At the moment I'm not liking either of them... All the winterboard themes I seem to like it says that they're waiting for the developer to confirm whether it's able to run on my current version of ios and dreamboard freezes on me when I'm trying to choose the Endroid theme that comes with it.... When you choose the stock theme in dreamboard it changes just fine.
Whether you are using Winterboard or Dreamboard, you should only use themes which are specifically made for your device and the version of IOS you are running. Check our themes section for themes which DO work. Only a tiny percentage of themes are made for iPad. The vast majority are for old 3G / 3GS iPhones and will never work on iPad, and most of the rest are iPhone4 / 4S which won't run either.
Since you have an iPad1, make sure the themes you look at in Cydia have "iPad" in their title. That's normally a good start!
Our themes section is here - http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-themes/
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