As you install more applications on iPhone, you may hit the nine pages limit of iPhone. Developer, Yanik Magnan, has recently developed a hack to enable five column springboard (or FCSB). This adds an extra column of icons to iPhone springboard, so you can load even more applications on iPhone.
The five column springboard hack is still in development. But as I tested on firmware 2.2, it works pretty good already. If you can’t wait for the formal release, you can follow the procedures to install it.
How to Install Five Column Springboard
1. Before you install five column springboard, make sure you have installed the following required packages. All packages can be download and installed via Cydia:
- MobileSubstrate
- Ruby
- MobileTerminal
- Erica Utilities
2. Next, download fcsb-054.deb
3. Transfer this file to iPhone using SSH (or DiskAid) and put it under “/private/var/mobile”.
4. Launch MobileTerminal application and type “su root”
5. Then type “alpine” for password. Followed by typing “dpkg -i fcsb-054.deb”
6. Respring or reboot your iPhone
To uninstall five column springboard, you can remove it using Cydia.
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How do you uninstall this???
It’s not showing up in my cydia!
Please help me!
Email:
Joelalandavis@gmail
There is also a five icon dock (available in Cydia)
@Sonsum, thanks for sharing the app. I’ve covered Five Icon dock in this post.
I want to get rid of this tweak, but when I try to delete it, it tells me I need “superuser privilege”. I thought this has happeed to me before and i think I remember fixing it by changing one of the settings on cydia but I have no idea now and I really want this off my iPod!!! please help, this is frustrating me and I’m desperate
I keep getting
“dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege”
nevermind… disregard the last post (and this one too)
Whats the name of the theme on the bottom right iphone screen?
Pump Theme – it says it when you hover over the image
Simon the file to download whivh u mentioned (2. Next, download fcsb-054.deb) is not available, make it available or give alternaive link. Thanks
@turaif, the five column springboard is now available via cydia. Launch cydia and search for “Five-Column Springboard” and install it directly.
You don’t need to do all this now; just search in cydia “five” and you will immediately see Five Icon Dock, Five Column Springboard, and Five iRows. For the ultimate iPhone! =)
youtube.com/killernumberx go there lol but okay there’s nothing about iphones yet…
oh. lol. click on me ^^^
Anybody got this to work in 3.1.2??
@odaman,
Presently, it doesn’t support iPhone OS 3.1 or up.
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heres the easy way to get the five collum springboard, install RockApp then search for five collum sb, then after you got that power off/on then go back to cydia you un-install RockApp and thats it….
Hello!
Thank you so much for this blog. I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve a question. Does fcsb-054.deb displays calendar, miss calls, emails and sms on lock screen? I don’t know how to disable that. HELP please!!!
Thanks in adv.
Thae
@Thae,
This package is just for adding extra column.
Hi! Thanks for quick reply.
I’m sorry to be a pain but calendar, miss calls, emails and sms on lock screen didn’t displayed before that dab file was installed and activited. I am a bit confused. I know this particular topic is to make 5 columns icons but what about that DAB file please.
Thanks ever so much.