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Fix iBooks after jailbreaking iOS 5.0.1

A lot of people have used the recent jailbreak tool RedSn0w to unlock their devices. Most have found that this is causing iBooks to no longer open or crash when opening after the jailbreak is done. Thanks Apple. Luckily, some tools have been created to fix this, however not everyone is getting the results they want with it. The issue with the tools looks to be that they are not fixing the permissions correctly when the iBooks files are moved to /var/stash. We found that with an extra step, you can get that working correctly.

First off, you will want to download SBSettings for the BigBoss repo. This repo have came installed with Cydia, so you shouldn’t need to add anything new. Once SBSettings is installed, your device should respring and take you back to the lockscreen.

Now, you will want to install iBooks by using the iBooks Fix for iOS 5 app found in the xsellize repo. To add this, you will need to go to Cydia > Sources > edit > add, then add http://cydia.xsellize.com/. You will get a warning and can just click ok. You can then search for iBooks fix for iOS 5 and install it. Once it has finished installing, it should respring once more.

Now, you should be back at your lockscreen once more. You will now want to go into the SBSettings app, then to System options, which is towards the bottom. Once you are there, just click the “fix user dir permissions.”. It will then fix the permissions of all your files. Your device should respring one more time.

Now, you should be able to open up and use iBooks without a problem. Let us know if this works for you in the comments!

Chris January 2nd, 2012

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Tags: iBooks

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