[be0wulfe]

Stock ROM, HTC Home, HTC Home Customizer (PocketEMU), VistaCube, GoogleMaps (pointless w/o GPS support), TranCreative Magic Button, Vista Cube+black graphics pack, Wizard reTOUCHed dialer, CommManager 10key fix by chnht & spb Backup.

After some fiddling I've discovered the problem has to do with the backlight off timer settings. Something is forcing the screen to dim to the lowest setting, but not off, and it's not resetting when a button is pushed, etc. - and somehow disabling the brightness slider entirely. The workaround is to turn off the timers entirely.

I still want to know how to use the timer AND not get stuck at the dimmest setting ...