i just got the cydia app on my ipad 4, but this time it was a bit different
I installed the Pangu app then checked the Pangu manager file and this time there wasn't a cydia installer and cydia translations files there which was strange as the iphone 4s there was from the get go, so i got the winSCP up and running and i got the 2 deb files (and i forgot to mention this last time) i clicked on the properties of each on my laptop (windows 7) and both files were blocked as they came from another computer, i unlocked these and then transfered both files over to the /var/root folder, i then checked and found that this time in the media folder on the ipad i had the /var/root/Media/AutoInstall/ so i put these in the folder and got the winSCP Terminal/Console up and typed "reboot" and cydia didn't show up.
So then i decided to put them back in var/root and typed in: dpkg -i *.deb and hit the Execute button, waited 30 seconds then typed reboot and it worked cydia folder showed up
All i can think of is as apple software grows and things change this is the reason the /var/root/Media/AutoInstall/ folders were on the ipad but not the iphone 4s
Iphone 4s is version 8.1 (12B411)
Ipad 4 is version 8.1 (12B410)
Now i am going to fiddle and see what apps work with ios 8