Respring

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To respring is to restart the device's SpringBoard thus takes about 10seconds and will return you to the Lock Screen. Such is done by Mobile Substrate to exit Safe Mode should the SpringBoard crash. Also, many SpringBoard extensions may respring for other reasons. I.e. WinterBoard resprings when you change theme and vBackground will respring when you change the video. This is not the same as a reboot.

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The application in question SpringBoard.app. It is possible to end the process by using Mobile Terminal and typing killall SpringBoard and will therefore cause a respring