Vwallpaper2

Video wallpapers are a great way to add a little fun to your iPhone, and for a long time, our favorite such app was vWallpaper by Skrew. Now, several years later, the successor ( vWallpaper 2 ) has arrived, and it brings with it a host of new features as well as true support for the iPad and the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak.

Both vWallpaper and vWallpaper 2 are jailbreak apps, and only available through Cydia by adding a source and downloading it through there. Once downloaded from Cydia, you’ll be able to install vWallpaper, customize it and add new wallpapers with little fuss. The getting there part, however, can be a little confusing for newbies. Fortunately, plenty of online tutorials walk you through the process.

The other issue first-timers are likely to encounter is a conflict with a custom WinterBoard theme. The standard theme is fine, but most other themes interfere to some degree. This is a bigger problem with vWallpaper than with vWallpaper 2, but it still crops up. So if you start vWallpaper and nothing at all happens, then that’s the likeliest culprit: Disable any running themes.

The biggest difference between vWallpaper and the vWallpaper 2 application is that the original was getting a little long in the tooth. It’s still a viable option for those using iOS 3.x, but vWallpaper 2 added support for iOS 5, and it runs on the iPad without jumping through hoops, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch. The new mod also has a much wider range of settings and wallpapers.

For the purposes of this review, we used the iPhone app, and focused on vWallpaper 2. The vWallpaper 2 jailbreak app runs similarly on the iPod touch, so everything we say here applies there as well. With the iPad, be aware that the original vWallpaper hack does not support it natively. The new mod does support the iPad and iPad 2, but we did not test either platform for this review.

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Download vWallpaper 2 from Cydia

Developer:skrew

Repository:iSpazio

Homepage:danstaface.net

Version:1.11-1

Size:0.00 MB