Fixing Common iOS 12 Jailbreak Issues with Cydia

To resolve an issue where an app switcher is quitting out of the app switcher, it's recommended to quit out of the app switcher and then refresh your sources until it's completely done. Once that's done, try installing a specific tweak again and if it's an issue with the actual repo itself, just delete whatever repo it shows right here. For example, in this case, it's the G Mehran dot me repo. Find that in your sources section and then delete it. To delete the source, go to Sources edit and click on the little red "X" icon next to the source you want to delete.

If you get a database error where it says the package needs to be reinstalled but can't find an archive for it, this is a pretty easy fix that requires having files installed. To solve this issue, go into Var Lib dpkg and look for two status files: "status old" and "status". Copy the "status" file instead of "status old", just to make sure you have a backup of the original status file. Then, edit the copied status file and delete the entire section that's causing the issue. This is likely the tweak that was showing up in the error message.

For instance, if it says animation to be fast, go into the animations be fast tweak and click on it. Select the whole section of the tweak that's causing the issue and hit backspace to delete it. Then, save and you should be good to go. Make sure to force quit out of Cydia and then reopen it after making these changes.

If you get a database error where it says "No such file or directory - no such file or directory", this is going to require a lot of work. However, if you're wondering how this happened, it's because you clicked on "Reset all content and settings" inside the Settings app while jailbroken. This is a huge no-no for iOS 12 users, as it can completely mess up your file system. If you've made this mistake and are now facing this issue, I'll leave a link in the description below to a video on how to fix this error.

Another common issue is when Cydia shows "Target packages is configured in multiple times" and lists out a list of sources. This simply means that you have duplicate sources inside of Cydia. To fix this, go into Cydia and then go to your Sources edit section. Either delete the last source that you installed if you notice it happened only after adding a source, or just take a look at what the source is. For example, in this case, it's the H bang source listed multiple times. Go back into Cydia, find the H bang source, click Edit and then Delete Source to resolve the issue.

Fixing Common Jailbreak Issues with Cydia

To address common issues with Cydia after jailbreaking your iOS 12 device, follow these steps:

If you get a database error where it says "target packages is configured in multiple times" and lists out a list of sources, this simply means that you have duplicate sources inside of Cydia. To fix this, go into Cydia and then go to your Sources edit section. Either delete the last source that you installed if you notice it happened only after adding a source, or just take a look at what the source is.

Another common issue with iOS 12 jailbreak tweaks is when Cydia shows an error message indicating that there is no such file or directory for a specific tweak. In this case, go into Var Lib dpkg and look for two status files: "status old" and "status". Copy the "status" file instead of "status old", just to make sure you have a backup of the original status file.

To solve this issue, edit the copied status file and delete the entire section that's causing the error. This is likely the tweak that was showing up in the error message. For instance, if it says animation to be fast, go into the animations be fast tweak and click on it. Select the whole section of the tweak that's causing the issue and hit backspace to delete it. Then, save and you should be good to go.

Force Quitting Cydia and Reopening

If you're experiencing issues with Cydia after trying some tweaks or modifications, try force quitting Cydia and then reopening it again. This simple step can often resolve issues that may have been caused by a tweak or modification that's not working properly.

Resetting All Content and Settings

One of the most common mistakes that iOS 12 users make while jailbreaking is clicking on "Reset all content and settings" inside the Settings app. This mistake can completely mess up your file system and cause issues with Cydia. If you've made this mistake, it's recommended to go back to Step 1 and follow the instructions provided.

Conclusion

Fixing common iOS 12 jailbreak issues with Cydia requires patience and attention to detail. By following these steps, you should be able to resolve most common issues that may arise after jailbreaking your device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and every time there's a new jailbreak people are going to run into issues that they may not know how to solve and that is especially the case this year with the iOS twelve jailbreak because there are a lot of new people to jailbreaking so in this video I wanted to share some solutions to some of the most common errors that I see people have with the uncover application with the jailbreak in general with errors inside of Cydia and more and like I said these are going to be issues that multiple people have messaged me about over on Twitter or on Instagram or even just in the YouTube comments section I've just gathered up you know some of the most popular ones that people have been talking about and I wanted to bring you guys this video to show you how to fix them all in one so if you have any issues that are not covered in this video or if this video does help you solve your problem make sure to leave a comment down below letting me know so let's not waste any more time let's go ahead and get into these so let's start off with the basics and this is something that I guess I forgot to mention it in my original tutorial video just because you know I've been doing this for so long I kind of forget that this is very basic but when you reboot your device after jailbreaking you're going to have to read jailbreak your device and you do that by going into the uncover application and then just simply clicking on jailbreak once again just like you did the very first time you jailbroke your device now this application will expire at some point down the road and it depends on where you downloaded the application from to begin with so if you installed it through your computer and Cydia impactor and you are not a paid developer that means that you are only going to have this available for seven days and after seven days the app is going to expire and it's not going to open now if you downloaded the uncover application from ignition or tweak box or somewhere like that you're probably going to have it for a lot longer than seven days but eventually you know maybe it's next year in 2020 or something it's going to expire and you're not going to be able to open up the application and read jailbreak your device and that's why you should download the reprovision application right here and I mentioned this in my top tweaks video but this is going to allow you to automatically resize applications after a certain amount of days so basically if I go into settings you can see I have mine set up to automatically resize applications when there is two days left on these certificates so I would highly recommend you install reprovision that way you can always have uncover signed you never have to worry about it getting revoked or anything like that of course just make sure you are in a jailbroken state when you go ahead and do this so now when the final version uncover gets released because we are still on a beta right now you can see I'm currently on beta 34 but when the final version of uncover comes out once it comes out of beta if you want to update to a new version of uncover you're just gonna have to go to the github page and click on the IPA to download it and then you just simply install it over this uncover application or of course you can just go ahead and delete the uncover application and then download the new version of uncover and you will be updated with nothing to worry about now the next issue is one that I see a ton of people having and I've actually experienced it myself as well with this jailbreak a couple times and that is getting in a respring loop or at worst a boot loop now these are different I want you guys to understand that a respring loop and a boot loop are definitely not the same thing a respring loop is basically when you see like a spinning wheel in the middle and it never ends that's a respring loop a boot loop is when you just keep seeing the Apple logo over and over again so let's first talk about the respring loop because that's something that I know a lot of people experience this and again I experienced this myself as well and this is usually caused by tweaks conflicting with one another which makes sense if you install a lot of tweaks in your device it's inevitable for one of them to conflict with another one and cause issues but thankfully uncover has a lot of awesome features built in to the actual application over here in settings and pretty much every feature in here is awesome but the main ones I want to talk about is low tweaks and also reload system Damons now before I show you how to fix a respring loop and how to get out of a respring loop you want to make sure that you are on the latest version of uncover again I'm on beta 34 right now I believe 35 just came out so just make sure you are on the latest version uncover before you know going into this process because the updated version some uncover do fix these issues just from updating the application so make sure you are on the latest update of uncover and if you are on the latest version and you're still running into a respring loop let me show you how to fix that now let me just preface this by saying that there are multiple ways to fix a respring loop now the easiest is just to hard reboot your device when you see these spinning circle just hard reboot your device if you don't know how to do it on the iPhone 10 its volume up volume down and then hold on the power button here the side button whatever you want to call it if you don't know how to hard reboot your device just google it it's very simple after you get out of that you will be back into stock iOS and you just want to go ahead and open up the uncover application go over to settings and then you want to deselect reload system daemon so just uncheck that right there go back to jailbreak and then click on the jailbreak button and then you should be able to jailbreak without getting in a respring loop and you know you'll notice that some tweaks aren't working but you will be able to open up cydia and all that if you're in a respring loop or you find yourself experiencing random respring Zoar reboots on a daily basis this is how you fix that so of course you want to go over to settings here inside the uncover application make sure reload system Damons is disabled and then click on jailbreak or retail break then you want to open up I cleaner Pro click on this little plus down here in the bottom left Cydia substrate add-ons and then click the all button up here to deselect all tweaks now there should only be one tweak enabled and that a substrate safe mode I would never disable that but disable all other tweaks besides safe mode and then click on apply and then respring and after you've respring your device you can go back to uncover and then go ahead and reload system Damons turn that on and then read jailbreak with system Damons enabled and then go back into I cleaner Pro and start enabling tweaks tweak buy tweak until you find out which tweak was actually causing your respring Zoar reboots or your respring loop whatever the issue you were having was just enable these you know one by one or maybe you can do more than one at a time just do batch you know batch them do maybe like five or six weeks at a time that we can get it done fast and then respring apply and respring and you know you should not be in a tree spring loop until you enable the conflicting tweak this is one of the oldest tips in the book for jailbreaking and finding you know conflicting tweaks but it still works wonders even here on iOS 12 now if you're in a boot loop not a respring loop you want to hard reboot your device and then follow the steps I just talked about for the respring loop now if you are in a boot loop and you can't get out of it you know you're doing everything right you know you're pressing the buttons and everything you may want to use a program to get out of that boot loop I will have a link to a program that can get you out of a boot loop down in the description below but you should be able to get out of it just by force rebooting your device so now let's move on to some Cydia air so if you are not able to open up cydia when you're in a jailbroken state if you just click on Cydia and it crashes and it never opens to fix that all you need to do is go into the uncover application go to settings and deselect reload system Damons and then read jailbreak your device after doing that you should be able to open up cydia now that doesn't work you need to go back into the uncover application and go ahead and turn on reinstall Cydia and then read jailbreak now if you're in the uncover application and you're trying to jailbreak what you get this fatal error right here there is a way to fix this so all you want to do is go back into the uncover application and go to settings you want to turn on restore root FS recover right there and then you want to turn on airplane mode and then you want to go ahead and jailbreak our retail park your device now if that doesn't work you just want to fully reboot your devices reboot it all the way boot it back up and then retry that process over and over again and you should work and you should not get that fatal error so now let's talk about this air right here which actually just got when I opened up Cydia and this is a failed to fetch error and you can see right here it says failed to fetch this repo right here it's actually two three different repos here it says failed to fetch now the reason for that is because either one the repos are down which I highly doubt that all three of these are down at the same time so I don't think it's that so I just think that this was an error with loading up sources and I quit out of Cydia before these sources finished up so I think the pack got this air right there but if you get the air don't worry about it it's probably gonna go away on its own that usually does tend to go away by itself but it does also show up if you try to install at week before your sources finish up fully loading so let your source is fully refreshed before trying to install a tweak to avoid getting that error message now another error you may see inside of Cydia as this one right here and it says prepare archives can't find a source to download version blank of whatever tweak so you can see this one is 40 Clips 12 version 6.0 2.2 now this pops up when you either don't let your sources fully refresh or you have conflicting repos so what you want to do is close out of Cydia completely just force quit it out of the app switcher and then refresh your sources until it's completely done and then try installing that a specific tweak once again and if it's an issue with the actual repo itself you just want to go ahead and delete whatever repo it shows right here so you can see in this example it's the G Mehran dot me repo so find that in your sources section and then delete it and to delete the source just go to sources edit and then click on the little red right here and delete now if you get this database error right here where it says the package needs to be reinstalled but I can't find an archive for it this is a pretty easy fix but it will require having files installed so what you want if you have that air is go into foul so you want to go to var lib dpkg and then you should see two status files right here status old and status what you want to do is copy the status file right there not status old just status so we're gonna go to edit click status and then we're going to copy and this is just to make sure that we have a backup of the original status file so we're just gonna go and click on status now we're going to go to text editor and you should see this right here and so you want to figure out which tweak was actually showing up in that error message so for this one it was you can see right here it was animation to be fast so now inside files that we know we need to go to the animations be fast tweak so luckily I do have that one installed so I can show it for you on here I so there we go we have animations to be fast right there and you can see we have this whole section right here with the author of the name the description all that good stuff all you want to do is click on it and we're going to delete this whole section so select this whole section of the tweak those causing the issue hit backspace and then save and you should be good to go after you've done that make sure you do go ahead and force quit out of cydia and then reopen it and then you will be good if you were running into issues before that and speaking of database errors if you get this error right here you should be concerned where it says no such file or directory - no such file or directory this is going to require a lot of work and actually made a full video on how to fix this but if you're wondering how this happened it's because you clicked on reset all content and settings inside of the Settings app which is a huge no-no if you are jailbroken so if you're watching this and you're thinking about doing that if you just don't know much about jailbreak in general just know that you should never erase all content and settings inside of the Settings app while jailbroken it's gonna completely mess up your file system but once again if you do have the issue I will leave a link down in the description below for a video on how to fix that now if you get this error message right here where it says target packages is configured in multiple times and it shows you know this list right here this just means that you have duplicate sources inside of Cydia so all you need to do to fix this is go into Cydia go to your sources and either delete the last source that you installed if you notice that it happened only after you added a source go and delete that last source you installed or just take a look at what the source is you can see right here for this one it's the H bang source and it's the H bang all three times so it means that that is the duplicate so if you go back into Cydia you just want to find the H bang source click Edit and then delete source so yeah there you have it guys that does have to fix some of the most common uncover and Cydia issues here on the iOS 12 through 12 point one point two jailbreak if you have any other errors inside of Cydia or just heirs with uncover or just the jailbreak in general make sure to leave a comment down below and I will try my best to get back to you and solve your issue and if you don't get any reply here on YouTube reach out to me on Twitter my DMS are open and I will respond there I do get a ton of questions so just keep that in mind I may not get back to you as quick as possible but I will likely answer your question eventually but anyways guys that is it for this video again I hope you did enjoy it if you did make sure to hit that thumbs up button and of course subscribe for a lot more iOS 12 jailbreak tweaks jailbreak videos tutorials like this and much more on the actual jailbreak but anyways guys thanks again for watching the video and I'll see you soonwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and every time there's a new jailbreak people are going to run into issues that they may not know how to solve and that is especially the case this year with the iOS twelve jailbreak because there are a lot of new people to jailbreaking so in this video I wanted to share some solutions to some of the most common errors that I see people have with the uncover application with the jailbreak in general with errors inside of Cydia and more and like I said these are going to be issues that multiple people have messaged me about over on Twitter or on Instagram or even just in the YouTube comments section I've just gathered up you know some of the most popular ones that people have been talking about and I wanted to bring you guys this video to show you how to fix them all in one so if you have any issues that are not covered in this video or if this video does help you solve your problem make sure to leave a comment down below letting me know so let's not waste any more time let's go ahead and get into these so let's start off with the basics and this is something that I guess I forgot to mention it in my original tutorial video just because you know I've been doing this for so long I kind of forget that this is very basic but when you reboot your device after jailbreaking you're going to have to read jailbreak your device and you do that by going into the uncover application and then just simply clicking on jailbreak once again just like you did the very first time you jailbroke your device now this application will expire at some point down the road and it depends on where you downloaded the application from to begin with so if you installed it through your computer and Cydia impactor and you are not a paid developer that means that you are only going to have this available for seven days and after seven days the app is going to expire and it's not going to open now if you downloaded the uncover application from ignition or tweak box or somewhere like that you're probably going to have it for a lot longer than seven days but eventually you know maybe it's next year in 2020 or something it's going to expire and you're not going to be able to open up the application and read jailbreak your device and that's why you should download the reprovision application right here and I mentioned this in my top tweaks video but this is going to allow you to automatically resize applications after a certain amount of days so basically if I go into settings you can see I have mine set up to automatically resize applications when there is two days left on these certificates so I would highly recommend you install reprovision that way you can always have uncover signed you never have to worry about it getting revoked or anything like that of course just make sure you are in a jailbroken state when you go ahead and do this so now when the final version uncover gets released because we are still on a beta right now you can see I'm currently on beta 34 but when the final version of uncover comes out once it comes out of beta if you want to update to a new version of uncover you're just gonna have to go to the github page and click on the IPA to download it and then you just simply install it over this uncover application or of course you can just go ahead and delete the uncover application and then download the new version of uncover and you will be updated with nothing to worry about now the next issue is one that I see a ton of people having and I've actually experienced it myself as well with this jailbreak a couple times and that is getting in a respring loop or at worst a boot loop now these are different I want you guys to understand that a respring loop and a boot loop are definitely not the same thing a respring loop is basically when you see like a spinning wheel in the middle and it never ends that's a respring loop a boot loop is when you just keep seeing the Apple logo over and over again so let's first talk about the respring loop because that's something that I know a lot of people experience this and again I experienced this myself as well and this is usually caused by tweaks conflicting with one another which makes sense if you install a lot of tweaks in your device it's inevitable for one of them to conflict with another one and cause issues but thankfully uncover has a lot of awesome features built in to the actual application over here in settings and pretty much every feature in here is awesome but the main ones I want to talk about is low tweaks and also reload system Damons now before I show you how to fix a respring loop and how to get out of a respring loop you want to make sure that you are on the latest version of uncover again I'm on beta 34 right now I believe 35 just came out so just make sure you are on the latest version uncover before you know going into this process because the updated version some uncover do fix these issues just from updating the application so make sure you are on the latest update of uncover and if you are on the latest version and you're still running into a respring loop let me show you how to fix that now let me just preface this by saying that there are multiple ways to fix a respring loop now the easiest is just to hard reboot your device when you see these spinning circle just hard reboot your device if you don't know how to do it on the iPhone 10 its volume up volume down and then hold on the power button here the side button whatever you want to call it if you don't know how to hard reboot your device just google it it's very simple after you get out of that you will be back into stock iOS and you just want to go ahead and open up the uncover application go over to settings and then you want to deselect reload system daemon so just uncheck that right there go back to jailbreak and then click on the jailbreak button and then you should be able to jailbreak without getting in a respring loop and you know you'll notice that some tweaks aren't working but you will be able to open up cydia and all that if you're in a respring loop or you find yourself experiencing random respring Zoar reboots on a daily basis this is how you fix that so of course you want to go over to settings here inside the uncover application make sure reload system Damons is disabled and then click on jailbreak or retail break then you want to open up I cleaner Pro click on this little plus down here in the bottom left Cydia substrate add-ons and then click the all button up here to deselect all tweaks now there should only be one tweak enabled and that a substrate safe mode I would never disable that but disable all other tweaks besides safe mode and then click on apply and then respring and after you've respring your device you can go back to uncover and then go ahead and reload system Damons turn that on and then read jailbreak with system Damons enabled and then go back into I cleaner Pro and start enabling tweaks tweak buy tweak until you find out which tweak was actually causing your respring Zoar reboots or your respring loop whatever the issue you were having was just enable these you know one by one or maybe you can do more than one at a time just do batch you know batch them do maybe like five or six weeks at a time that we can get it done fast and then respring apply and respring and you know you should not be in a tree spring loop until you enable the conflicting tweak this is one of the oldest tips in the book for jailbreaking and finding you know conflicting tweaks but it still works wonders even here on iOS 12 now if you're in a boot loop not a respring loop you want to hard reboot your device and then follow the steps I just talked about for the respring loop now if you are in a boot loop and you can't get out of it you know you're doing everything right you know you're pressing the buttons and everything you may want to use a program to get out of that boot loop I will have a link to a program that can get you out of a boot loop down in the description below but you should be able to get out of it just by force rebooting your device so now let's move on to some Cydia air so if you are not able to open up cydia when you're in a jailbroken state if you just click on Cydia and it crashes and it never opens to fix that all you need to do is go into the uncover application go to settings and deselect reload system Damons and then read jailbreak your device after doing that you should be able to open up cydia now that doesn't work you need to go back into the uncover application and go ahead and turn on reinstall Cydia and then read jailbreak now if you're in the uncover application and you're trying to jailbreak what you get this fatal error right here there is a way to fix this so all you want to do is go back into the uncover application and go to settings you want to turn on restore root FS recover right there and then you want to turn on airplane mode and then you want to go ahead and jailbreak our retail park your device now if that doesn't work you just want to fully reboot your devices reboot it all the way boot it back up and then retry that process over and over again and you should work and you should not get that fatal error so now let's talk about this air right here which actually just got when I opened up Cydia and this is a failed to fetch error and you can see right here it says failed to fetch this repo right here it's actually two three different repos here it says failed to fetch now the reason for that is because either one the repos are down which I highly doubt that all three of these are down at the same time so I don't think it's that so I just think that this was an error with loading up sources and I quit out of Cydia before these sources finished up so I think the pack got this air right there but if you get the air don't worry about it it's probably gonna go away on its own that usually does tend to go away by itself but it does also show up if you try to install at week before your sources finish up fully loading so let your source is fully refreshed before trying to install a tweak to avoid getting that error message now another error you may see inside of Cydia as this one right here and it says prepare archives can't find a source to download version blank of whatever tweak so you can see this one is 40 Clips 12 version 6.0 2.2 now this pops up when you either don't let your sources fully refresh or you have conflicting repos so what you want to do is close out of Cydia completely just force quit it out of the app switcher and then refresh your sources until it's completely done and then try installing that a specific tweak once again and if it's an issue with the actual repo itself you just want to go ahead and delete whatever repo it shows right here so you can see in this example it's the G Mehran dot me repo so find that in your sources section and then delete it and to delete the source just go to sources edit and then click on the little red right here and delete now if you get this database error right here where it says the package needs to be reinstalled but I can't find an archive for it this is a pretty easy fix but it will require having files installed so what you want if you have that air is go into foul so you want to go to var lib dpkg and then you should see two status files right here status old and status what you want to do is copy the status file right there not status old just status so we're gonna go to edit click status and then we're going to copy and this is just to make sure that we have a backup of the original status file so we're just gonna go and click on status now we're going to go to text editor and you should see this right here and so you want to figure out which tweak was actually showing up in that error message so for this one it was you can see right here it was animation to be fast so now inside files that we know we need to go to the animations be fast tweak so luckily I do have that one installed so I can show it for you on here I so there we go we have animations to be fast right there and you can see we have this whole section right here with the author of the name the description all that good stuff all you want to do is click on it and we're going to delete this whole section so select this whole section of the tweak those causing the issue hit backspace and then save and you should be good to go after you've done that make sure you do go ahead and force quit out of cydia and then reopen it and then you will be good if you were running into issues before that and speaking of database errors if you get this error right here you should be concerned where it says no such file or directory - no such file or directory this is going to require a lot of work and actually made a full video on how to fix this but if you're wondering how this happened it's because you clicked on reset all content and settings inside of the Settings app which is a huge no-no if you are jailbroken so if you're watching this and you're thinking about doing that if you just don't know much about jailbreak in general just know that you should never erase all content and settings inside of the Settings app while jailbroken it's gonna completely mess up your file system but once again if you do have the issue I will leave a link down in the description below for a video on how to fix that now if you get this error message right here where it says target packages is configured in multiple times and it shows you know this list right here this just means that you have duplicate sources inside of Cydia so all you need to do to fix this is go into Cydia go to your sources and either delete the last source that you installed if you notice that it happened only after you added a source go and delete that last source you installed or just take a look at what the source is you can see right here for this one it's the H bang source and it's the H bang all three times so it means that that is the duplicate so if you go back into Cydia you just want to find the H bang source click Edit and then delete source so yeah there you have it guys that does have to fix some of the most common uncover and Cydia issues here on the iOS 12 through 12 point one point two jailbreak if you have any other errors inside of Cydia or just heirs with uncover or just the jailbreak in general make sure to leave a comment down below and I will try my best to get back to you and solve your issue and if you don't get any reply here on YouTube reach out to me on Twitter my DMS are open and I will respond there I do get a ton of questions so just keep that in mind I may not get back to you as quick as possible but I will likely answer your question eventually but anyways guys that is it for this video again I hope you did enjoy it if you did make sure to hit that thumbs up button and of course subscribe for a lot more iOS 12 jailbreak tweaks jailbreak videos tutorials like this and much more on the actual jailbreak but anyways guys thanks again for watching the video and I'll see you soon\n"