iPhone stuff – LockInfo, WeatherIcon
I have been using LockInfo and WeatherIcon on my jailbroken iPhone for a while now. LockInfo just recently was updated to not require Winterboard, which is great. The only problem is that you don’t get the actual weather icons in LockInfo without Winterboard, and you can’t install the theme packages from Cydia without Winterboard (they have a dependency).
The solution that I finally found in a thread on macthemes2.net from the author was to drop the icons and plist into /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/ manually using ssh. To do this I had to:
1. Find the *.deb files for the themes and download them manually (the modmyi apt repository is http://apt.modmyi.com/2debs/)
2. Extract the deb files. Debian archives are Unix ‘ar’ archives, so you do ‘ar vx blah.deb’ which gives you a data.tar.gz file. Unzip that file to get what you need (the images and plist file).
3. Upload those files to the above directory on the phone and respring.
I discovered that the plist for the theme I wanted to use (Klear) didn’t have the LockInfoImageScale attribute (see http://code.google.com/p/weathericon/), so they were rendered at full size in LockInfo (read: way too big). I had to edit this in (I used 0.25 as the value) and reuploaded the plist file to my phone and now it looks fine.
