Exhibition mode-esque feature?

[friskies64]

I just got a speaker dock for my iPhone a couple days ago. I was wondering if there was some jailbreak tweak to add something like exhibition mode on webOS devices. I liked having my agenda displayed on my Pre 2 on the charger automatically to see it when I woke up. It would be nice to have a similar feature for iPhones that are docked. Does this exist yet?

 

[sherlock]

Not sure what "exhibition mode" is. Can you explain it?

 

[friskies64]

Not sure what "exhibition mode" is. Can you explain it?

When a webOS 2+ device is put on a Touchsotne wireless charger, exhibition mode turns on. It allows certain things to be shown on the screen while charging such as a large clock, agenda, photo slideshow, etc. webOS Exhibition Mode Hands-on Preview

 

[Superjudge]

I don't know of any exhibition type mode for iOS. There is a app called Dock made by Inglorious Apps which might sound familiar to you if you were a webOS fan. The iOS app is coded using Enyo. You have to launch the app when you put the phone on a dock so it doesn't automatically go int e Hinton mode. I don't see that it has anything that will display your calendar though.

I just sent the developer a question about whether an update might come that would show your calendar.

 

[friskies64]

Can an iPhone detect whether it is in a dock or plugged into a regular charger?

 

[Superjudge]

Can an iPhone detect whether it is in a dock or plugged into a regular charger?

Yes because of the 30 pin connector allows communication between peripherals and the iPhone. That's why you can plug your iPhone into a dock and play music through external speakers or play a video on another device via the hdmi adapter. I have a dock alarm clock that plays my alarm through speakers and allows me to control radio via the iPhone. That functionality doesn't exist with just a charger.

 

[friskies64]

Yes because of the 30 pin connector allows communication between peripherals and the iPhone. That's why you can plug your iPhone into a dock and play music through external speakers or play a video on another device via the hdmi adapter. I have a dock alarm clock that plays my alarm through speakers and allows me to control radio via the iPhone. That functionality doesn't exist with just a charger.

So theoretically someone who understands all of the iOS programming jazz (obviously not me ) could write a jailbreak tweak to enable something similar to this functionality when an iPhone is docked? This is one thing I really miss from webOS (another being just type). I know it probably won't be quite as elegant, but the functionality would be there.