Customize Wallpaper

[TBoyTim]

Hello,

I don't know if anybody else has had this happen, but I have ran into a little problem when trying to change the wallpaper (the one behind all the icons) with customize.

I am running 1.1.4 and have both customize and summerboard installed.

Here is the problem, when i go into the sumerboard prefs and turn off "use theme wallpaper" and choose a different one in customize it just throws up the lockscreen wallpaper instead of the one i chose in customize.

Any ideas on what to do?

[bruss147]

I'm interested in finding out too. I have a friend with this problem.

[Kevin Dunahee]

I wonder if Summerboard and Customize are conflicting each other. Just making sure you know this, but there are two options for wallpaper in Summerboard. "Theme Wallpaper" and "Wallpaper". Do you have "Wallpaper" on or off? Try switching it and see what happens.

[Severed]

Make sure you have the Summerboard settings like I do below. This is an old image, but it still holds true.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/TheHelper_2007/Example.png

[TBoyTim]

I wonder if Summerboard and Customize are conflicting each other. Just making sure you know this, but there are two options for wallpaper in Summerboard. "Theme Wallpaper" and "Wallpaper". Do you have "Wallpaper" on or off? Try switching it and see what happens.

Yeah, I've tried that. Like you said they must be conflicting.

@ Severed

Thanks but it still doesn't work for me. Maybe its just my iPod.

[Kevin Dunahee]

What I do to change that background is just turn theme wallpaper on, make my own theme, and drop whatever wallpaper I want in there. Haven't ran into any issues of the sort yet. Try that! Should work no problem.

[TBoyTim]

Yeah, your right. Its just a pain to do. Hopefully they fix it soon.

[Snoop1990]

Make sure you have the Summerboard settings like I do below. This is an old image, but it still holds true.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/TheHelper_2007/Example.png

That is cool ! thank you !

[Anthony_C]

What I do to change that background is just turn theme wallpaper on, make my own theme, and drop whatever wallpaper I want in there. Haven't ran into any issues of the sort yet. Try that! Should work no problem.

Hi Superman,

Would appreciate it if you'd give us some instructions on how to create your on theme. What application(s) do you use?

Thanks!

[Kevin Dunahee]

I actually made my own theme by making each icon one by one in photoshop. After jailbreaking, you can SSH into your iPhone and open the summerboard/customize folder that has subdirectories for each theme. Just make a new folder with your theme name and begin dropping application icons and wallpaper inside. Mine is essentially the Leopard Aurora background with Leopard application icons. For instance, the chat client look like the iChat icon, iTunes looks like the Leopard iTunes icon. Mail like Apple Mail.app and etc. For anything that had a former icon within the Leopard OS, I just copied it straight from there and formatted it to 60x60 pixels for the iPhone. Whatever apps didn't have a Leopard counterpart, I made from scratch. I also drew up a custom dock in photoshop. I'll try to get around to posting some screens shortly.

If you already have pre-made icons, you can use customize and some other jailbreak app called Themebuilder (http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2008/03/28/iphone-theme-builder-make-your-own-summerboard-themes-on-the-iphone/) to pick and choose icons for each app.

Hope that helps in some way.