Customizing Without WinterBoard?

basically you go into your phone via ssh or other methods find the icon.png for all the app and change them 1 by 1 while at the same time making sure the one you subsituting is the EXACT same size and specification.

some part of the phone u just can't theme without winterboard so that depends on how deep you want to take things. just switching out icons should be fine.

Also be aware that changing some app's icon this way can interfere with its ability to update properly

you should google mac themes and go over their forum, lots of premade themes and instruction to change everything that can be change on the phone

 

I've changed nearly everything on my 3G without winterboard. You can change the stock app icons fine, but app store apps will have a slight shadow that looks different. I've also changed SMS bubbles, SMS tones, the dock, battery...other things u can change with bosspaper.

 

i spent this past weekend tweaking my iph4 and manage to get a few things down.
-changing slider, fonts, battery image, folder backgrounds, icons, uisounds, haptic feedback

Mainly u need to ssh into system folder and manually replace the files.
You can easily google/youtube where these files are located. The hard part is finding images that are compatible with iphone4 since it uses different resolution.