Thursday, November 19, 2009

Best LockScreen Info theme EVER!! (Gruppled)

Although I love the functionality and visuals of lock info or any other lock screen info themes, I felt there was always something missing. Thats until I came across the "Gruppled" Lock Theme compilations. In my opinion and in the eyes of many many others, this would arguably be considered as the BEST lock screen info ever!!!! Here is the full written tutorial on how to maually install and configure such a great feature to your iphone and ipod touch. I have confirmed that this does work with both devices of all generations. Sooo here we go.......

STEP 1.
To get started you're gonna have to get few repos: Go into cydia =>Manage=>Sources=>Edit=>Add:

http://david.ashman.com/beta
http://david.ashman.com/apt



Step 2.

Install the following:
1. Lockinfo

2. Lockscreen Clock hide
3. Lockscreen Dim Delay Control





STEP 3.
Go to Settings=>Lockinfo and enable "LockScreen"
Stay in Settings and then go to Lock Clock Hide and enable that.
Last but not least also in Settings go to LockScreen Dim Delay and set it to 60 seconds.



STEP 4.
Download and unzip these Files to your desktop:
Gruppled LockInfo.theme-0.9.5.2 6/15/2009
Gruppled Art.theme 8/3/2009
Tea LockBackground.theme 6/21/2009

STEP 5.
Now that you have all three of these themes unzipped, you are going to ssh into your device via WinSCP, Cyber Duck, or Disk Aid. Now Drag and Drop all three themes into:
/var/stash/themes
Once you've done that you should be able to see them in winterboard. Enable all three.

STEP 6.

Ok so here is the more difficult part. We are now to going to configure the theme for proper weather location temp and so on. So in your SSH tool on your desktop, your gonna go into
/var/stash/themes/Gruppled LockInfo/Bundles/com.ashman.LockInfo/config.js

Drag and drop the "Config.js" file on to your desktop. Right click and select open with either text edit or notepad. You're gonna see alot of mumbo jumbo but dont worry we'll take it step by step.
The default is to have 2 weather cities showing. Unless you want 2 skip this step. To only have one showing on your lock screen the // reprensents to hide whatever is in front of that. So you wanna put a // in front of one the zip codes as you scroll down seen here:

/*––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––*/
// WEATHER SETTINGS

// Produced by Adam Watkins (http://www.stupidpupil.co.uk)
// Modified by Craig Laparo (gruppler@gmail.com)

// Locations, following the same format as "locale" above. Add as many as you want, separated by commas.
// The first one in the list will be displayed on the weather header.
// Ex. "OCN|AU|VIC|MELBOURNE", "ASI|PH|MAKATI" e.g. 'Defiance, Ohio'|'Moscow, Russia'|'London, UK'
// Visit http://accuweather.com to find something that works
var locales = [
"27502",
// "43201",

Now you have to change the temp for Celsius to Fahrenheit to this you're gonna scroll down and where it says:

// Set to 'false' if you'd prefer Farenheit
var isCelsius = false;

Its default is to "true" Set it to "false"

Scroll up to lines and set to show your city name to true as shown here:
// Show the other cities' names in their subheaders, or hide them?
var displayCityNames = true;

STEP 7.

Now all you do is save that and drag and drop back to its origin and it will ask you to replace, you select yes and BAM! You got yourself the best lock screen info theme ever. Ill have some pics and video to my tutorial on youtube if you get confused!!!!





Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7S70gQvj9g

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7S4cdoHkE




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