SBSettings 3.0 Soon part 2

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps, Development, Jailbreak, Repository

Edit: I packed this up and released it as v2.99. There are a couple more things I plan before 3.0 comes out, but this will get some good testing in. A couple notes, the install process should work, but if you have any weird problems, like respring just hangs with the respring screen up, reboot the iPhone and then send me email letting me know this happened. I am trying to avoid a reboot on install and want to make sure it’s working for the masses. Also, remember you must enable the status bar features in the more app!

Note: themes like leopard U/I that put javascript web content directly over the statusbar will prevent statusbar date and memory from showing up.

So I have still been working on SBSettings for 3.0 (and update for 2.x). In addition to the features listed in my previous post I have added:

  • You can now have more than 12 toggles. (On the 3.0 OS). When you have > 12 toggles it will let you scroll like categories app or such.
  • There is now an option to put the free memory in the statusbar. See:
  • You can now select from several options to customize the behaviors of SBSettings:
    • Enable or disable the U/I from lock screen
    • Enable or disable the U/I during calls (for those of you that kept having the U/I activate on your cheek).
    • Enable or disable the date in status bar.
    • Enable or disable the memory free in status bar.
    • Enable or disable numeric battery, wifi, or GSM (phone strength).
  • Revamped the U/I on the more – extras screen.
  • Internally, I have made the toggles SDK more extensible enabling direct access to system() calls within the toggles. I expect another small flood of new toggles like safari download, samba, or syslog toggles. These tasks were impossibly difficult on 1.x sbsettings and are now trivially simple.

Known Issues – Please READ THIS before you comment:

1) If your respring, SSH, or EDGE doesn’t work, you are one of the unlucky 3100 to get my bad pack. Reboot the iPhone and you should be ok.

2) If you hold wifi for more than 1 second to try to invoke the hold action, springboard will crash. I had debugging stuff in there that I forgot to remove. None of the toggles support invoke hold action yet anyway so there is no need to hold them.

3) If you saw fastnotes, location services, or processes uninstall on the update this is normal. They are now included in the core sbsettings.

4) I already know that there is some misaligned text on 2.0 mobile substrate screen. The font on 3.0 and 2.0 are sized differently by defaults. Will fix in next version.

5) If you are on 3.0 this will not work for you. Do not report that the more app crashes. It’s not a problem with sbsettings. It’s in your jailbreak. To properly make it work on 3.0 beta, you require a private, not yet released kernel patch and to fix your crashing on loading the more app, you need to install the package that includes dirname. (It will be installed on a real 3.0 release build). Look for one of the *-cmds packages like “adv-cmds”, “file-cmds”, “shell-cmds” or just install all 3.

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SBSettings Theme Kit Released

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps

Are you an SBSettings themer? Then this news is for you! I have finished the SBSettings theme kit and posted it in the guides section here. The guide will explain what each element is that can be themed, where the theme folders are expected to go, and provides some screenshots. It also has a link [...]

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Tip: Missing or Hidden Icons

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: General, Repository

I am still getting a lot of emails asking one or two of the same questions: “I hid my poof icon and now I cant unpoof it” (or same with bossprefs or such). or “I just restored my iPhone and all my icons are gone“. I have written two articles on this. There is the [...]

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SBSettings v0.92 Out

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps

Update (10/29/2008): I updated the window to be able to be closed with the home button as well as the little X based off your feedback. This version is not yet released but this will be in the next update today or tomorrow. Update (10/28/2008): I updated SBSettings Toggles again to v1.2.1 after working with [...]

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SBSettings Toggle Pack Update

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps

Update your sbsetting toggles pack to v1.1. There was a permissions bug in packaging the original toggle pack that prevented the EDGE toggle from working.  I have updated the toggle pack and am posting the update. Please update the toggle pack, and if Cydia doesn’t force you to, make sure you respring after. Remember, the [...]

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SBSettings v0.91 Released

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps

Thank you all that tested SBSettings.  I put v0.91 beta into Cydia.  We will continue to fix issues and expand the app over the next week. Enjoy it and thank you all that tested it. Note: Fixed a bug in libhide that made it so you couldnt unhide hidden apps. Make sure you install the [...]

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SBSettings Beta v0.90

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps

SBSettings Beta v0.90 is here! UPDATE: Bugs fixed so far due to your beta test reports: 1) Renamed Wifi, Edge, and 3g to Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G 2) Renamed “Extras” menu from “SBSettings” to “Extras” 3) Fixed all toggles to detect iPod touch in the isCapable function to avoid bluetooth, airplane, EDGE showing up on [...]

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The Future of BossPrefs

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: Apps, Jailbreak

So just so you all know what I have been working on lately, I am currently working on a very exciting new app with developer Ipodtouchmaster. It’s called SBSettings. We have taken bossprefs to the next level. It is not yet done, but here you can get a glimpse of what to expect. Here are [...]

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