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[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] phobos512:
Hey I've noticed something and since Lumos was the last thing I installed figured I'd mention it.

Since installing the latest Lumos (which was installed last after performing a hard reset and reinstalling a number of apps), the icons for mail/sms on my S2U2 screen are corrupted. I haven't tried uninstalling Lumos yet - has anyone else noticed this?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] korbi:
HI!

First of all: thanks for the amazing app!

But mit seems like exceptions dont work for me in Rc1. I wanted to exclude "flashlight" (window name: "Form"), but this didnt work. Brightness is changed as usual...

Here is an link to the app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=420011

I think in last version 0.9 it worked, but I am not quite sure...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] phobos512:
Ok I did some troubleshooting tonight. Lumos was NOT the source of my issue. It was the Touch Pro theme for S2U2 that was causing my corrupted icons.

I first uninstalled Lumos and checked it. Still corrupt. Then I uninstalled the theme pack and it was even more screwed up. SO I uninstalled and reinstalled S2U2 (without the theme pack), and it was good. Then I reinstalled Lumos and all was still good.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] freco:
Since I 'm not a developer I 'm trying to do my best. I made the Greek translation for this excelent tool.

Enjoy.

PS. nik3r could you plesase include it in the language folder. Tested on my Touch Pro. Thanks for your great job.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] hht1688:
Me 2 ~~~

Great JOB nik3r ~~
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Thank you for the translations in the name of all Lumos users, keep 'em coming guys :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tyguy:
Thanks nik3r for this great application so far no issues on the Raphael/Fuze,

donation sent confirmation number: 53Y23211TK278793C
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] korbi:
Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
It's not Lumos fault, you need to disable Auto-backlight in menu in the Flashlight application, Lumos will give up the backlight control if something else is controling it ;)

Name of the window is "Form1" as PRG.

Thanks to you I discovered a bug, when you select a window in window detector list, it takes you to Mode tab and not Exceptions tab :D

Exceptions tab is pre-filled as usual though.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] korbi:
Thanks, worked!!!

Glad I could help :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Lumos on WM6.5 appears to be working

Hey everyone,

I just tested Lumos v10 RC1 on latest testing build of WM6.5 by Da_G and even after several resets it doesn't cause any problems at all with any of the UI elements or anything. Still WM6.5 users please proceed with caution and backup your system first before installing Lumos or try it before you install anything else ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Dmitry N:
Hi nik3r, I just wanted to ask about what your best recommendations for the Touch HD users are. I've tried various configs, but can't really make Lumos work so that I could have "more comfort" ;) Anyone else want to share? By the way, I can help translate Lumos in Russian if you need. Just ask please. Thanks in advance. PS: By the way, what is wrong with the forum today? No html formatting, no quick reply...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Feel free to translate it, all information you need are in the first post.

Well I have to admit I use Lumos for better battery and therefore I sacrifice some comfort

Sensor: 0-1446

Backlight 1-7

default refresh rates

Root mode

If I need better readability, I just switch Backlight range to 2-7 for some time.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Dmitry N:
Thanks for the reply. What about the threshold? I still don't quite get it. You said earlier: "tolerance threshold to 1, it will decrease the sensitivity further, backlight will not change until a change larger than 1 is required." What is unclear is this "change larger than 1". What kind of unit exactly is this "1"?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Threshold is very simple, it is the number of backlight changes that are dropped before one change is performed.

Imagine backlight on 3, you go to a slightly lighter place and backlight should change to 4, but it won't because abs(4-3) = 1 and you have tolerance 1. You need the backlight change to be greater than the tolerance, that is 5 in this case abs(5-3) = 2.

This works in both directions but minimum and maximum backlight triggers always regardles of the tolerance set.

For tolerance = 0 the change is always immediate

tolerance = 1 the change must be greater than 1

tolerance = 2 the change must be greater than 2 etc. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Dmitry N:
Thanks. I see now. I though it would make more sense to define tolerance for the sensor readings, not the backlight showings :) I.e., the backlight must change to 10 when the sensor read 900. But if we set the tolerance for the reading if, let's say 10, then the backlight will only change to 10 when the sensor shows 910. And vice versa, it will change back to 8 when the sensor reads 890. What do you think? ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You can do this using Custom graph, tolerance is in place to prevent frequent changes between 2 levels of backlight and thus save power, because the actual act of changing the backlight level eats most power.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] satrapp:
Russian translation

Not the best but the first... or not?..
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ms009986:
I hope this isn't a dumb question, I've been all through this thread but didn't see the answer....

I understand this program gives you control over the backlight, and how dim it gets, how often it polls, and things like that.

Does it also give you the ability to let the backlight fade to nothing? I've found that Windows Mobile devices work better if they're not allowed to "power off" and just stay running all the time. I tried to set mine to make the backlight go off after a minute, but it doesn't actually go OFF, it just dims and still sucks up battery (though not as much).

I was trying to find something that would either ACTUALLY shut the backlight all the way off, without actually hibernating the phone, like it has on previous WM phones (like the 6700), or let you set the dimness level to 0% instead of 30% or whatever the current dimness level is. I've found that as long as the backlight's off, having the device still on doesn't drain the battery faster, not significantly anyway.

I just want the phone to stay on with the backlight off, then I can use it without having to push the power button and without allowing the phone to hibernate (if that's what it's called), which I suspect causes various problems with programs crashing and slowness and such.

So would Lumos allow me to do this?

Chris
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Short answer is no.

Long answer is no, because Lumos effectively hibernates itself once the display dims (after 30s inactivity or whatever you set). That means it wouldn't be able to turn screen off, because Lumos lose all control once the display dims to conserve power. There is no workaround unless you want to lose roughly 20% of your battery life for this feature.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ms009986:
So you can't use Lumos to set how much the screen dims, when it does dim for power saving mode? To something so close to 0% that it's effectively 0%?

Thanks for clarifying, nik3r.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Least backlight you can set is represented by level 1 in Lumos, same level is used by the device when display dims after inactivity. The backlight is still active on this level but power consumption is quite low.

Technically if you turn off the display (without entering standby) you are forcing device power requirement D4 for the display panel, it is not done by disabling backlight or setting it to lowest setting but totally different mechanism.

I still fail to see why would you like to disable the display instead of switching to standby, for you as user both do exactly the same. Only cons are it disables wifi and can stop audio playback in older programs, but both can be easily fixed by enabling wifi on standby reg. tweak and by using latest versions of your player. Most programs can detect standby mode and enter a power-saving state, which they can't do if you just disable the display. I haven't run into any problem with standby since I migrated to WM6 so what's the point.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Dmitry N:
nik3r,

Strangely enough, I have trouble getting to level 3 from level 2 using custom created rules.

Even if the sensor shows values between 10 and 50, my screen stays at the darkest level possible, which is 2. Please see my settings file attached to my post. Is there anything wrong with my settings?

Excerpt:

// manual backlight settings

MANUAL1 = 0

MANUAL2 = 0

MANUAL3 = 7

MANUAL4 = 72

MANUAL5 = 181

MANUAL6 = 384

MANUAL7 = 675

MANUAL8 = 1045

MANUAL9 = 1302

MANUAL10 = 1500
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ms009986:
Well, no offense, my HTC Touch Pro is new to me...I had a PPC-6700 before this, and when I let it power itself off, I had slowness and sluggishness and so forth when it would wake up. Or it wouldn't wake up, or reminders would sometimes fail as a result of the device not waking up correctly, so it ended up beeping reminders for a full hour unless I reset the phone.

So when I got the Touch Pro, and encountered some sluggishness and programs not working correctly, I thought oh boy, Microsoft is right on par with not fixing any of their bugs with new OSs. Let me try that non-hibernate trick.

Long story slightly less long, I searched around for solutions and found Lumos along the way and stopped in to ask some questions. Maybe the slow/sluggish/buggy programs were unrelated to hibernate, but it seems an obvious enough possibility. If I could shut off the display totally without allowing the device to actually sleep, and if the problems then went away without killing my battery too much, then hey, problem solved. If not, well, I ruled out the phone's sleeping and waking up as a problem.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Your problem is fairly simple, some 3d party program or maybe a bug in OS itself has corrupted your notification queue, it probably contains dangling or corrupted notifications or duplicate entries. I recommend running a queue scan with Pocket Mechanic, just run it, it will tell you how many problems were in there and automatically fix them without any side effects. The trial version is fine to use for fixing this and you may want to run it twice just in case ;)

Dmitry N:

I'll look into that problem when I have some time. It may simply be a bug, custom mode is still largely untested.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ms009986:
I haven't had the notification problems with the Touch Pro, thank heavens (crossing self)...those problems were with my previous 6700 which is now lying dead somewhere, and good riddance. Now I'm just having some randomly sluggish programs that I thought might be hibernate-related. Thanks for the help though.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] iTouch24:
anyone notice issues with the buttons on the bottom of your screen sometimes not shutting off... if i manually turn my screen off with the power button.. the lights on the buttons under the screen on the touch pro stay on...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
This is most likely a bug in whichever ROM are you using. You can try to run a notification queue scan, though I think this is probably driver related.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Dmitry N:
Any news?

By the way, custom mode is the mode that G-Light's operation is based on. And it does its job. Too bad it consumes more RAM and processor resources.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
I can confirm this happens with my phone as well when Lumos is installed. I've cooked with and without to test for sure.

I personally thought it was the phone until I read the question above and cooked up a couple roms to test out. Its actually quite annoying that it does this but at least now I know why.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Weird I already tried a ROM with Lumos cooked in (RRE) and I haven't had this issue, it may be build-specific problem or some glitch in the cooking process. I tried like all ROMs out there and never had this problem.

The solution should be simple, just don't cook it in and use the darn CAB manually ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Actually I've just recently started the cooking process that leads me to another question. How can I prevent it from running on the first boot? It seems to cause a few issues as UC is trying to run and If you use UC to install it it wants to run before a reset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Maolda:
@nik3r

I've translated it into german.

c ya

MOD
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
New version

Lumos v10 RC2 has been released!

News:

- fixed custom mode alignment ( hopefully so :) )

- fixed all known glitches in the wizard

- new wizard failsafes prevent you from saving values that are out of bounds for your device

- added all available languages

Download in first post. Complete list of changes and FAQ in second post.

enjoy :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] berndhufmann:
Sorry if already ask but search didn´t found it. Could i use lumos to prevent screen off during a phone call (using the exceptions rules)? All other recommended fixes didn´t work at my diamond. Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] lightsailpro:
Does LUMOS work when Blackberry Connect lock is on

Has anyone tried with Blackberry Connect application? With the built-in the auto light, when you have Blackberry Connect installed and the device is locked, the sceen will be always very dim. It is very hard to type in the password to unlock the device in bright sunlight. If LUMOS can work with Blackberry Connect lock on, this will be a big plus.

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] aruppenthal:
DOH! You would release this as soon as I finished a new version :p

Nik3r can you add a date to the thread title for those like me following your work? I try to stay on top of all the apps I include in my ROM. As you know yours is one of them :)

@those cooking it in, it will work fine. You MUST use a initflashfiles.txt to move them to the proper places. If you open the cab it will show u where they go. :)

Thanks for your work Nik3r .
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Hehe, I really don't do this on purpose.

NOT.

:D

What date do you mean? Release date so you don't need to keep track of version numbers? Can certainly do that.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] pinny:
Thanks nik3r,

this is so far the most useful application I ever got since I got my Touch PRO!

BTW. You can update your signature to RC2,
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sonhy:
PhoneAlarm & Lumos - backlight does not turn off in time

Hi all,

Could it be the TP only dims but doesnt actually turn off the backlight like my old Magician?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
If you just listed back a page or two, you would know that TP has nothing like "disabled backlight". It's BL 1 or Display off, nothing between.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] digable_ish:
thanks for this app.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Shetlander:
I have been using this great app for a while now and up to now had no problems, however, I am using a WM6.5 ROM since last friday and now the exceptions list no longer works. I would like it to work with HTC Album. In the exceptions list I have tried entering Album, HTCAlbum & HTCAlbum.exe., but nothing works.

Anyone any ideas please?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Use the last tab (window detector) to automatically detect the proper window name. See the fAQ in 2nd post.

If it just won't function in WM6.5 you may want to enable the exceptions for active window only in settings, that enables alternative exception handling but costs you some CPU cycles.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Shetlander:
I did check the name and it comes up as htcalbum. This is what I entered in the exceptions list. When I save the settings it works once, then if I exit album and go back in it does nothing. (I have also tried G Light and it does exactly the same thing, works once and then nothing).

What Im after is for album to be level 9 when I start it regardless of actual device settings. Am I mis interpreting what the exceptions catergory is for?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
No, it should work like that, I can't test it myself but keep me posted in case it gets fixed in future WM6.5 builds. There is little I can do without flashing the ROM myself.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] MALONGZY:
Logical error

I cant seem to get ur app to work , i keep getting a logical error popup..Pls help
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
You just messed up something, delete \program files\lumos\settings.txt and recalibrate. Reinstalling won't help, you need to delete the file or fix the problem you're having through wizard.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] leobox1:
hi .. will this fix the poor touch hd sunlight conditions and how do i do so ? ty
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] windward:
Lumos for XDA orbit

I have tried to install Lumos v.10 on my O2 Orbit (polaris pocketpc) and even after installing the .NET 3.5 Compact Framework Redistributable, the wizard won't run. Is it compatible with the orbit?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Nope, you need a light sensor (not just camera) and HTC drivers.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Plukh:
Any chance that Lumos would be made to work on HTC MAX 4G (which is almost identical to Touch HD, save for support for WiMAX instead of 3G)? I always get 0 for luminocity when trying to calibrate the sensor in the wizard :-(. Built-in autobacklight seems to work (even if poorly), so the sensor itself is should be ok.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] vojtek11:
Question to the author:

Do You know why Lumos is not working with AutoLock feature? System auto-backlight based on LED sensor is working fine with AutoLock. However Lumos (working fine) keep the device dimmed all the time.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Lumos should obey the registry settings and it's supposed to be completely dimmed while locked by default.

Check the autolock settings in Advanced Config, I don't use the lock so can't help you much. The fact is, once the display is dimmed (inactivity), Lumos will yield control of the backlight. Autolock might have the same effect as inactivity and Lumos hibernates for the sake of battery. Your best bet is to try the registry tweaks under Screen group in Advanced Config.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] bruceo:
Looks like the exceptions do not work for 6.5 ROMs Everything works great and it recognizes the open windows but wont do the exception setting just stays at auto default. Works great on 6.1.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Ok the last piece of code to implement program exceptions is complete, not so tough after all but not very obvious. I post this for all devs who may be looking for this here or on google in the future.

Windows CE CF Compact Framework C# Window by name process by name

[DllImport("coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "FindWindowW", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr FindWindowCE(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);

private static bool appActive(string windowName)
{
if ((int)FindWindowCE(null, windowName) != 0)
{
return true;
}
return false;
}

Such a waste of time and so little code :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] DeepThought:
Thank you mate! Now it's working perfectly as I want it to.

My settings:

MAX_BACKLIGHT = 10
MIN_BACKLIGHT = 4
POLLING_INTERVAL = 1000
EXTRA_POLLS_BEFORE_SET = 1
BACKLIGHT_TOLERANCE = 0
DIM_TO_MINIMUM_BELOW = 1
DIM_TO_MINIMUM_PLUS_ONE_BELOW = 0

With this settings I have more or less the functionality of the build-in HTC auto-backlight under normal environment. And when it's really dark it drops to level 1. Brilliant!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
I'm glad it works for you. Well looks like the main core is working and the per application exceptions are just like 5 lines of code away, I'll finish it tomorrow when I have time and release as v04. You will be able to set different brightness for every application, again just by adding line to the configuration file. Something like:

EXC: window_name, 10

EXC: my_second_app, 2

etc. I may change the syntax as it gets implemented but it's pretty much it, you get the idea ;)

Cool thing is, the front-end GUI will be just an user-friendly way of editing the config file and restarting Lumos, so I don't even have to recompile the core, just add independent application that modifies the .txt file for you.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] snark_be:
I have problems with Lumos v3.

When I start it, nothing happens, and I don't see the brightness change, even when I go to a dark room or put a flashlight in front of my TP.

When I use FDC Task Manager to see the processes, it's freezed while retrieving the list of processes. Same with the Task Manager included in ROMeOS. Any idea?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Did you disable the built-in Auto Backlight? You need to set it to anything manual.

The freezing issue is weird I even think this is impossible to be caused by Lumos, try to soft reset and start process manager, see if it loads, then close it, use lumos.exe or lumoskiller.exe to start Lumos and look immediatelly again if it's really caused by this.

No code in the application I know of can produce the typical freezing effect, let alone block the process reading. Also make sure you disabled other auto backlight applications if you use any. It may also be your .NET CF version, but I believe Lumos should work with both 2.0 and 3.5.

I will wait for someone else to verify this and for your report.

Anyone else on ROMeOS is experiencing similar behaviour?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] patrickrivard:
nick3r

I have tested for a few days now and I love it so far but I have an issue that is probably not your fault but maybe you can do something about...

I use an app called PhoneAlarm pro and it switch profiles automatically on different settings... But every time it switches profile it kills LUMOS and I have to go back and restart LUMOS to get it to work again...

Any thoughts on that issue??
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] willybilly:
Working fine in my Touch Pro.

Love it as I also toy with my TP in total darkness during bed time.

Many thanks mate.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
patrickrivard:

does the PhoneAlarm kill Lumos.exe process completely like task manager does or just overrides the backlight feature somehow? Please check this. Also do you mean automatic profiles like when you have an appointment?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] snark_be:
Yes, the built-in Auto Backlight is disabled.

I tried: soft-reset, both task managers work correctly. I run lumos.exe, the task managers freeze while getting the process list. I run lumoskiller.exe to stop lumos.exe (and do not restart it), both task managers work back again/

I uninstalled G-Light and did a soft-reset before running Lumos. ROMeOS includes .Net CF 3.5.

Well, it looks like your app works fine for DeepThought, who runs ROMeOS too. :confused:
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nik3r:
Well until v02c there was no other way to restart Lumos, only Task manager, and really considering DeepThought reported no issues with this it must be some other program interfering. Your best bet to find someone with similar problem and track down the similarities between your custom installed software.

You may just wait for the next version, I will be removing some more dependencies and your problem might get fixed.

Lastly I am including older version which didn't support LumosKiller yet, try this there is little difference in functionality from v03, but you need to use the task manager to restart it when you change settigns.