Restart Springboard without locking screen?

Question

Is there any way to restart the Springboard programmatically, but prevent the iPhone from turning on its screen lock following this?

Have tried switching off the screen lock in Settings, but it'll still kick in after a Springboard restart.

(The phone is jailbroken.)

Answer 1

As of iPhone OS 3.x, You can bypass the lock screen with notify_post("com.apple.language.changed").

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This method no longer work in iOS 5.x because the system now checks whether the language is actually changed before respringing.

However, you could do the following to achieve the same effect:

1. Set the preference SBLanguageRestart of com.apple.springboard to true (using CFPreferencesSetAppValue and CFPreferencesAppSynchronize, for instance, or directly changing /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist)
2. Kill SpringBoard.