[maemo-developers] n810: Light Sensor (?)

[From: Neil MacLeod]

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]

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.

1. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2755