Cydia news and information: read the latest development about Cydia, including jailbreak tweaks.
One of the things I really dislike when updating my iPhone to a newer iOS and jailbreaking it, is reinstalling all my jailbreak apps, one by one. This is a long and tedious job, especially if like me, you have a bunch of tweaks and jailbreak apps.
There is now an easy solution to backup all your jailbreak apps, tweaks, and themes, so you can update your iPhone, jailbreak, and reinstall those apps in no time. Here is how it works...
According to its developers, Barrel is a jailbreak tweak that adds a 3D "cube" effect to your icon pages. The description surely fits the bill and doesn't disappoint, but the price may prove to be a stumbling block.
Take a look inside as I take a video glimpse at this latest Jailbreak App. Then you can decide for yourself if this visual tweak is worth departing with your hard earned cash...
I've been having problems loading Cydia for a couple of hours now. After asking around on Twitter, it appears that I'm not the only one. Every time I launch Cydia I get an error message telling me it was unable to load Cydia.
With the recent release of iOS 4.2 and knowing that Cydia wasn't working properly with iOS 4.2.1 GM, it's not unreasonable to think that Saurik might be working on updating the homepage of Cydia...
Up until now, if you wanted to change the default font on your iPhone, your only option was to use FontSwap, which unfortunately wasn't updated to work on iOS 4. Another alternative was to manually change the iPhone font via SSH, but that wasn't very straightforward.
Enters BytaFont, a new jailbreak application that allows you to easily change the font on your iPhone, system wide...
App Switcher Brightness is a new jailbreak application - or rather a tweak - that adds a brightness slider to your iPhone app switcher. If you find yourself constantly changing the brightness of your iPhone screen, then App Switcher Brightness will most likely be a right fit for you.
Instead of having to go to Settings > Brightness, you can simply double press the home button to launch the app switcher, flick to the right to have your iPod controls appear, and your brightness control is there...
Many of us jailbreakers know how frustrating it can be to debug the modifications we make to iOS. When installing an app in Cydia, if the app requires it, Cydia gives you a prompt to restart your springboard.
There are two types of restarts you can have on your iPhone: a hardware restart and a software restart. A hardware restart takes considerably longer, and it is when you see the Apple boot logo (or your own, modded logo). A simple software restart usually does the trick for installing new packages on your iPhone, and it also helps with ironing out the bugs you may be experiencing...
The developer of the popular Cydia app Wi-Fi Sync has confirmed that the current desktop versions are completely compatible with iTunes 10.1. Some are holding off due to the hopeful release of an untethered jailbreak, now that iOS 4.2.1 is right around the corner.
Do you hate badges so much that you wish they were gone forever? That sounds a little extreme, but if that's what you're into, then there is now a new mod on Cydia that will do exactly what you're looking for.
In the same way No Folder Badges removed badges from your iPhone folders, No Badges, a new jailbreak tweak by Chpwn will remove the badges from your homescreen apps. That's all the app does and from what I can tell it does it well...
Do you hate how your iPhone leaves app icons in the multitasking bar even though they aren't running anymore? How about when you have to go through that tedious process to exit an app; click the home button twice, tap and hold an icon in the multitasking bar, wait for it to jiggle, and then click that tiny red delete button to quit.
Luckily, there are other people that feel the same way. MultiCleaner is a jailbreak app that relieves the cumbersomeness of managing your multitasking apps. In fact, the app's tagline is quite simple, "Because iOS 4 multitasking sucks..."
Last week we gave you a quick preview of a page on the new Cydia. At the time, Chpwn, who's working with Saurik to update Cydia, said that this was all he had done so far. That wasn't much and to be honest, it was kinda disappointing.
The good folks at Redmond Pie found out on Twitter that Cydia might now be ready for iOS 4.2. According to a tweet from Chpwn, Cydia for iOS 4.2 is "in ready position"...
We recently linked to a Cydia app that was rumored to enable HD video recording on the iPhone 3GS. Apparently, that app didn't work. There is, however, an easy way to enable HD recording through some file modifications on your iPhone 3GS.
The 3GS has had the ability to shoot in HD since it was released. Apple, for whatever reason, places a software limitation on the 3GS video recording capabilities. The ARM Cortext processor inside the 3GS is more than capable of handling 720p video encoding. I'm going to walk you through the easiest way to enable HD video recording on your 3GS...
Here is an interesting tweak for jailbroken iPhones. Parallax is a new jailbreak app that allows you to add a panoramic widescreen wallpaper to your iPhone springboard. Once set up, you can flick through the panoramic image simply by scrolling left and right.
Simply select a widescreen wallpaper from Settings or Photos, and watch your background scroll behind your icons! The wallpaper scroll speed is configurable from Settings.
Watch the video below to Parallax it in action...