How to Fix White Icons Bug from Absinthe Jailbreak

If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone 4S with the Absinthe jailbreak, you might have run into the issue of having white icons on your home screen. The apps that turn white work as normal, but appear blank on the surface.

Here’s how to fix this bug:

  • Respring your iPhone via SBSettings (it worked to fix one icon for me)
  • Install any free app from Cydia (as recommended by @planetbeing; this worked)

 

If all else fails, re-jailbreak with the latest version of Absinthe v0.4, released yesterday. What fixes have worked for you to get rid of those blank icons?

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Maverick
Maverick
14 years ago

Although this has been recommended by @plantetbeing, it never worked for me. (ip4s jailbroken with Absinthe v3) Mine, not only white out some original icons randomly, it actually creates 3 other icons. Nothing a simple respring won’t cure though. I know it’s cosmetic only but really wish there’s a fix.

lol
lol
Reply to  Maverick
14 years ago

i agree i had the same problem. this needs to be fixed!

Georjbandicoot2
Georjbandicoot2
14 years ago

This is the reason why I restored my iphone to stock ipsw after using Absinthe v0.3

Sarangs
Sarangs
14 years ago

download guicache from cydia and rebuild cache, faster than respring

Jaskaran
Jaskaran
14 years ago

Clearing your cache with icache works like a charm!

Kraken
Kraken
14 years ago

Installing a free Cydia app or SBSettings will only work temporarily.  The problem comes back when you install a new app.  Running ‘fix user dir permissions’ in SBSettings seems to work.

By the way, Corona 1.0-8 was released a couple of days ago. 

Kraken
Kraken
Reply to  Kraken
14 years ago

Spoke to soon.  ‘fix user dir permissions’ also doesn’t work.   The dreaded white icons still keep re-appearing when you install an app.  Looks like there is currently no permanent fix at the moment.

Anon
Anon
14 years ago

Re-jaibreaking with 0.4 doesn’t resolve the issue.  And installing Corona 1.0-8 doesn’t solve it either.  the white icon bug is still there.  Nothing works, I’ve tried every solution in the comments here and other jailbreak blogs.  The ‘DreamTeam’ still needs to fix this issue.

Anonymous
Anonymous
14 years ago

Please disable libhide extension (depedency installed with sbsettings), and use other icon hider, such as springtomize

Wuju007
Wuju007
14 years ago

The calendar icon also keeps showing the wrong date. It does not advance to the new date. Unless I manually do a Respring everyday to refresh to today’s date. Annoying. Anyone is having this same bug? How do we fix it.

kimce18
kimce18
14 years ago

I jailbroke my gf’s iPhone 4S with Absinthe, and after downloading a game named “Chuzzle” in the Installous, the calendar turned invisible. Then after restarting the phone a few times, I tried to re-order the icons and saw that the calendar icon turned back to normal. But then, another app went missing. So I re-installed the app, then the Phone icon went white. I tried to do what I did with the calendar but nothing happened. Can someone help me here?
Thank you in advance 🙂

Iii
Iii
14 years ago

 I had the white icon after installing SiriLaunch from Cydia. I just uninstalled the tweak and everything was back to normal. The Hands-Free tweak, however, caused a sound problem–can’t hear the clicks of the keyboard, also uninstalled it and it was back to normal.
P.S. I run the Absinthe v0.4 on an un-jailbroken-before iPhone 4s.

Miss Rini
14 years ago

My fiance jailbroke my 4S yesterday with absinthe (dont even ask my what version… the newest out obviously) and today, I downloaded a few things off Cydia, and low and behold, this problem happened to me within 30 minutes.
I restarted my phone 3x, to no avail. And now, as I go into settings, the options for the applications added arent even in the settings to switch them up…

I’m setting my iphone back to stock setting until these jailbreak bugs get fixed =/

Evey
Evey
13 years ago

oh yea. it did work for me when i downloaded something from cydia. thank u so much!!! 😀

snill
snill
13 years ago

I had the same problem. Just reinstall DreamBoard, in my case fixed the problem 🙂

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