O2 Atom comes with two bright WHITE LED next to the CMOS camera... There is a build-in self-testing program that let the LED lit on for testing purpose... Just wondering if anyone write a program and make the device grow in the dark like SE 750i/800i did?
can anybody "shed some light" by showing the coding?
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Hi,
why not automatically adjust the universal's background light by its light sensor? I suppose this must be possible (ok, only in "notebook mode", not in "PDA mode"). Or is the information given by the sensor binary: "dark" / "bright"?
I would highly appreciate if the device's display would shine bright in the sunshine and dimmed at night. I'm not a windows mobile developer, but I believe this feature should be possible.
Best regards,
tomestos
The backlight makes almost no difference at all when the device is in direct sunlight... It would be really nice to have the backlight dim a little in dark surroundings though. As far as I know the light sensor on the phone is only 'dark', 'light', but even that is fairly useful.
Is the sensor in the registry anywhere and can its values be edited? I find it doesnt come on in low ambient light enviroments when it would be usefull.
JAmes
I'm interested in it, too! It's would be beautiful, if the sensor switches between light and dark! But I didn't find s.th. in the registry at all!
I had found s.th in the registry like that: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight\AutoSensor
Perhaps it will be helpful for the project
The HP Jornada 928 had such a sensor to control the backlighting, and I found it invaluable - especially in an open top sports car.
However, a manager for their UK support centre told me that they got so many complaints about it (or user problems with it) that they removed it from later/Compaq models.
astage said:
The HP Jornada 928 had such a sensor to control the backlighting, and I found it invaluable - especially in an open top sports car.
However, a manager for their UK support centre told me that they got so many complaints about it (or user problems with it) that they removed it from later/Compaq models.
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Not true... My old HP hx4700 still had this feature. And indeed, it is indispensible. Very handy when checking your stuff in the open air. Only downside is when you have a shadow cast over your PDA (say: a window stile or something). Then it would brighten and darken, depending on whether or not the shadow obscured the sensor or not.
On second thoughts: I can imagine where the support calls were coming from...
Nobody an idea?
Hi everybody,
I want to bump this topic up, cause there are so many possibilities in a usable light sensor.
For example, i have found an alarm clock, that can go to "snooze mode" if it senses, that lamp in its ambience has been turned on.
And so on, and so on...
So how to read out from the Windows kernel the state of the light sensor??
DOMy
Hey, aren't there any developers??
Pease, couldn't we solve the problem of accessing to the lightsensor?
DOMy
Ok, flame away because this is probably posted elsewhere in the forum but I promised I searched and don't see it.
On my HTC Wizard (T-Mobile MDA) the 'messaging' app button has 3 white triangles and one dark triangle that I would swear looks like it's an LED light down there. Can anyone confirm this and advise if there are programs to take advantage of it? Mine has never lit up (assuming it is a light at all!)
In the end, I'd love if I could route the 'notification' smart key to a light up there for new mail so I stop losing my 'calendar' button all the time.
Thanks!
bump...
Ok, so nobody knows about this? Or am I just on crack and the only one who things that right black triangle on the mail envelope looks like a light?
LOL!
Ur seeing the light from the notification LEDS. I guess its probably reflecting off the PCB inside and coming thru the messaging button.
I hate to burst your bubble but it's not a light. My first phone had the dark corner but the second and third did not. And there are plenty of pix of the inside of the thing, you can see for yourself.
Is there a way/software that will turn on the camera light of the wizard?
It is handy in dark areas to be able to say press and hold the camera button and have the light go on...
...it will drain your batteries and decreases the lifetime of the 'lightbulb' enormously. Try attached plamp instead...
nah, the "flash" is a suface mount LED. LED's have a very long lifespan... it will long out-live the phones operating life.
Handy program, thanks!
...stupid of me, i never looked for it:
in my screen i've got 3 icons to the right: a lightning strike (i thought for autoflashing), working set and folder my pictures.
If you tap lightning strike lightning led stays on...
See, ...still learning by helping eachother...
Krinkiespijer said:
If you tap lightning strike lightning led stays on...
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yeah but then how do you get it to flash right before it takes the picture like all cameras with a flash do? because with the lightning bolt with a line through it doesn't have a flash...
...probably i've got a flash problem. Mine doesn't flash. I only can activate the light. I never noticed this because normally i use a digital camera (4Mpix) for pictures.
I don't believe it is a flash. It is only a light.
well it is the same as a flash, but it just stays on... i guess it is to help the camera so it doesn't have to adjust so much in a little bit. But it is kinda annoying trying to take a picture of youself with the light on.
The LED for the Wizard doesn't flash, it merely stays on.
well... technically it DOES flash...
It stays on to light the area, then when you actually take the picture it gets super bright (flashes) to light up the area for the picture.
Agreed, once the light is on (no slash on the lightning) it will flash (get brighter, not like a real flash but brighter than before) when u take a picture.
A program would be useful anyway to voice-command launch this feature...
Any Ideas?? (VJCandela does not seem to work on wizard T-mo 2.26 ROM)
So....Any programmer willing to help????
Hi, does anybody know how to light up the side buttons with which you can pick up and kill call? I mean when the HTC is closed with display in. I guess it would be great to have the light on in the night, but I have no idea how to do it. Somebody guessed that the light comes from display, so it only lights up, when the display is on, but that is not true, because I already had it on, while closed (some application did not close). Any help?
How can I replace the lightbulb in my HTC Universal? I didn't really use this feature much unless taking photos (which never turn out anything but grainy and blurry for me), however, I finally discovered VJCandella, and now I have found out that the bulb is broken (I'm just assuming here that it is a xenon flash bulb, or is it an even brighter LED than normal? LEDs usually don't ever die).
I want to replace this bulb to use VJcandella, but I don't know where to start looking, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I wonder if we can replace it with something else, for example a blue color LED, a motor, or something.
Is there anybody who can check the voltage and the current on the place of the flash led?
Blufires said:
How can I replace the lightbulb in my HTC Universal?
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Check out the wiki... see the Service Manual for the Uni
An alternative:
Buy a 1W bright LED from eBay and that should be ok...
regards