Can anyone suggest essential apps with its little brief intro from cydia that every iphone must have with.

Thanks,
Paresh Patel

First, i would like to thank you for replying on my query. I appreciate your help that you extended me. Below are my point wise answer

1) MY GPRS is not working on iphone as IDEA carrier in India couldnt able to provide right configuration to be work on Iphone. So i really dont have internet connection working on my Iphone, However, what i did is, i googled how to install cydia apps without internet on iphone and found that through cyder i can install the apps on iphone using my laptop. I downloaded few apps like cycoder, winterboard, searcher etc into my laptop and then installed it in my iphone using Ifunbox. Somehow i managed to install apps like cycoder, searcher, isysinfo etc. But winterboard icon is not showing up in springboard.

2) I did the same thing as you mentioned in your point 2 i.e rebooting iphone once apps installed. No result for Winterboard

3) I installed SBSetting same way but it doesnt work too

4) What i mean when i say stucked with Winterboard and SBSetting is, i’m not getting the icon of this applications on Springboard. I can see them installed in Cydia manage category but icon is not getting displayed for springboard and same way i’m not getting SBSetting window by sliding finger on statusbar.

Below are my cydia apps that worked on my iphone that i installed using my laptop, cyder(its a software) & Ifunbox(Its a software).

1) Snapture
2) Cycoder
3) sysinfoPlus
4) Searcher
5) Rename
6) PdaNet

Below are the apps that i want to make it work

1) Winterboard
2) SBsetting
3) OpenSSh( I have installed it but did not tested it whether its working or not)

Once again thanks for your all effort and appreciate any further help to make this app working for me.

Regards
Paresh Patel

This is a guest poster – Just trying to give you a liiitttle bit of help to help you survive between now and when Simon comes to offer his expert advice.
Are you sure you followed all the instructions in Pwnage tool? If you aren’t sure you did, maybe you should restore your phone again with the original firmware (back it up before you do this, of course) and then restore it again with the custom firmware. After you re-jailbreak it, things should go fine.

With some of the issues you pointed out:
-I’m not sure how you managed to download and install applications like Cycorder and Snapture etc without a connection to the internet, but then again I’m also a fairly new user. But if you got these applications onto your phone without using a computer, there must be a connection to the internet somehow. Try opening native applications like ‘Maps’ and ‘Weather’ and see if they work fine. If they do, there is a connection to the internet. Perhaps your settings are such that no 3G sign or Wi-fi sign shows, but if you were downloading things, they must have come from somewhere.
-Also (and perhaps this is an unnecessary step) when you download and install any apps from Cydia, it might be helpful to power down the phone and start it up again. This is because the new applications might begin running minor tasks in the background, and all of this may, if you allow it to build up, cause Cydia to start crashing everytime you open it because there simply isn’t enought RAM left on the phone to run the app. When you start up afresh, the iPhone will automatically reassign the RAM to where it needs to go, and Cydia should run fine.
-There is no need to get ‘SBSetting’ AND ‘BossPrefs’. SBSetting does everything BossPrefs does and more, so it should suffice. It does for me, for the time being, at least.
-I don’t fully understand what you mean by being stuck with WinterBoard and SBSettings, but perhaps the issue in Winterboard is that you aren’t prioritising your custom selections properly? If you don’t arrange the custom themes etc in the order you want, they will interfere with each other in ways you aren’t expecting, and there may be no noticeable change in theme even though there is a tick beside them in the Winterboard app. Also, try not to select too many custom themes… some of them use a little bit of RAM as they operate, and it can add up to slow down your iPhone if you stack them. Concerning SBSettings, I’m not sure why it’s not being toggled from the status bar, but try deleting BossPrefs first and then trying it again.

Hope this helps somewhat until Simon comes to the rescue.

Happy iPhoning for the time being!

I’m just naive and just started using the IPhone from last week. I read ur articles on advantage of jail breaking the iphone and installing cydia apps. I did it and Since last 2 days i’m trying to install Winterboard and SBSetting but not getting success installing it.

For some reason i coulnt able to Get internet of my Iphone and i tried installing application through Cyder. I installed few application like Cycoder, Snapture (Trial version), Winterboard, SBSetting and other few apps without having internet on Iphone. Initally none of the icon were getting displayed on springboard but after my few attempts i could be able to work my cycoder and snapture on my iphone.

However i’m still stucked with winterboard & SBSetting. I checked in Cydia that it gets displayed in Manage category in Cydia but there is no icon of winterboard on spreingboard. I made atleast 9 to 10 attempts to remove and reinstall it but nothing worked out. I installed Boss Pref then GUIcache and tried everything i can do but nothing worked out. It would be very kind of you if you can help me resolving the issue. Same with the SBSetting. I cant toggle it from status Bar.

Thanks in anticipation
Paresh

http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/

Thanks for all.