HELP! Original iPhone icons are gone!!

nxb807 · 09-30-2009, 07:54 AM

HELP! I have a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone 3G, and I have a serious problem. I downloaded the NES app from Cydia yesterday. The app wasn't working, so I went into Cydia to remove the app, and now ALL of my original iPhone apps/icons are gone - Phone, Calendar, Safari, Settings, iPod, App Store, Contacts, Weather, Camera, You Tube, Photos...EVERYTHING! I tried syncing the phone again, hoping this would work, but the original features did not come back. When you call my phone it still rings, and when you perform searches in Spotlight, all the emails, address contacts still come up...but the applications itself are not found.

Someone else told me that the icons may be hidden and advised that I install SBSettings via Cydia. Trouble is, the Cydia and Icy apps are also gone.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?? I'm panicking over here.

juls1585 · 09-30-2009, 08:13 AM

my guess is that youre going to have to restore as a new phone and then rejailbreak it. that seems like the only solution...

nxb807 · 09-30-2009, 08:32 AM

i'm reading other forums about missing icons. some suggest to download a program called iphonebrowser. others talk about getting apt-search. i can keep up with some technical stuff, but this mess is going way over my head. does any of this stuff make sense to anyone?

i'm trying to avoid restoring my settings and am hoping there are indeed other solutions.

juls1585 · 09-30-2009, 08:34 AM

if you back up the phone i would assume when you restore and then apply that back up everything would go back to normal. im sure someone else will pop in with their ideas.

nxb807 · 09-30-2009, 08:45 AM

your idea certainly seems to be the easiest way to resolve this matter. would you have any idea why this happened in the first place? do you think there's a possibility that the phone is permanently damaged?

juls1585 · 09-30-2009, 08:51 AM

try this...

Settings > General > Restrictions and Enable restrictions. Give it a few minutes and disable them.

nxb807 · 09-30-2009, 08:56 AM

the settings icon is gone too. ALL of the original icons (text, camera, photos, calendar, calculator, safari, phone, email, iPod, app store, you tube, stocks, weather), and the jailbreak apps for 3.0 (cydia & icy)...do not appear.

juls1585 · 09-30-2009, 08:59 AM

spotlight search for settings and it doesnt come up?

nxb807 · 09-30-2009, 09:07 AM

when i type any of those icon names in spotlight, they are not found.

juls1585 · 09-30-2009, 09:10 AM

have you done a reset of holding the home button and the powerbutton down?