Comments on: iPhone Jailbreak 101: What Are Those Swirly Black Badges on Mail, Phone, iPod?

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:08:04 +0000

No backgrounder for 3.0 but @ashikase the dev is aware it’s broke and intends on fixing it when time allows.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:03:40 +0000

For all of the negative posts that this feature has received, I like the principle behind it. I did not like it before when it was difficult to tell which were running in the background which would ultimately kill your battery and clog up all of the memory on the device. Something like the is perfect because I always know which apps are open. That being said, if there was a less glaring way to show which apps were open, I like the idea behind this new release. A big black badge is just a little bit too much of an eyesore for me personally.

By: ashikase

ashikase — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:44:57 +0000

That’s the last time I implement a user-requested feature (Though it’s my own fault for turning it on by default.)

Sorry for the trouble… at least the comments here have been kinder than the ones I’ve received elsewhere.

@antonioj:

As I don’t have access to the betas, I won’t be able to port Backgrounder to 3.0 until 3.0 is officially released (and properly jailbroken).

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:17:55 +0000

@Evilhomer

sorry, not a developer, so haven't tested on 3.0.

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:20:27 +0000

@Daniel.

Thanks. Can you confirm it does work for 3.0?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:23:28 +0000

@Evilhomer

Tricker threeg in cydia does the trick.

By: iRoc

iRoc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:04:12 +0000

Bill the reason you didn't see them, and they took so many by suprize is that it was an update to Backgrounder that made them visable. The update came early last week, or late the week before.

If people had read the "more info" on what they were installing they would not have been taken by suprize. The "more info" is a really good thing. Some times it even has screen shots of what you're about to install might look like.

The fact that people don't read or investigate what they are installing on their devices makes me laugh, and scares me at the same time.

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:04:39 +0000

Has anyone found a way to run Slingplayer on 3G using a jailbroken 3.0 Beta 5?

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:46:20 +0000

@JoN

I've found it, should have looked properly in the first place. thanks anyway

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:43:42 +0000

@JoN

I cant find the preference to turn it off?