Comment 11 for bug 1247694

This is the merge that Seth Forshee was refering to as well? In that case,
I would love to see this merged then. Not 100% sure if it will solve my
issue, but it seems likely. And there is no doubt that that feature is
needed regardless.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Michael Frey <email address hidden>wrote:

> We have an MR that will allow you to disable auto brightness.
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> Title:
> screen brighness adjusts itself constantly
>
> Status in PowerD:
> New
> Status in “powerd” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 13.10 (r100) (Touch)
>
> Expected: manualy adjusted screen brightness stays that way, except
> after period of inactivity, when it goes into power saving mode
>
> Instead: brightness is dimmed after a few seconds
>
> As stated in title, screen brighness adjusts itself constantly: When
> adjusting brightness manualy, Galaxy Nexus device (maguro) is often dimmed
> immedeatly to seemingly some kind of default setting.
> Usualy, this bug happens within seconds after the brightness is set
> manualy. Sometimes though, it happens later at (apparently) random moments.
> On rare occasions, it doesnt happen at all.
> On every occasion however, the slider for manual setting stays where it
> is.
>
> At first, I was thinking it was triggered by an overzealous proximity
> sensor (which however works perfectly on android). Now I am leaning
> towards some sort of default setting or automated brightness. Judging
> from earlier posts on xda and LP, it seems there was such a feature at
> some stage in the beta. is there some kind of automatic brightness
> process at work, that overides the manual, but which has no interface?
>
> content of media-info:
> Ubuntu 13.10 - armhf (20131017)
>
> mat@Lapbuntu:~$ adb shell getprop ro.cm.device
> maguro
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