Comments on: Cydia – Sidebar and HomeScreen 2.0 Widgets

By: mrmikey05

mrmikey05 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:56 +0000

Hey, how come mine show a black wallpaper instead of my original wallpaper? Is there any fix to it? Whenever I turn HomeScreen off in Winterboard, my wallpaper show up again but if i have homescreen on, i get a black background only.

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:14:15 +0000

where is “lock status’ located in cydia? I have all sources but i see no choice for it in there, or in my winterboard

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:07 +0000

Hey, here is the battery draining article, it was by BigBoss.

http://thebigboss.org/2008/11/09/iphone-slower-than-before/

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:58:41 +0000

Weird. Too many replies, I guess.

SU just means super user, IIRC.

Yeah, you should be able to just edit the file remotely, then copy it back over.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:51:52 +0000

Huh…there’s no reply button on that last comment by Jason, weird.

I’m not familiar with the term “Su’ed”…if I go in via the google iphone browser (Which to my knowledge does not allow editing of files), could I make a copy of the configureMe.js file on my computer, edit in notepad, and paste it over the original if need be?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:37:31 +0000

Sure, no problem.

/Library/Themes/HomeScreen_2.0English.theme/configureMe.js

You have to be root in order to change this file, I believe, so I just Su’ed in, and changed it that way.

I would think that the less you ping for weather, the longer your battery life…

Good luck. Right now, Underworld is killing my battery…got to stop playing it so much!

By: Fantom

Fantom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:04:05 +0000

Could I trouble you for the location of the configureMe.js file? I’ll be using the iPhone browser from google apps…

I haven’t seen the file structure in the iPhone since I SSH’d into my old 2g to replace a bunch of sound files, so I’m a bit rusty on where an app like this would be located in the first place, lol.

I do not use weathericon, so that one doesn’t affect me. Can I set it to something more like an hour and a half or 2 hours to further conserve battery life in the file?

And once again, this is greatly appreciated.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:57:27 +0000

configureMe.js at the bottom of the file, within the HomeScreen2.0 Theme folder. It defaults to 35min, if I remember correctly.

Also, if you are using weathericon, make sure and change it to an hour too, using supreme preferences.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:35:22 +0000

I appreciate the answer, buy have one more question if that’s the case:

How do you change the update time for homescreen? I didn’t even realize you could change those settings.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Yes, it will. Change the update time to 1 hour, instead.

Also, I have noticed that if you have any kind of video background, even one that just changes the background every 15 seconds or something, it will eat the battery. Just use a static background for better battery life.

There was a great article that I believe Saurik wrote on what affected battery life. Some of the ones I mentioned above were on it…can’t seem to find a link to it right now though.