[ivoaktiv]

hello there!

first excuse my english ;-) is there any tool, hack, app, e.g. how to set the time to turn off or dim the backlight. i mean the brightness. i want to set auto-lock to never, but i want that the backlight turns off after a while. the optimum would be if the brightness fades to 5% or so. would be so great if someone could give me an answer. thanx in advance!

[abhishekkhurana]

Extended preferences

[ivoaktiv]

yes man! that's exactly what i'm searching for. thanx a lot!!

[abhishekkhurana]

Welcome!

[AndyTheAnimal]

Can someone clarify the 'extended preferences' please? Is this a setting wtihin the phone (if so, where) or an app.

Thanks

[Simtech]

Application in Cydia

[AndyTheAnimal]

Thanks, any way to do this on a non-jailbroken phone?

[Simtech]

nope...

[CaptainChaos]

Is there a way to do this through modding a plist file or something? Like if you don't want to install extended prefs?

[Jim Danner]

Originally Posted by CaptainChaos

Is there a way to do this through modding a plist file or something? Like if you don't want to install extended prefs?

Yes. Edit /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist and add this key/value pair to it:

<key>SBAutoDimTime</key>
<integer>30</integer>

replace 30 with the number of seconds before the screen dims. -1 means never.

Then turn the phone off and on again (restarting SpringBoard doesn't work).

EDIT: If I'm not mistaken, this might work on a non-jailbroken iPhone, too. Using iPhonebrowser on a Windows computer, you could get access to the file (it would be at Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist).

Alternatively, install Erica Utilities (from Cydia) and in a terminal issue the command

sb -i 30 SBAutoDimTime

and reboot the phone.

[CaptainChaos]

Thanks a lot Jim!