Just wanted to poke this issue.  Has anything changed in the 2.0 SDK
that will resolve this?

On Oct 5, 1:12 pm, bklik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Dianne,
>
> I'm using a wake lock to prevent it from sleeping anddimmingafter
> the default 30 seconds, and I'm using the brightness API from Android
> 1.5 to adjust brightness.  It looks like the HTC Hero is experiencing
> the problem you are talking about.
>
> Thanks for getting back to be so quickly.
>
> Brenton
>
> On Oct 5, 12:39 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You -should- be able to through the normal API, setting the brightness of
> > the screen for the window.  However, I know of at least one upcoming device
> > where this won't work when auto-brightness is turned on, and Hero may have
> > that same problem.  For the device I know of, we need to do some work in the
> > platform to better integrate with the manufacturer's auto-dimmingcode, so
> > hopefully this will only be a temporary problem.
>
> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:54 AM, bklik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm getting a lot of requests by users of my flashlight application,
> > > that they want me to disable the HTC Hero's automaticdimmingfeature
> > > that works off the light sensor.
>
> > > How do you disable it through code?  Or, isn't there a way?
>
> > > Brenton
>
> > --
> > Dianne Hackborn
> > Android framework engineer
> > [email protected]
>
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> > answer them.

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