[EDIT - I forgot to mention what this app does!]
All, this is a new version of VJLumos for the Hermes (primarily). VJLumos is used to take advantage of the brief flash of extra brightness you see when you start the camera.
VJLumos puts your device into that extra bright mode (semi-)permanently.
You are advised to look up VJLumos II on my website to find out more detail.
Guys, I'm stuck in court every day until Christmas, so I'm not getting much programming done these days, and when I am, it's on a new website, not C++
However, I finally gave VJLumos another crack, since I can't believe the Hermes screen is so pale. So here you go, a TEST version of VJLumos III. It's not feature complete yet, but it works (I think )
Instructions:
Launch it to make the screen brighter.
Launch it again to disable it.
While VJLumos is on, you cannot use the camera. Deactivate it (ie load it a second time) to use the camera.
It seems to work, and seems to survive pressing standby. I may add more features as required, but it's hot off the press for you guys to try out.
Let me know if it works, what you think, and how your battery life gets on.
No installer for now, just run the app.
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjlumosiii/vjlumosiii.exe
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PS It may work on other devices.
For the Magician, use VJLumos II
For the Wizard, send me a wizard and I'll support it!
On the Universal it doesn't make much difference, so not recommended.
But on the Hermes, super brite!
thank you very much
worked fine but we can't run the camera ,, Why!!!
the error is : the camera is in use ,, we have to exit from the super brite to open the camera
anyway ,, thank u 2much bro
@its right: It's because you're too f***ing lazy to read a damn thing! vijay has told on several occasions how his hack works. Basically: load the camera (not visible) and voila!
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PS It may work on other devices.
For the Magician, use VJLumos II
For the Wizard, send me a wizard and I'll support it!
On the Universal it doesn't make much difference, so not recommended.
But on the Hermes, super brite!
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"send me a Wizard" hehe, i'd love to have more devices to study them too but in this case i don't think it's needed since the Wizard has a very bright display. I use it on the lowest level (bellow that light is off ) and only if sunlight is hitting it directly it's needed to increase the backlight
cheers
thank you.
its working great on my hermes...
thank a lot.
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only if sunlight is hitting it directly it's needed to increase the backlight
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Is that so? I'd love that while watching movies on my Magician. Lowest level is only sufficient under blanket ;-)
Chatty, what phone are you on now? Did you ever get your camera thing sorted out?
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Is that so? I'd love that while watching movies on my Magician. Lowest level is only sufficient under blanket ;-)
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yep, i even use it as a flashlight in my home at night when all lights are off and get sore eyes when trying to see the time in the middle of the night. All this in lowest brightness level
I've tried VJLumos on my Magician and Hermes, and suprisingly the Hermes screen is slightly brighter. The Universal is quite dark, and the Mio a701 is quite bright (but VJLumos doesn't work on this).
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Can you possibly make on/off comand line options in addition to the default toggle.
This makes it possible to automatically turn your app off before launching camera app.
Somebody willing to test a little hack on his/her Hermes? It should lighten up its display without doing a softreset if you start the camera app...
For me the Lumos program has the added plus of disabling my unit's internal CPU clock scaling, so it runs at full speed while on. Although I do not have the hermes or tytn, this probably applies to all new HTC units with internal camera.
This has also helped me with PHM overclocking in the past, because the conflict of controling the CPU was removed while using the Lumos program.
Max CPU speed is probably also why the battery drains faster.
Lol, that's a good "feature"!
Chatty, I'll be intersted, I think I found another way to do it recently as well without using the camera function. Haret also shows another way. But send me over a test app if you have one.
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vijay555 said:
I think I found another way to do it recently as well without using the camera function. Haret also shows another way.
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What are those ways? Mine involves nothing but a few peeks and pokes around 0xB00013xx.
I'll be disclosing my new program in a few days... anxiuos about hearing about your success on hermes with it.
Works on Prophet
Hi,
Thanks for this app. VJLumosIII works on my i-mate Jamin, so it should work on the Prophet, because they have the same hardware.
The app pulls the brightness to the same level as the highest that can be reached with Settings -> System -> Backlight. That's quite nice, because it helps reading the display when I'm outdoors.
Does your screen go brighter when you start the camera? It's supposed to emulate that brightness, so on Hermes/Universal/Magician it makes the screen brighter then the normal maximum brightness you can configure in settings.
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Works great for me. I added to my windows/start menu folder and then was able to add it on the PTT button for the toggle on/off Brightness and then set the Press and Hold for the PTT toggle to vibrate.
You guys are great.
Thanks
Rick
Cingular 8525
vijay555 said:
[EDIT - I forgot to mention what this app does!]
All, this is a new version of VJLumos for the Hermes (primarily). VJLumos is used to take advantage of the brief flash of extra brightness you see when you start the camera.
VJLumos puts your device into that extra bright mode (semi-)permanently.
You are advised to look up VJLumos II on my website to find out more detail.
Guys, I'm stuck in court every day until Christmas, so I'm not getting much programming done these days, and when I am, it's on a new website, not C++
However, I finally gave VJLumos another crack, since I can't believe the Hermes screen is so pale. So here you go, a TEST version of VJLumos III. It's not feature complete yet, but it works (I think )
Rumor has it that you have a program that can shrink the size of the top taskbar and then size of the soft keys to save space?
I can't find it on your website.
Could you help?
I think the start bar is a big waste of space as are the soft keys--why so big?
Instructions:
Launch it to make the screen brighter.
Launch it again to disable it.
While VJLumos is on, you cannot use the camera. Deactivate it (ie load it a second time) to use the camera.
It seems to work, and seems to survive pressing standby. I may add more features as required, but it's hot off the press for you guys to try out.
Let me know if it works, what you think, and how your battery life gets on.
No installer for now, just run the app.
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjlumosiii/vjlumosiii.exe
V
PS It may work on other devices.
For the Magician, use VJLumos II
For the Wizard, send me a wizard and I'll support it!
On the Universal it doesn't make much difference, so not recommended.
But on the Hermes, super brite!
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Rumor has it that you have a program that can shrink the size of the top taskbar and then size of the soft keys to save space?
I can't find it on your website.
Could you help?
I think the start bar is a big waste of space as are the soft keys--why so big?
If what the program does is start camera app and minimize it, why not give it the ability to, when you press the camera button, you just maximize the camera app?
It doesn't start the camera app and minimise it.
VJLumos I did that, but it had a tendency to hard reset the phone due to the camera having fits about being minimised - it's programmed to disable itself when it's not the onscreen app.
VJLumos II onwards use a different technique.
VJLumos III is built on VJLumos II, but aimed primarily at the Hermes.
pufftissue: I missed your post! VJToggleToday II
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Related
Good morning all,
is there a way to access these features swiftly with a single hand?
I was thinking of mapping the 5 way navigation pad like if pressed down while phone pad is running it gets the call history and of pressed up it gets the speed dial.
I guess this is very inportant while driving
wish all a lovely day,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39170&highlight=
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By the way Vijay555 do you have the same for qtek s100/Magician?
(I know it may not be the right place...)
I've made most of VJPhoneShortcuts for WM5 and WM2003. I'm not sure if the Speakerphone can be enabled on WM2003 through software, it's not "accesible" in the same way as on WM5. I got bored of looking for a way to do it a while back.
I can't remember if I've released the Wm2003 versions. If not, tell me what you need and I'll try to pack it up.
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PS Kudos on the Psion 5. Still the best form factor I ever used. Love it.
Basically I am using your tools:
-Jump to SpeedDialer
-Jump to CallHistory
I associated them with green key and red key with xbar.
So I just press action to call xbar and press green or red to speed dial or to get to history.
That is very convinient and I thank you every day (even if xbar was able to simulate a click on the screen button through a macro, it was not working landscape and it had a delay and if the Wizard was "thinking" the delay was too short sometimes).
Anyway I wanted to install it to a friend with a S100 and I got an error I checked on your website and you warn that it is WM5 phone compatible only.
So I was wondering if it was portable to WM2003SE?
thanks.
PS: Yeh 5mx, I open it from time to time. The screen size was really great and the keyboard... the move it is sliding outside... fantastic.
The drawback was the batteries.
But now you could fit the Universal's hardware in this form factor and it would look amazing to everybody.
meroupow: sorry for taking so long to respond to this one.
Unfortunately, the way WM2003 works is slightly different to Wm5 for this app. I spent quite a long time trying to figure it out, and then wrote another tool just to help me figure it out, and just got bored, but it can be done, and will be done. Eventually...
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When I open the camera application on my I-mate JAM/HTC Magician, the screen goes bright for a second when the camera app. is about to open but it goes back to slightly dull after i close the camera.
I have maximum brightness in the settings.
Is there anyway to make the screen stay bright just like the second before the camera opens?
There are at least a couple of ways to do this.
One is VJLumos, which I don't recommend.
Another is VJLumos II - which is being released in a few days.
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Thank you! Awaiting the release of VJLumos 2. How soon do you reckon you'll release it?
Magician version is done, and works great. Just tweaking the Universal version (which also works, but needs a little refining). Release hopefully around this weekend or so.
I don't have a wizard so can't support it for now, unfortunately.
Implementation is cool now, automatic superbrite every time you switch on, and no more risk of a hard reset :shock: I was showing Mrs Vijay555 yesterday. She wasn't impressed I'm so misunderstood...
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oh lol sigh. I had a look at your site...people should praise your talent more often
Anyway, why don't you share the Magician one now
I thought I had it on my ftp but I don't, so give me a while and I'll send you over a beta, if I remember. If you don't get by tomorrow, PM me.
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Ok then...i'll be waiting. Thanks!
hi all
i'm very interested to by this soft. I was looking for this since 1 year so it's very nice you done it.
waiting for that to
thanks
Announcement!
Hi,
I've been investigating in the brightness hack and could finally track down what's necessary to enable it. This is the real way to enable it, which means no unneccessary DLLs are loaded and you're no chance of risking a soft reset because of this. The other advantage is that if you have your camera hardware removed this hack still works - on a Magician at least. I hope I can try this hack on a Hermes next week (don't own one).
I'm almost done creating an app like VJLumos II. If it's ready I'll post it in this forum.
Cheers.
PS: I was experiencing a hard reset during my research... so I hope you can esteem what I immolated
Ok, here it is.
For the moment this is for Magician only! And even on them you run this at your own risk!
This app is very freaky - it has no (obvious) dependencies and therefore loads fast like hell. Although being already ruddy slim and thus perfect staying resident it doesn't. But it accepts four parameters which are as follows:
on --> enable SuperBrightness
off --> disable SuperBrightness
install --> install a OnWakeUp event
remove --> remove event
Again: this app does not load anything (and consume memory) nor does it expose you to risk a soft reset.
Nevertheless I still encouter the odd behaviour, that Magicians without the camera hardware do not get superbright on WakeUp.
ahh vjays555 worked for me..
might prove usefull when im using my magician as a GPS..
oh btw, i tried chatty's program first and all i downloaded was 'attatchment. php'
whitemoo.
whitemoo said:
i tried chatty's program first and all i downloaded was 'attatchment. php'
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No problems here - got a zip with one exe and 4 lnk's as it was supposed to.
Some news about our backlight:
Well, above a certain a minimum level brightness can be controlled continously from dark to (super-)bright. Keypad light can be controlled independently, but on/off only. Another news: absolute minimum is still a little darker than official (Control Panel) minimum. So if you're in for a little book reading under your blanket this could safe your eyes a little more. So currently I'm thinking of a new cmdline app which offers you to set brightness in all possible levels (super-dark to super-bright).
I dunno when I'll find the time for it, but is anyone interested at all?
pick me!
heheh, i use msn messenger and type up notes in the dark, it strains the eyes. Sometimes i watch movies on it in plain darkness.
Would be a cool utility to have. Dont know if anyone doese the same things i do, Since its so hard to sync for me through bluetooth.
Bring on the interest!.
Whitemoo.
I got a wicked idea: how about flashing a new brightness dll into the living device like it is done with the splash screen? The usual brightness control panel applet would then operate in the wider range and this hack would not eat up any memory.
Whohoo... exciting... lots of work to do, but interesting project.
Ok, I'm probably gonna get flamed for this... heck I'm probably gonna flame myself for this
Is there an application to turn on and off the so-called flash on the camera without launching the camera app itself? In other words is there a simple way to use my $500 phone as a $0.50 LED light?
TIA,
Richard
try VJCandela ...... where? google knows it .....
k4sus said:
try VJCandela ...... where? google knows it .....
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I thought that used the screen backlight - I specifically want to turn on the LED flash on the camera side...
Nope, I'm wrong - looks like it does exactly what I wanted:
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJCandela
I'll have to try it on the TyTn....
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Richard
VJLumos for screen brightening. VJCandela for flash. VJPlumBum for stupidity.V
vijay555 said:
VJLumos for screen brightening. VJCandela for flash. VJPlumBum for stupidity.V
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Hello vijay, is there any chance to have it working on Asus P525?, this ppc has the facility to record video with flash on.
I been trying your candela but dosen't work.
I can look into it - but it's not a device I've ever used so unlikely. Can you get me a rom dump? Thanks... V
Works!
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VJLumos for screen brightening. VJCandela for flash.
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Got it, and another confirmation that VJCandela works on the Hermes. Thanks for an awesome app!
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VJPlumBum for stupidity.V
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I might need two of those
Richard
vijay555 said:
I can look into it - but it's not a device I've ever used so unlikely. Can you get me a rom dump? Thanks... V
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Can you have a look on here please :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279777
or here
ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/IA/P525/P525_V3320_WWE2nd.zip
I think that it will be enough for you, but please advice if you need more info.
Cheers mate.
also looking for a program for this. hope vijay can help us.
it says that doing this will cause permanent damage to the led
What does?
Leaving the flash on for too long will cause the flash to blow on some devices. Some guys have had it running for days. Some have blown it after a few hours.
I limit its use to 30 seconds I think, in VJCandela. However, you should use it with your own caution. But now, it won't blow your flash with a single use or whatever.
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The LED is obviously over driven to make it bright enough for use with the camera and in normal use it is restricted to only short bursts.
PDA Paul said:
The LED is obviously over driven to make it bright enough for use with the camera and in normal use it is restricted to only short bursts.
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With P525 if you are in video mode you can hold the led illuminated, so i think that if you don't use it for very long time the led will not be damaged.
Hello there vijay...
a question for you regerding vj candela and hermes...
you may have already noticed that when you use the flash light in hermes to take a picture with default camera apps...then the flash light up bit more (say double) brighter for a few second just in time of taking the picture...
so my question is it possible in ur apps (vj candela) to use that extra doubled light rather then the normal brightness??? its just a request i know that turning the flash in high mode may shorten the life span of the bulb but i just interested to see the implimentation...
and one more request...can you add a feature in ur vj candela so that when we use the hardware mode lightup then the screen brightness will turn it off automatically and will reverd back after the flash get off...
anyways thanks a million for what u have done for us all..
br.
Sajib
Maybe that's why this is damaging some devices, because it's using the brighter mode that only works in bursts with the camera.
Actually, I just did some quick testing using the ambient light sensor on my macbook pro (how's that for resourcefulness?). It's not exactly scientific, but whatevs.
I read the value of the ambient light sensor from the camera flash from a height of 10". This test was done with a Cingular 8525.
Turning on the flash in the camera program: 1024
Light from VJCandela: 1024
Light when turning of flashlight mode in the camera settings: 1200
Light during flash: 1450
So it appears that my theory was wrong. If anything, the camera flashlight is stronger than the regular flash mode. Although I suspect they are exactly the same - like I said this wasn't exactly a scientific way of testing...
Sorry, not sure if I understood the thread - the Camera app/Flash driver has a "burst" flash mode, a normal flash mode, and and off mode.
Burst flash is brighter then normal flash, and is used in the instant that you take the photo - this normally causes the screen to go off for a second though. My app uses "normal" flash mode, which should be safe for relatively short periods (eg 1 min). Burst flash is for a few seconds max I guess.
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Any suggestions as to why when I try to download the cab file it opens the cab file in pocket ie? all I see is the text that makes up the file
timbouk said:
Any suggestions as to why when I try to download the cab file it opens the cab file in pocket ie? all I see is the text that makes up the file
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Yeah, that bugged me when I first got my 8525. Try holding your stylus on the link and selecting "Save As," instead of just clicking on it.
Regards
Ben
Hi, did anyone noticed that maximum Tytn's backlight is much dimmer than Wizard's? But it seems that it is only a software block because when you start Camera application, brightness goes much higher.. It's not matter of life and death, but it quite annoys me.
So.. Do anyone know if there is some way how to enable higher values? Probably some registry fix or something like that...
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Hi, did anyone noticed that maximum Tytn's backlight is much dimmer than Wizard's? But it seems that it is only a software block because when you start Camera application, brightness goes much higher.. It's not matter of life and death, but it quite annoys me.
So.. Do anyone know if there is some way how to enable higher values? Probably some registry fix or something like that...
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Well thanks to the fantastic Vijay555 there is something you can do:
check this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279365&highlight=lumos
Mike
oh.. thanks
I have to say, I hate using my Hermes without VJLumos. The normal max brightness is horrible, washed out and weak...
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i remapped the record button for youre great app works well
Yeah.. nice program.. but unfortunately it is still just trying to bypass the problem by using the camera application. So when Vjlumos is running you are unable to use the camera.. There must by some other way. I hope somebody will find it..
But still.. It is a great program
There is another way, but remember that the extra brightness is tied to the camera functions.... I've been thinking about rewriting this app to turn it into a service so it takes less resources.
If and when, I'll try to make it camera independant. But the problem with that is that it will be device specific ie Hermes.
But then I thought, meh? Whatever, it'll still be better!
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Yeah.. nice program.. but unfortunately it is still just trying to bypass the problem by using the camera application. So when Vjlumos is running you are unable to use the camera.. There must by some other way. I hope somebody will find it..
But still.. It is a great program
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This is a great app. However for me, I'm able to use the camera without having to disable the app. I just hit the camera button to access the camera function, then hit the camera button again and was able to take a picture. With that being said, once I exited the camera function, the screen was dim again and I had to hit my VJLumos icon twice (once to disable, once again to enable) to get the screen back to its brightness. Currently a small price to pay.
Vijay, nice apps. Even if you make this app specific to Hermes, I think you'll have a lot of satisfied people. Thanks for great apps!
Fellow developers
As many here, I have welcomed the new era of touch friendly apps and GUIs. In the plethora of great applications that we can all find here, I feel there's a need for one more (most likely for many more, but this post focuses on only one )
Basically in everyday use, I have always had a problem with quick brightness change. The urge for that usually strikes in the least convinient moments e.g. during a car drive when the sun starts shining straight into my screen and there's no time for little tete-a-tete with good 'ol stylus, or cycling the level of brightness. None of the existing solutions seem to be perfect.
Therefore I think there's a hole to fill in by an application that I imagine, could work on very similar basis to MarcLandis's - SetVolume.
Please have a look at the concept screenshot attached.
I believe it's pretty self explanatory.
Just few words of comments:
- two separate battery & external brightness tabs (though they can be on a single screen as well),
- advanced button - is a link to system brightness panel,
- power button - is a link to the system power panel,
- +/- increase/decrease brightness level.
Optional features could include:
- skin support,
- cooperation with current apps such as S2U2,
- linking to hardware/software buttons,
- ... I'm sure you can think of some other things as well.
I understand, that due to different implementation of brightness panels/reg keys by different manufacturers this app can be a challenge. But I'm sure that's not impossible also and can be solved by different configuration profiles, or other solutions that I'm prolly not aware of.
Unfortunately being 'code deblitated' I cannot write this app myself. However, on my side I can offer full support in the graphics department and help to prepare the needed elements for different screen resolutions.
Your comments are most welcome, and hopefully someone can stand up for the challenge
regards
efbiaye
Its already done in WKTASK - the best task manager for WM.
I suggest you change its normal setup to do a Launch when you hold the close X button down (easily done with a finger).
This then brings up a customized menu that can have the brightness, volume you are looking for.
this is exactly what I want to do as my next project!
I hope you will help me with graphics.
Stay in touch, please.
Dear bsw11,
I'm of course familiar with your app, which btw. is really great, however it exceeds the simple functionality of just a brightness app that I was looking for.
My point was, to have such app literally 1 click away (either hardware/software button). Currently I had created a direct shortcut to my Windows brightness panel, the problem is - that it isn't finger friendy at all - you have to pinpoint the slider, which is next to impossible if you're driving a car, or even in public transport where everything is shaking.
Maybe MVBklight... which is a today plugin also
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this is exactly what I want to do as my next project!
I hope you will help me with graphics.
Stay in touch, please.
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Glad to heear that francarl of course I'm ready to help.
Hi..In the last few days i wrote an application like this.. if you want to try.. all feedback are welcome..
Only VGA/WVGA HTC for now..
mylostblog said:
Hi..In the last few days i wrote an application like this.. if you want to try.. all feedback are welcome..
Only VGA/WVGA HTC for now..
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Unfortunately I don't have VGA HTC device to test :/
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Unfortunately I don't have VGA HTC device to test :/
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this is an alpha.. QVGA WQVGA are now supported too..
For other brand i need more time.. i have to find the right dll to invoke
Can Mylight be themed like the concept? In the new rom I installed my volume adjustments look much like the concept it would be nice if the backlight adjustments matched. Is this something easy to do?
I installed mylight aaaaannnnnddd yeah it doesnt seem to actually do anything? Is this just a graphic demo of what it would look like? Cause as I push the yellow thing up and it fills it up it doesnt actually change the screen brightness.