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So iPhone 3G has wallpapers on iOS 4.0?
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Nice catch. This actually seems to be a mistake on Apple's part, as the 3G does not support wallpapers on iOS4 (At least not in the GM, which should be the same as what we will see tomorrow, just about)
I have the GM and mine's black at the moment. What I meant was, we might get that as the 'standard' wall paper instead of the black background in the public release but will not be able to change it, which would go with the 3G not being able to 'change' home screen wall papers. Only a thought.
Although I don't quite understand what the fuss is. Surely changing a wallpaper won't require a huge amount of 'resources'. I'm sure Steve Jobs is just being a knob. Like he was when something as simple as the battery % indicator was avoided in the 3G.
Yeah to be honest I started using the GM and sat there like a knob for about 5 minutes trying to work out why I couldn't use pictures as wallpapers and done the same thing the OP did looked on the website and it was showing that picture.
I just assume that same as the % indicator which for reference uses naff all is just another way to make people think there 3G is defunct and its time to upgrade.
I just assume that same as the % indicator which for reference uses naff all is just another way to make people think there 3G is defunct and its time to upgrade.
I wonder there is no Wallpaper in 3G.
Does it need so many resources to put a static image in the background ?
Does it need so many resources to put a static image in the background ?
It actually copes okay. In some cases I think it runs faster than it did on 3.1.3. Still get lag when Safari/Mail/iPod are all running at once, but by no means unusable.
It's not simply placing an image in the background. When a background image is added (not via jailbreak, but legitly using iOS 4) it also adds in shadows behind every piece of text on the home screen as well as shadows behind every app icon. Every time you click the home button, the memory has to try and cache all this extra data for the shadows for every single app icon on the Springboard. It's a pretty pathetic and weird reason as to why they disabled this feature for the iPhone 3G and 2G iPod touch, but it's simply a memory hog on these devices with it enabled (I have these disabled features enabled on a jailbroken 2G touch with the 4.0 GM, so I speak from experience - the lag to get back to the home screen and to launch things with home screen backgrounds enabled is simply terrible*).
*Saying that though, the rest of the OS runs wonderfully on my iPod, easily comparable to my 3GS.
Thanks for the explanation, now its more clear
But maybe they could have chosen a different and lighter method to put a simple image behind the icons.