Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to develop an application which let you adjust the backlight settings when using the device on power or on battery.
I would like to be able to set a lower backlight when the device is on battery power, and use full backlight when the device is on AC power.
Can anyone give some help on which function calls to incorporate?
umm... This option comes stock with your XDA II
Go to Start --> Settings --> System --> Backlight
There should be two slide bars, one for battery, other for on power
WeatherB said:
umm... This option comes stock with your XDA II
Go to Start --> Settings --> System --> Backlight
There should be two slide bars, one for battery, other for on power
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I am an idiot... Thanks for your reply!
I must be a genuine developer; trying to develop what's already been done
Hi everybody.
I recently installed Pocket Bluetooth Tools on my M1000 and overall I find the utility excellent. I sync my M1000 at both home and work so removing the necessity to rebond everytime is excellent. Additionally, enabling a 60 sec Bluetooth period before switching off is also a handy facility.
However, I have one query.
The developper describes a Profile 1 and Profile 2, both of which are visible on the Today plugin screen, which can be user-defined to such options as "bluetooth always on" or "bluetooth switches off after 60 seconds" etc.
This would be handy to use however to date, I have found no method of actually accessing a "profile editor tool" or something similar. There's no Pocket Bluetooth Tools icon in either Programs or System, I can find no executable file on m M1000 anywhere so I now find myself in a position where I cannot turn Bluetooth on for more than 60 seconds unless it's doing something.
Any ideas? I've tried emailing the developper but with no response to date.
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Just put it on #1 then adjust the power settings for the screen etc, and click on the little clock on the Today screen. This will make the bluetooth stay on when the clock is greyed out.
Switch to number two and adjust the power settings for the screen etc and you will have two different power settings.
dewild1 said:
Just put it on #1 then adjust the power settings for the screen etc, and click on the little clock on the Today screen. This will make the bluetooth stay on when the clock is greyed out.
Switch to number two and adjust the power settings for the screen etc and you will have two different power settings.
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Cheers for that. It really is that simple. My mind works too technically sometimes!
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Hi - does anyone know how to completely stop the HD dimming? I've tried altering the settings in HD Tweak and Advanced config but it still dims if not used for 10 secs - am I missing something? Thanks in advance...
Further to this it seems I may have changed something which means after about 2 seconds my phone returns to the home page - is there a setting to prevent this as well?
Start > Settings > Power > Advanced. Thats where all the backlight settings are unless you are using a third party such as Lumos.
You can set it to stay on constant by removing the tick, youll see what I mean.
Ok have sorted this. I had unchecked all boxes in Start > Settings > Power > Advanced settings but this actually makes the phone dim and bumps you back to the Home page after 10 seconds which is really annoying when you are trying to write a text/surf the web/do anything on the phone!
So setting the backlight to timeout after 5 mins actually stops this and keeps the backlight lit until you press the power button to lock and turn off the backlight - you learn something new everyday!
I just bought the new nook with glowlight. Previously, my wife and I shared the basic kindle 4 without touch. My experience so far has been great. I prefer the nook interface to the kindle, and the glowlight has been a godsend - my wife hates any light while she is sleeping, and the glowlight at its lowest setting doesn't bother her and is perfect for reading in the dark.
The biggest adjustment for me coming from the non-touchscreen kindle, is having to deal with incidental page turns. While looking for the optimal position to read and hold the nook, I often find it most comfortable to have my hand on the actual screen. Sometimes I also like to follow along with my finger. Both of these actions will cause the nook to perform unintended page turns, or at the very least bring up the menu. Sometimes I have to spend a large portion of my reading time just finding my page again.
I realize that with time I can learn to be more careful and only hold the nook by the bezel. But, since the nook has those wonderful physical page turn buttons, I figured it has to be possible (assuming the nook is rooted), to disable the touchscreen while reading a book. Maybe a button could be added to the nook menu (the options that display when you hit the n button) that toggles between enabling/disabling the touchscreen. I’ve searched for a way to implement a feature similar to this but haven’t been able to find anything. Does anyone know if there is a way that I can accomplish this for my nook?
Is it possible to disable the Zforce touch screen? Yes
Is it possible to enable the Zforce touch screen? No
Apparently there is a bug in the driver.
To disable the touch screen:
Code:
# cat /sdcard/zero.txt>/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
(Where zero.txt is a single byte file of the digit zero without any line termination.)
There is also the issue that if you do turn off the touch screen you would have to use a hard button to turn it back on.
Renate NST said:
Is it possible to disable the Zforce touch screen? Yes
Is it possible to enable the Zforce touch screen? No
Apparently there is a bug in the driver.
To disable the touch screen:
Code:
# cat /sdcard/zero.txt>/sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
(Where zero.txt is a single byte file of the digit zero without any line termination.)
There is also the issue that if you do turn off the touch screen you would have to use a hard button to turn it back on.
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So I take it then that there is no existing method to do this. Does this mean that we can disable it but would never be able to re-enable it due to the bug?
Regarding the issue of using a hard button to turn it back on, I figure the n button could be used, but there is still the bug.
davidsimon said:
So I take it then that there is no existing method to do this. Does this mean that we can disable it but would never be able to re-enable it due to the bug?
Regarding the issue of using a hard button to turn it back on, I figure the n button could be used, but there is still the bug.
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If i remember right its been a while... Cool reader allows you to customize the touch screen zones (there i 9 i think) to do different things... one of the options is to do nothing. You can also set cool reader to be the default app so when you click a book in the library it automatically opens in cool reader. By setting ever touch screen zone to do nothing its would technically disable the touch screen while reading. because none of the zones would turn the pages. but once you exit the app or hit the N button the screen would still work.
check it out if your rooted.
Well, that's another way to do things, have an app over the target app that captures the touches and does nothing.
You could also patch the stock Reader so that it doesn't respond to any screen touches.
That's actually quite easy.
It would have the advantage of not affecting anything else.
Personally, I find the hard keys too hard and I always use touches on the stock Reader to turn pages.
persichini said:
If i remember right its been a while... Cool reader allows you to customize the touch screen zones (there i 9 i think) to do different things... one of the options is to do nothing. You can also set cool reader to be the default app so when you click a book in the library it automatically opens in cool reader. By setting ever touch screen zone to do nothing its would technically disable the touch screen while reading. because none of the zones would turn the pages. but once you exit the app or hit the N button the screen would still work.
check it out if your rooted.
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You actually don't need to do that in coolreader it has a disable touch screen option I have just set one of the buttons to disable and enable touch when I double press.
Dopedangel said:
You actually don't need to do that in coolreader it has a disable touch screen option I have just set one of the buttons to disable and enable touch when I double press.
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Way cool, but I can't find the option. Where is the disable touch screen option?
Thanks!
Dopedangel said:
You actually don't need to do that in coolreader it has a disable touch screen option I have just set one of the buttons to disable and enable touch when I double press.
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I'm interested in this, too. Send us the instructions!!
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I'm interested in this, too. Send us the instructions!!
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Open Options, and go to the fourth tab (this one with a pin icon). There u have 'Key actions'. You can assign to your buttons different actions - eg. Lock/unlock touch screen. Works great
Rafsen said:
Open Options, and go to the fourth tab (this one with a pin icon). There u have 'Key actions'. You can assign to your buttons different actions - eg. Lock/unlock touch screen. Works great
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Awesome.
davidsimon said:
So I take it then that there is no existing method to do this. Does this mean that we can disable it but would never be able to re-enable it due to the bug?
Regarding the issue of using a hard button to turn it back on, I figure the n button could be used, but there is still the bug.
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So, I created an apk (NookIROff) to disable the touch-screen and this part worked. I also created another apk (NookIROn) to cat a "1" to on_off, and managed to bind the n button to my NookIROn app. However, as per Renate's post, this didn't re-enabled the IR / touchscreen and I had to reboot the NST by holding the power button for some 10sec, release, and hold it again for another 10sec.
Any ideas? I suspect if we manage to tweak the IR on/off then we could leave the NST permanently on the home page, with wifi enabled and with a few widgets for email etc for a few weeks without any need to recharge it.
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[...] Any ideas? I suspect if we manage to tweak the IR on/off then we could leave the NST permanently on the home page, with wifi enabled and with a few widgets for email etc for a few weeks without any need to recharge it.
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Not sure about such battery life with wifi on. If I leave wifi on but the device otherwise off, I lose 3-5% battery per hour. With wifi off, it's good for a week or more, easily. I think the idea of disabling the IR sensors is great, but I'm not sure the battery savings will be enough to allow you to leave the screen active and wifi on.
had a look at the kernel code in zforce.c which I believe is the one in my multitouch hacked kernel (https://github.com/arkusuma/nook-touch-multitouch/blob/master/zforce.c)... basically
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
works to switch it off, but
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
doesn't work, nor does
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/cmd
which should have a similar effect (ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte(tsc->client, cmd); where cmd = #define COMMAND_ACTIVATE 0x01)
all this said, when I get the nook to sleep by pressing the on/off button on the back I believe it goes into "deep_sleep" after a couple of secs; at this point, pressing the "n" button on the front restores the IR, so I suspect it's calling "static int zforce_resume(struct i2c_client *client)" which in turn checks whether the device was indeed on deep_sleep mode before re-initializing touch (IR) and the interrupt as per below code snippet. So, re-enabling IR should be OK but I don't want to monkey around with zforce.c... in terms of battery life, I am still checking stats before/after and I believe it goes from a 4% drop w/screen + IR + wi-fi on to about 1.5% drop if IR is disabled, but I need more time to quantify this gain in battery life.
if (deep_sleep == 0)
return 0;
zforce_touch_hw_init(1);
enable_irq(tsc->irq);
I want a way to do this too.
I already ruined a touch glow screen by simply handling it for a week without a case. No one had any idea at that time how ridiculously delicate the light-carrying film was and how it makes big starburst lights around every crack and blemish, and how effortlessly those cracks form.
So now I DO know I have to be fanatically paranoid about letting anything touch the screen that might put a crack or a scratch in it.
That means at the beach it simply must be inside a ziplock bag to keep sand off.
We need a way to disable the IR so things like a plastic bag don't activate it, and operate the device entirely from hardware buttons EVEN THOUGH yes I agree I don't like the bezel buttons for page turns either, NORMALLY.
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I have a rooted nook simpletouch I got at Goodwill and wanted to chime in on how to disable touch for books:
Moon+ Reader allows you to disable screen touches too. Tap the center screen while in a book, press the cog that appears in the lower right, change everything in control options to "none" (the side clicky-buttons will still flip pages), then go to Miscellaneous and check "Disable vertical scrolling on touch" and uncheck "Allow fling horizontally to turn page."
I still have to touch the center of the screen to bring up options, but it's very intelligent and only responds to a quick tap -- not a long press of my thumb as I hold the nook awkwardly while reading in bed.
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had a look at the kernel code in zforce.c which I believe is the one in my multitouch hacked kernel (https://github.com/arkusuma/nook-touch-multitouch/blob/master/zforce.c)... basically
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
works to switch it off, but
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/on_off
doesn't work, nor does
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c_omap.2/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0050/cmd
which should have a similar effect (ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte(tsc->client, cmd); where cmd = #define COMMAND_ACTIVATE 0x01)
all this said, when I get the nook to sleep by pressing the on/off button on the back I believe it goes into "deep_sleep" after a couple of secs; at this point, pressing the "n" button on the front restores the IR, so I suspect it's calling "static int zforce_resume(struct i2c_client *client)" which in turn checks whether the device was indeed on deep_sleep mode before re-initializing touch (IR) and the interrupt as per below code snippet. So, re-enabling IR should be OK but I don't want to monkey around with zforce.c... in terms of battery life, I am still checking stats before/after and I believe it goes from a 4% drop w/screen + IR + wi-fi on to about 1.5% drop if IR is disabled, but I need more time to quantify this gain in battery life.
if (deep_sleep == 0)
return 0;
zforce_touch_hw_init(1);
enable_irq(tsc->irq);
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So, I created an apk (NookIROff) to disable the touch-screen and this part worked. I also created another apk (NookIROn) to cat a "1" to on_off, and managed to bind the n button to my NookIROn app. However, as per Renate's post, this didn't re-enabled the IR / touchscreen and I had to reboot the NST by holding the power button for some 10sec, release, and hold it again for another 10sec.
Any ideas? I suspect if we manage to tweak the IR on/off then we could leave the NST permanently on the home page, with wifi enabled and with a few widgets for email etc for a few weeks without any need to recharge it.
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Has anyone worked on this at all? IG, if you have that apk to turn the IR off still, I would greatly appreciate it. I have been messing a lot with the NST and I would love to be able to conveniently turn off the IR. I don't mind having to turn the Nook off and on again with a long press to get the IR back on.
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Has anyone worked on this at all? IG, if you have that apk to turn the IR off still, I would greatly appreciate it. I have been messing a lot with the NST and I would love to be able to conveniently turn off the IR. I don't mind having to turn the Nook off and on again with a long press to get the IR back on.
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The reason why I want to do this is to save battery life while running a large print clock app which I found called NightClock which came from android 1.6 donut. I can leave the clock app open but turn off the IR sensors to save battery and let it run longer without a charge. I'd also like to do this using renate's simple reader app and using the side buttons to turn pages.
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So, I created an apk (NookIROff) to disable the touch-screen and this part worked. I also created another apk (NookIROn) to cat a "1" to on_off, and managed to bind the n button to my NookIROn app. However, as per Renate's post, this didn't re-enabled the IR / touchscreen and I had to reboot the NST by holding the power button for some 10sec, release, and hold it again for another 10sec.
Any ideas? I suspect if we manage to tweak the IR on/off then we could leave the NST permanently on the home page, with wifi enabled and with a few widgets for email etc for a few weeks without any need to recharge it.
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Does anyone have his apk or anything similar that will disable the IR array? I'd really like to use this for various applications. I don't mind at all having to reboot by holding the power button down. This could be used for Nooks with bad IR arrays to re-use them as really low battery clocks or calendars, and would also be good for extreme battery savings while reading (using the side buttons only for page turning).
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Does anyone have his apk or anything similar that will disable the IR array? I'd really like to use this for various applications. I don't mind at all having to reboot by holding the power button down. This could be used for Nooks with bad IR arrays to re-use them as really low battery clocks or calendars, and would also be good for extreme battery savings while reading (using the side buttons only for page turning).
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it's been a while... 6 years... let me see if I can find it...
When the NST is not actively tracking your finger only one IR LED is being flashed occasionally.
I really don't think the current usage is that high, although I can check.
If you are having trouble with the IR touch screen the problem could be a) dirt, b) alignment of the plastic lenses.
You can try the Touch.apk (in the signature) to visualize where the problem is.
I have read some types of articles there are few typical ways of how to make screen stay on in window 10, in my knowledge I try some methods but am a l'll bit confused and try some randomly which I got from some platforms youtube and many more but the same problem I'm facing now so I have decided the professional ways how to handle and Fix it properly. I need some proven ways and implemented ways.
I do some Changes like
1. Change Setting
2. Use Third party software
But I can't find the solutions, so I believe that this platform is the one of them who fix my problem members will suggest me and help me in a different way.
Seriously?
System Setings> System> Power
When plugged in, turn my screen off Never
When plugged in, put my device to sleep Never
Or, better yet, open Control Panel, go to Power Click on your Preferred Plan - Change Plan Settings.
Set the same settings as above, then click on Change Advanced Power Settings.
Set Hard Disk to Turn off hard disk after 0 minutes
Set Sleep to Sleep After Never, Hibernate after Never
Set Display to Turn off Display after Never
Step 1: Open Control Panel and select “Power Options”.
Step 2: Select “Choose when to turn off the display”.
Step 3: Set the “Plugged in” options to Never for “Turn off display” and “Put the computer to sleep”.
After that, you can make some shorcuts to choose between your configuration.
Like this :
Create a Change Power Plan Shortcut in Windows
Changing Windows Power Plans regularly can get tedious going through Control Panel. Here's how to create shortcuts for plan options to set them quicker.
www.groovypost.com
but you have to configure power plan profiles before in windows like written in the top post of this thread.
System Setings> System> Power
When plugged in, turn my screen off Never
When plugged in, put my device to sleep Never
Start by heading to Settings > System > Power & Sleep. Under the Power & Sleep section set the screen to turn off Never for both “On battery power” and “when plugged in.” If you are working on a desktop there will only be the option for when the PC is plugged in.
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J Wick
Mac and Windows PCs each have two alternative display modes when plugged into an external display: Extend and Mirror. The projector and desktop display the same image when the computer monitor is in Mirror Mode, which duplicates the monitor on the external display. Extend Mode treats the external display as a separate screen, allowing you to have various applications active on both the desktop and projector. The two settings can be changed with ease.
Start by heading to Settings > System > Power & Sleep. Under the Power & Sleep section set the screen to turn off Never for both “On battery power” and “when plugged in.” If you are working on a desktop there will only be the option for when the PC is plugged in.
This may help,
J Wick