[APP][2.3+] Lux Auto Brightness

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shaggyskunk said:
Yeah - It's personal preference - but for me - Lumen was more trouble than it's worth - Lux on the other hand - I find to be very useful - just my opinion
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Cheers Shaggy Skunk,

If I can find a workaround that enables me to still use CF Lumen then I'll probably take it, as the night time mode does seem a lot better.

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Sometimes you just can't see the wood for the trees ;)

It appears Lux only has issues with CF.Lumen when accessing it as a plugin. If they are allowed to run in tandem as independent apps, they work in perfect harmony, which is all I ever wanted. Any additional hit on processing or ram appears to be insignificant on my LG G3 16gb running Lollipop 5.0
 
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ClownShoes said:
What app are you using to detect CF Lumen is running?
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I can see SuperSU flashing message about Superuser permission for CF.Lumen on every boot, and it is sometimes shown in HTC Task manager (rather inaccurate task manager, does not show all running apps most of the time, but the ones shown are running).

ClownShoes said:
It appears Lux only has issues with CF.Lumen when accessing it as a plugin. If they are allowed to run in tandem as independent apps, they work in perfect harmony, which is all I ever wanted.
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This is true until you go below 0 brightness. You will get an ugly dark overlay, instead of lowering color's intensiveness. For that, "CF.Lumen integration" must be selected, which, well, kinda breaks CF.Lumen :)
 
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So you want to use it? But you don't want it running.... Doesn't make sense to me

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p50kombi said:
So you want to use it? But you don't want it running.... Doesn't make sense to me
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To make things clear: CF.Lumen consists of 2 parts:
1) CF.Lumen app (normal app)
2) CF.Lumen driver (a GPU hack or something that enables screen color changing, gets permanently installed with the CF.Lumen app and stays in your system even after you uninstall the CF.Lumen app (unless you uninstall the driver manually))

The Lux's setting "Enable CF.Lumen integration" requires only the driver. Not the app. The CF.Lumen app is not technically required for this feature to work. Moreover, enabling this feature breaks all functionality of CF.Lumen app.

It has been this way all the time. Untill the unfortunate December update, which changed this behavior and now requires CF.Lumen app to be installed and to be running in background so that Lux may verify, that I have purchased CF.Lumen app.

But CF.Lumen app is useless Lux breaks all it's features! So since December, Lux forces me to run an app, which' features I can not even use. Now I find this behavior very user-unfriendly, unethical and inefficient, no matter how little battery and RAM CF.Lumen app uses.
 
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Man,that's a lot of big words..you sure this is your only issue? Unethical ..man,there are so many things out there that are truly unethical.

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p50kombi said:
Man,that's a lot of big words..you sure this is your only issue? Unethical ..man,there are so many things out there that are truly unethical.
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I am discussing an app which I am a huge fan of in it's dedicated forum discussion thread. What else, according to you, am I doing wrong? (-;
 
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I just don't get why you it is unethical that when you use an app that utilises another,you complain you have to see and use at second app. Its not exactly the end of the world now is it?

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pure.by said:
I am discussing an app which I am a huge fan of in it's dedicated forum discussion thread. What else, according to you, am I doing wrong? (-;
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I just don't get why you it is unethical that when you use an app that utilises another,you complain you have to see and use at second app. Its not exactly the end of the world now is it?

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To be fair, I'm not sure why everyone is bashing pure.by

His point is that the functionality that was present up until December is now broken and he's not wrong. There is currently no way to make them work hand in hand as intended and that is unfortunate.

I guess the question is, is this more of a problem at Vito's end or Chainfire's end? Both apps work perfectly when run independently, so the issue appears to be with Lux's integration of the CF.Lumen driver.

Are you available to comment on this Vito ? @Cyb3rGlitch


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Also, does anyone know if this amount of RAM usage for LUX is normal? 150mb seems very high
 

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ClownShoes said:
To be fair, I'm not sure why everyone is bashing pure.by

His point is that the functionality that was present up until December is now broken and he's not wrong. There is currently no way to make them work hand in hand as intended and that is unfortunate.

I guess the question is, is this more of a problem at Vito's end or Chainfire's end? Both apps work perfectly when run independently, so the issue appears to be with Lux's integration of the CF.Lumen driver.

Are you available to comment on this Vito ? @Cyb3rGlitch


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Also, does anyone know if this amount of RAM usage for LUX is normal? 150mb seems very high
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I'm sure chainfire asked lux integration only to be for pro lumen. Lux for me between 60/80 MB. Using beta....I'm not a lumen user.
I have no issues. With just lux
 
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Christiancs1969 said:
I'm sure chainfire asked lux integration only to be for pro lumen. Lux for me between 60/80 MB. Using beta....I'm not a lumen user.
I have no issues. With just lux
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To be honest, I think that it's fair enough if Chainfire did ask that. He put all the hard work into engineering CF.Lumen, so the least we can do is contribute if we want to use it to improve Lux's functionality. It just appears there may be a few teething problems getting them to play nice.

pure.by said:
This is true until you go below 0 brightness. You will get an ugly dark overlay, instead of lowering color's intensiveness. For that, "CF.Lumen integration" must be selected, which, well, kinda breaks CF.Lumen :)
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I just checked and I'm not having that issue with the ugly dark overlay below 0 brightness. I'm wondering what might be causing you that additional problem, as I guess that is the only thing stopping you using the two apps harmoniously

Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but you did switch off night mode in Lux, yes?
 
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Doesn't cf lumen work for you guys? Im running it tinting my screen grey during the day and 3000k temp later on and i have lux auto brightness on. I don't have enable cf lumen ticked. Because it makes the stock brighteness bar pop up in notification center.
 
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Doesn't cf lumen work for you guys? Im running it tinting my screen grey during the day and 3000k temp later on and i have lux auto brightness on. I don't have enable cf lumen ticked. Because it makes the stock brighteness bar pop up in notification center.
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It does work, I just don't like it, so I removed it, and now I'm perfectly happy...

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cbomb101 said:
Doesn't cf lumen work for you guys? Im running it tinting my screen grey during the day and 3000k temp later on and i have lux auto brightness on. I don't have enable cf lumen ticked. Because it makes the stock brighteness bar pop up in notification center.
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Yes it works fine for me too, but not as an intergrated plug in, from within LUX. The same as you have yours setup by the sounds of it.

CF.Lumen doesn't appear to have a particularly large footprint either, so it's no biggee running both apps separately.

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so is there a check button that i have to enable for the supersu to work giving the permissions without disabling the tapjacking feature?
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