Any way to speed up Cydia refreshes?

[Tronic]

I know that Cydia is slow to begin with, but is there any way to speed it up a little bit. I love Cydia, but dread using because it takes so long to load for me. I just timed it on my 3g and it took 57 seconds from launch to load and download the release and then an additional 1 min 6 secs to finish "reloading data". I do not have winterboard installed. Can I remove some sources to speed things up?

 

[foob]

Removing sources would probably help, but I don't know how much. If you have MobileTerminal, and apt from Cydia, you can run "apt-get update" before opening Cydia. That will make Cydia load faster but doing all that may not save you any time.

 

[Applejuiced]

Or get a 3GS
loads up cydia way faster.

 

[MrThompsonR]

I use a SBSettings toggle called NoCyFresh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0M33xqaZ60

 

[zhenya]

Or get a 3GS
loads up cydia way faster.

Agreed. I just picked up a 3gs and Cydia went from almost unusable to fairly normal. I think they still need to fix the core problem, but on the 3gs it is loaded and navigable in 10 seconds and all packages are re-loaded in under 30 seconds total.

 

[MikePA]

You know your code has gotten bloated, fat and inefficient if someone feels the need to write a toggle to prevent it from reloading data or the only fix is to get a faster phone. RYP isn't nearly as slow as Cydia.

 

[tadad1]

Try Rock, it's much quicker.

 

[NeuralControl]

I've always wondered about this. It seems like Cydia takes nearly two minutes to be completely up and running.

 

[mojoe24]

Is rock better than cydia? or do the carry the same stuff?

 

[Almy]

Rock has everything Cydia has. I started using rock on my last JB and I've never loaded cydia again. It's MUCH more effecient and has things cydia doesn't.

 

[Applejuiced]

22 seconds on my 3GS.
The more sources/repos you have installed the longer it will take.