It was just updated today. Also, try changing your "adjust" to something like ascendingly or on wake to stop the stutter.
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[APP][2.3+] Lux Auto Brightness
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It was just updated today. Also, try changing your "adjust" to something like ascendingly or on wake to stop the stutter.
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Sure https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite
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Where did you get that? I have not received any update during last two days.
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I'll add them during the next major update later this year.
There will be a minor update soon. Only beta testers are receiving updates at this point.
That's awesome! I know I should not ask for ETA but I hope it will be soon
As for beta, I should think about it. Thx for the tip.
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That's awesome! I know I should not ask for ETA but I hope it will be soon
As for beta, I should think about it. Thx for the tip.
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I don't even know myself. The entire UI is being redone from scratch, and that may take a while.
Tried this a while ago when I had an EVO 3D and it worked poorly, I think the light sensor on it just sucked. Well I've got myself a shiny new Nexus 5 and it's working much better. My main issue is with the "sub-zero" brightness, which apparently just darkens what's on the screen and doesn't actually dim the backlight any lower. I know this is possible with a rooted device, I've done it in an app I've written. Will it be possible with a plugin?
Might not work for you - same devices can have different sensor characteristics - I have two N5100s at home and both need different profiles
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It'll be possible once RGB control is possible. If you know a way to do it on the Nexus 5 I'm all ears.
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I am trying to set up my friend's lux setting for him on his nexus 5 and can't seem to be able to understand how this fully works.
He has purchased the full version and has asked me to set it up for him since I'm the one that told him to use it, but I am having trouble understanding exactly how to do this.
I don't fully understand what I do with the actual phone settings for screen brightens, but I am assuming I simply leave it at 100%.
But then I when I bring up lux I don't understand what exactly is happening as the only thing that effects the screen is when it goes on the Sub-Zero side...but when it over the zero mark and into the positives then it makes no difference at all.
So example would be.
If I leave phone brightness settings at 50%.
Then I enable lux and try to adjust the screen brightness with it and all it does is this.
From -99 to Zero it adjusts screen brightness..But from Zero to 100% it does nothing pretty much.
In this case when I am at 0% in lux birghtness, the screen is at whatever the actual phone settings were set at, meaning at 50%,,,and when I go below the Zero mark the screen will darken and go into sub-zero,,,BUT if I go ABOVE 0% absolutely nothing happens. The screen brightness does not adjust at all from 0% to 100%.
So what I am understanding here is that lux is either in Sub-Zero brightness, or it is at whatever I have the phone settings adjusted to.
I thought that anything ABOVE 0% would control the phone brightness, meaning if I have left the phone settings at 50% that lux would adjust the brightness from 50% to 0% of the settings of the phone,, but then if I go below that then it would dim even further, meaning Sub-Zero.
Right now what I am saying is that lux does nothing to the screen when above 0%, and only dims at below 0%
Is this correct or am I missing something...Doesn't seem right to me
So if i try to link a certain lux with a certain screen brightness level and that brightness is above 0%, then it would make no difference if I chose 5% or 75% as the screen is exactly the same brightness at both considering I am above the 0%
He has purchased the full version and has asked me to set it up for him since I'm the one that told him to use it, but I am having trouble understanding exactly how to do this.
I don't fully understand what I do with the actual phone settings for screen brightens, but I am assuming I simply leave it at 100%.
But then I when I bring up lux I don't understand what exactly is happening as the only thing that effects the screen is when it goes on the Sub-Zero side...but when it over the zero mark and into the positives then it makes no difference at all.
So example would be.
If I leave phone brightness settings at 50%.
Then I enable lux and try to adjust the screen brightness with it and all it does is this.
From -99 to Zero it adjusts screen brightness..But from Zero to 100% it does nothing pretty much.
In this case when I am at 0% in lux birghtness, the screen is at whatever the actual phone settings were set at, meaning at 50%,,,and when I go below the Zero mark the screen will darken and go into sub-zero,,,BUT if I go ABOVE 0% absolutely nothing happens. The screen brightness does not adjust at all from 0% to 100%.
So what I am understanding here is that lux is either in Sub-Zero brightness, or it is at whatever I have the phone settings adjusted to.
I thought that anything ABOVE 0% would control the phone brightness, meaning if I have left the phone settings at 50% that lux would adjust the brightness from 50% to 0% of the settings of the phone,, but then if I go below that then it would dim even further, meaning Sub-Zero.
Right now what I am saying is that lux does nothing to the screen when above 0%, and only dims at below 0%
Is this correct or am I missing something...Doesn't seem right to me
So if i try to link a certain lux with a certain screen brightness level and that brightness is above 0%, then it would make no difference if I chose 5% or 75% as the screen is exactly the same brightness at both considering I am above the 0%
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This is not how lux should behave. Lux manages your screen brightness from sub zero to 100%. I don't know the solution to your problem but I can confirm there is a problem.
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Thanks for confirming. . I feel responsible for recommending this to my friend and not be able to fix it.
Hopefully the developer comes in soon
Hopefully the developer comes in soon
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Lux - The Original Android Auto-Brightness App
So I thought I should make an XDA thread for Lux, over a year after releasing it to the Play Store!
FULL or FREE
Issues/Suggestions
If you have any issues or suggestions, please add them to the public issue tracker found here. Be sure to search first, duplicated issues will not work in your favour.
News
- Update to 1.51 released to Play Store!
- Profiles. Have different behaviour for day and night!
- Root plug-ins. Custom kernel with RGB control? Make a plug-in to utilise it!
- Improved notification
- Low pass filter
- Cubic interpolation
- Polish/French/Russian/German/Italian translation
- Manual sunrise location input
- Control Dashboard slider with vol. keys
- Fade duration/step
- Reduced battery usage
- Fixes
- Update to 1.06 released to Play Store!
- Automatic night mode (uses location for sunset/sunrise).
- Notification priority
- Enhanced dashboard and notification UI
- Enable/disable and refresh Lux via Tasker
- Bug fixes
- Update to 0.76 released to Play Store!
- Fixed brightness issues after call
- Update to 0.74 released to Play Store!
- Fixed max/phone brightness preferences swapped
- Added ignore 0 lux option
- Made static phone brightness optional
- Update to 0.70 released to Play Store!
- New 'ascending' automatic mode for zero jitter!
- Expandable notification for added control (Android 4.1+)
- Improved efficiency
- Install to OS functionality
- Set min/max brightness bounds
- Adjustable night mode
- Improved persistence (Android won't kill it!)
- Fixed Nexus 7 255 luma bug
- Fixed Tasker 'on wake' revert bug
- Compat. mode is now known as 'sleep mode'
- Night Mode now default Dashboard action (hold for Astro. mode)
- Misc. tweaks and fixes.
App Description
Lux isn't your ordinary brightness app. It intelligently adjusts the brightness of your display based on the environment you're in. If, for example, you step into a dimly lit room, Lux will automatically lower the brightness of your display to make it not only comfortable to read, but to also preserve battery power.
Lux provides the option to automatically adjust the backlight at fixed intervals (periodic mode), when a change in environment is detected (dynamic mode), or when the phone wakes from sleep. It's also possible to adjust the backlight manually. Simply disable automatic mode and you can use it like a traditional brightness tool!
Perhaps the best thing about Lux is that you can teach it how to behave. If the backlight is too bright or dim for your liking, simply open the provided Dashboard, adjust the brightness slider to the level you desire, then hold the link button. Lux will use this new 'link' as a reference in future.
Give it a go! I want you to test Lux for more than the 15 minute refund period offered by Google. I understand that some devices may not have the best quality light sensor, and that you may need more time to play around with settings. If you find that Lux doesn't suit you after the 15 minutes is up, you can request a refund at any time via e-mail - no questions asked.
★FEATURES★
■ Custom auto brightness.
■ Sub-zero brightness to make reading in the dark significantly less irritating.
■ Battery efficient
■ Handy brightness widget
■ Option to use the camera to read in ambient light.
■ Power-user settings such as choice of interpolation, sensor debugging, and linked sample editing.
■ Backup to SD.
■ 'Ascending' auto mode for phones with inaccurate light sensors.
■ Gradual fade for backlight adjustments.
■ Astronomer mode adds a red filter to the screen to preserve the eyesight of stargazers.
■ Jitter control to prevent constant small changes to the backlight.
■ Automatic night mode, to change the colour temperature of the display for comfortable night time viewing.
■ Add app specific exceptions via sleep mode
■ No ads, or other nuisances.
■ Tasker and Locale support!
Note: Please disable other brightness apps before using Lux. The author is not liable for any issues caused when using this app.
★PERMISSIONS★
TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEOS: Used to read in luma values, if camera input is selected.
DRAW OVER OTHER APPS: Required for night/astro mode.
READ PHONE STATE: Required to prevent Lux from interfering with phone controls in Android 4.1.
MODIFY SYSTEM SETTINGS: Brightness is a system setting, as is toggling the default auto brightness.
RETRIEVE RUNNING APPS: Required to make the 'sleep list' functionality work, so Lux can disable itself when certain apps are in the foreground.
COARSE LOCATION: Required to automatically calculate sunrise/sunset times.
IN APP BILLING: Required for purchasing future device specific root only plug-ins, to enhance functionality.14Lux Low-Level Plug-ins
Soon Lux will support plug-ins to bypass Android API limitations. These plug-ins serve to replace the overlay system Lux uses to make adjustments for Night/Astronomer modes and brightness in general. The plug-in library is free to use for non-commercial development, and can be found here:
Lux Plug-in Library | Nexus 4 Sample Plug-in Code
How to make a plug-in
There are two approaches to making a plug-in for Lux. The passive and the active method. The former is as easy as providing a set of superuser commands for Lux to interpret and apply. These command correlate to functions such as setting pixel RGB or brightness levels. This is the type of plug-in the Nexus 4 sample linked above takes.
The active method requires you produce your own code to perform RGB/brightness adjustments. This might include importing a device specific library to do the heavy lifting, and then returning empty superuser commands back to Lux.
Getting Started
Simply import the Lux Plug-in Library source into your IDE as an Android Library Project, and then create a new Android app which extends PassiveDisplay.java.
PassiveDisplay provides hooks into Lux's plug-in framework, which you can use to provide superuser commands for Lux to execute. These commands correlate to functions such as setting RGB values. Take a look at the sample Nexus 4 project to see how it's all done.
Finally, in your new project's AndroidManifest.xml file, add the following:
Code:<activity android:name="com.vitocassisi.lux.plugin.MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <receiver android:name="com.vitocassisi.lux.plugin.LuxBroadcastReceiver" android:exported="true" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="com.vitocassisi.lux.plugin.search" /> </intent-filter> </receiver> <service android:name=".[B]MY_PLUGIN[/B]" android:exported="true" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="[B]YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME_HERE[/B]" /> </intent-filter> </service>
Be sure to replace YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME_HERE with the name of your plug-in's package, and MY_PLUGIN with your extended PassiveDisplay class.
And that's it! Now you're ready to test!
Enabling Plug-In support within Lux
To enable plug-in support, you must check 'Enable plug-in support' in the Advanced section of Lux settings. Enabling this option forfeits all responsibility of mine for any issues caused while using Lux. Plug-in's can cause very real damage to your device if they're written incorrectly - don't use plug-ins from sources you don't trust!
Testing your plug-in
Testing is critical for creating a good plug-in. You are dealing directly with system files, and can easily cause damage if you do not know what you're doing.
DO NOT RELEASE A PLUG-IN WITHOUT TESTING IT ON THE TARGET DEVICE FIRST!
Ensure that the following work with your plug-in installed:
- Astronomer Mode
- Night Mode
- General brightness adjustment
- Lux readings functional
BE METICULOUS WITH YOUR IMPLEMENTATION OF isSupportedDevice()!
Modifying system files on the wrong model/kernel may cause irreversible issues!
Licence
Code:Copyright © 2013 Vito Cassisi You may not use this library except in compliance with the following: - It cannot be used for commercial purposes under any circumstances, unless explicit permission is granted in writing from the author. - Modifications to this library may not be distributed. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under this licence is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.11Lux v1.99.8 released (staged rollout)
- Added CF.lumen support (don't need CF.lumen active, just install the driver). Acts as a plug-in for all Android 4.4+ devices. Please buy the pro version to support his work.
- System autobrightness enabled during calls
- Option to shake at lockscreen to increase brightness
- Option to prevent drop in brightness in landscape
- Enforced persistent notification, added system removal method
- Fixed dashboard width issue
- Fixed notification priority resetting at boot
- Misc. fixes11Hey everyone. Sorry to hear that people are having issues with the paid version. I'm working on hotfixes at the moment. A lot of these bugs don't appear on my test devices, which is why regressions happen seemingly randomly. I'm working hard on finding a reliable way to reproduce and test these issues to prevent this happening again.9Apologies to everyone for not being around lately. I've been answering support via email.
A new release is rolling out on the market to 5% of users. Please use the 'Send Feedback' button in Lux preferences if you experience issues. Also, feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. - Update to 1.51 released to Play Store!
