Introduction

iMatte v5 HD will certainly be a theme remembered for a long time.  There is 5 months in the making (full-time work, I’m dedicated 100% to this, that is making the theme and supporting it).

I first made a complete version, with ColorKeyboard, SBSettings, etc, was going to do all the extensions I support, then I realized it wasn’t up to my expectations.

I threw everything I had to the garbage bin, and restarted from scratch, and here is the result.

How can I describe iMatte without having you read this for half an hour?  Impossible, so I’ll do my best!

If you enjoy and use iMatte, you can offer me a little coffee in order to keep me motivated to pursue my work! (If you don’t live in Sherbrooke, QC area, a little donation will do the same ;))

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Requirements

Technically, you can run iMatte v5 HD without any extra extension, that is beside Winterboard and it’s dependencies.

For optimal use, I highly suggest you install the following extensions:

• (free) Wallpaper JPEGifier, this one is actually a necessity if you want to be able to easily change the wallpaper used for the springboard html layouts
• (free) WeatherIcon, this one is only needed if you want to use the Native Weather Springboard or Lockscreen theme
• (free) Bytafont, if you want to use the default font bundled with iMatte, or any other fonts
• (free) Zeppelin, if you want to change the Carrier Icon/Name to the custom iMatte logo or something else
• (free) SliderWidth, if you want a slim slider for the lockscreen (you can adjust to any size you want)
• (paid) Gridlock, if you don’t want to deal with iBlanks and make nice layouts with the PerpageHTML+ widgets, this is highly recommended
• (paid) PerpageHTML+, again, this is only if you want to use the many widgets that are made to customize your springboard beyond what Winterboard can do
• (paid) ColorKeyboard, if you want to have the iOS keyboard themed, this is needed

Package Summary

• Fully themed stock iOS UI
• Full Siri theme with most of the assistants themed
• Full notification center theme
• Static springboard/lockscreen theme with digital clock+weather widget
• Native weather springboard/lockscreen theme (original by Subywrex, modded by me)
• Springboard slideshow with the same digital clock widget
• 3 minimal lockscreen layouts (by Zooropalg and I)
• 2 linear date springboard layouts (by Zooropalg and I)
• 1 old school springboard layouts (made by fif7y, ported by zoo, fixed by me)
• 2 springboard pages theme (yay, it’s been a while, winterboard last supported pages on iOS3.x)
• 2 icon mask themes
• 45(!! yes you heard right) different sets of custom made fabric icons with glyphs.  Different colors, ribbons style and sizes, and without ribbons.  For now, the sets includes 59 icons.
• Many handmade wallpapers + lots of hand-picked pictures for slideshows
• Customized ColorKeyboard theme with Siri support
• SBSettings theme with 37 toggles
• Full Intelliscreen (with QuickSettings) and LockInfo theme
• Auto-generating icons for AppStore apps, and lots of icons for Cydia apps included (the auto-generate doesn’t work with the 45 glyph icon sets..)
• Custom loading screens for all stock iOS apps, + a few Cydia/AppStore one as well. A fallback loading screen takes care of the rest.
• Lots of paid and free Cydia tweaks’s settings icon and sbsettings toggle done
• Customized fonts included
• PSDs included for icons, loading screens and overlays and most of the ui effects, to allow you create anything that will look great with iMatte.

There is so much more, Tweetbot, WhatsApp, Instagram and Foursquare are also themed.

Plus a bunch of cydia extensions like: AndroidLoader, AndroidLockXT, Anicons, BiteSMS, CallBar, ColorBanner, -Deck, Dock, Folder Enhancer, FolderIcons, Firewall IP, iPodControls, Move2Unlock, MusicBarExtended, PowerCenter Pro, QuickDo, Scrollingboard, SlideAway, SnowCover 4, Twitkafly, WeeToolBox, Zeppelin

More??

Happy that you asked! Sure there is!

By now, you should already be downloading and installing iMatte!

And there is so much more to it…

*** TO ALL MODDERS, if you need anything that I didn’t included in the package to create a mod for iMatte, let me know. I will provide you with whatever you need to do your thing. Thank you much!

I’d like to thank @Zooropalg, this guy may have never released a theme of his own, but he certainly contributed to the success of many themes, iMatte included. If you would ever leave buddy, you would be dearly missed by many. I’m sure if you ever release a theme, it will be a monster success!

Hope you all enjoy iMatte as much as I enjoyed making it!

Pierre-André Leclair

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• Fixed issue where text was lost when phone is locked, then unlocked
• Fixed various problems when biteSMS is running and Quick Replying on lock screen
• Fixed issue where contact picture was lost when forwarding (on iPhone 3.1.2 only)
• Fixed issue where Quick Compose would not come up and the screen would not dim after receiving a call

• Added a new Close (X) icon in Quick Compose and Quick Reply, such that the [Call] option is now a permanent button.
• The [Call] feature is now back in Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
• You can now add smileys in Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
• If typing a free format number in the Quick Compose “To:” field, you can now press the [Call] button without needing to press return first.
• Quick Compose can now be called from most places, with or without headphones on, as long as the volume HUD appears (sometimes volume HUD does not show the Quick Compose text, but you can still press it). Also if a slider volume control appears, say directly in the iPod “Now Playing” tab, you still cannot call QC (you need to navigate to a screen where the volume HUD is shown).
• In Quick Compose and Quick Reply, pressing the Home hardware button now closes the QC or QR window.
• Added a Favorites icon in Quick Compose, to make it easier and quicker to locate your favorite contacts.
• Quick Reply now works when opening from the lock-screen regardless of the time it takes you to unlock (intentionally only for a single pending message).
• Quick Compose and Quick Reply now “carry across” any entered text if the [Open] button is used to start biteSMS.
• Double tap (or long-hold) a message bubble now displays the exact timestamp of that message.
• Added URL handling into biteSMS, such that pressing “Text Message” from inside applications such as Contacts, ABContacts, Groups etc (also phone number links) now calls biteSMS correctly with appropriate recipient numbers passed across.
• When pressing the pink send button, and it’s an MMS (so Group MMS as well), you’ll be asked if you wish to send it via your carrier (so you don’t need to manually change the send button from pink to blue).
• Added missing image file, such that the iPhone search feature (spotlight) now displays an appropriate sized biteSMS icon.
• Updated a number of language translations and added support for the Russian language.
• Quick Switch setting now honored in Quick Compose and Quick Reply, and the default is ON if you already have credits.
• Made the credits counter (e.g. 320 credits) now appear in the text field, instead of the scroll region.
• Fixed issue, whereby (only sometimes) a smiley could cause a bubble to truncate the displayed text.
• Fixed issue, whereby a long text would cause the Quick Reply window to overlap the keyboard.
• Fixed issue, whereby in Landscape mode the biteSMS sub-menu that shows “Add Contact” and smileys allowed you to press the keyboard layer below.
• If during Quick Compose you lock your phone, then unlock, the “To:” field is no longer cleared out.
• Increased the data timeout when sending via the biteSMS network (as some iPhones using EDGE were experiencing timeout issues).

Note: For Firmware 2 users, although you’ll see a biteSMS update in Cydia as Release 4.1, functionally it’s exactly the same as biteSMS Release 3.2. In other words all the new biteSMS features shown above are only available for Firmware 3 users.

Changelog as of April 7, 2009

• Added a backgrounder feature directly into biteSMS (optional via settings) – so that it’s much quicker!
• Added Quick Compose feature (press volume-up) to allow you to compose an SMS from inside any application! (except YouTube).
• In Quick Reply and Quick Compose, added a “Call” feature and an SMS counter.
• General performance increases.
• Fixed “Send via Carrier” so that it’s as quick as the Apple one!!
• When using the Chinese keyboard the suggestions / auto-correct overlay are no longer obscured.
• Made the [Done] buttons blue like Apples, e.g. when you press [Edit] in the conversation list.
• After deleting a message bubble, biteSMS will no longer scroll to the end of the conversation.
• Where buttons slide up from the bottom of the screen ([Clear] button and Right Swipe on bubble) they are now spaced and colored as per Apple UI standards.
• Fixed the bug whereby if you locked your iPhone while in the landscape mode of biteSMS, upon unlock it mangled the screen.
• Rotation logic now the same as Safari (so that when your phone is upside down, it does not register this as a change in orientation).
• Improved the Messages Sent reset feature to be more informative and clearer to understand.
• Fixed issue, whereby sqlite multi-threading bug caused “Checking License…” to be performed multiple times (should only be checked once per install).
• Now supports texting to short codes without adding the country code prefix (Send via Carrier).
• Added support for “swipe to left” gesture (as well as the exiting “swipe to right”) when in the conversation list to display the Delete button.
• Settings icon now fades in / out as per the “compose new” pencil icon, for example when pressing [Edit].
• Enhanced the biteSMS URL call to also allow data to be passed in, for example bitesms:+61418123456?body=Hi%20Mum

• Added support for language translations in Quick Reply.

• Quick Reply is much improved, including scrolling for long messages.

• Added ability to long press the “Send” button in Quick Reply to switch between Carrier and biteSMS.

• We now disable the Quick Reply “Send” button during the sending process.

• Added new settings icon on the conversation list screen, and removed the little blue arrow settings icon.

• Added new “About >” page on the settings screen, shows Version, License, Legal, Change Log, Features Help, Contacts (count), SMS Conversations (count) and Messages (count).

• Fixed smileys layout issue (only a problem for certain language translations).

• Fixed smileys issue, where if you forward a text with a smiley it thinks it’s an emoji (so distorts character counter).

• Fixed smileys issue, where if you enter the ASCII for a smiley like :-) then rotate the screen, it thinks it’s an emoji (so distorts character counter).

• Fixed the Settings->Privacy screen to automatically size the borders according to the help text (currently truncates the help text for some languages).

• Added new feature to reset the Mobile Carrier sent messages counter on a given calendar day, or to manually set it.

• Added support for calls from other applications to biteSMS via the protocol “biteSMS:number1,number2,number3 etc”, so that applications such as ABContacts or other Group type applications can now call biteSMS and specify multiple numbers.

• Fixed up bubble width to be like the native Apple SMS application for short multi-line texts.

• Added a “Smileys” setting to control if Smiley images should be shown instead of ASCII characters.

• Fixed up various bugs and minor enhancements raised in the Version 3.1 Beta release (Quick Reply blurred text / scroll bar / edgy corners with artifacts) + (auto-correct settings not displaying) + (Compose New animation now like Apple one) + (Features Help / Change Log have larger font and display a busy loading indicator) + (improved settings icon and responsiveness and animation) + (Legal button pressed state display issue) + (business name now appears when choosing from contacts list) + (when adding multiple contacts to an SMS, the last location in the Contacts screen is now remembered).

Added Privacy, allowing control over whether the Name, Text and Preview window is shown for incoming SMS messages.

Much faster matching of contacts, especially for those users with very large Contact databases (+5000 contacts) – Yippee!

Quicker display of a conversation thread, especially where the conversation contains thousands of SMS messages.

Added auto-correction in settings page per active language, so when you switch keyboards the auto-correction setting for that language will take effect, both in biteSMS and Quick Reply – neat!

Added additional Smiley’s, and made them more quickly accessible (right-swipe in text box):

Added the sub-menu (right-swipe in text box) showing “Add My Location” and Smiley’s to the Landscape mode screen.

When sending an SMS, you can now press the Power or Home keys and it will be sent as expected, without needing to wait for the “sending….” process to complete.

Added functionality such that the Intelliscreen “Launch SMS” feature now works with biteSMS.

Reorganized the settings screen and updated text, so that the settings are easier to understand.

Added an End User License Agreement into biteSMS, which only needs to be acknowledged once.

When you install this version of biteSMS you automatically get a free trial license for 20 days. Then, you can either buy credits which include a license for 12 months, or instead buy a full license, which does not expire.  See the biteSMS Website for further details.

For a quick overview of all the great features in biteSMS please visit the biteSMS Feature List.