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sergey.udaltsov at gmail

Sep 23, 2009, 2:04 AM

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n810: the screen is constantly on

Hi folks

At some point, my n810 got strange habit - it never turns the screen
off, just dims it a bit. Needless to say, the battery dies fast. Is
there any way to check what's wrong?

In the control panel, "brightness period" is set to 30 seconds. And
"switch off display" - 30 seconds as well.

Thanks,

Sergey
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martin.grimme at gmail

Sep 23, 2009, 2:50 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

Hi,

I once had the same problem on my N810. Flipclock was messing with the
display timeout settings. I think I fixed it by manually correcting
the display timeout value in GConf. Look around for it using
gconf-editor (installable via application manager).

Cheers,
Martin

2009/9/23, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov [at] gmail>:
> Hi folks
>
> At some point, my n810 got strange habit - it never turns the screen
> off, just dims it a bit. Needless to say, the battery dies fast. Is
> there any way to check what's wrong?
>
> In the control panel, "brightness period" is set to 30 seconds. And
> "switch off display" - 30 seconds as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sergey
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-users mailing list
> maemo-users [at] maemo
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
>
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sergey.udaltsov at gmail

Sep 23, 2009, 2:53 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

Thank, Martin

Most probably it is flipclock. By any chance, do you remember what
were those gconf entries?

Sergey

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Martin Grimme <martin.grimme [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I once had the same problem on my N810. Flipclock was messing with the
> display timeout settings. I think I fixed it by manually correcting
> the display timeout value in GConf. Look around for it using
> gconf-editor (installable via application manager).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> 2009/9/23, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov [at] gmail>:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> At some point, my n810 got strange habit - it never turns the screen
>> off, just dims it a bit. Needless to say, the battery dies fast. Is
>> there any way to check what's wrong?
>>
>> In the control panel, "brightness period" is set to 30 seconds. And
>> "switch off display" - 30 seconds as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sergey
>> _______________________________________________
>> maemo-users mailing list
>> maemo-users [at] maemo
>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
>>
>
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martin.grimme at gmail

Sep 23, 2009, 2:56 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

No sorry, I don't remember what it was exactly but from looking at
that name of the key and the value it had it was pretty obvious that
this was the culprit. Maybe somebody else can provide more information
about where the screen blanking timeout is stored in GConf?

Cheers,
Martin

2009/9/23, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov [at] gmail>:
> Thank, Martin
>
> Most probably it is flipclock. By any chance, do you remember what
> were those gconf entries?
>
> Sergey
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Martin Grimme <martin.grimme [at] gmail>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I once had the same problem on my N810. Flipclock was messing with the
>> display timeout settings. I think I fixed it by manually correcting
>> the display timeout value in GConf. Look around for it using
>> gconf-editor (installable via application manager).
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> 2009/9/23, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov [at] gmail>:
>>> Hi folks
>>>
>>> At some point, my n810 got strange habit - it never turns the screen
>>> off, just dims it a bit. Needless to say, the battery dies fast. Is
>>> there any way to check what's wrong?
>>>
>>> In the control panel, "brightness period" is set to 30 seconds. And
>>> "switch off display" - 30 seconds as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Sergey
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> maemo-users mailing list
>>> maemo-users [at] maemo
>>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
>>>
>>
>
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marius at pov

Sep 24, 2009, 1:50 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:56:28AM +0200, Martin Grimme wrote:
> No sorry, I don't remember what it was exactly but from looking at
> that name of the key and the value it had it was pretty obvious that
> this was the culprit. Maybe somebody else can provide more information
> about where the screen blanking timeout is stored in GConf?

$ gconftool -R /system/osso/dsm/display
display_on_with_charger = false
display_brightness_level_step = 1
display_blank_timeout = 120
display_brightness = 4
display_dim_timeout = 120
max_display_brightness_levels = 5
possible_display_dim_timeouts = [10,30,60,120]
possible_display_blank_timeouts = [30,60,120,300]

Marius Gedminas
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ucecesf at ucl

Sep 25, 2009, 2:53 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:50:41 +0200,
Martin Grimme wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I once had the same problem on my N810. Flipclock was messing with the
> display timeout settings. I think I fixed it by manually correcting
> the display timeout value in GConf. Look around for it using
> gconf-editor (installable via application manager).

Indeed. I fixed my setting this morning by

gconftool -s --type=int /system/osso/dsm/display/display_blank_timeout 120

It would appear that flipclock (or something else maybe) set this to a
full day's worth of seconds (84600)! Seems like a silly thing to do
but maybe the author(s) had some reason for this...

Thanks,
eric
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sergey.udaltsov at gmail

Sep 25, 2009, 2:57 AM

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Re: n810: the screen is constantly on [In reply to]

Thanks, Eric, it seems to be working!

Sergey

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf [at] ucl> wrote:
> At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:50:41 +0200,
> Martin Grimme wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I once had the same problem on my N810. Flipclock was messing with the
>> display timeout settings. I think I fixed it by manually correcting
>> the display timeout value in GConf. Look around for it using
>> gconf-editor (installable via application manager).
>
> Indeed. I fixed my setting this morning by
>
> gconftool -s --type=int /system/osso/dsm/display/display_blank_timeout 120
>
> It would appear that flipclock (or something else maybe) set this to a
> full day's worth of seconds (84600)! Seems like a silly thing to do
> but maybe the author(s) had some reason for this...
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
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