Help For Those Who Have Cydia Crashing on Startup since December 28
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Are you having a tough time trying to get an app off Cydia lately? Is it crashing on your iPhone as if it has a vendetta against you? If yes, then chances are that you have ZodTTD Cydia repo installed on your iPhone.
Apparently, there is an issue with some files in the repo which sends Cydia into a crashing loop. The issue has been reported on ZodTTD’s official blog.
Here’s a solution to deal with this issue to get cydia working perfectly on your iPhone.
1) SSH into your iPhone using and navigate to “/var/lib/apt/lists/”
Note:SSHing can be done using the following tools.
Windows users: iPhoneBrowser or iFunBox
Mac users: Cyberduck
2) Delete the following three files
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_Release
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_Release.gpg
- cydia.zodttd.com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_main_binary-iphoneos-arm_Packages
3) Navigate to /private/etc/apt/sources.list.d and delete the zodttd.list file.
4) Open cydia on your iPhone and make sure that you tap on the cancel button(at the top) when it’s refreshing the packages.
5) Tap on search tab and look for ZodTTD’s Source. Once it’s visible, click on it.
6) Uninstall the source by clicking on modify button followed by remove and confirm buttons.
7) Congrats, you just solved the cydia crashing issue on your iPhone!
Thanx this WORKed greatly….
This is the best explanation of how to remove the files. I have been sitting at the computer for hours trying to figure out how to ssh? I needed something simple and to the point and this is it! Thanks