thanks, mate... one question - I think it would be nice to have similar app, but for switching amongst 2g/Dual/3g... it could really help the battery to last longer, especially while that notorius Skype logged in consumption bug is not solved... You could make that kind of app out of this one very easily, am I right?

http://n9-apps.com/uptimer

Its an app that shows the uptime for your phone, but it also have two buttons/shortcuts:
1) flightmode on/off
2) powersave on/off

works like a charm! Tho' its just as fast going to settings... but powersave goes faster. (I know it's not what you asked for ) but the code for flight mode shortcut is inside this app

thanks - nice app... but I'd really like to have 2g/dual/3g switcher button on the homescreen... we already got bt on/off homescreen button, powersave mode on/off too, and now cellular network on/off - it's time for this one...

i need this badly. anyone willing to help

I modified the application.. now it works with the native Flight mode!

Here the project page https://projects.developer.nokia.com/flightmode
and direct link to deb flightmode_0.0.2_armel.deb


I also made a 2G/3G switcher: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/2g3g
and deb 2g3g_0.0.1_armel.deb

Very interesting. Even Nokia clearly stated this function is not available to 3th party applications, you say you got it working. Does it need Open Kernel?
Would you be willing to share how you did this?
I am desperately looking for this function for my SleepAnalyser. Also ProfileMatic still misses this feature.

Can you make a portrait lock button? Now I use "glol p" in terminal, but a toggle button would be much nicer and easier. Toggle Between portrait and auto rotate plz, don't use landscape often..

thanks so much. been needing this

thanks, mate... ok, a bit pushy from me, but... I'd really like to have dual option too, so that 2g could be set up if I want to preserve my battery life, and Dual in normal use... if "only 3g" is set up then there is a risk to be offline in case there is a network 3g "black spot" in some area... so [only 2g] and [dual] or [only 2g] and [dual] and [only 3g]... I'm sure that many would appreciate this...

EDIT: sorry, mate - I've just seen Your tip how to achieve what I wanted... thanks, again...

I have looked at some of these programs, that seem to be able to use these forbidden API features (like Power Saving Mode, Flight Mode) etc.

I have a hunch how they got it to work, but I have not had the time to do the research properly and test to make sure. However, here's my best guess on it:

It seems these applications use or abuse the privileges of applauncher daemon, which is used to start Harmattan applications (when you use /usr/bin/invoker). So apparently applauncher daemon can get those restricted privileges, and by extension also applications launched by it. But for this to work you need to ask the privileges for both the applauncher daaemon and your application.

Here's an example:

This is pure guessing based, if you want to try it let me know if it worked. I'm not sure if I can use this approach for ProfileMatic because ProfileMatic is running in background. But I will test when I get some time.