Today I got linked to a site by a good friend which jailbroke my device right from Safari on the device itself (www.jailbreakme.com) amazing site. Anyways, I did that and downloaded iFile from Cydia and went to the .plist file that holds all the settings for wallpapers and multitasking and all that tomfoolery, and entered in the string for Homescreen wallpapers. I rebooted and got freaked out when I saw this:



So when I saw this, I did a hard reboot and got same problem again, so I turned it off, plugged it into iTunes while holding home to get it into recovery mode and did a complete restore, when it was done I re-jailbroke it using same method and added the Homescreen Wallpaper string to the .plist file I spoke about before and I still got the same screen during boot up, but this time, I left it and saw what it did. And Viola;

 

Now I have noticed that it seems to lag when opening and closing applications, I might try out the multitasking as well and see what thats like, but my questions are:

Why does it lag when opening/closing apps? I've jailbroken this iPod and a first Generation iPod touch and added custom homescreen wallpapers and have never had this problem. What have Apple done?

And whats that thing during my boot up? and why is it there? and can I get rid of it?

Cheers, and thanks for reading my essay. xDD

Sam