On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:05 +0000, ext Neil MacLeod wrote:
> Igor Stoppa wrote:
> > 
> > iirc this was taken from some phone product, to save time (yes, that's
> > arguable but it's not the point here) and therefore it's considered not
> > viable for opening.
> > 
> > I strongly suspect that if you just check the website of some
> > manufacturer of ALS devices, you'll probably get some demo algorythm to
> > do the filtering, likely similar to the one we are using.
> > 
> 
> If Nokia open sourced the code taken from the phone I'm sure we could fix it 
> for you![1]

heh, if it was for me i couldn't ask for more :)

> As it stands, the light sensor is more irritating than it is useful, as it 
> constantly alters the backlight brightness between bright and dim even when 
> the room lighting level is consistently bright.

yup, i noticed that too, it would be nice (even for the average user) if
there were more UI options to tweak the behaviour, up to disable it.

Of course, i agree that open is better. Hopefully we can do better in
the future.

-- 
Cheers, Igor

Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)
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