What one are you using and why? As of now im going to stay with Cydia haven't jailbroke since 2.2.1.
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3.1.2 users Cydia vs Icy vs Rock?
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What one are you using and why? As of now im going to stay with Cydia haven't jailbroke since 2.2.1.
Mikey B
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I just used Rock for the first time to download Backgrounder. I was having network connection problems with Cydia so I figured I'd give it a try.
Rock lives up to their advertising- very fast. Starting to dig around a bit now. It has a nice UI. Lots of graphical improvements over Cydia that don't seem to slow it down at all. So far, it seems basically the same as Cydia, but with a facelift.
Rock lives up to their advertising- very fast. Starting to dig around a bit now. It has a nice UI. Lots of graphical improvements over Cydia that don't seem to slow it down at all. So far, it seems basically the same as Cydia, but with a facelift.
Mikey B
macrumors 65816
Cydia was always my favorite too, even back when it was Installer's much younger competition. But I must say that I'm impressed with Rock. Not to mention that Cydia has been giving me grief all afternoon and ROck has been, well, rock-solid.
I haven't used Rock. Icy is much more pleasant to use than Cydia, but I still find myself going to Cydia out of habit.
Does Rock track prior Cydia purchases? A friend of mine recently received a replacement phone (with 3.1 pre-installed) and, thanks to Geo Hotz, finally jailbroke the new device today. When he installed prior Cydia purchases on the new device, he logged into the Cydia purchase interface to find that Cydia allowed him to affiliate the new device with his existing Cydia account. He could then reinstall all of his prior Cydia purchases without paying another license fee!
Tokiopop
macrumors 68000
Rock just crashed my SpringBoard... Never had any problems with Cydia. Why can't people just be patient instead of needing 'faster' apps, that just make everything a hell of a lot slower because of all the problems you then get.
Now Stacks if messed up too... What a load of horse crap.
Now Stacks if messed up too... What a load of horse crap.
Rock is AMAZING!
Been using Cydia since is JB'd my iPhone, but then i updated applocket and it stopped working. I did a clean restore and decided to use Rock as i heard it would be faster and cleaner. It lives up to its name and it really does rock. I also love the feature that lets you back up your apps so you can restore your JBroken apps when you've done a restore, with most settings stored in the backup. It's simply amazing! =]
Been using Cydia since is JB'd my iPhone, but then i updated applocket and it stopped working. I did a clean restore and decided to use Rock as i heard it would be faster and cleaner. It lives up to its name and it really does rock. I also love the feature that lets you back up your apps so you can restore your JBroken apps when you've done a restore, with most settings stored in the backup. It's simply amazing! =]
thelatinist
macrumors 603
Rock does not support the Cydia Store at all. You have to purchase and download paid apps through Cydia. Rock has its own store with far fewer apps.
Rock uses proprietary extensions (as opposed to MobileSubstrate) and does not use apt for package management. I much prefer to use tested and open solutions like apt/Cydia/MobileSubstrate to proprietary installers. And Rock did mess up my phone once. I would avoid Rock altogether.
Amen, and amen.
I don't understand the love for Rock that some espouse. Isn't it a direct descendant of Icy which is in turn descended from Installer v4? Plus it's made by the jokers who wrote Intelliscreen, I believe. Saurik has publicly berated them on many occasions for their unstable, bloated code.
Although I was pretty sure that as of Icy this line of installers did start using APT (which is why having both Icy and Cydia on the same phone simultaneously is generally a bad idea). Maybe it's just that it uses .DEB packages, but doesn't use APT to track installs/dependencies, and I've simply conflated the two?
-- Nathan
thelatinist
macrumors 603
They forked apt and turned it into a buggy proprietary installer. And I'm not even sure they use it for their own apps, just for community sources. They also forked Mobile Substrate, and their "Rock Extensions" often conflict with MS. Generally best just to leave it alone.
Cydia is a much more reliable package..
I would recommend it. Regardless of it's lack of speed.
I would recommend it. Regardless of it's lack of speed.
