Comments on: Lost Apps After Upgrading Firmware When Using Categories – Fixed

By: punks

punks — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:30:51 +0000

crap, all of you posted here like a year ago, but this happened to me. well here’s the thing;
-i have a jailbroken ipod touch 2G MC model 3.1.3
-i have successful used cydia, and dl categories
-i have cydia, categories, ifile, etc in a folder
-i so happened thought of resetting all my settings
-after that i opened my folder and there were no apps
-i clicked on the icon on the lower left, it opened categories
-it prompted something like an error with my categories, i chose the option to ‘repair’
-then i went to manage folders and it did not show any of my folders
-i went out of categories the it resprung my springboard
-now none of my folders showed up
-cydia and the other apps are missing
-my other apps which came from iTunes are also missing (which were in another folder also created off categories) but they show up on iTunes in the computer that they are insalled
-i tried to rejailbreak again using spirit but cydia did not appear or anything
-i tried the tips above, resetting home screen and enabling disabling restrictions, both did not work

now i know this aint the proper thread but this is the only one i found, please help

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:27:28 +0000

Wow thanks alot, the restrictions way worked perfect!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:01:29 +0000

The “Reset Home Screen Layout” didn’t work for me with 2.2.1. Thanks for the “Restrictions” tip, that did work.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:11:28 +0000

Hi Douglas,

I am currently on firware 2.2, but would like to upgrade to 2.2.1 through iTunes.
As I use ‘Categories’ and have all of my applications in folders, I’ve been advised to do the following :

1) Remove everything from their folders back to the home screen
2) Uninstall ‘Categories’
3) Upgrade to firmware 2.2.1 in iTunes
4) Re-jailbreak the phone
5) Reinstall ‘Categories’
6) Create my folders again and put all of my apps back into their folders

Obviously this is a lot of work – could I simply :

1) Update
2) Re-jailbreak
3) Install Categories
4) Reset Home Screen

Would this work ?

By: Agee

Agee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:52:24 +0000

Douglas, did you upgrade in iTunes directly from a Jailbroken firmware? Doing that leaves all of Cydia’s modification of your media partition intact and also results in the loss of about 500MB of space (as well as possibly making your phone unstable). You should really think about doing a fresh restore of 3.0 for these reviews, as upgrading from a Jailbroken firmware can cause numerous issue.

By: mkedge

mkedge — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:44:34 +0000

if you say that the keyboard has been very laggy, I dont wanna upgrade. One of the most important thing for me is the “lagg-less” keyboard…hope apple fix that soon

By: Rey

Rey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:04:01 +0000

Contact groups are already supported actually. You just have to create the groups in Address Book on your computer and sync. Or with Gmail contacts, make the groups and sync with the app Sync in a Blink.

By: blatz

blatz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:45:44 +0000

mh nice idea, i missed also some icons when i upgrade to fw 2.2.1

One of them was Cydia, i´ve put them into SBSettings Dock, so it was hidden from the Springboard. But to get SBSettings you need Cydia

Reset Springboard *ditsch

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:25:21 +0000

The keyboard has been VERY laggy for me. One app so far won’t let me input text (Deliveries) but all others work fine. I have only had to reboot once so far. There is no jailbreak yet. If you can live without your jailbreaks, then yes, upgrade.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:22:03 +0000

I don’t see a way to do categories but I do have the option to search my gmail contacts along with the contacts on my iPhone.