Cydia is most important and most used application used mainly by jailbroken users. By Cydia you can install any repositories so its very useful. It is hosted at Saurik’s apptapp.saurik.com. you can also install this app via many other repositories ( update ).
When i first installed 3.0 OS on my iPhone 2G, while using Cydia i was unable to refresh and update the inbuilt apps. I wanted to download and install some apps, but failed. Soon after i googled and found we should not install cydia and ice both while jailbreaking. Then again updated 3.0 OS and did a jailbreak with only Cydia, it was a success.
But many users still are having problems while installing, updating via cydia, it crashes many times, and also If you have downloaded and installed Cydia via thebiggboss repo on july 18 then you are in the list of those unfortunate users facing repetitive cydia crash on iPhone and iTouch 3.0.
For 10 minutes on July 18th a corrupted packages file was posted and If you loaded Cydia during that 10 minute period, your packages file will be corrupted. This subsequently causes Cydia to crash each time you use it. Here is fix for iPhone & iPod Touch cydia crashing issue.
Fixing Cydia Installer :
For Windows Users :-
1. Download Clear Cydia List Cache tool (.Net Framework required)
2. Unzip files from above downloaded zip file
3. Run ClearCydiaListCache.exe from above unzipped folder and connect your device
4. Click on button “connect your device and click here” on ClearCydiaListCache.exe
5. Now wait for successful message
For Mac Users :-
1. Connect & ssh to your iPhone and iPod Touch
2. Now go to /private/var/lib/apt/lists
3. Delete all the files in /root/private/var/lib/apt/lists/ except for the partial subfolder.
Do not delete Partial folder
MrNaCo
I have iphon3g 3.1 jailbrack , and i want to knw if the can fix my crash cydia in this version.the works perfec at the begging but one day stop working and i don’t know why im just try to open it and nothing its something i can do?
Memo
dears
by mistake i deleted the “Partial Folder”
So; what shall i do to restore it
any one help me please!!
many thanks in advance
Awesome - Great Help
Thanks! This fixed it for my 2G Touch! You rock!
ahyoe
i got a solution for those who wrongly deleted the partials folder. just clean everything inside /root/private/var/lib/apt/lists/ .
reinstall cydia on your iphone. run cydia, go to changes, then press refresh. then wait.
the essential/complete/custom upgrade window will pop up. choose your choice.
then enjoy your cydia.
sil
Hi im on 3.1.2 3GS and my cydia when launch, shown black screen and crash, will this clearcydialistcache.exe help?
blueevil
u can try tu find in rocks cydia istaller is por easy and automatic
( for reinstall cydia and dont lost the app or ipa
ianr
i was trying to upgrade installous as well as 8 other parts when my cydia crashed mid-install of installous now it won’t load and i tried both the .exe and geting rid of the packages and cydia still won’t load… any ideas here, i even deleted installous through iphonebrowser, i put everything back because nothing worked
shadhil
on my iphone 3g cydia showing 5 how can i remove the number from it