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How-to install HTC Sense theme on your iPhone 4

Emile December 14, 2010

Winterboard jailbreak app allows you to install various types of themes on your iPhone or iPod touch and replicate different operating systems running on your device like windows phone theme, android OS theme, snow leopard theme etc.

HTC sense user unterference:

Prerequisites:

  1. You will need to jailbreak your iPhone 4.
  2. Download the required theme AndroiHD Lockscreen from here.
  3. Download and install Winterboard from Cydia.
  4. Download and install OpenSSH from Cydia.
  5. Download and install Lockscreen Clock Hide from Cydia.
  6. Any SSH client of your choice for Windows or Mac. Recommended client for Mac isCyberduck, and for Windows is WinSCP.

Step 1: Download and install Cyberduck for Mac or WinSCP for Windows. Enter the following details to login to your iPhone:

Cyberduck

  • Server: The IP address of your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. Settings –> WiFi –> text your ex back

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  • Username: root
  • Password: alpine
  • Protocol: SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)

    • WinSCP

    • Hostname: The IP address of your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. Setting –> WiFi –>
    • User name: root
    • Password: alpine
    • Protocol: SCP

    Step 2: Locate the AndroiHD Lockscreen file you downloaded earlier and extract it to your desktop.

    Step 3: Navigate to private/var/stash/Themes.xxxx folder on your iPhone using the SSH client you are using and drag and drop the AndroiHD Lockscreen folder in this location as shown in the screenshot below.

    Step 4: Once copied, open the folder and left-click on “AndroiHD.js” file and click edit.

    Step 5: A new window will open and now here you will need to locate the string var YWCode = ’32452’. What you need to do is replace this number sequence with the one that corresponds to your city.

    Step 6: To find the number that corresponds to your city, go to Yahoo Weather by clicking here and enter the name of your city. Then take the number out of the URL as shown below and put this number in the string you located earlier.

    Step 7: Save this file and then close your SSH Client. Now start Winterboard on your iPhone and enable AndroiHD Lockscreen theme.

    Thats it! You now have beautiful new HTC Sense lockscreen with a working weather widget!

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