SummerBoard: iPhone hack enables scrolling of iPhone's home screen

The flood of iPhone hacks and applications has resulted in a lot of innovative solutions from the iPhone hacking community to workaround the 16 application limit on iPhone's home screen.

The latest iPhone hack by hacker "lg" called the "SummerBoard" solves the 16 application limit by enabling scrolling of iPhone's home screen.

Since the last week; we have seen three solutions to fix the 16 application limit on iPhone's home screen (also called the SpringBoard) by the iPhone hacking community. We first had bitSplit, the iPhone hacking legend, introducing a new feature in the latest version of iFuntastic where iPhone users could have multiple home screens with each having different application icons (see iPhoneHacks.com, iFuntastic v3.03).

We then had another iPhone hacking genius Natetrue releasing an iPhone application called "Dock" where it provided a curved arc of iPhone applications to select from though the first version of "Dock" actually had scrolling enabled on the last row of the iPhone's home screen (see iPhoneHacks.com, Dock: The iPhone hack which enables scrolling on iPhone's home screen).

In case of the latest one; iPhone hacker "lg" seems to have picked up from where NateTrue left off with the first version of Dock; as his iPhone application "SummerBoard" also enables scrolling on the home screen by extending the SpringBoard and making use of custom routines loaded through a back door, allowing scrolling of the icon list and the use of custom wallpaper behind said icons.

The difference between the first version of the Dock and this iPhone hack is that SummerBoard allows scrolling of the iPhone's home screen and not just last row of the home screen making it that much more user friendly. So you no longer need to use an iPhone launcher that searches for additional applications and lets you choose one from a list.

The best part of the iPhone hack is also that it can be easily installed using the Installer.app. In order to install Installer.app on to your iPhone follow the links below:

• Installing iPhone hacks made easy with hands-on tutorial - Windows Edition
• Installing iPhone hacks made easy with hands-on tutorial - MAC OS X Edition

Erica Sudan @ Tuaw who has tested this hack has the following to say about it:

It's pretty cool but it's still a first release. I ended up rebooting my phone 5 times before I got it working. I had to launch an app, and then force-quit it by pressing Home about 4-8 seconds. Then it worked really well.

So stay tuned @ iPhoneHacks.com for the updates on SummerBoard. You can see that it works quite well in the YouTube video below:

Keep up the good work "lg", we will be waiting for the additional features you have promised in future releases.

Thanks Count Bunker @ the forums for sending this in.

Folks, let me know how well it works for you in the comments below.

[via Tuaw]

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