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iPod touch Any news on Summerboard?

xXriderXx7 said:
Im still getting the dock on the top of the screen.

How do you do the permission portion of the manual install?
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Go into installer.app on the Touch, uninstall Summerboard, then reboot. This will return the dock to the bottom. Then, go to the summerboard site, download the files, open the Install txt file, and copy the files to the listed locations. This version of summerboard is compatible with the touch :)

On a side note, Does anyone recognise these icons?:
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I'd really like to have the Mail, Photos, weather, youtube, clock & calculator icons from here :), but I can't find them anywhere. It was posted by nspire, but he hasn't responded as to where he got them from.
 
Hmm, I did a manual install and it works great, but let's say I want to uninstall it. Installer.app isn't much help obviously so I'm doing it manually, however I don't have my original com.apple.SpringBoard.plist. Am I going to have to wait until it's added to Installer.app and use that to uninstall it in order to get my iPod back to it's original SpringBoard.plist?
 
SirithX said:
Hmm, I did a manual install and it works great, but let's say I want to uninstall it. Installer.app isn't much help obviously so I'm doing it manually, however I don't have my original com.apple.SpringBoard.plist. Am I going to have to wait until it's added to Installer.app and use that to uninstall it in order to get my iPod back to it's original SpringBoard.plist?
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Well, after I'd done the manual install, I decided I'd try the installer.app version again, it screwed the touch up and put the dock at the top, so I uninstalled it through the installer, and it uninstalled both! Did the manual install again, and it works fine now, so maybe this is a good way to uninstall if you need to.
 
Ah that makes sense, since the installer doesn't recognize the new version it just overwrites it with the old one, then from there it can uninstall the whole thing I suppose.
 
Ok, I have a bit of a problem with this. I installed the one off the installer first, to set the files. Then i did what the ReadMe INSTALLER said to do. I rebooted and it came up and I have a new dock that looks kinda like the one for the iPhone, but all my icons are the same except they are aligned like how a windows computer is (left).

Whenever I change themes nothing happens, my dock doesn't change, my icons don't change, and my background doesn't change. When i click on a new theme it will take me to the "Slide to Unlock" screen and then I get in and nothing is new. I reboot just to be sure and still nothing.
 
Rapmastac1 said:
Ok, I have a bit of a problem with this. I installed the one off the installer first, to set the files. Then i did what the ReadMe INSTALLER said to do. I rebooted and it came up and I have a new dock that looks kinda like the one for the iPhone, but all my icons are the same except they are aligned like how a windows computer is (left).

Whenever I change themes nothing happens, my dock doesn't change, my icons don't change, and my background doesn't change. When i click on a new theme it will take me to the "Slide to Unlock" screen and then I get in and nothing is new. I reboot just to be sure and still nothing.
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My suggestion would be to go to the installer, uninstall from there, reboot, and this should return you to the default layout. Then do the manual install, and go from there.
 
Ok, this was kinda wierd. I want to uninstall it and it told me I needed to restart. So I slide to turn off and when I do it drops me to me Slide to Unlock screen. And sure enough I have the custom background and dock, it's working, but... now I don't see the prefs for the app. I'm gonna restart again and then do the manual work. I'll post back if it worked. Thanks for the quick reply!
 
Rapmastac1 said:
Ok, this was kinda wierd. I want to uninstall it and it told me I needed to restart. So I slide to turn off and when I do it drops me to me Slide to Unlock screen. And sure enough I have the custom background and dock, it's working, but... now I don't see the prefs for the app. I'm gonna restart again and then do the manual work. I'll post back if it worked. Thanks for the quick reply!
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That's weird. When I uninstalled using installer.app, it got rid of everything, and when I did the manual, it put it all back on for me. Should fix it up once you've done the manual, the uninstaller probably deletes stuff from random places.
 
Goodie goodie! I got it to work, and I found out why it didn't work the first time. When I was installing the SMBPrefs.app to the ipod, I thought the one in the zip was a "file.app". so I created a folder in my apps called "SMBPrefs.app" and then I put the file from the zip into that. I realized that "file" is actually a folder, so I put a folder in a folder so it didn't work, as there was no icon and nothing happened when I clicked launch. But I didn't uninstall the original installation from the downloader, so the second time around it had the icon, but for some reason didn't work. It's all fixed now!
 
While my version of summerboard works now, it seems like I have far fewer options in the app in this newer version. When I had the installer.app version, I had many more choices such as "5 dock icon" which is no longer there. Did anybody have this problem? Is this option available on the alpha version available on their site?
 
One thing I have noticed now is that there are fewer options. I used to have (when it was messed up, so it doesn't say much) a lot more settings, like to have a dock with 5 apps on it, or have it a mini dock or large dock. Do you have these settings or was it was cuz my thing was messed up earlier?
 
when will this new summerboard available on the apptapp?
i just hate to install it manually >*<
 
In case there are others out there who are having trouble installing SummerBoard (I am on PPC).....

It took me 3 tries. First time my ipod stuck on the apple screen I was dumb enough to do a full restore/resync etc. The second time I wised up and noticed I could still sync with itunes and therefore ssh/sftp in. So, I copied back the com.apple.SpringBoard.plist file from the phonefs image I still had on my desktop and rebooted the ipod. That put it back the way it was.

Then, I got out my unix guide to investigate permissions since I didnt understand what the "wheel" etc meant in the help file.

Bottom line:

In terminal, ssh to your ipod, change to the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ directory and type this:

chmod -rw-r--r-- com.apple.SpringBoard.plist

Hope this saves someone else the frustration I went through :)
 
parrotheadmjb said:
how do set the permissions for -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 704 Oct 9 20:00 com.apple.SpringBoard.plist
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secure shell login
in Terminal
# ssh -l root your.ipod.ip_address

in Windows, try PuTTY, it's free

goto that folder, enter this in command line,
make sure you are at the right folder, do a list
# ls -l

to see your file list, then

# chmod 644 com.apple.SpringBoard.plist

to set the permission.

Use ls -l again to make sure you've done it right.
 
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