Comments on: Why Does Using Cydia Have To Suck So Much?

By: helen

helen — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:49:44 +0000

there’s no reason you should be using Cydia. Use Rock.

By: derp

derp — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:43:57 +0000

Andre, no surprise is it? its new hardware. Cydia is unoptimised bloatware and needs a complete rewrite. The dev who created it BOUGHT OUT the better competitor, and shut it down so we are now stuck with his bloatware crap

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:06:28 +0000

At least with the new iphone 4 cydia seems to load faster n is much more stable. ..? How about u guys?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:00:13 +0000

I’m sorry, but Cydia has STILL shown 0 improvement. Now that Rock is gone, the only thing to do is use Cydia for my apps. It literally takes 3 minutes to finally load up to where you can browse anything. And like the author of this post said, forget about looking at screenshots. Never gonna happen. I don’t care whose fault it is, but it needs to be addressed. Rock was king!! I miss Rock so much. Never had a single issue with Rock. Why Cydia took over and Rock disappeared is beyond my comprehension. If I had the money and time, I’d create my own app store. I have the know-how, but it’s impossible for me to do at this time. RIP Rock. You are missed.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:29:17 +0000

What I usually do when cydia takes longer time than normal is install it again. there have also been times where I have to reinstall my firmware to get cydia working again after very long waits. You just have to suck it up. Coz there is nothing like Cydia. Anything else will not be the same.

By: goded

goded — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:44:07 +0000

I can't believe how cydia has become the new tyrannical menace in the jailbreak scene, i hope the rock dev team is happy.

By: ett

ett — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:58:38 +0000

35 weeks later, cydia buy and close Rock… and still it's as crappy as it ever was. R.I.P. Rock

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:21:19 +0000

In reply to Changnoi. You dont need Cydia to stay jailbroken and unlocked... you can use manual installers or other visual installers such as rock or icy. Cydia is not completely necessary to have a jailbroken phone.

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By: Changnoi

Changnoi — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:22:05 +0000

Yeah, I hate using Cydia. It's so bad that I use the app store instead, and pay for my apps. I would just delete it, but I need the program because my iphone is jailbroken and unlocked for use in Thailand.

By: Tito Themes

Tito Themes — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:03:03 +0000

Rock your iPhone App is 5x faster then Cydia and you don’t have to wait 20 seconds to load, plus rock your iphone app has a better interface then Cydia.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:20:50 +0000

In reply to ashikase. As per my comment above, I still feel as if there need to be some sort of standards agreed to and stuck to amongst all repos. They all agree to do XYZ in terms of what's on an app page and how it's presented, and they're made to stick to that or their apps don't get displayed. Surely that's not impossible.

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By: George

George — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:15:09 +0000

Yep, I agree. I am at the point where I literally cringe when going to open CYDIA as you dont know what to expect. Takes forever to load…takes forever refreshing data and is not near as 'stable' as it was just last year….it locks up and crashes, gives contant error messages and when downloading or updating something, it is a pure crap shoot as to whether everything goes smoothly or if you end up crashing the device. I think my blood pressure goes up about 50 points when just thinking of opening CYDIA..I too have great respect for Saurik but surely something can be done to at least cut back on some of these issues.

By: Orientix

Orientix — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:09:25 +0000

I completely switched to Rock. Although Rock also have sometimes annoying slow commercials.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:29:55 +0000

In reply to John Steele. I may consider Rock as well, but my impression is that most everything comes out first, and sometimes only, on Cydia - which is a problem with thinking of switching away from it.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:20:13 +0000

I switched to Rock last week. It feels like when I switched from HTC Touch to My 3gs.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:19:03 +0000

In reply to Emilio Peláez.

I never said I felt any of this was Saurik's 'fault' – but I guess I expect that somebody has to set standards in order for the store to be less crappy to use. Thousands and thousands of different developers submit apps to the App Store, but they're all presented in a uniform way, so users know where to expect to see things, and they are there consistently.

Either a group of leading repo providers or Saurik or someone needs to establish a good set of standards for Cydia.

By: Cihan Aksoylu

Cihan Aksoylu — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:58:13 +0000

i totally agree with this post. you said less and not a tiny bit more.

By: ashikase

ashikase — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:50:51 +0000

Cydia is both a front-end for the iPhone port of APT (which Rock/Icy also uses and which saurik manages) and a web browser for package descriptions.

When you are looking at the description for a package, you are looking at a web page (the middle part of the description, anway). The web pages are managed by the respective repository owners (BigBoss, ModMyI, etc.). The advertisements also belong to the repo. owners, *not* saurik.

As anyone can start a repository and are able to design it to appear however they want, it would, sadly, be very difficult to accomplish uniformity among descriptions.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:30:15 +0000

Why use Cydia when there is Rock?

By: Emilio Peláez

Emilio Peláez — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:47:19 +0000

Half the rant of this post is not Saurik's fault. It's the repo manager's task to provide that content, Saurik just provides a Web View in which the repo managers decide what to show, in this case, Mod My I didn't have screenshots.

I agree Cydia is not perfect, and the long loading times are annoying, but don't blame Saurik for something that's not his fault.

By: bornslacker

bornslacker — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:45:45 +0000

I'd deal with the apps if it loaded faster (especially at the beginning), had a consistent layout, and required uniform information like you said. I understand the use of ads, just make it a consistent and efficient system.

By: jacoch

jacoch — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:38:21 +0000

Sure. And it doesn't require a complete app rewriting. Just a better organisation in app presentation and the ability to wait for the installation end to respring instead of doing it after each app installation.

By: Damnskippy

Damnskippy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:35:32 +0000

Cydia is the main app that makes me want to be able to block ads. I figure some entries to the hosts file to block the ads would help. I hate to do it though as I am not sure if Saurik makes money on simply displaying the ads or only for clicks. Plus I have been too lazy to do any research into what domains to block.