loading wheel on icons?

**linxsay** · 05-24-2009, 06:55 PM

Hey guys... I just opened Cydia for the first time in about a month and saw that I had 9 updates... I updated all and rebooted my phone and now I have the loading wheel on my phone and email icons... although it doesn't actually spin... it was on the safari icon but after i rebooted it was gone, but it's still on the other two.

http://twitpic.com/5w4ha

I'm sure the easy solution would be to uninstall what I installed right before this happened but I don't know what I installed... I just updated without looking to see what was going to be updated...

Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it?

Thanks =)

**blkcadi** · 05-24-2009, 06:59 PM

It comes from the app "backgrounder" I believe the name is.
I have read in other threads that if you go into the app via WinScp (windows) or Diskaid (If your on a Mac) you can delete this badge and make it all go away..
Search is your friend........................O.o

**jtesnani** · 05-24-2009, 07:16 PM

yup that's correct. it's the new feature for backgrounder so you can see which apps have it activated

**cpjr** · 05-24-2009, 07:40 PM

Yup. Theres quite a few threads floating around about it.

**StealthBravo** · 05-24-2009, 07:54 PM

^ Please search before posting. There are at least 6 threads about this

**linxsay** · 05-24-2009, 09:55 PM

actually i did search first... first i searched google and when that didn't yield any results, i specifically searched this forum. regardless, i uninstalled backgrounder since i don't use it anyway and that solved the problem. thanks for the help.

**cpjr** · 05-24-2009, 09:57 PM

^If you did have a need for backgrounder but hated the little symbols, you could SSH into the app folder and delete badge.png, which would get rid of them.

**StealthBravo** · 05-24-2009, 09:57 PM

You dont have to uninstall it, you can ssh and remove the badges or supposedly there is a option to turn them off in the newest release

**blkcadi** · 05-24-2009, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by linxsay

actually i did search first... first i searched google and when that didn't yield any results, i specifically searched this forum. regardless, i uninstalled backgrounder since i don't use it anyway and that solved the problem. thanks for the help.

According to what I have read on the forum there was an Backrounder update today that allowed you to deactivate the badge.

**Neilvx** · 05-25-2009, 03:07 AM

open backgrounder, global and turn badges off as I found out today in anouther thread.

**linxsay** · 05-26-2009, 05:02 PM

Thanks everyone for the input. I uninstalled it because I never use it. I don't even remember why I had it installed in the first place.

**itsjustlenny** · 05-28-2009, 07:30 PM

open backgrounder, global and turn badges off as I found out today in anouther thread.

wow this is great i've been looking all day for this fix. easier than i thought! thanks

**StealthBravo** · 05-28-2009, 10:18 PM

I wish he would just set it so it wouldn't run on stock apps that run in the background. Only ones activated by backgrounder

**confucious** · 05-29-2009, 01:28 AM

@SB - there is a bug list and feature request page, have you suggested it to the author?

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