How to Customize your iPhone with WinterBoard
Winterboard is an application that let you customize your iPhone / iPod 2.0+. Winterboard is developed by Jay Freeman aka Saurik, the developer of most popular jailbreak app: Cydia.
Winterboard jailbreak apps allows you to customize Springboard of your iPhone. Using Winterboard you can change iPhone icons, customize applications, status bar graphics, iPhone dock graphics, install themes and change wallpapers of your iPhone Springboard. You can even customize sounds on your iPhone. With Winterboard you can theme almost everything that comes to your mind. Before iPhone 2.0 there was Summerboard but Winterboard has replaced it since iPhone 2.0 and can even load themes of Summerboard.
Note: Winterboard is a Cydia Application, means you need to jailbreak your iPhone to get Cydia and then Winterboard on your iPhone. To Jailbreak your iPhone go to your concerned iPhone jailbreak topic:
Ok! enough introduction to Winterboard. Lets start customizing iPhone using Winterboard. In this first tutorial for Winterboard, We will guide you through Winterboard installation and basic usage. More Winterboard tutorials will be added soon.
Go to Cydia installed on your Jailbroken iPhone.
and then go to Sections tab available at the bottom.
Under Sections Tab, Go to System Menu.
and then locate Winterboard and press it.
Press the Install button available at the top right side of the screen.
On the next screen, hit Confirm button at the top right side to start Winterboard installation.
Winterboard setup will be downloaded and then installed.
On completion, Press The Big Reboot Device button at the bottom.
After Reboot, You will find Winterboard icon on your iPhone Springboard. Press it to launch Winterboard.
When opened, you will find a list of customizations available in Winterboard. OK. We will take you through all these customizations to show you what exactly they does.
Features and their Effect
User Wallpaper
This feature let to set any wallpaper as your springboard background. and in case you have installed any theme this feature will also get rid of that background.
It will replace any background applied to iPhone Lock screen with the wallpaper that you have selected in iPhone Settings.
Transparent Dock
After enabling this option, your iPhone Dock will be transparent as shown below.
Solid Status Bar
Status bar will become to the front with a solid fill. Compare the above and below screenshots to find the difference.
Server Lock Example
It shows data loaded from some external server on to your iPhone Lock screen.
Saurik
It’s a custom theme that applies motion background and changes the font style of your iPhone. Indeed a cool video background. How to install themes using Winterboard (Comming Soon!)
No Undocked Icon Labels
Selecting this feature remove text labels of all iPhone Apps except that are on the Dock.
No Docked Icons Labels
This feature remove text labels of all Docked icons.
Dim Wallpapers
This feature requires to enable User Wallpaper to show results. This feature actually Dim the background wallpaper so that your iPhone apps icons stand out more.
Dim Icons
This options will Dim your applications icons along with Dock bar and docked icons.
Black Navigation Bar
This option turns the color of Menu Title bar in to black for many apps.
So, this is all about basic features in Winterboard. Stay tuned for future tutorials for Winterboard like: How to install themes using Winterboard etc. We love to read your feedback and if you wish something specific to get a tutorial on, feel free to suggest.
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Hey. I was wondering if it’s illegal to jailbreak your iPhone. Also how long does it take
No, it is not illegal to jailbreak it. With the right firmware and program, it only takes probably 5-10 minutes. Not long at all. You can find really great videos on Youtube on how to do it.
cant download winter board. error is coming. its telling do manually. please help me. thanks. chanaka
If u get an error… copy all what u need from ur iPhone. Then restore ur iPhone to factory setting. Aftertaste jailbreak and I think it will work perfectly. I used to get an error but when I restored and rejailbreaked it worked fine with me. hope I helped.
Before i was using winterBoard without any problem but one day i went wrong when i tried to use this massege appeares-
Please note that this setting reoplaces the PNG files that have the then,PNG files that have been iphone-optimized cannot be viewed on a normal computer unles they are first deoptimized.
so what can i do now??????
Restore to factory settings then redo
URGENT: I installed Winterboard and the reboot is stuck on the Apple. I have an Iphone 4. What to do now??
All you do is restore to factory settings then redo it
Nil
I downloaded winterboard to have the icons on my iPod touch tilt and rotate but I couldn’t find de proper app. I also would like to learn how to change carrier name or banner.
Thank you guys
Francisco
It looks like as of October 19th winterboard has been updated to work with iOS 5. I’m having some problems getting automatic app icons to work though, see video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2huOcFBCkM
Any updates on jailbreaking iphone with baseband of 04.11.08?
if there’s no any advanced option or ‘pop-up windows’ to let me choose which wallpaper i want to put on after I select both ‘user wallpaper’ and ‘user lock wallpaper’, why winterboard know what to do? i just feel strange about that coz i try and try and try but fail.
#i’m using iphone3g with iOS4.2.1.
Send me free software for iPhone relevant to mechanical engineering and dictionary thanks
she doesn’t work Wallpaper on my iphone … the lock screen work bud the wallpaper not why ?
when im using winterboard, everything works except user wallpaper. What’s wrong? when i respring my springboard is black, afterwards do i need to reselect my wallpaper or something?
winterboard is already installed to my iphone 4 but does’t work. how do i fix
hi, i have been able to install winterboard onto my iphone4 but when i got to open the app, it acts as if it goes to open and then doesnt, Cydia is doing the same thing as well…any thoughts?
I bought my iPod touch about a year ago when they first released the 4G with camera. My iOS is 4.0.2 how can I change it to 5? Do I have to reset it and lose all the apps I got with Cydia or there is a better method to do it? Thanks for your help
Frisco
i had downloaded the winterboard icon after jailbreaking den i accidentally pressed the hide winterboard button…then i tried to retrieve it but i cannot find it anymore…i removed the winterboard apps den reinstalled it yet i couldn’t find it anymore…please help me thanks
Go to Settings > Winterboard
User wallpaper, user lock background and black navi bar don’t work under ios 5.0. Am I right?
Hey, I have theme ‘Rainbow Black’ and have tried everything to change my lock screen background :-\ Is there another way to do it?
Hi!!
HELP ME PLEASE !
I INSTALLED WINTERBOARD AND THE IPOD MAKE THE RESPRING OVER AND OVER AND DOESN’T STOPS !!!!!!
cuentasdeinet@gmail.com PLEASE HELP ME
can I use winterboard to change the text message screen color? I found something to change my keyboard color but I dont know how to change the rest. Please let me know if anyone know.
Any ideas why my winterboard keeps messing with my lockscreen-gif’s colors like this http://bit.ly/Lv523H ?
I was wondering, some of the things i download have several extra settings but i don’t know how to change them
when i installed winterboard and i downloaded the theme from cydia and i marked the theme in winterboard the theme does not apply on my ipod
is there anyway to get cydia apps without wifi?
yea i need to no how to get winterboard on my itouch 3.1.3 2G
i have successfully unlocked my iphone 2g with 3.13 firmware but the winterboard doesnt seems to work i can see the themes in winterboard but when i apply the theme nothing changes i tried it in 3gs 3.13 nd it worked perfectly
Wat the problem in 2g
PLEASE HELP!!!!!
use cyder program