General Flex 2 vs Cydia Tweak (battery, functionality, etc.)

[seanyuan62]

I had a question for y'all. I just started using Flex 2 beta and let me start by saying it is amazing! But then I started having a couple of questions. Is there an advantage to patching, for example, the YouTube app and enabling hq on data through flex vs installing a tweak from cydia that does the same thing? In addition, would there be more battery drain from one other than the other?

I have no idea how they each actually work, but I was thinking maybe patching an application would use less battery vs a cydia tweak that is always running. But then again aren't cydia tweaks just basically patches anyways? It's just strange because flex doesn't require a respring for certain tweaks like pandora skip while a cydia tweak that does the same thing does require a respring.


Questions questions questions haha. If anyone could help satisfy my curiosity/battery usage paranoia, I would greatly appreciate it.


Thank you.

 

[mKTank]

Unless the tweak requires Mobile Substrate, I'm pretty sure most Cydia tweaks edit the actual app anyway. So in THAT case it's pretty much the same thing as applying a patch through Flex.

 

[seanyuan62]

Unless the tweak requires Mobile Substrate, I'm pretty sure most Cydia tweaks edit the actual app anyway. So in THAT case it's pretty much the same thing as applying a patch through Flex.

Right. I was thinking more like five icon dock and other things that modify the springboard.

I guess it DOES let you set custom values for the patches while cydia tweaks are sort of set.

 

[seanyuan62]

Found my answer here: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1aprlt/question_which_is_better_for_usage_and_loading/

If anyone is curious