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[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] aro:
Thanks for this nice piece of software, Niker.

I just installed v0.9 and like it.

Just I could not find my favorite settings, as I do not understand the exact function of some settings.

What can I achieve by increasing or decreasing the option "Backlight change"?

What does the "Tolerance threshold" do? (what is your recommneded setting for it?)

When would I want to "force BL=0"? Please note, my sensor never falls below 7.

Do I want "min lumens" at 0, eben though my sensor never goes that low, or is it recommended to set min sensor lumen to 10 or even higher?

I have no sunlight these days unfortunately, only clawdy and rainy, so I can not get the Wizard to set my sensor maximum. What would you recommend? I manually set 600, but ask myself if by changing I could get better results.

Thanks in advance for your help.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
If you want to tweak a lot and extra descriptions of the settings, look for settings.txt file in Lumos directory, it's a heaven ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tranquillo:
thanx for this, very good app!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sgbmad:
Great software nik3r :D

Somebody with Touch HD share his configuration?

Regards.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Lumos v09b

Lumos v09b has been released

- this hotfix should finally resolve the "Lumos not working after soft-reset" problem by doublechecking for the HTC Sensor bug and postponing Lumos startup by up to 30s if the device is not yet properly initialized.

- only change compared to v09 is improved code in LumosStarter.exe

- You don't need this update unless Lumos don't work for you automatically after a soft-reset
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] fred1976:
HTC touch HD

Hello,

I would also be interested with optimal configuration parameters for touch HD.

I already played quite a bit with it, but strangely enough, it usually takes 5 to 10 SECONDS for it to change!

I set the polling interval to 100 ms and backlight change also to 100 ms, but still the same big delay...

Is it normal? Is it a bug?

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Takes 3 seconds top to change backlight for me with default settings. Maybe you use too weak light to test it or have enabled tolerance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] hlpbob007:
I have quite the same problem.

I use Touch HD with lumos, and my problem is that when im on the street (direct or indirect sunlight) I cannot see anything, because lumos takes the backlight to 1, I choose to update 100ms it stays down.

I run lumos setup, where i see in the titlebar that my sensor jumping between 0 and 930 and does it all the time...

I thought that my sensor wrong, but not. When i push the htc autobacklight change ON (therefore lumos is disabled, or I run lumos.exe and disabled there) the autobacklight sets the correct value in direct and indirect sunlight. I also checked with G light, in there my sensor's value is constant 700-900 (unfortunatelly i cannot check what the htc autochange see on my sensor, no value written.)

I switched back to lumos, because its much better than the autochange or glight, and i live with my problems :) The only way to hack this problem is that my lowest backlight value is 4 or 5 its cool in sunlight, but when its dark not so much :)))

If you have any idea whats wrong? or do you have more settings please let me/us know.

Thank you very much.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
pehraps with all the effort to read the sensor quickly, you read it way too fast ;)

Try delete settings.txt and just redo the calibration without setting anything. If that doesn't help, send me your new settings.txt in PM after the calibration and I'll take a look ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] clmbngbkng:
I've thought about installing this program on my Fuze but I have one question, is there any way this could hurt your backlight?

My friend installed it on his Fuze and the bottom backlight started flickering and continued to flicker after he did a hard reset BUT the catch is that his girlfriend also dropped his phone a week earlier and this could have been because of the drop. Any input would be great! I'd love to check it out but I'm just a tad hesitant.

Oh and as a side note my friend's Fuze is working 100% now, he's just a noob.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tyguy:
@clmbngbkng

I run Lumos since early versions, no harm done. Should I drop my phone now, too?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] clmbngbkng:
hehe My advice to you is not to let your girlfriend even touch your phone. :p

Ok so you've used it for a while and everything is great? I've read this whole thread and its pretty clear that it is a problem with his phone.

Thanks tyguy!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] shad0w77:
CPU Usage

I am getting about 2.35% CPU usage (drops to zero for .5 secs then goes back up to an average of 2.35) when sensor is covered and backlight is dimmed to minimal level. Here are my Lumos 09b settings..

Use on AC: false

Min applicable backlight: 4

Max applicable backlight: 9

Sensor Min: 0

Sensor Max: 600

Sensor polling: 1250

Backlight change: 2500 (second tick on slider)

Tol Thresh: 0

Force BL=0 below: 0

Force BL=1 below: 0

Exc. ignore inactive windows: true

Is there something in my settings making it hit 2.35% CPU instead of the .02% you mention in the product description?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] DeepThought:
What taskmanager/processmonitor did you use for your readings?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] X3n0n:
Hi !

I installed Lumos sucessfuly, just a little question :

I have set minimum light at 3, max to 10.

minimum sensor : 0

maximum 820.

Interval to 1250ms for bots sensor and light adjustement.

When i'm beside a light (eg in my kitchen, or living room, so there is light, but not to much in evening), how can i make lumos increase light level from 3 to 4 ?

I tested, i have 90-100 lumens, but lumos doesn't move to level 4.

Any ideas ? :)

Sorry for my bad english :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You can fool Lumos into doing this by increasing the sensor minimum.

Look how many lumens sensor reads in LumosWizard when you want it to change to lvl 4, if it's 90-100, I would set the minimum to 80 and you should get the behaviour you want ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] X3n0n:
Thanks i'll try this :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] shad0w77:
I used FdcSoft Task Manager 3.1... On a Sprint Touch Pro.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Looks like it's a bug in your version of the task manager, it measures CPU load in wrong interval and not per 1 second.

I found MemMaid to be most accurate, I even DLed the latest version of Task Manager and it actually shows values even lower than MemMaid (even regularly 0% CPU which is quite impossible to achieve since the polling interval is not exactly 1 second), so I wouldn't trust that app when it comes to precise measurement of CPU usage, otherwise it's cool though.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] michael_r:
I am not sure I understand the logic of the existing auto-backlight. It is not disabled, even thought I did install lumos, and it seems to be working. I can still check settings-power-backlight auto-backlight checkbox on an off, and I can still use manual sliders if the checkbox is not checked. Can you please elaborate on what the state of the existing backlight controls should be?

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Of course, if you enable the built-in auto backlight in Power options, it will override Lumos (not completely disable but Lumos won't work at all).

If you disable it, Lumos actually moves the manual sliders for you.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] SilverJester:
So lumos will actually run more efficiently (faster/less memory) than the default htc backlight app? Or is it more efficient than other aftermarket backlight apps?

I don't think I really need any of the additional features, but if it frees up some memory and makes the phone run that much smoother then I'll be happy :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Just try it and you'll see if you like it. You can always just uninstall and get the former behaviour risk free ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] AttilaNico:
Great, it works flawlessly on my HTC Diamond, thanks a lot...!!!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] _Fly_:
nick3r

tell me to my HD I install the version 0.9 or 0.9b?

Look I have an idea and give themselves the option to lock the device when the light is zero and thus turn off the unit when it was automatically locked and if you receive a call he remained blocked, only when reached certain number of lumens it was defined by the unlocked or pressing a button. What do you think
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Noonski:
Great Little App.

Really like having more control over back light.

(Even more that it will take me a few days to find me the perfect settings)

Your Teaching HTC a Lesson here ;)

Great Job
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Thanks :)

Sorry for the delays for v10RC1, I am nearing school exams and need to finish some projects before I get back to this. Actually the longer you have to wait the cooler new features I can think of in the meantime :D

If you have any suggestions before I actually start working on the wannabe final version, say it now. Planned features are regularly updated in the changes list (2nd post).
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] xboxhaxorz:
do you have a changelog? since i was using v09 without any problems
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
I cant wait to install the final. This does apply to the keyboard light too?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Well you can only change the delay after which the keyboard light switches off, not its intensity AFAIK. You can set it with a registry tweak and since it's light related I might as well add this to settings tab, nice suggestion ;)

The changelog is in this thread, post #2.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] shad0w77:
I was thinking... Is it possible to put some accelerometer support in? Nothing crazy though. I would like to see my backlight come off the dim state when I lift my phone. At that point Lumos can check the sensor levels and brighten the phone to the proper level.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Nope, sorry, this would break the power management as I would have to poll for the G sensor even when the backlight is dimmed, that means bye bye 0% CPU usage while idle and shorter battery life ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] shad0w77:
No prob. The power management is why LUMOS is so great. Thanks for the quick reply...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Awesome you are the man. If this works as described I bet this is one of the most installed apps for the pro! I'll be donating on this one for sure

Well even though I have yet to install this app I have faith in your work considering all the praise you have received so I made a small donation to your hot coco fund. Enjoy and keep up the great work. I am looking forward to installing this once you have it complete. Which will be? lol

Paypal transaction id 2D1510101P918512S
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Thanks, I hope you won't be disappointed ;)

I have updated the donator ThanksList in first post, hopefully I didn't forget anyone :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] xboxhaxorz:
That has the changes, but i was looking for a version to version changelog

ie;

v09b fixed bug etc;

included etc;

v09

etc;

If you dont have that its fine, i just enjoy looking at the changes for each version
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] darfri:
Well, both applications are nice work but truth is actually quite sad - the hardware sensor is not sensitive enough at low light differences so there might be nice style differences with these apps compared to ROM-s soft. And exclusive use of the lowest backlight level is nice... but try using any app that reports the number of light sensor and you'll see that it wont change at low light differences
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] buddy lee:
Since you seem to to know alot about the back light i have a question. Is there any way to keep the back light on? I would like to set it at a very low setting and use it for a bedside clock.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
you can do that by forcing power requirement I think it's setPowerRequirement invoke, try google it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kuwait:
Good program. Works well. However I would like to have in the settings the following set up table:

Brightens 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sensor (Lumens) 0 0 10 30 70 150 250 400 550 700

instead of only "minimum/maximum application back light" and "sensor minimum/maximum (lumens)"

Sensor is giving non linear indications. Human eye light perception is also non linear. So this set up will better fit to the consumer needs.

Presently sensor is giving 0 to 100 lumens for wide range of light change but brightens is not changing.

Note that all settings left form the first ZERO (0) should be ignored if somebody put there by mistake values different than ZERO (0) lumens.

Thank developers in advance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
This feature is already planned for the next version.. after my exams ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] banjax:
[cut]... found my mistake and previous post proven an error of different sort ... [/cut]
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] thx1200:
I, too, would love this feature. Either a table, like above, or possibly a logarithmic equation instead of the linear equation. Table might be best because it would be lowest CPU (and that is obviously a major priority for the author).
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ronjr1973:
What is the difference between LumosSetupV09.CAB (154.1 KB, 1582 views) and LumosSetupV09b.CAB (154.1 KB, 2180 views)? Also which one do I install for my Fuze or does it matter. Thanks ahead of time...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
If you researched a bit before asking, you would find out that both versions are the same, the only difference is that 09b has fixed automatic startup bug that MAY occur on some configurations.

So if I was you, I'd use the last version 09b just in case to be sure Lumos always starts properly after softreset, I left the older version for a reference ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sgbmad:
Hi nik3r,

Thanks for your software.

I'm looking for a setting that set the backlight to minimum value when light sensor is below than X, but always to maximum backlight when light sensor is over than X. (X=10 for example). How can I do it?

Regards.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Just use "Force BL=0 below" in settings.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sgbmad:
Thanks nik3r.

Then I set:

Force BL=0 below (lumens) -> 10

But how can I force BL to 1 over 10 lumens?

Regards.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Srem:
very nice app for my diamond, thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You can do something like this

Force BL=0 below => 10

Force BL=1 below => 100

this is like nonlinear

sensor 0-10 will set minimum backlight

sensor 10-100 will set minimum backlight + 1

sensor 100-max will set like linear standard between min and max backlight

experiment a bit, you can only gain ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sgbmad:
Thank you very much nik3r. ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] mexiken:
nik3r,

I tried using your Lumos app. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. It says that I need a newer version of .net CF.

However, I conferred with Da_G (the creator of the ROM's I use) and he assures me that 3.5 has been in his ROM since 1.0 (Im running 2.07) So I don't know why its not working. Can you offer any suggestions ????
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tyguy:
Install netCF 2.0 - I had the same problem.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You may have two versions of .NET CF on your device at once and Windows is unsure which one to use. Try to use the simple tool in attachment to select version 3.5.x as default, tap apply and softreset your device, it should work :)

You can uninstall the tool once you get it working.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kuwait:
Is this mean that on 101 brightness will return to min?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
101 brightness will return to linear measurement and that is measured from sensor_minimum, so no, it will resume on 101 linear and that's like backlight 2 or 3 depending on your max sensor settings or min_backlight overrides this if it would be too low. You can say that setting 10 and 100 will certainly resume at whatever your min_backlight is if you set it 3 or more.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rlblue:
I used this before, but never commented. . recently flashed my phone and forgot to put it back on. Man. . I love this program, so thanks a lot!! The non-linear version should be very very cool, but if it never advanced from where it is now, I wouldn't be upset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Colin_ger:
Hi.

First of all thank you for your app. I've been testing it and it works quite well.

However the backlight rises to fast for me when I hit some light.

So I came up with an alternative backlight equation. I used an quadratic approch. I hope you can implement it.

brightness:= minVal+(medium/(maxi-mini))²*(maxVal-minVal);

minVal and maxVal are chosen by the user, maxi and mini are sensor values. I plotted the curve and I think it looks usefull

Edit: I made a root-equation as well for those who like it the other way (brightness rising earlier).

brightness2:=minVal+sqrt(medium/(maxi-mini))*(maxVal-minVal)

I added two plots to show the curves.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
cool stuff, I'll consider adding these ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kuwait:
Very well Colin_ger. This seems useful.

But I still prefer to have a table: brightens/sensor value. There are only 10 levels. Hence table will be 10x2 cells. And every body can make his own curve. You may calculate the values using your formula and fill-up the table.

Of course the programmer nik3r has the right to chose.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I chose both actually, you'll see just give me some time to finish the exams ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] consultant1027:
I'm a power WM user. Have to admit, even though I'm a tinkerer, life is busy, and I have less time to fuss with the phone. I'll install some "MUST HAVE" apps (already upgraded to NATF's 4.1 ROM). This apps sounds nice. But realistically, has anyone tried to measure how much improvement it gives for your average battery life under typical usage? Or is the functionality itself so useful, it doesn't really matter if it makes a difference on battery life? But then I thought that is sort of the point of the whole application. I just got the phone. Does the stock Auto Backlight work that terrible from a readability standpoint (forget battery life.)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
In fact it improves battery a lot if you want it to... of course you are trading backlight brightness for a couple of hours or days of battery life, really depends on the usage and how dark display can you read.

I can last whole week on single charge but the backlight is always the darkest I can read at any given moment (I fine tuned Lumos that way).

If you're not comfortable with darker display, you won't save much this way but you don't need to care about visibility in bright light and such. The main point is this actually saves battery or have no effect in the worst case contrary to the built-in control which was causing serious drain in my experience.

The best way for you would be to try extensively and decide for yourself :rolleyes:
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tyguy:
I concur with nik3r. The right setup assumed will buy you a lot of battery time.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] DeepThought:
And for me an additional plus over the build-in htc solution is the fact, that Lumos lets you choose between brightness levels 1-10 whereas htc only let you choose between level 3-10. Which is not ideal if you f.e. like to read in an absolute dark room.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] :
Is it me or does Lumos fade too quick ? If I'm reading a long page in opera , I have to turn the back light on all the time. I could be totally wrong but is having the light constantly going off and on every 1000ms worse for the battery life? I guess I could learn to speed read. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] DeepThought:
Lumos does only control the backlight level, not how quick it is turned off. I think the setting you are looking for is under settings --> Tab: "System" --> Power --> Tab: "Advanced" --> "Turn off backlight if device is not used for".

This is by default set to 30 secs. I've set it to 1 min which is fine for me.

HTH

DeepThought
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] :
Ha! So it is. Thanks! I feel stupid. But in my defense I did install lumos the same day I got my TP. I unchecked disable back light control and haven't been back in there since. Sorry.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rolleron:
Gracias por el aporte

Thanks for all :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] indiearmy:
I keep on getting the following error, even with .net 3.5 installed, and reinstalled even.

any help?

Nevermind, everything works fine after device reset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] iTouch24:
this is annoying that it constantly changes the screen brightness when u are looking at screen... is there a way for it to just check it when u turn device on and stay that brightness... if u need to readjust just hit power button on and off... keeps making my eyes go in and out of focus... thats the main reason i disabled the default phone auto brightness indicator

if not then i am back trying to find a phone profile manager that works with

tf3d ... not the today screen for screen brightness
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Use tolerance 1, that is designed specifically to prevent random changes unless it's absolutely necessary. Also your maximum sensor value should not be lower than 700 in most cases, this can cause the same annoying effect.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] telegraph0000:
Speaking of settings...would someone be so kind as to share what would be considered ideal settings? It seems that my settings make the backlight go too dim inside car, and that it takes longer than desired to adjust its light levels. Thanks in advance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] MetalG:
whats the difference between 09.cab and 09b.cab?

/edit/ how to install that NET3.5 thing ? my diamond says that i don't have an application to install that MSI package
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] temperamentalman:
Backlight cuts off when using the phone?

I may have overlooked this but does the backlight automatically cut off when making/receiving a call and it's placed to your ear?

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] crookdbill:
Button Backlight Issues

It seems that the backlight for the buttons portion of the phone remains on often when I put the phone in standby mode. I have to wake it up push home or wait for the backlight for the buttons to turn off before i resume standby. It can be a real battery drain as the light remains on the whole time in my pocket if I don't catch it. Any fix?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] xdaBlast:
Thank you for this great program!!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Sorry this has to be problem specific for your ROM, when I slide out the keyboard and press standby it always shuts off all light including the sensor.

You can try to look into Input section of advanced config.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] pinny:
Hi, this program is great.

I would like to suggest something to you, I came from Palm, and on A Palm you can always manually control the brightness without having to go in to Settings/system/Power/Backlight, you need to implement this into your program as well, so let's say now the screen is too bright, with your program what can I do?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kraminc:
Im having the same issue. Running a sprint Pro with a custom ROM.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] shad0w77:
I don't think they mean the backlight on the keyboard, they mean the backlight on the front panel buttons (home, back, pickup call, and end call). This happens to me too. Sprint touch pro, stock rom