iPhone / iPod / iPad – Changing “Slide to Unlock” Slider Text.
September 8, 2010 at 9:45 pm 3 comments
After updating my slider image on my iPhone the other day (to a cool little Android dude), I decided to change the boring standard text “Slide to Unlock” on the lock screen to something a little more personalised.. See below:
Anyways, these are the steps that i followed (please note, you need to be jailbroken).
- SSH to your iPhone / iPod.
- Using your favourite text editor, edit the following file:
- /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/SpringBoard.strings
- Note: If you don’t have a text editor installed, you can download one easily using cydia, or simply scp the file off your iPhone, modify, and then scp back. For this exercise I used vim.
- Conveniently, the string we are concerned with is at the very top of the file. It is named “AWAY_LOCK_LABEL”.
- Edit away! Depending on your editor, you may see unprintable characters between each letter of the strings, ie ‘^@’. If this is the case, ensure you keep them between each character.
- Save and close the file (for vim type :wq)
- Respring!
Please note, if you would like to change the colour of the shine that moves through the text, view the post here: http://osxgoodies.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/iphone-ipod-ipad-–-changing-“slide-to-unlock”-text-shine-colour/
It’s that simple. Be sure to leave a comment if you have any issues!
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Entry filed under: Command line tools.., iPad Tips, iPhone Tips. Tags: iPad, iPhone, ipod, jailbroken, personalisation, slide text, slide to unlock, springboard, ssh, strings, vim.
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kelvin | October 26, 2010 at 2:55 am
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO
Do we have to set the text for the “slide to unlock” for english only or i can have any language too?
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Jared | October 26, 2010 at 8:27 am
Hey Kelvin. Thanks for the comment. In regards to using a different language, I have not tried this, although can’t see why it wouldn’t work. Maybe if you give it a go you could let me know how you went? Cheers.