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iPhone SBSettings vs NCSettings?

paulbennett95

paulbennett95

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Hi, new to jailbreaking and have a question about the aforementioned tweaks.
What's the difference and which is better/more useful? SB stands for Springboard and NC stands for notification center I suppose, so I'm assuming they affect those things respectively, right?
Thanks for any help you may provide.
 
You are correct that SB stands for Springboard and NC Notification Center.
I stick with SBSettings personally. It has the option for SB or NCSettings, whichever you prefer.
 
I prefer NCSettings. I don't need a lot of the features of SBSettings, and I think NCSettings is much better looking, and a more elegant solution for my needs. Try both and see which you prefer.
 
shoes222 said:
You are correct that SB stands for Springboard and NC Notification Center.
I stick with SBSettings personally. It has the option for SB or NCSettings, whichever you prefer.
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So you're saying SBSettings lets you edit your settings in the NC as well? I remember seeing a screenshot of SBSettings running on the NC and the icons didn't look too pretty, but if it does the same as NCSettings and more, ill use it.

Thanks for the help!
 
paulbennett95 said:
So you're saying SBSettings lets you edit your settings in the NC as well? I remember seeing a screenshot of SBSettings running on the NC and the icons didn't look too pretty, but if it does the same as NCSettings and more, ill use it.

Thanks for the help!
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Yes it does. SBSettings has the option of running in the NC.
Some prefer the UI of NCSettings, but SBSettings has more features. I'm a utilitarian guy, so I prefer the latter. If you don't like the icons, there are some different SBSettings themes you can install and apply to make it look nicer.

Just a word of advice the Cydia servers are being slammed right now, so it might be difficult to download anything at the moment.
 
shoes222 said:
Yes it does. SBSettings has the option of running in the NC.
Some prefer the UI of NCSettings, but SBSettings has more features. I'm a utilitarian guy, so I prefer the latter. If you don't like the icons, there are some different SBSettings themes you can install and apply to make it look nicer.

Just a word of advice the Cydia servers are being slammed right now, so it might be difficult to download anything at the moment.
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I think ill try SBSettings and if I find the additional features unnecessary ill switch to NCSettings, thanks for the help!



And from what I've seen intelliscreenx costs money but has better features.
 
SuperSnake2012 said:
I prefer NCSettings. I don't need a lot of the features of SBSettings, and I think NCSettings is much better looking, and a more elegant solution for my needs. Try both and see which you prefer.
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^ This. The SBSettings bar in Notification Center just didn't line its icons up well, regardless of the theme that I tried. NCSettings has a clean icon design and correct alignment out of the box. I didn't need the extra features or theming that SBS provides, so I stick with NCSettings.
 
i much prefer NCSettings. Has that neat look and blends nicely with the NC like if it already included in iOS 6. Hopefully they add some sort of toggles in iOS 7! this is one of the main reasons why i jailbroke my iPhone 4S.
 
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I prefer NCSettings. I had a few random crashes with SB and most of the skins for it look like ****. NCSettings looks like it belongs to iOS right from the start.
 
The personal hotspot toggle on SBsettings did not work on iOS 5.1.1 and that was a deal breaker to me. ncsettings did work
 
5aga said:
NC Settings is definitely more elegant. also SB Settings always drains the battery.
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SBS does not drain battery…

I use Bulletin (cause LI is FUBAR) and SBS. I don't want any toggle on the lockscreen as it can accidentally activate. Having NC on the lockscreen is nice and double home for SBS; very handy!
 
I'm trying NCSettings right now and it looks and works very neat. Problem is, and I'd love to be corrected on this, that I can't assign its toggles to Activator like you can with SBSettings. For example, if I wanted to flip 3G on and off with a short hold of the home button, I'm unable to. So I'm thinking of switching back to SBSettings.
 
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I had ncsetting and I loved the look of it. Ive used sbs on prior jb's though.
Had to delete it and go back to sbs, I found that nc did not hold its input for brightness. You would slide the bar and it would change accordingly, then as soon as you swipe up the notification center, auto adjust would take over to the previous spot. It didnt happen if you switched auto adjust but you don't need to do that if you use sbs. It takes the adjustment and sticks it.
Probably not a deal breaker to many but that tweak is one of the main reasons I wanted sbs or ncs.
 
I've used SBSsettings on old jb's and when i first tried to download SBS from cydia monday i could not get it. So i went with NCsettings temporarily, I've decided at least for now to keep both SBSsettings and NCsettings. I like how compact and simple NCsettings is in notification center and i have been using that for my toggles. I'm using SBSsettings just to hide icons i dont want, get the date in status bar, and a quick way to respring.
 
paulbennett95 said:
Hi, new to jailbreaking and have a question about the aforementioned tweaks.
What's the difference and which is better/more useful? SB stands for Springboard and NC stands for notification center I suppose, so I'm assuming they affect those things respectively, right?
Thanks for any help you may provide.
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I prefer SBSettings because it lets you put the date in the top info bar next to the time and let's you close background programs and free up memory.

Last time I had ncsettings, it only had the toggles for the most common iPhone settings, which is nice. But I like sbsetting a little bit more.

Btw- SBSettings also can be put in the notification center now, or you can just use its own pop-up menu, so, there's no real advantage to ncsettings now, IMO.
 
I currently use NCSettings for the notification center and Auxo just for the flashiness of the multitaking feature. Only reason I am going to install SBSettings is because of the ability to drop down the toggles on the lockscreen. Sounds like overkill but they seem to work in harmony.
 
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