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How to Customize your iPhone with WinterBoard | Step-by-Step Guide

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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 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:

Jailbreak iPhone

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.

User Lock 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.

Update:

Winterboard themes

To read more tutorial on iPhone : iPhone Tutorials

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Posted in: Cydia, Winterboard, iPhone Apps, iPhone Games, iPhone Guides, Tutorials on April 5, 2009

Tags: Cydia and Installer, iPhone, iPhone Apps, iPhone Games, iPhone cutomization, iPhone Games, iPhone Guides, iPhone Mods, iPhone Tutorials, Jailbreak iPhone 3G, Jailbreak iPhone 3GS, Jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G, 2G, Step-by-Step, Winterboard

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Sophia 7 April 2009 at 1:43 am #

ok.. I need 2 jailbreak my phone 1st….

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Jordan 15 April 2009 at 9:06 am #

How do you change the background on the texting screen? I can’t seem to figure it out but I’ve seen other people with this done.

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Some Guy 6 July 2009 at 5:08 pm #

This Bricked My OS 3.1b iphone

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- someidiotur 16 January 2010 at 1:12 am #
  
  you must have done it wrong idiot.
  
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  - COOOOLLLLORR 19 January 2010 at 5:50 am #
    
    No U just need to click the REBOOT button. Did you do that? Then i can’t help you. SORRY.
    
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Lisa 9 July 2009 at 11:56 am #

Thx !! .. it works wonder for me.

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CJ 15 July 2009 at 5:18 am #

Is there any way to set my springboard wallpaper as one picture and my lockscreen pic as another?

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Jinny 15 August 2009 at 1:11 pm #

Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your http://www.iphoneheat.com.

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Edangel 1 September 2009 at 11:07 pm #

i have iphone 2g firmware 3.0..i`ve jailbreaked my iphone and downloaded the winterboard…but when i open it….there is only blank page without anything writting inside or any themes…i ve reinstall it 5 times but it still the same….!!!!!!!!!any help guys please????

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SonyaSunny 5 September 2009 at 7:24 pm #

Greatings, Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
SonyaSunny

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vicki 18 October 2009 at 9:42 am #

Hiya, when I press transparent dock in winterboard it doesnt change and stays silver, can you help???

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oppovathoky 22 October 2009 at 8:31 pm #

Love to customize iPhone with WinterBoard..

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SotsSpoutstep 23 October 2009 at 6:31 pm #

Thanks for guiding me how to customize iPhone SpringBoard with WinterBoard for iPhone

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peperma 5 November 2009 at 6:37 pm #

I know its crazy, but I’ve been wanting an unlocked iphone for a while. Can anyone suggest a reasonable price?

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- ultranoob to iPhone 8 December 2009 at 12:12 pm #
  
  Once you have an iPhone, it is free to unlock it with blackra1n, and only takes about 10 seconds.
  
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jsohman 8 November 2009 at 4:40 am #

hey guys i jial broke my ipod and then i was looking through winterboard and ive been trying to get it working btu when ever i try to set a theme it stay the same anyone know what to do

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- iPhoneHeat 8 November 2009 at 8:42 pm #
  
  You need to install a theme from cydia then enable it from winterboard
  
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komeh09 12 December 2009 at 8:48 am #

winterboard

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seif 6 January 2010 at 2:49 am #

when i mark the theme on winterboard the theme does not apply on my ipod

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bballblake 16 January 2010 at 1:57 pm #

i changed the theme on my phone and some, but not all of the icons changed from default to the new theme. is there any way to keep my new theme but use the default icons instead of the theme icons?

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- iPhoneHeat 16 January 2010 at 3:13 pm #
  
  For the purpose you need to SSH into your iPhone and copy the default icons into theme folder
  
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ashhhh 18 January 2010 at 8:21 am #

i followed everything on how to get to winterboard but its not there under cydia. what do i do???

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bryghe 22 January 2010 at 6:18 am #

The user background doesn’t seem to be working for me. If I put a theme on, it shows the theme background instead of my selected wallpaper. Suggestions? Thanks.

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usmc 24 January 2010 at 2:06 am #

this is my first jb. i used blackra1n and cydia. ive tried 3 times now to get winterboard on my ph. i have tried to download it and it doesnt show up on ph. i reboot, tried downloading an app from itunes, uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing. i noticed that when i download it it doesnt tell me to reboot just return to cydia. i have a iphone 3gs 3.1.2 (7d11) serial digits 3-5 are 939

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Whoops. 28 January 2010 at 1:32 am #

I used Blackra1n to jailbreak it, an then tried to install winterboard and a theme and it bricked it and now iTunes won’t recognize it and i can’t restore. Help!

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Whoops. 28 January 2010 at 1:44 am #

I fixed it!!!
here’s how to unbrick yours if you mess up.
http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/unbrick-iphone

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mgandalf 31 January 2010 at 11:39 am #

Hello

I cannot activate transparent dock…
Once i have set a different theme, but i have delete the theme —-
May you help me ?

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planethopper 3 February 2010 at 2:37 am #

I downloaded a theme and it looks awesome! The only problem I have is after I use any app or make a call, etc. and go back to my home screen the the status bar at the top of the screen is gone, no clock, battery level, etc.. How do I get this bar to stay up there?

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spamito 10 February 2010 at 8:41 pm #

hi !

winterboard seems to be the best to customize an iPhone… but I don’t have a jailbroken iPhone !!

I found a website allowing to “customize” a little the iphone springboard, by adding transparent icons on it, like iBlank.

The site is “iEmpty” (iempty.tooliphone.net), and it works for non jailbroken iphones.

… The real question is : when apple will allow full iPhone customization, so we don’t need all these tips anymore ?!?

See you !

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Hamid 13 February 2010 at 5:24 pm #

I did install WinterBoard, to find out once a day my phone crashing and going into safe mode in order to fix it it gives me 3 choices which RESTART is the best ..
Why it crashes and why putting my phone in safe mode ? god knows so i uninstall the app .
it was a nice great one which i had Persain calendar JALALI also as part of it .
Does anyone know why safe mode and that happened many many times and i even reinstall too but nothing matter

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- iPhoneHeat 13 February 2010 at 10:17 pm #
  
  it’s because of an app installed via Cydia.. try uninstalling one by one to find out which one is it
  
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  - Hamid 14 February 2010 at 5:12 am #
    
    This was the only app that i did thru cydia , i actually removed it and everything is ok now
    my question is this now that WinterBoard has persian calendar called jalali which was really nice can you tell me where and how i can get winterboard and this jalali calendar now ?
    regards
    Hamid
    
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jose 20 February 2010 at 5:20 pm #

thanks! very helpful and concise

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Hamid 21 February 2010 at 2:02 pm #

Still no one could answer me ? i did uninstall winterborad as it was crashing my IPhone and pushing it to go to safe mode … but after removing winterboard i don’t have that problem naymore so do you know what is wrong with your app ? WRONG with YOUR APP ?

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- iPhoneHeat 21 February 2010 at 11:37 pm #
  
  It’s NOT MY APP..
  and YOU are THE ONLY ONE facing this issue
  
  make sure you let Cydia update first and then install winterboard
  
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pino 23 February 2010 at 1:35 pm #

after the reboot do i need jailbreak it again?

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- iPhoneHeat 23 February 2010 at 2:27 pm #
  
  if it’s newer iDevice
  
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Mikeg22 26 February 2010 at 7:43 pm #

I recently updated to 3.1.3 and had to re unlock my 2g iphone. I did so using redsnow with no issues. Once I had my phone up and running again I went to cydia to reinstall all the apps I had. Mcleaner, Mxtube, and a few others no problems. I then installed winter board and when phone went to reboot it will not turn back on at all?? I get the little apple for a few seconds and then just black screen? over and over again ? ANy one know whats up ?

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mj99 28 February 2010 at 5:18 am #

really good guide. i found a good site for themes, its http://iwinterboard.com

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Hamid 28 February 2010 at 5:55 am #

Mikeg22,
i had the same problem, its just crappy APP , i re-installed it many times but no result so just forget it bro.
good luck to you

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Hamid 28 February 2010 at 5:55 am #

Mikeg22,

i had the same problem, its just crappy APP , i re-installed it many times but no result so just forget it bro.
good luck to you

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Justin 16 May 2010 at 5:33 am #

How do I get it

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sajh545 16 June 2010 at 12:22 am #

my ipod wont do the main theme load. the spinny thing starts to… well, spin!… and it stops during the spin, then nothing will work. then, the ipod turns off, goes back the slider screen, and the theme hasnt loaded. ive tried tutorials from youtube using cydia and winterboard. ive also tried vwallpapers, but none seem to work, HELPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

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jackie 22 June 2010 at 1:58 am #

hi, I have the 3gs 3.1.3 new bootrom, is this why when i go to click “install” instead of going to the next screen and showing “confirm” it just says:
Note: the requested modifications cannot be applied due to required dependencies or conflicts that cannot be automatically found or fixed.

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Damgaard 6 July 2010 at 6:37 am #

Thanks for the great guide, really helpful!

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tony0713 9 July 2010 at 4:02 am #

just installed winterboard and it doesnt show up? tried rebooting and reinstalling, both with no luck.

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abhishek 12 July 2010 at 8:40 pm #

winterboard does not open…
i tap on it a blank screen opens nd phone returns to normal screen..
HELP

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thomasjbyrne 31 July 2010 at 5:47 pm #

Just Brilliant.. simple to follow screenshots and everything!! Thanks!

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Chiruzo 4 August 2010 at 6:06 pm #

Hello,
I’m having the following problem. I installed winterboard a few months ago and it was working fine, now I try to download any theme from Cydia and it is not appearing in the winterboard. The installation seems to run correctly, but why the themes, icons, etc are not appearing in my winterboard? I’ve tried yo uninstall it several times, but it is not allowing me to remove winterboard. I’ve tried to install CyDelete, but i can not get it installed. Does anyone knows how to solve this issue?

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noel 5 August 2010 at 7:38 pm #

i can’t do the user background, why is that? im using ipod touch 2g MC model with iOS4, jailbreaked using jailbreakme

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mapex 20 August 2010 at 1:20 pm #

I was installed winterboard from my cellphone Ipnone os 3g jailbreak,but the winterboard that I installed was not appear on desktop…….how to make it true…pleasw

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akiso 27 August 2010 at 10:41 am #

i have iphone 3g runing fireware 4.0.1 jailbreak wet jailbreakme 2.0 so i install winter board to the phone but can use in the funtion use wall paper ??????

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Steve 28 August 2010 at 7:34 pm #

this is also a good way to customize your lockscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwiG3mekVP4

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seif 6 January 2010 at 2:46 am #

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

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underscore 4 February 2010 at 11:20 pm #

is there anyway to get cydia apps without wifi?

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justm2009 13 July 2010 at 4:59 am #

yea i need to no how to get winterboard on my itouch 3.1.3 2G

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