Stay away from 'Kate'

[BBGT2]

Originally Posted by tumi

I confirm my iPhone Freeze after installing Kate.
No touch functions are working !

Any ideas what to do next ??

Read thru all the posts here or spend 5 minutes and restore/jailbreak.

Week 2 with Kate with no problems.

[Inam]

First mistake of installing Kate & second of restarting it. After that it messed up my iPhone, by screen don't response to touch. I did download file manager on my PC for iPhone but i couldn't see my file in it so can manually delete the Kate files, even though Jailbreak didn't work.

Couldn't restore from iTune as well. So I used Ziphone software to 'Do it All' after it done. My screen start working but can not uninstall Kate because it do not appear in Installer. So i reinstall it, but did not restart by iPhone and went back into Installer to uninstall it and finally i got out of my iPhone.

My iPhone is back to normal.

[Inam]

It worked for me.

[Inam]

Want to get the Kate out...

So use Ziphone software to 'Do it All' after it done. My screen start working but can not uninstall Kate because it do not appear in Installer (along with what ever install on your iPhone). So i reinstall it, but did not restart by iPhone nor opened it and

went back into Installer to uninstall it and finally i got out of my iPhone.

[dheep]

Originally Posted by John

The new Caterpillar, now known as Kate should be avoided. I downloaded it and enabled everything - the calendar, fonts, etc. Upon reboot to have the changes take effect, the phone froze.

I rebooted it via SSH, but it then started going into verbose mode. I rebooted again, and it booted this time. However, all my settings has been reset and the icon order was in the Apple preset. I can fix that, but every time I reboot or respring, I see flashing black and white lines for about five seconds, and then settings and icon order are reset. Now I have to restore.

- John

Russians' products never give up..

[rockchucker]

Originally Posted by oneway6009

I registered just to tell everyone to please avoid installing it. Maybe it still on BETA so not everything works perfectly.

What happened on my iPhone was that the touchscreen function works only in springboard. This means that when I execute any application, the screen starts to freeze and you cannot tap anything. All you can do is to hit home button.

When you hit the lock button, the screen does not turn off, instead, it just goes to dim mode. I TRIED restarting it for SEVERAL times but nothing changes.

My last choice was to just restore it and start from scratch.

But, it happened that I fixed the damn thing! What I did was: when you 'slide to unlock' it, I tapped the calendar*(you can see this when you checked it on the Kate app,not the built-in app) several times and give it a few seconds (the screen returned back to locked mode). I repeated this step for about two times. After that, EUREKA! The touch functions returned to normal. I unchecked all the add-on features of Kate and uninstall it.

This is only based from my experience.

Hope all of you can fix it.

-Aldrin, Philippines

I found the only way to access my phone was to tap the calendar upon unlock. Let it sit for a while on the calendar not the events, until it goes back to lock, then tap it again. Make sure no matter how many times you tap it you leave it on the "calendar" not the "events" page. Do this a few times (4-5) and then hit the unlock button. You will have access to touch. Now if you do not go into the Kate program and uncheck ALL of the checked marks it will do ZERO good whatsoever. I did not do this the first time and had to go back very reluctantly and re-install Kate to access the checkmarks. So once you get into Kate uncheck ALL of the boxes even the uninstall box. Hit apply. Then go into your installer and remove the STUPID DUMB A$$ program referred to as"Kate"!

Munch munch is right.

This is a very sorry excuse for a program. Obviously it has issues.

DO NOT INSTALL KATE!!!!!!!!!


Sorry for the rant but if it wasn't for the dude earlier on in this thread who said to do this process I would have started from scratch with my phone.

[digigaia]

Don't use KATE it blocks up iPhone and if you're not careful you might end up with a very expensive brick.

[SheepNutz]

I made the dumb mistake of installing Kate (even while I was on vacation!) and have uninstalled it using every method here, but even though it's out of installer, and I don't see any of the directories when I SSH my phone, I still have the touch screen problem but I figured out how to fix it. Before I even had Kate uninstalled from installer, I figured out that if you turn off your phone for about 3-5 minutes to drain all of the capacitors, the touch screen will work after I turn it back on. That was the only way I was able to get into installer to remove Kate, and I still have to do it. If I turn the phone off and turn it right back on, my lock screen won't go black and my touch screen won't work in any apps, but if I leave the phone off for about 5 minutes before turning it back on, viola!

[meese7en]

I can fix my iphone using this trick :
1. open kate.app (i know, your touchcreen is dead now)
2. plug your iphone, open itunes, then sync it.
3. wait, wait for about 1 - 2 minute, you will hear sound, then your touchscreen will work again with kate.app open.
4. uncheck everything that you have installed from kate
5. click apply
6. restart the iphone
7. the most important step : uninstall kate !!!!

good luck

[manishk123]

Originally Posted by Cream8n

No touch screen function works any more after installing Kate!

I even cannot uninstall from the iPhone.

Same here! I'm screwed too! I dont understand how installer can put in list of reccommended applications!! Really pissed off.. cant even uninstall.. will have to restore.. had not backed up some photos.. hope i dont lose them bcoz of this f*#ked up app!!!