Full Review - Cydia App: Supreme Preferences

Written on 10:19 PM by irockish

This application review is on a Cydia App called Supreme Preferences. If you just read the first sentence and have no clue what cydia is, you my friend are missing out. You need to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch. Now instead of making the 234,453,455,534 post on how to jailbreak I’ll just put a link on the video how-to, its simple don’t be scared.

Supreme Preferences gives you about twice the power of settings on your device, from your phone to your calculator application. It gives more options to change the stock applications as well as some cydia ones. You can change your safari settings, mail, iPod, everything.

Let’s start off by saying the app and the changes your allowed to make to them.

Well Supreme Preferences, when installed, gives you your own section in the stock settings applications. It also changes the icon to a more noticeable settings icon. Supreme preferences allows the Push option to give you anywhere from 1 minutes to 30 minutes, then hourly, 3 hours, 6 hours, every 12, daily, and the stock manually one. From there, there are no changes in anything else. The rest of the settings are in supreme preferences.

When you click on supreme preferences, you are giving the following options to change:

Applications

Home

iPod

Mobile Substrate

Status Bar

System

And About

When you click on applications, you are given options for

Mail, Calendars

Phone + SMS

Photos

Safari

App Store

+ More

In the mail setting, not much is added but disabling the background mail process that is automatically set, Phone and Mail are the only ones that are constantly running on the iPhone. Signature is there as well as allowing customization of how many messages you want, you click and the keyboard comes up to allow the user to enter in whatever number he/she pleases. And Calendars are just there for options for when the user’s day is to begin and end.

Phone + SMS pane allows EDGE editing and international assist. International assist automatically adds the correct prefix to the US numbers when dialing from abroad. Dim in call, which should be set, and Lock after call which is pretty nice. For SMS, options for compose new Message, Show the SMS preview, and a SMS alert, not too much here. Photos is the same as the stock settings that are given because not much can be changed. In Safari “Find in Page” is an option that adds a bookmark to work as the “find” you would on your mac or PC. Animated Images are also a switch as well as shrink images to fit, and display images. For the App Store settings all that’s there is to save the password for either App Store or the iTunes store so you don’t have to enter it everytime. This is great, but also bad if you have the friends that don’t know what they’re doing and while you were playing rockband they charge up to 30 bucks in apps installing and buying. So think about it before you hit that “On” switch.

In More you are allowed to switch Calculator settings, restore, and for Maps you can have Live Search and Show Traffic On/Off. In stocks you can show percentages and YouTube just shows what you last searched for.

In Home settings you are allowed to change the Home Button to any application you choose, maybe you text a lot so have the Home Button set to texts, Maybe you take pictures a lot so set it to Camera, have Cydia? Any Cydia apps and app store apps are available as well as your own custom ones. You can also disable the Apple Boot Logo. I’ll have a tutorial on how to change your boot logo coming up soon. You can also hide the battery on charge and choose to reflect the dock icons.

iPod is basic, it’s most of the same settings that you get in the stock settings.

In Mobile Substrate you get Hide Icon Labels and Prevent App Deletion which is great if you sometimes have lag on the home screen and you start tapping every and you hit the X button.

In Status Bar you get to change your carrier name, change the color wheel (loading) have fake time shortcuts, change the time to say something else and also a big thing is to have you Wi-Fi, Signal, and battery percentage in NUMBER format instead of pictures.

System, our last and final pane comes with options to control brightness which was just updated, auto dim, auto lock, custom dim and lock, and whether to disable it or not. You can also have it disable respring so that no apps such as winterboard resprings and so the user manually does it. It then gives you options for keyboard which is stock as well. And then gives you Logs for power, disk space and cannot open apps.

There’s also a touch pane but I refuse to test, as it says messing with it could result in restoring your device, and I don’t have time for the risk, the about tab just gives info on the Application

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