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Like many people around the globe I have a jailbroken iPhone. Normally this is a great thing, allowing me to run a few things you just cannot get on a “vanilla” iPhone. Anyways, while going on an install bender [happens perhaps once a month] I decided to check out an audio mod.

The mod was called Mobile Volume Sound. Now normally I install things and everything is a-ok, it either works/does what I though it did or it doesn’t and gets removed. This time around after a SpringBoard restart Cydia would launch but while “Loading Data” it would just close, no error. Everything else on the phone seemed to work just fine, even the newly installed audio mod.

I tried restarting my phone, fixing permissions, no joy for this sad panda. As the phone still functioned and my only issue was Cydia I put off this “problem” until tonight. After a bit of Googling [sorry Google I know you hate to be used as a verb] I came across some information that allowed me to take a few pieces and put them together to actually solve my issue.

***Below is what worked for me – what may work for you could be different. I’m not responsible if you brick your phone***

So what I came across first was that it could be the cache files have corrupted or in some way gone “bad” and in turn causing Cydia to crash. To fix this do the following:

1. SSH into your iPhone or iPod Touch.
2. Navigate to /private/var/lib/apt/lists
3. Delete all the files in /root/private/var/lib/apt/lists/ except for the partial subfolder.
4. Reboot or respring and re-open Cydia.

That may work for some that have issues of Cydia not opening, it however did not work for me. So it got me thinking, out of all the apps I’ve installed/uninstalled since having my phone I’ve never had an issue with Cydia opening. I decided instead of targeting Cydia I would go after this app that has somehow robbed me of my precious.

1. Again I SSH’d into my phone
2. I then used the command dpkg -l to list all installed packages [programs] installed via Cydia/apt.
3. Looked over the 3 column list giving you the package name, date and short description of the package.
4. I was able to locate it: com.chpwn.mobilevolumesound 1.1 Adds the volume sound found in Mac OSX to the volume popup.
   
5. I then performed the command dpkg -r com.chpwn.mobilevolumesound
6. I then exited SSH and was able to open Cydia without issue.

If you should stumble across this and find it helpful please let me know.