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

I found a nice user entry on a german iPhone forum giving some examples how to quickly restore all Cydia applications after a full iPhone firmware upgrade or a restore. No more searching around in Cydia for all the packages you had installed before. A few preparational steps and you could save a lot of time later on.

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Add new tag, cydia, install, iPhone, restore

Your SSH server on the iPhone is already set up. Now you want to make sure you get all the files from you iPhone backed up? You plan to change a few files on you iPhone and want to make sure you can revert to the original files?

iTunes will not backup all neccessary files. And even if it did backup your specific file, it is not that easy to get the specic file out of an iTunes backup. (I will give you a post how to extract files from iTunes backup files tomorrow.)

So my advice is to copy all files from your iPhone to your computer. Its quite simple!

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: backup, iPhone, rsync, SSH

You just tried to login into your iPhone and your terminal gave you a massive warning?

Something like:

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@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: DNS, iPhone, spoof, SSH

Annoyed to search for your iPhone IP-address every time it connects to one of your (DHCP) WiFi networks? Today you find it at 10.0.1.3, tomorrow at 10.0.1.4 because your aunt maggie just happened to reserve one of your usual IP numbers while surfing on your WiFi internet connection?

I just found out a small little extra that I was never aware of: You can use the name you gave your iPhone on iTunes to login into your phone. Just add a .local to the name.

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written by TwiPhone \\ tags: Bonjour, IP-address, iPhone, SSH