Can A Theme Be Installed Manually Without Winterboard?

[aheryan]

Hi Stimpty5050, this is brilliant I never aware of "top" command in cydia. I just apt-get install top and it works like charm Anymore handy command to share? So far I just installed sudo only :

Install "top" from Cydia. Then log into you phone via ssh and type "top -o rsize". The rsize column shows memory usage and will be sorted.

[organik]

Winterboard gone on my 3G. Phone is more stable and usable. Sad. Maybe with the 3gs or whatever is next it will work fine, but for now I'd rather USE my phone than have it look pretty.

[Zameus]

Been using my 3G with Winterboard for the past 6 months. For the first time today, I uninstalled Winterboard, and rebooted iphone. WOW! Major difference in perfomance as if I just had first bought it. Winterboard is gone and will never be reinstalled again. Hopefully they fix the memory issues with it soon.

[schoenemans]

Winterboard shouldn't make your phone lagg at all. Maybe with a video wallpaper, but else i don't see any problems. It wouldn't be noticeable

[Poseidon79]

Winterboard in my experience uses up about 10-12MB of RAM. Unless you have an iPhone 3G and already have several other mobile substrate apps installed just the installation of WB should not slow down the phone. This is due to the fact that mobile substrate apps do not take up any CPU cycles at all... only RAM.

[Birke]

Can someone explain me why Winterboard slows down the iPhone?

Is it Winterboard itself, regardless how big or complex your theme is in total, or is the theme slowing down the iPhone? Maybe both together?

I would like to theme the GUI and icons etc. directly in the original stock folders instead using Winterboard, but it will take much more time to theme the iPhone GUI after a restore. Would it be possible to create aliases or a script to replace the original stock images like the UIImages?

Would it help to replace some parts of a theme directly in the original stock folders, to reduce the slow down of the iPhone by reducing the complexity of the theme?

Thanks in advance!

Birke

P.s.: Which process is the Winterboard process? I can't see Winterboard listed?

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
29 SpringBoar 0.9% 2:55.38 14 319 457 12764K 8068K 27M 97M
69 MobilePhon 0.0% 0:11.24 2 98 204 5056K 8004K 7836K 74M
68 MobileMail 0.0% 0:17.75 7 158 122 2900K 7848K 7464K 70M
23 mediaserve 0.0% 0:09.31 14 205 209 1772K 6952K 3840K 58M
32 aosnotifyd 0.0% 0:04.40 3 96 94 1212K 6952K 3644K 41M
31 CommCenter 0.0% 0:20.06 8 140 116 1628K 6952K 3220K 45M
14 configd 0.0% 0:57.38 11 261 97 868K 6488K 1696K 22M
27 dataaccess 0.0% 0:04.18 4 117 54 1216K 6856K 1684K 41M
22 lockdownd 0.0% 0:13.13 3 69 68 1188K 6856K 1372K 42M
217 sshd 0.0% 0:00.67 1 15 34 308K 6488K 1300K 18M
54 BTServer 0.0% 0:03.87 3 90 65 720K 6856K 1064K 44M
218 bash 0.0% 0:00.11 1 15 49 260K 6744K 1056K 19M
221 top 8.2% 0:02.69 1 21 34 560K 6732K 1040K 17M
61 apsd 0.0% 0:05.99 3 77 39 656K 6488K 984K 17M
13 mDNSRespon 0.0% 0:04.34 2 69 39 448K 6476K 792K 18M
1 launchd 0.0% 0:03.32 3 90 42 320K 6476K 572K 19M
18 sbsettings 0.0% 0:00.29 1 32 28 376K 6844K 540K 30M
102 SCHelper 0.0% 0:03.66 3 31 45 360K 6488K 484K 17M
26 fairplayd 0.0% 0:00.57 1 34 37 352K 6476K 460K 18M
28 accessoryd 0.0% 0:00.77 1 58 29 344K 6480K 456K 17M
12 notifyd 0.0% 0:03.25 2 336 29 272K 6480K 340K 17M