Tom_Hungston has created an app for easily turning off your device’s screen. This idea comes from the notion that you might wear your power button out by using it too much. Thus, this app was created to lower the frequency of button presses. Rather than using the power button to turn the screen on and off, tap on this small application to turn the screen off.

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AutoLight was developed for HTC Topaz (Diamond 2) with WM6.1 and it critically depends on HTCSensorSDK.dll, HTCUtil.dll and on a 10 levels backlight starting from value 1. It has been reported to work with WM6.5 and on Rhodium (Touch Pro 2) and it might works on some other HTC phone and it will most likely not work on non-HTC phones. AutoLight is a native application with a very low memory usage. On the other hand the Configurator requires Compact Framework 2 but it should be closed after the use. The Configurator is designed for WVGA screens.

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Run AutoLight.cab and install in main memory (not in storage card), run AutoLight.Config.cab and install where you like, then softreset (this should also disable the native auto adjust backlight function, check for that in the Control Panel Power applet).
If you have previously installed autolight V2.x and want only upgrade to V2.3 without having your configuration reset to default use the Configurator to stop AutoLight. After that overwrite AutoLight.exe, ChangeLight.exe and AutoLightConfig.exe with the files you find inside AutoLight.zip and softreset.

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myLight is a finger friendly pocket pc freeware that can be used for controlling backlight on your windows phone. Adjust the brightness manually in Windows Mobile, is not a simple operation but with myLight you can assign it to a hardware key and use the finger friendly interface to adjust the brightness. The program was developed for HTC (tested on Diamond, Touch Pro and HD) and supports all the resolutions.

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Lumos is fully customizable auto-backlight changer developed as a complete replacement for HTC built-in auto backlight service in newest HTC devices starting from HTC Diamond and Raphael. It focuses on minimal CPU usage (0.05-0.2%), maximum battery saving, low memory footprint and maximum backlight change smoothness and responsiveness. Lumos combines only the best from all currently available auto-backlight solutions and adds many extras.

You need to disable built-in auto-backlight or this won’t probably work. Start – Settings – System tab – Power – Backlight tab and DISABLE the ‘Auto adjust backlight’ feature.

Just install the CAB, soft reset or start Lumos from programs and you’re all set!
- Lumos always installs to the device (no matter what you chose)
- Installer will create auto-start entry (Lumos will start after a soft-reset)
- Installer will create a shortcut to LumosWizard in your programs
- All next versions will be able to use v07+ configuration file (no need to recalibrate ever again after you install this)

Program installs to \Program Files\Lumos\
Lumos.exe = starts/stops auto backlight service
LumosWizard.exe = tool to configure all aspects of Lumos
settings.txt = configuration file is not included in the package, it will be automatically generated by LumosWizard after successful calibration, you can edit it manually or by using LumosWizard.

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With this tool you can adjust your backlight levels according to the values your light sensor measures… You can also change the interval how often the light sensor should be accessed. With those two features you may save some battery power.

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With this tool you can adjust your backlight levels according to the values your light sensor measures… You can also change the interval how often the light sensor should be accessed. With those two features you may save some battery power.

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MVBklight is a Windows Mobile Freeware that helps to control the backlight function on the pocket pc device.

Features:

1. Sets minimum and maximum illumination.
2. Fully customizable colors.
3. Support skins.
4. Various types of sliders.
5. Display of lights or percentage.
6. Adjust the backlighting on the screen Today (control joystick to the right – increases, the left – decreases, the central button – menus, up / down movement of Today).
7. Increase / decrease in illumination from the command line (eg, ‘Cmd +’ – adds, ‘Cmd -’ – decreases).

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