Comments on: Light v3

By: marianmi

marianmi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:57:22 +0000

You are actually right. com.apple.springboard.plist is unreadable.
I change the file attributes to 777 then run an app that tried to read the file, see what happened:

miPhone:/var/mobile/Library/Preferences root# ls -lah com.apple.springboard.plist
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mobile mobile 2.6K Oct 15 23:47 com.apple.springboard.plist
miPhone:/var/mobile/Library/Preferences root# ls -lah com.apple.springboard.plist
-rw——- 1 mobile mobile 2.6K Oct 15 23:48 com.apple.springboard.plist

The permissions were restored when trying to read it… One workaround probably is to copy the file then read the backlight from the copy …

By: marianmi

marianmi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:46:29 +0000

I’m not sure that is the (only) problem. I just tried setting the brightness level in the unload or terminate method to a fixed value and it did not work. Just try setting to 1 and then to 0.25 in the exit function, see if it works.

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:20:05 +0000

Unfortunately, Apple no longer allows read access to the data so Light cannot find out what the current light level is before brightening. Still looking for a work-around

By: marianmi

marianmi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:25:33 +0000

Hi Erica,
Under 3.0.1 (3GS) the backlight level is not restored — I tried and compiled myself a simple app that sets the GSEventSetBacklightLevel(float) when the applications exists, but no luck.
Any thoughts on that?

By: turkey

turkey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:45:17 +0000

“To use, you must be a dev and need to sign the app.”

Is this why some of the utilities included in the “Erica’s Utilities” package crash with a “bus error”? I am really missing Findme on my 3GS…

Thanks for providing these utilities!