Speed Up Cydia

One cannot deny the fact that Cydia is slow. Normally, it usually takes a couple minutes to launch Cydia and download something from it. This may soon be history for there is a simple and quick trick that can incredibly speed up Cydia. This trick involves removing ads and screenshots in each package. On the one hand, this means that you won’t see any ads anymore, and on the other had that you won’t be able to see app screenshots.
Here is a guide on how to speed up Cydia…

Step 1: SSH into your iPhone to /private/var/stash/Applications/Cydia.app
Step 2: Make a backup of the package.js, just to be on the safe side.
Step 3: Edit package.js and at around line 197 change the snippet of code to this 
var depiction = package.depiction;
if ((!commercial) && (depiction == null || true))
$(“.depiction”).addClass(“deleted”);
else {
$(“.description”).addClass(“deleted”);
$(“#depiction-src”).src(depiction);
}
Step 4: Reboot your iPhone
Now launch Cydia and you should see the speed has been considerably improved.