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Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

The great thing is that you can still use iTunes and buy music and apps from the App Store, but as an addition you can theme your iPod and funk it up with Winterboard, use Cydia to download applications and games and generally make it better. It is known as jailbreaking. But before you even try to Jailbreak it, you have to know how to fix it in case you can't boot it properly. I had to restore about ten times before I got it right!

Check out ModMyI.com, iPodTouchFans.com and MacThemes2.net for what you can do. At those stores, they are trained to sell the product as minimal as possible, but you can certainly download games and apps to it from App Store which needs Software Update 2.0 or higher, minimum. The salesman probably did mean third-party apps, but the App Store is open to all with an iTunes account.

Winterboard? Is that the app you use for the backgrounds?

stj0691

16 years

Ok, those pictures you posted of themes from earlier, how do you do that? I've already jailbroken and have Cydia on there, now what?

drewhiggins

16 years

Originally posted by stj0691:Ok, those pictures you posted of themes from earlier, how do you do that? I've already jailbroken and have Cydia on there, now what?

Nice! Did you find it hard to do?

First, you need to go into Cydia and look for Winterboard and install that. When you've got Winterboard installed, go back into Cydia and then look under Themes / Winterboard. Install a theme you like the sounds of (and check out the previews too under More Info). Go back into Winterboard, apply the theme by clicking it and you should be good to go.

Winterboard, I think, has several already-made themes. Not very good themes, but they're decent. Also, do you have Wi-Fi? I can send you my theme if you want and you can do what you want with it, plus you can modify things that way, which I find better.

Originally posted by stj0691Winterboard? Is that the app you use for the backgrounds?

It certainly is - it's the next-gen version of Summerboard + Customise which we used to have to use for applying themes, system text and changing backgrounds. I have quite a few apps, actually.

- Winterboard, for changing themes, backgrounds, batteries etc.
- Poof, for hiding and unhiding icons and stuff you don't need or want to see.
- Cydia, for installing applications, games, themes and whatever else.
- MakeItMine, changes the iPod text at the top left corner to anything you want.
- SBSettings, for turning off Wi-Fi / SSH quickly and restarting the iPod interface.

stj0691

16 years

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

Nice! Did you find it hard to do?

First, you need to go into Cydia and look for Winterboard and install that. When you've got Winterboard installed, go back into Cydia and then look under Themes / Winterboard. Install a theme you like the sounds of (and check out the previews too under More Info). Go back into Winterboard, apply the theme by clicking it and you should be good to go.

Winterboard, I think, has several already-made themes. Not very good themes, but they're decent. Also, do you have Wi-Fi? I can send you my theme if you want and you can do what you want with it, plus you can modify things that way, which I find better.

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It certainly is - it's the next-gen version of Summerboard + Customise which we used to have to use for applying themes, system text and changing backgrounds. I have quite a few apps, actually.

- Winterboard, for changing themes, backgrounds, batteries etc.
- Poof, for hiding and unhiding icons and stuff you don't need or want to see.
- Cydia, for installing applications, games, themes and whatever else.
- MakeItMine, changes the iPod text at the top left corner to anything you want.
- SBSettings, for turning off Wi-Fi / SSH quickly and restarting the iPod interface.

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Thank you so much drew!! This certainly helped! My question is: how do you make your own? I'm hoping to make a Zoo TV sort of theme for it, and so on. What you've done is way beyond what I can imagine.

Also, I do have Wifi, but how would you be able to send them over?? How would one be able to modify or change things via wifi?

drewhiggins

16 years

Originally posted by stj0691:[..]

Thank you so much drew!! This certainly helped! My question is: how do you make your own? I'm hoping to make a Zoo TV sort of theme for it, and so on. What you've done is way beyond what I can imagine.

Also, I do have Wifi, but how would you be able to send them over?? How would one be able to modify or change things via wifi?

What I've done is nothing compared to some of the themes I've seen.

Did you download Winterboard and install it to your iPod? If so, to upload themes via Wi-Fi, you need to go back to Cydia and download and install OpenSSH and restart your iPod (hold home and standby buttons together). When you've done that, on your computer you now need to download and install WinSCP from winscp.net

Turn on your iPod again and where you go to turn on Wi-Fi, click the little blue arrow and take note of the IP address - like 192.168.0.111. In WinSCP, click New and fill the fields out like:

Host Name: the IP address from the iPod
Port Number: 22
User Name: root

When it says about an index key, just click Update or Add, and put in the password which is alpine. Then you should see the entire iPod directory - go to Library / Themes - don't go anywhere else yet! - and in there should be a whole bunch of themes. Drag out a theme folder to your desktop and use it to learn what you need to have in the folder. If you need any help, just ask! I was only a newbie to this a while ago.

Here's my theme which you can play with and redesign and do whatever you want with it, called Normal: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e0zijtyjbvz

A theme should have the following:

Dock.png
StatusBar.png
Wallpaper.jpg
LockScreen.png

Additionally, you can have in Bundles\com.apple.TelephonyUI the following:

bottombarknobgray.png - sliders on main screen
bottombarknobred.png - sliders on turn off screen

stj0691

16 years

So after some tinkering around I am working on a Zoo TV theme and a PopMart theme.

drewhiggins

16 years