Springboard.plist save?

[jcraven8081]

Im new to this so please dont get mad

What i would like to do is easily be able to save my springboard layout and switch them in and out. Is this what the springboard.plist or whatever that file people talk about is for?
If so where is it located? And if not how can i save my springboard and how the apps are arranged easily. Thanks!..

[armaguy]

I was looking for something similar, and just found it.

the plist file is located:

/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

Open it and have a look around! There's plenty of other useful stuff inside. Just don't mess anything, I think it could seriously screw up your setup.

After scrolling approximately to half of it, I found this line:

<key>iconMatrix</key>

The keys after where each app. The first array was the dock. Then there's another..

<key>iconMatrix</key>

and all my apps. There's a new array for each page. It could be a pain to edit this manually, so yeah I'm no programmer at all and I'll have to wait for a full nice GUI perhaps.

hey even unjailbroken iphone can pimp this, using USB disk access app.

good luck

Haha I just did something wierd. I backed my original plist file and messed with a copy.

I figured that this

<integer>0</integer>

meant no icon in the spring board.
I decided for fun to turn this:

<array>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>nz.co.orsome.bubbleWrap</string>
						</dict>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>com.apple.MobileStore</string>
						</dict>
						<integer>0</integer>
						<integer>0</integer>
						<integer>0</integer>
					</array>

into this:

<array>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>nz.co.orsome.bubbleWrap</string>
						</dict>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>com.apple.MobileStore</string>
						</dict>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>com.apple.MobileStore</string>
						</dict>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>com.apple.MobileStore</string>
						</dict>
						<dict>
							<key>displayIdentifier</key>
							<string>com.apple.MobileStore</string>
						</dict>

to see if I would get 3 more itunes icons instead of 1. I respring and hoped everything would be fine. It hanged a big but after, all my icon were at there place, except there were no empty space between them. I had some pages with only 5 icons, so all the others after filled the empty space in order. That's kinda good; I didn't wanted to organized those pages and now they're all tidyed up.

Good.