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[APP] LUMOS v1.0 *FINAL* (Complete HTC Auto-Backlight replacement) [UPD.:08-02-2011]

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. . . . (current version 1.0 FINAL)
More control. More battery. More comfort.
Lumos is fully customizable automatic backlight level changer developed as a complete replacement for stock HTC auto-backlight service. A wide range of HTC branded devices is supported starting from HTC Diamond/Touch Pro up to the current WM flagship HD2.
Lumos focuses on minimal CPU usage, maximum battery saving, low memory footprint while maintaining maximum backlight change smoothness and responsiveness. Lumos combines the best from all available auto-backlight solutions and adds many extras for your tweaking needs
Features:
- simple and clean installation and uninstalation
- extremely low CPU usage when working, 0.05-0.3% on polling
- NO battery and CPU overhead (drainage) unless you actively use your device's display
- low memory profile considering all the options
- simple and reliable configuration GUI with easy step-by-step calibration process
- many options that let you change every aspect of how your backlight works
- program exceptions to set different backlight for any application
- relative excaptions allow you to amplify/attenuate the automatic backlight for specific applications
- ability to force display ALWAYS ON for certain application
- integrated tool to detect all active application names, leave it running in the background and it will log all application names you use
- configuration failsafe. No matter what you do, Lumos won't crash, just tell you what is wrong and use defaults.
- supports vast majority of HTC branded devices since HTC Diamond
- many supported languages
See this thread for details and news and download:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450318
Enjoy the light

Hi Nik3r, going to try it and report back...

Hi,
Can you explain what are the advantages to use your soft compared to the original ?

looks i did everything correctly, including calibration (770 units for maximum light, 0 for dark), Lumos is automatically started after soft reboot but - opening it explicitly from the program directory - it says that Lumos is temporarily disabled and no backlight control happening indeed....should i switch ON automatic light control in
settings-->Power?
any other explicit instruction to be given?

Read the FAQ more carefully next time
Lumos is DISABLED as long as the LumosWizard (configuration) is active. Click Save+Apply on the bottom to exit LumosWizard and start the invisible service.
and Auto backlight in Power settings of your device must be DISABLED

can't wait to give it a go.... (once i get my device!)

Thanks for the update.
I tested for about 20 minutes, and it seems to work good, except that, if I open the wizard and then select 'exit' and 'start service', it seems to forget to return to the minimal backlight, after it is exposed to strong light (almost max. backlight).
When I repeat above steps, but first selecting button 'Save+Apply', everything works good.

The HD light sensor seems too "insenstive" for my expectations. It needs a fair amount of direct light to rise above 0.
In a dimly lit livingroom, my screen needs to be brighter than in bed with my wife sleeping next to me.
This difference is impossible to achieve, and then I might as well stick to the standard.

That is weird I can't seem to reproduce, can you write a step by step what to do to see this bug? Including current light levels.
I have lowest backlight (it's dark)
open LumosWizard - it sets backlight 6 during configuration
I expose device to maximum light tap Exit - Yes (to start Lumos service)
I move away from the light to shade and backlight dims back to minimum I had before teh test in ~2s
Can you write such step by step to reproduce it? I can't fix it if I can't see it
ugumba:
try to play with the Force BL=0 option, one guy from the Raphael forum is using value 1 (so it dims when sensor reports steady 0 in bed for example) and otherwise it's automatically between min and max backlight

nik3r said:
Read the FAQ more carefully next time
Lumos is DISABLED as long as the LumosWizard (configuration) is active. Click Save+Apply on the bottom to exit LumosWizard and start the invisible service.
and Auto backlight in Power settings of your device must be DISABLED
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OK you are right. Anyway, the modulation of the backlighting was extremely small - probably i misunderstood the "maximum light" description and i put it under a very strong source, which essentially calibrated the system to always stay dim...

I would like to thanks you man because this app works really great!!!
you're the boss.
Thanks dude

Someone complained about extra scrollbar sometimes visible on the settings tab, does anyone experience the same problem? Should I decrease the usable height for the tab panels by a few pixels? (it's possible because I don't know anyone with HD)
Can someone experiencing this glitch post an unscaled screenshot, co I can measure the available pixels and change accordingly?

I haven't problem with scrollbars, and I have an attach my screen picture.
As for the problem with lower limit, today I start looking my device in a dark place and my backlight was in the lowest value.
After that gradually I went to a brighter place - my backlight became lighter - and after in a brighter ... at the point my backlight was at the brightest point (10).
After that I returned to the darkest place - my backlight became 4 - after in a a brighter point - my backlight went to 6 - and at the end I went in a totally dark place, but the backlight sticked at 2 and never went at the lowest point.
p.s. sorry for my english

Thanks for the screenshot, seems all right but still I will decrease the height by 2pixels just in case
and at the end I went in a totally dark place, but the backlight sticked at 2 and never went at the lowest point.
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This is exactly what tolerance is supposed to do.
Let's say you are at 10, backlight goes gradually down as you go away from teh light slowly. But if you have tolerance set to '1', it won't change until the backlight is supposed to change by 2.
If you move really carefully away so it fades one by one it will go like this:
10-9-8(change)-7-6(change)-5-4(change)-3-2(change)-1
= your backlight is stuck at last value 2, because you tolerate imprecission of 1.
let's say you move away fast so it's not linear
10-3(change)-2-1(change) = all is fine
and now even a bit faster
10-2(change)-1 = stuck
this is good outside because you save battery but I recommend using the Force BL=0 below option along with tolerance or it won'T sometimes go down to 1.
So, try
tolerance = 0
or leave
tolerance: 1
Force BL=0 below: 5 (or 1 or something small )

ugumba said:
The HD light sensor seems too "insenstive" for my expectations. It needs a fair amount of direct light to rise above 0.
In a dimly lit livingroom, my screen needs to be brighter than in bed with my wife sleeping next to me.
This difference is impossible to achieve, and then I might as well stick to the standard.
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This is because of hardware problem of HTC light sensor (too cheap sensor?).
To correct it, one should use nonlinear scale for low light intensity.
This is possible with G-light, which looks to me more relevant and advanced for HD.
Just to illustrate what I said, I publish my nonlinear scale in G-light (works fine in the twilight):
level min max
1 0 2
2 3 20
3 21 100
4 101 200
.....
9 601 700
10 701 1000
Has LUMOS linear scale only?

It uses automatic linear scale, I yet have to implement quadratic and logaritmic function.
If you want different behaviour, try to override your sensor calibration (set it a bit lower like 500) and use Force BL=0 and Force BL=1 in settings.
try something like:
MAX_BL_LUMENS = 700
MIN_BL_LUMENS = 0
MAX_BACKLIGHT = 8
MIN_BACKLIGHT = 3
DIM_TO_MINIMUM_BELOW = 1
DIM_TO_MINIMUM_PLUS_ONE_BELOW = 120

Yes, you are so right, I understood what is happening.
Thanks
Please, accept my donation (confirmation number: 327776023L896074D)

You're welcome, thanks for support

malfunction upon wakeup AND Unlock
nik3r,
hopefully this is not because of my setting.
reproduce:
lock the phone, wait till the phone sleeps, leave it for a while (now the screen should be off)
press power button to wake up the phone, now the phone is dim but still locked
unlock the phone, screen still dim, unless i start lumos (the wizard) then exit
sometimes after a long while after unlocking, lumos will kick in and screen changes brightness.
i have also reproduced this problem with HDTweak, which that program there is an auto-lock setting, which kicks in when the screen brightness dims, which in turn is set in the settings->systems->power->advanced tab.
all tests were done on battery power.

Lumos v09
Lumos v09 has been released
This version introduces a few new minor features but focuses mainly on fixing most (if not all) known bugs and improving reliability and ease of use for new users. CPU usage and battery life should be the same or little better than v08 but the difference is nominal.
My battery can last 4-5 days now with low usage
Main new features:
- exceptions can be set to detect only active window (both modes have similar CPU usage)
- installation will automatically disable the built-in HTC auto backlight
- uninstallation will return auto backlight to its former state
- LumosWizard can return backlight to former levels upon exit
- setting tolerance won't prevent backlight from going to lowest and highest settings
- added LumosStarter.exe that (re)starts Lumos service without any feedback
Main bug fixes:
- fixed bug when Lumos got stuck on device softreset due to a bug in HTC sensor libraries
- fixed bug that would set AC power brightness on switch from cable to battery even if disabled in settings
- fixed glitches while deleting and saving multiple exceptions
- fixed erratic backlight control during operation of LumosWizard
.. and many more I forgot to track
If you like and use Lumos, you are welcome to donate.
Enjoy the new version!

[APP][03.23.09] Shake&Win

Full QVGA, VGA, WVGA and WQVGA support
HOW TO USE
Shake the phone to generate numbers.
If you want to select some manual numbers or scroll to something, click the button under the wheel.
Click the lock button to lock all numbers in place (prevent accidental shakes)
To Exit the program press Middle button on the NAV pad or the X in the right corner.
Settings:
Choose Number of wheels to show (1 - 6 NOT including the red one)
Set the Max Number for each wheel
Red Wheel can be enabled or disabled
Red Wheel can be set to be unique from the other numbers, or any number
Adjust the shake sensitivity - 5 Being the most Sensitive and 15 Being the least
All comments are welcome, this is my first official working piece of software.
Enjoy
UPDATE: VERSION 2 IS OUT
The updated version has a customization screen, so you can adjust just about every setting. Try it out and let me know how it goes. Good Luck !
REMOVED Most of the Update History, if you want it, it's in the History.txt
UPDATE: VERSION 2.8
Some updates for WQVGA
Added some sounds
Added a manual spin button
TODO:
Add favorites for multiple lottery
Keep the comments coming, always glad to hear feedback
Check it out at this thread

Rhodium as productivity tool (disabling TF3D etc.)

Hi all,
I got my TP2 a week ago. I bought it as a tiny laptop.
To be honest I rather had a TP2 and a magnifying glas with me than a netbook
I am absolutely willing to be only able to use the stylus. I need much information on the screen, not finger friendly buttons.
I needed to disable all that "finger friendly" **** that has been built into the device.
So far I did:
- Settings |Personal | Today  Disable TouchFol3D
- Settings | System | Screen | Text-Size  smallest
- install .Net-Framework (newest Generation)
- install HD-Tweak
- run HD-Tweak:
- all values to “advised”, except:
- 1.4 Disabled (= Speakerphone when phone FaceDown)
- 1.8 Std.
- 1.9 Vibrate
- 2.1 Enabled
- 2.2 Enabled
- 2.3 classic
- 3.4 Improve
- 11.1.-3. enabled, 11.6-11.7 3 MPx
- 13.1 Max Connections 16
- 13.2 HTC HD Orange
- 20.1 Keyb. Automatic Display – Disabled
But I still have:
- oversized start menu
- oversized menus
- non-working IExplore (a website displayed on my 240x320 Nokia N73 is much better displayed than on the TP2-IE)
- full screen volume control (instead of the small slider of WM5)
- full sized 'notifications' instead of WM5-bahavior (when you press the battery icon for instance)
How would I disable all that?
Thank you, Franky
P.S. menu fonts (and some other fonts) in RDP sessions are totally distorted. I solved that by installing and using the freeware zaDesktop (http://www.zatelnet.com/zadesktop/main.php).

Dude, why??

Exactly the same for me
I have exactly the same usage and the same f#@g displayed problems.
And more, there is something really anoying : I would have prefer select by one click and launch with another. Like on Nokia phones. When I scroll on history call, I really often call back... I tought i would have been changer but no. Is there a way to do that ?
Thanks

Customization Tools
I agree with Franky24. The TF3D is kinda annoying and I prefer to use the stylus instead of my finger. I am a fan of the HTC Home app because it seems to be more functional and easier to use. I forget where I found the one for the Rhodium but you can find it by searching for BigHTCHome.cab
These may also help you customize it the way you want:
To have smaller menus:
QuickMenu - A start menu replacement that looks similar to a Windows XP start menu. Find it here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-quickmenu-v2-7.html
To change the notification bar to the old windows mobile style:
Open a registry editor and navigate to:
HKLM\Services\NOTIFICATIONMANAGER\Flags
Change the value from 0 to 4
You will have to be more specific about the problem you are having with IExplore if you want anyone to be able help you with it.
I am still trying to get the old style volume control to work on my TP2 and will let you know the fix when I figure it out.
Hope this helps

Franky24 said:
Hi all,
I got my TP2 a week ago. I bought it as a tiny laptop.
To be honest I rather had a TP2 and a magnifying glas with me than a netbook
I am absolutely willing to be only able to use the stylus. I need much information on the screen, not finger friendly buttons.
I needed to disable all that "finger friendly" **** that has been built into the device.
So far I did:
- Settings |Personal | Today  Disable TouchFol3D
- Settings | System | Screen | Text-Size  smallest
- install .Net-Framework (newest Generation)
- install HD-Tweak
- run HD-Tweak:
- all values to “advised”, except:
- 1.4 Disabled (= Speakerphone when phone FaceDown)
- 1.8 Std.
- 1.9 Vibrate
- 2.1 Enabled
- 2.2 Enabled
- 2.3 classic
- 3.4 Improve
- 11.1.-3. enabled, 11.6-11.7 3 MPx
- 13.1 Max Connections 16
- 13.2 HTC HD Orange
- 20.1 Keyb. Automatic Display – Disabled
But I still have:
- oversized start menu
- oversized menus
- non-working IExplore (a website displayed on my 240x320 Nokia N73 is much better displayed than on the TP2-IE)
- full screen volume control (instead of the small slider of WM5)
- full sized 'notifications' instead of WM5-bahavior (when you press the battery icon for instance)
How would I disable all that?
Thank you, Franky
P.S. menu fonts (and some other fonts) in RDP sessions are totally distorted. I solved that by installing and using the freeware zaDesktop (http://www.zatelnet.com/zadesktop/main.php).
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Hi,
Interesting customization you have done.
Can you share with us a comparative in performance after uninstalling all "friendly" stuff please?
Thanks in advance,

Volume fix
Ok, so I found a thread here that changes the volume control to the original windows mobile controls. I tried it last night and it works. There is a cab attached to post # 7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431588

I'd love to see some screens!

[GAME]Do not get angry, buddy

Hi people.
There is a snowy weather outside,cold,so ideal conditions for starting of something new.
So I decided to develop my collective favourite game named "Do not get angry, buddy",but in nice,modern design with finger-friendly interface. This pictures shows,how actually should appear main interface and some components.
What do you think about?
Please let me know...
And...it will be free of charge.
And...don't throw your PDA against the wall while playing
Rules:
After start the game,you and opponent(s) will have all pieces in the jail. You have 3 attempts to get a "6" to leave the jail,but 3 attempts you have only,if you have all pieces in jail. After you hit "6",you are allowed to turn once again,but maximum 10 turns in one shift. A "6" from a jail will lead selected piece to free start field. After that,your piece is moved a distance related the number in order(turn). If there is already your piece at the destination,you cannot make a move and you should choose another piece. If you haven't any chance to move with all pieces,so pity,continues the opponent in the order. If there is opponent's piece at your destination,you send him back to jail and your piece stands on his previous field. You cannot step into opponent's start field. Your goal is to send all your pieces to home,in the middle of the playfield,but you must move your pieces through whole track clockwise to the home. Once your piece is standing at home,it is in a safe,opponents can't send it to jail anymore,because they can not step into your home. All turns with more "6" presents standalone turn,during which you could move different pieces and the destination is everytime current(not calculated each together). Turns available are displayed at the bottom of the screen and you cannot change the order of them,they goes from the left side and the "X" sign is displayed over used turns. The winner is,who leads all own pieces at home first.
Controls:
After starting up program,the menu is displayed and you should choose your groups to play. After starting the game with PLAY! button,all pieces for selected groups are in the jail and there is displayed big coloured button,which signalizes,which player should make a turn. Also the rounded LED in the middle signalizes this status all the time. Turning the wheel is by simple touch of the wheel(yes,I tried to scroll it physicaly with sliding finger,but it didn't work well).
After you turn the wheel,you get the number,which is then displayed within Available turns area. Immediately software is calculating,which pieces you can move with current number and if any,it displays the numbered smilies. There is also STOP flag displayed over the smiley,which you cannot move. Each smiley represents numbered piece. They are independent,so it doesn't matter,whether you begin with 4 or 1. Just the last thing,you can enter the menu by touching the LED in the middle of the playfield.
The "Debug mode" is actualy not for playing,because instead of the scrolling wheel with random numbers,you have to choose your favorite number,so it is not so funny. You can change this flag also during the game,by enter into the menu,modify it and by pressing the CANCEL button(it stores this value even tough you want to cancel the menu).
ModList:
v1.0
-initial version
v1.1
- added "Debug mode"
- added some animations
- bug fixes
v1.2
- modified dialog window
- all screen resolutions support,but 240x240
- bug fixes
v1.3
- added piece animations
- added explosion animation while send opponent to jail
- removed dialog window
- added full graphic menu
- bug fixes
v1.4
- added "About box" in Menu window
- expanded explosion from 32 to 72 pixels(limit of the playfield physical dimensions,able to increase it even more,but wit graphical bug at the bottom the playfield,that's out of 480pix.boundary at this moment)
- solved multitasking,while return to app.
- bug fixes(that's neverending story...)
v1.5
- added colored wheel arrows,depending on the player,that is on the turn
- solved explosion graphics described above,now is the explosion really big
- added sound effects
- added more game options:
-- automatic screen rotation by player
-- enable/disable animations(speed up the game)
-- enable/disable sounds
-- enable/disable explosion
-- enable/disable player confirmation request
-- game overs with all at home or last on the road
- autosave game on exit
- autoload saved game by hitting Cancel at startup(useful if you want to replace battery during game)
v1.6 (in development)
- support for non-touchscreen devices,whose I really like
- detection for landscape displays and automatic screen rotation,so one can play it on the devices with landscape oriented screens(system screen will turn)
v1.7 (in developer's mind)
- changing system screen rotation behavior,playfield will keep same orientation
(This will be a really big deal(for square displays with possibility to make the orientation to 90/270dgs,all bitmaps should be doubled or I should find a way,how to rotate original),lot of coding,positioning etc. What do you think? It is necessary?)
Well,I will upload newer versions here.
Enjoy.

Cool looking game
I'd play it. Looks neat.

Nice. What is the goal of the game?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_ärgere_dich_nicht

We loved this game as a kid. I stopped playing it in the new techy world...would be awesome to have a game like this, and get some of those old memories back! Hope to see a working version soon...

I started it today from a scratch. Still working on design and thinking on layout.
However,something updated...
It will also not have original cube,but cylinder-like wheel of fortune
Main idea is to move the pieces,which are numbered(original aren't),because of small dimensions of them using 4 numbered big smilies. So they supplies in principle buttons which let you choose the current piece on the road for movement.
If some piece(s) are unable to move,the STOP sign will be displayed over current smiley.
Well I am fair(hope),so I will not implement any cheats to bring a "6" for my turn.
I just hope to bring it before christmas,to achieve well stay at cottage with friends and some glasses of drinks.

great idea! I am looking forwart to try this game!

Hi guys,development in progress...
Let's turn the wheel...
That's for today...

TomasNM said:
Hi guys,development in progress...
Let's turn the wheel...
That's for today...
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That looks good...

Hi TomasNM
Is it for all resolutions?
Thanks for sharing

First of all,it will run on VGA portrait devices(I own TouchPro). After working version,I will focus on WVGA and later maybe also QVGA and WQVGA. That "working version" I mean fully usable game,yet without animations etc.

Ok, I'll wait

thanks for sharing

Thanks a lot!, looking forward to the final release

So here we go.
Working on that.
I have temporarily disabled the scrollwheel,because of some bugs,however you could now try the controls...

Progress...
Nearly playable,just few more conditions to resolve.

is this like Ludo?
oh God, I miss my childhood games!

Yes,it is like Ludo.
Don't worry,I will finish playable version soon...
However,I am looking for some beta testers.

So guys,here is hopefuly first playable version...

TomasNM said:
So guys,here is hopefuly first playable version...
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Awesome...I can be your beta tester if you want...just pm me..

[GUIDE] HTC M8 Tips, Tricks, Features, Reference

So, I didn't see a thread with different tips, tricks and features for the M8 and figured I'd add one. There are a lot of things that people don't know about this phone, especially someone like me coming from a Note 3 (Touchwiz) phone. I was on HTC for a while before my Samsung stint and have been learning all sorts of cool new things. Below is a start:
Phandroid.com tips, tricks guide >
Click Here
Other tips:
Double tapping will turn on the screen, but it will also turn OFF the screen while in lockscreen.
Zoe Highlights
Create your own mini-movies in seconds. Choose the pictures and videos you want to combine, select a theme and add a soundtrack.* Easy as that. And when you're done, share them with friends and let them add to the fix.
HTC BlinkFeed
Even easier to use. Simply swipe left and you'll automatically enjoy your personalized information stream, Facebook and Twitter posts, breaking news, sports scores and more. Stop digging through online clutter and start enjoying what means the most to you.
HTC Sense TV™
We've completely redesigned it this year to provide a richer and more immersive navigation experience, including social feeds and live sports stats.
Extreme Power Saving Mode
The battery in the HTC One (M8) lasts 40% longer than before. Extreme Power Save mode gives you up to 2 weeks of standby time while still giving you manual access to calls, email, texts, and other basic functions. Even with just 10% battery, you’ll have 30 hours of standby time with Extreme Power Saving Mode.**
Pedometer sensor
Download the Fitbit® app to collect data from the M8’s sensor hub and display your activity stats, including steps, calories, and distance.
Variable slow-motion
Capture in slow motion, and then change the playback speed of a segment in the video to add a more hilarious or dramatic effect.
Pause and go video
Eliminate multiple video files with just a single perfect video. Use the pause button when video recording to pause it, then you can reposition yourself, or wait for the next great moment, and continue recording.
A refined user experience with HTC Sense® 6 that is beautiful and simple
• Color coded themes for easy navigation
• New, beautiful font adapted for high resolution displays
• Install your own fonts
• New, visually simpler icons
• New keyboards for faster input
• Flip to Silent – silence when you need it - quickly flip device to silence ringer
• Quiet Ring – ringer works as much as you need it to, especially while around others -- device knows when you pick it up and automatically decreases ringer volume
• Pocket Mode – hear your device even when it’s tucked away -- device rings louder when enclosed in pocket/bag
• Do Not Disturb - Easily avoid any interruption during a meeting or overnight – block incoming calls /turn down notification sound/vibration.
Any other things that we should add to this list? Let me know.

Other miscellaneous Tips
I have a pair of Samsung earbuds (came with my Note 3, essentially same as any Galaxy S3, S4, and Note 2 earbuds).
Volume Up - Skips Track
Volume Down - Rewinds Track to beginning
Answer - Pauses/Play Track