Comments on: Solution for iPhone OS 3.0 icon problems

By: joejoe

joejoe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:03:16 +0000

Hey kids, my iphone is not jailbroken, and all of a sudden the home button and touch screen are the only things that work, meaning the volume, buzz-ring toggle and power button wont work, its driving me crazy, i restored and used different upgrades on it and cant fix it, anyone hearing anything like that? thanks in advance :}

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:05:54 +0000

Hi guys,

I ran into this issue running OS 3.1.2, and Apple’s changed the app cache since 3.0. The way I fixed it with 3.1 was to rename these two folders:

* SpringBoardIconCache
* SpringBoardIconCache-small

to:

* SpringBoardIconCache-bak
* SpringBoardIconCache-small-bak

After respringing the phone, the OS recreated the original folders and reset the app icons to the original ones.

Rick

By: SeanL

SeanL — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:38:45 +0000

It’s because that crappy categories app it’s buggy & mess-up the icons after too much messing arounds.. strill looking for the original icons.. they’re exist somewhere

By: Iphone issues « Bash the universe and everything

Iphone issues « Bash the universe and everything — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:29:55 +0000

[...] an iphone 3GS and broke it. It is a 3.0 and i recently got the icons messed up. I found a solution here! In short the solution is to move the cached icon list from springboard. The phone needs to be jail [...]

By: cc

cc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:57:23 +0000

I have an easy solution for people who have Mike’s problem (Catergries has hidden the apps and you are no longer jailbroken).
This happened to me more than once.

1) Go to settings/general/restrictions
2) Enable restrictions (enter a code twice)
3) Leave settings
4) Go back to settings/general/restrictions
5) Disable restrictions using the same code

By: callmevil

callmevil — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:23:34 +0000

Hi, I have a different problem, I tried to download Dictionary on my iPhone, I used WiFi as the program is over 10mb, half way through the download, I went out of the WiFi range so the download got stuck.

Now I got a blank grey icon with an empty download progress bar below it. I cant delete it, and if I try to re-download dictionary again from appstore it says that dictionary is already installed..

Ive tried restarting/rebooting/re-syncing and it dont work. it dont even appear in my itunes as a downloaded app.

Help?

By: Ogispert

Ogispert — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:05:44 +0000

jeremy, on July 23, 2009 at 1:04 am, said:

I HAVE THE SOLUTION FOR REAL THIS TIME!!! I PROMISE!!!!

100%!!!!

1) Delete one of the bad icons on your device.
2) Go to app store and start to re-download the same app you just deleted,…
3) Pause the download before it finishes downloading by tapping the icon.
4) Turn off the device. (do not do a hard reset)
5) Turn the device back on.
6) Tap the paused app to continue the download.

now ALL the apps that had icon errors are back to normal.

your welcome!!

This actually worked just fine on my iPhone.

Thanks a lot.

By: subtrane

subtrane — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:53:44 +0000

fixx

It worked thanks

By: fixx

fixx — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:49:41 +0000

If you upgraded a Jailbroken iPhone to 3.0 and are missing icons for apps you put in categories then go to SETTING then GENERAL then RESTRICTIONS enable the restrictions and then disable the restrictions and that should bring back your icons for your apps!

http://www.topiphoneresource.info/organize-your-iphone-apps-with-categories-jailbreak-app/

By: Fady

Fady — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:46:35 +0000

i have found a solution for my icon problems. its was simple actually.
i synced my apps again to the iphone and as usuall no icons appeared on the spring board. Then i downloaded “categories” from cydia, created a new folder and pressed the add bottun to add apps to the folder… and there they where all the icons that were missing from my springboard. so i added them to the folder,i closed categories and opened the folder itself to try the apps and they all work. :):D