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Originally Posted by Dr.8820
I don't know too much about the iphone, but is it like winmo where you can start one app, then start another with a start button....just a thought  . |
it's actually nothing like that.
With an "out da bizzox" iphone, if you have an app open (lets say facebook) and you want to do ANYTHING, like even respond to a text message, you HAVE to close the facebook app, there is no start button or anything like that.
With a jailbroken iphone with "backgrounder" and "ProSwitcher" installed, when you have an app open (e.g. facebook) you can toggle in many ways (I use double tap the "home" key) a Palm Pre like task switcher that keeps you apps open while you switch tasks, or you can go to the "home screen" (in an iphone this is called the Springboard) and open a new app.
there are a couple other task switchers, but they all use "backgrounder" as a base mod to background apps. The cool thing is that they all use "activator" which links movements and buttons to tasks, so I could open up "proswitcher" and change tasks by just shaking my phone or tapping vol key, or swiping up or down, etc...
In most situations it works perfect, but in the case of Pandora, even while backgrounded and still open, it stops streaming.
This is most annoying with iheartradio, because I stream Jim Rome during the day sometimes on my phone and if I want to text or something it temporarily stops streaming. And like last friday I was not about to miss an epic phone call from vinnie mac...
Apparently OS4.0 has "real" multitasking, but they disallow it for Iphone 3G, only on 3GS, so we need the dev community to help unlock the ability to do so.