Back Light Modification

[jeff.leonard]

I would like to find a way to modify the amount of time the backlight is on for the bottom buttons. I know there is a MOD that uses these for notification in place of the LED we don't have; so I am guessing someone knows how to modify this setting. I would like to be able to make the backlight remain on anytime the screen is on. I am more than willing (and would actually like to) to do the work if someone here can get me started.

Thanks
Jeff

 

[Kaik541]

no one has yet found a way to do this, not sure if it's possible, but who knows.

https://github.com/project-voodoo/backlightnotification/tree/master/liblights/

^ that's neldar's work for backlight notifications, lights.c is the modified file and lights.c.original is what was modified. go ahead and play with that to see what you can find out.

 

[jeff.leonard]

Thanks for the info and link. I will certainly look into it and see what I can do. Persistance may pay off eventually!

Jeff

 

[a.vandelay]

actually the epic 4g has this setting built in. on that phone the slide-out keyboard back light has the same timer as the 4 soft keys and you have the option to sync both to the screen.

so maybe posting over there to or just getting the epic source would help.

 

[Kaik541]

actually the epic 4g has this setting built in. on that phone the slide-out keyboard back light has the same timer as the 4 soft keys and you have the option to sync both to the screen.

so maybe posting over there to or just getting the epic source would help.

the setting is still tied to liblights.c and it isn't tied to the length of the screen timeout, it's the softkeys tied to the keyboard keys (which use the same settings/binary)... the keyboard is just an extension of the softkeys so the solution would still lie in modifying liblights.c

 

[peachpuff]

Just get one of the i9000 roms with the setiron kernel, it has backlight notifications among other things.