How To Install Tweaks On iOS 11.1.2 Electra Jailbreak Without Cydia The Easy Way

If you have jailbroken your iOS 11.x.x iPhone or iPad using Electra, or another compatible jailbreak, then you may be slightly perturbed to find that it doesn’t come with the installation of Cydia.

Under normal circumstances that would cause a lot of device owners to be hamstrung and to not be able to get any tweaks on their devices. However, if you are a Windows user, help is on hand with the release of a Deb file installer and uninstaller called Tweak Installer to assist with that whole process.

If you have recently come into the jailbreak community expecting to receive a jailbreak which is flawless and installs all necessary components without issue, then you are likely a little disappointed. Those jailbreak days, where you get device liberation, Cydia and Substrate installed, appear to be long behind us.

The aforementioned liberation is entirely possible using something like Electra, or LiberiOS, but they won’t install Cydia as part of that process as both Cydia and Substrate are yet to receive any compatibility updates for iOS 11. So, just where does that leave those users from a tweak installations perspective?

Well, those device owners can manually obtain the necessary files directly from the developer or other places, and then go through the process of installing to the device themselves. Or, if they are using Windows, then they could download this new installer/uninstaller which lets them run a desktop app to make a connection over SSH to the iOS device in question. It then unpacks and installs the Deb files directly to the device and gets them installed over-the-air with minimal fuss. The developer has also added the ability to go the other way, which allows the user to remove the installed tweak(s) as well with just a single click.

For now, this tool is only available on Windows, with macOS and Linux versions said to be coming soon. Additionally, it seems that the developer is also interested in developing an on-device Deb installer to make the whole thing a little more seamless which removes the need for that SSH connection to the device from a computer.

If you are interested in giving this a whirl on Windows, then you can grab the latest beta of the software from here.

Message Transformer For iPhone Lets You Transform Text Into Different Styles To Be Used In Other Apps

The Cydia Store is crammed full of tweaks, and Message Transformer by developer Netter is certainly one of the more unusual ones we’ve stumbled across.

So strange and unique, in fact, that we decided to give it a mention. On the face of it, it doesn’t seem to offer great deal. You type text in a box, you click a certain button to transform that text (all caps, no caps, backward, etc), and then you can paste it into your message, e-mail, or whichever conversation app you prefer.

However, what makes Message Transformer of some interest is its ability to manipulate a message using the “Hackerize” or “Pig Latin” buttons. If you wish to send a message, but only want the intended recipient to understand it, you could easily arrange for messages to be disguised, and subsequently converted back again at the other end.

Sure, Message Transformer doesn’t house the ability to actually transform the gibberish created back into intelligible English, but that’s certainly something the developer could consider in the near future for those still uninitiated with these secretive languages.

Of course, talking in Pig Latin is usually child’s play, but does make for an intriguing way to distract those prying eyes – as does the Hackerize option.

Message Transformer is available over at the ModMyi repository – a default unless you’ve opted to manually remove it from your source list. It’s free of charge, although, as you can see from the screenshots, it is supported by adverts, which can be annoying.

Of course, you will need to jailbreak your device to install this particular tweak. For jailbreaking the latest iOS 5.1 (tethered), follow the instructions posted here to jailbreak using Redsn0w,or here for Sn0wbreeze. For jailbreaking iPhone 4S and iPad 2, you can simply follow our step by step tutorial posted here to jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe on Windows or Mac. Those of you with an iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, and iPod touches can use Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze to untether jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1.

Download it, give it a trial run, and let us know what you think of this particular tweak by dropping us a comment via the usual mediums below.

Source: RedmondPei(DOT)com