Hi everone, i recently upgraded my ipad to ios5 and then i jailbroken it, i noticed a couple days ago that backgrounder doesn't work, i tried installing it and once it respringed the springboard would just crash, i tried again today without using any time and same problem, i read some posts about backgrounder and it seems it works on iOS5, is there anything i can do to make it work? Or another cydia tweak like backgrounder?(I tried multifl0w but it doesn't really look that it backgrounds all apps as background did) thanks.

No, I've not seen anything about it working. Only that it is NOT working on IOS5. You will just need to wait to see if the developer (or another developer, since the source code can be forked) will release an IOS5 compatible version, but I would not install it again until you see a concrete update with comments which indicate 5.0 support. Putting incompatible apps on your JB iPad is asking for trouble when you know they don't work

And, just as an aside...

The developer of Backgrounder "released it into the wild" ages ago. He was no longer working on it and was no longer supporting it way back on 4.2.1, if I recall correctly.

IOW, don't hold your breath for a Backgrounder update for iOS 5, as I don't think it's going to happen.

Just my humble opinion...

Marilyn

I see thanks a lot, guess i didn't understand what the guys in the forum meant, is there any other tweak like backgrounder? I could really use it. Thanks for help.

I certainly hope it gets updated as I use it for things like keeping vnc connections open and wireless keyboard connections open while switching to other programs.

Backgrounder is one of the most useful tweaks I've ever learned to use. I'm in the process of seeing if I can fix anything regarding this incompatibility. I'm testing to see if by switching a few constants in the code we can get around this incompatibility but no promises. I won't plan to upgrade to iOS 5 until I find a work around or fix for this. I'll post here with any new news.

Originally Posted by akspecs

Backgrounder is one of the most useful tweaks I've ever learned to use. I'm in the process of seeing if I can fix anything regarding this incompatibility. I'm testing to see if by switching a few constants in the code we can get around this incompatibility but no promises. I won't plan to upgrade to iOS 5 until I find a work around or fix for this. I'll post here with any new news.

Good news - ashikase made the fix himself. Here's a direct download link to the .deb file that isn't hosted on the repos yet. Let me know if it works for your iPads, as for I have an iPad 2 on 4.3.3 - I got it working on my iPhone running iOS 5. As of yesterday when I got news of it's release.

Since I haven't posted enough PM me for a link to the downloads.

Let me know how it works for you guys.

Originally Posted by Munky

I certainly hope it gets updated as I use it for things like keeping vnc connections open and wireless keyboard connections open while switching to other programs.

I apologize for not being able to pm youut apparently I need 6 posts to do that. The links are as follows:

Direct Download for .deb: http://t.co/6NkKDdF2
Site link: Download Backgrounder for iOS 5.x | InfoGeek

Have you encountered any issues with use, since the site said it isn't finalized and isn't fully functional?

Originally Posted by Munky

Have you encountered any issues with use, since the site said it isn't finalized and isn't fully functional?

nothing serious. I use it to force backgrounding on a few apps that refuse to have it natively and it works just fine. Note that the only device I have on iOS 5 is an iPhone 3GS. Also, note that that release is made by the original dev himself. There is nothing to worry about. I haven't had my iPhone with the new backgrounder installed for iOS 5 crash once. There might be a cosmetic issue with enabling badges or status bar notifiers but honestly nothing that I've seen to affect core use.