Further to my original article on jail breaking I have reached a further conclusion on what tweaks to use. So what I have done is summarised below what I am using and what settings within the tweaks and the benefits.

Tweaks

Installed on both iPad and iPhone 5

Sbsettings – used to show date on statusbar and 24 hour clock and have settings toggles in notification centre. Removed battery icon as i had battery percentage showing. That’s all for this one.

Bolt – as battery icon gone, when phone or mini charging a lightning bolt shows

Opennotifier – adds notification icons into the status bar. I use it to show email, twitter, and 5 other apps. Great if phone on silent mode, since you can see straight away if you need to address something . Also adds silent icon in status bar if device on silent mode. To get the extra icons you need to buy opennotifer premium.

Protube – a universal app that does YouTube much better, downloading with quality choices , viewing choices of quality and more. Update. Video downloads on the iPhone version aren’t working for me.

Mapsopener – use this tweak to make google maps app open as default. A must have in my book.

ikegwi – 5 row keyboard. Don’t buy the iPad version. The keys are too small on the mini.

F.lux – during the evening changes the white screen to a softer halogen glow. Makes reading easier at night. I had thought this would be a gimmick but I really like it.

Auxo – not needed. But it makes the app switcher beautiful. Best watch a YouTube video on this. It adds larger icons, better music controls and a brightness slider and settings toggles. But again I could live without this, but as I paid for it, it is staying.

Springtomise 2 – changed lock animation to old TV. Simply love this. Made dock have 5 icons with cover flow. Lock screen you can now pull down notification centre. Lock slider I’ve changed the wording to say “unlock and fry” . On iPhone 5 changed to 5 icons per line. The Mini is 7 per line. Don’t do anymore on Mini. It crashes. Icons resized to 85% on all 3 options. Folders allowed 5 icons per line and auto close folder. Status bar changed carrier logo to 👹

When you install sbsettings or springtomise 2 , activator gets installed automatically. I used this app to mimic pressing the home button once by sliding from bottom of screen upwards. Really superb as stops wear and tear now on home button.

iPhone 5 – just one bespoke extra. Pdanet. Provides tethering via wifi from the iPhone 5 to Mini for free. App is free too.

iPad Mini – bespoke options

Full screen for safari. Allows to change to full screen plus adds loads of gestures. I just use for double tap to go full screen and some other gestures to go back and forward.

Splitscreen – provides same email split as landscape view

Retinapad. I have many iPhone only apps. With this app I select to always open app 2x size. It also on 80% of apps makes them look retina. Really amazed by this.

Screen shots are below.

Don’t try octopus keyboard. It’s a z10 rip off and I didn’t like it in the end. I also found winterboard and the ayecon theme not necessary so I deleted both. I also tried colorkeyboard. It’s ok but again not needed.