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The fadeout just goes like this: Normal > Darker > Off.
and the fade in the same other way around.

It's fine. huge improvement to the previous blinking.

I'm using 140 as default and I love it.

For you out there like me that just uses one brightness setting, heres an widget for you that doesn't take up much space.
Has also been added to custom brightness zip (Post #2)

Info: The hotspots are from top to bottom not just in the bottom like it appears, this is just for the look, it increases and decreases with 20 a step, but you can change this in the advanced settings under QBW

Brightness block.zip
Can you see where it is???

sorry what does this do? does it increase the stock maximum brightness?

Did you read the first posts?

Well:
1. This does away with that stupid slow light sensor, wich was the first thing that ignored me when i got my N900
2. Lets you chose the light level that YOU want, not the 5 normal levels that is 4 low light with very little change/steps and 1 level at full brightness.
Levels 1-4 are between 20-80 and level 5 is 255.... big gap there....
The colors of the screen really comes through at 120-200

Try it and you will see what i mean

Instead of a QB Beecon, could someone please make one that works like i describe bellow please?


Two parts, one in the status menu an applet with a few buttons for predefined values, plus a button to call the advanced second part. The advanced bit would be a regular windowed program, not a dialog; displaying an image of the user's choice and would have a circular knob to adjust the brightness (with a gesture like the zoom in microB, and preferably with the rate being configurable, like how many brightness levels per turn) and with swatches for the predefined notches; if you tap on one of the the notches in the advanced window besides switching to it, you would also now be able to edit its value with the spinning knob.

i got issues when i want to remove it...
I can't set the brightness via the settings menu anymore.
I's not as bright as it should be when I set the build-in brightness to full..

I removed /etc/init.d/[custom brightness file]
also removed /etc/event.d/[custom brightness file]
removed mce.ini and renamed the mce.ini.backup.

how to get the brightness settings as it was before installing your one ?

removing etc files and renaming mce.ini.backup to mce.ini should do it, check your mce.ini if brightness filter als is there in modules=.

i will upload the original mce.ini in this post whitin the hour.

rename mce.ini.txt to mce.ini and put it in /etc/mce
reboot and it should work since it has all been reverted

Q: did you 'double' install the custom brightness, because i made an error there that has been corrected.
if you run sh ./install more then once before this was fixed it would make a new backup of mce.ini but now without the 'brightness-filter-als;'
this has been fixed so if you try the same thing now it will ask to overwrite, just say no to this

Now I'm using the latest version and the screen dims normally, not the "off on off" like it did before. Thanks!

Testing since i made the dim function work i can now say that using this mod really works, normal screen function like dimming is spot on, only "effect" now is the fade up effect when the screen is turned on (flip screen/keylock)

How is it working for you guys that are using it now?
And how is the small design i made?


Side note: NightShift79 did install it twice before i corrected the error of overwrite mce.ini without prompt.

Working great here, I don't mind the "fade in" at all, it's so fast I usually don't even notice.