Speed up Cydia

here is a little tip to increase speed navigation in Cydia.
Instead of loading all information of a package, it simply loads the description.

Required :

• a jailbroken iPhone.
• Cydia.
• Know how to connect with SSH or iFile.
• Connect with SSH and go to /Applications/Cydia.app/
• It is recommended to backup Cydia.app 
• Transfer the file package.js on your desktop.
• Open package.js avec Wordpad or dreamweaver.
• Find the line « var depiction = package.depiction; » (line 208)
• Modify to « var depiction = null; » 
• Save and trasnfer then replace the file package.js in /Applications/Cydia.app/ 
• Start Cydia.

It will permit to avoid the long loading data at start of Cydia.
Of course, you need to refresh sometimes to see the new packages !

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[How-To] Clean up Cydia

 

Update : Another method if you want here

Here is the complete method to clean up your bad sources (repo) from Cydia.

Even if you remove a bad source from "Manage" > "Sources" or refresh your packages, you still have an error like "Failed to fetch...".

Just watch the video !

Another method : Cyfix

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Cyfix 1.6.1

Update : Version 1.6.1 released ! (Changelog below) 



Download Cyfix 1.6.1 : Official

• v1.6.1 (4th July) – fixed silly overlook for first time users
• v1.6 (4th July) – rewritten code. added repo listing function, added repo selection for multi-repo removal
• v1.4c (18th April) – Added prompt to install APT 0.7 Strict if missing and some code tidying.
• v1.4b – Typing ‘exitnow’ in the url input (in case of typos) will exit Cyfix immediately.
• v1.4 (6th April) – Cyfix now allows removal of default repositories. Remove them at your own risk.
• v1.3b – Added apt-get for plutil and wget; required for removal process and updating, respectively.
• v1.3 (5th April) – Added check against user input and rearranged some code sequence
• v1.2 (4th April) – Proper build up of script
• v1.1 (3th April) – Fixed metadata.plist section with plutil
• v1.0 (2th April) – Metadata.plist, cydia.list, lists, partial, sources.list.d

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Cyfix fully removes troublesome repositories that were incorrectly entered (typo), inappropriately added (restricted access), have gone corruped, or have closed down. These repositories throw up errors in Cydia upon every refresh and every source installation/removal process.
These errorsome repositories also tend to either not show up within the Cydia GUI under Sources, or in some way or other prevent you from removing them. Cyfix will forcibly remove all traces of them for you.

Usage: cyfix "repo url"
       - remove the given repository
Usage: cyfix -l
       - list all installed repositories
Usage: cyfix -d
       - remove selected repositories
Usage: cyfix -u
       - update Cyfix
Usage: cyfix -h
       - display this text

Requirements:
- erica utilities (for script execution)
- wget (for script updating)
- terminal
- root login
- script placed in /usr/bin
- script permissions set to 755





If you’re curious about where the script finds its food, the locations are :

• /var/lib/apt/lists
• /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
• /var/lib/cydia/metadata.plist
• /etc/apt/sources.list.d
• /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cydia.list

summing up to a total of 5 places to look into.

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[How-To] Re-install Cydia without restore

Here is a method to re-install Cydia if you have too many bugs, without any restore or re-jailbreak.

Required :

• A jailbroken iPhone
• Cydia.deb
• Mobile terminal installed from Cydia
• Connect to your iPhone with SSH and transfer Cydia.deb into root/User/
  And then, start Mobile terminal.
• Type « su » then your password (alpine by default)
• And then type « dpkg -i /User/Cydia.deb  »
• If you still have some issues, Restore + Jailbreak are the only way to solve them !

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[How-To] Add a source to Cydia

How to add a source to Cydia ?


Manually Adding a Source to Cydia:
1. Find the Cydia application on your iPhone’s SpringBoard.

2. Tap on the Cydia icon. This will open the Cydia application.

3. Select the Manage option on the lower menu bar.

4. Here you will see two options; Packages and Source. You will want to select the Sources option.

 

5. This will bring you to the list of sources that are already installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

6. To add a new source, select Edit in the upper right corner.

7. Now select Add in the upper left corner.

8. This will bring up a pop-up in which you can enter the url for the source. Do not delete the http://. Just begin typing the url after the http://. The source url needs to be typed into your iPhone/iPod Touch perfectly. Make sure if there are capitol or lower case letters in the url, that you enter them into your iPhone exactly the same. Be careful to watch for words that your iPhone might automatically capitalize that are not capitalized in the url.

 

9. Once the url has been entered, select Add Source.

10. Wait for the sources to update.

11. Once the sources are finished updating, select the Return to Cydia option at the bottom of the page.

12. This will bring you back to the list of sources. Select Done in the upper right corner.

13. The source has now been added to your sources list and the applications in that source have been added to Cydia.

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Make your Apps "iPad compatible"

Now, we can make apps designed for the iPhone instead of the iPad /really/ work in full screen instead of that awful quasi-thing that apple came up with! You of course have to first be jailbroken.
Using SSH or your favorite USB Browser. Make sure you have afc2add installed from cydia or rock.
1.) Navigate to the app you want to make compatible in /var/mobile/Applications
2.) Open the info.plist in the applications main folder (TIP: we recommend you just use ifile from Cydia to do the editing)
3.) Add the following commands :
UIDeviceFamily


Respring and then you should have a nice iPad size app 

Thanks to JStraitiff, look forward to a more automated solution at some point in the future.

Before

After

 

 

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Enable Voice Control on iPad

 

Here is a small tutorial to activate Voice Control on your iPad !

1 - Your iPad must be jailbroken 
2 - Install afc2add available on Cydia or here. 
3 - Install OpenSSH. 
4 - Connect your iPad with SSH and go to / System / Library / CoreServices / SpringBoard.app
5 - Edit the file K48AP.plist with a text editor, and below capabilities , add the command 
6 - Under the capabilities area add the following key
voice-control


7 - Reboot your iPad and enjoy Voice Control! 


To have more fun with your new voice control : 

1 - Navigate to /System/Library/VoiceServices/PlugIns/Base.vsplugin/English.Iproj 
2 - Open Help.strings 
3 - Change anything that says iPod into iPad 
4 - Voice Control will now say iPad instead of iPod

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[How-To] Have Two icons of the same application on your Springboard

How to have two icons of the same application on your Springboard ?

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