iPhone 4 Themes

[04ForXT]

Updated to Suave HD & custom layout using iBlanks. In love with this setup!

 

[marco44]

yo 04forxt how exactly do I get that theme?

 

[Rizzla]

Looks very nice and crisp

 

[cheaposity]

nice themes how do i download em

 

[The manager]

Wonderful thread.... Where have you got this wonderful purple wallpaper from?

ty

 

[landywood]

Ok try this Motion4FX/3DFiction/iElegance put them all together and see what you think this is what i have

Regards Mike

 

[04ForXT]

yo 04forxt how exactly do I get that theme?

Thanks! This is Suave HD.

I went to the thread at MacThemes Forum / [theme] Suave HD by Thyraz and scrolled toward the last pages until I found one of the .zip files somebody loaded that contains the bundle identifiers already in place. There is an ENORMOUS quantity of icons there - seemingly endless. The thread is like 85 pages long (!) and almost every page has many many icons on it. Every time I go into it I find new ones I want to switch out!

Serious credit needs to go to the people that put in the effort to bundle these things. It has to be very tedious, to go through the list of bundle identifiers and correctly title everything!

The actual icons came from / are housed on this site (credit goes to the creators, who are listed at the top): Suave HD Icons Scroll to the bottom of the page for the download link.

One thing to note is that many of the apps have multiple icon options stored in their 'bundles' folder. So, if you're not crazy about one, there are others that may better suit your fancy.

For instance, I wasn't crazy about the standard Bite SMS icon, but in the com.bitesms folder there are I think 4 options. All you do is identify the one that is currently being used, and then change its title to something else (but don't delete it). Then simply change the name of the one you do want to use to whatever the title was for the first one. Most simply have '[email protected]' or something, so all you'd do is remove the '-alt'....

The other option would be to go through that thread above (if something you like hasn't been added to that xengi page yet) and then just create your own bundle in the theme's folder using the identifier.

For my specific setup, I have '5 column springboard' enabled - download it from Cydia. This will allow you to have the 3-across springboard layout with 2 blank spaces, one on each end.

Last step is to download iBlanks from Cydia and position them however you'd like in order to get the custom layout. In the screenshot above, I place one iBlank at either end of the screen, i.e. to the left of Bite SMS and to the right of Camera, etc.

In case you need it (in case you want to add an icon that isn't included in the pre-bundled folder), here's the list of bundle identifiers: CFBundleIdentifer Database

Totally worth it - I switch themes often, but love this layout so much I haven't touched it in 2 weeks!

Enjoy

 

[Baghdad]

No theme installed yet. Haven't seen a iPhone4-compatible theme I like.

 

[04ForXT]

Sorry to flood the thread, but wanted to share my new phone icon. I take no credit for anything but combining two previously existing Suave HD phone icons.

Here's what it looks like on the homescreen:

This would need to replace the icon in the Suave HD bundle com.apple.mobilephone

 

[Monkeh]

For instance, I wasn't crazy about the standard Bite SMS icon, but in the com.bitesms folder there are I think 4 options. All you do is identify the one that is currently being used, and then change its title to something else (but don't delete it). Then simply change the name of the one you do want to use to whatever the title was for the first one. Most simply have '[email protected]' or something, so all you'd do is remove the '-alt'....

Thanks for the advice. Going to ask probably a bit of a n00bish question here but how do you identify the icons that are in use? What I mean is that I have dl and installed Suave HD and some of the icons have changed. However, a lot of the icons such as Camera, Photos, iPod etc. are the "stock" icons and have not changed. Where do I find the "stock" icons to rename them so I can use the Suave icons (hope that makes sense what I am asking)?

 

[Roy_Drage]

Just go into the Suave HD folder, there should be a folder in there called 'Icons' or something like that. This is the place where all the icons in the suave HD theme are kept.

What you have to do is make sure that the icon you want to use in the Suave HD's Icon folder is named EXACTLY the same as the icon on the home screen. So scroll through the icons in the suave HD theme until you come across the ones you want to use. So if you wanted to change the icon for Camera, scroll through the folder to find all the bundled camera icon images, find an icon image you like and then name that file 'Camera.PNG'.

Then once activated in winterboard it should overwrite the default icon on the home screen.

You don't need to find the default stock icons at all, leave them alone.

For instance, I wasn't crazy about the standard Bite SMS icon, but in the com.bitesms folder there are I think 4 options. All you do is identify the one that is currently being used, and then change its title to something else (but don't delete it). Then simply change the name of the one you do want to use to whatever the title was for the first one. Most simply have '[email protected]' or something, so all you'd do is remove the '-alt'....

Thanks for the advice. Going to ask probably a bit of a n00bish question here but how do you identify the icons that are in use? What I mean is that I have dl and installed Suave HD and some of the icons have changed. However, a lot of the icons such as Camera, Photos, iPod etc. are the "stock" icons and have not changed. Where do I find the "stock" icons to rename them so I can use the Suave icons (hope that makes sense what I am asking)?

 

[04ForXT]

Just go into the Suave HD folder, there should be a folder in there called 'Icons' or something like that. This is the place where all the icons in the suave HD theme are kept.

What you have to do is make sure that the icon you want to use in the Suave HD's Icon folder is named EXACTLY the same as the icon on the home screen. So scroll through the icons in the suave HD theme until you come across the ones you want to use. So if you wanted to change the icon for Camera, scroll through the folder to find all the bundled camera icon images, find an icon image you like and then name that file 'Camera.PNG'.

Then once activated in winterboard it should overwrite the default icon on the home screen.

You don't need to find the default stock icons at all, leave them alone.

For instance, I wasn't crazy about the standard Bite SMS icon, but in the com.bitesms folder there are I think 4 options. All you do is identify the one that is currently being used, and then change its title to something else (but don't delete it). Then simply change the name of the one you do want to use to whatever the title was for the first one. Most simply have '[email protected]' or something, so all you'd do is remove the '-alt'....

Thanks for the advice. Going to ask probably a bit of a n00bish question here but how do you identify the icons that are in use? What I mean is that I have dl and installed Suave HD and some of the icons have changed. However, a lot of the icons such as Camera, Photos, iPod etc. are the "stock" icons and have not changed. Where do I find the "stock" icons to rename them so I can use the Suave icons (hope that makes sense what I am asking)?

Well, yes and no. You do need to locate the 'stock' icons in the Suave HD "Bundles" folder in order to change their title (by including 'alt' or something). Otherwise you will not be able to change the desired new icon to the same exact title. See below for more....I'll go into quite a bit of detail just for the sake of completeness, so if any of this is too basic just skip over it!!

Here's an example: The bundle identifier for camera is com.apple.mobileslideshow. That's the folder (located in Suave HD/Bundles/) that contains all of the camera and photo album icons. The stock camera icon is called (capitalization counts!) [email protected].

So if you want to change out that png file for a new one (i.e. a Suave'd one), you need to rename it "[email protected]". Note that you will need to rename the one that is currently named [email protected] before you are able to name the new one that exact title (obviously...)

The way I prefer to do it is to make all amendments on my computer, and then SSH the completed (or updated if I just added a few icons) Suave HD folder onto my phone.

An alternative method is to simply do all of the editing on your phone through your SSH client. I have an old Powerbook and so that way is slow. If you have a newer and/or faster computer it may be the easier way!

Once you've got the theme and all of the bundle identifier folders how you want them with all of the icons titled correctly, you simply deselect in WinterBoard, respring, reselect in WinterBoard, and respring again. That should display all of the Suave'd icons you've placed on the phone.

Any that do not show are most likely mistitled - either in the bundle identifier or in the png filename itself.

Here is the bible for bundle identifiers and icon titles:

CFBundleIdentifer Database

That page contains many, many, many bundle identifiers (just use ctrl + f to search for the name of the app you want to find) as well as the icon titles to use.

Just a few examples so you get the idea:

Camera (already done): com.apple.mobileslideshow & [email protected]
Photos: com.apple.mobileslideshow & [email protected]
Phone: com.apple.mobilephone & [email protected]
Maps: [email protected]

3rd party examples:

Cydia: com.saurik.Cydia & icon.png
WinterBoard: com.saurik.Winterboard & icon.png
Angry Birds: com.clickgamer.AngryBirds & [email protected]
Fruit Ninja: com.Halfbrick.Fruit & [email protected]

So the 'com.developer.appname' is the folder within 'Suave HD' (or any other theme that uses the bundles method), and the icon title above is what the png file you intend to use as the app's icon MUST be named for it to display correctly.

Any alternative icons can be housed in the same com.xxxx.yyyy folder; it doesn't affect anything and can be handy if you have several that you like, and want to change them out periodically. For instance, if you have 2 Suave HD'd Fruit Ninja icons that you like, put them both in the com.Halfbrick.Fruit folder, and name one [email protected] and the other [email protected]. The first one will display now, and then later you can simply swap the titles and the second one will display.

I hope that makes sense! The bundles method is actually very easy - and quite addictive once you get going. I have found it so easy to swap out icons that I'm doing it way too often - spending too much time choosing just the right Fruit Ninja icon, for instance

Have fun and please let me know if I can help!

 

[Roy_Drage]

Lol fair enough. I was simply going off memory from an older/different theme. I assume your using the suave HD theme what with all the @2x at the end.

 

[04ForXT]

Lol fair enough. I was simply going off memory from an older/different theme. I assume your using the suave HD theme what with all the @2x at the end.

Yep - most (all??) of the theme icons optimized for the Retina Display require icons that are twice the size of the 'non-hd' versions, as well as the @2x in the filename. If that part of the filename doesn't appear, i.e. icon-Camera.png instead of [email protected], the result will look like this on the Retina Display (got this image from a MacThemes forum thread):

The bundles method with the individual identifiers and @2x.png filenames - in addition to being a very easy method of managing icons - allows the icons to show up in the correct resolution. If you're creating icons yourself, keep in mind is that they need to be 114 x 114 (Suave HD is 120 x 120). Previous icons for non-RD iDevices were 57 x 57. Makes sense since the RD doubled the display's pixel density......

 

[Monkeh]

Roy/04ForXt - thanks for the help.

Something still not right here though. Everything what you have said makes sense and, for now, I have only tried to change the Camera/Photos icon. For some reason it will not change. I think I have found the "stock" icon which lives in var/stash/Applications/MobileSlideShow.app and have renamed every .png in there relating to the Camera and Photos icons to have an alt- in front. I have searched my phone for [email protected] and the only one on my phone is the one in the SuaveHD folder. The Suave one is still not showing up.

Any ideas?