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Winterboard Theme: You’ll Love the Buuf Theme

By on February 11, 2009 in Posted In: iPhone, Themes

Are you looking for a great theme to decorate your iPhone? You’ll love this great Winterboard theme – Buuf2. Buuf2 theme is Winterboard theme offered by modmyi.com that inspires by mattahan’s artwork. The theme comes with vivid cartoon icons, sms bubbles, customized weather & note theme and over 500 icons, as well as, a themed dialler.

You’ll love it!

buuf_lockbuuf_home_screen

To download, just launch Cydia and search for “Buuf2″. The package is quite large and you may need to retry a number of times to get successfully loaded on your iPhone.

buuf_notesbuuf_dialler

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  • JEDDDD

    I really love this theme, it is just so smooth and clean. Always gets a “wow” when i show it to people. Really hope these guys do more.

  • Sonia

    I am having trouble finding some of the stuff published in this blog, for example, this “Buuf2“, and the “wheathericon“. When I hit search, it just won´t show any results.

    Can someone help me?

    Thanks,

  • http://rezaudio.com rez

    I have some of these icons but I can’t remember where I got them from!

    I’d post a pic but I don’t how to on here?

    Nice.

  • http://rezaudio.com rez

    BTW: does anyone know how to make the non-pre-installed icons appear with a clear background? After I replaced the pre-installed ones with new ones I tried the same with new apps and they ALL appear with a square tile behind them!?

    Note: the apps that are installed via Cydia work OK.

    Again I’d post a pic to show what I mean but – errrmmm … I don’t think I can here.

    Ta

  • Alex Chai

    @Sonia: the theme is in Cydia. just type in “buuf” and you should be able to find it. take care not to type “buff” instead of “buuf”. i made that error several times myself.

    @rez: use a graphic editor (e.g. photoshop) and delete the background to make it transparent (i’m assuming you have some graphic editing knowledge). then save the remaining layer as a PNG file. if you need help with the icons, feel free to email me at dracwy (at) hotmail (dot) com. i hope Simon doesn’t mind me putting my email address here. :P

  • http://rezaudio.com rez

    @Alex Chai: thanks for your comments – I thought that because I was using new icons that already had transparent backgrounds it would work OK but the iPhone seems to add a background tile to them!? (I’m using iPhone browser to replace the icons)

    I will email you a screen shot and see what you think.

    BTW: I’m using GIMP as a graphic editor as it’s free but does what I need. For example I used it to change the iPhone logo at the top of the screen to my name.

    Cheers

  • Sonia

    Thanks Alex. I got it, I had erased the repository.

    I have another question you may have the answer. Recently Cydia notified me of new updates. After the update my default iPhone fonts were replaced by a courier font, which I hate. Do you know how can I get back my original fonts?

    Thanks again,

  • Alex Chai

    @rez: i’ve replied you. the problem may lie in the size of the icon. let me know. :)

    @sonia: i believe the cydia update updated your winterboard. access your iphone directory (e.g. SSH), then search for the /saurik.theme/ folder, it is probably somewhere in “/private/var/stash/themes.****/”. once you find it, edit the info.plist file under the /saurik.theme/ folder. there’re two entries of “font types”, edit the “courier new” one out and replace with helvetica, which is the default font of iphone. that should do the trick. :)

  • Alex Chai

    @Simon: any tips on how to change the theme of the keyboard to buuf too?

  • http://rezaudio.com rez

    @Alex Chai: I did reply to your email (at least I thought I had) …

    “Hello again – as I suspected that didn’t work. Although the standard icon size is 60×60 it will accept other sizes (many of mine are different) but again it puts in a background tile!?

    Thanks for trying.”

    So anyway – thank you for your efforts … anyone else have any ideas?

  • Alex Chai

    @rez: got your email. i tried the icon on my own phone, and it works, i.e. it does have a transparent background. perhaps you forgot to rename the filename of the icon to match that of your app? :)

  • Sonia

    Alex, thanks for your help, however, the instructions you gave me are too advanced for me. I really do not know much about iphone. Could you guide me step by step starting on the iphones home page?

    Sorry for the bother, I´d really appreciate your help ¡¡¡

    Thanks again,

    Sonia

  • Alex Chai

    @sonia: you may wish to drop me an email at dracwy (at) hotmail (dot) com, and i’ll guide you along. i dont wanna flood this comments page. :)

    • ishham

      hi Alex…. can U email to me how to install buuf for all icon and change font too…

      thank

  • Teddy

    Hiya…just installed winterboard ..just for this theme…awesome looks…but just wanted to know what can i do to get “slide to unlock: back instead of BUUF2….my folks think…im swearing !! :)

  • Teddy

    alex…a litle help here…total newbie..got my 3g last month

  • Alex Chai

    hi teddy, SSH into your iphone. look for \Library\Themes\Buuf2.Theme\Bundles\com.apple.springboard\en.lproj
    copy over to your computer, edit the following string in the en.lproj file with any text editor (e.g. Notepad):
    “AWAY_LOCK_LABEL” = “”
    copy the edited file back to your iphone. respring, and u’ll get your customised slide text.

  • Alex Chai

    sorry the previous post didnt turn out as expected due to the HTML tags.

    “AWAY_LOCK_LABEL”=”[Whatever you wanna say here]“

  • Teddy

    thanks mate…will try ur instructions..now i gotta learn how to ssh :)

  • Alex Chai

    teddy, if u face any problems, feel free to drop me an email. my email address can be found in the earlier comments.

  • Wesley

    I just loaded up buuf and now my icon labels above my bottom dock are all gone. is there a setting within buuf to turn them back on? or is this a coding problem all together.

  • Alex Chai

    @Wesley: in winterboard, uncheck the “No Undocked Icon Labels” if it is checked.

  • Wesley

    good call dude. i didn’t even notice that option. i rarely tend to scroll that far down. thanks for the prompt response too

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1170428991 Ky Harvey

    I used cyberduck to ssh and tried to find the strings in the com.apple.springboard folder from another theme with a custom “slide to unlock” text and there is only .png files there. I looked in other theme folders and can’t find any text files at all. The only text I can find at all is in the theme folder:

    NavigationBarStyle
    1
    UndockedIconLabelStyle
    /*font-family: monospace;*/ font-size: 13px; color: pink
    DockedIconLabelStyle
    /*font-family: monospace;*/ font-size: 13px; color: pink
    TimeStyle
    /*font-family: monospace;*/ font-size: 16px; color: pink

    Any ideas? I even tried to make my own theme and can’t get anything other than slide to unlock…

  • Ati007

    I use this theme but my icons didn’t changed. How can I change?

  • Rhonlith

    @Ati007
    I have the same problem icons didn’t change, unlock screen and wallpaper did but not the icons.

  • http://none Fossil

    Thank you for your positng!

    I really really like this theme and I used your posting and pictures so well
    to introduce this great buff theme to others, Thank you!

  • Wing

    nice theme!! i love it!!

    but the calculator,sms,dialer and note cannot be changed….my phone is iOS4.1…can u help???