How to fully customize your iPhone/iPod touch with Customize 2.0
Chris Eissens
Customize is The app you want on your iPhone, it let’s you change almost everything visual and audible littlle setting you can imagine.
Some of the settings you can change are:
Dock image, Application icons, Application images, Wallpaper, System Sounds, System images, Status bar images, phone sounds, and your in call images.
This is a huge list cause every little section has it subsections.
I’ll show you some of the changes you can make with this superb little app.
1) Before you install the app, go to Customizeapp.com and register for free.
This is no longer needed.
2) Let’s install the app, you can find it in the category utilities in your installer.
3) Now let’s start the app. You may need to enter your login and password from Customizeapp.com
4) After loggin in, you will be brought to the next screen. Here the fun part really begins.
5) Let’s go to the Theme browser. The first tab represents the theme’s you already downloaded.
The new tap are the new themes off course, then the top 40, and last but not least all themes sorted alphabetical.
6) Let’s select a theme. Macish for example. when you click on the preview button, you can see some examples of how it will look on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
7) If you find a theme you like, you can download it and afterwards you can chose to apply the full theme or just parts of it by going to your mythemes and then select apply only…
8) You can download as much themes as you like and then select to combine the stuff you like the most from all themes. Therefore you go back to the homescreen and select customize images/sound.
I won’t take them all as this will take you too long to read. But i’ll give you the heads up.
I’ll give you 2 examples for changing the dock image.
You can really change almost anything you like with this app. Sounds, icon’s, images, wallpaper, and so on.
9) Now let’s change some system strings. Click on edit system strings, then select your language, and start adjusting whatever you like. For ex: If you don’t like the slide me to unlock message, just change it here.
10) Once you finally have your changes that you’d like, you can save that file as a theme, this way you can always go back to your favorite settings. Go to the app’s homescreen and select ‘make backup now’
As for the preferences…. If you have summer board installed, id recommend to be careful. I disabled summer board from within customize and my iPhone got the SPOD (spinning wheel of death).
So be a little carefull with these settings.
Please also remember that Customize v2.0 is still in beta, it’s now at beta 5, and for me it’s perfectly working, but don’t mess with the summerboard settings :)
This SUPER app is available in the Installer.app through the STE packaging source, see our sources page.
Enjoy
If you run into problems, leave a msg and i’ll get back to you.
\\ tags: beta, category utilities, change themes, customize, customize 2.0, iPhone, strings, theme, themes
to deezy try changing ur theme from backup to something else in customize and if that didn’t work change it in summer board if that duznt work then idk man
correction to my post about jailbreak
Do not try with ziphone while ur iPhone has 2.0
first downgrade iTunes then downgrade ur iPhone
Then jailbreak and b sure 2 make a back up
Then up grade both and restore iPhone from backup
O yea 2 ruddstriker I didn’t keep jailbreak on my iPhone cuz it sux so I can’t help u
:idea: VERY IMPORTANT and helpful tip for anyone in this forum who CANT CHANGE their LOCKSCREEN WALLPAPER- I’ve had the same exact issue and remedied it. You must be able to ssh (cyberduck my fav on iMac) into your phone to fix! There is an incorrect file that becomes placed in your phone when in customize theme browser you select “apply theme”- for me it will apply the themes lock screen wallpaper if it has one and you will only be able to switch it through customize by selecting customize-lock screen wallpaper, u won’t be able to switch in settings- wallpaper. TO FIX: customize adds a file called LOCKSCREENWALLPAPER.JPEG that will appear out of place. You need to ssh iphone to browse the iPhones files and, I believe in applic ations-customize2.0 somewhere- seems out of place! DELETE the file or copy to comp destop first if feel unsure- once deleted go to settings and select wallpaper and BINGO! This WILL HAPPEN AGAIN if u select “apply theme”- I now manually hit “apply icons” or “apply dock” etc but NOT “APPLY WALLPAPERS” as they cause the glitch in customize. Hope this helps, is annoying but let me know if appreciate this- danjwalk7@yahoo.com
:idea: After my last post, I double checked and when browsing the phone’s files you need to go through PRIVATE- VAR- MOBILE- LIBRARY then you will see an out of place LOCKGROUND.JPG file, Delete it and change wallpaper, good to go! Holla
I can’t seem to get the themes to apply to my device! I’ve installed the themes but when I go to customize it myself the themes I’ve downloaded don’t even appear as an option to choose from. I only get the default theme. I tried applying the entire theme but nothing happens. Help?
i have this big problem, like i had customize on my phone, and i wanted to take off the lock screen background because i had a chanell picture then i wanted to use a picture that i took from camera but when i applied the original like the backup to my phone it wouldn’t let me set a picture to my background, and when i looked at it the default was just a regular background and i don’t know how to change it, i uninstalled customize but now my wi-fi wont work and it won’t reinstall it back. but i’m asking how can i change the lock screen background to just be normal where i can put my own picture on it ? please help
ok win u use any wallpaper on customize it will completley disable ur ability to make ur pics the wallpaper so to fix that problem you have to restore
And as for the wifi messing up idk maybe it has something to do win your connection but idk
Hope I was helpful miss
okay if i restore it, will i’m afraid that it will mess up the unlocking, because i had my phone unlocked for it to have t-mobile. so if i restore will i have to unlock my phone all over again ? let me know asap
I’m not 100% sure if restoring will undo ur unlocking because I have AT&T so I didn’t need to but if it does undo ur unlocking I suggest just unlocking again
For everyone who continues to complain about not being able to change the wall paper, SCROLL UP. The fix was posted back in June by Dan Walk. No need to restore.
Thanks Dan.
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i have a probleem
I have installer 4.0 and i want to use vwallpaper but win i try to go the description and install it says something about not finding somthing but can anyone help because it does his for alot of things
ok it says unable to decode package way duz that mean and wat do i uave to install
Hey guys -
For those that have the problem with the Lock screen wallpaper not changing, here is your solution:
It is not changing because when you tried to install a them in Customize, it locked your wallpaper. You need to SSH into your Ipod and go to the folder:
Private/var/mobile/library and find the file LockBackground.jpg
It should be at the bottom. If you delete that file, you should be able to change themes again in Customize. This worked for me when I had the same problem.
Good luck.
Hello:
I need your help big way…
I bought an iphone 8gb v 1.1.4 a week ago for my girlfriend….it was unlocked and jailbroken. I saw this guide about customize trying to change the keypad, wich i can’t change. Im also trying to put a different background and i can’t and after i read this guide to work with customize i realized that in th SMB preferences when i activate all of the Appearance options and Advenced as well, after i exit and restar customize they all are off again. Could you help me put? I’m pretty freacked out with this and i have no idea who to ask help for?
Thank You
Hansel
hi,
i would like to customize my summerboard, and i know how to, it’s just that, i don’t have SMB preferences. I don’t know where to download it. Can you tell me where to download it?
Tahnks :smile:
I reccommend winterboard instead of summerboard
i tried to use the customize but m icons went back to stock iphone but the background was different and i tried uninstalling it but now m y icons are all different from the theme
hi, whenever i click download on a file for customize, it crashes then gives me an error when trying to apply that file.
I can’t believe I’m still reading about this LOCKSCREEN WALLPAPER problem.
Here’s the easy way.
download WILD EYES from installer
this app gives u limited access to your files
Go to mobile/library
scroll down to LOCKWALLPAPER.JPG
Touch and delete. That’s it
hi i intall the customize and the suid lib fix and i try to open the customize but , open and go back ande in the top say url not found and go back why ?
i have a ipod touch and have downloaded customize but it goes to load up and then just goes back to the home page anyone help (ipod version 2.1)
Is there a way to make customize work on 2.1? Even if just the strings? :?:
I had summerboard and customize a few month ago, and then i upgraded my iphone and everything was gone, no biggy.
But now my wallpaper wont change when i try to apply the regular wallpapers to it.
I am getting really sick of it now!
And I have looked online about what to do, but it seems that all the solutions relate back to Summerboard…I dont have it anymoreeeee
hi..i have the 2.2.1 firmware on my iPhone 3G in the UK on o2 network, am i able to install Customize on my iPhone? if so, where do i install it from?
many thanks!
Charlie
Hi,I don’t want to install it off a computer can someone tell me how to install on the iPod already I have the 2g iPod touch and the secound version of the update.pls someone help
Pls
Pls email wateverulike_14@hotmail.com to help me
Hi
I installed Customize on my iPod Touch 1st generation and every time I go to theme browser, a message pops up that says:
“Files Not Found. Customize could not find the required files to run offline. Go online and run Customize to update the files.”
I don’t understand this at all. My iPod is on an awesome wireless network and online all the time. Could someone explain how to fix this?
hi
i have the 2.2 customize app and when i try to change pretty much anything it always says file copy unsuccessful or ‘encountered an error copying tthe files….on my old iphone i had an earlier version of customise that worked perfect and upgraded to the newer one that also did the same thing….as i stand i cant do anything with the app at all ….please help!!!
same problem as Marc
copy unsuccessful or ‘encountered an error copying tthe files
Same problem as marc and Tarquinnn…
Please help
Im having the same problem as well. The only thing that i was able to change through the customize app was the lock screen wallpaper.
Currently customize on 2.x firmwares is not workin u cant do any themes and u cqnt edit system strings so dont even bother downloading it because currently it is useless
Uhm, can this be on the iPod Touch too? I thought that it could be, but when I looked under Utilities, there was nothing and when I searched Customize and Customize 2.0, it pulled up nothing. If it can be put on iPod Touch, tell me, if not, never mind.
okay so my problem is that after i download a theme the app says “Customize could not find the required files to run offline. Go online and run Customize to update the files.” I don’t know what this means but I’d really like to get rid of it. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have an ipod touch 2g by the way. Thanks
so when exactly will this app be available on 2.+ firmware – its awesome in terms with how u can customize the iphone i really want this app !! if anyone knows can they email me on alps911@gmail.com please, thanks
hey I have the same problem as as marc” error file cannot copy” please help email me at nikesbleezie@aol.com
l’ve lost my customize icon on my iphone , and i dont know how to get it back,someone please help
my wallpaper on my 3g iphone will not change it was jailbroken and now i updated it to the new firmware but now the wallpaper will not change no matter wat i do…..any suggestions?
okay after getting a headache from reading all the posts, I gave up. I do not know if this has been mentioned yet, but what is the theme called that you put behind your icons on your iphone. Like the “wallpaper” is what your screen saver basically is when your phone goes into sleep mode. What is the background called you put behind your icons so I know what to look for in the Cydia or Rock, whichever I use. I can’t get the firmware on my phone to update either, it wont let me download customize because my firmware isnt 2.2 or whatever it needs.
hi
my iphone is 3g
it is not unlock factory
i want to use firmware 3.2.1
what should i do?
yes.. I want to use with FW 3.2.1 too
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Ich möchte Customize auch für FW 3.2.1 nutzen.
Hey when i try to download customize it dosnt work and gives a red symbol then i go in to it it dosnt work
What i do?
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