Just like other jailbreak tools, Electra also comes with its fair share of issues. Here’s a quick fix for users who are can’t figure out how to fix an infinite respring loop without restoring.
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What causes respring loop on Electra jailbreak?
Infinite respring loops are prevalent on almost all version of Electra. iPhone X is the worst hit by this issue and a lot of users have reported this issue thus far.
The cause behind respring loops is unknown and it can hit anyone out of the blue. However, some buggy or incompatible tweaks can also cause this issue.
Apart from that, merely opening and using your camera while jailbroken can also put your device in an infinite respring loop.
Here’s are a few easy methods that you can try to fix this problem.
Fixing respring loop on iOS 11-11.1.2
Method 1
Step 1 Reboot your device into no-jailbreak mode.
Step 2 Launch Electra application from your home screen. Now before you press jailbreak, disable the Tweaks option as shown below.
Step 3 Press the Jailbreak button to put your device in jailbreak mode. This mode is the iOS 11 equivalent of the “No Substrate” mode that is a part of other tools. Your device will still run jailbreak while all installed tweaks will remain non-functional.
Step 4 Once your Apple device is in jailbreak state, you can open Cydia from your home screen.
Step 5 Go to the Installed tab and uninstall the problematic tweak manually. If you are unsure which tweak is causing issues, try removing tweaks (except core packages) one by one beginning from the latest installed tweak.
Step 6 With the bogus tweak gone, reboot your device again.
Step 7 Re-jailbreak using Electra after enabling the Tweaks option.
Method 2
There are some cases when users are not even able to force restart their devices. If that’s the case, you are in a spot, because you can’t remove the bogus tweak without restarting.
- To fix this issue, let the battery drain and then try turning it on again.
- Alternatively, you can try a computer-based program like Reiboot or Recboot. Simply put your device in recovery mode and then kick out of this mode using any of these utilities.
Method 3
Try the good old hard reset. It is not guaranteed to work but you some users got lucky and were able to solve this issue just by pressing a few buttons.
Are you still facing any bug or glitch in iOS 11 firmware? If yes, leave a comment below.
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I’ve been sitting here for an hour and it won’t run out of battery
It takes a while, let the battery drain.
Okay, so I had the boot loop problem. Erased all my tweaks re-jailbroke it apparently. Because electra says “already jailbroken” I can go on Cydia and everything but none of the tweaks work/show up in settings, as well as the apps downloaded from cydia.
Is there anything I can do. I redownloaded subtrate, and Rocketlauncher or whatever
Yes, run Rollectra and start afresh again.
Hello
i have problem
my phone is dead
When i recharge my phone its bug on boot loops
my ios ver 11.0
i have jailbreak
plz help me can use shsh
i have 10.3.1 – 11.2.6 shsh files
Please do not want to lose jailbreak
tnx
I guess it’s a hardware issue. Can you put it in DFU mode? If not, take it to an Apple store as I can’t do much in that case.
Ok, dont know if anyone one else is having issues still, but my 8+ is stuck on what seems to be just a black screen… except no way to DFU or Hard Reset.. do i just wait for it to die ? (also Reiboot couldn’t register my phone when plugged in…am i sol?)
method 1 worked for me! great job guys
thanks
Welcome.
Can you help me my phone is constantly respringing and theres nothing i can do restarts dont work trying to turn it off wont work either please help.
Use Rollectra and retry.
I jailbroke my phone, and started getting problems, even in an unjailbroken state, my phone randomly restarts. I dont know why
That’s a known issue with Electra so I suggest downgrading Tweak Injector to v1.0.3.
HI!,
I have this problem where my phone freezes and it will reboot after that I have to rejailbreak throught the electra app to get in cydia again and to have my tweaks again. Is there a fix?
A lot of users are facing this issue so wait for an update by Coolstar.
Hi I am writing I am writing to you from Turkey and Turkish language please respond. Now I have the iPhone x I have installed Jailbreak Rc 1.0.3 but I want to delete it how do I do it. How can I install Rc 1.0.4 update from Yada’s new one, you are the only one who will get help.
Follow this guide.
Now my issue here is quite a bit different, I can run Electra perfectly fine without worrying about anything like endless spring loops, but when i install a new tweak or simply respring after getting jailbroken it just springs forever.I think it is an issue with cydia more than anything but it is still annoying
Thank you for any help
I suggest cleaning up your jailbreak with an uninstaller tool.
after i jailbroke my device, eveything was fine, but then most of my aps take a little longer to load, and cydia sits on a wwhite screen then crashes, but all the tweaks i have installed are working perfectly fine. What do i do?
Are you using Tweak Injector v1.0.4? If yes, then that’s a known issue. Coolstar will push a fix soon hopefully.
My cydia wont load (not even the tabs) when I am in jailbreak state with tweaks turned “on”. But if I jailbreak my device by turning “off” tweaks option in Electra then my cydia works perfectly fine. I even uninstalled the recently added tweaks but still the problem persists.
Any fixes ?
I suggest performing a full cleanup with any of the existing uninstallers.
For those of you stuck in a respring loop (and a hard reset won’t work)
1. SSH into your phone. Electra comes with OpenSSH preinstalled, so even if you didn’t set it up, the service should be running. You’ll need IPhoneTunnel (for Macs only; for Windows, use iFunBox; see http://iphonedevwiki .net/index.php/SSH_Over_USB) as you can’t get your phone’s IP address. Use the program to run SSH over USB (the default password is “alpine”).
2. Run “killall -SEGV SpringBoard” in the command line, which will put Electra into Safe Mode.
3. Once in Safe Mode, remove any bad tweaks, and update the PreferenceLoader and RocketBootstrap as Rodrigo instructed (repo: http://rpetri .ch/reposetup/).
4. Exit Safe Mode. Your phone should no longer be in a respring loop, and you can reinstall any working/stable tweaks.
Thank you Jeremiah, While i was waiting for the battery to drain out, i tried to SSH into my device but the password prompt doesn’t even show up. Any Ideas while I wait for the batter?
Last login: Tue Mar 27 15:53:03 on ttys000
ssh -l root -p 2222 127.0.0.1
SAs-MacBook-Air-2:~ SnA$ ssh -l root -p 2222 127.0.0.1
alpine
killall -SEGV SpringBoard
I used 1.0.3 to jailbreak and installed a few and now the respring is going on and on and not going back to the springboard
Did you install any incompatible tweak? Try removing it from No Substrate mode.
iPhone 7 Plus – iOS 11.1.2 – Electra 1.0.3 – still having the freezing issue.
Tweaks Installed #1 : DoubleTapToLock and Tweak Compatibility – still freezing at least 1 time per day
Tweaks Installed #2 : Anemone with AsteriOS theme and iPhone X Dock theme ( both themes were new to Cydia) – Freezing about 2 hours later only with this installed. I encountered the freezing issue while typing messages.
Try this fix here – https://github .com/KirovAir/electra-defrozen/raw/master/Electra-1.0.2-defrozen.ipa
I’ve installed the wrong app sync for the Electra jailbreak and now my iPad won’t respring and I can’t remove the app sync which is the tweek causing the problem 🙈🙈🙈🙈 any ideas please … Many thanks in advance
Remove it with tweak installer.
I have an iPhone x running iOS 11.1.2 electra jailbreak with cydia, installed a compatible tweak, went into settings enabled it and clicked restring. I am now stuck in a respring loop. My phone was at around 98% force restarting or recovery mod isn’t working either. any other options or just wait days for it to die? im thinking its going to take forever since its an oled display and the only thing being displayed is the spin wheel. Any tips?
Just let it die and then switch it on again.
I have an error when installing a cydia tweak, when you have just installed it, put the respring message, I give it and the circle is running around infinitely, I force the restart, and I have to re-jailbreak, known solution?
Did you install a compatible tweak?
ive got everything else working apart from this when i try instal a tweat i get this error
Sub-process /usr/libexec/cydia/cydo returned an error code (255)
pls help
ive finally got cydia installed but getting this error
Failed to fetch
http://apt .saurik .com/dists/ios/1445.32/main/binary-iphones-arm/Packages POSIX: Connection refused
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
That’s a known issue right now. Coolstar has blocked Saurik’s repo.
That’s normal.
But don’t delete or change it.
when i hit the jailbreak button my phone just keeps respringing and doesnt install cydia i have to do the volume up, down then power button idk y
same.
I have the same problem
Because i want to do that
I noticed you saying to commenters to hard reset their devices and then re-jailbreak wont resetting the device make them update the phone and lose the Jailbreak?
No, a hard reset will put it in un-jailbreak mode only. You can jailbreak it again with the Electra app.
My iPhone keeps respringing right after jailbreaking it by Electra even if I don’t have any tweaks every once in a while it would freeze for 10 seconds or more then reboot itself into a non-jailbroken state on the beginning that happened when I open videos not every time but usually every once in a while no matter what I suddenly find the phone freezing I really need this fixed and I’m surprised not many people are asking about it ,thank you.
Iphone 7+
Can you SSH properly into your device?
Anemone does this. I have iPhone 7 and i jailbroke it and when i installed anemone this happened so that meas that i can’t get themes… and also apt.saurik.com doesnt work for me so i always get an error message:(
Anemone is having a lot of issues right now so can remove it. As for Saurik’s repo, Coolstar has blocked so it won’t work.
3 last installed Tweaks Uninstall but still Having this issue. Everytime i trying to renable jailbreak It stuck on a Respring loop.
Which version are you using?
I have the same issue and I am running IOS 11.0!
I havent been able to install anemone and select other tweaks like eclipse and sonus
Did you try a cleanup tool like the NoMore IPA file or others? If not, try using them.
Hey. I tried to jailbreak it. It worked at first and then i uninstalled it cuz nothing was working. I tried to reinstall it and now when i press jailbreak it, black screens me, restarts my phone or i have to hard reset it. What am i doing wrong
Exact same here,
When i go to jailbreak my phone with my tweaks enabled it does not respring it just goes to the apple logo and reloads the phone
Weird. Wait for the next RC update, the current build is full of errors/glitches.
So a couple days ago I downloaded LittleBrother in my iPod 6gen and it puts me in a black screen when I try to jailbreak. So I tried deleting it from Substrate Safe Mode but it doesn’t let me delete it! I tried using iCleaner or Filza but obviously I can’t use them cause I’m in Safe Mode, I tried restoring from a Back-Up where I hadn’t downloaded the tweak yet… It was there! And then I tried restoring my device from zero. Cydia was still there with all my tweaks.
I’m not sure what to do now, can someone please help me? 🙁
Is your device still working – can you access the display?
Yeah, my device works just fine in Non-Jailbreak Mode and Safe Mode but I just can’t get this tweak uninstalled or even delete Cydia! It’s a nightmare
Why don’t you try a cleanup tool like the NoMore IPA file?
you saved my life!!! thanks 😀
oh, forgot to tell you I have a tip that might you already know. hehe
#Method 2 – Drain battery quick with another IOS or MacOS device
if you have another iOS or MacOS device that can be linked with your phone, it means you can get a call (check the apple support page link below). Even if you are having a endless loop, phone still rings most of the time. So, ask your friend nicely to call your phone and pick up the phone with the Linked Device, then it will takes about an 3 hours approximately (depends on your current battery) to be turned off..
*apple support page(Make and receive phone calls on your Mac and IPhone)
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/facetime/use-your-mac-to-make-phone-calls-mchl390e9463/mac
sry for my clumsy English. and thanks again!
Thanks for the tip, Shawn!
Welcome, Shawn.
I jailbreak with electra 1.0.2,update cydia properly,everything works fine except phone app keeps crashing…any help?thanks in advance
Try a hard rest and check if it works.
I have noticed that when I run the jailbreak for the first time, everything runs smoothly. But then I open cydia and it asks me to complete the installation. After I do that, I went and installed preference loader, tweak injector, and substrate compatibility layer. It then tells me to respring my device, after I respring, I am in safe mode and when I turn my phone off and back on to run electra again, I am just in a jailbreak loop. Any help? I am on IOS 11.1.1.
I have managed to narrow it down to tweak injector that is causing the issue. But I cant run any tweaks without it.
I had such a problem when I installed Tweak when the SprongBoard does not open the phone that is. Infinite reaction does, how to fix it?
That’s because you installed an incompatible tweak. Hard reset your device, re-jailbreak it with tweaks disabled and remove the buggy tweak.
how do you know if the tweaks are buggy?
There’s no way to know that but it’s usually the last tweak you installed.
When I downloaded app sync tweak it was saying iOS 6.x+ to iOS 8.x+ so i thought that it meant iOS 8 and up so I downloaded the tweak then it was at the spinning circle but it never booted upp so I reset my iPad but it still the same thing so I left the spinning circle overnight but at the morning it was still spinning fix pls?
Let the battery run out first.
So I used reiboot entered recovery mode via that and then exited the recovery mode, iPhone rebooted CYDIA still there and the electors still there, what should I do now? Rejail it? And if it ever gets stuck and or freezes use reiboot?
Yes, you can use Reiboot to kick it out of recovery mode.
I used to record my my train ticket which would save me $6.75 a day. Then when iOS 11 came out and made the video recording built in, the app got smart and disabled that ability to record while the ticket is displayed. Does anyone know any work arounds for this?
There’s no workaround as of yet other than trying a third-party recorder. There will hopefully be one released in the near future.
I can’t get any of my tweaks to work after installing it, I tried unstalling and installing again but same thing. Also I tried to update electra but nonetheless it won’t work
I am writing a tutorial on that asap.
Every time I try to re enable my jailbreak using the Electra app it just sits at 2/3 and nothing happens how do I fix this?
Re-sideload the app and run it again. This will fix it. Also, try to enable Wifi before pressing “Jailbreak”.
I am not able to open Cydia, I will click on the app, and then it won’t even open, it will just show a white page and then go out of the app, when i click the jailbreak button, it goes through the whole process but once it try’s to reboot, it is stuck on the spinning wheel until my phone crashes. I had reloaded Electra about 4 times, and even have the new update.
Reinstalling the IPA won’t fix Cydia in this case. You must use a proper uninstaller tool from here.
bro this is happening with my device too ,, what can i do
I simply can’t install any tweaks on my jailbroken iphone, it’s on on respring loop. The tweaks just won’t work on my iphone
Can you hard reset or force reboot?
I was able to force a hard reset, started the jailbreak without tweak. uninstalled an tweak that started this but when i rejail, it freezes my phone and itll respring but then end up freezing and i would be stuck, and i am afraid i am out of option.
Try removing the tool altogether with Delectra and install it again.
how do i get delectra again?
how do i get delectra again? i dont know how to get that lmao
Are you able to hard reset or force reboot?
yes but then itll freeze, when i hard booted it didnt delete electra, so i would run the twek again and itll freeze the phone
It seems like you are in a spot. I recommend trying the iCloud method here.
yes but it freezes lmao, how do i get delectra
Try putting it in recovery mode and then use Reiboot.
i have the same problem but i’m not able to hard reset
You must upgrade or use the iCloud method then.
Thank you so so so much
I am finally out of respring loop
Welcome, MM.
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT FOR 10 STRAIGHT HOURS TRYING TO GET IT TO WORK. EVERYTIME I TRY TO JAILBREAK IPHONE X WITH TWEAKS IT JUST GOES INTO A LOOP WITH THE SPINNING WHEEL. IVE TRIED REMOVING THE JAILBREAK USING iTERMINAL, CYBERDUCK, PuTTY, AND MTERMINAL AND ALL I KEEP GETTING WAS THAT THE CONNECTION FAILED. I EVEN READ YOUR OTHER POST AND NOTHING HAS BEEN WORKING FOR ME AND IM KIND OF UPSET BECAUSE I HAVE WAITED LONG FOR THIS. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER WAY OF SOLVING THIS SPINNING WHEEL LOOP ISSUE? THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONCE.
You can’t use SSH/SFTP because your Wifi connection has stopped. Try finding your device with Find my iPhone.
What do u mean try finding your device with find my iPhone? I did and I do not know what to do. Can u elaborate step by step? Thank You.
Try these methods here.
My i7+ is stuck on loading mode that is normally seen while switching off iPhone. I installed apex 2 & since then it is stuck. Tried hard reset but to no avail….I can hear the vibrations on alerts & the home button haptic feedback too on pressing the home button but the phone just does not respond…please help me…
Try using 3UTools and then use its display option.
My suggestion is to factory reset it using itunes, but doing so is going to update your firmware to the newest version. I suggest do more research and hopefully someone has an answer for you.
That would be the last resort if you want your phone working again.
i trued to install anemone and it crashed my phone, now i cant use cydia and when i open it, there’s no tweaks to uninstall and im stuck in a boot loop. help!!
Are you sure it’s a bootloop and not a respring loop?
Got rid of all tweaks and still stuck in boot loop. Really don’t what to restore.
Do you have SHSH Blobs?
To solve, just update the PreferenceLoander and RockBoostrap. add repo: http://rpetri .ch/reposetup/
You can’t do that if you are already in a respring loop.
just force the device to turn off with the home and power buttons, reactivate the jailbreak and then install those two packages that will not happen again. I did it and it worked.
Glad it worked for you.
Thank you so much, you’ve helped me solve 2 problems in 1 day, thanks 🙂
Welcome, Jem. Glad it worked for you.
I am still in a respiring loop – and I’ve done everything what do I do ?
Are you able to force reboot it?
Hi man thanks for the tutorial. And I have a problem. I never installed topanga neither liberos. And electra gives me topanga error. I opened anemone. It worked but the theme that i had didnt work. circuit breaker worked. But iTerminal fails to connect. I installed electra jailbreak 11-3 And it gave me the same topanga error. Is there any way to fix it? (Also my tweaks arent working) And thank you again (also Appdb ipa signer didnt work for me)
Welcome, Sleiyah. I recommend performing a complete clean of Electra using this IPA (if you are on RC1.x) – https://drive .google .com/open?id=1lJMm80B-aQ7G4No0eYJA4SHztdLEi5BK
Also, try using Putty, it’s working just fine.
Is there a way to bypass jailbreak detection?
Not right now.
I can’t install Anemone someone know maybe why?
A tutorial is coming asap.
When electra is activated and i try to record a Slow Motion,the iPhone crash
That might be a new bug. Wait for an update. Alos, are you using any tweaks right now?
Im stuck on 2/3 in electra app, i need help please
Re-sideload it again with Impactor.
I’m on “please wait “ 2/3 and nothing works I’ve tired reinstalling it and it doesn’t work
Check my latest tutorial on that.
How am I supposed to check? YouTube link?
Use this tutorial.
Hey man I have tired that and it doesn’t work for me help!
Try the other tutorial. This is for respring loop only.
lol remove tweaks one by one that will break cydia lol
just get rocketbootstrap than ur good to go
I mean to say only remove the last few tweaks that you may think are buggy unless you assumed otherwise.
Are you dumb: see you shouldn’t expect everyone to know,this is so far the easy way i guess.
i hope this tutorial helps people who are in the situation.
It won’t let me jailbreak using Electra to panga error I used every method I saw I never used to panga I did use liberals but i have done everything apart from re-store I have all shsh blobs
There’s an uninstaller tool in the works so wait for that.
But can I perform a hard reset?
Yes, you can.