Hey guys, I just recently jailbroken my iPad 2 and now playing around with themes and I've got a few queries of why some things aren't working (to my knowledge) the way they should be. I HAVE searched as good as i could around here, and google, but couldn't really find the help I needed. But sorry if it is somewhere just point me to it

This is what I'm running
Ipad 2 5.0.1
Jailbroken with Absinthe
Winterboard
SBSettings

I'm not really understanding why the themes are not being fully applied.
The icons that never change are - Messages, Videos, Music, Newsstand, Reminders, Mail. Aswell as other apps (eBay, iBooks, Carsales etc All non standard apps)
I feel that it is something to do with the ios version (but then again I DO have 5.0.1 which is what works with absinthe. It's just that newsstand, reminders etc these icons were new with ios5)
But in screenshot previews of the themes the icons are changed
....I'll just let the pics do the talking

For example El3ment EL3MENT iPad - Winterboard


Now this is my El3ment








Side note: El3ment doesn't apply to my SBSettings as well...

And here is similar ideal with iFlat 4





And Glass Orb



Anyway you get the picture The themes are not fully applying, this goes for in music player too.
I hope it's not something basic i've missed, but thanks for any help!!!

Every time Apple release a new version of IOS they add things like new applications. These application icons are only themed IF the developer releases an updated 5.0.1 compatible theme. Not all (in fact only a few) themes have so far been updated for 5.0.1 support. That's the reason you only get partial themeing at the moment. Always worth sending the developer an email (details in Cydia) and searching google. There are several theme sites where folks submit their own themed icons...

In our own theme section, I usually post if I find a theme has been updated. e.g .BlueiPadV2 and Twilight 3volution have both been updated to 5.0.1.

Ah that's what I thought was going on, I was just a bit confused because icons like Mail are in all ios. But thanks for the response, I have got alot of use out of the theme section on here thanks!!

Glass Orb is AWESOME.. Easiest on the eye IMO and perfect with just about any wallpaper. Took me ages to get it to work on iPad 5.0.1.

I had trouble initially with some auto skinning, but changing the below skinned everything bar the messages icon.


/glass orb_ipad.theme/bundles......com.apple.mobileicons.framework

change AppIconMask-72.png to AppIconMask~ipad.png
AppIconShadow-72.png to AppIconShadow~ipad.png

Respring and should be good to go.

elektobank - What exactly do you mean change the skinned everything bar?? From all the reading I've been doing on here, I know that by downloading iFile we can change the files etc But I don't know exactly what/how to do it.

Heya

What I meant was by changing the below files the auto skinning of all apps worked for everything except the messages icon.

In iFile navigate to the glass orb theme folder, which is here -

/glass orb_ipad.theme/bundles......com.apple.mobileicons.framework

and change the following two file names -

AppIconMask-72.png to AppIconMask~ipad.png
AppIconShadow-72.png to AppIconShadow~ipad.png

Respring

Haha ahh punctuation, I mis read. Thanks for that, it did change a few more of the icons, but I still have messages, reminders, Videos, Mail(I don't get why mail doesn't change it's on all ios) Newsstand and music all un-orbed/changed...Funnily enough facetime and photobooth did change???
Can this method be done for other themes too? By changing those file names (i pressume they will be the same?)

Thanks

The auto-skinning is only for App Store icons and does not work on in-built apps or JB apps (as you no doubt are discovering).

That's why any new IOS release needs to have the new IOS in-built apps separately themed!

Yep that is what Im discovering Weird that it worked on facetime and photobooth though? But yes I have just spent the last 1hr and a bit doing the exact same idea on my themes, and it works as a remedy pretty well.

Official Themed & Tweaked Screenshot Gallery Post #38 rookiedj mentions manually changing the icons. Are there artwork websites/areas hidden in theme(?) for each theme? For example Im rocking Uinique atm, can I manually change the icons?

Thanks

Still in ref to themes not fully applying. Does anybody ever get the backgrounds, while opening a folder not applying? Or how can we choose a custom wallpaper while in a folder?