The best way to implement a persistent, fixed, header navbar

The best way to implement a persistent, fixed, header navbar

Hello, I'm developing a simple three tabs app for Android and iPhone. Every tab links to a div with data-role="page", as jQuery Mobile specifications.

I'm using jQuery Mobile as UI Framework and IBM Worklight.

If I implement the jquery fixed persistent tabbar like is explained there (http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/toolbars/footer-persist-a.html), i'm encountering some flickering on the tab item (text both images) in page transition (with any transiction effect).
If I set the default transition to "none", I could resolve this problem, but I lost the transiction native-like effect.

So what is the better way to implement another navigation tabbed bar that persist?

I used as reference the default Android Contacts App.

Thank for all the replies.