The iPhone’s beautifully glass-encased bright LCD screen is perfectly suited for displaying your favorite pictures and videos. It’s a bit disappointing that you can’t take advantage of said screen with a wallpaper that does more than just show itself while the device is locked – behind the homescreen icons, to be specific. Alas, Apple hasn’t seen fit to endow our current, pre-update iPhones with customizable homescreen background wallpapers (or any homescreen wallpapers, for that matter). Could it be a battery life issue (more black means less power needed, which means longer battery life)?
Enter modmyiphone. Using iPhoneInterface, JailBreak, and a dash of terminal coding (ok, it’s actually a pretty good dose of terminal command-ering), the guys over at modmyiphone have put together a 15-step guide to getting customized backgrounds onto your iPhone’s homescreen.
But, be wary of early bugs, intrepid iPhone modder. Due to some simple formatting issues with the backgrounds images, the homescreen icon text is not displayed and the calendar icon is a little mis-aligned. And, “If you press any of the bottom icons, there is a brief dark gray over the entire column before it launches.”
We’re hoping for an Apple update that will allow the less adventurous iPhone enthusiasts to get customized background images onto their iPhones. Until then, or at least until the boys over at modmyiphone flush out those bugs, we’re going to deal with the plain black background.
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