Use WinterBoard to skin your iPhone 2.0

by Simon Ng on August 16, 2008

Bored with the background and standard icons on your iPhone, if your iPhone is a jailbreak one, you got the privilege to use WinterBoard and give your iPhone a completely new skin. WinterBoard on iPhone 2.0 (like its predecessor Summerboard for iPhone 1.1.4) is an iPhone theme manager that allows you to change any WinterBoard/SummerBoard theme on iPhone. Take a look how Winterboard can skin your iPhone

How about changing your iPhone to Vending Machine?
WinterBoard - Vending Machine

Or use Wood?
WinterBoard - Wood

How about Vista’s look & feel?
WinterBoard - Vista

Like the new look & feel of iPhone? To use WinterBoard is easy,

1. First, you can install Winterboard through Cydia.

2. Next, in Cydia, select and install any WinterBoard/SummerBoard theme you like

Cydia - Select WinterBoard Theme

3. Go back to Home screen and launch WinterBoard. Tap on the skin you just install and click the Home button

WinterBoard

4. Okay, wait for a few second and let WinterBoard load the skin for you. You’ll then bring back to the locked screen. Unlock it and you’ll see a fresh new look of your iPhone.

WinterBoard - Deep

Switching back to the original iPhone Look & Feel

Some time, you may want to back to basic and use the original iPhone theme. There is no direct button that let you do so. You need to download a “default” WinterBoard theme. And then, go back to WinterBoard and install the theme.

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1 Daniel P. Long October 18, 2008 at 11:53 am

Just … great! My iPhone has been themed.
But can you tell me where did you get these themes please.
Thanks a lot

2 Simon Ng October 18, 2008 at 10:56 pm

Daniel, you can download themes via Cydia. Try add the following source in Cydia if you don’t have. Both sources offers a great collection of iPhone themes.

iSpazio
http://repo.neolinus.org/cydia/apt

BigBoss & Planet-iPhones
http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/

3 Phuong November 6, 2008 at 4:48 am

hi Simon,
It looks very nice. However, I did those steps, and the theme did not change in my iphone? may you tell me why?

4 Simon Ng November 7, 2008 at 12:45 am

Phuong, did you restart your iPhone after installing Winterboard?

5 crurehoop December 20, 2008 at 1:13 pm

The good resource should be brought in bookmarks

6 Sonia December 22, 2008 at 5:06 am

What is Saurik?

Thanks,

7 erik January 19, 2009 at 5:03 pm

how can i take themes i can download online and put them on my iphone or use on winterboard? i am wondering cuz i see many themes i cannot sew on cydia online that i am able to DL

8 lakhan January 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm

hi,
i didnt got how is these to be done…
Go back to Home screen and launch WinterBoard. Tap on the skin you just install and click the Home button

9 BeLL March 13, 2009 at 7:48 am

Hello Simon,
Omg!Thanks for the great tips i love my new screen way better then the last.
I have one questions how can i download more of my favorite ringtones?Any tips?

10 Simon Ng March 13, 2009 at 8:15 am: @BeLL, you can download your favorite ringtone on your computer and transfer to iPhone using the procedures mentioned in this post about iRinger.

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11 bill August 5, 2009 at 6:02 am

ok a noob question. if you JB your iphone & say something goes wrong with (hardware wise) & u need 2 return the phone, is there any way to “un-jailbreak’ it so your warranty will not be voided ?

12 Simon Ng August 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm: @Bill, you can just restore the original firmware to unjailbreak the iPhone.

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13 John Elwes September 7, 2009 at 8:32 pm

Am I right in thinking that many of the applications that one has on a 3G 2.2.1 iPhone will not be acceptable when upgrading to 3.0 and 3.0.1? Is there a list of some sorts for both the Apple Store and Cydia the possibles/impossibles?. Could be useful. I’ve got a feeling that firmware is going to change fairly rapidly in future but will the Apps be able to keep up?. It’s irritating to be using a certain application successfully only to find that it becomes obsolete on upgrading!! Be interested in other views on this points.

John

14 chingna September 15, 2009 at 9:01 am

hi simon!
i got my fone jailbroken by friend and he also upgraded my iphone into 3.1, now i want to upload music on mu iphone using itunes but am afraid that i might unjailbreak it again like what happend to me last month.. how can i upload music using my itunes without restoring it? pls help me.. thank you!!

15 Stephanie September 30, 2009 at 4:57 am