Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

In OS2007, brightness settings were mostly ok, although it could have been improved with more granularity, and one more step down for a darker screen.

An now, in OS2008, instead of improving on it, we get an even more cut down version, with even less brightness step, and, if I am correct, the darkest setting is not available anymore (I now find it too bright to read books in the dark). to make it worse, there is now a fade effect when changing settings, whcih makes it difficult and slow to adjust the brightness and judge which setting is right.

Grrrrr...

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

Yes, this was reported for 770 http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375 and it is constantly getting worse. Let's wait for real N800 image maybe n810 has different screen so this in not final.

But anyway I really don't know what's wrong with normal slider allowing full range. This is so microsoftish (i.e. they know better what you want). And the new OS even nicely fades into one of the five (!!) predefined levels showing you it is possible but you are simply not worthy to have your own level. Luckily the solution is (relatively) easy with custom kernel http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#backlight but one simply wonders how this is possible and who does such decisions and why.

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

I would suggest waiting for the official N800 image before judging the settings, don't forget the N810 has a different screen that is brighter and daylight friendly, so I would imagine they arn't tweaked for the N800's screem which isn't as bright and not daylight friendly.

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

N810 has this ambient light sensor to adjust the light which N800 don't have and since this OS2008 is N810 version it could be that N800 version has more range to adjust manually light.

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

My laptop has a light sensor. When you manually decrease or increase the light the automatic control is disabled. I would expect that the N810 does the same and then you are left with a 5 step setting only. Plus, I don't think they will have different GUIs for the two devices.

It looks quite bad but it seems that it's easy for them to make it better. The question is why they haven't done it already..

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

Maybe they are afraid some user will turn their screen too dark and not be able to find the control to turn it back up again?

But it could still safely go quite a bit dimmer than what they allow now.

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

Still the same with 1.2007.44-4, the excessive brightness really hurt my eyes in the dark.

Fanoush, I have tried your solution, but I cannot get it to work on OS2008. Any advice?

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

You need to flash different kernel for this.

Try the one inside this
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/kernel-rx-34-2.6.21.0.tar.gz
It has USB OTG whitelist disabled (more usb devices may work), SD/MMC high speed mode (=48MHz) enabled, extended brightness cotrol and crypto api (for PPTP) enabled.

With this kernel the blset script should work. Just run it like
and it should change current brightness setting to minimum possible by hardware. I think you can also change the dim level by

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

Yes, I would be happy if the lowest setting were really the lowest setting. As it is right now, it's stupidly bright.

Re: Worse brightness setttings than OS2007
 

Tested and confirmed working. Thanks!

FYI, the software levels on N800 OS2008 are 2,3,4,5. There is one additional one, maximum brightness, which cannot be changed. Assigning a custom hardware level to one of those 4 software levels survives a reboot :-)

Now I have got my n800 (almost) working as it should, no thanks to nokia.