cydia restart safe mode problem

[sovre]

. A couple of weeks ago my jailbreak stopped working. I was running the Electra jailbreak on my iphone 7 plus with 11.3.1

I tried reinstalling several times, using different methods - couldn't get it to work.

Then I tried the unc0ver jailbreak. Couldn't get that to work either except one time by turning tweaks off. but when I restarted I got a strange message - don't remember exactly what, but I think something about Cydia being installed twice.

I took a break at this point because I couldn't get any jailbreak to work.

Fast forward to today. I once again tried to install Electra - now it's working again!

When I restart I can even see that some tweaks are working. But my phone starts up with Cydia in safe mode every time and I can't get out.

None of the tweaks I have installed now gave me a problem with my past Electra install, but I've tried iuninstalling the most recent ones anyway, thinking maybe one of them was incompatible.

No effect - still getting thrown into safemode on every restart.

Could Cydia somehow have gotten corrupted when I was trying to rejailbreak with unc0ver a couple of weeks ago??

What do I need to do to get Cydia working properly again?

When I look at my recent list in cydia I see a whole load of cydia stuff installed on the day I tried to jailbreak with unc0ver. They are all listed as "from Unknown" - some of them are duplicates of electra utilities and there are other more specific unc0ver things like "unc0ver jailbreak resources" - could these be the installs that are causing my problem, and if so is there a way to just delete all of them at once? It seems there is quite a lot of unc0ver-associated stuff installed.


Thanks for your help!

 

[TriJetHero]

Mixing two different JBs is very unwise. Try to remove all installed tweaks and then use rollelectra to go back to stock.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/...ets-electra1131-users-un-jailbreak-on-demand/

 

[sovre]

TriJetHero,

Thanks for your reply.

Fortunately before I saw your message I was able to solve the problem.

I'll post what I did here in case it might help someone else.

Examining the package "Substitute," which is part of the Electra utilities, I found out there was some kind of problem with it - it was only "half-installed."

So I removed Substitute and then re-installed it.

Removing Substitute had the side-effect of erasing ALL my installed tweaks and basically putting me back at zero.

Inconvenient - but it solved the problem!

I have now re-installed my tweaks and everything is working fine. Glad to be jailbroken again. Jailbreaking seems to be much more complicated than it was in the good old days!

 

[freqrider]

Yes, you need to delete Electra from your settings/generalprofiles and dev mgmt. Then install Unc0ver, then go into Unc0ver/settings/restore rootFS. THIS WILL WIPE YOUR OLD JB! MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR TWEAK LIST SO YOU CAN RE_INSTALL THEM! Then re-jailbreak with Unc0ver and re-install all your tweaks. If you install Flame, it can export your tweak/source list and use SwipeForMore to batch install them again. Sounds worse than it is.