sbsettings freezing your 5.0.1 jailbroken iPhone? try this

Since jailbreaking 5.0.1, I’ve been having issues with sbsettings. When I close the drop down window, the phone freezes for up to 10 seconds. Likewise, when activating the lockscreen from sleep, it takes a couple of seconds before I can swipe the swipey thing to unlock the phone. All this is very annoying.

Having done a bit of googling, I’m not the only one with these issues. Seems a reasonably common issue, and the issue seems to be sbsettings. However, given sbsettings is the main reason I jailbroke my phone, I don’t want to give it up.

So here’s a workaround while the developers fix the issue. Go into the ‘more’ section of sbsettings. Undernthe ‘Dropdown Window’ section, set the Disable Window toggle to ‘on’. Then turn on sbsettings in the Notifiication Centre settings. You can then use sbsettings toggles in the Notification Centre. If you also like to have sbsettings on the lockscreen, then you’re going to have to use a third party app like lockinfo or intelliscreenx. I prefer lockinfo.

Once I changed to the above setup, no more freezing.