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LiveTime – Animated Clock Icon
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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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i was just thinking how the icon should show the time like the calendar. unreal.
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JuanKi on January 20th, 2009 9:09 am:
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 on April 3rd, 2009 3:01 pm:
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
Making weather icon update would be more useful
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JuanKi on January 20th, 2009 9:10 am:
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 on January 20th, 2009 3:29 pm:
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 on January 20th, 2009 6:42 pm:
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 on January 20th, 2009 8:38 pm:
Planning on it. It’ll actually be pretty easy to have it launch any app you want.
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
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Francis on January 22nd, 2009 4:27 pm:
hey man I loved MIM on my 1.1.4 jailbroken. after I updated and jailbroke to 2.2 I can’t find MIM. am I missing it or what? where’d you get it?
Adam Reineke on January 22nd, 2009 10:06 pm:
I found it in Cydia, I think.
Surely this must slow the phone down quite a bit?
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Adam Reineke on January 20th, 2009 2:57 am:
I didn’t notice a slowdown. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there is a slight battery impact though.
Ree on January 20th, 2009 3:00 am:
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
Im sorry, i cant find it in cydia. Can you tell me what the source of it?
Thank you.
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Adam Reineke on January 20th, 2009 3:24 am:
iSpazio
And how to use it, if I don’t have winterboard?
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rje on January 20th, 2009 5:37 am:
Why don’t you have Winterboard?
spidi21 on January 20th, 2009 6:34 am:
because when I had summerboard installed, it slowed everything down…is the same with winterboard? or is it a musthave application?:)
mastuul on January 20th, 2009 12:57 pm:
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?
I have old time icon under the new animated clock. Why?
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Matt on January 20th, 2009 12:20 pm:
You have to turn on LiveTime in Winterboard first.
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
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Stimpy5050 on January 20th, 2009 3:28 pm:
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16792472. Another MobileSubstrate extension that will automatically reflect your dock.
Douglas on January 20th, 2009 7:48 pm:
I haven’t got it to work yet. I will write about it once I do. Sorry.
Does this work with just the factory icons only or will it work on modified icons???
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Douglas on January 20th, 2009 7:49 pm:
It will work on any icon. It just overlays the hands so your icon would have to have no hands and line up right.
Good hack! Thanx!
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Will this slow down the iphone or make your battery drain faster?
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Douglas on January 20th, 2009 7:50 pm:
It could but I haven’t noticed either.
i hope this is a step closer to animated icons for ALL apps!
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i have a few too many hands i think – most clock don’t have 4 hands do they??
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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
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Ben on January 20th, 2009 3:30 pm:
it often helps to restart your iphone and then open cydia and it will re-download the release and packages ect. – that worked for me
Matt on January 20th, 2009 4:31 pm:
Try manually refreshing the Changes tab.
Taylor on January 20th, 2009 7:15 pm:
nope it is still not there
Douglas on January 20th, 2009 7:52 pm:
I usually have to refresh Cydia about 2-5 times before it gets all the updates.
iphonejunky on January 20th, 2009 10:03 pm:
same here refresh..refresh..refresh…it will eventually pop up
mikey on April 15th, 2009 10:05 am:
They’ve changed the name – it is now called LiveClock because of a request from LiveTime Software.
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.
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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!
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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.
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darksx on January 21st, 2009 9:02 pm:
which icon you’re refering to? i managed to edit my stock clock icon found in the mobiletimer.app
Mr. Bang on January 22nd, 2009 5:32 am:
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.
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
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Mr. Bang on January 22nd, 2009 5:52 am:
I have something called a rechargeable batterie in my iPhone. Don’t know about you. But it’s very comman. LOL
where do download blank clock icon
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Mr. Bang on January 22nd, 2009 5:35 am:
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.
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?
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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!
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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
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on 3.0 ‘liveclock’ will not let me turn off old clock.
any suggestions?
thanks!
cassandra
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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
Hope to hear from you soon! Take care!
NET DB:OPEN NODENAME NOR SERVENAME PROVIDED, OR NOT KNOWN’
Appreciate your help
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