Smart LCD birght/dim...

["Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"]

Since Freerunner won't have an hardware light sensor to set its LCD 
brightness, I got some ideas about smartly changing the luminance of the 
GTA02 screen to save its battery (still with an unknown life time :/).
Of course they aren't and never will be precise as an hardware sensor 
is, but it's the only thing we have:

1) Setting the brightness following the hour of the day: also if the 
phone can't know if it's sunny or cloudy, neither if you're indoor or 
outdoor, it's clear that just knowing the hour of the day, the date and 
your latitude (to be set once via GPS) the phone can easily know when 
the sun will rise and set, and so it will be possible increasing or 
reducing the LCD brightness.
Also if you're indoor, I guess that when the sun is "gone" you won't 
need so much luminance...

2) Using personal profiles that follow your habits: you could define, 
for each hour of each week day the "presumed" luminance, using something 
like a calendar. I mean, if on working-days I generally stay indoor 
every day from 8:30 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to the 19:00 I figure that 
on these intervals I don't need all the LCD power, so I'll set in my 
"calendar" that on such interval I'll be indoor...
I guess that many of you would follow a routine durning the week, why 
don't educate your phone for it!?

3) Setting the luminance following the weather. Of course I've no light 
sensors, neither a barometer :P, but if I've a working connection 
available I could use the weather data downloaded every few minutes (60, 
for example) from internet to change my screen brightness (of course 
merging these informations with points 1 and 2)

What do you think about them?
I do think that they are really simple to implement, and that also if 
they won't guarantee a perferct result, they could be a "smart" workaround.

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