Ryan Petrich - developer of many popular jailbreak tweaks such as Activator, recently released a cool new jailbreak tweak called IconRotator.
While the accelerometer kicks in when you rotate your iPhone in landscape or portrait mode so that whatever you’re watching, reading, or seeing adjusts to fit the display, it doesn't work with icons on iPhone's home screen.
Wouldn't it be cool if the app icons on your iPhone's home screen would also rotate when you rotated it to landscape mode? No worries, now there is a jailbreak tweak for that.
As the name suggests, IconRotator makes use of the built-in accelerometer and also rotates the app icons on your iPhone's home screen when you rotate it in landscape mode or portrait mode. It's pretty cool.
You can check out the demo of the jailbreak app in action below:
The only issue that we noticed is that it messes up Springtomize's coverflow tweak (so we're assuming it will have issues with Overflow [Cascade] jailbreak tweak as well).
The jailbreak tweak is available on Cydia for free. To install it, you need to add Ryan Petrich’s repo to Cydia using the following URL: http://rpetri.ch/repo
Let us know what you think of the jailbreak in the comments.
cool.
works well
Theme name?
I wanna know to
Love It!!!. Works well for me (iPhone 4) Finally a useful tweak that makes the phone easier to use if you are in landscape mode often. THANKS!!!
Cute. Works well.
Compatible with Five Icon Dock, but if you have five icons in your dock the text gets smooshed up and overlaps the icons.
Making the dock text transparent or down the side when Five Icon Dock is loaded and the device is in landscape would be a nice feature and wouldn’t need a preference.
Oh, also the gap between the icon and its label is bigger than the gap between the label and the icon below, creating a visual association between the label and the wrong icon.
In landscape, the labels should move up a fraction, so’s they’re closest to the icon they’re labelling
Looks uber cool. Awesome tweak.
Pretty cool tweak since it’s free. But it’s a small knock off of SBROTATOR!
SBRotator is virtually useless when Infiniboard is installed, because all the icons pile up on top of each other when in landscape mode. This tweak avoids the pileup issue.
There must be over 100 million iOS devices which doesnt run on 5.0 or higher so why didnt you mention in your article it requires iOS 5>. Its kinda relevant, peace
Works like a charm on my 4S, thanks! So usefull when the phone is mounted sideways in my TomTom car mount.. :0)
Though it could use a flip of the search field and keyboard…
Cool tweak by a cool guy. Thanks!
What is this theme? i really like it!
Nice job on the tweak works to perfection
is it me or do the icons loose quality when rotated. great tweak though thanks
is this app applicable to ipad? thanks!
I can’t find it on Cydia (???)
Brilliant tweak. Kudos my friend!