Broke my phones ability to boot altogether

[SarKaa]

Tell us about your setup:

1. What iDevice are you using? iphone 7 plus
2. On what version of iOS is it? 13.3.1
3. What version of checkra1n are you using? 0.10.1
4. What is your host system (OS version? Hackintosh? VM? etc.)? linux
5. How are you connecting to the device (USB-A? USB-C? Apple/3rd party cable? Through a USB hub?)? official apple cable

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

1. boot, doesn't boot

What do you expect, and what is happening instead? My phone to boot, or at least boot when unjailbroken

Does the issue also occur if you tick "Safe Mode" in the checkra1n options? yes

Any other info, error logs, screenshots, ...? I have had errors like this before, but most are from tweaks, which i fix by using the safe mode option and icleaner. Before, some tweaks broke the ability to ldrestart, hence jailbreaking with tweaks enabled. This time, I performed a normal ldrestart, which got stuck in a bootloop. Fine this has happened before, and didn't affect me, but this one kept going. When it finally stopped when I hard reset, my phone got stuck on the apple logo, and would occasionally go black for a split second, as if it was retrying the boot procedure, but would then hang at the boot screen again. I put it in recovery, and even updated the firmware through itunes, but that didn't fix it. Finally I had to restore my phone altogether, which was not ideal, but it worked.

my tweaklist: applist com.a3tweaks.flipswitch com.captinc.batchomatic com.creaturecoding.libcspreferences com.creaturecoding.shuffle com.creaturesurvive.libcscolorpicker com.demy076.dismissanywhere com.dpkg.cappd com.dpkg.statusbarxs com.exoticswingset.truthfulfolders com.giorgioiavicoli.passby com.hackyouriphone.iconrepo com.hackyouriphone.spotilife com.ichitaso.powerselector11 com.icraze.bettersettingsfix com.jailbreak365.safeccmodules com.johncoates.flex3 com.kingpuffdaddi.control-center.ccvpn com.laughingquoll.prefixui com.linusyang.appinst com.lpane.browserdefault com.macciti.lotus com.midnightchips.bettersettings com.modmyi.libswift4 com.muirey03.libimagepicker com.muirey03.libmryipc com.opa334.ccsupport com.rpetrich.rocketbootstrap com.spark.libpackageinfo com.spark.libsparkapplist com.spark.nolowpowerautolock com.spark.snowboard com.spark.snowboard.respringextension com.spark.snowboardapplication com.tigisoftware.filza com.twickd.spdxs com.twickd.t0mi.applerespringprogress com.zx02.frame curl cydia-lists jp.akusio.backgrounderaction13 jp.akusio.milkyway2 libactivator libnghttp2-14 libssh2 libssl1.1.1 me.nepeta.libcolorpicker mktbypass mterminal net.angelxwind.appsyncunified openssh p7zip preferenceloader ru.rejail.assistability13 ru.rejail.autotouch ru.rejail.betternetpremium ru.rejail.bioprotectxs ru.rejail.floatingdockplus13 ru.rejail.flow ru.rejail.icleanerpro ru.rejail.kalm ru.rejail.limneosos ru.rejail.localiapstore ru.rejail.prysm ru.rejail.scribb ru.rejail.voicechangerx ru.rejail.xeonbeta ru.rj.nougat sedfix unrar unzip ws.hbang.common xyz.willy.zebra zip

[SarKaa]

This just happened again, after I tried to put my phone in safe mode over ssh. I think that might have been the problem, because the same happened. It isn't easy restoring your phone,please someone find out

[tingalvin]

I had this issue with the GUI. it says enter recovery mode fail, and then after unable to boot. had to DFU restore, tried again same issue. downloaded the file and running from terminal with sudo worked..

[SarKaa]

I had this issue with the GUI. it says enter recovery mode fail, and then after unable to boot. had to DFU restore, tried again same issue. downloaded the file and running from terminal with sudo worked..

No it wasn't while jailbreaking, it was when I tried to put my phone in safe mode over ssh using activator. I was just looking around and recently found out about activator's command line options. When I used the safe mode option, I had to restore. At first I didn't know it was the safe mode command that caused it, but when it happened the next day, I was certain that was the reason

[SarKaa]

Happened again, 3rd day in a row I have had to restore my iphone

[Siguza]

Sounds like one of your tweaks is breaking something on disk.

[SarKaa]

Sounds like one of your tweaks is breaking something on disk.

Thanks for replying, Are there any tweaks that are known to break disks, because most of these tweaks I have had used for years, and on different jailbreaks too, but I've never had this problem before

Also this happens any time I do anything that restarts springboard. The three times I had this issue, I ldrestarted. resprung into safe mode, and resprung normally respectively

[SarKaa]

So I was reading a post in Reddit that was completely irrelevant to this, but it was about icleaner pro. Could disabling any launch daemons from there cause this

[SarKaa]

Nah man this happened again, this time all tweaks were disabled in icleaner, and I tried ldrestarting from terminal, same thing happened again

[Siguza]

I had a closer look at your tweak list, and what is suspiciously missing is Substrate... so either your list is incomplete, or you're doing something very weird.

[SarKaa]

I had a closer look at your tweak list, and what is suspiciously missing is Substrate... so either your list is incomplete, or you're doing something very weird.

Oh yeah didn’t see that But I think that’s because this is from batchomatic, which only makes a list of tweaks that batchomatic itself doesn’t require

Edit: I can definitely confirm that Cydia substrate, substrate safe mode, preference loader, or any other essential packages were all installed

[SarKaa]

If you want the whole list

7-zip (POSIX): 16.02-1
Activator: 1.9.13~beta9
Alderis Color Picker: 1.0
AppList: 1.5.16
AppSync Unified: 74.0
APT (apt-key): 1.8.2-1
APT (libapt-pkg): 1.8.2-1
APT 1.4 Transitional: 1:0
APT Strict (lib): 1.8.2-1
APT: 1.8.2-3
Assistability13 Rus: 0.0.1-1
Assuan: 2.5.1-1
AutoTouch: 6.1.2k
BackgrounderAction2 for CCSupport: 0.1.4
Base Structure: 1-5
BatchInstall - Online: 2020.05.15-15.47.10
Batchomatic: 4.3.1
Berkeley DB: 6.2.32-1
Betternet++: 1.0.1.4
BetterSettings: 0.1.3
BigBoss Icon Set: 1.0
BioProtect XS (iOS 12/13) Rus: 4.4-49
Bourne-Again SHell: 5.0.3-2
BrowserDefault: 1.9.9
bzip2: 1.0.6-1
CA Certs: 0.0.2
Cappd: 1.0.3
CCModules: 1.5-1
CCSupport: 1.2.2
CCVPN: 1.0.4
Cephei: 1.15
Compactor: 1.0.2
Core Utilities (/bin): 8.31-1
Core Utilities: 8.31-1
Cydia Installer: 1.1.33
Cydia Lists: 0.1
Cydia Substrate: 0.9.7101
Cydia Translations: 1.1.32~b1
Darwin Tools: 1.1-1
Debian Packager: 1.19.7-1
Debian Utilities: 4.8.6-1
Diff Utilities: 3.6-1
diskdev-cmds: 593.221.1-1
DismissAnywhere: 1.4
file: 5.35-2
Filza File Manager: 3.7.2
Find Utilities: 4.6.0-2
Flame: 1.3
Flex 3: 3~EarlyAccess4
Flipswitch: 1.0.16~beta7
FloatingDockPlus13 Rus: 1.1.7
Flow Rus: 1.1.4
Frame: 2.1.1
gettext: 0.19.8-1
GNU Cryptography: 1.8.3-1
GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library: 6.1.2-1
GnuPG Errors: 1.32-1
GnuPG: 2.2.11-2
GnuTLS: 3.5.19-1
grep: 3.1-1
gzip: 1.9-1
HYI Repo Icons: 8.0.4
iCleaner Pro: 7.8.2
iOS Firmware: 13.4.1
iPhone Firmware (/sbin): 0-1
Kalm Rus: 1.3.4
KSBA: 1.3.5-1
Launch Daemon Controller: 23-1
libbulletin: 0.1-153
libCSColorPicker: 1.0.3
libCSPreferences: 1.3.5
libidn2: 6.1.2-1
libimagepicker: 1.0.4
libMRYIPC: 1.0
libplist: 2.0.0-2
libSparkAppList: 1.0.8
libsparkcolourpicker: 1.0.0
libswift4: 4.2.1-2
libtasn1: 4.13-1
libunistring: 0.9.10-1
Limneosos: 2.0.2
Link Identity Editor: 2:2.1.2+g5420cb5-1
LocalIAPStore: 1.4-2
Lotus: 1.0
LZ4: 1.7.5-1
LZMA Utils: 2:4.32.7-2
MilkyWay2: 0.2.0-alpha
MTerminal: 1.4-6
Nettle: 3.4.1-1
New Curses: 5.9-1
New Curses: 6.1+20181013-1
New GNU Portable Threads: 1.6-1
NoLowPowerAutoLock [Public]: 0.0.3
Nougat: 1.0.1
OpenSSH: 8.1-1
OpenSSL 1.0 Libraries: 1.0.2s-1
OpenSSL 1.1.1 Libraries: 1.1.1c-1
p11-kit: 0.23.12-1
PassBy: 1.8.3
powerlogHelperdFix: 1.0
PowerSelector (iOS 11 & 12): 1.2.1
PreferenceLoader: 2.2.4
PrefixUI: 1.2.6
Profile Directory: 0-1
Prysm: 1.7.5
readline: 8.0-1
RocketBootstrap: 1.0.9
Scorpion: 1.1k
Scribble: 1.5-1k
sed: 4.5-1
shell-cmds: 118-8
shuffle: 1.1.4
Shy Page Dots XS: 0.2
SmartBattery Rus: 2.7-1
SmartNetwork Rus: 1.0.7-1
Snappy: 1.3.0
SnowBoard: 1.2.94~Beta2
Spotilife: 1.1a
StatusBarXS: 1.2
Substrate Safe Mode: 0.9.6003
System Info: 2.0.0-1
system-cmds: 790.30.1-2
Tape Archive: 1.30-2
TruthfulFolders: 1.1
UIKit Tools: 1.1.15-2
unrar: 5.6.4-1
unzip: 6.0+deb9u1-1
VoiceChanger XS Rus: 2.2-51
wget: 1.19.5-2
XZ Utils: 5.2.4-4
Zebra: 1.1.4
zip: 2.32-1

[SarKaa]

I have reenabled all the launch daemons in icleaner, and tommorow, if the problem still persists, I will get back to you Also, in icleaner, one of the disabled daemons was the safe Daemon. Do you think it could have been from that Edit at 11:50 bst, I think it’s safe to say, so far so good, I have successfully restoring without a boot loop, but I’m still not certain the problems gone,

[SarKaa]

I can confirm that I can respring normally, respring into safe mode, and I haven’t tested ldrestart, but things seem to be fixed Exactly what I did: Removed rejail tweaks, and replaced them with mainrepo, which is more trusted, and frankly, in English Re enabled all launch daemons in iCleaner

[SarKaa]

Just a point to note, as well as disabling the safe daemons and installing the cracked tweaks from a better repo, turns out the last time I restored, I forgot to install icon renamed from Ryan petrich, which might have had a difference

[Siguza]

So one way or another, this is caused by 3rd party software. You can absolutely break your system by disabling certain daemons, starting with SpringBoard.
And disabling tweaks in iCleaner is only helps so much. Many packages have installation scripts, and whatever those do isn't magically undone when you disable the tweak.

All in all, sounds like a trash pirate repo broke your OS. :|

[SarKaa]

So one way or another, this is caused by 3rd party software. You can absolutely break your system by disabling certain daemons, starting with SpringBoard. And disabling tweaks in iCleaner is only helps so much. Many packages have installation scripts, and whatever those do isn't magically undone when you disable the tweak.

All in all, sounds like a trash pirate repo broke your OS. :|

Thanks for your help, really appreciated, but you can't blame the repo, because it can be one of three things The repo Icon renamer Or disabling the wrong daemons in icleaner But yes your right, it is most likely the repo

[SarKaa]

Hey help this issue came back, when I tried ldrestarting, my phone froze again

[SarKaa]

so it wasnt the repo that was the problem, but please help, This is the 5th time this has happened PLease can you re-open the issue

[SarKaa]

Oh just a note, that I had re-installed the mario kart bypass recently, which was one of my suspects before, but still not sure what the problem could be

[SarKaa]

So what I am doing is installing my tweaks two by two, and then ldrestarting after every installation Hopefully this can find the problem

[SarKaa]

I can confirm that the following tweaks work: Activator Floatingdockplus13 Nougat Prysm Frame Milkyway2 assistability13 autotouch snowboard (and lotus theme) betternet++ bettersettings bioprotect XS browserdefault ccmodules dismissanywhere compactor flex 3 flow icleaner localiapstore mterminal kalm nolowpowerautolock passby powerloghelperdfix scribble scorpion shuffle shy page dots xs smart network smart battery contact sync system info spotilife statusbarxs truthful folders voicechanger xs appsync unified xeon (beta) Strange, I just ldrestarted with all of these tweaks, and its normal Something very weird is going on, as the ldrestart now works, and no tweaks are interfering Does changing the hosts file make a device unbootable, because for the last 4 times I restored, i installed the preferences with batchomatic, but this time, I installed the hosts file as well, which might make a difference

[SarKaa]

Wait I found something Turns out recently, I had renamed my root folder in /var to root_orig, and replaced it with a symlink to /var/mobile, because SSH always went to root when I wanted it to go to mobile Could this have affected the boot procedure, because this happened at exactly the right time, and I didn't realise that was the problem, and kept doing it after restoring, and now that I haven't done it, I can ldrestart fine

[Siguza]

Look, I'm not your general help and support. Also stop writing me emails when you already have a ticket on here.

And yes, messing with the system like that will absolutely break things. If you wanna go to mobile, just why does it not occur to you to log in as mobile over SSH?!

As for the OS breaking, come on, you can debug that! Install a few tweaks, do an ldrestart, install a few more, do another one, etc. until your OS breaks. Then you can single out the cause.

I'm locking this though, because it's undeniably off-topic.