Strage Badge

Earlier this day I’ve just updated the software running on my jail-broken iPod Touch and received a new Version of the “Backgrounder”-application. Right after the update I turned off my iPod and when I turned it on again later, there were some curious badge icons on my application’s icons. The icons did not move or anything, and as it seems they only appeared when the application was running in the background – not the “Backgrounder” background, but Apple’s internal background stuff. For example, as soon as I turned on the WiFi, the Mail-icon got that badge, because the Mail process was up for Push-notifications. Same happened when I opened an application: As soon as I closed it, I saw that icon but it disappeared one second later again (-> because the application’s process quitted).

So, if you might wonder why you have that icon: It’s because of Backgrounder. I did not find out how to disable it – I’ve just removed it.