This is a guide explaining what to do to your status bar to make it as useful as possible.
Some of you may have already done this, or may think it is all pretty obvious to do. However this guide is mainly aimed at those would might not have realized everything or those are not as ‘jailbreak literate’.

[1] The first thing to do would be to create the maximum amount of space possible in the status bar.

At the start your status bar will look like this:

To make maximum space in the status bar, do the following:

1) Download ‘MakeItMine’ of Cydia:

This allows you to change your carrier name (in the top left). Having the carrier name is pretty useless.
And so after downloading MIM(MakeItMine) chance your carrier name to just a single space
After MIM your status bar should look like this:

2) Download off Cydia an application called ‘Battery Control’:

This app is a paid app with a trial. However i’m sure some of you will find a way to get it for free….:D
This app will allow you to change your battery to just a numeric value (e.g. 69) instead of the little symbol, the numerical value and the percentage sign ( e.g. 69% [=] )

Once this has been completed your phone should look like so:

3) The final thing to do is if you have a Winterboard theme (or just edit your info.plist) edit it like so:
- Find in the theme folder a file called info.plist
- Add to the file:

<key>TimeStyle</key>
<string>margin-left: 0px; padding-top:2px; font-size: Xpx; letter-spacing: .01em;</string>

Change ‘X’ to whatever number you want, the smaller the number, the smaller the size of the clock. I recommend around 12.

Make sure this is placed between the <plist version=”x.x”><dict> at the top
and the </dict></plist> at the bottom of the file.

This will change the time at the top of the screen to as small as you wish.

The info.plist should look like so:

And after, the time should look like this:

[2] The next thing you want to do is add things to your status bar.

1) The first thing you will want to get (and almost all of you probably already have) is SBSettings off Cydia.
This will allow you to have multiple toggles (e.g. turning on and off 3G) from your status bar. Also another feature of SBSettings is that under the ‘more’ button you can add a few things to your status bar. For example you can have it show your available free memory, the date and a few more things.

2) The second and perhaps one of the most important things you will want to get is called ‘Status Notifier’ and it can be found on Cydia. Once again this app is a paid one, but yet again im sure many of your have your ‘ways’ of getting it for free. This is the app:

This app will allow you to have notifications in your status bar. For example you can set it to show a phone icon in your status bar when you have a missed call, an envelope when you have mail and a text bubble when you have a text.

Once StatusNotifier has been configured your status bar could/should look like this:

3) Another thing to add to the status bar is…. the weather
By downloading ‘Weathericon’ from Cydia (for free) you can have the weather show up in the status bar as either:
- Just the temperature,
- Just an icon (e.g. A picture of a sun if its sunny )
- Or both

Once you have downloaded this app, simply respring, go into your settings -> Weather Icon. Then under ‘Status Bar’ enable ‘show Image’ and/or ‘Show Temp’
By default Weather Icon uses the first place in the stock Weather app. However, this can be changed on this same page.

If all has been done correctly so far your status bar should look like so: NOTE: In this picture I do not have show image enabled, and so I have only the temperature.

4) Here are two more ways to increase the productivity of the status bar but they are sort of linked so I will do them together.
These two tweaks, available through Cydia are called ‘MusicBar’ and ‘MusicInfo’.

MusicBar allows you to control you music using the status bar. (All you do is touch the top left of your status bar and it changes to look like this:

PLEASE NOTE: This tweak will not work if you used MIM to remove your carrier. This is because it is activated by pressing your carrier on the status bar. Apologies.

Musicinfo allows you to see what song is playing (Your Status bar changes to display the song info for 5 Seconds when a song begins) It will look like this:

This guide was written by UKSGreen and is posted here with his approval

Since some jailbroken iPhones got hacked by a unknown person, it is recommended that you change your SSH password to something other than “alpine” (Default password)

This is how you do it.

1. Go on cydia



2. Go the search tab and search “mobile terminal”
3. Install it




4. Back on your springboard select terminal



5. Write
   1. su  (Then press return)

   

   2. alpine (Then press return)

   

6. You are now logged in as root



7. Write password (Then press return)



8. Write your new password (press return)



9. Rewrite your new password to make sure you wrote it correctly

You are now done.

Please note that in all other tutorials you will read, everytime we are going to write “alpine” as the password you have to put your own.

Also it is very important that you remember your password!

1. Assuming that you already installed the perfect background hack, Open iPodwizard and on on the dropdown menu on the left, choose “ipod” then click on “load ipod firmware” button.



2. Now go in the “Layout” tab and in the drop down menu called “Resource Type” select “Font types”



3. Now in the search bar, search for these values 24209, 24210 and 24211.
4. Once you have search for one, on the right box in iPodwizard, double-click on the “Value” of “RGB Color” it should look like “0xff000000″. (Refer to number 3 on the next picture)



5. You will now be able to select the color with a color palette. Once you are done selecting the color click on OK



6. Now search the rest of the values and repeat step 3 to 5
7. You are now done. Click on “Write” and “Eject” your iPod

This tutorial will show you how to Change the boot logo on your iPod Video (The apple logo when your iPod boots)

Note: If you have a bootloader, it might not work because you might not be able to find the apple logo in the firmware.
Also some custom firmwares may not have boot logos for you to change. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do.

Alright

1. Download iPodWizard 1.3
2. Load your iPod firmware by going on the dropdown menu on the top left and selecting ipod then load firmware.



3. Go to the pictures Tab
4. Select the picture numbered 413



5. Now find an boot logo that you like. (make sure the image size is 62px in width * 78px in height)

For this example we are going to use this one


6. Now go back to iPodWizard and load the image by click on Load Bitmap



7. Find the image you chose and press on Open
8. Now go to the Preferences tab and select “Reflash iPod firmware upon boot picture change”



9. Press write then on eject and you are done!
   

   Note: iPodWizard might freeze. If it does, follow these steps

   1. Wait about 1 or 2 minutes
   2. Close iPodWizard
   3. Unplug your iPod
   4. Plug it back, your iPod is going to be reflashing

   And you are done!

In this tutorial I will teach you the basics of modding an iPod. This includes changing the graphics, changing the fonts and changing the Strings(Every single word written in your iPod)

Change your iPod’s Graphics

1. Download iPodwizard 1.3
2. In the left drop down menu called “Edit Mode:” select “iPod” and click on “Load iPod Firmware”



3. In the pictures tab, you can scroll through the pictures and edit the ones you want with Photoshop. Make sure that the pictures are the same sizes
4. To load a single pic, you just have to click on “Load Bitmap” and select the picture you modified.



5. To load a full downloaded theme, just press on “Load All” and select the folder where all the pictures are contained



6. When you are done modifying the picture, just press write and wait until its finished and eject!

To add a background to your iPod just click on this link

Be aware that applying the ultimate background hack will delete almost all the changes you have made to your iPod.

http://www.ipodstuff.org/?p=342

Change your iPod’s font

1. Download iPodwizard 1.3
2. In the left drop down menu called “Edit Mode:” select “iPod” and click on “Load iPod Firmware”



3. Click on the “Fonts” tab and go to the far right side and click on “OTF Fonts”



4. In the drop down menu select index number “1″ and on the far right side click on make font.



5. Select the font you want and the size and press ok. The best size is between 15 and 18



6. If you are done you can just continue editing your iPod or just click on “write” and eject the iPod

To change the font color visit this link

http://www.ipodstuff.org/?p=386

Change your strings (The Text in your iPod)

1. Download iPodwizard 1.3
2. In the left drop down menu called “Edit Mode:” select “iPod” and click on “Load iPod Firmware”



3. Click on the “strings” tab. Then in the dropdown menu select 24 for the english language.



4. You can now search a text you want an click on “Find” (IE: Do not disconnect)



5. When you find the text you want, right under the search bar type the text YOU want and click on “Change String”



6. You can also scroll through the list then click on the text you want and edit it.
7. You are now done you can continue editing or just click on “Write” and then “eject”

This tutorial will show you how to Change the boot logo on your iPod Nano 1st gen!  (The apple logo when your iPod boots)

If you have a bootloader, it might not work because you might not be able to find the apple logo in the firmware.

Alright

1. Download iPodWizard 1.3
2. Load your iPod firmware by going on the dropdown menu on the top left and selecting ipod then load firmware.



3. Go to the pictures Tab
4. Select the picture numbered 283



5. Now find an boot logo that you like. (make sure the image size is 62px in width * 78px in height)

For this example we are going to use this one


6. Now go back to iPodWizard and load the image by click on Load Bitmap



7. Find the image you chose and press on Open
8. Now go to the Preferences tab and select “Reflash iPod firmware upon boot picture change”



9. Press write then on eject and you are done!
   

   Note: iPodWizard might freeze. If it does, follow these steps

   1. Wait about 1 or 2 minutes
   2. Close iPodWizard
   3. Unplug your iPod
   4. Plug it back, your iPod is going to be reflashing

   And you are done!