Trying to turn "auto lock" to "never", but it's not saving...

[Arkapigdiesel]

....my changes. Why? I'm also trying to turn my auto-dim to 10 seconds and it's not saving that either? I've tried restarting the springboard after making the changes and also tried rebooting, but it's still not saving the changes? I'm confused.

[psylichon]

Jailbroken? I'll bet your user directory permissions are messed up. If so, use SBsettings or Bossprefs, go to extras, and "fix user directory permissions"

Other than that, I don't know what to tell you other than restore.

[Picazzo]

Sometimes jailbreak goes wrong - you're touching the iPhone's heart (the firmware) and open up some features and mess up some others. That's why the JB iPhone has lag, freezing, crashes etc...

I would check all the "jailbreaked utilities apps" to see if some of them are doing something wrong, otherwise I'll go for an restore + re-jailbreak.

[ihack]

if your using supreme prefs or something like that. It will not let you use that combo with never lock. I have tried forever.

[Arkapigdiesel]

if your using supreme prefs or something like that. It will not let you use that combo with never lock. I have tried forever.
Glad to hear you say that. Reason being, I messed around with it some more yesterday and realized that I could do one but not the other one at the same time.

I figured something might have been amiss with my phone, so I restored and JB it again. I installed the extended pref package to allow the option of the auto dim feature, and the same thing happened.

It's an either/or with those two options. You can only use the auto dim feature or edit the auto lock feature, but not both. That's kind of weird, but that's the way it is. No big deal really. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

[ihack]

Np. I went trough that process. LOL. Just sorry I could not post in time to stop u from restoring. :)

[jacob019]

After much screwing around I was able to disable auto-lock AND use the auto dim feature. I had to edit some files over SSH, make sure openssh, nano, and extended preferences are installed.
1. Connect via ssh (user: root password: alpine)
2. cd /private/var/stash/Themes.8sdQ2e/Extended Preferences.theme/Bundles/com.apple.Preferences
3. plutil -convert xml1 General.plist
4. nano General.plist
5. Add an entry for 5000 seconds (you'll figure this part out easily)
6. plutil -convert binary1 General.plist
7. Use the same procedure to add a language definition to:
/private/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/English.lproj/General.strings
8. respring

Then set the auto-lock timeout to the new 5000 seconds setting, effectively disabling it but not really. Now auto-dim works, hooray!