Cydia not launching anymore

[as12andrew]

First of all I'll say hi. I have been lurking from the outside using your wealth of knowledge to the best of my abilities. I do not understand all of what is said but I can follow instructions

firstly I have a 3gs with iOS5 and the old bootrom with firm 6.15.00

I started having trouble with cydia a few days ago after dl emuroms, cyanide and happiness, myfile, campfire, and a speedometer. At this time and even now never had cydelete installed or sbsettings. I do not know if any of these were truly the cause of my problems but everything started after this. even once these were installed I was still surfing around using cydia with no problem. It was the next day that I started to have problems with cydia even though the phone had never been turned off.

What happens is that cydia crashes when I try and launch.

I have been bak and forth on the net trying different things.

I have tried:

1) deleting all remnants of the previously mentioned apps etc using myfile (except cyanide and happiness is still a visible icon but i can't find it anywhere in the file directory)
2) deleting cydia and reinstalling thru rejailbreaking with redsn0w_win_0.9.9b6 and manually selecting iPhone2,1_5.0_9A334_Restore becuase I have the old boot rom.
3) rebooting with redsn0w_win_0.9.9b6 to try and have cydia reinstall
4) manually adding cydia thru ssh and winscp and making directories manually as per http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOcyaVv5nGY"]How to Reinstall Cydia over SSH and also trying as per http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/762594-manually-install-cydia-1-1-1-ifile-ssh-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch.html.......

I have tried each of these on their own and each combined still I get the following once I initiate install:

Executing command:
dpkg -i /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall/cydia_1.1.3_iphoneos-arm.deb 2>&1...

(Reading database ... 821 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cydia 1.1.3 (using .../cydia_1.1.3_iphoneos-arm.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cydia ...
Setting up cydia (1.1.3) ...

Finished with exit code: 0.



And this from the cydia.log

2012-01-29 11:58:16.619 MobileCydia[493:e07] Setting Language: en_US
2012-01-29 11:58:16.711 MobileCydia[493:e07] dlopen(/Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/WinterBoard.dylib, 9): Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ImageIO.framework/ImageIO
Referenced from: /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/WinterBoard.dylib
Reason: image not found
2012-01-29 11:58:18.405 MobileCydia[493:560b] ***y Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x37, 0xd, 0xffffffc5, 0xffffff9f, 0x15, 0x6f, 0x17, 0xffffffb0)'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x31a218bf 0x317911e5 0x31a217b9 0x31a217db 0x355a0191 0x3559f6bb 0x3cc9 0x35651609 0x35ebcf83 0x35ebcd31 0x35ebcc03 0x35ebcb25 0x35ebb1d5 0x319f5b03 0x319f52cf 0x319f4075 0x319774dd 0x319773a5 0x304556a5 0x3389ac1d 0x3389aad8)
terminate called throwing an exception2012-01-29 11:58:27.420 MobileCydia[496:e07] Setting Language: en_US
2012-01-29 11:58:27.486 MobileCydia[496:e07] dlopen(/Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/WinterBoard.dylib, 9): Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ImageIO.framework/ImageIO
Referenced from: /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/WinterBoard.dylib
Reason: image not found
2012-01-29 11:58:29.016 MobileCydia[496:670b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x37, 0xd, 0xffffffc5, 0xffffff9f, 0x15, 0x6f, 0x17, 0xffffffb0)'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x31a218bf 0x317911e5 0x31a217b9 0x31a217db 0x355a0191 0x3559f6bb 0x3cc9 0x35651609 0x35ebcf83 0x35ebcd31 0x35ebcc03 0x35ebcb25 0x35ebb1d5 0x319f5b03 0x319f52cf 0x319f4075 0x319774dd 0x319773a5 0x304556a5 0x3389ac1d 0x3389aad8)
terminate called throwing an exception

Your time and effort are greatly appreciated!

ps I really don't want to have to do a reinstall from itunes if I can't get cydia to work becuase everythign else works fine. would it be possible to circumvent using cydia and use cyder 2 and then ssh over the .deb's from cyder? (cyder won't find the iphone when I connect so I fugured I'd just ssh instead of dicking around.... talk about jumping thru a bunch of hoops...)

Thanks again!

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[Jmills87]

Do a fresh restore

[as12andrew]

That sucks...... You don't think there is any other way?

What about Deleting winterboard ? I shows up in the one errors no?


How about using cyder ? Is there any way to get around needing cydia to launch/install apps?

[Jmills87]

The only way is to do a fresh restore. Once you've messed up a firmware installation that much, it's the only choice.