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Can’t SSH on Jailbroken iPhone 3G S?

I recently jailbroke my iPhone 3G S using the “PurpleRa1n” method. I’ve tried SSHing into it through WinSCP, but I always get an error message reading “Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?”.
It’s strange, since with all other jailbroken iPhones, SSHing was easy.
I’ve uninstalled, and reinstalled the SSH package on Cydia numerous times.

change the protocol from SFTP to SCP will do

How to SSH using FileZilla

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