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Backgrounder Update – New Settings, New Features and Fixes

May 12, 2010 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Backgrounder, a hack that allows applications to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r432 (and svn.r436). The new version actually makes a decent amount of changes to the hack (full change log below).

The overall settings of the app have changed… including more description about each setting… which is nice.

In the Global option of the settings, you will find quite a few more features including the ability to choose the type of Backgrounding Method (Off, Native and Backgrounder), choose the Backgrounding State (Enable at Launch or Stay Enabled – previously Backgrounding Persists), the ability to turn on a Status Bar Icon and the options to Fallback to Native and Minimize on Toggle.
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Filed Under: Backgrounder, BigBoss, Cydia Tagged With: applications, background, Backgrounder, iPhone, iPod touch, Run

Backgrounder Update – New Features

September 24, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Backgrounder, a mod that allows applications to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r295. The update redesigns the application’s settings, adds a few new features as well as contains a bug fix (see full change log below).

One new feature is the ability to turn off the badge icon for applications that are not backgrounded by the Backgrounder app itself. This would be applications that run in the background without the need for Backgrounder such as Phone, Mail, Safari, iPod… etc. You can turn this option off in under the Global option in the application.
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Filed Under: Backgrounder, BigBoss, Cydia Tagged With: applications, Backgrounder, iPhone, iPod touch, Run

Backgrounder Update

August 25, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Backgrounder, an application that allows apps to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r261. This version of the application adds back a few of the features Backgrounder had before firmware 3.x; Always-Enabled Apps option, Blacklisted Apps option, Persistence option and the Badge feature. As a quick reminder, I will run through what each option does. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Backgrounder, Cydia, System Tagged With: applications, Backgrounder, iPhone, iPod touch, Run

Backgrounder Update

July 8, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

When I saw an update to Backgrounder, a mod that allows apps to run in the background, I was like…YES! I thought we were going to get some of the old features back but, the update just fixes a bug in which some apps were not restoring properly. I know, I was totally bummed too. I could really use the SpringBoard badge that indicates when an app is running…I have a feeling I have left a few running on accident! You can get Backgrounder via the BigBoss source. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Backgrounder, BigBoss, Cydia, System Tagged With: applications, background, Backgrounder, hack, iPhone, iPod touch, Run

Backgrounder Updated – Firmware 3.0 Compatible

June 26, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Backgrounder, a mod that allows applications to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r247. This version of Backgrounder is for firmware 3.0 and above. If you are on 2.2.1 or below make sure you DO NOT upgrade. The update also only enables the basic backgrounder feature…there are no extra features at this time. The developer says it will take some time to get the features working on the 3.0 firmware.
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Filed Under: Backgrounder, BigBoss, Cydia, System Tagged With: 3.0, applications, Apps, background, Backgrounder, Compatible, firmware, Insomnia, Run, Works

Backgrounder svn.r10-2 – Allows Apps to Run in Background

October 2, 2008 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Backgrounder is “A Mobile Substrate-based extension that allows applications to run in the background.” Basically it is an application (similar to Insomnia) that allows applications to run in the background…meaning after you close the application it will continue to run.

When you install Backgrounder, you will not get an icon on your SpringBoard…it is just a code application. To enable Backgrounder, open the application that you would like to run in the background then press and hold the Home Button. You will get a quick pop-up saying, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Backgrounder, Cydia, System Tagged With: background, Backgrounder, Insomnia, iPhone, iPod touch, Run

iAwake2 2.0

May 27, 2008 by Brooke

iAwake2 is an application similar to insomnia. When iAwake2 it toggled on, it allows applications to continue to run in the background using both WiFi and Edge. When you tap on the icon on your SpringBoard, it will open to a splash-screen and then close back to the SpringBoard. However, you will notice that it puts a little On badge on the icon. This means that it will now allow applications to run in the background. To turn it off, just tap the icon again which will open it to the splash-screen and close back to the SpringBoard. This time there will not be a badge on the icon this means that iAwake2 is now off. The only issue I have with these kinds of applications [Read more…]