Windows) to put the Cydia .deb file in /var/stash on your iPod. Then in the terminal of the SSH client (such as the WinSCP terminal), send these commands to your iPod:

cd /var/stash
dpkg -i cydia_1.0.3366-1_iphoneos-arm.deb

That should reinstall Cydia.

EDIT: I removed the following terminal commands from the above because they are only needed if you use MobileTerminal:
su
alpine (or if you have changed your iPod root password, use that)

If you use WinSCP you should already have root (logging in as root@[ip_address].

[Stray]

Ok I know that but it doesn't seem like they know what to do entirely.

[lanulos]

Ok I know that but it doesn't seem like they know what to do entirely.

Yes, I was wondering, how does somebody accidentally uninstall Cydia? The damage might actually be more extensive...

[Stray]

People download ifile not knowing what they are doing and then erase it. Lol

[#1 Guitar Guy]

Ok so I should just reinstall it

[lanulos]

Ok so I should just reinstall it

Hopefully that will be enough. It depends on what you did to break it.
EDIT: Please note I changed the instructions for the SSH procedure above. You can't do su thru WinSCP, plus you don't need to.

[#1 Guitar Guy]

I dont know what you mean by SSH but my older brother did it so I will ask him what he used

[Stray]

Hopefully that will be enough. It depends on what you did to break it.
EDIT: Please note I changed the instructions for the SSH procedure above. You can't do su thru WinSCP, plus you don't need to.

Point proven

[lanulos]

I dont know what you mean by SSH but my older brother did it so I will ask him what he used

SSH is just a way to access the file system on your iPod from your computer via WiFi. You would need to have installed something called OpenSSH from Cydia. Some Cydia programs install this automatically, so you might have it even if you didn't directly install it. Then you would use an SSH client on your computer, like WinSCP for Windows, or PuTTy (? I think) for Mac. using that you would then log into your iPod at the address root@[ip_address] where [ip_address] is the address of your iPod on your home WiFi network. Mine is [email protected]; yours would have the last two numbers different (probably).

So the great mystery remains: how exactly did you delete Cydia? Inquiring minds want to know.

[#1 Guitar Guy]

Well, I deleted it from my iPod

[steelersfan32]

So the great mystery remains: how exactly did you delete Cydia? Inquiring minds want to know.

Cydelete+turn off some settings= no more cydia. Even though it is possible, what I can't imagine is how you could delete it accidentally.

[#1 Guitar Guy]

Well I was'nt the one who did it

[steelersfan32]

Well we are all quite curious. Unless you really don't want to share, how did your cydia manage to get deleted?

[#1 Guitar Guy]

My brother was playing a joke on me by pretending to delete cydia and when I tried to grab it back I clicked delete.

[MIMi King]

i'm stuck in this problem too.. I have deleted cydia with Iphone Browser and now i want to restore it back, by the backup that Iphone Browser made for me but cydia crashes before starting...

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