Thread: [Announce] advanced-systemui (ASUI)
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2011-06-07 , 14:57
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Originally Posted by mcow View Post
1) Restarting alarmd is not necessary; resetting MCE does the trick, partway. After that reset, the tablet dims after 90 seconds, blanks after 120; thing is, my control panel is set for 10/30. Opening the control panel and just pressing OK is enough to get it to where it's supposed to be -- maybe. If I apply the C.P. immediately after resetting MCE, I get a 10/120 cycle, but a second application of the C.P. gets it right.
2) Each time I restart MCE, the screen brightens (my default level is 40). When I map ASUI, my "40" is shown in white, but below it is a "76" in blue. As soon as I touch a level control, brightness drops down to the expected level. This 40-over-76 state persists across dim/blank cycles.
MCE resets all of these settings when it is restarted. The brightness problem is even mentioned on the asui-settings brightness page. ASUI will only set the brightness when you explicitly tell it to, it reads the current brightness and can see that is doesn't match the set value. The n810's ambient light sensor is the main reason ASUI doesn't change the value, because ASUI would reset the brightness everytime ALS changed it and it became a constant cycle of ASUI and ALS fighting over the brightness. Another problem is the dim state, there can be a slight lag between the screen dimming and ASUI receiving the signal. If ASUI were to check brightness during this period it would effectively undo the dim.


Originally Posted by mcow View Post
Perhaps unrelated to the blanking failure: I have twice seen ASUI's power meter pegged at 100% and staying there; mapping to ASUI shows normal CPU activity of just a couple percent, but back the desktop and the meter continues to be pegged. May be related to rebooting with WiFi enabled, rather than in Flight mode, but I haven't figured out a sequence of steps that makes this happen for sure.
Was the rest of the applet working correctly (does it map ASUI when pressed)? Were other applets working or was the statusbar frozen? When BME code (new drain indicator) was having problems it would block hildon-desktop indefinitely and all applets on statusbar and desktop would freeze. If the applet isn't frozen try opening asui-settings and toggle cpu overlay off and on to see if it does anything. Could be a race condition that caused the cpu refresh timer to be destroyed.

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I will be leaving today and won't be able to work on ASUI for the rest of the year, unless I come back early. I have given maacruz access to the project so if anyone wants to write patches that add new features or fix problems then he can apply them.
 

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