Live camera feed as background for springboard?

That would be cool...
Except for the battery drain

Battery would die very fast.

lyhte said:

I thought that at first too but really, how much time do you actually spend on the springboard? Usually you just find the app you want and leave the springboard. It would be nice to try it out to see the impact on battery life.

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If a tree falls down in the forest and no ones around to hear it does it make any noise?

lyhte said:

I thought that at first too but really, how much time do you actually spend on the springboard? Usually you just find the app you want and leave the springboard. It would be nice to try it out to see the impact on battery life.

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I installed video wallpaper and it shaved hours off the battery life of my phone. I can't imagine how bad it would be with the drain of network access and everything else.

In my book this is filed under:

Sounds cool but impractical. Why would you want to anyway if apps will be blocking out most of the image (unless you have those blank apps) but might as well fire up an app to use the streaming video.

ulbador said:

I installed video wallpaper and it shaved hours off the battery life of my phone. I can't imagine how bad it would be with the drain of network access and everything else.

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It is an interesting idea but this is true^. Video wallpaper was killing my battery life and it was making SB lag too much. This could be even more problematic.

Also by your statement, since you wouldn't spend that much time looking at the wallpaper, why would you want it in the first place if you wouldn't have much time to look at it? I'm too much of a battery lover for that.

This is the stupid kind of crap that gives jailbreaking a bad name.

Please, stop. This is a terrible, terrible idea.

iamthekiller said:

This is the stupid kind of crap that gives jailbreaking a bad name.

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This is the close minded crap that leads to apple controlling everything. Do you have any idea how many apps on Cydia I would consider "stupid"? Jailbreaking doesn't have a bad name. The point is that you're free to think outside of the box, and do whatever you want with your phone, regardless of other people's opinion.

I thought it was an interesting idea, and could give the appearance of a see-through phone if implemented right.

iamthekiller said:

This is the stupid kind of crap that gives jailbreaking a bad name.

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This is the stupid kind of post that gives forum-goers a bad name.

TJone said:

It is an interesting idea but this is true^. Video wallpaper was killing my battery life and it was making SB lag too much. This could be even more problematic.

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vwallpaper hasn't really affected my battery or caused any lagging.... are yall using an iphone 4?

weemanpow3 said:

Battery would die very fast.

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just like the current mobilesubstrate!

vwallpaper doesn't seem to affect my battery (at least, am not seeing any real difference with it on or off).

i just wind up leaving it off; it gets boring after a while to be amused by moving wallpaper...

love the live feed idea (but would turn that off after a while too...)

You could try by contacting the author of vwallpaper. I think this is a nice idea and don't see why anyone should shoot you down for it. Like others have said, this is what jailbreaking is for.

The way I see it, if vwallpaper can take a video and play it, then maybe it is running an app below the icons? If so, could you not run a camera capture app behind the icons. I don't really know how vwallpaper works but it's one avenue to investigate.

I hope you keep this updated if you do find any more information.