iPhone: Black Status Bars

Black Status Bar

This is a really simple mod, that I honestly couldn’t find any documentation for. If anyone has some, please contact me.

1. First, goto your /var/stash/Themes.xxxxx directory
2. Lets make a copy of the Solid Status Bar theme, we’re going to build ours off of this.

    cp -r Solid\ Status\ Bar.theme/ Black\ Status\ Bar.theme
    cd Black\ Status\ Bar.theme

3. Ok, now we need to edit Info.plist – the only change here is chaning the 0 under StatusBarMode to a 1. It should look like this when completed.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
     <dict>
       <key>StatusBarMode</key>
       <string>1</string>
   </dict></plist>

4. Thats it. Activate Black Status Bar inside of WinterBoard, when you exit Springboard will automagicly restart.

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