Screen Brightness

[whisky_]

When I open the camera application on my I-mate JAM/HTC Magician, the screen goes bright for a second when the camera app. is about to open but it goes back to slightly dull after i close the camera.

I have maximum brightness in the settings.

Is there anyway to make the screen stay bright just like the second before the camera opens?

[vijay555]

There are at least a couple of ways to do this.
One is VJLumos, which I don't recommend.

Another is VJLumos II - which is being released in a few days.

V

[whisky_]

Thank you! Awaiting the release of VJLumos 2. How soon do you reckon you'll release it?

[vijay555]

Magician version is done, and works great. Just tweaking the Universal version (which also works, but needs a little refining). Release hopefully around this weekend or so.

I don't have a wizard so can't support it for now, unfortunately.

Implementation is cool now, automatic superbrite every time you switch on, and no more risk of a hard reset :shock: I was showing Mrs Vijay555 yesterday. She wasn't impressed :( I'm so misunderstood...

V

[whisky_]

oh lol sigh. I had a look at your site...people should praise your talent more often :D

Anyway, why don't you share the Magician one now :P

[vijay555]

I thought I had it on my ftp but I don't, so give me a while and I'll send you over a beta, if I remember. If you don't get by tomorrow, PM me.

V

[whisky_]

Ok then...i'll be waiting. Thanks! :)

[wingchun10]

hi all

i'm very interested to by this soft. I was looking for this since 1 year so it's very nice you done it.

waiting for that to

thanks :D

[Chatty]

Hi,

I've been investigating in the brightness hack and could finally track down what's necessary to enable it. This is the real way to enable it, which means no unneccessary DLLs are loaded and you're no chance of risking a soft reset because of this. The other advantage is that if you have your camera hardware removed this hack still works - on a Magician at least. I hope I can try this hack on a Hermes next week (don't own one).

I'm almost done creating an app like VJLumos II. If it's ready I'll post it in this forum.

Cheers.

PS: I was experiencing a hard reset during my research... so I hope you can esteem what I immolated ;)

[Chatty]

Ok, here it is.

For the moment this is for Magician only! And even on them you run this at your own risk!

This app is very freaky - it has no (obvious) dependencies and therefore loads fast like hell. Although being already ruddy slim and thus perfect staying resident it doesn't. But it accepts four parameters which are as follows:

on --> enable SuperBrightness
off --> disable SuperBrightness
install --> install a OnWakeUp event
remove --> remove event

Again: this app does not load anything (and consume memory) nor does it expose you to risk a soft reset.
Nevertheless I still encouter the odd behaviour, that Magicians without the camera hardware do not get superbright on WakeUp.

[whitemoo]

ahh vjays555 worked for me..
might prove usefull when im using my magician as a GPS..
oh btw, i tried chatty's program first and all i downloaded was 'attatchment. php'
whitemoo.

[Chatty]

i tried chatty's program first and all i downloaded was 'attatchment. php'
No problems here - got a zip with one exe and 4 lnk's as it was supposed to.

[Chatty]

Some news about our backlight:

Well, above a certain a minimum level brightness can be controlled continously from dark to (super-)bright. Keypad light can be controlled independently, but on/off only. Another news: absolute minimum is still a little darker than official (Control Panel) minimum. So if you're in for a little book reading under your blanket this could safe your eyes a little more. So currently I'm thinking of a new cmdline app which offers you to set brightness in all possible levels (super-dark to super-bright).

I dunno when I'll find the time for it, but is anyone interested at all?

[whitemoo]

pick me!
heheh, i use msn messenger and type up notes in the dark, it strains the eyes. Sometimes i watch movies on it in plain darkness.
Would be a cool utility to have. Dont know if anyone doese the same things i do, Since its so hard to sync for me through bluetooth.

Bring on the interest!.
Whitemoo.

[Chatty]

I got a wicked idea: how about flashing a new brightness dll into the living device like it is done with the splash screen? The usual brightness control panel applet would then operate in the wider range and this hack would not eat up any memory.

Whohoo... exciting... lots of work to do, but interesting project.