Use any image from Safari as your iPhone’s wallpaper - change your iPhone’s wallpaper at a whim
Posted by Will on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 5:28 pm under
iPhone Tips/Tricks, iPhone Hacks/Cracks, iPhone Software, News, iPhone
Tagged: app, change, changer, curl, iPhone, schwalbe, ssh and wallpaper
With the iPhone already cracked for native apps like the proof-of-concept “Hello World” app that Dusan covered, it was only a matter of time before some other ingenious developer came up with a functioning app for native installation on the iPhone. Enter Justin Schwalbe’s hack exploit of the hidden Demo app on the iPhone. iPhone users change their wallpaper with any image from the web as a wallpaper.
The trick thing about this app/hack is the ability to use find an image with your iPhone’s Safari browser and turn it into a wallpaper - without having to download to your computer and sync through iTunes. Simply browse to the image, press the home-screen button, hit the iDecorate app icon, and presto! The image you found through Safari is now your wallpaper - definitely cool.
Check out the vid. If it tickles your fancy, head over to Justin Schwalbe’s website for a details on how to get this hack to work. Keep in mind, you’re going to have to get your ssh and curl skills prepped to massage the Demo and Springboard apps into custom scripts. It’s not for the uninitiated, but then again, it’s just a start. We’re looking forward to a full GUI version, a la iFuntastic.
[Via: Wired]
August 1st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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August 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 am
Yeah, but where is the IDecorate on the Iphone? Not on my. On the video is presses the stock icon…
August 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Great find! I am helping a friend do this, but he can’t find the iDecorate button on the home screen either? Does the iPhone need to be “unlocked” or “mod-ed” before the iDecorate button shows up?
Appreciate the help, bro!
August 17th, 2007 at 6:45 am
no such thing! I have went to various website and saved them in a folder on my computer and then (cinked?) to my iPhone. Don’t know where that guy got his! I downloaded over 50 images!
August 21st, 2007 at 5:56 pm
@PDR - so does that mean the iDecorate butten does’nt exist on the phone? Can I change the background on the iphone at all?
Anyone?
Thx!
-=T=-
August 21st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Like I said, go to ANY website that has images; right click on that image and save image to a file on your computer (my documents, my pictures or whatever - I have over 80 pictures in my Iphone now!) After you have gotten all the images you want, plug your iphone into your computer and download. That’s it! now you have all the pictures in your phone. You can change it whenever you want. If you take pictures with the camera on your phone, any of those can be used as wallpaper. that u tube video is a crock!
August 21st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
the word I’m looking for is SYNC!
August 31st, 2007 at 5:16 am
Sounds cool, now how about copy and paste?
Lets face it, the iPhone has enormous potential but quite frankly I’m disappointed with how slowly apple is rolling out the upgrades.
This is something that should have been built in from the start! I mean, c’mon it’s running a ‘real operating system’ for crying out loud, but I can’t save a fricking image off a website? GEBUS
August 31st, 2007 at 8:20 pm
We’ll have to wait and see if Apple releases an iPhone update to enable cut& paste functionality.
But I completely agree. This thing really should at least have a “save image as” function.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
And, just to clarify, you will need to hack your iPhone to get the “iDecorate” icon.
You can find instructions on Jason Schwalbe’s website - http://finishtherace.net/b2/index.php?p=532&c=1&more=1
September 1st, 2007 at 5:55 am
sounds way too complicated! Every time you want to change wallpaper you have to download the picture? Does it save them? I down loaded about 100 pictures and I can scroll thru them and change!
August 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Ok. First, yes, you need to jailbreak your iPod to get iDecorate (unless you somehow find it in the app store). Second, you can download image straight from safari by hold ing your finger on the image and pressing the obvious Save Image button.
Also, not to be rude or anything but you need to do your homework and learn to spell. I’m twelve and see that you don’t really know how to utilize this powerful device to it’s full potential.
Good luck getting by.