Apple has reportedly disabled the ability to create an icon shortcut to specific setting menus in iOS 5.1 beta.
The shortcuts were revealed earlier this month and quickly became a popular feature with iOS device owners. Designer Jeff Broderick created some beautiful icons with pre-made shortcuts which could be installed by visiting http://brdrck.me/settings on your device.
Now, iSpazio is reporting that the latest developer beta has disabled this functionality. It's unclear why Apple would remove a perfectly simple and harmless shortcut and instead force users to turn to popular SBSettings utility which requires jailbreak.
Apple just needs to realize that they could do something simple and elegant for these shortcuts, allow people to add them to the Notifications tab like SBSettings does!
Just use redsn0w and point to the 5.0 firmware, you can the proceed with jailbreaking your 5.0.1. I updated to 5.0.1 myself without realizing I had to go thru this additional step, and was on the stock firmware for about 3 days; needless to say, missed Cydia a lot, couldn't believe how plain the stock firmware is. Luckily figured this out a few days later and now my LockInfo is smiling at me again every time I click the home button.