There are lots of great themes out there but installing them does not do anything, right? Wrong. You just need to install summerboard first:

1. Install Summerboard from the system category of installer. This puts the SMBPrefs icon on your springboard.
2. After you exit installer, actually reboot the phone.
3. Now you can load SMBPrefs. Make sure that at the very bottom of the SMBPrefs screen it says “SummerBoard (Active). If it says (Inactive) you did not reboot.
4. Use the Theme button and select the theme you want.
5. Installing more themes from installer will allow them to show up in the Summerboard theme selection dir.

Other Summerboard Options:

• Theme Wallpaper – On uses wall paper in the theme. Off uses the wallpaper selected in the wallpaper settings of the iPhone’s settings screen
• Theme Status Bar – the Status bar is the top bar with the time, battery, carrier.
• Theme Icons – Uses the icons within the theme or not.
• Theme Dock – The dock is the bottom row of icons. This determines whether or not to use the dock in the theme or not.
• Wallpaper – Turn this on to use wallpaper. If off, you get normal black background.
• Dim wallpaper – This dims the background so the icons stand out more.
• Hide Icon Labels – Removes the names from the springboard icons.
• Hide Dock Labels -Removes the names from the icons on the dock.

Troubleshooting:

Themes won’t show up – This may be a permissions issue. Try this:

1) Install BossPrefs v1.61 or higher

2) Click “more” then click “fix user dir permissions”.

Summerboard is not active:

Reboot the phone. Complete power off and power on. Not a quick lock and unlock, not a respring.

Themes are not enabled:

Make sure all your switches are set to “ON”.