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What Is Cydia Everything About Cydia And Jailbreakingby Ahmed Omar on October 25 , 2011 A question most of iOS users

has been asking, what is Cydia and what is jailbrea k? Well, Cydia is very important for most of iOS users and that s why we re making a deep walkthrough in this post.

Our site name is CydiaHelp, so we ve to tell you what s Cydia to be able to help you . What is Cydia? Cydia is a third-party, independent installer application for iPhone, iPad and i Pod touch. Cydia is developed by Jay Freeman (Saurik) and it s actually much simil ar to Apple s app store. Cydia allows you to download tons of tweaks & utilities t hat you ll need to make the best out of your iOS device. Cydia brings you many app lications that can be downloaded either for free or for a small amount of money. What is the difference between app store and Cydia? That s a good question. You ve now known that Cydia is much similar to the app store but you may want to know what s the difference. Well, some apps that can t be appro ved by Apple. Those apps are really very important for your iPhone. Utilities an d tweaks can be found over Cydia are those that are not there on the app store. Cydia offers you over 400,000+ apps and they re all useful. In the next questions, we ll show you what kind of apps does Cydia offers and why you will need them. Why Cydia? Because Cydia offers you what Apple doesn t. For example, Apple doesn t give you the ability to change themes of your iPhone. Every smartphone owner would always li ke to change his mobile theme. On Cydia, you can install a tweak called Winterboa rd which allows you to download and install themes on your iPhone, iPad or iPod t ouch. How can I get Cydia? That s a complicated thing for some. To get Cydia, you ll need to jailbreak. You may don t know what s jailbreaking, so let s head over the next question. What s jailbreaking? In brief, jailbreaking means installing Cydia. That s a kind of complicated proces s but it has been confirmed that iOS jailbreaking is 100% legal by the U.S. gove rnment. Though, Apple still fights jailbreaking. The war between Apple and jailbreaking has been there since 2008 when the first jailbreak tool was released by the genius iPhone hacker George Hotz, better know n as Geohot. There s actually two kinds of jailbreaks, one of them is a bootrom jailbreak which lasts for ever. That jailbreak like Geohot s latest Limera1n jailbreak. Limera1n s exploit is still being used up till now on all iOS devices except the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S (which are recently released after the release of Limera1n). The second kind is the userland jailbreak. This jailbreak is only made for the c urrent iOS software. In other words, it can be patched by Apple in future iOS so ftware updates. This one like JailbreakMe 3.0 for iPad 2 which has been patched only after 10 days. What is tethered, untethered and semi tethered jailbreak? As previously posted, tethered jailbreak is that jailbreak where you ll need to pl ug in your iPhone into your computer every time the device reboots. Untethered k

ills that problem and allows you to reboot without any issues. Semi tethered clo ses the gap between the previous ones, it allows you to reboot without any probl ems but you won t get control over some apps (especially those downloaded jailbrea k apps). However you can get full access again once you connect it to your compu ter. You can read more here. Can I download Cydia without jailbreak? Absolutely NO! Never believe anyone telling you that you can download Cydia with out jailbreak. How to jailbreak? So you decided to install Cydia? You ll need to jailbreak. In order to jailbreak y our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you ll need to know the current iOS you re using. Fo r iOS 5 users, you can get tethered jailbreak from here, semi-tethered jailbreak from here and better wait for the untethered one. We re preparing a kind of tool to allow you to find out if your device jailbreakable or not. You can take a loo k and search on CydiaHelp for more info. Is Cydia safe? Cydia is not 100% safe since almost every jailbreak app is approved on Cydia. Th is increases the chance of malicious apps getting through too. You should only d ownload apps & tweaks from trusted repositories. Repositories like ModMyi and Bi gBoss are the safest ones. Oh, you don t know what s repositories? What s repositories? Repository is the online hub in which developers store their tweaks for quick an d easy access and installation. There are a lot of repositories as ModMyi repo a nd BigBoss repo where we can find out most of tweaks we search for. Cydia structure In case you have already got Cydia, you ll need to know what s inside it. Once you o pen Cydia, you ll find 5 tabs, here s everything you need to know: Home You can find here some applications sponsored, more Sources FAQ, account in formation and some important settings. Sections In this tab, you can see all apps divided into categories. You should j ust go in the category you need and look up for your tweak. Changes All updates and newly added programs can be found here. This tab is upda ted every time you open Cydia. Manage Allows you t omanage Cydia, remove programs, add sources and repositories and have access to all storage. Search That s the tab where you can search for a tweak only if you got the name.

How do I pay for apps In Apple s app store, login with a Facebook ds. Payments on Cydia

on Cydia? you can pay through your iTunes Apple ID. On Cydia, you can or Twitter account and pay using Paypal or Amazon gift car are easier than you expect.

What useful tweaks to download from Cydia? In case you re a new comer and asking for the best tweaks to download from Cydia, we ve got some tweaks that we recommend: Ultrasn0w Activator SBSettings BiteSMS

AppLocker Five Icon Dock iFile InfiniFolders MxTube Multifl0w Winterboard FaceTime 3G FolderEnhancer GraviBoard Terminal OpenSSH ScrollingBoard MultiIcon Mover StayOpened You can also check out the best 15 jailbreak widgets for iOS 5 notification cent er here and best 30 Cydia tweaks of 2011 here. You can also check here for all i OS 5 Cydia compatible apps & tweaks. Have we missed something? I hope we didn t but In case we did miss something or you have a question to ask, don t forget to leave a comment below and we ll be sure to answer you as soon as pos sible.

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