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So you’ve jailbroken your iPod Touch. The first thing you would probably want to do is change the boring black theme and icons. Here’s the easiest way to do it but first, the requirements:

• WiFi connection
• Winterboard app

Get WinterBoard

WinterBoard is the app you need to manage your theme files. You can easily switch between different themes.

Go ahead and launch Cydia then search for the WinterBoard App and install it (make sure you have WiFi internet available).

Download your theme

1. In the Home section of Cydia, click the Featured Themes for starters. This is where the good looking themes are located.

2. Under the Springboard Themes, select the one that you want. I’m going to choose Leaf.

There are other themes in the Sections part of Cydia if you don’t find anything that you want.

3. Go ahead and Install the theme.

After it finishes downloading, you can exit Cydia or download more themes.

4. To activate your theme, launch Winterboard. Select the theme you downloaded and make sure it’s the only one selected. Sometimes, a theme will have multiple elements and you must select them all to see its full effect.

If you click the Home button, your iPod will pause for a bit while it loads your new theme.

The Leaf theme doesn’t suite my taste. Heh.

To manually add themes to your iPod if you download it from the internet, check out my guide here.

• How to upload themes on your iPod Touch
• Life after jailbreaking the iPod Touch
• Change the “iPod” text in your iPod Touch
• How to jailbreak your iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware

Filed under: iPod Touch and iPad