Comments on: Removing Uncategorized Icons from SpringBoard

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:11:16 +0000

I have a problem with blank icons too… I installed a bunch of them on my last iPhone (for theming purposes) and now I’ve restored my new one with the old one’s settings all the blank icons are still there (even without jailbreak :-/ )…. I delete them manually and they just re-appear (like 8 pages of them)… .pretty annoying.

how can I get rid of them on an unjailbroken phone? (IE: no SSH)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:33:59 +0000

What he doesn’t mention is when you SSH into your phone, you need to go under the username “root” instead of “mobile”. The passwords will be the same, but “root” will actually allow you to delete the icons while “mobile” gives you a “permission denied” error. Just got rid of 90 blank icons…man that was getting old.

By: iGordy

iGordy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:08:23 +0000

Hey guys!!! I am facing the same problem like many of you! But the thing is… This happened after I restored my iPhone, (the purpose is…. I don’t want jailbreak anymore) I found out that many of these icons pop out! So I been researching and found this page! But the main problem is…. I just downgraded my iTunes from 8.2 to 8.1.1…. And when I plugged in my iPhone, (Obviously having quickpwn installed) quickpwn can’t seem to detect my iPhone! I been restoring a couple of times! But it did not work!! I am on a mac by the ways… iBook G4 that is….

By: Fresh

Fresh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:19:53 +0000

THANX A MILLLLLLIONNNNN….YOUR A LIFE SAVER !

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:34:08 +0000

Wow thanks!

In my case though, the files (or actually folders with files in them), were called Blank, Blank1, Blank2, Blank3… to Blank15 and were located in \var\private\stash\applications

Dont know from wich app I got them, have been installing so much lately.
However, thanks!

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Delete Blanks only in Safe Mode - Page 2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:57:53 +0000

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By: sa

sa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:16 +0000

BTW: I used iphonebrowser (WIN) to delete the folders. This allowed me just to browse the phone through the USB.

By: sa

sa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:45:00 +0000

WOW it worked. I have been waiting for this. Every time I pressed on an empty space on the spring board safari opened. This solved that issue.
Thanks

By: WaitWhat

WaitWhat — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:54:19 +0000

Thank you so much! I got a bunch of these indesctructible blank web link icons when I installed the clock widget before updating to 2.2. After updating I could never remove them, and when I tried I’d get the mysterious grey Springboard in Safe Mode. Thanks again!

By: ignar

ignar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:56:48 +0000

Thanks! I got those things after installing BlacRay theme and have wondered how to get rid of them. They are all gone now!