Windows 7 Theme & UI for iPhone

19 August 2009 by Vinay 8 Comments

First of all i’d like to thank spintek and ebl4287 for releasing such an awesome Windows 7 theme for iPhone. Before getting started confirmed that your iPhone is Jaibreaked and you have installed OpenSSH in your iPhone through Cydia. If you haven’t jailbreaked yet, then follow our iPhone 2G Jailbreaking Guide Unlock/Jailbreak iPhone 2g OS 3.0 Using RedSn0w or iPhone 3G, 3GS Jailbreaking Guide Jailbreak iPhone 3G OS 3.0 With RedSn0w. Once jailbreaked, Install OpenSSH from Cydia and reboot you iPhone. Now Install WinterBoard from Cydia, WinterBoard is an open source application that promises to apply any SummerBoard theme, as well as allow for some new amazing effects (ie. animated/changing backgrounds, theming batteries, sliders, etc.). And also install FiveiRows, iBlank, and SpringJumps for tweaking the Windows 7 theme. FiveiRows available through the Touch-Mania source which can be added through Cydia and the source is “http://cydia.touch-mania.com/”. When you get every thing ready follow the steps given below.

Step One : Download Windows 7 Theme for iPhone Click Here and extract the downloaded file to a folder on desktop.

Step Two : Download and install SSH program, For Windows we recommend WinSCP, for Mac download Cyberduck. In this tutorial we used WinSCP, Now find your iPhone’s IP address by going to (on your iPhone) settings > Wi-Fi > “Your selected WiFi” > Look under IP Address-Connect to your iPhone using WinSCP Change File Protocol to SCP. Now type your IP address under host name, user : root and password: alpine. and click on login now you have the access of your iPhone file system.

Step Three : Once you log in to your file system then navigate to /private/var/stash/Applications.pwn or you can take a shortcut from Root/Applications This folder holds all your Cydia applications, in this folder drag and drop all five files ends with .app extension.

Step Four : Now navigate to Root/Library/Themes and drag n drop the W7 Clock.theme and W7.theme to themes folder.

Step Five : Open the W7 Clock theme folder theme, there are 2 Widget html files: one is with seconds, one is without. Choose which one you’d like, and rename the other to something like ".html.x" or delete it.Name the file you want to use to Widget.html

Step Six : Set up your home screen to the main icons you want, with the clock, calendar, and weather on the right or you can manage the icons as shown in Figure one, after applying the theme your desktop should be looks like the screenshot no. 2 and 3.