FYI: Energy Dimmer for iQue now available

[Stymyx]

Energy Dimmer v2.5a from 79bmedia (http://www.79bmedia.com/dimmer/) now supports the iQue. This is a great program that lets you set up dimmer setting “profiles” and to quickly change between these profiles using the standard Brightness setting button on the iQue. You can select an auto-off setting from 1 second up to 34,463 seconds (that over 573 minutes!). You can ALSO specify a separate brightness setting that kicks in automatically after a specified period of inactivity. For example, I have a profile where my initial brightness setting is set to 25% (the actual percentage is displayed, which is very convenient), and my auto-off timeout is 2 minutes, but if I don’t touch the screen or press a button after 30 seconds, the screen dims automatically to a brightness setting of 0% (full backlight off), yet the unit will remain on for the next minute and a half. Then if I tap the screen or press a button before the 2-minute auto-off timeout, the screen backlight returns to the 25% brightness setting.

I actually have two profiles set up on my iQue, both with the 30 second timeout to 0% brightness setting. One profile I’ve named “Car” with a 100% initial brightness setting, the other named “Home”, with a 25% initial brightness setting. Since Energy Dimmer replaces the standard Brightness slider on the iQue, you can very easily select the profile to use by tapping on the standard Brightness button, then selecting the appropriate profile from a dropdown menu.

I was fortunate enough to be a beta tester for this version. When I wrote them about a possible upgraded version for the iQue (I previously used it on my old Clie), I was offered the chance to beta test a new version. Apparently I was one of the first to ask for an iQue-compatible version. No, I’m not getting paid to write this, but I thought lots of us iQue users could benefit from this utility.

I think there’s a valuable lesson for all us iQue users here: If a program you like isn’t 100% compatible with the iQue, don’t hesitate to ask if it ever will be! You just might be surprised!

[funbob]

This program works great. Exactly what I was looking for. The ability to have multiple profiles is a really nice feature.

And you're 100% correct about contacting developers about adding iQue support to their programs. We can't expect them to do anything if we don't communicate with them. I've had very productive dialogs with the devloper of PocketSat+ and the folks at Mapopolis about future iQue support in their programs.

[rick417]

Before I install the trial version, anyone have any recommendations about using Energy Dimmer with Always On? Should I remove Always On first? Thanks for any advice.

[funbob]

You're fine. Alwayson can stay. That's what i was using before this. No problems at all and it's nice having it there because I can still use it to totally didable the auto off If I need to.

[rick417]

Thanks for the quick response...I am anxious to try this program out.

Off topic a bit: This is a great community. This morning I had my first hard reset when I connected to the Auto Nav Kit and was wishing I had access to this forum to help. Thanks to my reading about Backup Buddy here, I was prepared, except I wasn't sure how to get my backup from the card. I finally just had to set it aside so I could think about it for a bit then remembered one of the options from the main categories (you know all, main, utilities, system, etc.) was the SD card...so I picked up my Q, went to the SD card and there was the icon for Backup Buddy...2 minutes later I was back to normal.

So...thanks all for helping me be prepared for this crisis and giving me enough knowledge to figure something out while away from the "nest" so to speak. :)