How do I change the unlock screen...

[asskick3r]

Well I want to change where it says the time/date. Right under the status bar. How do I do it?
http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/85059_ipodtouch1.JPG

[donaldj]

What do you mean? What exactly do you want to do to it?

[asskick3r]

like.. on the unlock screen it says 5:53... and behind that is a see through black thing.... how do I change that?

[PMB]

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the translucent black back behind the time?

[sare4real]

Pls, i want to clear transfering music sign that has been on my Ipod touch screen, unabling me to access anything on the screen

[PMB]

Pls, i want to clear transfering music sign that has been on my Ipod touch screen, unabling me to access anything on the screen

Huh? elaborate please

[asskick3r]

To make more sense... you know the bottom bar... and how you can change it. How do I change the top bar?

[icecold0913]

ummmmm... to my knowledge you can't "change" either bar, only the wallpaper.

But your lack of proper communication skills makes it very difficult to understand what exactly you're trying to achieve...

[icecold0913]

Pls, i want to clear transfering music sign that has been on my Ipod touch screen, unabling me to access anything on the screen

It sounds like you haven't plugged your Touch into your computer for the first time- you need to sync it with iTunes before you can use it.

[asskick3r]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2647256488_14f7fe1029_o.jpg

[PMB]

to my knowledge that cannot be changed, but dig around via SSH and see if you can get somewhere

[asskick3r]

Ok I'll try i guess.

[sandman42]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2647256488_14f7fe1029_o.jpg

Ok, we get what you're trying to change, but I don't think any of us understands what you're trying to do to it. How do you want to 'change' it? Make it go away? Display different data? Different color? Bigger? Smaller? Move it to a different part of the screen? It sounds like you understand that Apple didn't build anything into the system to allow you to change it, but undoubtedly it can be hacked.

[scotty96LSC]

Ok. This is giving me a case of the head hurts.

[JAT]

Ok I'll try i guess.

Good lord.

Goto ipodtouchfans.com and check out threads on Customize. Note that it is messier with 1.1.4, I just decided to skip for now and see what 2.0 brings.

[scorpio333]

Sorry to reraise this headache, but I'm searching for a similar solution. I'd like to make the 'bifocal' looking background behind the date and time transparent or invisible. I've used Cutomize to get the bottom bar transparent and would like that top bar to match. Is it even called 'top bar'??? I'd do better searching if I knew wtf I was searching for :D

It can be done, look at post #3 here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=368521&highlight=custom+carrier+text

Still on 1.1.4 using Customize 2.0

[MrGiggles058]

Ok so I have an Ipod touch and I had it on the lock screen with the passcode one night when I went to bed when I woke up the following morning it says "Ipod is disabled for 4500674 minutes" now I am not waiting 8 1/2 years before my ipod works can anyone tell me how I can go about fixing it???????? Plz Help

[MrGiggles058]

Also i dont want to lose any of my music

[61132]

Restore through iTunes?

[scorpio333]

Update to my previous post - I found the info I needed in this thread:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59627
Start at post #10

[asskick3r]

Update to my previous post - I found the info I needed in this thread:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59627
Start at post #10

I did exactly what Rayden told me to do. put the new artwork file in the right directory. then change permissions to 755. but nothing changed? Did you get this working?

[scorpio333]

No, I didn't get it working yet. I tried about six times and got nowhere. I then went back and read about 70 frickin pages of stuff. I found out 1.1.4 is a bit more tricky as I stumbled onto this:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41414&highlight=tweaking+customize

Hopefully I'll get some time Wednesday to try that out. If I do figure something out, I'll post how to do it.

[tdhurst]

Also i dont want to lose any of my music

Hope your music is on your computer. If it is, just restore.

[asskick3r]

No, I didn't get it working yet. I tried about six times and got nowhere. I then went back and read about 70 frickin pages of stuff. I found out 1.1.4 is a bit more tricky as I stumbled onto this:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41414&highlight=tweaking+customize

Hopefully I'll get some time Wednesday to try that out. If I do figure something out, I'll post how to do it.

That looks very confusing... but it is worth a shot.

For some reason... the servers are always down on customize 2.0 for me.
I am right next to my router... but it still says... "Cannot connect to server" for various reasons.

[scorpio333]

My eyes are gonna bleed, I don't think I read this much during all my years in college. This thread (http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41414) is 121 pages on how to tweak Customize. If you follow the very first post as strict as possible it does work. I had a few mishaps along the way and finally got it sorted out.

1. I had to uninstall any and all versions of Customize.
2. You MUST have the media folder mentioned in the directions, seems tiny but it's a must.
3. The symlinks, do yourself a BIG favor and check this, if it's not right fix it before continuing. This is how I SSH into the ipod using Terminal on 10.5.
a. Launch Terminal.
b. enter: SSH root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx your ipod IP address.
c. enter: yes (if this your first time)
d. enter: alpine (password)
e. enter: cd /var/root
f. enter: ls -la
You should see these two lines:
/private/var/mobile/Library
/private/var/mobile/Media

So I got that far...now it's time to figure out how to use this version to get new sliders, clear clock bg, etc.

[asskick3r]

My eyes are gonna bleed, I don't think I read this much during all my years in college. This thread (http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41414) is 121 pages on how to tweak Customize. If you follow the very first post as strict as possible it does work. I had a few mishaps along the way and finally got it sorted out.

1. I had to uninstall any and all versions of Customize.
2. You MUST have the media folder mentioned in the directions, seems tiny but it's a must.
3. The symlinks, do yourself a BIG favor and check this, if it's not right fix it before continuing. This is how I SSH into the ipod using Terminal on 10.5.
a. Launch Terminal.
b. enter: SSH root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx your ipod IP address.
c. enter: yes (if this your first time)
d. enter: alpine (password)
e. enter: cd /var/root
f. enter: ls -la
You should see these two lines:
/private/var/mobile/Library
/private/var/mobile/Media

So I got that far...now it's time to figure out how to use this version to get new sliders, clear clock bg, etc.

Well thanks! I can help you out on how to get sliders and like other stuff. Just ssh into your ipod, navigate to the customize folder, and look for the folder you are going to put your images in. (Should be easy to find... like If there is a slider folder.... put your sliders there)