SBSettings recently had an update to version 2.99. The update bring some significant changes to the application.

Some of the changes that I really like are:
    • The ability to move the toggle order. This allows you to move the toggles you use most often to the top of SBSettings.
    • The ability to enable/disable mobile substrate applications (those are apps that run in the background and do not have icons). That way you can turn them off without uninstalling them.
    • The addition to the Extras and Options.

In the Extras and Options, I really like the ability to turn off/on the numeric wifi, numeric GSM (ph one strength) and numeric battery. I also like the ability to add the date to the status bar and they ability to enable/disable SBSettings on the lock screen and during a call. I am constantly trying to launch SBSettings from my lock screen only to remember that I cant! Now I can! YAY!

BigBoss is actually revamping BBSettings to work with the 3.x firmware. Those of you who are on 3.x firmware have a few more updates than those of us on the 2.x firmware. Below are the change logs based on which firmware you are running.

Changes for 2.x firmware:
    • Added ability to move toggle order around.
    • More app: Added mobile substrate extensions manager. You can now troubleshoot a poorly performing device by disabling and enabling various installed mobile substrate extensions. (Requires respring after toggling).
    • More app: Added numeric wifi, numeric GMS (phone) to extras menu. (Note: the 3.0 version of numeric battery looks different. Remember this is just enabled by SBSettings. It’s a feature of springboard).
    • More app: Added statusbar date toggle button in extras menu to enable or disable statusbar date.
    • Revved version to 3.0 since this version works with iPhone OS 3.0. It should work with 2.0-3.0.
    • Reworked how root requiring toggles work. As such, we can now system out to processes as root. This enables Safari download and other toggles! (Expect them soon).
    •You can now select from several options to customize the behaviors of SBSettings:
        • Enable or disable the U/I from lock screen
        • Enable or disable the U/I during calls (for those of you that kept having the U/I activate on your cheek).
        • Enable or disable the date in status bar.
        • Enable or disable the memory free in status bar.
        • Enable or disable numeric battery, wifi, or GSM (phone strength).
    • Revamped the U/I on the more – extras screen.
    • Internally, I have made the toggles SDK more extensible enabling direct access to system() calls within the toggles. I expect another small flood of new toggles like safari download, samba, or syslog toggles. These tasks were impossibly difficult on 1.x sbsettings and are now trivially simple.
    • DYLIB: Massively reworked SSH and EDGE toggles. Solved the low memory freeze ups previously seen when hitting refresh or trying to toggle EDGE or SSH. This was a major issue on current versions of SBSettings. It seems totally solved.
    • DYLIB: Massively reworked WiFi toggle since it didn’t work on 3.0. It toggles very quickly now.
    • DYLIB: Massively reworked phone toggle (airplane) since it didn’t work on 3.0. Phone toggle is also instant.

Changes for 3.x firmware (these are in addition to the changes for the 2.x firmware):
    • You can now have more than 12 toggles. (On the 3.0 OS). When you have > 12 toggles it will let you scroll like categories app or such.
    • DYLIB: Modified for all the changes required to work on 3.0 (with proper patched jailbreak, not working with public jailbreak on 3.0).
    • DYLIB: Added a single tap status bar to close the SBSettings window in 3.0 only. This is because home button brings up the search and there was some interference (enough that I felt annoyed). So you can swipe to open the window, tap to close.

ScreenShots

There is an update to SBSettings today. If you remember my initial review of SBSettings, you will remember that this application is pretty much supposed to be a BossPrefs replacement app. Well, I actually use SBSettings quite often and thought that the update was worth writing about. The “coolest” part of the update is that SBSettings is now themable! It now comes with the stock theme and two additional themes (HUD and Tech Shadow). You can get to the themes through the More option. I also noticed that there were quite a few additional mods for SBSettings in Cydia (which I just might have to do a post about).


Another new feature which I really like is that you can now select the Home Button to close the SBSettings window. I don’t know if it was just me but, I had a hard time closing the app using the little x. It always took like five tries before it would close. This feature is actually really nicely implemented…you can even use the Home Button to close SBSettings while it is open in another application. So lets say you are in your Notes app and you open SBSettings, you can select the Home Button and the SBSettings window will close but your Notes app will stay open.

Another new features is a brightness toggle. This features is also very well implemented into the application. I personally love this feature…it is soooo much faster than going all the way into your Settings to adjust your brightness! The update to version 1.0.1 also disables the SBSettings application while on your lock screen….which is an understandable change.

Overall, this application is well built and easy to use. Though, I am interested to know if everyone has finally switched over to using SBSetting exclusively or if you guys are still using both SBSettings and BossPrefs.

I did a post with a preview of SBSettings a about a week ago and it seems that it is now available via Cydia. SBSettings is said to be a full replacement to BossPrefs (which we all love so much)! When you install SBSettings, you will not see an icon on your SpringBoard. You activate the application by swiping on your Status Bar (that is the bar at the top of your iPhone or iPod Touch that have the time, carrier logo, battery…). This will bring up SBSettings. The upper part of the menu are features of SBSetting the lower part of the menu gives you information about your iPhone or iPod Touch. Such as the name of your iPhone, your WiFi IP address, your Data IP address and the amount of space available on your iPhone.


The larger icons on the upper part of the menu (3G, Bluetooth, SSH, WiFi…) are things that you are able to toggle on or off. Just tap on the icon your would like to toggle. If the icon is red that means that it is toggled off if the icon is green it is on. The red X in the upper right corner allows you to close the SBSettings window. There are also a few smaller icons on the menu. The More icon brings you to another menu in which you add more icons to the main toggle menu (up to 11), you can hide and unhide icons from your SpringBoard and you can enable a few extras. The Refresh icon allows you to refresh the SBSettings menu. The Respring icon will respring your SpringBoard and the Power icon will turn your iPhone or iPod Touch off.

Overall, everything in the app seemed to work fine for me. There have been a few updates to this application since it was released and they included a few bug fixes. I am not having any issues with the version I am on right now. They will be adding more options with future update. Some of the options will include; the ablity to make your own toggles and more options in the “More” menu. I personally don’t think it is quite a BossPrefs replacement app yet but, it will get there. Let me know in the comments what you think of SMSettings and if you will use it as a BossPrefs replacement.

BigBoss’s website has been moved to a new url (thebigboss.org) and while I was checking it out today, I noticed that he posted about some work he is doing on a new app. I know quite a few of you really like BossPrefs so, you might want to check out the new app. Below are some screenshots and a description from BigBoss’s website.

“The toggles drop down when you swipe along the status bar. It is very fast and can be used while in any app without exiting the app. Suppose you are in Safari but realize your 3g is not yet enabled. Simple! Just swipe the statusbar and tap 3g and resume in safari where you left off. No need to exit safari and load settings or bossprefs.


Like bossprefs, this will have an addon module so you can create your own addons and also an application component that will be launched with the little settings button (see top right of the screenshots) to let you do things like hide icons and all the other cool things BossPrefs currently does. We are also planning to add some other cool features.”

You can check out the full article HERE.

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There have been a few updates to BossPrefs since the last time I did a review of the application. Most of the updates have been bug fixes or behind the scenes changes. However, version 2.12b of BossPrefs does add a new option. In the More section, you now have the option to Disable Apple App Killswitch. The Apple App Killswitch is referring to the ability in which Apple has to actually take an app right off your iPhone…like yours personally! Crazy! Well, BossPrefs now allows you to turn off the “switch” that allows Apple to do that. I’m not sure Apple would really apprecaiate that but, that is what the update to BossPrefs does. Below are the other two changes which inculde one bug fix and one code change.

Other Changes.
- Fixed bug with custom services that would prevent some from being detected running.
- Calling bundles by name to help in theming the dock icons. However, for whatever reason, the theming still is not working.

]]> http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/08/18/bossprefs-212b/feed/ 15 http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/08/02/bossprefs-206b/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/08/02/bossprefs-206b/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:30:12 +0000 Douglas http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=7927 Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

The update to version 2.06b of BossPrefs adds a few feature to the application and makes a few changes to background processes. Below is a complete change log via BigBoss:

Change Log for version 2.06b:
* Added missing file needed to detect running state of custom services.
* Redid hidden icons GUI.
* Added ability to hide appstore apps now.
* Redid how icons are hidden. We now use 2.0’s restrictions mechanism to hide icons. This means that hidden icons no longer show up again on an upgrade of a package. The downside is, if you ever disable restrictions in the settings menu, (or enable it then disable it) all your icons will be visible again and you will have to hide them again. Note you should update poof (if you installed this) also. The two apps must be in sync if both used or hidden icons from one may not be able to be unhidden from the other.

The part that I like best about the update is that you can now hide both Cydia and App Store apps! The only thing I noticed is that the Cydia and Stock apps are in alphabetical order and then the App Store apps are at the bottom of the list and they do not seems to be in any particular order. Maybe we will see them added into the alphabetic list with the next update. Personally, I can’t wait until Categories is released (BigBoss says he is getting closer)…I use Categories A TON on my iPhone!

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A good restart/respring application is a necessity on any iPhone or iPod Touch (at least if you are doing any sort of customizing or SSHing). So, I thought I would run through the options that are currently available on 2.0 via Cydia. As of now, there are four application that allow you to restart/respring your iPhone; iReboot, PowerTool, Respring and BossPrefs. All of these apps are pretty much the same if not exactly the same as they were in 1.1.4 and below…they have just been ported to the 2.0 firmware.

iReboot gives you the option to Reboot your iPhone which brings you all the way out to the boot logo screen or the option to Restart your iPhone which will bring you to the lock screen.

PowerTool gives you the option to Hard Restart your iPhone bringing it to the lock screen, Soft Restart your iPhone which uses the Set Language mode to restart your SpringBaord and does not bring your all the way to the lock screen, Reboot which will bring you to the boot logo screen and Power Down which will turn your iPhone completely off. The Verbose Mode which will show the Linux code on your iPhone’s screen during the reboot, is not yet available.

Respring is a one-touch respring application. As soon as your open the application, it will automatically respring your iPhone to the lock screen. Not a lot of options but, quick and easy!

A few updates ago, a Power option was added to BossPrefs. In the power option you have the ability to Fast Respring which uses the Set Language mode to respring your SprinBoard and does not bring you to the lock screen, Respring and Lock which will bring you to the lock screen, Reboot which brings you to the boot logo screen and Power Off which will turn your iPhone completely off.

Honestly, it is totally up to personal preference on this one. All of the apps work correctly and do what they say they are going to do. Though, I did find iReboot to be the slowest of them all.

]]> http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/07/31/restartrespring-apps-available-in-cydia/feed/ 13 http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/07/01/bossprefs-dock-control-10/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/07/01/bossprefs-dock-control-10/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:45:43 +0000 Brooke http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=6492 BossPrefs Dock Control is an add-on to the BossPrefs application (you will need to have a BossPrefs installed before installing BossPrefs Dock Control). The BossPrefs Dock Control allows you to toggle on/off an application called Dock. However, before you can use BossPrefs to toggle Dock, you will need to have Dock installed. Because Dock is an application that is always present, I think it is nice to have the ability to toggle it off. You can get the BossPrefs Dock Control and BossPrefs through the BigBoss source.

]]> http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/07/01/bossprefs-dock-control-10/feed/ 0 http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/06/26/bossprefs-autolock-20/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/06/26/bossprefs-autolock-20/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:54:30 +0000 Brooke http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=6279 BossPrefs Autolock adds an Autolock toggle into the BossPrefs application. If you toggle Autolock on, it will automatically lock your iPhone after one minute of not being used. If you toggle the Autolock option off, it will completely turn off autolock making your iPhone stay awake. You can still manually lock your iPhone by quickly pressing the Power button on your iPhone but, it will not lock automatically when the Autolock option is toggled off.

I have found that you can overwrite the BossPrefs Autolock using the stock autolock option in Settings/General/Auto-Lock. So, if you toggle the Autolock feature in BossPrefs on and your iPhone is autolocking after one minute, you can go into your stock Auto-Lock feature and change it to autolock after 3 minutes and it will overwrite the BossPrefs setting and autolock every 3 minutes. However, if you go back into BossPrefs and toggle Autolock off, it will overwrite the stock setting and turn autolock completely off. So basically, which ever autolock feature you use last (Stock or in BossPrefs) it will overwrite the other. Which is good I guess. For those of you who use BossPrefs a lot, this might be a nice addition for you! When you install BossPrefs Autolock, it will not add an icon to your SpringBoard…it is added directly into the BossPrefs application. BossPrefs Autolock is available through the iSpazio source.

Note: You will need to install BossPrefs, via the BigBoss source, in order to use this application.

]]> http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/06/26/bossprefs-autolock-20/feed/ 12 http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/06/23/bossprefs-172/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/06/23/bossprefs-172/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:05:50 +0000 Brooke http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=6138 The update to version 1.72 of BossPrefs “adds ability to sort all the dock icons including the built in apps. Hopefully, this should close all issues with the dock display as well with small numbers of icons.” I think ability to sort all the applications in the dock, including Power and Poof, is good. I also noticed the the Power and Poof icons are no longer automatically added to the dock instead, you can add them if you would like. However, I can’t seem to get them onto the dock. They can both be toggled in the Config menu but, when I toggle them on, they do not show up in the dock even after a restart. Let me know in the comments if you are having the same problem. BossPrefs is available through the BisBoss source.

Note: To get the Poof and Power icons to show up in the dock, add another application to the dock and then close BossPrefs and reopen it. Then they will be there. Thanks to Ramrod for the tip!!

Update: Version 1.73 of BossPrefs fixes the bug mentioned above.

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