The complete guide to installing Whitoken theme on iPod Touch

Written on 22 August, 2009 by Imran 91 Comments

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Whitoken theme for iPod Touch by 6MIK has been released as a beta. As expected I installed it ASAP, and it looks just amazing! Apart from the icons issue, which will, hopefully, all be converted to the whitoken design, it works and looks just as shown above! I decided to create a guide for the lengthy and hardworking process required to get this theme working. It’s all worth it, trust me.

1. You’ll need a jailbroken iPod Touch with OS 3.0 installed. I’ll create a guide for that soon, but for now you’ll have to Bing it.
2. Go to Cydia and add these repos to your sources:

    http://cydia.touch-mania.com/
    http://repo.smxy.org/cydia/apt/
    http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/
    http://apt.modmyi.com/

3. Install these apps from Cydia:

Winterboard

iBlank

Blanknull

Categories

Five Column Springboard

Fiveirows

SpringJumps

Using winscp, connect to your iPod via SSH. Navigate to /private/var/stash/Applications and copy all the folders starting with _shortcut from the download file to that location. Then, navigate to /private/var/stash/Themes and copy the whitoken by 6mik.theme folder to that location.

4. Go to the Categories app that you just installed and create these folders:

Home, Media, Apps and Games. Create them with these exact names.

5. Now you’ll have to add all your apps, games and media apps to these folders. Just make sure you leave out 4 apps in each category i.e. add all but 4 apps to each category because you’ll need those 4 apps on each page. Move these apps to your dock Todo or Things to the left, Clock in the center and App Store on the right. I use Notify Me as shown below.

6. Now you’ll have to work with the apps you download in Cydia.

FiveColumn

You’ll have to activate it if you don’t already see 5 columns in your springboard pages.

FiveIrows

Activate it, but hide Hidespringdots

Springjumps

Go to General and deactivate "page titles" and "jump dock"
Go to Jump icons and activate Page 0, 1, 2 ,3 but deactivate all others.

Respring your Springboard.

7. Now you’ll have to rearrange your icons, Spring jump icons and blank icons in such a way that they resemble th images below (images are from the read me file) : Screenshot Page 0

8. Now, navigate to all the category folders you created one by one, and follow these steps:

Tap on the ‘i’ on the bottom right to go to options and change Use background.png to on and icon font color to white

9. Now, the final step. Go to Winterboard and turn on the Whitoken theme. Also make sure No Undocked Icon Labels and No Docked Icon Labels are checked. The final result should look like this:

Enjoy! If you have any issues or questions, leave them in the comments below!

WinSCP can be downloaded here or if you’re using OS X you will need to use Cyberduck. Thanks to RedmondPie for the links to these apps.

Download Whitoken Theme

usman10255

it isnt working… i did everything perfectly… my theme doesnt change =./
http://www.ithinkdiff.com Imran Hussain

Can you give some details on what's wrong or anything? Can't help you without knowing anything at all because it works fine for me.
matinau

i've just installed all the packages and connected using ssh and navigated to the 'stash' folder. then im stuck. Do i copy the _shortcut folders to the downloads folder? If so where is it…little embarrassed im stuck on the first bit
http://www.ithinkdiff.com Imran Hussain

You have to copy the _shortcut folders to this location: /private/var/stash/Applications
brendan

when i try to download and install whitoken on my desktop, i get an internal server from the page… what can i do about this?! please help asap!
Name

my theme worked except for random patch of white around the words Setting, Music, and Apps. Also the arrows that point to View All are also encased in a white box.there is also some white shadowing on the outside of the black boxes. please help
Name

my theme worked except for random patch of white around the words Setting, Music, and Apps. Also the arrows that point to View All are also encased in a white box.there is also some white shadowing on the outside of the black boxes. please help
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shaun

started setting up this theme and feel it's a little too involved for me as it's my first attempt at any theme.my question is, if i continue and later don't want to keep the theme, how do i uninstall all these steps? everything in reverse? or is there quick way to delete all at once?
shaun

started setting up this theme and feel it's a little too involved for me as it's my first attempt at any theme.my question is, if i continue and later don't want to keep the theme, how do i uninstall all these steps? everything in reverse? or is there quick way to delete all at once?
George

when i reboot springboard after i put the 0-3 jump icons, in only gives me enough for one page, how do you put more of those icons in the other pages or slides???
Viraaj

Hey, My Music icon is gone!!
how do i get it back??
Billy

GUYS AFTER YOU COPY THE _SHORTCUT FOLDERS AND IF IT DOESN’T APPEAR AGAIN,GO TO SPRINGJUMPS AND SWITCH ON EVERYTHING TO 8. IT WILL THEN APPEAR. THEN SWITCH ON ONLY 0-3. HOPE IT HELPS!
tjappie

heey
you got the SpringJumps 0,1,2,3 on page 0,1,2,3 but i only got 1 set on page 1? not on the other pages how do i get thos on the others?
tnx
william

i worked on this all night trying to get it set up but can’t get the shortcut’s into the themes! I am running window’s 7 and had to download something just to open up the theme itself so not sure if i downloaded the right stuff! any way can help?
Jesse

Installed it and it looks great! However, I don’t get the Category Folder theme (as shown below point and also don’t have the ?loading screen (i think) as shown in the last image. Any thoughts?
Ben

Hi i am on mac and when i download the file it saves as “whitoken_ipod_touch_3_0_theme_by_6mik_design-1.rar” but i cant open the file so how can i put the _shortcut files into Applications via SSH??
Thanks
janzen

how come i when i add the repository listed above it always say “did not find repository” ? any solution to this gurus?
darren

what a great theme, took me 20 minutes & all is working
when will there be more icons?
job well done
jack

Great theme and guide,
but does anybody know how to duplicate the springjumps? The guide does not help me at all.