Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

I find that brightness level 4 is a bit dull and brightness level 5 very bright, there is a huge difference between them. I'm certain that somebody else experiences the same problem. Can I set a brightness level between them? A terminal command? Hm. The issue I've had with brightness, right from the start, is that's the settings aren't fine-grained enough. I usually have it at 4, which is too dark, but 5 is way too bright.

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

Could I suggest you to use the edit button and not make triple posts?

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

Sure, why not? Duh...

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

Have you tried this thread?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...880#post847880

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

Sure, I feel you too.
New brightness levels shall appear in settings now.

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

what 'pantera1989' and 'ammyt' said :D

if you want total control then install my custom brightness, this will give you the control to use brightness 2 - 255 (under 2 and back-light turns off), but still 253 steps to choice from.

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

I've always found level 4 to be perfect. At any rate, I wish there was a way to specify the _range_ of brightness, and then have the auto-brightness adjustments range between this. And then, ideally, there would be the option to set any number of levels, each with any range.

That would make more sense, in my opinion, from an end-user convenience+freedom perspective. Is that actually doable with current MCE (without the CPU cost of a seperate program doing the monitoring and and adjusting, and having MCE just not touch the screen brightness, as that's a less than optimal hack).

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I use level 2 with brightness-simple.

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Brightness-simple is just great, I'm on level 3. I wonder why NOKIA haven't used that.

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

Well in NITDroid (Android generally), the brightness settings lets you slide a slider from 50 all the way up to 230, and you can choose any level between them (hence a slider), far better than the brightness settings in Maemo.

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***ahem***meego MCE***ahem***

Re: Can an extra brightness level be added?
 

No it's not. Oh, right, I actually realize preferences matter, so I'll put it this way: I do not find it to be better, let alone _far_ better.

You see, I actually like automatic brightness adjustments on Maemo 5. What I don't like is being unable to set a brightness range within which to adjust brightness. Android lets you either manually set a level, at which point the brightness will always be pegged to that level, or you can press the automatic lighting checkbox and deal with whatever levels it feels are appropriate for the current lighting. That way you get no control with auto-brightness, and I don't care for fine control if it requires me to make 5 clicks just to adjust brightness to the environment-appropriate level. (At least with Simple Brightness Applet it's only 3 on any app that doesn't hide the status menu on Maemo 5).

The stock Maemo 5 way at the very least gives me four preset brightness ranges to choose from (I don't count the fifth because then the display is always at max brightness).