Tens or even hundreds of Winterboard themes are rolling out each day on Cydia. I can say most of them are of mediocre quality. Usually I do not have time to look through them one by one and just let them go. But you should not miss this one — the iPhone theme called Acier.
Earlier, I have covered several great iPhone themes including illumine, HTC Hero, Whitoken, Perfect Storm and Buuf. Today, I’m going to show you another awesome iPhone themes — Acier, developed by Monty, that you should never miss.
It’s a spaceship-like, futuristic theme, loaded with UI and custom icons. It’ll take you some efforts to setup the theme but it just looks so cool and completely makes your iPhone stand out of the other regular iPhones.
Here are few screenshots of the Acier themes:
Looks cool, right? Acier completely revamps the iPhone home screen with cool icons and live clock/weather. To install the themes, you can follow the procedures below. Unlike other simple Winterboard themes, Acier depends on other cydia apps or hacks. So, it’ll take you some time to configure and install the themes (around 30 minutes). Anyway, if you love the theme, you won’t mind to spend some valuable time on it.
Let’s get started.
How to Install Acier iPhone Theme
1. First, make sure you have a jailbroken iPhone and install the following applications using Cydia:
- Winterboard – The heart of iPhone theme that lets you completely customize the look & feel of iPhone screen
- Five icon dock – Allows you to put extra icon in the dock
- Five column springboard – Adds extra column for iPhone home screen
- iC Theme Essentials – Bundles essential theme applications such as iBlank, Categories
- WeatherIcon – Displays the current weather inside iPhone icon
- LiveClock – Provides a live clock in the iPhone icon
- SpringJumps – Offers special icons as shortcuts to jump to different pages of Springboard directly
2. Download Acier theme from cydia. You’ll need to click the “Contribute” button first before you can actually download the theme. Don’t worry. It’s not a must to make the donation. Monty offers you an option to donate “Free”.
3. (Optional) If you are already using Winterboard with other themes, please uncheck it in Winterboard. This will make the following configuration process much easier.
4. Launch “Categories” and create two folders: Apps and Games. Place all your games and applications into these two folders except leaving the following application behind:
- Phone
- Settings
- Contacts
- Weather
- iPod
- App store
- Cydia
- Clock
- Safari
- Games
- Apps
- iTunes
- Photos
- Calendar
- Text/messages
- Maps
- Winterboard
- YouTube
5. Next, tap “iBlank” to launch it. iBlank is an application to let you create blank icons. Use it to create 52 blank icons. You can tap “13″ for four times to create a total of 52 icons.
6. Go back to home screen and launch SpringJump. Tap “General” and disable “Page Titles”. Go back and tap “Jump Icons”. Flip the switch to OFF for Page 5 – 8.
7. Next, place the remaining five SpringJump icons in the dock.
8. Now it comes to the most important and tedious part. Just arrange the icons like the screenshots shown below.
9. Once you complete the icon arrangement, launch “Winterboard” and enable “Acier”, as well as other options shown below:
10. Click home button to refresh the springboard and enjoy the awesome Acier theme!
What do you think about Acier theme? As always, remember to leave your comment and let us know your thought.
[Thanks to Monty for developing such great iPhone theme!]
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I would most definitely spend the time to get this phenomenally designed theme.
However, iPhone Dev Team has yet to release Jailbreak solution for OS 3.1 on Windows. As soon as they do, my phone will be re-jailbroken and this will be the first thing I put on it.
@Ben, another team of iPhone developers will soon port the PwnageTool from Mac to Windows (called sn0wbreeze). So, you’ll be able to jailbreak iPhone 3.1 on Windows.
I love the look of the theme and have followed the steps to download all needed components. However, I’m having an issue with arranging the icons. I seem to have 6 pages and there are no blank icons on page 0 or 5, hence the icons wont sit where I want them. Can you help?
@Dan, you can simply drag any blank icon from page 2/3/4 to page 0 to arrange the icons.
Yeah I realised after posting, all done looks great!!! Thanks ffor taking the time to compile the guide!!
hey, i love this theme and this forum helped me set it up thanks,
but what is the repo needed for the IC theme Essentials??
cheers
Hey simon, I think I’ve fixed it now, awsome guide, thanks a lot
I guess undoing this theme is a big problem!
PLLLLEASE HELP!! Im not very technical but I managed to follow ur step by step guide to this theme and everything worked perfect apart from….when I went to winterboard clicked Theme etc I cam back to home page and the background is black and at the bottom left corner it says no wallpaper uploaded??? Whys the earth wallpaper not showing??? Gutted i tried my other themes and the background/wallpapers arent showing either :’( x
@MissCharli –> I suppose, you are probably using BossPaper and perhaps that is why is it saying no wallpaper loaded. Try and disable it. Should work.
And can anyone please give me the iC Theme Essentials repo??
hi all,
is anybody knows how to download a gif screensaver into an iphone 3gs mobile ..?
help please.
thanks
THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!!
This is perfect…tedious, but worth it!!!!
Hey guys so I got it all working but my lockscreen doesnt look like the one posted. Its a smiley face inside an iphone. Whats up with that?
Ahbi, that theme has random layouts, at some point you will see the lock screen layout in he photo, don’t worry it happens on mines too
haha nvm..I guess it just shows up when I’m connected to my PC? coollllllll
Ahbi, that theme has random layouts, at some point you will see the lock screen layout in he photo, don’t worry it happens on mines too
MY PHONE, IPOD, SAFARI, DO NOT LOOK LIKE THE ONE IN THE DISPLAY,,, ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED… MUCHAS GRACIAS HAY LOS WAWIS
Thanks for the walkthrough took me a bit longer then 30 mins haha i`m really new at this so my question is if i one day change the theme how do i get all that i`ve done back to what it originally was? and question 2: on your picture u have an awesome application symbol at mine it is just a grey boring box the game symbol worked. did i do something wrong or any clues how i can change that? thanks in advance. great job
forgot to ask.. can i save the whole process once its done? so i dont have to do it all over again? i mean i use it for awhile then want a different theme and after awhile i wanna use acier again, do i have to repeat the painful process then again?
LOL I took a half hour to create this theme on my ipod touch. Its sucks in Itouch!!! only for Iphone, all the icons on the Itouch are wrong etc.
You have to SSH and change some of the icons, It’s really the best theme I could find for my iPod touch
Absolutely awesome
love it love it love it
someone help. im having a problem installing the theme. No contribution thing pops up and it wont let me download it unless i donate. someone tell me what to do.
Llooks cool,but it would take too much time to get used to and is too complicated for me.