Comments on: Need a Reason to Jailbreak? Backgrounder App is Now Available!

By: Willis

Willis — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:13:56 +0000

Loved backgrounder, had it for about one afternoon before i upgraded to iOS4. 2nd gen ipod, i now am actually going to read the fine print. are there versions of backgrounder compatible with OS4?

By: Ben S

Ben S — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:21:07 +0000

@umesh: Backgrounder comes with the option to indicate on the app icon (a ‘badge’) whether they are running in the background or not.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:35:27 +0000

My favorite is Backgrounder on the iPhone. Its work beautiful on my iPhone!

By: herojig

herojig — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:17:49 +0000

great app, thx!!!

By: aplusmark

aplusmark — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:51:49 +0000

with a jailbroken phone is there any app that allows you to cut/paste or copy/paste? This is one of my biggest biffs with Iphone

By: ruben

ruben — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:13:11 +0000

I’ve already tried and it works so well I could keep palringo, facebook, tuner, and safari working at the same time. It’s awesome.

By: umesh

umesh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:48:33 +0000

The concept sure sounds nice but what if u shun 4-5 apps in the background n then forget which ones are still active in the background?? Wouldn’t that kill batterylife substantially?? Or is there some workaround i havent figured out yet….anyways hats off to the devs who went this far atleast

By: cherryhead25

cherryhead25 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:12:05 +0000

Anyone using this with Palringo? Interested to know how the phone let’s you know there is a IM you missed.

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:07:30 +0000

@Terry, too bad the amount of apps available for BB’s is not even close to the amount for the iPhone… Not even close…

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:05:56 +0000

You know this could be one more reason to go back to BB. I wouldn’t have to JB my phone to get features taht should be standard –

By: john

john — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:36:21 +0000

So if your phone goes in sleep the so won’t be active

By: eArTh

eArTh — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:46:15 +0000

@ thekevinmonster

multitasking was wonders on the BB. When I had my first pearl I loved it and nothing has changed with my bold. BB did the multitasking properly. I had been wishing for some time apple would change there stance on background process. Now I just throw my middle finger up in the air and wave like Ive never waved before. This app is perfect for the iPhone and like the other comments made it works wonders with beejive. I am happier than a pig in shit. Now can we just get the god damn cut and paste.

By: Charles Cooper

Charles Cooper — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:44:24 +0000

Apple reserves the right for their own apps to run on the background - and denys apps created by others the same ability.

If MS tried that, there would be taunts from the Mac community and threats of legal action from various legal groups.

For many in the Mac world, it's just papa Stalin - , uh Steve, protecting them.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:31:28 +0000

@john, I believe Jeremy was talking about running aol radio or pandors or last.fm in the background and not the iPod.

I think I might just have to jailbreak my phone and this would make me pick up beejive.

By: thekevinmonster

thekevinmonster — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:31:22 +0000

john: backgrounder lets any app run in the background. you could listen to pandora, you could leave your IM program running, etc. If an app stays constantly running in the background and prevents the device from sleeping (for example if you left something like Air Sharing running), then it would kill your battery life.

People say multitasking works great on a blackberry. I've never used that. Anyone who says it works great on Windows Mobile is a liar; I have used WM devices and there's a reason "close button that really closes" apps have been popular since the PPC2000 days, and why some devices even come with that option built-in as a value-added third party app.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:56:32 +0000

This application has indeed pushed me over the line last week to jailbreak my iPhone. It works perfectly with BeejiveIM for example. And now I wonder why I haven’t jailbroken my phone before, it has so many advantages!

By: john

john — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:38:56 +0000

I am confused, I already can listen to the ipod while under a different app. Am I missing something?

Also would the backgrounder allow Im's to come through and not kill battery life

By: frog

frog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:13:28 +0000

I'd rather see backgrounding/multi-tasking from Apple then the silly push-notification.

Push devastates battery life on the iPhone, so it's something you'd have to muck around turning off and on etc... Push-notifications seems purely based on internet applications also - what about a "possible" Tomtom app; what on earth use is push-notification on that for example?

Have multi-tasking off by default ; warn it may decrease battery life or affect performance if turned on (ala "3G")

By: eArTh

eArTh — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:10:17 +0000

Once again I have to say to all those who havent jailbroken their phones “DO IT NOW” haha. This is one of many features apple chose not to include and damn them. It runs super smooth. I have yet to notice any lag or slowing down when running backgrounder. So I must thank the community for this one and say “keep writing wicked code” because apple has forgot how.