Tips and tricks: how to solve white Cydia bug

If you jailbreak your iPhone, sometimes you will see Cydia not appearing as it should be but instead it appears as white, blank icon. While this doesn’t happen often sometimes it can become an issue especially for the novice iPhone or iPad jailbreakers. If this happens you will want to resolve this issue as soon as possible without causing further troubles for you and your powerful iDevice. Here is what you should do.

iPhone jailbreak apps: stealthy iPhone tethering with PdaNet

We wrote yesterday about pressure coming from network carriers to suppress smartphone tethering in the Android Market. As you know in the iOS things are even more complicated: you are not allowed to tether unless you get a equivalent data plan with your network provider. Exception for this rules are iPhone users who have jailbroken their devices with some of the jailbreak tools available (RedSn0w, PwnageTool,Sn0wBreeze). But it seems that network carriers are trying to counter jailbreak tethering as well. So in order to prevent this a popular tethering app PdaNet is being upgraded in order to hide your unofficial data tethering.

Jailbreak app for iPhone: backup your apps with xBackup

Here comes a new jailbreak app for iPhone which is now available for download in Cydia App Store. It will enable you to effortlessly save all apps and tweaks you have installed so far on your iPhone. Many users are hesitating every time they need to restore and jailbreak their device as it takes a lot of time and you often loose your favorite apps and settings during the process. xBackup is a nice solution for at least some of your worries. It will save you some time and prevent you from accidentally losing your apps.

Saurik explains why to jailbreak your iPhone

If you are one of our readers who is interested in jailbreaking but still not sure why and how to do it here is a small introduction to it by one of most important people in the jailbeak community. His name is Jay Freeman but he is more videly known as @saurik. Saurik is the main person behind the famous Cydia App Store. Here is he in a short interview about jailbreak and why you should do it.

iPhone jailbreak apps: virtual Home button with Activator

I have read somewhere that Steve Jobs has a strong animosity towards keyboards on all iOS devices (which is quite obvious) and that there were even plans for complete removal of any hardware keys from the iPhone even the Home button!

Also there were some reports from users of hardware failure of the Home button on their iPhones. So to solve this our hardworking friends in the jailbreak community have provided us with a simple yet very useful tool to achieve this. Perhaps Steve Jobs and his team could learn something from jailbreakers?
Anyway if the Home button on your iPhone stops working and you dont have an Apple store close to repair it or replace it here is what you can do.

Cydia working stable again!

If you have used Cydia recently you have noticed problems with it. It was a big news in the online world that Amazon cloud service failed to deliver the promised 99.99% uptime. And unfortunately Cydia is also hosted on the troubled segment of the Amazon cloud. While many online systems have crashed during this crisis (including Sony play station gaming network) it seems that Cydia is now up and again working well.

During the problem with Amazon services, Cydia users had encountered various difficulties including loss of download packages, unavailability of SHSH options, some apps couldn’t be purchased in Cydia Store and more. Even some already bought and installed apps didn’t work properly and required repeated installation.

Cydia tweaks for jailbroken iPhones: FolderEnhancer

iPhone jailbreaking is one of those things which in the beginning seem risky complicated and not very useful. But once you break this barrier of ignorance and insecurity and you jump on the ride, you will be more than happy for your decision. Jailbreak will open you a new gateway to plenty of interesting useful and cool tweaks which can greatly improve the usability of your iPhone. Here is another tweak for jailbroken iPhones.

Cydia tweak for jailbroken iPhone: AutoResponder

Did you ever get flooded with text messages while you have been busy? Now there is a solution for this if you own a jailbroken iPhone. A new app has been added recently tot the Cydia App Store which was made to do exactly what is needed in such situation. It will automatically reply to all of your incoming text messages while you are busy doing something important. This app is called Auto Responder.

Jailbreak tweaks: how to change your iPhone’s default browser

Would you like to try another iPhone browser instead of your Mobile Safari but you are tired of manually firing up your preferred browser for every new link? Here is a way to use your favorite browser as a default option on your iOS. To make this work you will fist have to have a jailbroken iPhone. If you for some reason didn’t jailbreak yet here is a good reason to do it. You can easily jailbreak your iPhone if you follow our instructions for jailbreaking with RedSn0w, GreenPosi0n or Pwnagetool. For more informations feel free to check our blogs archive on how to do it safely.

Add images to your contacts with Cyntact jailbreak tweak for iPhones

Customizing all things possible has always been one of the best things when it comes to iPhone. No other smartphone was prone to so many tweaks and changes. So in line with this here is another great tweak: Cyntact. Cyntact is basically a small tweak made by famous developer Jay Freeman who is better known as the man behind Cydia. The sole feature of the app is to add photos of people in your iPhone contact list.