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iPhone 3G Home Screen Background

I just installed iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G looking forward to the simple ability to change the background of my home screen. However when I went to change it I was not given the option to either change the lock screen or the home screen. I clicked set and only the lock screen had changed.

iMac 27", Mac OS X (10.6.3), 27" iMac & A lot of windows computers

Posted on Jun 21, 2010 7:32 PM

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Jul 7, 2010 4:19 PM in response to btsinbr

I personally think the fact that the iPhone 3G "can't support" the ability to change the home screen wallpaper is absolutely ridiculous. I have been doing a lot of reading considering the ability to change my home screen has been the one thing I've wanted to do since I bought the phone. I've considered jail breaking just to access the feature. What I son understand is that people are saying that the home screen wallpaper will lag the iPhone 3G. I first of all don't see how such a small feature could have that great an impact especially when the 3G is capable to creating folders. I'm more than positive that having a page full of folders all full of apps will effect the performance of the phone much more than a homescrene image.

I would in all honesty give up the ability to create folders just for the home screen wallpaper and I'm sure many others would too.

Aug 11, 2010 4:22 PM in response to rottonApple

I did a certain something to my 3G that allowed me to install certain apps that enabled my 3G running 3.1.3 to do everything iOS4 does on the 3G and more...and my phone isn't any slower than before...including multitasking/backgrounding, video, displaying battery percentage, wallpaper and the list goes on. But I'm just saying. Apple is behind the curve...afterall, most of the iOS4 updates were inspired by apps on another app store that can't be named...Apple could do it because it's been done already.

Sep 5, 2010 8:30 PM in response to necroblade

iPhone 3G works great with homescreen wallpaper AND multitasking. Granted there are a few lags here and there and if you do too much it'll freeze up.
Once you've enabled the features it doesn't require much effort to get rid of a few things to help reduce the phone's workload.
Disabling non essential launch daemons is a good place to start, but if you want to see some good results disabling spotlight and icon/folder/switcher shadows helps a great deal.

iPhone 3G Home Screen Background

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