My iPhone 4 log pics/hacks/themes

[Roy_Drage]

Rounded off the edges in SMS so no more bubbles:

Got some new folder backgrounds, check em out:

Wood:

Carbon:

Black Wood:

 

[Gregoris]

So after playing about for a while I am pretty happy with what I have been able to do. Cos this is what it's all about, the playing, the customisation, trying different things to set the phone up exactly as you want it. So Winterboard was obviously my first point of call as it's what you'll need to set you on your way to customisation overload lol!

A lot of the themes on Cydia in my opinion are quite low quality and are more gimmicky then any real alternative to the dedault Apple offering. I searched a bit and started to come across some work by some top graphic designers.

I picked up this really nice theme called Illumine (it's been removed from Cydia recently as people were distributing it as their own work, you can get it from the designer himself for a small fee and he has some other top quality work), it's some really nice high quality icons designed by one guy over at Deviant Art/and other places. taptounlock.me - iPhone Themes

Anyway I downloaded the Illumine theme to my windows netbook and then used a program called i-FunBox which allowed me to dig deep into the iPhone and play about with all the files stored in there (not sure if this program works with jailbroken iPhones only?) process was simple enough, just find the themes folder for the winterboard app and drop the downloaded theme into that folder.

Next I activated the new theme in winterboard, refresh springboard and go check it out. Hmmm love the icons but I don't like the background or the dock tray at the bottom. Tried to swap the order of some things around in winterboard to see if I could get it to look how I wanted..... but I couldn't.

So next step was to again using the i-FunBox program go back into the theme folder I had just dropped in and basically delete all the image files I could find that contained the name 'wallpaper' or 'dock'. Wasn't sure if it would work but back out of the program, safely remove iPhone and then turn the theme back on in winterboard.

Hey presto the background pic for the theme has been removed and I now have the background pic I want using the nice set of icons I like (the theme has something like over 1800 icons) also the dock that came with the theme was now obviously gone

Clicking another thing in winterboard allowed me to set all the status bars to black which I like. I then used this app called 'Poof' which allows you to hide whatever apps you want from your home screen. So bye bye Stocks, bye bye default weather app.

There are a load of things I'm going to get onto tomorrow as it seems more and more cydia apps/tweaks are starting to work with IP4.

Anyway I wasted a good couple hours playing about with all this stuff but that's half the fun and it reminded me of the fun I had back with the original iphone.

Here's my homescreen! Lol basic but it's pretty slick IMO and will look pretty cool with one of those vapour cases.

Anyone come up with anything yet?

wow very nice background! impressive. thanks for the info. shame it was taken off cydia charging for all themes on cydia is bad though :/ but that one actually seems worth it, how much is it?

 

[stonesour]

Ill pay for an app or theme on itunes but never on cydia

 

[Gregoris]

Ill pay for an app or theme on itunes but never on cydia

im with you on that one. never cydia

 

[Roy_Drage]

The theme I got was called ILLumine. The Dev took them off cydia as people were releasing his work as their own. He's working on some really nice stuff here taptounlock.me - iPhone Themes

Of course if you wanted to you can find the themes for free on the net but I would rather donate a couple bucks for some nice work like that. The background doesn't come with it thats elsewhere. I'm keeping an eye on his work tho.

I've come across some really nice stuff lately and once i've checked it all out i'll be posting some other themes with screenshots from my phone

 

[beezy]

There are some repos that you have to add that have most of the cydia paid apps for free. I checked out the snes emulator it is pretty nice. I wouldn't pay for them for the simple fact I am not even sure if jailbreaking is the way to go for me.

 

[Gregoris]

where did you find the background pic? can you share?

 

[stonesour]

^^ here is a version of it if he does not want to share

 

[Gregoris]

he does not want to share. so it comes with the theme. i should respect his wishes and not save it.. ty anyway though

 

[kegonomics]

Just a suggestion; I believe there is a way to get rid of the black "shadow" that surrounds your skinned icons in the multitasking dock.

Browse to "/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/" then either delete "[email protected]" or replace it with a copy of "[email protected]" to simulate the same shadow as the icons regularly have on the springboard.

P.S. Great work so far, I think that I am going to donate for some excellent iphone theming as well.

 

[kegonomics]

he does not want to share. so it comes with the theme. i should respect his wishes and not save it.. ty anyway though

I don't believe that it comes with the theme, I found it on DeviantART. Search for "sticker iphone" in Customization/Wallpaper.

 

[Roy_Drage]

where did you find the background pic? can you share?

The background doesn't come with the theme, it's by the same guy but it's free to share so here's the link Browsing deviantART

 

[Roy_Drage]

Just a suggestion; I believe there is a way to get rid of the black "shadow" that surrounds your skinned icons in the multitasking dock.

Thanks, I gave it a go as you can see below but I think I prefer the dock icons to have the black border as it separates them from the other icons. As in they are docked and never move where as the others do when sliding between screens.

One thing maybe you can help me with though. Below is the original wallpaper i'm using:

However when it's used as a wallpaper on the phone for some reason the phone adds a slightly black shadow to the lower half of the picture :S I don't know why, probably something to do with where the dock image used to be. Anyway I'm aassuming there must be a small .PNG file somewhere I can simply delete to remove it from the home screen. Any idea as to where that file might be or what it's called?

 

[kegonomics]

I believe it is the file "WallpaperGradientLandscapeBottomT.png" which is in the same location as the previous files. Just rename it or replace it with a blank png.

P.S. Did you convert the illumine theme to iPhone4 resolution?

 

[Gregoris]

i see thanks guys.. is a nice pic ;p