Stay away from 'Kate'

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. :angry:

- John

Ouch - thanks for the heads-up. That is one of those apps that I've always felt a little shy of - glad I have now ...

hmm i installed it and mine is fine. should i uninstall it?

did you try just holding home+lock button to restart?

I installed this today with no problem. I un-installed it because it's not very useful to me. End of story.

You said "lines".. are these VERTICAL LINES? That get bright then fade out... I went through this. So I worked my way around to getting a new phone.

Try doing a restore of your backup? I just did this, and it saved me a ton of time. It will leave the current apps on your phone. The icons will get scattered is all.

I just installed Kate and have no problems with it.
Those of you who are having problems I assume have SUID library installed I hope, cause everything you are experiencing is what I had before installing SUID library fix. Forgive me if the name is incorrect, and also dock cannot be installed.
I love Caterpillar Kate whatever its called.
GL

No problems here on the upgrade from Caterpillar to Kate this AM.

No touch screen function works any more after installing Kate!

I even cannot uninstall from the iPhone.

John

Good Day Moderator,

I respectfully request that we please start an "AVOID ________AT ALL COSTS" sticky?

This is the third or fourth app that F's peoples phones.

Good Day. Sir

Dana

i also installed it, but mine only reseted my settings when i tried to uninstall it it kept giving me a message that i have to uncheck everithing in the app, otherwise it will be just removed from installer, so i uncheckd everithing and then continued with the uninstall, i hope it removed it corectly

Exactly as CREAM8N has described. This app f.uckin wrecks ur iphone. Upon restarting black and white lines flash for a couple of secs then the phone starts up. Everythin appears ta be normal until u enter something on the desktop. You cant use the scroll function on the screen preventing u from doing anything really. So that means when you go to the Installer you cant press the Uninstall icon. So like me you're pretty much f.u.c.k.e.d. Thanx very much for wreckin my phone yas pask of ba.stards.
Even tho this appears to work ok on some ppls iphones its not worth the hassle. It now means im goin to have to restore using Ziphone which is the last f.uckin thing I wanna do. I will create another post should i find a solution today.
Aggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. W.a.n.k.e.r.s

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

As you can see, this is far from a safe app. Even if you haven't had any issues with it, I suggest you uninstall it.

- John

I installed it, I find it ok, just a little useless, only thing it does is change Font n stick calender on front, which is pretty cool, gonna uninstall tho

Interesting... I've just been on another thread about Refreshing sources in Installer taking forever. I've had that problem just recently - prolooooonged refresh times. Then I remembered that I tried both Caterpillar and Customize 2 recently, neither of which I found helpful for me personally. But guess what? I just deleted the sources for both and now my refresh times are a fraction of what they'd become - it's instantly become as fast as it always was.
Like I say... interesting.

No1 cares. Put that in a different post. This is for problems with the app- "Kate". Thanks

I got the exzact same simtoms as u john. The secound app that has does this same thing to my phone. Restoring as new is basicaly my only hope now. Wich means after more than three months of moding all was lost accept some photos and my contacts.

can some one post what Kate is supposed to do, cos all i got out of it is a calender on the lock screen which was ok and changed find. other than that, nothing

John, Good Day, Sir

Not to belabor the point but this app has crashed 7 phones, including yours.
I respectfully repeat my statement that I think a sticky is a good idea.

I have been incredibly paranoid since Screenshot nearly crashed my phone.
If I had to restore, I would have been DEAD.

I feel we have a responsibility to anyone who comes to this website to warn them about anything that can damage their phone..

Just my humble opinion.

Good Day, Sir

Dana