How to customize your iphone!

Ok. this is probably one of the most useful blog entry im gonna come up with. because there has been ppl asking me how i customize my iphone. aside from jailbreaking, you can also customize through this website: http://www.codethemed.com/

of course, im not talking about starting from scratch like designing your own icons or what. but more like downloading icon sets and other stuff from online and putting them tgt to form your own theme.

ahh.. the beauty of internet.

of course, downloading themes from cydia is so much more easier. but it can gets irritating sometimes when you want your own wallpaper or lockscreen or you only like the icons. this is what happened when i was trying to look for the suitable icons for my current wallpaper. either i get the whole theme which will not allow me to use my wallpaper or the icons are not to my liking. so i stumbled upon this method which you can create your own theme. using your own wallpaper and icons which you can easily dl online.

this is how my iphone look like now~Just a simple one, nothing fanciful.. but definitely my style.

ok. so these are the steps to making your own theme.

1) Sign up at http://www.codethemed.com/

2) Go to yahoo/google/anysearchengine and search for iphone icons set. I got some from here:

http://speckyboy.com/2008/07/18/35-free-icon-sets-for-your-iphone-pimp-it-up/

and

http://www.toffeenutdesign.com/goodies

just download the files (normally in zip files) and unzip them. im sure most of you will know how to do this part.

3) sign into codethemed and click on "build a theme now"

4) You should come to this page.

You can choose to upload your own background or use the background there. i did not upload my supergirl background on codetheme but opt to set it as my background and lockscreen on my iphone instead. that was because when i upload the picture on codethemed.. the proportion is not right and no matter what i do i cant scale it to the way i want. so yeah.. it's up to you.

Then comes the part you customize your icons! you can either use the other icons codethemed provide u or you upload the icons which you downloaded. If you would refer to the picture above.. clicking on an icon on the iphone will allow you to see what are the other icons offered from codethemed. if you choose to use the uploaded one, then u will upload the icons that you downloaded and hold and drag the uploaded icon to the icon on the iphone which you want to replace.

Easy right! I shall not go onto the details for the rest of it. But you can customize your docks and lockscreen and stuff.. it's pretty user-friendly and you shld be able to explore it on your own.
Oh! and impt! if lets say you want to change an icon like your ebuddy icon but as you can see, it is not provided in the iphone in codethemed soooo you can add in the icon by clicking that "Add Icon" above the iphone. then it will add the icon for you but take note.. the name of this icon MUST be the same as the one on your real iphone.. so when you upload your theme into your iphone.. it can sync properly.

5) after you are done, you will save the changes and download the theme! easy peassyyyy
6) now.. you would have to transfer this theme to your iphone! to do this, you must download iphone explorer.
step 1: make sure you have itunes 9.2 or later installed
step 2: install 'afc2add' from cydia and reboot ur device
step 3: download and install iphone explorer from: http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/
step 4: run iphone explorer, plug in your iphone, and some folders will appear at the left menu. Go to root - var - stash - themes. There, you can then transfer your theme which you downloaded to your iphone. i think you would have downloaded the theme in a zip file.. so of course, you must unzip and extract it then you will transfer the whole file into the theme folder.


then tadah! you will have your very own customized theme. :) hope this helps you! if there's any problem, feel free to contact me thru my chatbox.. hmm. tho it seems to be spam by spammers.
darn this spammers. rawr!