Alot of users are having a problem where Cydia gets stuck in an infinite respiring loop after a package that needs a respring finishes installing. Do Not Click the Restart Springboard option when the screen shown below comes up. Instead background the app and use another respring option. Preferably the one found in the settings app. Anyone else had the problem the last few days where you open Cydia, and it just gets stuck on 'downloading packages'. It never seems to complete the download. I am getting updates from modmyi, but no other changes are coming through. EDIT: Found my answer on modmyi. Intel gma x3100 driver mac download. Cydia keeps crashing. It is normal to see Cydia Crashing 9.3.3 after the jailbreak process.
In this article you will learn how to fix Cydia Sources Not Working error and all kinds of related errors while installing Cydia or downloading a Cydia source. Cydia is a well-known third party app that provides cracked apps and premium apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It is a stable app and seldom get any complains from iOS users for the past few years. However, the iOS version keeps updating and there is a need for Cydia developers to modify the source code in order to make it work for new iOS firmware. During a major upgrade, some Cydia users will experience error during the installation of a Cydia, Cydia apps, or Cydia sources especially when a new iOS firmware was released.
“Cydia Sources Not Working”, “Wow, you exceeded the number of package names this APT is capable of”, and “The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened” are a few very common error messages when a Cydia user tries to download Cydia or adding a Cydia source/tweak. There are also some other common errors occur when an iOS 8 users try to download a Cydia source with the method used in iOS 7. Today, we are going through a list of “Cydia Not Working” issue and provide you the solution to each problem.
Cydia Sources Not Working Problem 1
The number one problem that many iOS users face is the “Wow, you exceeded the number of package names this APT is capable of” error message. This is a very common error. Sometimes you will also see the message “Problem with MergeList /var/lib/lists/apt.thebigboss.org_repofiles_cydia_dists_stable_main_binary-iphoneos-arm_Packages”. There is nothing wrong with your jailbreak or your Cydia. This message appears when your Cydia has reached the maximum allowed packages which are 65,535 packages. By default, you will have 40,000+ packages when you install Cydia. These packages are from the default Cydia sources such as BigBoss, ModMyi, iSpazio, Telesphoreo Tangelo, and ZodTTD & MacCiti. So, you are only allowed to add another 25,000+ packages.
Solution: Remove unwanted Cydia sources then you won’t see this error again. To remove a Cydia source, go to Cydia -> Manage -> Sources -> Edit and then you can remove any superfluous Cydia sources. Instead, you can reinstall Cydia.
Cydia Sources Not Working Problem 2
Another common issue that iOS 8 users face is the “Failed to Fetch HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found” error. This error usually appears when the repositories are offline or the developers are updating the repo source code. Thus, you will see this message when you try to add a Cydia repo.
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Solution: Wait for a few minutes (perhaps hours depending on the server) and follow how to add a Cydia repo to re-add the Cydia repo you want. If the error still exists, remove UltraSn0w repo.
Cydia Sources Not Working Problem 3
The very hateful Cydia problem is that you don’t know what the problem is. There are readers complain to TopCydiaSources.com saying their Cydia Source page, Installed packages page, and Changes page show nothing at all although they are very sure they have at least 10 Cydia sources added. This problem occurs when one or more than one of your Cydia repos are giving problem.
Screenshot of Cydia Sources Not Working
Solution: Remove those Cydia repos that you think is giving you problems. Otherwise, remove all Cydia repos and see if the problem still exists. If it does, reinstall Cydia and the problem will be fixed.
Even though we leave in the age of internet finding what we need can be quite hard. If we want to jailbreak an iPhone, install cydia, add cydia sources no problem, there are lots of tutorials out there documenting these procedures. But when we want to find a fix on some problems regarding Cydia all changes. This is because these are rare cases but when you find yourself in such situations you are doomed.
In this article I will try to point out some of the problems that you may face with Cydia.
using these steps you can identify it:
- Via SSH or Terminal on your device type:
su
alpine
apt-get update
- Right now you should get the error message
Running the update command should fix your problem.
This error can appear if you have installed a new package and restarting Cydia doesn’t do the trick:
- Via SSH go to /applications/cydia.app
- Copy icon.png to your PC
- Now delete icon.png from device
- Respring and you should see a white icon for Cydia in Springboard
- Copy back icon.png to /applications/cydia.app
- Respring again.
This is a Cydia startup error where you are informed that there’s an error with package headers, this can be fixed like this:
- Via SSH or Terminal on your device type:
su
alpine
dpkg –a configure
- Respring
Fix 1:
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- Via SSH go to /var/lib/apt/lists/ folder
- Delete all excluding partial folder
- Reboot
Fix 2:
- Via SSH go to root/private/ect/apt/sources.list.d
- Remove all items except saurik.list
- Reboot
There are a couple of things that could create this kind of error:
- Incorrect repo url or forgetting to add / at the end of the link
- Repo is down
- No network connection
If you get an error bin/bzip2 this means that the source is problematic. Try removing it from cydia, if this doesn’t work try this fix:
- Via SSH go to /etc/apt/sources.list.d
- Backup cydia.list
- Edit cydia.list and remove the line corresponding to the source
- Reboot
This situation occurs when or after Reloading Data and the fix is:
- Via SSH or Terminal on your device type:
su
alpine
dpkg –configure –a
- Reboot
Fix 1: Cyder it’s a good app and tool that can help you download and transfer packages and sources to your device and it also good on clearing cydia cache
Fix 2: Another solution to the cache problem is FixCydiaCache. This is a PC tool. In order to run this tool you will need to download and install on your device afc2add from Cydia. Run FixCydiaCache and connect your device to PC and click Fix My Cydia Cache!
If you none of this worked for you or did not find the solution the only thing to do is to reinstall Cydia:
Fix 1:
- Via SSH or Terminal on your device type:
su
alpine
apt-get remove cydia
apt-get install cydia
- Reboot
Fix 2:
- Download cydia from internet
- Via SSH go to /var/mobile and copy here cydia.deb
- Via SSH or Terminal on your device type:
su
alpine
dpkg -i cydia.deb
- Reboot
