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Run App Store Apps in Background (Jailbreak Required)

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does anyone have a link to where all these great jailbrak apps reside? I may concider this....but i'd like to browse all jailbroken apps first
 
I think this is a great tool for Netshare mostly. I surf with Netshare with my Macbook Pro and run the Netshare on the background and I can shut off my phone at the same time. I do make sure that I have this plug in to my USB port so that it can be charged at all times. The Background does eat up a lot of battery life but you just have to smarter than the program. I can also still talk on the phone while surfing using Netshare. So the Background is important to me than anything else. Now I am really considering getting rid of my Clearwire at least temporarily.
 
My phone is bricked.

I installed the Backgrounder and couldn't get past the boot/splash screen. Right when I hit the "RESTART SPRINGBOARD" the phone froze and eventually restarted...but can't get pass the Apple logo.

I have a jailbroken 3g iphone with firmware 2.1

please help, im at work and can't do a restore (don't have the cable)
 
cualexander said:
wow. This makes pandora soo much cooler. It worked right off the bat. When you hold the button down it will say enabled and look like the app quit but it's really still running.
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I agree, this is awesome. I rent a lot of Zip Cars and they took out the satellite radios. Driving on those long trips with Pandora in the background is going to be a life saver!
 
bytethese said:
I agree, this is awesome. I rent a lot of Zip Cars and they took out the satellite radios. Driving on those long trips with Pandora in the background is going to be a life saver!
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Oh yeah I am back with Pandora because of the Backgrounder. It's free music baby, I love it :D
 
ogxjason15 said:
My phone is bricked.

I installed the Backgrounder and couldn't get past the boot/splash screen. Right when I hit the "RESTART SPRINGBOARD" the phone froze and eventually restarted...but can't get pass the Apple logo.

I have a jailbroken 3g iphone with firmware 2.1

please help, im at work and can't do a restore (don't have the cable)
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I thought it might have been coincedence but after I unstallled Backgrounder it worked fine, then i done a reboot and it hung on the apple screen. I had to do a restore to get it back on. I wonder if this is a know problem
 
ajnicho said:
I thought it might have been coincedence but after I unstallled Backgrounder it worked fine, then i done a reboot and it hung on the apple screen. I had to do a restore to get it back on. I wonder if this is a know problem
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It said on the instruction if you go back. Result may vary. So maybe you are one of unfortunate that applies to that. I'm sorry though, but I hope you get your iPhone working properly caused the Backgrounder is really worth using.
 
mdmania said:
I think this is a great tool for Netshare mostly. I surf with Netshare with my Macbook Pro and run the Netshare on the background and I can shut off my phone at the same time. I do make sure that I have this plug in to my USB port so that it can be charged at all times. The Background does eat up a lot of battery life but you just have to smarter than the program. I can also still talk on the phone while surfing using Netshare. So the Background is important to me than anything else. Now I am really considering getting rid of my Clearwire at least temporarily.
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You might want to consider switching from Netshare to PdaNet, which will work in the background natively. (ie. you can make calls or use other programs while tethered) It is also a routed tether connection, rather than a proxy, which means all applications get Internet access, not just your browser.
 
zhenya said:
You might want to consider switching from Netshare to PdaNet, which will work in the background natively. (ie. you can make calls or use other programs while tethered) It is also a routed tether connection, rather than a proxy, which means all applications get Internet access, not just your browser.
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This seems to require a Wireless connection first right? or seems to be more complicated am I correct?
 
This is how Apple should make programs run in the background.

And on the home screen, they can put a glow around the application icons that are running in the background (so people do not forget).
 
mdmania said:
This seems to require a Wireless connection first right? or seems to be more complicated am I correct?
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Well, it needs an ad-hoc wireless network, the same way that I understand NetShare does. You create a network of your choosing on the mac or pc you want to tether, then connect to that with the iPhone. Then just click the PdaNet icon, and you're set to go. It's by far the easiest and most reliable tethering app I've tried. Also, there is no proxy configuration required on the laptop, and all other programs will get net access as well.
 
If security is important to you on the iphone, then I would strongly urge against using an app like backgrounder. As long as apps CANNOT run in the background you can be assured that you will not have to deal with malware, spyware, trojans and all the other misery that has become the day to day life of other computer platforms.

One of the huge advantages of the iphone is security. You can run apps, do internet banking, knowing that your iPhone will be safe and reliable.

There are 4 things in a computer platform that causes viruses, malware, spyware and trojans to be successful.
1. Ability to startup when the platform starts,
2. Ability to run in the background.
3. Ability to access and change system files
4. Access to communicate to the outside world.
 
zhenya said:
Well, it needs an ad-hoc wireless network, the same way that I understand NetShare does. You create a network of your choosing on the mac or pc you want to tether, then connect to that with the iPhone. Then just click the PdaNet icon, and you're set to go. It's by far the easiest and most reliable tethering app I've tried. Also, there is no proxy configuration required on the laptop, and all other programs will get net access as well.
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I tried the PdaNet and works but keeps dropping on me and was slow connecting. It seems unreliable as far as surfing goes. I agree, it is easier to set up but not as reliable as far as Netshare. I usually use Netshare anyways for just surfing but I am willing to use PdaNet if you tell me how to make this program reliable. Otherwise, I'm going back with Netshare.
 
bigmudcake said:
If security is important to you on the iphone, then I would strongly urge against using an app like backgrounder. As long as apps CANNOT run in the background you can be assured that you will not have to deal with malware, spyware, trojans and all the other misery that has become the day to day life of other computer platforms.

One of the huge advantages of the iphone is security. You can run apps, do internet banking, knowing that your iPhone will be safe and reliable.

There are 4 things in a computer platform that causes viruses, malware, spyware and trojans to be successful.
1. Ability to startup when the platform starts,
2. Ability to run in the background.
3. Ability to access and change system files
4. Access to communicate to the outside world.
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Uh, I have to refute a little about the "safe and reliable". There are ways around the lock screen. Safe banking? You realize one "flaw" in the way apps are closed is that for the effect you see when an app closes, it takes a quick screen shot. So if you had your banking info on the screen, it may be possible to recover these images and have a field day. :)

Further, with backgrounder, it doesn't background all apps by default, you need to enable for each app on it's own unless you create a xml file defining which apps should be backgrounded by default.

Just because an app can run in the background, doesn't mean that it can read or write data to other parts of the system. I'm currently doing research on mobile security for a masters class, this is all good info and I will def be looking into if backgrounder can affect the iPhone security model. :)
 
ajnicho said:
Maybe they have Push code built in to them and this has activated it.

After about 5 minutes inactivity of Beejive, when I load it up again the loading icon starts then a new message comes through meaning that it hasnt been constantly connected to the network.

Prolonged activity, say about 25 minutes, then the beejive app closes automatically and I have to re-enable backgrounder
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i had this problem when i first install backgrounder and i did some test. First reboot you phone a few times (hard reset) than install insomnia and have it keep your connection alive. So i left it on thru backgrounder the whole night while asleep and the first thing i did when i woke up is send a msn msg from my computer to the phone. the phones was lock in sleep mode the whole night and sure enough there is a sound notifiaction and vibrate.

Will do futher testing to see if keeping it alive in background for so long can only work with insomnia + being plugged in.

P.S: new update removes the 0 badge
 
I noticed that after running AOL Radio the icon changed to square. I then tried to delete it and didn't have the option. I then went to Cydia and uninstlled and that changed the icon. Strange.
 
threezero said:
i had this problem when i first install backgrounder and i did some test. First reboot you phone a few times (hard reset) than install insomnia and have it keep your connection alive. So i left it on thru backgrounder the whole night while asleep and the first thing i did when i woke up is send a msn msg from my computer to the phone. the phones was lock in sleep mode the whole night and sure enough there is a sound notifiaction and vibrate.

Will do futher testing to see if keeping it alive in background for so long can only work with insomnia + being plugged in.

P.S: new update removes the 0 badge
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Thanks for this useful info. I've decided to keeps Beejive's email alert on for the time being to save the battery. It stays connected for about 5 minutes so that does me fine whilst I'm doing other things. And if anyone contacts me while im not using my phone an email will come through to alart me.
 
I'll wait for a more stable & reliable release. Every time I try to enable the service, the particular app will work for about 20 minutes, then either crash or just stop working.
 
djgamble said:
It's hard to see why people don't jailbreak as it's pretty easy now and doesn't harm anything. If you update your firmware all it does is remove the jailbreak, so no biggie there either.

Sure this alone might not be worth it, but there's lots of great jailbroken apps, for example:
- WinterBoard
- MxTube (download youtube videos)
- VLC (play any type of movie without having to convert them for the iPod/iPhone)
- Emulators... GBA, Gameboy, MAME, SNES, PSX
- Flashlight (can adjust the brightness of your screen + has a strobe mode... app store can't do this)
- BossPrefs (lots of extra preferences for you)
- iCommander (file manager)
- PDF viewers
- Power tool (lets you reset, respring or turn off your iPhone if things get slow or buggy this generally fixes it)
- Categories (lets you make folders for apps e.g. games, networking, system...etc when you get heaps of apps)

So it's pretty narrow to say that it's not worth it as there's now absolutely no risks, I haven't noticed any slow-downs that can't be fixed by a reset and as demonstrated above, you get a lot more power over what apps you can install.
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How do you copy movies and files to the iphone after you jailbreak it? Obviously itunes won't let you copy anything, right? ;)
 
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