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Photos of Jailbroken iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1 Running Cydia And Jailbreak Apps

Administrator — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:07:03 +0000

Couple of days back, the jailbreak “Dream Team” showed us the
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If you had any doubts about an jailbreak for iPad 2 the photos below should put those concerns to rest. pod2g briefly published a photo of a jailbroken iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 running Cydia. pod2g didn’t say much in his blog post. He wrote:
No more to say !
Strangely, pod2g has removed the blog post. It’s not clear what was the reason for removing the blog post.
Meanwhile, planetbeing of the jailbreak Dream Team has also revealed that jailbreak apps like IntelliScreenX are working fine on a jailbroken iPhone 4S and iPad 2. He tweeted:
Been a productive day. Relieved to find out IntelliScreenX (an app I helped write) works on the 4S and iPad2.
The release of the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are imminent. However, there is no firm ETA on when it will be released, so please be patient.

We’ll let you know if there are any further updates so stay tuned here at
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Siri0us: Jailbreak Tweak That Brought Siri Dictation To Non-iPhone 4S Devices Removed From Cydia

Administrator — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:45:10 +0000

Couple of days back, developer and hacker Eric Day released a jailbreak tweak called
, to the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and 4th gen iPod touch.
quickly became extremely popular with non-iPhone 4S users.
As we had explained earlier, Day had got the hack to work by relying on Nuance speech recognition system on the device rather than communicating with Apple ‘s servers and the result is just like using Siri on iPhone 4S.
It looks like Day was making unauthorised use of Nuance’s speech regonition technology and hence has removed Siri0us from Cydia to avoid getting into trouble. Meanwhile his request to Nuance to use the service has gone unanswered. He has tweeted that he will release it again if he finds a another voice recognition service.
In case, you missed it, you can checkout the video of Siri’s dictation feature working on iPhone 4:
As always, we’ll keep you posted if there are any further updates, so stay tuned here at
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WinterBoard For iOS 5 Available On Cydia

Administrator — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:04:53 +0000

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JailbreakMe.com Transferred To Saurik – Cydia Founder; Safe For Jailbreaking Again

Administrator — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:37:27 +0000

to an unknown entity, we wondered why Jay Freeman a.k.a saurik – founder of
hadn’t bought the domain.
As it turns out, we were quite late in reporting the news as saurik is indeed the new owner of the JailbreakMe.com domain, as the person who had initially bought it from ConceitedApps was kind enough to transfer it to Saurik.
Minutes before we published the post warning you to avoid using JailbreakMe.com, Freeman announced the news on Twitter:
Yesterday, we learned that jailbreakme.com was sold in July; today, I talked with the new owner: he is actually very likable and awesome. ;P
…and tonight, jailbreakme.com was transferred to me (convenient, as I host the site ;P); so, going forward, we no longer need to worry!
were the ideal folks to own or control the domain, so this is good news as there were concerns that the domain could be used to host iPhone malware.
, iPad and iPod Touch for
or lower. You can checkout this
for more details on how to jailbreak your iOS device on iOS 4.3.3 or lower.
Thanks Mgrove03 and HusAli for the tip!

MyGreatFest: Saurik – Founder Of Cydia Talks About Jailbreaking, Cydia & More

Administrator — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:15:05 +0000

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JailbreakMe 3.0: Comex Fixes ‘Cydia Disappears’ Issue

Administrator — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:09:15 +0000

last week, which is one of the easiest jailbreaking solutions, as it allows users to jailbreak their
,
using Mobile Safari, without needing a computer.
However, some of our readers reported that they were not able to successfully jailbreak and install
on their iOS device. They complained that they briefly noticed Cydia being installed on the home screen and then it just disappeared.
I think I fixed the “Cydia disappears” issue, if anyone wants to try again.
So if you hit this issue and were not able to successfully jailbreak your iOS device then you can try again.
It is always a good idea to take a backup of your iOS device before you hack it, refer to
for more details.
JailbreakMe 3.0 supports the following iOS devices and firmware, so please ensure your iOS device is running the supported iOS firmwares (Settings -> General -> About -> Version):
iPad1: 4.3 through 4.3.3
iPad2: 4.3.3
iPhone 3GS: 4.3 through 4.3.3
iPhone 4: 4.3 through 4.3.3
iPhone 4-CDMA: 4.2.6 through 4.2.8
iPod touch 3g: 4.3, 4.3.2, 4.3.3
iPod touch 4g: 4.3 through 4.3.3
Please note that JailbreakMe does not hactivate your iPhone , so your iPhone should be activated via iTunes first.
JailbreakMe does not unlock your iPhone . So iPhone unlockers are advised to use tools like
to jailbreak their iPhone .
on your iPhone , iPod Touch or iPad’s Mobile Safari browser and tap on the
button, this should jailbreak your iOS device and install Cydia (as seen in the screnshot below) just like installing an iOS app from the App Store. It is as easy as that.
You can checkout the video guide to jailbreak iPhone or iPod Touch using JailbreakMe 3.0 below:
You can checkout the video guide to jailbreak iPad 2 or iPad 1 using JailbreakMe 3.0 below:
Please don’t forget to let us know how it goes in the comments.

Lima: New Browser Based Jailbreak App Installer To Compete With Cydia

Administrator — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:59:12 +0000

, that will allow users who have
and tweaks through iPhone ’s mobile Safari browser.
.
Lima is going to be a browser-based dpkg Installer. Meaning all you have to do is visit a website in safari and you have a fully fucntional package installer!
James A. Matoe – one of the members of the Infini Dev Team has also revealed on
, which is a good thing as
ends up getting a bad name due to the piracy issue.
’s Safari browser instead of using Cydia? Please share your views in the comments section below.

Cydia Back Online After 86 Hours

Administrator — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:10:12 +0000

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Tawkon Releases iPhone App On Cydia After Steve Jobs Closes Door With “No Interest” Response

Administrator — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:35:02 +0000

that tells you the amount of radiation emitted by the iPhone .
. Folks at Tawkon have just published a post announcing that Apple ’s CEO Steve Jobs has closed the door on them.
We tried the front door via Apple ’s App Store, including great discussions with senior Apple executives at their Cupertino headquarters who praised our app functionality and graphic appeal, and explored various technical solutions with us to overcome API restrictions and get tawkon onto the App Store.
But when Steve Jobs personally closed the front door with a curt 2-word email stating: “No Interest” (see original email below), we were left with no alternative but to climb through the Cydia window to let iPhone users see and lower their exposure to cellphone radiation.
The Tawkon iPhone app uses a variety of parameters like distance from cell phone tower, signal strength, weather condition, terrain, antenna proximity from the body, antenna orientation and travel speed to analyze the iPhone ‘s dynamic SAR (Specific Absorption Rate). It is to be noted that the iPhone app only ”
” the emitted radiation and may not provide absolute measurements. However, it can be highly useful to users who may want to ensure if calls from a particular location is safe in terms of radiation levels. For instance, calls made from your basement may cause a higher level of radiation to be emitted compared to calls made from your living room and the iPhone app will thus help you in making a judgement on a safer place to make your calls from.
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While the reason for the rejection has not been revealed, it is believed to be because of the lack of credible scientific backing to the results offered by Tawkon.
As we’ve mentioned before, we feel that Apple is justified in rejecting the app. Though radiation levels from the iPhone have been deemed to safe enough, applications such as Tawkon may lead to false concerns among users about cellphone radiation affecting their health. This can have larger implications.
If you curious to find out the radiation emitted by your iPhone then you can now install Tawkon on your jailbroken iPhone from Cydia.
What are your thoughts about this iPhone app? Do you think Apple was right in rejecting the iPhone app? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Cydia 1.1 Released: Slimmer, Faster And More Stable

Administrator — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:13:41 +0000

Jay Freeman aka Saurik, developer of Cydia – – the unofficial
Cydia 1.1
, which is faster, slimmer and more stable. It also includes improved search algorithm and will allow users to resume from where they left off.
new “CDN->ELB” stack.
Here’s the list of new features in Cydia 1.1:
“This is simply not possible at this time. I realize everyone wants it, and hell: I want it, too; but everyone saying it is important doesn’t make it possible. The reason Cydia doesn’t have iOS 4 compliant multi-tasking is that, to make the modifications it makes to the system, it runs as “root”, a user that has more permissions on the system than anything else, which means that SpringBoard, a lowly process running as “mobile”, cannot suspend/resume it.
Now, this is something that /can/ be remedied, and is something that I’ve been thinking of how to do for a long time, but all the obvious ways people like to bring up for making Cydia’s GUI run as mobile with only small parts running as root would make Cydia run slower, and speed is something that is primary on everyone’s minds when they are using Cydia. Luckily, there are things I’ve figured out that may make this more reasonably possible, but certainly not for this release.”
“If you did this you would find your system would suddenly become unusable. I realize that it sounds all nice and fuzzy that Mobile Substrate should modify all applications on the system, including Cydia, but again: Cydia runs as root. Almost all extensions in the ecosystem are NOT designed with this in mind, and when suddenly given root access start destroying the permissions of your configuration files and Media folders, making all normal applications unable to use them.
Therefore, with this release of Cydia, I’ve gone through the “big ticket items”–which seem to come down to Activator (what starts SBSettings), libstatusbar (adds notification items to the status bar), and SimulatedKeyEvents (injection of key events from Veency)–to verify with their developers that they will work correctly in an environment running as root. These extensions (plus WinterBoard, which doesn’t work on root on 4.x but is harmless, and will be fixed in a future release) are what are available from inside of Cydia until Cydia is modified to run as mobile.”
“A backup function actually does not require pushing a new build of Cydia, but it requires time to figure out how to scale the users to support the kind of load Cydia has. Cydia is running with many orders of magnitudes more users than any of its competitors have, which means that a lot of things that people like to think “should be simple, X did it” are actually much harder to implement. I also keep privacy at the forefront of my mind while building features like this, and want to be 100% certain that no one can get access to your installed products list other than you.
As for a “better looking interface”, I try hard to maintain something that competes with Apple ’s products. A few things rotted on 4.x (the positions and sizes of some buttons), and the various “black” interfaces (the black bar and the black screen) get mixed reports, but otherwise the main problem users have with Cydia is not Cydia: it is with repositories. Every time I’ve gotten actual feedback “this specific thing is bad”, where that thing isn’t something that Apple themselves do in their iTunes or App Store applications (which should be taken as the “intuitive model”), it is in areas of the interface I simply do not have any control over: the content shown for a package by the repository.”
“Maybe I’m crazy, but I always thought of the word “Changes” to be a very non-geeky
term for “stuff that changed”. It certainly isn’t a technical term: it was not chosen because of some geeky desire to have the codebase match the UI, nor was it chosen because it had some esoteric meaning in Latin or Greek. It was instead chosen as it was a single word that immediately meant to the largest number of people I talked to exactly what that page did: showed you what changed. Regardless, “New Releases/Updates” certainly won’t fit on a tab label.”
“As with /every/ release of Cydia, Cydia 1.1 is faster than previous releases. In specific, it is faster than 1.0.3366 by a good margin, which itself was faster than 1.0.3222 by an even larger chasm. On this note, however, it is important to note that Cydia is tackling a hard problem: no other application I have seen on the iPhone , from Apple or any third party, is attempting to search index and manage tens of thousands of data items, on the client, in real time, aggregated from user-selected sources.
In contrast, Cydia has some of the fastest technology in existence with regards to handling this data, whether it be custom algorithms (Cydia includes a locale-aware string comparison radix sort, which AFAIK is the fastest sorting algorithm in any iOS application) or special on-disk data structures (new in 1.1 is “Cytore”, a new way to store local metadata on packages that can be loaded nearly instantaneously from flash; for those out there who are technically minded, it is an on-disk memory mapped hashtable, which drastically beats out alternatives people like to try to bring up such as SQLite).”
“Despite myths to the contrary, the amount of data displayed in the Changes list does not drastically affect how quickly it loads. There /was/ a bug in many versions of Cydia 1.0 that caused there to be at least a little delay related to the number of items on the list, but this bug was already fixed as of 1.0.3366. The cost of the calculation is deciding what entries should be on the list at all (and specifically which ones are actually updates vs. new releases), not displaying them all at once. That said, Cydia 1.0.3366 moves the loading of changes until after you click the tab, which makes it more evidence how much time is being spent on this feature (which itself is, again, faster on 1.1).”
“Despite Cydia 1.1 continuing to attempt to juggle tens of thousands of items in memory, thanks to Cytore, it uses much less memory than ever before. Other optimizations have been made, as with every version of Cydia, in order to decrease the memory usage of the app as a whole. Additionally, and in particular, Cydia 1.1 is much more conscientious of memory warnings, and attempts to throw out as much state as possible during these events.
That said, the amount of memory on even reasonably modern devices (anything past the iPhone 3G) available for running applications (not in total, but available after Apple ’s system applications get their share), is an order of magnitude greater: whereas on an iPhone 3G you were working with maybe 20MB of available memory, on an iPhone 3G[S] you have 150MB, and an on iPhone 4 you have 400MB available. So, despite Cydia 1.1 actually needing less memory to operate than Cydia 1.0, the pressure on memory is pretty much gone, and will not affect future users thanks to hardware upgrades.”
“Unfortunately, this device is simply too slow to provide “advanced search capabilities”, and certainly not suggestions, given the constraints of “from user-selected repositories” “in something resembling real time”. That said, Cydia 1.1 has a much better search mechanism, including an integer-arithmetic radix-sorted relevancy algorithm I managed to implement.
What would really be needed to have a truly amazing search experience is to not do searching on the client: to instead handle it on my servers. This is how products like the App Store, Kindle, or Netflix work: it is not at all common for services users are used to to attempt to manage the entire database /on the device/, doing local searching, rather than having the data and computation for that existing in offline-indexed search structures on a massive server in the cloud.
Unfortunately, the reason people use Cydia are varied, and many people are using Cydia with repositories that frankly they shouldn’t be: whether the repository contains software that is dangerous (a niche community with tweaks receiving minimal testing, or using bad practices like on-disk file patching) or downright illegal (there are things you are allowed to do in your country that I cannot in mine), I am certainly not going to be acting as the centralized storage and indexing gateway for people to find and manage this content.
Instead, what keeps people coming back to Cydia is the fact that it acts as the fundamental alternative: that rather going to Apple , with their carefully curated set of centralized experiences, you go to Cydia, “the wild west of software”, where software modifies other software in a kind of reckless abandon that is going to lead to pain even in the best possible scenarios, and in the worst possible worlds is going to lead to things that you will not be able to list on a default repository, and which Cydia may even warn you about installing, but which you should still be able to access and even search for using Cydia’s search mechanisms.”
“Errors from Cydia do not come from Cydia. If you type a URL into Cydia for a broken repository, that repository is going to be low-quality and is going to cause you problems. If it is offline, Cydia is going to tell you it is offline, and if it is malformed Cydia is going to get angry about that. Cydia is simply going to sit there idly while there are a ton of broken and offline repositories in your list: it will tell you all of the errors involved in the hope that you will remove the broken repositories and get on with your life (which is a very apt metaphor, as most third party repositories are very slow, and cause your refresh experience to take a very very very long time).”
“We actually tried this, and it was a miserable failure: more time had to be spent moderating the reviews, most of which were misleading, inflammatory, or downright inappropriate, than anyone got value out of this mechanism: it was even worse than on the App Store, which is notorious for bad reviews (people often rate down a package for inane reasons, making the data horribly invalid).
Given these issues, I attempted to put together a vision of how comments and ratings could work in Cydia, and even made a trial implementation (screenshots were even handed out at some points, and I did demos at a few conferences), but when word came up that I was even considering releasing it, I received strong pushback from some of the best developers in the ecosystem–the people you are most likely to want to give mega-good reviews to–that if I continued with that they would give up on the ecosystem, due to the issues from before.
And, to be honest, I am not certain that I would have solved those problems, and given subsequent experiences from alternative products, and looking at how people used the ratings, what people said in the comments, and how things finally got rated, I no longer believe that I would have: I believe the concept of the off-the-shelf “comments and ratings” to be a fundamentally flawed system that inherently leads to abuse.
Now, not all rating systems need to be “off-the-shelf”, so something truly innovating and “actually solving the problem” is what I hope to one day provide for Cydia. In the meantime, however, I always do my best to avoid injecting seriously suboptimal tradeoffs into our ecosystem.”
“Cydia has, for a while, contained numerous features that would allow repositories to help with this problem.
In essence, there is very little excuse for packages, repositories, products, or anything else in the Cydia ecosystem to be poorly specified in terms of firmware compatibility. That said, almost no packages in the ecosystem, and even very few products (where one would imagine this to be the most important), have this information included at any of these levels, which is rather disappointing.
So, Cydia 1.1 is not going to attempt to improve on any of these mechanisms, as Cydia 1.0 already has more than enough of them: the real onus is now on the developers and artists of specific items.”
“I do not have any control over what content is available in Cydia. I mean, I can refuse to personally accept money for it, but I have almost no introspection over things that are either free or sold on the developer’s website. For years I have attempted to get repositories to pull obsolete packages: they refuse. Instead of lobbying me, who agrees with you and is powerless, you need to be sending these complaints to the default repositories: BigBoss, ModMyi, and ZodTTD.”
(Tags saying if installation of apps/tweaks, etc. need a springboard refresh or if the device needs to reboot)
“While this is often stated, this is simply not how this mechanism works: packages compute whether they need a reboot or reload as they install, allowing packages to make optimizations like “I only need to reboot if the user is using this firmware version and has this other package installed with this setting specified”. In fact, all of my packages that need features like this attempt these optimizations, and often you will not need as many reboots or reloads because of it.
Therefore, specifying this as static tags on a package would increase the number of reboots a user has to perform needlessly. That said, for packages where it is not obvious (extensions are going to require a reload, and MobileSubstrate is going to require a reboot), such as cases of MMS clients that require a reboot, it should certainly be best practice for the developer to put this information on their package information screen. This is even easier for the developer/vendor than modifying the package, and even then is very uncommonly specified: adding the tag therefore won’t even change how often it is reported.”
“With regards to repositories that did not add correctly, as stated by Ryan Petrich, Cydia 1.1 should no longer end up in situations where broken repositories are so unusable that they are also undeletable. That said, many users complain about repositories installed via a package: to delete these repositories you will need to remove the package that represents them.
(Due to some of these complexities, it is Cydia policy going forward that no repositories will be installable from default repositories via packages, and the existing ones under More Sources will be transitioned to a new mechanism for handling these that has been added that will allow more direct, simpler, and safer manipulation of repositories using a soon-to-be-revamped More Sources page.)”
Please let us know what you think about Cydia 1.1.? Please give your feedback in the comments section below.
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