How to Figure Out What is Crashing Your Device in Cydia?

SpringBoard has crashed. There are no suspects.

Hate seeing this? Do you want to find out how to figure out what is crashing your device? Then this tutorial "use CrashReporter to find the culprit of your crashes" was made for you! CrashReporter is not useless at all. It is a very powerful tool. But, to unleash its power, you need to understand how it works.

Part 1: How to use CrashReporter

Firstly (and obviously), you need to download CrashReporter from Cydia. It is available on the BigBoss repository for free. The developer of this tool is Lance Fetters (ashikase).

Once CrashReporter is installed, you'll have a new icon on your SpringBoard. Open it, we will take a look at the main interface of CrashReporter

Now you can find all the applications and all the process which have crashed. If it is the first time that you install it, you might not see anything here. However, since iOS itself does log a few crashes, if you've had one very recently, it may appear.

If you tap on an applications listing, you will see all the crash logs for this application. There is the time and the date corresponding to all the crashes.

Now, if you tap on a crash, you will see the list of the loaded third-party binaries. The useful things are the 2 big blue buttons present at the bottom: “View crash log” and ‘View syslog”.

View crash log

“View crash log” .For example, we can see the device which had encountered the crash, the process which have crashed, the exact time of the crash, the iOS version of the device which have crashed,…

The crash log can, sometimes, tell you what tweak is responsible of your SpringBoard crash or your app crash. See further for more information.

View syslog

The syslog is full of “strange lines”. In fact, the syslog shows you what iOS was doing before the crash. The useful lines will usually be present at the end of the syslog. 

Part 2: CrashReporter has detected a suspect

CrashReporter have detected the suspect of your crash! Cool! You’re lucky! Just delete the suspected tweak in Cydia and the crashing should stop.

SpringBoard has crashed. There are no suspects. The crash log way

Your SpringBoard has crashed? But there are no suspects? In this part, we will analyze the crash log to find the culprit of your crash.

Let’s open CrashReporter, select the process which have crashed, select the last crash and tap on “View crash log”


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