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Originally Posted by skinsfn36
where do u get winterboard though? thats all i need to get the wallpaper
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It's an app you can get via Cydia or Installer.app just like any jailbroken app. You can't get it unless you jailbreak your phone. Cydia and Installer.app are basically app stores that provide jailbroken apps for jailbroken phones just like the App Store apple provides for normal phones. You can still use the App Store on a jailbroken phone as you would on a normal phone.
What it really comes down to is that there are features that the iPhone lacks and there are programmers out there who wrote their own firmware that is based off of the one Apple provides. The new firmware is applied when you jailbreak the phone. This new firmware allows you to do things to the phone that Apple won't let you.
For example, most phones show you that you have a missed call, missed text message, voicemail etc in the status bar. This is something the iPhone lacks so a generous person wrote an app that will only work in the jailbroken firmware that allows you to have these features. Modifying the battery background is also only achievable on jailbroken phones.