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Cydia won't open and I need to jailbreak tonight! Helppp!!!

boston04and07

boston04and07

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I just jailbroke my sister's iPhone 3G running OS 3.0. The jailbreak process went smoothly, and when I tried to add ultrasn0w in the Manage Sources section, I received the following error message:

Error: Refreshing Data
GPG error:
http://www.ispaziorepo.com ./
Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2

Failed to fetch
http://www.ispaziorepo.com/cydia/apt/.Packages.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)

Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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After that, *all* sources in Cydia failed to be listed in the Manage Sources section. I tried rebooting the iPhone, and now, Cydia won't even open at all. It gets to the Loading Data screen, and quits.

I can't ssh into the phone because I never even had time to install openSSH.

I even tried doing a full restore, but iTunes 9 won't let me restore without upgrading the firmware to 3.1 (and I did try holding down both option and shift, nothing works).

The thing is, I *need* to jailbreak this phone tonight...she's going abroad tomorrow and needs to be able to use the phone with a different SIM card.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
 
jmann said:
Just rejailbreak it to 3.0 or 3.0.1. Just hold alt/option on your keyboard while clicking restore, and you can choose the 3.0 IPSW.
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Thanks for your quick reply! Thing is, that's what wasn't working for me. I tried holding down option, command, shift ( not at the same time, but separately) and it still tried to upgrade to 3.1. But, I just moved over to a computer that was still running iTunes 8 and the restore seems to be working fine now.

On another note, after I restore and rejailbreak this phone, how do i know that ultrasn0w won't do the same thing? I followed the instructions to the letter, and ultrasn0w still messed everything up.
 
boston04and07 said:
Thanks for your quick reply! Thing is, that's what wasn't working for me. I tried holding down option, command, shift ( not at the same time, but separately) and it still tried to upgrade to 3.1. But, I just moved over to a computer that was still running iTunes 8 and the restore seems to be working fine now.

On another note, after I restore and rejailbreak this phone, how do i know that ultrasn0w won't do the same thing? I followed the instructions to the letter, and ultrasn0w still messed everything up.
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It might have just been a fluke. I've used ultrasn0w a ton of times, and never had a problem with it. Make sure before installing anything that cydia is fully updated basically everything (that it deems essential). Then try it.
 
jmann said:
It might have just been a fluke. I've used ultrasn0w a ton of times, and never had a problem with it. Make sure before installing anything that cydia is fully updated basically everything (that it deems essential). Then try it.
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I hope so too! I'll let you know how it goes after the restore completes and I rejailbreak!
 
Ok - the iPhone restored, was rejailbroken, and ultrasn0w was successfully installed this time! Thank you SO much - you guys are great!

Just one more quick question. Now that ultrasn0w is installed, will I be able to just swap out the SIMs and have it work? Or is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks again!
 
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