Help/Support iPad Mini won't boot into normal mode but boots fine in Safe Mode

Rook · February 13, 2016

Hey everyone,

I was doing some hack testing yesterday and everything was going well until no apps would open and my iPad froze. No apps would open, the screen started freezing so since I was SSHed into it, I thought I'd give it a respring but it got stuck on the white Apple Logo. So I did a normal reboot in Terminal and it still got stuck in the white Apple Boot Logo.

I then turned it off completely using Home + Power and held volume up while booting to try safe mode and it worked! But booting back into normal mode does nothing. It still gets stuck on the boot logo.

I uninstalled the deb I was testing and same result. What do you guys suggest I should do?

Zahir · February 13, 2016

Ugh same happened befor except it would boot to normal mode

I was testing RR3 hack and the game froze , tried to close the game but didn't work so I tried to reboot (hard) then it got stuck at the apple logo (springboard)

Then when I sshed I saw all my files were deleted lol

February 13, 2016

A restore is a no no?

Rook · February 13, 2016

Ugh same happened befor except it would boot to normal mode

I was testing RR3 hack and the game froze , tried to close the game but didn't work so I tried to reboot (hard) then it got stuck at the apple logo (springboard)

Then when I sshed I saw all my files were deleted lol

A restore is a no no?

Restore no. Semi-Restore, I guess so if it comes down to that.

February 13, 2016

What does crash reporter say when you open an app?

Check the loaded libraries/suspects

Updated February 13, 2016 by Guest

Rook · February 13, 2016

What does crash reporter say when you open an app?

Check the loaded libraries/suspects

I'm in Safe Mode and nothing crashes but I can't boot into Normal Mode.

February 13, 2016

Try running iCleaner and then reboot

Rook · February 13, 2016

I removed Cydia Substrate and PreferenceLoader along with most tweaks and now my iPad has a black screen but it's still in Safe Mode and I can SSH into it and iFunBox etc.

Rook · February 13, 2016

Okay, it's back to life now.

After removing Cydia Substrate and others, my Cydia kept crashing but I had SSH access so I installed Cydia Substrate, preferenceloader, com.saurik.afc2d (just in case), reinstalled Cydia and Cydia-lproj. It went into a black screen but after leaving it there for a few minutes, it went back to normal, no Safe Mode.

I then Semi-Restored just in case and because my iPad was getting a bit slow.

Here's the commands I used:

apt-get update
apt-get autoremove
apt-get remove mobilesubsrate preferenceloader com.saurik.afc2d
apt-get install mobilesubstrate preferenceloader com.saurik.afc2d
apt-get --reinstall install cydia cydia-lproj
killall -9 SpringBoard