There are two ways of doing this.

1. If you already have a jailbroken device
2. Open Cydia and make sure you get this page
   
3. Once you get it, Just select “Make my life easier, Thanks!”
4. Now every time you are going to load Cydia you will have this at the top of the Cydia page
   

Doing this will store your SHSH file on Saurik’s (Cydia) server and will enable you to downgrade later on.

It’s not done yet. To be safe, Make sure to make a backup on your computer and this is how to do it.

1. Download this file made by iH8Snow
   1. http://www.mediafire.com/?jmkw4k0wm00
2. Make sure that your device is in recovery mode
   1. Connect your device to the computer
   2. Press and hold the power + Home button until the “Connect to iTunes” logo appears
3. You also have to make sure you have Java Runtime installed on your computer. If you don’t, the second message your are going to get just press no and AutoSHSH is going to redirect to the download page.
   
4. Launch the AutoSHSH program – Make sure you have an Internet Connection (Windows Vista and Windows 7 launch the program as administrator)
   1. You will get these two messages
      
5. You will then get this main window
   
6. Again make sure that your device is in recovery mode and click on “Grab my SHSH Blobs automatically”
7. Once it finds your ECID, you will be prompted to save the SHSH file anywhere on your computer
   
   
8. Save it and you are done!
   

Now you are safe to accidentally update your firmware and to go back.

1. Download this script made by Secretss (v1.4)
   1. Download link 1 (Mediafire)
   2. Download link 2 (DropBox)
   3. Download link 3 (Multiupload)
2. With your favorite SSH client, or by USB access of with iFile, Go to /usr/bin/
3. Drag and drop the script there
   
4. Make sure you have terminal downloaded from cydia
5. Open Terminal
6. Type su
   
7. and your password (It should be alpine by default unless you have changed it)
8. now simply type cyfix
   
9. It will prompt you to enter the repository link. Enter it and press enter
10. Let it do the delete and Voila you are done!
    

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

This will add a file browser to your Apple OS.

This means that you will be able to access all the folders in your iPod without needing to go either in iPodLinux or Rockbox

Please note that this will only work with the background hacks 1.3.1 and lower. If you don’t know what firmware you’re using, I suggest you do not add this.

The file browser will not work with the apple classic firmware.

This was made by Invader Zim
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Installation is simple.

1. Download this resource file (Click Here!) and save it somewhere you will remember!
2. Make sure your iPod is plugged to your computer
3. Open iPodWizard (right-click + run as administrator if on Vista or 7)
4. Load your iPod firmware
   
5. Go to the layout tab and select MENU LAYOUT
   DO NOT LOAD THIS INTO SCHEME LAYOUT
   
   
6. Type 24094 in the Find box and click “Find”
   
7. Backup the original 24094.rsrc before moving to the next step

   Click on save Resource

   Save the file somwhere you will remember
   

8. Click on “Load Resource” and navigate to where you downloaded the file and load it.
   
9. Click on the write to ipod button.



10. Eject your ipod and disable “Backlight” in the main menu
    

    Go to the main menu

    Go to Settings

    Main Menu

    Scroll to the bottom and disable Backlight