[Nexus 7 General] demandarin:
I just entered the commands manually. I watched a YouTube video then went to homescreen. No wash out look. Normally, I only set my brightness to 5%. Bright enough for me. After entering in the disable command, screen does seem to have brightened up somewhat and things look more clear. Only thing I'm trying to make sure of if this is just placebo effect or not..lol. you know how some things give you that effect. Since my custom kernel(Motley) has init.d support, I will likely flash the zip. Then confirm its running the script by looking at txt. File in root explorer. If i want to stop it, all I have to do is delete THST script in init.d folder, correct?

What is the best way to test to see if this is really workiing or not? It does seem to make my display pop more. Seems like I can lower brightness even lower than 5% and still be good for indoor use.

I believe it works though. If hamdir & mettalice noticing the difference, then we should be. Good. I wonder if anyone has relayed this script in prime forum. I know they'd love to try it out/use it.

Update: I flashed the zip file. Once booted, I used root explorer to check file path then file and it was still enabled, which is "1". I know I have init.d support as my zram enables on boot. I ran that zip through Smanager. Gave it SU permissions then ran it. Checked the file and it changed to "0", which means disabled. So i pit it to run on boot also through smanager. I went on and redid zram through smanager also. Just to be sure they are running. When I run them through smanager, zram activates and the dimmers disables. I believe my zram was working previously with init.d because I could reboot. Then use terminal. Type free and I would see swap sizes. Meaning zram working. Not sure why this zip file isn't working through init.d support. Only thing I can think of is when I look at my zram file and smartdimmer file that flashed, my zram looks like a txt file. The smartdimmer disable file looks like some other format. I can see this in Smanager. In root explorer they both look the same. What I'm saying is in Smanager, the icons for each look different. My zram(in my init.d folder) looks like a txt. Icon. The dimmer disable icon looks like a file icon or something. That's the only thing I can think of of why it didn't enable through init.d. luckily I could still run that file in smanager and it worked.

If anyone has any insight to why it didn't enable through init.d, let me know.

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The script does work. You can use root explorer to follow file path to file and look at its txt and see it disabled "0". I'm not sure if its working through init.d though. Best bet is to flash zip file. Then use smanager. Go to /system/etc/init.d. find the smartdimmer file. Click on it. Press run file/executable. Then press SU &Boot icon. Then press run. It will run and you will see it say smanager has been given root permissions. Then press back and save the script.

Then you can follow file path of script. Press enable. Then press txt file. Then you will see it say 0. That means it ran correctly and smartdimmer is disabled. Now on reboot, smanager will automatically run the script. If you ever feel like disabling it, just open smanager. Press menu.(3 dots). Then press list. Click on your saved script. Then press delete/reset configuration and its gone.