Cydia Gets an Essential Update - Speed Increases and Error Handling

[nickhesson]

It appears last night that Saurik has updated APT, which now has an optimized cache generator and has become more error tolerant in repository parsing. This means less error screens when connecting to repositories that might have an error at that particular moment, which used to end up causing Cydia users a ton of grief, sometimes even crashing them out of Cydia. This update should help correct some of that.

While its nothing extremely heavy hitting with this update, it is highly recommended you update to gain some additional performance from Cydia. "Reloading" screens seem to move along much faster, and I have yet to see any repository errors. Saurik says this is a 7x speed increase! Not sure the specifics, but as far as I'm told, the update provides a speed increase of 7x.

Head on over to Cydia and download the new APT updates. It should just put up, like the image above.

[extremzocker]

Finally a speed increase. The spinning weel of hell is getting shorter

[MikeT674]

Awesome def notice a difference!

[extremzocker]

Might even go back to Cydia from Rock where I went b\c of the lag

[xbins00]

it crashes both rock and cyhdia since i updated

[jdys_1991]

That's great news!
Now if I only had a way to jailbreak my 3GS..

Finally a speed increase. The spinning weel of hell is getting shorter

The spinning wheel of hell. LoL xD

[kadinh]

Finally a speed increase. The spinning weel of hell is getting shorter

i almost spit my water all over my computer when i read that. i HATE that thing so much! im glad i wasnt the only one with that problem...

[iLaw-One]

Just got this before I read the post...the speed bump is great!! I'm glad I never went over to rock!!
Keep up the good work Saurik

[steve-z17]

i almost spit my water all over my computer when i read that. i HATE that thing so much! im glad i wasnt the only one with that problem...

Definitely not the only one with that problem lol! Good upgrade!

[after_burners]

gota say it's much better now

[cashyy]

This is great!

[lolcats1]

isn't there a package that removes the "reloading" screen? i saw it somewhere, was like on EDITED or something. anyone know what i'm talking about?

Just got this before I read the post...the speed bump is great!! I'm glad I never went over to rock!!
Keep up the good work Saurik

rock really isn't that bad. it has a nicer look, and i can browse other packages while downloading, something cydia can't do. also, it uses less ram, so my 2g ipod dosen't crash.

also, it dosen't block sources randomly. (like the one with 8 icon dock)

[awesomeSlayer]

Thank God!

[capttanhowdy]

Will this reboot my iphone? I dont wanna loose my wifi!!!!

[tomcooldrummer]

It takes half the speed to load now. All i can say is ... HALLELUJAH, the savior has come

[Ichwohneinloche]

That's great news!
Now if I only had a way to jailbreak my 3GS..

Yeah no kidding. im still stuck in the dark and i cant do tethered. i'm not near a computer enough..

[Jahooba]

Saurik used to be like Gandalf the Grey riding into Hobbitown to give the cheering Hobbits a look at his flashy new spells.

Now he's like that old, dirty, crazy guy that squats in a hut with two goats on the side of a hill. We don't know whether to ask him for a bit of the old magic or just forget about him.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm trying to say... oh yeah, I remember now: "Fix Winterboard video wallpaper you dirty old wizard!"

[confucious]

From Saurik's twitter:

I also uploaded a new version of APT I've been working on: it has an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing

Saurik is still Gandalf the Grey - be blinded by imposters if you will - but you will regret it.

[Carlos]

is that what that was!!

[12jmartinez]

it restarts your springboard only