Installing themes directly on your iPhone or iPod.

After a little bit of messing around lately, I have figured out a question that many people have asked me when I have sent them their custom theme: "Is there a way to install this without a computer?" Well, now the answer is a resounding YES!

EDIT: YouTube video is up, watch it here.

THINGS YOU WILL NEED TO GET FROM CYDIA TO DO THIS:
1. Safari Download Plug-In: available from the BigBoss repo.
2. iFile: also available from BigBoss.

Install both these files. iFile will show up on your springboard.

Now, open up Safari and go to your email account. Open the email with the custom theme attached, and tap on the zip file. A new window will open and give you the option to "Download" or "Play". Please make a note of the name of the file (you will be able to see it near the top of the screen, right under the address bar). Tap Download, and a progress bar will come up.

Once the file is done downloading, launch iFile. You will start off in the /var/mobile folder. Tap on Library, then scroll down to the "Downloads" folder. Find the file you just downloaded and tap it. From the menu that opens up, select "zip viewer". In the lower right corner of the screen there will be an icon, tap that and chose to extract all files. Tap Done, and you will see a new folder with the name of the theme you have been emailed. Tap edit and select the folder, then tap the icon in the lower right corner of the screen and select copy. Tap done, and then keep tapping the arrow on the top left of the screen to go back all the way to the "/" directory.

Once in the "/" directory, scroll up and select Library, then scroll all the way to the bottom and select Themes. Once there, tap edit and then the lower right icon again and select paste. Tap done, and go back to the springboard. Open up WinterBoard, and your new theme will be at the top of the list.

I hope this helps all those who need it. Thank you to all of you that have emailed me for the custom names, and I'll keep posting my theme updates and whatnot for you guys to check out.

~Lost Knight

The Spirit theme update!

Well, I've made a few changes to The Spirit theme, and I thought you guy would like to see it.

Here is the new look of the home screen:


And here is a better look at the background:


I did take out the dock image, so what you see is all wallpaper. It works better in my opinion. Still working on icons, and I still might tweak a few things, so you'll have to be waiting a little bit longer for this. I'd like to thank Foxy from HackThatiFone.com for a brainstorm session about this.

New theme in the works.

Hey all, just letting you guys get an advanced look at one of the themes I'm working on, The Spirit. You should remember it from the movie a few years back, or the comic book. Keep in mind that these images are not the final product by any means; I still have many icons to work on and I'm thinking about tweaking the dock image.

Lockscreen (Props to Winterboarder, where I got the idea from for the Tap to Unlock):



One of the pages:



A better view of the wallpaper and the dock:


Things I'm thinking of changing:

I'm thinking I might try using the brick patter behind the silhouette to make the letters better, depending how it works. If not, Chris Edwards, developer of Icon Shadow (allowing you to have a drop shadow behind the icon text) has given me permission to integrate that into the theme.

Let me know what you think guys!

~Lost Knight

Thank you all!!!

I want to thank everyone that has made Advanced Lock a huge hit!!! The current counts is up to 33,010, including the custom names. A shoutout to whateverman24791 (Alex Kleber) for the whole fingerprint scan idea, along with the images. Thank you very much mate, I'm glad you like it.

Adding your personalized theme

I've been getting lot's of email's about having me customize the Advanced Lock for them. Now I'll give you a quick walk through on how to add these theme to your iPhone and iPod.

EDIT: I would like to thank Emmanuel for pointing this out: make double sure you have OpenSSH installed on your device. This will allow the your device to allow incoming SSH connections. I know when I got my iPhone, I made the mistake of not adding this right away, and it boggled me for a little bit until it dawned on me.

First, make sure you have SBSettings installed on your device (to access SBSettings, swipe down on the status bar at the top of the screen). Use that to find your Wi-Fi Address (make sure your computer and your device are on the same wireless network). Next, connect to your device using Filezilla for Windows or Cyberduck for Mac. The user name is"root" and the password "alpine". Find the "/" directory, then go to library and then themes. Once in the themes folder, drop the AdvancedLock.theme file into it, then load up Winterboard on your device. You should see it ther if you did everything right.

EDIT: I've been informed by DEL that Filezilla requires you to have a host name... sadly, I can't test Filezilla because of my Mac laptop, so I recommend you use WinSCP for Windows.

Enjoy all!!!

~Lost Knight

Advanced Lock

An update on my first submission to the public, Advanced Lock. You can find the iPod Touch version here, and the iPhone version here. Both are available on Cydia through the iSpazio repository. Current download count is 7,096 combined. Show your love and support, and I can guarantee that a full-fledged theme is in the works.

Welcome to iMod!!!

Welcome to one and all!!!! I'll be your host through this world of iPhone/Pod customizing. From jailbreaking to skinning and app reviews, I'll do my best to keep you up-to-date with all the hot themes and apps in Cydia. Any questions, don't be afriad to ask in the shout box, or if your a little shy, email me at lostknight22@gmail.com.