Newb jailbroken troubles

[kubani1]

Okay, I have the ipad3, and I've jailbroken it for the first time. I am trying to use winterboard to apply the glass orb theme, but I cannot seem to get it to work properly, does anyone know of site the walks people through the steps of how to properly use all these theme tools, cause it certainly isn't as easy as it seems.

Only the cydia apps seem to take on the glass orb effect, and I cannot figure out the weather widget

 

[GT1999]

This probably isn't the response you're looking for but for as long as I've known the Winterboard/themes have always been buggy, even back to when I had a 3GS. I would stay away from them, but maybe someone else has more recent experience with it and can reply here and help.

Just my 2c.

 

[kubani1]

yep, i have spent too many hours that i don't really have time for, i found some places that had all sorts of tips, i tried dreamboard themes, and i have found that my week with a jailbroken ipad is mostly a waste of time. the only thing i like is ifile, but i'm going to factory reset and re-jail my ipad. i thought a jail broken ipad might be more, useful or cool, or more androidish, but it really isn't. i'm happy with stock, and it won't distract me.

oh well

 

[Spineshank]

I have my 4S jailbroken but my ipad is stock. It just depends on what you want to do with it but i never had a need to jailbreak the ipad.

 

[GT1999]

yep, i have spent too many hours that i don't really have time for, i found some places that had all sorts of tips, i tried dreamboard themes, and i have found that my week with a jailbroken ipad is mostly a waste of time. the only thing i like is ifile, but i'm going to factory reset and re-jail my ipad. i thought a jail broken ipad might be more, useful or cool, or more androidish, but it really isn't. i'm happy with stock, and it won't distract me.

oh well

I just did this last night myself. I took the approach of installing everything I might want, and then when I couldn't uninstall a certain app... I just did a wipe and re-jailbroke it. A lot of the shady repos on Cydia make it very difficult if not impossible to uninstall completely. I try to keep the minimum, just what you use Cydia apps. These aren't as thoroughly tested as the App Store apps obviously, so if you install everything available your iDevice is going to crash a lot, possibly get sluggish, and probably have bad battery drain.