Well, I updated to 2.2 a few weeks ago and I had quite a lot of applications installed. And, as it happened quite a lot of times with 2.1 my SpringBoard preferences became corrupted.

I wrote about reparinig the “Apple screen of death” in this post. Unfortunately I did not have SSH access to my phone this time since the upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 rendered (Cydia OpenSSH server installation not working.

Still, I knew I had to prevent “mobilewatchdog.bundle” to load (read the other post to understand why.) So this time I just deleted the files by connecting via cable. By doing this I managed to get my SpringBoard preferences working again and I quickly installed OpenSSH to get regular Terminal access to the phone and restoring the “mobilewatchdog.bundle” again.

Here are the instructions:

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Apple Logo, Screen of death, SSH

Endless Apple/Pineapple Logo? And no way to get into your familiar Springboard (iPhone Desktop) view?

Your iPhone will reboot and show the “Apple Logo” (jailbroken devices will show a pineapple) and will not start the Springboard? And – showing only the logo – the iPhone will restart sometimes by itself?

- If your device is jailbroken and you have SSH installed and enabled you could have a solution right here!

While using Firmware 2.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 I had this problem quite often. Now with firmware 2.1 it happenend only once while cancelling an AppStore application install.

Solution is quite simple: If your Springboard preferences are corrupted or for some other reason not valid the Apple iPhone OS will try to re-create them. Well, the more applications you have installed (I counted 110 on my main iPhone) the more time Springboard will need to recreate them. But the iPhone OS will only allow roughly 2 minutes for this process. If its not finished within this time it will kill the process and re-start it. Endlessly!

Solution is quite simple, as long as you manage to login into your device via SSH (read my other posts how to do this):

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Apple Logo, endless boot, iPhone, Screen of death