LiveTime – Animated Clock Icon

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

LiveTime LiveTime is an application that animates and updates the clock icon on your SpringBoard…allowing it to continually display the current time. When you install LiveTime, it will automatically begin to animate your clock icon. The hour and minute hand will show the current time and the second hand will move accordingly. Now, when you first install the application, it is an overlay on your stock icon. So, you will see the stock time (10:15 and 0 seconds) underneath the animated clock. However, when you installed LiveTime, it also added a theme to WinterBoard titled; LiveTime Clock. If you go into WinterBoard and activate the theme, it will change the icon so that you only see the animated clock.

Honestly, I think this is a pretty cool mod. Now, all we need is one that updates the Weather icon! That would be sweet!!

Note: The only icon in the LiveTime Clock theme is a blank clock icon so, you can use it in conjunction with other themes (by having the LiveTime Clock theme before your other theme in Winterboard) or you can ssh in and copy it into other themes. The blank clock icon is located in the Library/Themes/LiveTime Clock.theme/Icons folder.


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Comments

  1. peacetrain says:

    i was just thinking how the icon should show the time like the calendar. unreal.

    • JuanKi says:

      I’ve always thought this from day one since I got my phone.

      don’t animate (seconds) it if it’s such a hassle but it should the real time…

    • MelissaRigon says:

      Hey guys,
      I’m a journalism student, and I’m writing an article based on animated icons for the iPhone. I would just like some information based on how you go about desiging the actual icon itself. If anyone is willing to help me out regarding the live-time icon and the weather icon that would be great. My email address is melissarigon@gmail.com.
      - Melissa

  2. Yelis says:

    Making weather icon update would be more useful

    • JuanKi says:

      take into consideration that in order for the weather to update you would need to be online somehow all the time, be it wifi or data plan…

    • Stimpy5050 says:

      I’m actually working on a weather icon right now (inspired by this extension). I should have a basic working version in a couple days.

    • Yelis says:

      Thats great. I would also suggest making that weather icon launch “The Weather Channel” app. instead of crappy iphone app. I dont know if this is possible……

    • Stimpy5050 says:

      Planning on it. It’ll actually be pretty easy to have it launch any app you want.

  3. Adam Reineke says:

    Sweet! I installed this, installed the five icon dock, stuck the clock in the middle and set Stacks right on top it. I used Make It Mine (MIM) to put my e-mail address at the top, which removed the clock, but now I just pop up Stacks to see what time it is! (Or return to the lock screen or check my actual phone.)

    Screenshot: http://s5.tinypic.com/2a5mcjq.jpg

  4. Ree says:

    Surely this must slow the phone down quite a bit?

    • Adam Reineke says:

      I didn’t notice a slowdown. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there is a slight battery impact though.

    • Ree says:

      Cool. I might just try it out. Though I must say I’d prefer a digital clock icon :) If it only showed hh:mm I suppose it would take less CPU power as well.. o_O

  5. ridaf says:

    Im sorry, i cant find it in cydia. Can you tell me what the source of it?
    Thank you.

  6. spidi21 says:

    And how to use it, if I don’t have winterboard?

    • rje says:

      Why don’t you have Winterboard?

    • spidi21 says:

      because when I had summerboard installed, it slowed everything down…is the same with winterboard? or is it a musthave application?:)

    • mastuul says:

      It is a must have for this app and I can’t imagine not having it on my phone. I never noticed summerboard or winterboard slowing any processes down. Might as well try it and see, right?

  7. caesar says:

    I have old time icon under the new animated clock. Why?

  8. brianL says:

    This is a very cool app. works like a charm.

    I also noticed in the video, your Winterboard had “reflective dock” 3rd in line. Can you tell me how/where to get this? I have been wanting a reflective dock for a long time and can’t seem to find it.
    Thanks

  9. The J Man says:

    Does this work with just the factory icons only or will it work on modified icons???

  10. DutchMob says:

    Good hack! Thanx!

  11. Kayvan says:

    Will this slow down the iphone or make your battery drain faster?

  12. DJContagious says:

    i hope this is a step closer to animated icons for ALL apps!

  13. Ben says:

    i have a few too many hands i think – most clock don’t have 4 hands do they??
    :P

  14. Taylor says:

    Obviously this app is not in cydia with ispazio installed for me. I don’t know why there is always a lag for me to receive these new apps

  15. Dascalargo says:

    Hmm… I use another calendar application and I’ve always missed the date on the icon, as you’d see with the stock icon. If someone can create an animated clock icon, surely they can also plug the date into a calendar icon, right?

    Hint, hint. :-)

  16. i.k.o says:

    These little extension really are what makes jailbreaking so awesome.
    Many thx to iSpazio devs ! This is really really neat .

    Thx to you guys too because if it wasnt for your post, I wouldn”t have activated the WB extension!

  17. Mr. Bang says:

    This is something I have allways wanted on my iPhone. But I recently started using the small-e theme, only one that changes all my icons. But for that the second hand are too long. There must be a place where I can modify it. Does anybody know where the files are?(not the no_hand_icon, I’ve found that one) I can’t find them using iPhoneBrowser in Windows.

    • darksx says:

      which icon you’re refering to? i managed to edit my stock clock icon found in the mobiletimer.app

    • Mr. Bang says:

      You don’t need to modify the stock icon. Just select livetime in winterboard. I whant to modify the animated hands. They are too long for the weather icon in the small-e theme.

  18. Lilplaya360 says:

    This Mod will drain your Battery Power. Because the clock hands even run when the iPhone is sleeping. Its not like the Calender app, where the date only changes once a day. But the clock keeps going around.

    So Yeah!! Its upto You guys

    • Mr. Bang says:

      I have something called a rechargeable batterie in my iPhone. Don’t know about you. But it’s very comman. LOL

  19. Sonny says:

    where do download blank clock icon

    • Mr. Bang says:

      When you install this it will add a winterboard theme with just the
      one icon, a no_hands_clock icon. Just select the LiveTime theme in winterboard.

  20. SNAPPY says:

    Did not work for me. I pulled LiveTime Clock off of Cydia along with the Weather Icon as well. Both show up in my Winterboard list but with the weather one I got ‘Weather Icon’, ‘Weather Icon Background’ and ‘Smoog Weather’ <– What’s that all about? LOL Anyways… When I check them in Winterboard I get no hands on my clock icon or temp on my weather icon. I have tried every combo for the weather but still nothing. I obviously resprung and even powered down and refreshed Cydia a million times. Any ideas?

  21. Luffer says:

    Just a quick update, the name of this app was changed today. You can now find it in Cydia under the new name “LiveClock”. Still the same app, same functionality, just a new name!

  22. Andrew says:

    Sry… i have problem… why my clock icon did not change… still is the normal icon.. i can not change it… m itouch is 2.2.1

  23. cassandra says:

    on 3.0 ‘liveclock’ will not let me turn off old clock.

    any suggestions?

    thanks!

    cassandra

  24. Raquel A. Noriega says:

    Hi! I accidentally erased my LiveTime MOD in Cydia. I really like this application so much so I just had to re-install it. But after numerous attempts of downloading the application, i always get this error message “HTTP://WWW.ISPAZIOREPO.COM
    NET DB:OPEN NODENAME NOR SERVENAME PROVIDED, OR NOT KNOWN’ :(
    Appreciate your help :) Hope to hear from you soon! Take care!

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  26. MV says:

    I have made a cydia search but I cannot find it.

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