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Hey do you think you could share those shelves?

Oops, sorry I did not notice the links the first time
 
I need to learn on how to put custom summer board themes on my iPod Touch besides using the installer. Can anyone help me?

Aim: maaarkb21
 
I need to learn on how to put custom summer board themes on my iPod Touch besides using the installer. Can anyone help me?

Aim: maaarkb21

Uhh.. why not the installer? I mean it's the easiest way.

If you're asking how to do it without jailbreaking, you can't.
 
Uhh.. why not the installer? I mean it's the easiest way.

If you're asking how to do it without jailbreaking, you can't.

Well he may be packaging his own theme, or he found a theme that isn't on the installer.

Download Cyberduck and then search other forums, it's a lot easier than you might think, but you have to have SSH installed on the ipod.
 
Uhh.. why not the installer? I mean it's the easiest way.

If you're asking how to do it without jailbreaking, you can't.
Because some of the ones I see in here are awesome. I'm tired of the ones in installer and my iPod Touch is jailbroken by the way.
 
Because some of the ones I see in here are awesome. I'm tired of the ones in installer and my iPod Touch is jailbroken by the way.

Ok. Here's How

Download or create the theme.

Place it all in a folder named for the theme. In that folder should be the following (if you plan on keeping any of these stock, you can leave them out): Background.png, Dock.png, StatusBar.png, and a folder named Icons with .png files that are 60x60 for every icon you want to replace (which should each have the same name as the application you are replacing, as they appear on the SprinBoard labels)

Download Cyber Duck (or another FTP client)

Find out you iPod's IP address by going into settings and pressing WiFi then pressing the blue arrow next to the network you are on.

Now in your FTP client, start an SFTP connection to the IP address you got from your iPod. Make sure it is SFTP or it will not work. The username is root and the password is alpine.

That should bring you up to a screen with two folders and a file. Library, Media and the file I cannot remember.

Open the Library folder, and then open the SummerBoard folder.

Place your theme into the folder you find there called Themes.

Open SummerBoard and your theme should be there

Fairly simple to do when you do it once or twice you will be able to do it without thinking

If you have any questions feel free to ask
 
Im not going to take any credit for that theme, this is the guy who made it, and this is where he posted the wallpaper:

http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16782819

It comes with a few icons, and only a few, they are pretty rubbish. So this guy created the box icons which you can download here if you click on the icon.zip:

http://www.iphoneskinning.com/2007/12/spargettlouie-mantiarealizeoptica.html

There are quite a few icons, but not icons for everything (i think the icon pack was originally meant for the iPhone, but you can use the relative icons for the apps you want, like i used the sms icon for apollo, and the camera icon for video etc. Most of them aren't named, so you just pick the ones you want, name them and put them in the theme.

Happy modding :)
 
Thanks sk8mash!

Not a problem! I dont know if you are any good at photoshop, but in the icons zip file there is an empt container so you can make your own, if you do make any, could you please let me know :p because better icons could be made as not many exist at the moment! for example itunes... :D
 
Not a problem! I dont know if you are any good at photoshop, but in the icons zip file there is an empt container so you can make your own, if you do make any, could you please let me know :p because better icons could be made as not many exist at the moment! for example itunes... :D

I made my bottom shelf dock icons 70by70 so let me know if you want it resized to 60by60.
 

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I made my bottom shelf dock icons 70by70 so let me know if you want it resized to 60by60.

if its not to much trouble, could i have any extra icons you have made in 60x60, oh and a music, video, picture, and itunes one in 70x70, just if you have them, if you dont, dont worry :) i dont really like my dock icons at the moment!

I wish i could use photoshop :(
 
Alright, I understood why my homescreen was "ugly". It was very cluttered and I wasn't able to clean it up with Customize since I was still using 1.0.2. I updated to 1.1.1 and now here's my new homescreen:

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