If you have jailbreaked iOS 4 on iPhone 3G using PwnageTool and Sn0wbreeze then you might have noticed that there is no option to set an image as your SpringBoard's background. Well you can easily set any image as your SpringBoard's background after doing the hack explained below. Acc. to Steve Jobs, Apple didn't provided the custom wallpaper option in iOS 4 on iPhone 3G to ensure an optimal user experience. However i didn't feel any performance issue after enabling this option.
After adding the hack strings to my N82AP.plist file, i got the following three options for every image saved in my "Camera Roll" and "Wallpaper Section":
- Set Lock Screen
- *Set Home Screen
- Set Both
Enable Home Screen Wallpaper Option on iPhone 3G Running iOS 4
- First step is to install iFile on your iPhone / iPod Touch. You can find step-by-step guide here for iFile installation on iOS 4.0
- Open "iFile" and and go to "root" directory. Tab on top left corner of your screen, it will take you root (/) directory.
- Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app and look for N82AP.plist file.
- Once you will open N82AP.plist file, you will see the coding regarding your iPhone functions, you will need to edit the file and add "Home Screen Wallpaper" function to it and set it to "TRUE".
- Tab on "Edit" on top left corner of your screen.
- To enable Home Screen Wallpaper add following strings to N82AP.plist file.
- One you are done with adding these strings, just tab on "Save" and "Done" and close the iFile app.
- Restart or respiring your iPhone 3G and now you can set any image in your iPhone as a home screen wallpaper.
<key>homescreen-wallpaper</key>
<true/>
TNX YOU NICE
thank you so much…………..have it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where to find the “root” directory??? omg!
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Wow, something that actually works finally! I have no technological knowledge at all so this scared at me first and thought I was going to end up with a potato as a phone but this worked a treat! Thanks whoever you are!
Blagodarq mnogo / thank you very much !
THANKS A LOT ….VERY VERY HELPFULL
thanks a lot!
Thank You….
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Ben ur a Genius ….Thank u Very Very Much …Dont know how boring Iphone 3g was before ..with this I got some life in to the Iphone… Thank u once again and Wish u many Tweaks ahead …. :D
Ohh damn, it was sooo easy… :D Thanks alot!
Thanks man!
the iphone got stucked and doesnt turn back on!!
Which are you stuck? Is it on recovery mode?
thank u soo much.It works like a charm
YO IT WORKS! PERFECTLY FOR MY IPHONE 3G!. NOW I CAN SET MY OWN HOMESCREEN WALLPAPER.THANX A LOT!!
thanks a lot!!! my iphone 3g 4.1 is already a year older. When i first got this, setting a homescreen wallpaper was possible but when i accidentally updated the phone it totally went dead. I went to Apple Store to have the phone fixed. The phone was restored but i couldn’t enable homescreen wallpaper. I was using an iphone with a black homescreen for a year. But now, i can already enable homescreen wallpaper. It’s perfectly workin! Im so happy! Thank you so much! :-)
Thank you so much!!!!
i did it but doesn’t work
great! thanks so much!
worked like a charm …Thank you so much!
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finally works! you are a teacher, look for this for a long time and finally found it! Congratulations for the post! this amazing!
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Thank It works man …
And I also Found that if anyone having a springboard laggy issues after doing this simply rename or delete this 3 file ( WallpaperIconDockShadow~iphone.png, WallpaperIconShadow~iphone.png and WallpaperGradientPortraitTop~iphone.png ) your Phone Sprinboard should become much more smoothe.
where can i find those 3 files ? o0
ThankS! Worked Perfectly!!
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It worked on my 4.0 3g !!! so happy!!! thanks master!!!!
It worked with my iphone 3g 4.2.1…. Thank you very much man! You’re a genius!
Glad to know this helped. Enjoy. :)
thanks a lot sir…………………
THANKSSSSSSs
Yep works fine. thank you.
hey, thank you so much, it was pissing me off so much that I couldn’t set a home screen wallpaper
For you guys that haven’ made it work on 4.2.1:
I added the string to the n82ap and it didn’t work, so I double checked to see what did I did wrong.
Then I realized that there was already a homescreen-wallpaper in the list, but it was set to false. So I deleted the doubled entry and set the one that was already there to true, and that did it!
that’s cool !! thx so much !!!1 :D
I’ve just tried it in the 4.2.1 software, it worked great!
Thanks
I’ve 3g and 4.1, I’m folow your your step but unable ti to edit the N82ap.plist, error message “the n82ap.plist was not able to be written”. need help?
I had the same problem so I did it via ssh with WinSCP and it worked great!
Thanks alot. I’m using a 3G 4.0 and this solved my problem.
Thanks again
Thanks man you r awesome!
You sir are an angel!
Thank you so much :-)
Will you please help. I followed these directions, but nothing changed. Did i miss something… i typed everything as instructed. when i went back to see if it was there.. it was.. i rebooted the phone.. but when i went into “wallpaper” there was not option for homescreen.. just the normal wall paper option.
thank you in advance