There are plenty of amazing free themes available via Winterboard in Cydia. We have been using Winterboard themes for 4 years now and here are some of the best we have collected over the years. Check out some of the best free iPhone & iPhone HD (for iPhone 4) winterboard themes available on Cydia. We keep adding more themes to the list every week. So make sure you bookmark this article and keep coming back for more.

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Best iPhone Winterboard Themes [Cydia] - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/11/10 (RSS)

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If you upgraded a Jailbroken iPhone to 3.0 and are missing icons for apps you put in categories then go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions. Enable Restrictions and then Disable Restrictions and that should bring back your icons for your apps!

Hope this works for you! Check out this comment thread for more hands on info from our wonderful readers.

Check out more iPhone tips & tricks here. Do you have a tip you want to share, leave a comment or just write to us.

Quick Tip: How to Get Your Category App Icons After Upgrading Firmware? - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/10/05 (RSS)

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Dev Team has just released the Redsn0w and PwnageTool jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 firmware. In fact, it has been 3 years since they released the first version of PwnageTool for iOS firmware 1.1.4.

Here is an excerpt from their release note

WARNING WARNING — ultrasn0w users don’t update yet! See a few paragraphs down!

The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes courtesy of Stefan Esser (@i0n1c on twitter), a security researcher based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved security — last year he beat Apple to the punch and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his “antid0te” framework. We’re happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit!

The 4.3.1 untether works on all devices that actually support 4.3.1 except for the iPad2:

• iPhone3GS
• iPhone4 (GSM)
• iPod touch 3G
• iPod touch 4G
• iPad1
• AppleTV 2G (PwnageTool only for now)

The reason the untether won’t work as-is on the iPad2 is that it requires a bootrom or iBoot-level exploit to install, and the iPad2 is not susceptible to either the limera1n or SHAtter bootrom exploits.

You can read the complete Dev Team blog post here.

Redsn0w and PwnageTool for iOS 4.3.1 Download Links

redsn0w 0.9.6rc9

• OS X redsn0w
• Windows redsn0w

PwnageTool Official Bittorent Releases

• PwnageTool_4.3.dmg.6293151.TPB.torrent

SHA1 Sum = 9e8ce7d4eb79b5f839efa0233893ef1a6a5e3c5c

iOS 4.3.1 Jailbreak for iPad – Redsn0w & PwnageTool Available Now - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/10/05 (RSS)

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iBox Carbon is one the awesome carbon based winterboard themes. iBox Carbon has over 2000+ app icons already out there plus en endless stream of new icons coming out every so often. You get FTP support at www.marcovanveelen.nl/Carbon to get the new icons.

If you like a blackish sleek look on your iPhone, iBox Carbon will give it an excellent unique look! Every app has this headphonish black box around the top that is very elegant. Check out the screenshots below and may it is time for a new look!

How to Install iBox Carbon?

1. Your device must be jailbroken. (read about iPhone 3GS 3.1 jailbreak here)
2. You must have Winterboard app installed via Cydia.
3. You must have ModMyi Repository added to Cydia.
4. Search for iBox Carbon in Cydia and install it.
5. Launch Winterboard app and activate iBox Carbon.

Screenshots

Don’t forget to check out our collection of best iPhone Winterboard Themes.

iBox Carbon iPhone Winterboard Theme - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/10/05 (RSS)

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iFade Black is a cool & simple theme with a lot of custom App icons. It has the book shelf look and it is in a black/gray shade. It really makes the Apps stand out because of the simple background and the shelf lines.

I have the Captain Morgan lockscreen installed since this theme didn’t come with a unique lockscreen. There are other color schemes from this author and we will feature them shortly.

How to Install iFade Black?

1. Your device must be jailbroken.
2. You must have Winterboard installed via Cydia.
3. You must have BigBoss and PlanetiPhones Repository added to Cydia.
4. Search for iFade Black in Cydia and install it.
5. Launch Winterboard and activate iFade Black.

Screenshots

Don’t forget to check out our collection of our favorite iPhone Winterboard Themes.

iFade Black Winterboard Theme - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/09/27 (RSS)

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So, I just wanted to take it in after a backup and update to iOS 4.3 in a non-jailbroken state. However, when iTunes started to update to iOS 4.3, after going through most of the steps at the end it threw the ‘iTunes 1013 error’.

Usually this happens when iTunes can’t verify your device with Apple. Then it clicked.

I had used TinyUmbrella easlier to save my SHSH blobs to Cydia and one of the things it does is to block access to Apple servers. This lets you restore to a lower iOS long after Apple has stopped signing those versions.

In TinyUmbrella, go to Advanced tab and make sure you uncheck “Set Hosts to Cydia on Exit” option.

As a double check, make sure you don’t have an entry in hosts file in your computer for gs.apple.com. If you do, comment it out and try the restore process again.

That did the trick for me and I was able to restore successfully.

How to Fix iTunes Error 1013 While Updating to iOS 4.3 - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/08/17 (RSS)

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Ferrari iPhone Winterboard theme is a treat for Ferrari fans. It features beautiful lockscreen as you can see below. Plus, it spots an awesome wallpaper with a floating horse! Yes, it moves all around in your screen. It also has a Ferrari rpm guage while it’s charging, themed dialer and a weather screen.

How to Install Ferrari?

1. Your device must be jailbroken.
2. You must have Winterboard installed via Cydia.
3. You must have ModMyi Repository added to Cydia.
4. Search for Ferrari in Cydia and install it.
5. Launch Winterboard and activate Ferrari theme.

Screenshots

Don’t forget to check out our collection of our favorite iPhone Winterboard Themes.

Ferrari iPhone Winterboard Theme - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/08/17 (RSS)

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How to prevent iPhone app deletion or how to protect iPhone app from being deleted?

You might have a little one or let your iPhone be used by someone else only to find some apps have been deleted accidentally or intentionally. This sucks as most of the time you might also lose the data associated with the app as well.

If you have a jailbroken iPhone, this can be done by one of several ways through jailbreak apps that you can download via Cydia or Rock app.

• Lockdown – Go to Settings –> Lockdown app deletion. You won’t be able to delete apps even though they wiggle.
  



• Categories – Any app you put in a Category folder can’t be deleted from the Springboard. You have go to the Categories app to delete the app from the folder or your iPhone.
• SpringLocker – Lets you toggle to move your iPhone apps but doesn’t let you delete app as long as you have this turned on via Settings.
• Supreme Preferences – If you have Winterboard app installed, this app adds a lot of extra preference options including the one to prevent app deletion.
• Locktopus – iOS 4 compatible app available for $2 in Cydia store does pretty much what Lockdown did.

As you can see you can use any one of these jailbreak iPhone apps to prevent accidental app deletion by your kid or anyone playing around with your phone.

if you use Categories a lot, you already have protected your apps unknowingly.

Do you know of more ways to protect app deletion? Sound off in the comments.

Hat tip: to Today in iPhone listeners & Rob who shared this info in the podcast.

Quick Tip: How to Prevent iPhone App Deletion? [jailbreak] - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/08/17 (RSS)

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But, we love jailbreaking and our beloved iPhone Dev-Team warns against updating to firmware 2.2 yet. In fact, this is what they say exactly

If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

A few reasons they cite against updating to 2.2

• 2.2 firmware for 3G contains baseband update for the 3G iPhone
• PwnageTool & QuickPwn do not support his release yet, so don’t update to 2.2 via iTunes.
• Your iPhone could become deactivated and unusable if you had previously relied on PwnageTool or QuickPwn to activate and if you now applied this update.
• Non AppStore apps will stop working
• 2G (ist gen) iPhone users can theoratically be able to update to 2.2 via iTunes and preserve existing activation. But, if you restore to 2.2 iTunes, your iPhone will go to unactivated state. If in doubt, hold off for the updated PwnageTool or QuickPwn.

We will bring you the most current news on PwnageTool and QuickPwn as we learn. So stay tuned.

As you can see, our posts on jailbreak 2.1 & winterboard themes are the most popular in the site and firmware 2.2 will be no different. We will bring you detailed step by step instructions as we do it on our own iPhone 3G.

If you’d like to stay updated, you can get free automatic updates with our RSS feed or even get notified by email. If you are a Twitterer, we are at twitter.com/TopiPhone.

Dev-Team Warns Against Updating to Firmware 2.2 - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/08/12 (RSS)

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Bliss Winterboard theme is a stylish, light, clean and pleasant theme. It comes with a smooth, seamless, vibrant panoramic scrolling wallpaper, over 150 matching icons, a custom dock, slider and battery. It also borrows a few buttons and bars from another theme called iPhoenix.

I highly recommend trything this theme out if you like a light and feel-good theme for your iPhone. Thanks to the developer smi4450 for a wonderful theme.

How to Install Bliss?

1. Your device must be jailbroken.
2. You must have Winterboard installed via Cydia.
3. You must have modmyi Repository added to Cydia.
4. Search for Bliss theme in Cydia and install it.
5. Launch Winterboard and activate Bliss.

Screenshots

Don’t forget to check out our collection of our favorite iPhone Winterboard Themes. We also have started a collection of iPad winterboard themes.  So check it out if you have an Apple iPad

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Bliss iPhone Winterboard Theme - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/08/11 (RSS)

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