LockScreen Widget - Quick Lockscreen Updates - Free Alternative to Intelliscreen and Kate

By Aaron Besson at 3 November, 2008, 11:00 am

How to Configure the Widget

NOTE: Digi clock

To make the LCD/Digital clock work, you need to install a blank font for the lockscreen, download this file here and put it in /System/Library/Fonts/Cache/

*** don’t forget to backup the old LockClock.ttf ***

How to Configure the Widget

To configure the weather widget to display your local (or other) weather you’ll need to configure one Java Script file. Download the configureme.js file from the /private/var/stash/themes/homescreen- 1weekweather.theme/ on your iPhone (or edit it form the .zip your downloaded). Open the configureme.js file with a text editor. Find where it says var locale = “CAC|TT|TD005|PORT-OF-SPAIN”, you need to change it to your local info by looking for it here:

http://www.accuweather.com

Using the drop-down list chose your region, country and then city then look at the url bar (copy and paste the URL into a text editor) and it shoulod look like the following:

www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&loccode=CAC|TT|TD005|PORT-OF-SPAIN

(for example, your will be different for your country/region)

In my example for Trinidad and Tobago i neded “CAC|TT|TD005|PORT-OF-SPAIN“. Replace CAC|TT|TD005|PORT-OF-SPAIN, with your info from the link. Once you have configured the configureme.js file, upload and replace it in /private/var/stash/themes/homescreen- 1weekweather.theme/ on your iPhone/Touch, overwrite the older version and then reboot/respring your iPhone. You should now see your local weather.

I am hoping others can help us to iron the bugs out. One issue is that the digiclock are graphics dont dissappear when the phone rings, so you cant read the name. Let me know your comments and/or questions and please contribute…

If you are having any trouble with this please let me know. Here is a link to the original discussion I used to create this tutorial (if you want to call it that). As you can see the original discussion is over 20+ pages on that forum so don’t feel too bad if you have any trouble, allot of users did, myself included. It took me a couple hours to get this done (while doing some work work ) so be patient, read my instructions and also check out the original discussion.

Please post your screen shots or share any cool background you have that work well with this. I am still experimenting with some.

Page One - Introduction - LockScreen Widget
Page Two - Download & Screenshots
Page Three - How to Install via OpenSSH
Page Four - How to Configure the Widgets

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Comments

ash September 4, 2009

how do you use your wallpaper and not just have a black background?

ovi October 27, 2009

does this still work on iPhone 3.1 ?

Maurice December 26, 2009

I love this, but the background is just black. How do we put on a wallpaper???? Please reply

Anna January 13, 2010

i don't know how the rest do it.
But i first copy my desired background file(LockBackground.png) to IMG
then i amended LockBackground.html to include in the following and it works for me.

body {
background-color: transparent;
background: url(imgs/LockBackground.png); <– added

margin: 0;
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
height: 442px;
width: 320px;
}

Brendon March 8, 2010

//Enable Wallpaper and/or Lock Screen
var enableWallpaper = false; //true|false
var enableLockScreen = true; //true|false [Currently, it is suggested that the lockScreen is disabled.]