Saurik Improves Cydia Speeds With APT Update

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Posted March 4, 2010 at 6:34pm by iClarified

Saurik has uploaded a new version of APT that has an optimized cache generator and greatly improves Cydia performance.

"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."

When launching Cydia the next time you will be prompted to update to the new version of APT. Perform the install and enjoy the speed improvements!

Saurik Improves Cydia Speeds With APT Update

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spliff - March 5, 2010 at 11:21pm

and by the way... it seems this does more than speedup the load. I'm seeing debian packager pop up as things install as well. hadn't seen that before. Looks like there are a number of efficiencies added to this rev. Many thanks given... via an unconnected site. Thank you Saurik-

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Phil - March 5, 2010 at 7:19am

Big speed improvement. Launching Cydia went from about 2.5 minutes down to about 1 minute on a 3G.

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Peter - March 5, 2010 at 1:15am

My cydia crashes on startup and cant really find a fix for it... RAGE :(

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DNA - March 5, 2010 at 4:10am

Peter, if you search google or the usual forums, you should easily spot the fix. The issue could be caused by a recent installation, not enough disk space on the root partition (Not Music/Video Partition), or a bad repository. You will need to SSH into your iphone to fix the issue. Cydia isn't needed to install apps like SSH if not installed, you can simply install it manually. You could also perform the repair using the MobileTerminal or by writing a bash script and running it from MobileTerminal. Again there are plenty of posts that will tell you how to fix it, this isn't the place for me to be posting that, so check the forums ;)

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royorbs3 - March 6, 2010 at 11:21am

def seen a number of fixes for that - keep looking. sorry i dont have a link or anything for you

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iName - March 5, 2010 at 12:00am

cydia is BEYOND slow and constantly crashing. rock is sooo much better

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Hash - March 5, 2010 at 11:27am

Working great! Down to about 15 seconds on a 3GS to load to main screen.

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Luke - March 5, 2010 at 3:15pm

I thought something was different. Does loading time influence scrolling smotheness? Cause it feels much more fluent, just like tweetie...

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me - March 5, 2010 at 10:56pm

be conscious or who you and what you reply to. your comment, while insightful, appears to talk about how the original commenter was saying it sucks... while you seem to say otherwise. be sure to make that clear. Most folks won't understand. just trying to help the noobs and unwittingly feeding the trolls. sorry folks

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