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How to use chatheads on Facebook app with Messenger app installed

Facebook said they started forcing people to use the Messenger rather than allowing to use chatheads within the Facebook app. I got my messages tab on Facebook disabled almost a month ago. This is quite annoying, having to switch to another app to say "Hi". It also causes to lose the flow while browsing newsfeed. The problem gets severer on devices like iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. The time it takes to switch to the other app and the memory it requires to run in the background totally ruins the experience. I know many people who have quitted using Facebook app and switched to using a browser instead. It's the memory that can be used to run other useful apps in the background, this Messenger app reasonlessly uses. Therefore Facebook's philosophy of 'faster messaging' is simply absurd.

Well, we have a solution. There used to be a Cydia tweak to disable Messenger detection but it's no longer to be found. The FLEX patches don't seem to work either. Today, I took the challenge and started finding a solution. First I tried cloning the app and changing the bundleid and things like that. Remember that I'm not a programmer. Anyway, after countless attempts, I found a solution
I'm a Windows 7 user, so I'll explain how to do it on Windows

Prerequisites

• Appsync for iOS 7.0+
• iFile on iDevice or  plistEditor pro on Windows
• iFunbox 

Step 1 : Dismantle the Messenger app

• Go to the iTunes library folder (normally "C:\users\%username%\My Music" or Libraries> music on the windows explorer left pane)

• IPA files are actually ZIP containers with a different(*.ipa) extension. Rename the file and put the extension 'zip' instead of 'ipa"

• Extract the whole archive to somewhere else

Step 2 : Modify the Info.plist

• Inside the main folder, you can find a 'payload' folder which contains the 'messenger.app' folder. Open it and find the "Info.plist" file

• You cannot open '.plist' files on Windows by default. Either get 'plistEditor pro' or copy the plist file to iFile and edit on iDevice

• Find the following inside the file

  <dict>
<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>fb-messenger-neue</string>
</array>       
 </dict>

• Select and delete these lines and save the file

Step 3: Repacking Messenger

• Select all the contents in the main folder 

• Zip them
• Rename and change the extension from '.zip' to '.ipa'

Step 4: Load Messenger

• Delete the original messenger app on device if you already have it installed
• Open iFunbox > iFunbox classic > Install app
• Browse and select the modified Messenger app

IFunbox will install the modified messenger successfully if you have appsync 7.0+ installed on device

Blurbar -Blur your iOS7 status bar

BlurBar 1.0.1-1

iOS7 is a beauty with all the parallax effects and blurred backgrounds. The blurred backgrounds are dynamic, which means that it will change with what's under them. You might have noticed how the colors change beneath Control Center UI or Notification Center. It's a charm seeing the vibrance. iOS7 jaibreak has been out for over a week and substrate is stable now. It's time to take full advantage of iOS7 specific features. A lot of iOS7 tweaks have hit repos lately. One of them is 'Blurbar' which takes advantage of the iOS7 blur background feature and beautifully blurs statusbar, which by default is fully transparent.

As you can see, the bar is blurred and it's dynamic like the dock or folder backgrounds. The tweak works on all Cydia Substrate compatible devices including iPhone 5S. It's free to download from Cydia's default repository, the BigBoss repo. The tweak doesn't have any options to configure.

FlipControlCenter Beta 0.1

FlipControlCenter beta (0.1)

Remember how SBsettings brought a bunch of toggles to the notification center and made iOS much better to use? Wanted to have such toggles on iOS 7 control center? 

A few days ago, Ryan Petrich, the renounced developer of Activator, showed off a video clip of an iOS 7 tweak he's been working on. The tweak is named 'FlipControlCenter'. As the name suggests, it modifies the control center introduced on iOS7. Apparently, the tweak does support ARM64 devices.

The tweak adds a few more toggles to the control center and  lets you rearrange the order of toggles. The toggles are paged, so you can scroll through them. The default control center UI has five toggles, airplane mode, wifi, bluetooth, DND, and portrait orientation lock. This tweak extends it and lets you control your device better right from control center without having to open to settings app. As you already know, control center can be opened from anywhere.

The tweak comes with 16 pre-loaded toggles and new toggles from other devs will be released in the coming days. It has an option to suppress toggles on lockscreen, so that in case your phone is theft or lost, you can preset the phone not to show toggles that will thwart tracking the phone with 'find my iPhone'. It's recommended to suppress location and mobile data and if necessary, wifi as well.

You can also set the number of toggles that should show per page. 5 is the default.

The tweak is available for free on Ryan Petrich's repo. If you don't have his repo on your source list, add it by tapping edit > add > enter "http://rpetri.ch/repo". Remember that this tweak is still in beta phase and may not work good as expected. But as of now, I don't see anything wrong.