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[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Lumos shouldn't override whatever the application set. Even if Lumos exception says lvl10 and the application says 7, Lumos will change the backlight to 10 once and leave the rest on the app. If you switch to another app, Lumos restores normal operation and if you get back to iGO, it should be changed to 10 again. So if iGO changes backlight periodically, there should be no problem no matter what backlight level you set in exception. Thoeretically, I may be wrong I may look this up for you when I'm back at my dev PC.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Putra:
Hi, first of all I want to say this is a great program. Thanx for sharing it with us Nik3r!

I've gone through all 15 pages (albeit quickly), but I think my settings are still slightly wrong.

I want to have a min back light of 3 (or 4) under normal conditions, but in total darkness, I want the back light to drop to 1.

I know that setting BL=min below (lumens) to 1 should do the trick, but I'm still getting a back light of 3 even when the light sens reads 6.

These are my settings:

Min backlight = 3

Max backlight = 10

sensor min = 10

sensor max = 2046

sensor polling = 1250

Backlight change = 2500ms

Tolerance threshold = 1

BL=min below = 1

mode = root

I already unchecked auto adjust backlight in power settings. What am I doing wrong?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
This is very wrong, this is not a cap but sensor capability. You say that your sensor never returns anything less than 10 even in total darkness. This should be set to "0" in almost all cases unless your sensor is broken and can't go all the way down to 0.

Unless you really know what tolerance does (discussed earlier several times) you may want to disable this (set 0). Unless you work in areas where bright and dark lighting changes very often and the device tend to constantly cycle between two backlight levels. As if it couldn't decide whether to set backlight 3 or 4. If you set this, the backlight change will be also more noticable (with setting 1 it will always change backlight by 2 or more levels, never fluently by 1 level incerements unless you hit a special condition like "BL min below").

Mind you the threshold didn't cause your problem, it is the sensor minimum that causes it. Next time you have a problem, try to recalibrate Lumos first, it would fix this and set minimum sensor lumens to 0 where it should be.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Putra:
Thanx for the quick reply!

I had calibrated it in the beginning, but after reading some of your replies to others, I thought to increase this to 10. But even in total darkness, my sensor reads 6. Also when I cover it with my fingers. Does this mean my sensor is defective? I thought a little leakage from the phone's screen itself may be causing it to read 6.

Yes, I had thought that the threshold was causing the backlight not to go down to 1. But I had set it to 0 before and it did not change also. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.

I had experimented more after posting my earlier thread. I set the min backlight =1, max=10, sensor min=0, sensor max=2046, threshold=1, BL min below=1.

I also adjusted the mode to custom:

1=0

2= about 7

3= about 20

4= about 80

5= about 120

6= about 200

7= about 409

8= about 818

9= about 1227

10= 2046

With these settings. in total darkness I have backlight=1, and when I move to a brighter area, I get 3. Exactly what I wanted.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I take it you have Touch Pro 2? I am not familiar with the sensitivity of its light sensor but the easiest way is to go to a dark room (toilet with lights off), further cover the sensor with a finger and use whatever min sensor value the LumosWizard reports at this point as sensor minimum.

The sensor has unusually high maximum value (mine on TP1 has less than 1500) and the lowest value may be above 0 for this device or yours may be simply defective. If you know someone else with TP2, please check with him and compare the minimum value and if indeed TP2 sensor never reports "0" I will adjust the calibration in next Lumos version to take this possibility into account.

If you detect the sensor minimum properly, you can use the "BL=1 below" feature without custom mode, just set it to your proper sensor minimum+1.

If sensor minimum is 6, set "BL=1below" to 7 and you will get the desired effect. Of course custom mode works as well ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Putra:
Yes, mine's the TP2 - "forced" to buy it when my faithful 2 yr old Tytn2 developed a few probs. Repairing it would have cost me abt US$ 150... :(

I did test the sensor in a totally dark room and then placed my fingers over it. It still reads 6. I think it's very sensitive. When I place it a few mm from a bulb, it'll read 2046. When I lower it a few cm down, it'll read 800+ and so on...

I love playing around with my gadgets, I'll experiment with your settings and see if it gives the same results. Once again, thanx for this great app - and your quick responses! :) :)

Can anyone with a TP2 report what's the min value for their sensor?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] gyedema:
I installed the program and did exactly what you stated in the FAQ to add TomTom. TomTom only keeps the backlight on, on my TouchDiamond2, when on battery power, so I hoped Lumos would do the trick.

After starting Lumos I switched to the Windows tab, started TT, switched to Lumos and TT was in the running programs list. I added it, and saved.

However, after about 30secs: screen blank... :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] stan23:
Is that a TD2 specific bug? On my Hermes and Raphael i could adjust the settings in Tomtom that it would keep the backlight on on AC and battery.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] gyedema:
I'm pretty sure it is (TD2 specific). I had a TD (the first) and on that, nothing was necessary to keep TT "alive". With or without battery power: screen stayed on. Never used any application like G-light, ScreenOn, Lumos or whatever (tried them all..)

Now, on the TD2, when I remove the phone out of the battery charger in the car with TT still running, screen goes off..
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Lumos won't keep the display alive, it obeys the device power settings. Once the display dims, Lumos gives up all control and hibernate to save battery. Your problem is probably ROM specific, try different ROM or ask your chef for help/fix.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Andre Koster:
Thanks for this great program. It solved my "too bright in total darkness" issue. I've sent a donation your way, totally earned! :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Thank you :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rocjoh:
Increase brightness level for specific apps

I appreciate this great app. I just switched from G-light, and satisfied with its light cpu/mem usage =)

However, there is one feature I miss.

G-light have an option to increase the brightness level as we like for specific applications, not only the fixed level.

Is that possible to add that kind of option?

Anyway thank you very again for the great application =)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You mean like to build a per-application custom backlight mode? I can't imagine any reasonable usage for that kind of micro management >.<
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rocjoh:
I am sorry for the lack of explanation...

That option of G-light works like below;

In case I set "increase brightness level by

3

" for GoogleMaps, and the G-light's blightness-auto-adjust-function sets the screen brightness "2" for general apps, only when the GoogleMaps is forefront, the brightness is chnaged to "5" (+3). I thought it is very good move when we want some additonal brightness for a certain application.

Thank you for your reply =)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
That's interesting feature but I would have to revamp the exception module a bit to implement this. It will have to be done eventually anyways so I add this to my list :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rocjoh:
Thank you very much for your incredibly quick reply! (@-@)

I'm looking forward to the implementation =)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] t0mmyr:
hey nik3r, for the next version would you please exclude the Camera app from being adjusted by lumos by default? i think there are a few apps like youtube and certain video programs that i would like my brightness not to adjust, but the camera is a must by everyone as its already doing all kinds of adjustments to get the best picture anyway
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Actually you can deactivate the "keep backlight" option in camera to save power while using it. I do that and it helps with battery a lot. With "keep backlight" enabled the camera forces full backlight 10 even with Lumos active. If you deactivate the "keep backlight" option in camera and use Lumos, it will obey standard Lumos mode.

That's why adding default camera exception is a waste of CPU time as you can control this in the camera app settings. If it doesn't work for some reason, you can add it, but it always worked for me.

Remember, every exception in the list adds minor stress to the CPU, it can hardly be registered until you hit like 5+ exceptions and we are talking about 0.01%'s but I don't want to force any exceptions onto people for this reason.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] gyedema:
OK; understandable. But there are applications like RunGPS (which I use for running) that have a tiny button "backlight on". If I select that option, the backlight stays on until the battery is empty.

So I was wondering if there was something like that in applications like G-Light, ScreenOn or Lumos. Too bad, in none of the applications something like that is implemented while one should expect it just in these apps..
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Well it's on the todo list, if it's possible it will be in next version.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] gyedema:
Would be superb!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] fbiserver129:
Awsomeness!!

This is hands down what i am looking for! any one who has an htc pro and doesnt download this is a fool! MEGA PROPS!:D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] christiand:
Just tried you're application and it seems to do the trick on my HTC Touch HD. Thank you for all the effort you have put into this program.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] puertoblack2003:
i like this program,but there's a memory leak that i detected from this program.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] fAZernERo:
request: different minimun brightness level when in charging mode

Hi nik3r!

Your app is great and rocks

! :)

I've installed on my Blackstone (ROM Mario Lite June 3) and finally now I solved the too brightness issue when few light or darkness.

I have also really appreciated all fine tuning possibilities in the settings panel with the great feature to set a personal behaviour brightness/lumens response curve. wOw!! ;)

Btw i have one request to include in Your next release (if it would be possible to do):

using the HTC built-in auto-backlight feature and charging battery set automatically the brightness to 7/10. I think that this feature is usefull above all when the device is used in the car during long travels and where ambient light varies continuously.. so my request:

is it possible to insert a different minimum brightness level valid only when device is in charging mode?

Reagards and NiceOne. :)

(fN)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
That feature is already implemented ;)

In Lumos settings disable "Auto-backlight on AC power" and save.

Go to standard windows power settings and change the AC power backlight to 7 or whatever you want.

Once you connect any power cable, Lumos will release control and your custom backlight level will kick in.

EDIT:

Oh I just read it again and I see you're actually talking about minimum backlight... well still if you want it bright and you're on AC power, there's no point in saving battery, right? But there may be a negative effect, the battery charging may take a bit longer.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] fAZernERo:
Really honored to speak with You nik3r!

Thank for your fast reply.

..yes I was speaking about only to have a minimum level above which brightness threshold doesn't go low during charging mode ..however conserving fantastic dynamic behaviour settings versus highest brightness. i.e. 5/10 min 10/10 max only during charging with personal Threshold and BL settings.. (really cool and usefull features.. great MAN!!) :)

Btw THX for Your precious suggestion: I was so excited to have the possibility to set my personal brightness response curve that I havent see the precious "Auto-backlight on AC power" flag! :D

EDIT1

: About the charging time: your consideration is true but i think that a little time increment in order to complete a recharge while using the device is not so noticable.. ;)

NiceOne nik3r :)

(fN)

EDIT 2

: I have noted now a quite strangeness; if i leave the device with LUMOS Wizard opened and doesn't touch nothing ..wonder I'm thinking something or may be replying you here :D:D.. the screen begins to blink on/off every 1 or 2 seconds!! :eek: ..anyway if i save and exit all runs perfect!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] guntcent:
hey can u show me how to configure it on my touch pro 2 man
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] fAZernERo:
Italian Translation

Hi nik3r!

And now - finally!! :D:D -

Italian

Language

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NiceOne :)

(fN)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] XERO_Racer:
got any evidence of the leak?? cuz would be useful to see whats powering down my battery at the same time

ANYWAYS......im running EnergyROM 6.5 and when i set the program to Auto Lock, the 6.5 Lock screen kicks in but the screen is sooo dim that the screen isnt readable outdoors and when i unlock it, it takes like 10 seconds for Lumos to kick in for the backlight to change, i put it to sleep and it does the same thing over and over again :confused: is there a way to fix this?? would be awesome, thnx
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I am running Lumos for about a month without device reboot, it takes 351.62KB of memory and barely measurable <0.05% - 0.10% CPU time.

So again - what leak??

And the WM6.5 autolock is bugged piece of ****, it's not related to Lumos. Try to disable dim on autolock tweak in registry but I don't think that will help. Windows just keep the backlight dim-locked when the software lock is active, and Lumos is hibernated when there's no backlight active... which isn't at the time.

My recommendation? Trash that thing and get S2U2, haven't had single problem with it, battery overhead is reasonable and and it's highly customizable including media support, custom dialer, time based password lock and very nice graphics.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] stan23:
Yeah, that's what I've seen too.

But one or two times, it took about 10%:

I'm using iGO8 and HyperGPS for TMC traffic reception. That and the sunlight cause my device to overheat, so it stops charging.

And, to come back to Lumos, when it heated up pretty much, Lumos reported Zero as light value and and took about 10% CPU.

A softreset cured it :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Never happened to me and never reported, might be incompatibility with some other software you're using or hardware problem. Or it simply may be device's feature to prevent overheating that I am not aware of :p

I've never seen Lumos to take more than 3-6% CPU time, and these were few ms spikes while changing backlight from one level to another. If the heating problem persists, you may want to try another ROM and/or underclock your CPU with nueDynamicClock.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] XERO_Racer:
cheers bro, i had S2U2 before flashing a newer version of EnergyROM and i wanted to give the auto lock a shot, but i guess ure right, it is crap :D thnx again for the info, looking foward for a newer version of ur software
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] emd2009:
I am on a Windows Mobile 6.5.1 Rom Build 23053 built from Calkulin's 9/28 kitchen and lumos does not detect any light at all. When i run the wizard, the senor stays at 0 under bright or dark conditions. I have tried reinstalling it with no luck.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
That may be either ROM issue - in that case you can search for diamond sensor drivers, they should be somewhere around XDA and if you install the pack, you should get all 3rd party software to work. Or in more unliklely case a HW malfunction, but I suppose windows integrated auto-backlight works so that's not the case.

Or just ask your chef to use the proper sensor drivers and sdk.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] emd2009:
Where can I download this drivers pack?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] uli77:
lowest backlight level is still too bright when used in darkness

Hello

is there any way to lower backlight level 1 to (for example) 0.5 ?

When I use my touch HD in complete darkness the display is still too bright!

Thanks best wishes Uli
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
There is no such level :)

You are limited to 1-10 by the backlight driver.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] uli77:
backlight level 1 too bright

Thanky you for your answer

I know that 1 is the lowest level but I would like to know if there is any workaround ...

to get a darker backlight than level 1.

best wishes Uli
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
. I love this app its extremely useful. But I recently got the new TP2 for Sprint and this doesnt seem to want to work well with it. Do you plan on upgrading this to work with the newer handsets?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Peet73:
Mine reads 0 (zero) in complete darkness and 2046 in sunlight.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] TheMelin:
Any news with this great software?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Not much, I'm still gathering intel, bugs and ideas for the next (hopefully final) release. It's pretty good as it is IMO :)

BTW: There are some ideas in the second post as (-) in the changelog.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] :
This was designed for TD2 but has been reported to work on TP2 too.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=548402
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
It's difficult to ensure support on a device that I don't own. Only option for me is to find someone who does have it and borrow it or to work closely with someone over IM. If it doesn't work for your device and you don't mind spending some quality debugging time with me, just drop me a message with your ICQ/MSN/IRC/Skype ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] xda-jcm:
Supporting Xperia

In prvious thread, I saw that xperia SDK doen't include API for light sensor.

So, I want to hear your opinion supporting the Xperia.

Is there no way to use this wonderful program for Xperia!!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I will add alternative Light sensor and backlight setting access mode in next version, it may fix X1 support and it may not, just be patient I'm busy with other projects ATM :)

It would be nice to have someone with each unsupported device on ICQ or IRC channel so I can actually make sure it works. I only have Raphael and I can't guarantee anything on devices I don't own without someones help.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
I too wish that the minimum backlight on the HTC automatic setting was 1, rather than 2, as reading in the dark it's too bright. I installed your program, it's very configurable and well done, and seems to work great. Only problem is that it seems like it's always going to minimum brightness in my house at night unless directly hit with a light. I've calibrated it properly as far as I can tell, but what I'm seeing is that the lumens sensor is always 0 in dim light. Like the sensor sees no difference in darkness and dim light. So I can't have it set to a minimum of 1, as that's too dim for such lighting!

I did a lot of tweaking with the curve, but I think it just boils down to the sensor shows 0 in the house in a dim area where there's actually decent lighting but it's not direct lighting.

I'm pretty sure this is no fault of your program, but I'll ask the question to see if there's something I can do to make it work better (for me!)

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Nope, this is per-device behavior, every sensor has different sensitivity and you have a bad luck :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
This is what I'd figured, perhaps some sensors differ even between the same device.. But I think I might have made it better with this post, I'll see over the next few days. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2963524&postcount=22

At least I didn't have to turn off automatic last night to read in bed. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sixbennetts:
Great forum here, though most of this is way over my head!:o

I have a new Ozone from Verizon, is there anything similar to this for a WinMo 6.1 smartphone? (I have a keyboard backlight I need to keep constantly lit).

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] I-ron-ic-HTC:
NEED helpDONT KNOW WHERE TO POST

I Cant seem to RUn the Rc-Mod on my htc touch pro, its just changeing the backscreen disply and not the Bars at all, No custom rom, few custom haxs Wmv 6.1 can someone help me , i am useing it with 3.5 frame work, but the dude that made it said download 2.0, i dont think that matters , is there a better verson of this program, the Rc- mod i got is 2.1 , unless theres and older verson
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] stan23:
Would you mind considering an extra option in the exceptions screen, which does not set the backlight to a fixed level for an application, but leaves it up to the app?

iGO8 is able to set two different backlight levels according to night and day, but when I receive a message or a reminder pops up, Lumos detects that iGO is not the active application and after dismissing the notification, Lumos sets back the fixed level (and overwrites the last level changed by iGO).
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Sure, I am considering 2 special options:

- backlight keep-alive exception

- compete exclusion from backlight control
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] stan23:
great, thanks :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] hlpbob007:
hi,

i used lumos 10 RC2 with my old wm6.1 with no problem on touch hd.

Now I updated to wm 6.5 Xannytech ROM with s2u2 lock. and i cannot configure lumos to work :(

at the power options the autobacklight not checked of course.

the sensor works, because i can see the number from 0-1538 (1538 near a lightbulb),

i tried auto light, but does not work as well the program replied that the sensor is working, but no auto change :)

I loved lumos at wm 6.1 because i use some programs with max light, and the backlight change is very cool.

Does anyone have the same problem? or is there a solution for it?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I am using latest Energy ROM 6.5 (Oct 28th build) and Lumos works flawlessly.

Anyways I compiled a troubleshooting walkthrough and added it to the first post, try it :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] stan23:
Don't you need the Check for active programm only for WM6.5?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Yes, last time I checked the default mode didn't work in 6.5.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] orb3000:
Thanks a lot!

great app working just fine in Rhodium with wm6.5.1

:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] m8tix:
I can confirm this, it works like a charm on my rhodium :) It is really a very nice tool, I'm gonna test it out for the next days to see how it behaves with my battery.

Greets,

Matix
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] lovingHDTV:
I've installed it on my TP2 running EnergyROM Phonton (6.5.1) and it works beautifully. My sensor reads 0-2046.

No more blindingly bright lights when I look at my phone at night!

thanks

dave