Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

Dear friends!

As a lot of us said, the n900's LCD has too "powerful" light-value even on minimum.
Everybody use Simple Brightness Applet for daily use, don't we? But at night, used befour sleep, the minimum burned my eyes out. :) :)

I use a simple shell script, read in the forum, which contains for minimum light: (noobs, like me, run command sudo gainroot first on the X Terminal!)
echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness

The other command is for dark screen:
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness
in the Enhanced Linux kernel the minimum is 0, not 1

BUT
When the light sensor detects light (my lamp), it turns the brightness to normal vault (in the settings-display the lowes value is 7! ) And I have to run my little script again. And again...

So, the question is:
- - How can we disable light sensor? - -
...or how to find an other solution to keep low light?
Can we make the minimum light to the standard?
Thanks for the replies!

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

little bit of black tape over the light sensor? okay its lo-tech but quick and effective.

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

The black tape is only a half-solution, because my N900 is always in my pocket, but a roll of tape...? :) And it makes the monitor dirty.
But I like your reply :cool:

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

oh i thought u only wanted it for night-time use before bed, really wouldn't be something i would leave on all day, had imagined you sticking the tape to the bedside cabinet when u got up!
sticking and un-sticking it to something else before using it should make the tape lo-tack enough it wouldnt leave much residue on the screen. wow. cant believe i'm actually proposing this in a maemo forum! no x-term, no hacking, no repo's warnings and no danger of having to reflash, my account will probably be deleted for this!

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

Interesting line of code, there. Do I understand you correctly if I think it allows you to dim the screen to a lower level than the lowest "Simple Backlight" setting?

Here's a couple of related/interesting posts in a related thread.
The first, saying one can write to /sys/devices/platform/omap2_mcspi.1/spi1.2/backlight\:acx565akm/brightness to set any value and it sticks until display is dimmed or turned off.

The other says I successfully disabled my ALS yesterday.

I'm not sure what they're doing there, but they seem to have some success in turning off the sensor.

As discussed in this thread, users coming from the N810 are missing the "Advanced Backlight Applet" that existed on the N810. It had more levels and could go much darker than the default backlight settings.

We'd like to see this ported to the N900. Who would've thunk such a useful applet would not have been ported :(

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

I think disabling Power Saving Mode in Settings>Display disables the brightness adjustment i.e. light sensor
Haven't tested though....

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

I would rather expect someone to come in here, mark this thread with tag words 'worst thread ever', 'FUD', and tell OP to 'go buy an iPhone, you won't be missed'. That's the standard reaction to any thread where a user doesn't conform to the N900 functionality set. Because, Nokia never said that you could disable the light sensor, and you should have done your research before buying a €500 device.

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

I just read someone who said that disabling Power Saving Mode didn't do that, so I just tested. No, it doesn't. Set it to lowest setting, held it under the light. Screen bright. Held the thumb over the sensor. Screen go dark.

Re: Disable light-sensor and keep very low light?
 

:( it's like the "power saving" doesn't even do ANYTHING at all!