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

Jordan

The 2nd repo listed doesn’t work. Any ideas why?
Bob

Why can’t I seem to find the Whitoken theam in winter board
Hoang

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

hey i´ve got the same problem, can anybody help me?
Hoang

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

hey i´ve got the same problem, can anybody help me?

voly

got the same problem as you guys…

Alec

When i download it it comes out like whitoken_ipod_touch_3_0_theme_by_6mik_design-1.rar

please help
Adrian

Why cant i download whitoken
doomchild

Awesome theme…worked like a charm …took me 1/2 hour to set it up…
neonstage

hey!!! thank you it works very well. tho the repos don’t work, so my answer to that would be to go into cydia, search “all source” and then download that. and when you search for the five column springboard, on cydia it was actually “five-column springboard” don’t forget the dash b.c. i didn’t see i and it took me two hours to set his up!!!!! well anyways, THANK YOU. it is a very good theme.
itoupro

Large problem concerning that the place where you press the apps have a placement problem that if yu press it a bit off it will click on something else. And my category pages have the app!!!
Stupid Me :D

What iz the Todo !?..
Step 5: when it says “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.”..
i don't understand wht is that ?!..
i have an ipod.. i don't know if it makes a difference ..
plzz some1 helpp
Matt ribic

how did you get he blank icons

bentakula

if you have jailbrocken iphone—-> 1: cydia–>search for iblank! assuming you got all the good repoes ( its about 5 of them really)

Jasonelebiary

i am stuck on how u we have to position everything wat icons do i need?
Poloboyz

where do u get the todos and what does that whole process mean im lost
itouchfreak

me too i dont get it
Maxbgenius

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
I was stuck like you
Dave

when you download the file make sure you are using “Winrar” then open up the whitoken file and there will be a file for the iphone and a file for the ipod. click on the file for the correct device you are using. and look for a while called Whitoken by 6MIK then extract the file to your desktop. Then you have to SSH the file onto your ipod touch/ iphone. And if you don't know how to SSH they're are plenty of videos for it on youtube. Hope this helps.
S1eepy

I make a mistake a very bad mistake

I CUT ALL THE FOLDER IN /private/var/stash/Applications AND I PASTE IT IN /private/var/stash/Themes
and when i restart my ipod there is no app…is there a way to fix this…please help me….I dont want to restore my ipod ><
nick

i got the theme up fine.. i just dont know how to get the black bar where the clock and the notes and todos would be.. its not there and idk how to get it there.. but everything else is up fine

Maxii

i cant get it eitheer

Maxii

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.

How do you do this? Im confused
Maxii

how do you get os 4 cause i cant get todo as it requires this app