Animated wallpapers and non jailbreak

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Animated wallpapers and non jailbreak

Hey guys, I have the amazing Iphone 3G and its lovely, but i'm wondering why apple haven't sorted out an app yet for animated wallpaper. I really do not want to jailbreak my phone, it cant be that hard if kids can jailbreak a phone that easy a few days after release surely apple could have prevented it by letting us change basic backgrounds like every other phone on the market.

Even basic nokia's are able to do it & we have the future product in our hands, maybe its just me and it may be a silly thing to have animated wallpaper but it helps make the phone more personal.

pc, Windows XP

Posted on Oct 27, 2008 5:49 AM

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Eaglepeak

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Oct 27, 2008 6:13 AM in response to jaydanzig

Welcome to Apple Discussions jaydanzig.

You can use any kind of image as a wallpaper. Just make sure you sync it with iTunes.

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.
2. In iTunes, select the iPhone.
3. Go to the photos tab.
4. Sync photos (or any other image in a supported file format like jpeg) from the desired location on your computer.
5. On your iPhone go to photos.
6. Select the image you like to use as a wallpaper.
7. Tap on the arrow in the lower left corner.
8. Tap 'use as wallpaper.

That's it you're done.

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mws1969

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Oct 27, 2008 1:35 PM in response to Eaglepeak

Yeah, but that is only for the unlock screen. It would be nice to have a background on all homescreens...

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Tamara

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Oct 27, 2008 1:52 PM in response to mws1969

Why? The icons hide the majority of the screen so you wouldn't be able to really see a background image.

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Eaglepeak

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Oct 27, 2008 1:54 PM in response to Tamara

That was my thought exactly Tamara....

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Oct 27, 2008 2:18 PM in response to Tamara

in fact, it would probably make it difficult to find the app or icon you're looking for if you have a wallpaper. i find that sometimes happens to me on my computer.

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bookcase

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Jan 5, 2009 2:48 PM in response to Eaglepeak

I'm using the Backgrounds free application. I've selected a few different backgrounds to see which one I like best, but the problem is, I don't know how to delete those that I don't want. I don't want to take up precious space. Any ideas? Thanks!

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