6 Top Cydia App (Paid and Free) for the iOS 5

Since iOS 5 launched, developers have been hard at work coming up with creative ways to get their jailbreak applications to work with it, and even finding new ways to make use of the features added by Apple. It took a while for a proper untethered jailbreak to come along for iOS 5, but now that it is here, it is great to see how the jailbreak community has come out in full force, bringing some of the best jailbreak stuff we have seen. These apps will work with your iOS 5 device, and they are some of the coolest jailbreak stuff I have ever seen.

Downloading The Apps

To download any of these applications and tweaks, all you need to do is search for the name in Cydia. It does not get much easier than that!

Zephyr ($3.00)

This cool tweak adds gestures to iOS multitasking. You can swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the multitasking drawer. When in an app, you can also pull from the left or right to switch seamlessly between other applications that are running in the background. It is the quickest and easiest way I have seen to make use of iOS 5’s multitasking feature, and it makes me wonder why it was not included out of the box.

StatusGoogle (Free)

This is a simple tweak, but one that is very useful. It simply adds a Google search box to the notification center, allowing you to search the web quickly and easily at any time. You will need to enable the tweak from the notification settings screen, and you will also want to move it to the top, otherwise the keyboard will not line up properly when it pops out.

AnyLockApp (Free)

One of the coolest features of iOS 5 is the ability to double tap your home button and quickly bring up your camera without having to unlock your device and find the icon. However, what if you do not use your camera and you want quick access to another app from your lock screen? Well if that is the case, you should check out AnyLockApp. It allows you to choose almost any app installed on your device. This is especially useful for people who use an app like Camera Awesome or Camera+ instead of the default camera application.

Music Controls Pro (Free 5 day trial, $6.00 after trail)

This neat tweak allows you to control your music right from notification center. It shows you the album art, controls volume and even sends a song via AirPlay. For music lovers, this is an awesome tweak. It hides in the notification center until you need it.

BiteSMS (Free with ads, $10 premium license)

BiteSMS is my favorite jailbreak tweak ever made. It takes everything about texting on the iPhone and makes it better. You get quick reply, quick compose, contact pictures in the message list, the ability to send messages on a schedule, timestamps on all messages and so much more. It integrates nicely with iOS 5, as tapping a message in the notification center opens quick reply, instead of closing your current app to launch messages.

SBSettings

Now, with iOS 5, you can integrate SBSettings toggles directly into the notification center, if you do not want a separate pop out. Being able to get access to key settings right from your notification center is a huge time saver. If you have a jailbroken Apple device, you should have SBSettings installed.

Installing Installous on iOS 5.1.1

 iOS 5.1.1 Untethered jailbreak has already been released by iPhone Dev-Team. After jailbreaking your iDevice, Installous is one of the must have Cydia apps  you shouldinstall. Updated version Installous 4.4.2 is now compatible with iOS 5/5.0.1

Installous is used to install cracked iPhone apps on your iDevices. Following is the step by step guideline about how to install Installous 4.4.2 on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 5.1.1, iOS 5.1/5.0.1 and Older Versions of iOS.

Step 1: First of all your iDevice should be jailbroken. Here is a quick guide for iOS 5 untethered jailbreak.

Step 2: Now launch Cydia on your jailbroken iDevice.Step 3: Tap on “Manage” tab at the bottom, and then tap on the “Sources”.

Step 4: Now tap on the “Edit” button at the top right corner and then on “Add” button on the top left corner of the screen.Step 5: Now add http://cydia.hackulo.us repository in field and tap on “Add Source” button.

Step 6: Now Cydia will update its repo list. Once it is done, tap on the search tab at the bottom and type Installous in the search field and select the Installous 4 from the search result.

Step 7: Now tap on the “Install” button and then on the “Confirm” button toinstall Installous.

Step 8: At last tap on the Restart SpringBoard to reboot your device and you are done.

That’s all! Installous 4.4.2 is successfully installed to enjoy any app for free from the App Store.

Jailbreaking iOS 5.1/5.1.1 (iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS and iPod/iPad)

If iTunes gives you an error while restoring (iTunes error 3194 or iTunes error 11) go here

Recently the jailbreaking community has managed to bypass iOS security and successfully create an unthethered jailbreak for the iOS 5.1 and iOS 5.1.1 thanks mainly to hacker Pod2G and his team.

Device supported for this jailbreaks are:

• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 4S
• iPad 1
• iPad 2
• iPad 3
• iPod 3G
• iPod 4G
• Apple TV 2

Things you will need:

• Absinthe 2.0.2 for Windows (Download)
• Abisnthe 2.0.2 for Mac (Download)
• iOS 5.1.1 or iOS 5.1 from iTunes
• Latest version of iTunes (10.6)

It is advised for you to back up your data on iTunes. Open iTunes>Right click on your iPhone name on the sidebar> Click “Back up now”

Step 1: Download the iOS 5.1.1 update if you have not done so. If you have a clean unjailbroken iDevice, it is faster if you update directly from your iDevice as the update file would be smaller. 

However if your iDevice is a jaibroken one, you must perform additional step later on.

Just plug in your iDevice to your computer, open up iTunes and click on Restore. This would prompt iTunes to Restore and Update your iDevice.

If all goes well, iTunes would finish updating your iDevice without getting any error and your iDevice would reboot as clean iDevice running iOS 5.1.1. If this is the case then jump to Step 3

If you run into any error code, do not worry, just look into step 2.

Step 2: This step is intended if you have encounter any error. Mainly this error would come from iDevice that has been jailbroken prior to restoring.

Download an additional piece of software called the Tiny Umbrella (Download).

Once you have finished downloading it, open up Tiny Umbrella with your iDevice connected to your computer. First (presumably your iDevice would be displaying a graphic that instruct you to connect to your iTunes, if not, skip this) click on your iDevice on the sidebar and then proceed to click Exit Recovery.

This would reboot your iDevice to its original state.  Now on the same window, click on the  “Advanced” tab and uncheck a box that states “Set Hosts to Cydia on Exit”.

Exit the program.

Once done, you have to complete one last part on this step, that is if you are running Windows, proceed to download this file called WinFixIt (Download). This would fix your hosts file that is blocking iTunes from restoring your iDevice.

Once downloaded, open up WinFixIt and proceed with the instruction.

By now, you would need to restart your computer to apply all changes.

For Macs, go here and click on "Blocked by Configuration: (Mac OSX/Windows)" > "MacOSX"

Once done, open up iTunes and attempt to Restore your iDevice again. Hopefully now, no error code would appear on iTunes and your iDevice would be loaded with iOS 5.1.1

Step 3: Extract the Absinthe file that you have downloaded to your Desktop. Once done, open the folder and proceed to open the file named Absinthe-Win-2.0.1.exe (or Absinthe-Mac-2.0.1.exe).  

This would extract another folder into the Absinthe folder. Look for it, its called absinthe-win-2.0.1. IT’S A FOLDER this time, not a program.

 Open the folder and run Absinthe.exe

Assuming your iPhone is plugged in, just click on the Jailbreak button!

Let it do its thing and once done, open up your iDevice and you should see an app called Cydia if the jailbreak is successful.

Now all you need to do is restore from back up using iTunes and all your old apps and files would be loaded back into your iDevice!

If you encounter any additional error, please comment below!

Happy Jailbreaking.