From the "I just started but one day it'll be an instruction manual" for Flip:

Insomniac Mode

Flipclock has a special display mode called "Insomniac" designed for times when you want to have the clock running for long periods of time in a darker location, such as on your bedside table at night. This mode is only relavent to NIT platforms. In this mode the default brightness and dimming system settings are ignored, and the brightness controls of the screen are instead controlled by Flip directly.

When Insomniac mode is disabled no changes to default brightness or timeout settings are made. When it is enabled the following occurs:

• The tablet device will remain at the normal, system defined brightness level for the "brightness time" that you've defined on the system itself.
  
• Once that "brightness time" runs out, instead of changing to the default "dim" state of the OS, Flip causes the display to drop to the "Insomniac level" defined on the settings screen. This level is much more precise and flexible than the one provided by the OS, giving you a possible range of 3 (lowest possible brightness) to 255 (maximum brightness). By default this level is set to 3.
  
• The screen will remain at "Insomniac level" until one of the following occurs:
  • You interact with the device by pressing the screen or one of the hardware buttons
    
  • An alarm event occurs
• While at "Insomniac level" brightness, any interaction with the screen or device will cause a return to "Normal" brightness level. The event will not be interpretted by the Flip in any way. This means while at "Insomniac level" you can press any button or touch anywhere on the screen to return to "Normal" brightness without accidentally hitting a button or causing an unexpected action to occur; that is, in Insomniac mode, you can only interact with Flip while at "Normal" brightness.
  
• If an alarm event occurs while at "Insomniac level" brightness, the screen's brightness will gradually increase back to "Normal" level (same time frame as the alarm sound fade in).
  
• If an alarm event is running and the user selects "Snooze", the device will return to "Insomniac level" brightness as soon as the alarm display has been reset to the normal clock screen.
  

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Also qole, I tried running Flip on my Fremantle SDK and everything seems to work just fine, I couldn't get the theme change to crash or fail... can you try running it from X-term for me and post up or PM me the shell output for the last few lines before it dies so I can try to see what's going on? Also, apart from that, do the alarms and things actually work??

Thanks!