Black background behind icons

My husband upgraded my 3GS iPhone to OS 4 and now my photo is behind my icons. I don't like the way this looks as it makes it hard for me to differentiate my icons from the photo. How can I get the plain black background back? I liked being able to see my photo just on the "welcome" screen, not behind the icons. Thanks.

Unfortunately this feature is not built-in.
But of course it can be faked. Simply set this image: http://www.free-mobile-wallpapers.com/wallpapers/iphone-wallpaper-black.jpg as a wallpaper. It's completely black.

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I just got an iPhone yesterday and the thing works great no problems at all .... except that you cant change the black background behind the icons only the `slide to unlock` screen.
how stupid you could even change the background on the old school nokia phones from 1998.
this should be something apple lets us do on the next release
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Not possible.
This is a user to user help forum only for technical support issues and questions. Although these discussions are provided and moderated by Apple, each post and thread here is not read by a moderator or by any Apple employee, so you aren't addressing anything to Apple here.
You can use this link to provide Apple feedback.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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!http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54486/122/A57996D55BE7ABB4A67DE686D381A27 4.png!

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@-moz-document domain("bbs.archlinux.org") {
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background-image: url(http://stashbox.org/485258/2.png) !important;
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