HOWTO: Create a 'Stock' springboard with Categories

[Imahottguy]

Hi guys, don't know if this is really known or not, so I thought that I would post this up

There will be a video of the outcome up very soon

Preface: This 'mod' or 'hack' was really just an idea for fun at the time. I wanted to clean up my springboard, as that is the purpose of categories, but I wanted to take it one step further. By using the same icon and name of a stock app, I was able to make it appear that the app was there, when it really is only a category folder.

To start off, this works 100% for me on OOTB 1.1.2 Jailbroken iPhone. Please proceed at your OWN risk

Needed:

Installer.app (add http://sleepers.net/iphonerepo to sources)
Categories.app (Latest revision is 1.52 at the time of this post)
iTunes Music store icon
Finder.app OR WinSCP

Takes about 5-10 minutes

1: Install Categories if you have not already, and create your categories accordingly.
2: Make sure that the option to hide apps is turned on.
3: Use finder.app to navigate to /Applications/MobileStore.app/ and copy the icon.png to /Applications/Categories.app/icons/ (I renamed it to iTunes0.png for the sake of updates)
3A: If you don't want to use finder, do the same as the above w/ WinSCP or its' equivalent.
4: Create a NEW category titled 'iTunes'
5: The icon that you copied over earlier should now be available for selection.
6: Now add the other categories into the 'iTunes' category. They will be listed under the apps list.
7: Either add the mobilestore (that's what the iTunes Wi-Fi store shows up as in categories) to a category, or use customize to hide it.
7: Restart the springboard and your done!


NOTE: You can use this in place of ANY app that you don't really use. This can also be done for multiple apps. IE: If you don't use Stocks, Calendar and Notes, then you could hide them, copy their icons into the categories icon folder and then create 3 fake Stocks, Calendar and Notes apps.

The reason that I used the iTunes Music Store is that I don't use that app ever, and that it also happened to be last.

Also, this doesn't support summerboard themes as of yet. I'm working for a way to do this, however it may involve some linking, which, I don't really want to do...

[BigBoss]

Pretty interesting idea. You have a jailbreaked phone with icons hidden that you could perhaps even pass off with an Apple store genius

[HotStuff2]

This really isn't anything new; I was doing this months ago with Greg Meach's Launchers App, which I used to launch the several "Preferences" apps on the iPhone (stock Prefs, SMBPrefs, Customize, et. al)

Truth be told, I don't think people really need a "walk thru" or a video for this. It's pretty common-sense. All you're doing is creating a fake folder, naming it to something that's stock on the iPhone (so that Spring/Summerboard displays that name), and using the stock icon from whatever. It's not rocket science.