SpinBoard Preview – Rotating SpringBoard Icons

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1. Ryan on January 30th, 2009 10:22 pm:
   

   Only the icons rotate but not the text below it?

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   Douglas on January 31st, 2009 3:38 pm:

   Yeah, for now. This is an early version. Not the final.

   

   zach on September 13th, 2009 12:47 pm:

   umm soo where do i get this and do i just go to settings or how do i get it
2. edden on January 30th, 2009 10:28 pm:
   

   i would be doing this all day. just cause it would amuse me =p

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   Leonidas on February 4th, 2009 3:17 am:

   Me too!!!
3. a s d f on January 30th, 2009 11:00 pm:
   

   nice start!

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   Dave on August 8th, 2009 12:46 am:

   I was just thinking about something like this the other day. Wierd. Anyway, this is awsome. I think this should have been an original feature on the iPhone.
   I look forward to seeing this under the tweaks section in cydia!!!!!
4. iphonejunky on January 31st, 2009 12:52 am:
   

   ya the text needs to adjust to the position and this would be fantastic!!

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5. joey on January 31st, 2009 12:57 am:
   

   Awesome hack, i can’t wait. Just hit Winterboard and mark Undocked icon labels and Docked icon labels and its gonnna be great. I dont need labels, i know my apps & games!!! Cool hack!

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   Nobbe on March 23rd, 2009 9:05 am:

   Hi where can i download this app i cant find it on cydia
   Greetings NOB
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7. Mojtaba Cazi on January 31st, 2009 1:56 am:
   

   Great job

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8. Mojtaba Cazi on January 31st, 2009 1:58 am:
   

   Ooh! Date number & icon text should rotate in the future versions

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9. Bharat on January 31st, 2009 7:22 am:
   

   ya gr8 app…wil b w8n for this…hey any of you guys knw if bluetooth(file transfering) would b comin 2 d iPhone 3G??

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   dicer999 on January 31st, 2009 8:45 am:

   It is soon – http://i.gizmodo.com/5138797/iphone-bluetooth-file-transfer-coming-soon-yes
10. 14 on January 31st, 2009 9:07 am:
    

    For what its worth, I’d rather the dev work on other aspects b4 rotating text, u can always just turn off labels in winterboard

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11. 210sananton on January 31st, 2009 10:43 am:
    

    How do u get the 5 icon dock?

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12. jlocalled on January 31st, 2009 10:53 am:
    

    Rotating the text would be good.

    @210sananton: 5 Icon Dock is in Cydia.

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    WiFone on February 4th, 2009 1:04 pm:

    Rotating the text gets tricky when combined with five column dock / springboard: not enough space reains to put the text inbetween the icons. So I’m thinking of letting it rotate only up / down, not left/right.
13. Tim Alia on January 31st, 2009 11:02 am:
    

    Needs a lot of work, but will definitely be on my iPhone when it’s ready.

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14. Zed Sefi on January 31st, 2009 11:34 am:
    

    Maybe it is too early to ask this .. but .. Will this hack work with any theme or only with the default one?

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    WiFone on February 4th, 2009 1:06 pm:

    It works with any theme.
15. iambored8907 on January 31st, 2009 11:43 am:
    

    Looks promising! Any info to share about the developer? Last time when you posted info on a unreleased springboard mod (5 Column), it was available straight from the developer.

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    Douglas on January 31st, 2009 3:24 pm:

    Actually when we posted about the 5 Column mod the developer had not released it yet to the public. It was only available in a forum for beta testing.
16. IDude on January 31st, 2009 12:27 pm:
    

    I hope it’s possible to make the labels rotate, and get the dock to rotate and add more icons from stuff on other pages or something. Maybe give it a settings pref for dock apps in landscape or something.

    Been waiting for this

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18. Jash Sayani on January 31st, 2009 3:04 pm:
    

    Nice one !

    Apple is seriously sleeping. They should purchased Clippy and added it to 2.2.1 like they did with the chinese hand-writing recognition app.

    This feature will be added by Apple, maybe in firmware 9.6 ??

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    a s d f on January 31st, 2009 5:11 pm:

    9.6 if we are very very lucky.
19. Praj on January 31st, 2009 5:18 pm:
    

    As far as I know, the developer of five column springboard hasn’t even released that via the Ste repository yet, I’m still waiting for that, let lone this hack!!

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20. DJContagious on January 31st, 2009 5:41 pm:
    

    it has potential…….

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21. Bigt16 on January 31st, 2009 5:45 pm:
    

    Is this available for download yet, even if it’s in beta?

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22. Stanley C. on February 1st, 2009 1:49 am:
    

    I know this is off topic but is there a way to get the old springboard version back where you scroll up and down instead of switching between pages??

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    Brian on February 2nd, 2009 11:06 pm:

    That would be so cool!

    

    WiFone on February 4th, 2009 12:59 pm:

    It’s on my to-do list to check that out

    (what was that, 1.0.2? I don’t even remember, lol)

    

    Stanley C. on February 4th, 2009 10:50 pm:

    Yeah it’s actually an old summerboard version I think. I’m not even sure myself….
23. Bang on February 1st, 2009 5:37 am:
    

    Why can’t I view the videos in your reviews on my iPhone safari? Since you have an iPhone verson of your site I would think I would be able to view them.

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24. iMario on February 1st, 2009 6:02 pm:
    

    Nice tweak!

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25. josh on February 1st, 2009 6:24 pm:
    

    so how do we get (if we can)

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    14 on February 1st, 2009 10:08 pm:

    yes, where do u find this? a quick google didnt help:(
26. Imran on February 2nd, 2009 4:59 am:
    

    Cooooool Stuff guys….

    But it seems dock icons & icon text don’t rotate…i hope they’ll be fixed with final release

    When is it releasing??? wazz the repository??

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    WiFone on February 4th, 2009 12:59 pm:

    Yeah, that has been fixed already.
27. Johnny Drama on February 2nd, 2009 1:50 pm:
    

    Seriously, what’s the point ?
    don’t tell me you need them to rotate to recognize your icons when the phone is horizontal..
    I think, as good a hack as it is, and congrats for the achievement!, but isn’t there anything a little more interresting to do?

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    WiFone on February 4th, 2009 1:02 pm:

    You’re completely right. It’s just for fun. And I suck at coding, these useless little hacks are all I can do; for me it’s a nice way to pick up some coding skills before doing something actually useful.
28. Mitchell on February 2nd, 2009 5:39 pm:
    

    Awesome I would love to see that.

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29. BROTHASON on February 2nd, 2009 6:01 pm:
    

    I wish they’d just release it already…

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30. WiFone on February 4th, 2009 12:48 am:
    

    Hi, I’m developing that ‘SpinBoard’ rotating SpringBoard icons hack. I hope to finish it up this week and put up a first version in Cydia. There are still a few issues to be fixed, which make it more of a fun hack now than a really usable SpringBoard extension. But anyway, you guys want to play, right? I’ll ping you here when it’s up, okay? Thanks for your kind words everybody!!

    Btw: yes, it works with any theme. And yes, the dock icons rotate too now. Stay tuned!

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32. josh on February 5th, 2009 12:19 pm:
    

    Heck yea!
    Sure it’s not usefull, but it’s one of those little things that would make my phone a litlle better again. I love the work you’re putting in WiFone!

    that’s what I love about this phone, every week it gets just a little better!

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33. Jason on February 5th, 2009 11:51 pm:
    

    Baaaaaaaaallllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!

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    NIKEL on February 8th, 2009 12:40 pm:

    Russia
34. NIKEL on February 6th, 2009 4:38 am:
    

    Hey van i want ti be a beta tester of this hack……..

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    NIKEL on February 6th, 2009 4:39 am:

    van=>man (sory, mistake)
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36. Bharat on February 7th, 2009 1:41 pm:
    

    Yea man kp us informed n gt it as soon as possible..wil b waitin

    All The Best

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37. Bard1290 on February 8th, 2009 12:08 pm:
    

    @WiFone: Because you had said this is just for fun, i think if you changed it that the entire springboard is horizontal, (entire dock moves) that would be useful. and maybe further have an option to have the icons fixed in one position or the other through settings?

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38. NIKEL on February 8th, 2009 1:28 pm:
    

    date of realise???)

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39. Grinny Grandad on February 9th, 2009 8:09 am:
    

    Very impressive… Really looking forward to this one. Thanks to the coders for putting in the time to make these entertaining and awesome apps for the world! Much appreciated.

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40. aly on February 11th, 2009 7:59 pm:
    

    HEY YOU GUYS….ok i know this is a really big request but im sure that this is a feature that everyone with an iphone would want and i know its not hard. do u remember the old 1.1.x day? do u remember how instead of having multiple pages for icons we could just have one and scroll up or down NOT LEFT OR RIGHT….i used to love having the springboard like that…so i was gonna ask if u guys at apple iphone school could try to make an app or a setting in winterboard to do that? also u know when u used to slide to unlock and instead of the icons coming from all directions to the screen they would appear from sliding upwards then staying on the screen. we would love to see that happen to ..pls reply and tell me if that it is possible

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41. wiggyboard on February 19th, 2009 6:42 pm:
    

    I agree with aly, I’ve been looking everywhere for a hack that lets you scroll down on the springboard. I would love to see that happen. But unlike the old version with just one page that scrolls down, have every [horizontal] page have the ability to scroll down. Hmm… I doubt we’ll be seeing this in the near future, but I guess it’s worth asking about. Thanks!

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42. archangl on February 20th, 2009 8:24 am:
    

    Is there anyway we can get the beta source code?

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43. ant on February 20th, 2009 9:48 am:
    

    i would def test this one out if a beta source is available. i have a mount for my iphone in my truck right next to my radio where i often dock it in landscape to watch movies or show off coverflow, this would be perfect to leave my iphone docked horizontal. ive been waitin for an app like this.

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45. shafty on February 20th, 2009 3:14 pm:
    

    when will i be able to have this
    i love the idea even if there is a
    few things that need to be worked
    out first i would love to get my hands
    on a beta

    keep up the good work

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46. joshuo on February 25th, 2009 3:14 pm:
    

    i’m gonna assume this is dead?

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47. Grinny Grandad on February 28th, 2009 7:34 pm:
    

    hello? Any news? Or was this a hoax?

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48. madcowz on March 6th, 2009 6:35 pm:
    

    Leaked Beta Version available at Xsellize Member Repo!

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    j-man on March 8th, 2009 11:51 am:

    just got it! just like the one in the video, but when is the real one gonna come out?
49. Eric on March 16th, 2009 1:51 am:
    

    it’s really cool.man!

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50. aly on March 22nd, 2009 5:13 pm:
    

    hey this isnt downloading off the xsellise website ..like i press install/confirm and nothing happens just freeses up then 10m seconds later it goes restart springboard…when i do, nothing happens after the respring and when i go back to cydia it says i havent installed it…..im running on an iphone 3g 2.2.1

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51. this was a hoax! on April 1st, 2009 2:03 pm:
    

    The supposed developer of this never posted info or a release date, just a beta version. Hes probably just forgot all about it!!!!!!!!!

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52. teryaki on April 10th, 2009 1:31 am:
    

    The beta is up on the xsellize repo again, super neat. I cant wait until it gets the dock icons going too.

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53. reiger1000 on June 29th, 2009 2:22 pm:
    

    Does this work on firmware 3.0? and is it allready out of beta testing?
    and,, is it possible to let the icons rotate in 3D? so when you tilt it just a little bit backwards the icons wil rotate a little bit backwards too?

    hope so, that would be awesome!

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    ufunk on July 3rd, 2009 7:29 am:

    I just test it on an iPodTouch with firmware 3.0… It Doesn’t work

    

    AHH on July 7th, 2009 1:15 pm:

    thats a pretty neat idea, hope somebody gets this working with the 3gs sometime soon.
54. cyberneil on July 2nd, 2009 8:50 pm:
    

    anyone heard new news?? looking like it might be cool?

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55. Justin on July 8th, 2009 5:15 am:
    

    add cydia.iphoneil.net to sources in Cydia. Version 1.0 is there! No idea if it will work on 3.0 though, so I’m sitting here with my finger over the install button wondering……..

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56. ABuNeNe on July 9th, 2009 9:13 pm:
    

    Just installed it on my iPhone 2G firmware 3.0 and it does not work.

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    lala leela on July 11th, 2009 1:35 pm:

    It worked on my 2G on 3.0; I think you just have to shake it as if it were the iPod’s shake to shuffle.

    

    Justin Clifford on July 31st, 2009 9:05 am:

    Works on my 2G 3.0. You do have to shake it first
57. Chris on July 23rd, 2009 1:55 pm:
    

    Doesn’t seem to work so great on my iphone 3G s. Icons just turn backwards and then freeze, causing me to respring to get them back to normal.

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58. David ** on October 24th, 2009 9:13 pm:
    

    it works but then it doesnt work sometimes on my iphone 3gs
    any new updates yet???

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