Yet Another, Must Have App / Tweek for Your Jailbroken iPhone

Update (23/02/2010 15:00 + 8 UTC) - ScreenDimmer is now available via Rock your Phone.

ScreenDimmer in the iPhone's Preference AppScreenDimmer version 1.0 is available on Cydia (soon to be on Rock). It only costs US$0.99 but it's worth every one of those 99 cents.

You can choose how long ScreenDimmer takes to dim the screen after the it was last touched; if the iPhone's back-light should be left lit or turned off, and what Apps Screen Dimmer is to excluded from being dimmed.

ScreenDimmers Main Preferences PageThe main benefit of ScreenDimmer is that it allows you to increase you iPhone's Locking time-out to something more manageable, or even turn it off all together, and still save battery life by having the screen dim after a short period of time.

When ScreenDimmer activates it instantly reduces the screen brightness to its lowest possible value. It can also, optionally, turn off the screen's back-light at the same time. To bring the screen back to life all you have to do is tap the screen.

ScreenDImmer's Excluded Apps Preferences PageScreenDimmer is accessed via the iPhone's standard Preference App. From its preference page you can turn it on or off with the Enable switch; Set if it will turn off the back-light, via the Turn off Backlight switch; Set the time that it waits before activating, using Dim screen after drop-down control; and select which Apps it is to ignore, through the Excluded App page. 

I have been using Screen Dimmer through its beta period and have grown to rely on it so much I bought a copy as soon as it hit Cydia.

So what are you waiting for? This is one App / Tweak that is sure to save you frustration and battery life. And you can rely it to do this, that's a fact (Vroom, Vroom!).

Safe Surfing!