how do i get cydia and its applications to appear on the homescreen? (ipad mini 2, ios 8.1.3)

[pliant sleet]

hi. i have an iPad mini 2 on ios 8.1.3. whenever i jailbreak with wtfis, cydia doesn't appear on the homescreen and i have to open it (and other applications) up either using safari's url schemes or SSH. i've tried refreshing uicache, respringing, and rebooting. just to see if this is just a one-time problem, i erased my tablet using cydia eraser and re-installed wtfis. after clicking go and waiting around 30 seconds, the device would turn off and reboot, and still after that still cydia wouldn't appear on the homescreen. even ignoring this and trying to apply things like themes doesn't work. patcyh also doesn't support my ios version. please help.

[crisp torrent]

You can check via SSH in /Applications/ for Cydia.app and if it's not there, you can also try installing it via dpkg (if dpkg is indeed installed) but it seems as if the bootstrap failed at some point.

[pliant sleet]

Cydia exists, but i can't open any applications without using SSH or Safari's URL schemes.

I can open it via SSH with open com.saurik.cydia when connected with OpenSSH and I can open it by entering Cydia:// into Safari but neither Cydia or any tweaks with applications appear on the homescreen, even after refreshing uicache.

[crisp torrent]

Is there any errors when trying to install? I'd get rid of 666 and zodt repo

[pliant sleet]

Pretty much every tweak seems to install, but all of them usually are missing from the homescreen and especially with themes, they only appear in the wallpaper view when installed and don't affect the homescreen.

[pliant sleet]

please help

[true rose]

Get a new iPad

[pliant sleet]

no

[true rose]

Tim Cook would love you

[pliant sleet]

Well the tablet has already been jailbroken so he probably hates me

[crisp torrent]

do you have preference loader installed?

[crisp torrent]

why not try uicache --all

[pliant sleet]

yes

[pliant sleet]

tried it multiple times and even restarted afterwards but nothing happened

[pliant sleet]

any new suggestions?

[crisp torrent]

did you downgrade with the ios legacy kit?

[pliant sleet]

its running 8.1.3 and i couldn't really downgrade anyway since it's 64 bit