Are you having a tough time trying to get an app off Cydia lately? Is it crashing on your iPhone as if it has a vendetta against you? If yes, then chances are that you have ZodTTD Cydia repo installed on your iPhone.
Apparently, there is an issue with some files in the repo which sends Cydia into a crashing loop. The issue has been reported on ZodTTD’s official blog.
Here’s a solution to deal with this issue to get cydia working perfectly on your iPhone.
1) SSH into your iPhone and navigate to /var/lib/apt/lists/
Note:SSHing can be done using the following tools.
Windows users: iPhoneBrowser or iFunBox
Mac users: Cyberduck
2) Delete the following three files
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_Release
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_Release.gpg
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_main_binary-iphoneos-arm_Packages
3) Navigate to /private/etc/apt/sources.list.d and delete the zodttd.list file.
4) Open cydia on your iPhone and make sure that you tap on the cancel button(at the top) when it’s refreshing the packages.
5) Tap on search tab and look for ZodTTD’s Source. Once it’s visible, click on it.
6) Uninstall the source by clicking on modify button followed by remove and confirm buttons.
7) Congrats, you just solved the cydia crashing issue on your iPhone!
Note: We will let you know once there is a clean update for ZodTTD repo available, so that you can install it back again.
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I do not know what ssh is or how to get to it thanks
Hi Mandy..Use iPhoneBrowser or iFunBox to SSH.. SSHing = Browsing the files on your iPhone. Rohit has provided the links for iPhoneBrowser.. Check it out.
thanks John I will try it!
John I have downloaded both of these and I can not figure out how to find the cydia files to delete them……..bummed:(
If you are using iPhoneBrowser, the moment you launch the app on your PC you will see all the iPhone folders in the left window pane.
First click on Var followed by lib then apt and finally lists. (that’s what navigate to /var/lib/apt/lists/ means). Once you are in the list folder delete the three files mentioned in the step 2 of the above post.
Once you are done with it. Navigate to /private/etc/apt/sources.list.d and delete the zodttd.list file in a similar way. Hope this helps.