Thread: [Under consideration] Adaptive backlight time-out
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soeiro is offline soeiro
2010-02-21 , 16:25
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#5
Originally Posted by fhofer View Post
Hi soeiro, I like the accelerometer idea. That makes sense. However, the device movement should probably not prevent the device from auto-dimming completely, just make the interval longer... so that the device does not staly lit all the time while you are traveling for instance.
Maybe a configurable option. Two examples:
1) Easy one:
a) User starts the back-light monitoring application, chooses the "accelerometer mode" and switches to the applicatino that she wants to use. The backlight-monitoring is active, but in background.
b) While reading, browsing, playing or handling the N900, the accelerometer keeps it lit.
c) After finishing the activities, the user disables "accelerometer mode" and the N900 won't stay lit while driving.

2) Difficult one:
a) Each application can query the backlight-monitoring thread and set some values. Just like video players or games can do (I guess).
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