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Enable Home Screen Wallpaper in iOS 4 on iPhone 3G without Redsn0w

Posted by Ben on June 26, 2010

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":

  1. Set Lock Screen
  2. *Set Home Screen
  3. Set Both

Homescreen Wallaper Demo

Enable Home Screen Wallpaper Option on iPhone 3G Running iOS 4

  1. 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
  2. Open "iFile" and and go to "root" directory. Tab on top left corner of your screen, it will take you root (/) directory.

    3. iFile Root Directory

  3. Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app and look for N82AP.plist file.

    4. N82AP.plist File

  4. 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".
  5. Tab on "Edit" on top left corner of your screen.
  6. To enable Home Screen Wallpaper add following strings to N82AP.plist file.

    7. <key>homescreen-wallpaper</key>
    <true/>

    Home Screen Wallpaper

  7. One you are done with adding these strings, just tab on "Save" and "Done" and close the iFile app.
  8. Restart or respiring your iPhone 3G and now you can set any image in your iPhone as a home screen wallpaper.


  • Pascal pascal

    Thank you so much!

  • Omar Mendoza

    finally works! you are a teacher, look for this for a long time and finally found it! Congratulations for the post! this amazing!

  • Texan_GirL

    Thank you so much it worked for me yeeeeeeeeeeeeey

  • Genji

    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.

  • Syma

    ThankS! Worked Perfectly!!
    =)

  • http://paul-kx.blogspot.com paul

    It worked on my 4.0 3g !!! so happy!!! thanks master!!!!

  • Randz

    It worked with my iphone 3g 4.2.1.... Thank you very much man! You're a genius!

    • http://twitter.com/pram0dm Pramod

      Glad to know this helped. Enjoy. :)

  • hardik dabhi

    thanks a lot sir.....................

  • http://ziheng2.blogspot.com Eric Wong

    THANKSSSSSSs

  • Suhayb

    Yep works fine. thank you.

  • Kobe Bryant

    hey, thank you so much, it was pissing me off so much that I couldn't set a home screen wallpaper

  • Frida

    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!

  • luis espinoza

    that's cool !! thx so much !!!1 :D

  • lichi

    I've just tried it in the 4.2.1 software, it worked great!
    Thanks

  • alan

    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?

    • William Lewis

      I had the same problem so I did it via ssh with WinSCP and it worked great!

  • Sam

    Thanks alot. I'm using a 3G 4.0 and this solved my problem.

    Thanks again

  • Alan Zdancewicz

    Thanks man you r awesome!

  • Kekke

    You sir are an angel!

    Thank you so much :-)

  • A Young

    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