Cydia is a replacement packaging and repository manager for the original Installer.app for the iPhone or iPod touch.It allows a user to browse and download applications for a jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It was developed by Jay Freeman.Cydia was originally released as an open-source alternative to Installer.app on iOS 1.1.x, but quickly became the most popular package manager upon 2.0’s release.
It usually takes a couple minutes from the time you launch Cydia to the time you can actually download something.There is a simple and quick trick that will incredibly speed up Cydia by removing ads and screenshots in each package.
Here’s how you can do that.
Step 1: SSH into your iPhone to /private/var/stash/Applications/Cydia.app
Step 2: Make a backup of the package.js, just to be on the safe side.
Step 3: Edit package.js and at around line 197 change the snippet of code to this
var depiction = package.depiction;
if ((!commercial) && (depiction == null || true))
$(“.depiction”).addClass(“deleted”);
else {
$(“.description”).addClass(“deleted”);
$(“#depiction-src”).src(depiction);
}
Step 4: Now reboot your iPhone.
That’s all.Now launch Cydia and you should see the speed has been considerably improved.
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Forgive me for being a noob but how do I tell where line 197 is? I am using ifile.
Did you ever get an answer as I’d like to find out also?
There is no package.js file…??
(im using ifile, if that matters…)
For how smart some of these hackers are, they a terrible at giving cohesive directions
Use a “real” file editor!