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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Fix FieldTest, iOS Diagnostics, AdSheet and others from showing up on Springboard, iPhone & iOS

Have you ever installed something through Installous 4 or Cydia, afterward coming back to Springboard to see some blank icons with labels like FieldTest, iOS Diagnostics, AdSheet, Setup, Intellicontainer or others which are never supposed to be showing in the first place?

Screen-shot of the libhide bug.

This issue is known and it's a bug because it happens after installing any app through your iPhone, this might apply to iPod Touch but, I'm only covering the iPhone in detail here.

The cause for this problem comes from a dylib named "libhide", from the author's description it is a library to hide icons. I do not know which version of libhide you have or had in the past so you are going to be doing some manual work here if you are to remove this bug.

    Solution
  1. Close all your current running apps.
  2. Open SBSettings, click "More", scroll down and open "Poof", make sure that all your icons are toggled on. 1, 2, 3.
  3. Now you need to install the latest version of libhide, as of 11/13/2011 the latest libhide version is 2.1.
  4. You can either download it from here and install it through iFile by clicking on the .deb file and selecting install or you can open Cydia and add http://apt.thebigboss.org as a source then install it after searching for it. (If you have any trouble finding it on Cydia make sure you have Developer enabled by going to Manage > Settings > Select Developer and Click Done)
  5. Open SBSettings and click "More", "Mobile Substrate Addons" make sure libhide is toggled on.
  6. Now that you installed the latest version of libhide and did the above, you must hard reboot your idevice.
  7. Upon restarting and unlocking you should now open SBSettings and click "More", "Mobile Substrate Addons" and toggle libhide off. (You can leave it on if you'd like, I had no need for it on) 4.
  8. If you toggled it off, hard reset your device once more.
  9. Upon restarting and unlocking your device, this time you should open Installous or Cydia and install an app, this should have fixed your problem and you'll no longer see those pesky icons on Springboard again.

Note: It's been reported that the icons will still appear on some devices for unknown reasons, if this is the case with yours, toggle libhide off in Mobile Substrate Addons or remove it through Cydia altogether.



By root at November 13, 2011
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25 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2012 at 7:02 AM

    ty very much

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 2:16 AM

    is this legit and permanent????

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    1. rootFebruary 24, 2012 at 1:17 AM

      This is legit and permanent. If you want it back, you could always undo the changes.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM

    I dont have SBSettings, what can i uninstall to fix the problem? Is it an app or is it Jailbreaking in general?
    if its the latter, then sry for this comment

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    1. rootApril 27, 2012 at 2:15 AM

      It's caused by a mobile substrate add-on, some Cydia tweaks/apps install them in order to function properly, you can remove it from Cydia altogether if you'd like, it's called libhide (it will show you the apps that depend on it before you remove it), if you enter Developer/Hacker mode in Cydia you can search for it and remove it.

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    2. AnonymousJune 2, 2012 at 5:11 PM

      Thank you so much! this helped greatly! I appreciate it!

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  4. AnonymousMarch 16, 2012 at 10:44 PM

    the source doesnt work.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 26, 2012 at 11:37 AM

    Or if you have winterboard, you can just turn it off and then back on and respring....they go away.

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    1. AnonymousJune 1, 2012 at 8:30 AM

      Thanks, this was perfect. Just open winterboard and respring and it works

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    2. AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 7:43 AM

      sorry im a newbie to this

      where can i download winterboard?

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    3. JayJuly 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM

      respringing winterboard worked as easy as 1-2-3

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  6. AnonymousMarch 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    Power off your phone, then power back on. Icons gone.

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  7. AnonymousApril 1, 2012 at 5:00 AM

    Powering off and on the device does not solve this problem permanently. This just hide the icons until the next install of any app...

    Libhide helps..

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  8. AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    works fine so far! thanks!

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  9. AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    Respring

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  10. AnonymousJune 30, 2012 at 2:53 PM

    Thanks a lot,
    Explanations are very complete and easy to follow.
    Thanks again!

    French guy

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  11. AnonymousJuly 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM

    Thank u so much these stupid icons were getting on my nerves now problem solved ^_^

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  12. TreTechJuly 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM

    This is not legit nor permanent. It fixed it - for awhile... It appeared again like a week after. Therefore this is not permanent, therefore not legit...

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  13. AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 12:45 PM

    you dont have to do all this crap.... just goto cydia and type in libhide... and reinstall it... will fix guarentee!

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  14. UnknownAugust 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM

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  15. AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM

    i have an iphone 4s and it had already the latest version of libhide and it still happens

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  16. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    Thx Thx Thx Man !!!!

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