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Old 12-29-2012, 06:26 AM   #16
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Can somebody explain, where the koboplugins.ini file can be found or should be placed?
See here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=193377
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Thx it works, but i cannot see that the proposed plugin has any influence (tried with 0 and 1 levels) on brightness level. Hope, that Kobo developers will tackle this problem in future firmware releases.
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I've noticed that if I plug my Glo into a USB cable and turn the frontlight on and then off that the LEDs will often go dimmer than the lowest level for a few seconds. I'd say that it's about half as bright as the lowest setting, and hardly noticeable in a bright room.
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I've noticed that if I plug my Glo into a USB cable and turn the frontlight on and then off that the LEDs will often go dimmer than the lowest level for a few seconds. I'd say that it's about half as bright as the lowest setting, and hardly noticeable in a bright room.
I teset it as follow steps, got failure:

1.when the frontlight is off, pluged the usb into GLO, GLO asked me if I want to connect to pc?
2.I chose cancel, then pressed the light button, the led is on.
3.I pressed the light button again, the led is just off.
4.Unconnected the usb, turn on the led, the light didn't go to a dimmer level.

What's wrong with the above steps?

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I teset it as follow steps, got failure:

1.when the frontlight is off, pluged the usb into GLO, GLO asked me if I want to connect to pc?
2.I chose cancel, then pressed the light button, the led is on.
3.I pressed the light button again, the led is just off.
4.Unconnected the usb, turn on the led, the light didn't go to a dimmer level.

What's wrong with the above steps?
Don't disconnect the USB; the light goes dim immediately after you press the light button to turn the frontlight off. Here are my steps:

1. Plug USB into Glo, choose cancel when asked to connect to PC.
2. Turn on frontlight.
3. Turn off frontlight. The light goes dim for a second, then goes completely off.

Sometimes the frontlight only goes dimmer for a fraction of a second, and you'd miss it if you weren't looking for it. A few times, I've had it stay at half-brightness for 10-15 seconds.

Here are two photos of my Glo in an almost completely dark room, first at normal lowest brightness:



And then at a dimmer level after pressing the light button to turn the frontlight off while connected to a USB charger:

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Thank you, it will be great if the half-brightness level could be kept.
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Old 01-25-2013, 04:07 PM   #22
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OK cool, at least you've made some progress. Just found this forum after searching about the brightness of the Kobo Glo. I was really disappointed because I fell for the marketing saying it could be read "even in pitch darkness". It's way too bright at minimum level for my eyes.

I guess if the ioctl doesn't work, we need to go lower and look at the device driver that ioctl interfaces with (if that's accessible, I've no idea as not tried to root mine yet).

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If I turn the light on with this program, it stays on when the device enters sleep mode. If I turn the light on through the button, it gets turned off for sleep mode

So it would seem that pressing the light button sets a flag somewhere, which is then being read by the sleep routine.

I was looking for a script somewhere that handles sleep mode, but couldn't find anything. Running strace on nickel also didn't give me recognizable hints.

Any ideas?
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I've made some research on this. I've added a little code used in kernel:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

static unsigned short FL_table0[100]={
0x0001,0x0006,0x0007,0x0009,0x000C,0x000D,0x000E,0x000F,0x0011,0x0012,
0x0014,0x0015,0x0017,0x0018,0x001A,0x001B,0x001C,0x001D,0x001F,0x0020,
0x0022,0x0023,0x0025,0x0027,0x0028,0x002A,0x002B,0x002D,0x002E,0x0030,
0x0031,0x0033,0x0035,0x0036,0x0038,0x0039,0x003B,0x003C,0x003E,0x0040,
0x0041,0x0043,0x0044,0x0046,0x0047,0x0049,0x004A,0x0051,0x0057,0x005D,
0x0063,0x006A,0x0070,0x0076,0x007C,0x0083,0x0089,0x008F,0x0095,0x009C,
0x00A2,0x00A8,0x00AE,0x00B5,0x00B9,0x00BB,0x00C1,0x00C7,0x00CE,0x00D4,
0x00DA,0x00E0,0x00E7,0x00ED,0x00F3,0x00F9,0x0100,0x0106,0x010C,0x0112,
0x0118,0x011F,0x0125,0x012B,0x0131,0x0138,0x013E,0x0144,0x014A,0x0151,
0x0157,0x015D,0x0163,0x016A,0x0170,0x0176,0x017C,0x0183,0x0189,0x018F
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if ( argc != 2 ) {
        printf("Usage: %s brightness \n", argv[0]);
        return 1;
    }
    
    int light;

    // Open the file for reading and writing
    if ((light = open("/dev/ntx_io", O_RDWR)) == -1) {
        printf("Error opening ntx_io device");
    }

    int brightness = atoi ( (argv[1]) );
    ioctl(light, 243, brightness);

    return 0;
}

/*
		case CM_FRONT_LIGHT_SET:241
			if(0!=gptHWCFG->m_val.bFrontLight)
			{
				if (p) {			
					printk ("\nset front light level : %d\n",p);
					if(p>0 && p<=50)
					{
						gpio_direction_output(FL_R_EN,0);
						msp430_write (0xA7, FL_table0[2*(p-1)]&0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA6, FL_table0[2*(p-1)]<<8);
						printk("PWMCNT : 0x%04x\n", FL_table0[2*(p-1)]);
					}else if(p>50 && p<=100){
						gpio_direction_output(FL_R_EN,1);
						msp430_write (0xA7, FL_table0[p-1]&0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA6, FL_table0[p-1]<<8);
						printk("PWMCNT : 0x%04x\n", FL_table0[p-1]);
					}else{
						printk("Wrong number! level range from 0 to 100\n");
					}
					if (0 == last_FL_duty){
						msp430_write (0xA1, 0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA2, 0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA5, 0x0100);   
						msp430_write (0xA4, 0x9000);
						msp430_write (0xA3, 0x0100);

						msleep(100);
						gpio_direction_output(FL_EN,0);
					}
				}
				else {
					printk ("turn off front light\n");
					msp430_write (0xA3, 0);

					gpio_direction_input(FL_EN);
					gpio_direction_output(FL_R_EN,0);
				}
				last_FL_duty = p;
			}
			break;
		case CM_FRONT_LIGHT_DUTY:243
			if(0!=gptHWCFG->m_val.bFrontLight)
			{
				if (p) {			
					printk ("\nSet front light PWMCNT : 0x%4X\n",p);
					printk ("Current front light Frequency : (8MHz/0x%4X)\n",current_FL_freq);		
					msp430_write (0xA7, p&0xFF00);
					msp430_write (0xA6, p<<8);
					if (0 == last_FL_duty){
						msp430_write (0xA1, 0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA2, 0xFF00);
//						msp430_write (0xA5, 0xFF00);   
//						msp430_write (0xA4, 0xFF00);
						msp430_write (0xA3, 0x0100);

						msleep(100);
						gpio_direction_output(FL_EN,0);
					}
				}
				else {
					printk ("turn off front light\n");
					msp430_write (0xA3, 0);

					gpio_direction_input(FL_EN);
				}
				last_FL_duty = p;
			}
			break;

		case CM_FRONT_LIGHT_FREQUENCY:244
			if(0!=gptHWCFG->m_val.bFrontLight)
			{
				if (p) {
					printk ("set front light Frequency : (8MHz/0x%4X)\n",p);		
//					msp430_write (0xA4, (p<<8));
					msp430_write (0xA5, p&0xFF00);   
					msp430_write (0xA4, (p<<8));
					current_FL_freq = p;
				}
			}
			break;
*/
It seems that the lowest level (1) set by kevinshort is already the lowest that one can set, without going lower and manually using some gpios.
I'd say the state in which there's only a faint light on the screen is here:
printk ("turn off front light\n");
msp430_write (0xA3, 0);
//hang somehow
gpio_direction_input(FL_EN);
gpio_direction_output(FL_R_EN,0);

so that FL_R_EN is not yet set to 0.
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If I turn the light on with this program, it stays on when the device enters sleep mode. If I turn the light on through the button, it gets turned off for sleep mode

So it would seem that pressing the light button sets a flag somewhere, which is then being read by the sleep routine.

I was looking for a script somewhere that handles sleep mode, but couldn't find anything. Running strace on nickel also didn't give me recognizable hints.

Any ideas?
I have no clue. I haven't found any script that handles sleeping either, I think it's all handled by nickel.
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Is it working on new 2.4.0 firmware?
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Is it working on new 2.4.0 firmware?
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Hello,

I 'm new to this fora. I just bought a kobo glo and while the reader is great, I also find the frontlight too bright. I put the code in the main folder of my kobo, but nothing seems to happen. I also don 't see how I can 'execute' it. Apologies if this is a stupid question, but is there something more I need to install/do before this code will work on the kobo?

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You have to use the Kobo Tweaks plugin to use the frontlight program. After you install the plugin, add these lines to kobotweaks.ini (in the .kobo folder on your Glo):
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[CustomCommands]
Frontlight=tweaks.executeSystemCmd(\"/mnt/onboard/frontlight 1\")
That assumes that the "frontlight" program is in the main folder on your Glo.

Just a note: while this program does let you set the frontlight to a lower level, there is really hardly any difference at all between the Glo's default lowest brightness and this program's lowest.
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Just a note: while this program does let you set the frontlight to a lower level, there is really hardly any difference at all between the Glo's default lowest brightness and this program's lowest.
Yes I noticed this. Rather a shame. I'm assuming the LEDs are dimmed by switching them on and off in a certain frequency with a certain length of _on_ time. Would there be a way to make this _on_ time shorter? The Kindle Paperwhite seems to be able to dim its LEDs right down with no disturbing "flickering" – and I see no disturbing flickering with the Glo light=1 setting either... so I'd really like to try and glo lower.
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