iPhone In a pickle, can't get to hidden apps

[curiousgg]

Guys,
I have had cydia, settings, and the App Store on the dock in sbsettings for fast access and I have hidden the springtomize icon. That's my norm, currently with IP4 but have always had a jailbroken phone.

I normally use activator to get to sbsettings but now with ios6 I wanted to try something new and have it in my notification center.
Today I tried to put sbsettings in the notification center by disabled the window icon and enabling the NC setting under ios5+. A pop-up said i should be able to get back to it from NC or spotlight. It wouldn't respring on its own when I hit the home button, so I did it all again and forced respring from the sbsettings itself.

Now I can't use activator to bring up sbsettings (along with cydia, settings etc) because that's what I toggled off, but I also can't find it in the spotlight. I can't use spotlight to find the other hidden apps (cydia, settings, springtomize etc) either! On top of all that, sbsettings never launched on the notification center like I was trying to get it to do in the first place.

So, am I going to have to just restore/re-JB the phone all over and never hide such important apps again? Or is there a different way.

Thanks

Eta: I can get to ifile on my phone

 

[fisherking]

you can get to activator in the settings; scroll down to it, choose a swipe or whatever to open sbsettings..

 

[thelatinist]

Download mobile terminal from its website and use iFile to install it. Then run the command

dpkg -r sbsettings

This will unhide all your apps.

Then use iFile to delete any leftover .plist files from SBSettings. After that it should be safe to reinstall sbsettings using Cydia.

 

[curiousgg]

Thanks for the suggestions. I decided to restore to factory setting and re-JB.

 

[Maverik3]

Also you can double click the home button and it could end up being there. all recently used apps you can get to access it through there

 

[lapeno]

Is it normal that spotlight can't find hidden apps?

 

[curiousgg]

Interestingly, opening the app switcher didn't show me my hidden apps...