Tutorial: How to activate multitasking and homescreen wallpapers for iPhone 3G on iOS 4.0

This tutorial is intended ONLY for iPhone 3G owners with iOS 4.0 installed on the phone. With its help you can enable/disable multitasking and homescreen wallpapers ONLY on iOS 4.0, this tutorial does NOT work with other older firmwares.

To do this tutorial, your phone must be jailbroken on iOS 4.0 and you can find the tutorial for jailbreak here.

Step 1

Connect to your phone using ifunbox compatible with iTunes 9.2 from here: [download id=”22″]

After you have connected on the phone, navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app.

Step 2

Search for the file N82AP.plist and copy it to the computer.

Step 3

Open the file N82AP.plist with a .plist editor, PLEA you can find it on the internet and it works. Notepad/Wordpad DO NOT open the corresponding file, so don't try with them.

Step 4

Before following the procedure below you can check in N82AP.plist to see if you already have:

homescreen-wallpaper

or

multitasking

If you already have them in N82AP.plist then all you have to do is change from "false" to "true". If you don't have them then follow the steps below.

To activate the Homescreen Wallpapers function, add the following code:

homescreen-wallpaper

Immediately below this code:

capabilities

Step 5

To activate multitasking, add the following code:

multitasking

Right below the code for HomeScreen Wallpapers from step 4.

Step 6

After finishing the procedure, save the file and copy it back to the phone in the same file from which you took it, then reset the phone.

When the phone opens, you will have both options activated.

To remove multitasking and homescreen wallpapers, you only have to reverse the above procedure and delete the added lines of code.