So you want to customize your iPhone?

Customizing your iPhone: Preparing it for the apps you want to have!

Now I'm sure you'd like to begin customizing your phone, so I will take you through the steps I took in ensuring I have the most stable and functional iPhone i know. This assumes you know how to add sources in installer and you have an active Wifi connection.

I've been reading about the inherent flaws of the BSD subsystem that Nullriver (Installer's developer) installs, so this guide focuses on using Cydia before doing any customization. Cydia is an Open Source Package Management App by Jay Freeman (saurik) that is based on Debians Apt-Get system. At the moment not all sources found in installer have been ported to Cydia, but I am hopeful this will change once people see and feel the Cydia difference. I also have installer installed for apps that I need that are not yet on Cydia. My ballpark estimate has at about 50/50; meaning 50% of my stuff is from Cydia and the other half from installer.

This guide focuses on the use of Cydia as THE BSD Subsystem (it installs a more feature complete BSD subsystem on your iphone, with the option of installing the usual utilities such as sudo (yay!) and top (yay again!)

For Apps that "require" Nullriver's BSD Subsystem, we will be installing the "Fake" BSD package from saurik to make sure apps will install without any glitch. (Saurik’s Cydia BSD Subsystem is much more complete, but don’t take my geeky word, check out saurik’s site (www.saurik.com)

Tweak ON!

AFTER Activating, Jailbreaking & Unlocking:

1. Go to installer to update your sources. We’ll install Cydia by adding to the installer sources ("http://apptapp.saurik.com" without the quotes) Be patient as this will take about 10 minutes as it frees up space on the 300mb iPhone partition by moving the fonts, ringtones and applications to the larger partition) (we’ll install FAKE BSD as well the Cydia Manual refresh which basically does an apt-get update for you manually)

2. In this order, install the following, Cydia Manual Refresh then Fake BSD from saurik’s repo in installer

3. Add ispazio sources ("repo.ispazio.net") and install all his useful sources

4. Install Community Sources & BigBoss' Beta Sources

5. Add "http://i.unlock.no" (without the quotes) as a source

6. Exit installer and restart if prompted.

7. Open Cydia from your homescreen and install OpenSSH, Terminal & vterm-100 exit after installing these.

8. Open installer and install Boss Prefs, appsupport & Regionfix from iclarified to fix CallerID problems.

Open installer and install the following:

9. Install fixes for 1.1.4 from unlock.no & iclarified sources (ibrickr fix, volume patch, etc.)

10. install Customize (modded version 3) if working, install graphics and soundpacks (Please find the separate “How to install Customize on 1.1.4” guide below.)

11. Install Summerboard & SMB Themes (I use a personally modded Realize Rainbow and Graphite)

12. Install Books and EBooks

13. Install iPhysics and top level packs: Newton, Rawds Moto, AstroPhysics, Lightstreaks, crayongolf, H3x

14. Install the following Games: isnake; lightsoff; Ants; Caissa, Tris, Chuzzle

15. Using installer you can install iSMS after adding the swirly repo and iSMS repo (iSMS repo is "http://iphone.nonsoft.com/repo/")

16. Install Insomnia or John Tool (to keep your net connection alive during SCP sessions and surfing) from Repo's

17. Install Safari Add-ons (Safari Bookmarklets & Safari as Fileviewer) from ispazio

18. Install Mobile Finder, Mobile Text Edit, Mobile Preview

19. Install 1Shoot from Cydia, if available or from installer