One Quickie

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Turning off screen dimming / locking (Hacks->General)

iDevices after a period of no user interaction will dim the screen and eventually lock it. If you have a hands-free app, or one that's primarily passive, this is unuseful behavior.

The UIApplication itemTimerDisabled controls whether the screen should dim. Disable it by enabling it:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled: YES];

or equivalently

[UIApplication sharedApplication].idleTimerDisabled = YES;

Unfortunately, this is not a reliable operation. Sometimes twiddling a UI control or playing music will let the screen dim and lock up. What I ended up doing is toggling the value in a timer:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled: NO];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled: YES];