Jailbreaking your iDevice, is something which most of us do. Because
of the limited customization options and features a normal user has no
option left other than jailbreaking. Jailbreaking gives us a great tool
called “Cydia” which can be used to install all kinds of
tweaks,apps,utilities and much more. This is a post in which you are
going to see the top must have cydia tweaks which every
user should install This post is going to help you in selecting the
most useful cydia tweaks out of thousands of available one’s. So let’s
get started with the first one which is called –
Following Useful Cydia Tweaks for Jailbroken iPhone/iPad
When you jailbreak an iPhone or iPad, you get few default cydia repos but there are many other awesome repos, that you can consider adding. Below, I have mentioned list of repos that you can add and if you are new to adding repo, here is a step by step guide to add cydia sources. So, lets get started with our list of top free Cydia tweaks, which you should install right away. Make sure, you check the version compatibility in description of all the tweaks. Specially, if you are using iPhone 3G or any older firmware on your iOS device, do confirm the version compatibility of these below mentioned tweaks.
Grooveshark
Grooveshark is a free utility that is popular for it’s easy to use
interface. Just visit Grooveshark.Com on your computer and search and
play your favorite track. But what if you could do it on your Jailbroken iDevice,
sadly Grooveshark hasn’t mentioned about any iPhone app. But this
application is available in Cydia if you are Jailbroken. Just search it
in the BigBoss repo and you will find it. Install it and make a new
Grooveshark account or sign in if you have already, and start listening
to your favorite tracks without even downloading them.
WinterBoard
Winterboard as we all know is one of the most popular theme managing tweak available in Cydia.
It’s a thousand time better than Summerboard and Winterboard. If you
search for themes inside cydia you can find thousands of themes that are
available and are compatible with WinterBoard. To install winterboard
just search for it inside Cydia and click install. You can also do so
by finding a theme inside Cydia and installing it, if it is a
Winterboard compatible theme then it will also download and install the
Winterboard app with the theme itself. Once you have installed
Winterboard, you will be welcomed with a  very easy to use interface
with all your themes installed. To apply any one of them, just click on
it and repsring. Enjoy the new looks of your iDevice.
AdBlocker
Tired of ads! Already using AdBlocker on your computer, but what about
your iDevice. Do you love to see ads when you visit any site on your
iPad or iPhone. Just search for AdBlock inside cydia and
install it. Once you have installed it on your iDevice, you will no
longer see any ads and you can browse a neat and clean website. This
tweak will cost you $2.19 but you can also find it for free on any other
repo. But installing a pirated version, will make your Safari browser
to crash. So I would like to advice you to buy the full version since it
is totally worth it.
Cyntact (Paid)
Have you ever wondered how convenient it would be if you could see
the photos of contacts in your contact list. Cyntact is another great
cydia tweak that allows you to have pictures placed before the contact
name in your Contact list. I tested this application myself and had no
issues and moreover I had one doubt that it would slow down the
scrolling inside the contact list, but instead it worked perfectly
smooth. This app would cost you a $1 and installing it is totally up to
you, if you feel that you can find contact easily with pictures
displayed on the left then install it right now!
IntelliScreenX
Think how it would look if you could have your notifications on your
lock screen itself. IntelliScreenX is an amazing must have cydia tweak
that can enable you to have all your Notifications right at your lock
screen. Earlier you might have to first unlock your iDevice and then
drag the notification center to see your latest notifications, but this
tweak will make all your Notifications visible on your lock screen in a
little transparent looking way. It looks amazing sitting on the lock
screen. You can download it for free inside of Cydia but once it is
installed you will have to purchase a license key, which is totally
worth it.Right now I am on the trial period which is going to end soon.
Hoping to buy a new license for this application.
CyDelete
What will happen if you have lots of cydia tweaks that uses some
space on your beautiful home screen. And you got bored of it and
thinking to uninstall Cydia tweaks, what would you do.
Let me tell you – First open cydia > Find the tweak that you want to
uninstall and then uninstall it which will take a considerable amount of
time. And after that also you will either have to repsring your device
if it is an appearance tweak. Seems to be a lot time-consuming. So
“CyDelete” is an application that will allow you to delete all those
cydia tweaks that are on your Home Screen directly from there, like you
would do for any other app store app. You can find this tweak under the BigBoss repo.
Activator
A tweak which allows you to have custom activation gestures and
commands for almost every function inside of your iDevice. You can do
almost all the task easily by just going inside the application and
assigning the touch gesture to a function. Close all applications
running in the background by triple pressing the home button, turn wi-fi
on or off by just sliding over the status bar and much more!….
AirBlue Sharing
Bluetooth and file sharing is the most disappointing thing for me
since I can’t send files to any other android phone or any phone
available in the market. I could only send files to any other iDevice
like an iPad or an iPhone. But this tweak which is called “AirBlue
Sharing” enables us to do all sorts of tasks that any other Android
phone could do. Just search for this tweak inside Cydia and install it,
just activate it by double tapping on the Status Bar and go to your
Music app or Camera roll and click on the small blue arrow to send it
through Bluetooth. This will work with any Bluetooth device, be it any
PC,Laptop or an android Phone. And the biggest thing is that, it’s
totally free.
Five Icon Dock
A very simple sounding but a pretty useful tweak which enables you to
have 5 icons in your dock. Once Google Chrome was released for iOS, i
loved it more than I did safari but I didn’t want to remove Safari from
my Dock in place of Google Chrome. So I jumped right into Cydia and
installed this tweak and got chrome also to fit into the Dock.
SBSettings
Father and mother of all the Cydia tweaks given above, totally free,
worth downloading. This is the best tweak to be used to perform any kind
of action on your iPhone, iPad or iPod. You can use this to reboot,
respring, turn WiFi,3g, Bluetooth off and much more. SBSettings is the first app you should install from Cydia. You can do all these tasks right from your notification center like any other Android Phone.List of Cydia sources to add more Tweaks
Though these are just few of the must have Cydia tweaks and if you need more, you should add more Cydia repo on your jailbroken device. One easy way to add Cydia Tweaks is by adding some of the recommended sources in homepage of Cydia. Here are some of the Cydia sources, which you can add right away:- http://Cydia.iphonecake.com
- http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/
- http://cydia.hackulo.us
- http://cydia.myrepospace.com/iPhoneTechie/
- http://cydia.iclarified.com/
- http://apt.modmyi.com
- http://cydia.winterboarder.com
- http://www.iaccess.com/apt/
I highly recommend you to Install installous tweak after
jailbreaking your iOS device, as this app will let you download all the
premium apps for free. If you are thinking, jailbreaking is illegal,
read popular technology myths and misconceptions.