Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

I find the minimum brightness level on the N900 still too bright and wish I had a way to

• disable the sensor temorarily so the brightness stays the same
• get to the lowest brightness levels that are possible hardware-wise

I played a bit with
/sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness
but of course writing to it from the command line doesn't help - well it does... for a few seconds ;)

I miss the Advanced Backlight application or something of that kind.

(BTW, would there be a possibility to do what I want from a shell script? Permanently set brightness to a certain very low level and prevent the sensor from interfering? Is it just a matter of writing to a few files in /sys/ or is there mor to it?)

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

I would love to see something like this too. Ambient light sensor doesn't seem to work too well on my unit. It keeps switching between two levels...

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

Interesting that you find the minimum (lowest level setting 1) of the display to be still too bright. I set mine to level 3 (due to short battery life) and I find it not bright enough. Brightness levels 1 and 2 are too dark that I can't read words on the screen. If I wasn't saving battery life, I would prefer level 5, that would be bright enough. I wonder what levels most ppl are using if battery life wasn't an issue.

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

i did the same but i am down to level 2 but i will tell you it was to dark for couple days i guess my eyes got use to it cause it does not bother me anymore

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

I agree with Benny. I too miss Advanced backlight. In a dark bedroom it feels like staring into a flashlight. Also, i think the keyboard is slightly noisier. All in all lower girlfriend acceptance factor.

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

I'd like to see an Advanced Backlight on the N900 too. (I'm also jonesing for a Personal Menu as well)

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

See, that is proprietary defensive thinking. Should not need, okay, but say 'however, we'd love you to come up with something even better'

edit: after reading the links provided further down this page, i don't think i was right to make this conclusion. It seems to have been more a belief that the default functionality would be good enough.

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

Oh it looks like there's a private beta in progress...

Some interesting reading on this page:

http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23mae...10-01.log.html

Follow what rm_you (the developer) writes...

http://flux.myvnc.com/screenshot05.png

http://flux.myvnc.com/screenshot03.png

Here's what I was talking about in my previous post.

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

I, too, would love to see this app ported to this device. It is one of my faves on my 800. I like the granularity it offers...

Qole, good find. Cool :)

Re: Advanced Backlight for N900?
 

i believe i installed a simple one today. and i have only enabled extras.