Annoyingly, I've just walked into the room to find my N800, which is on charge,
with the display still lit.

So reproducibility is actually not "always" after all.

If I work out what's different between times when it works and doesn't, I'll
post details.

Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2008-06-27 12:52:42 UTC

Thanks in advance for any investigations, we'd love to have a good testcase on
this.

Having had a play today, the way to trigger this problem appears to be to
restart the N800 with the power connected. After it's started, the light goes
out after a few minutes.

Disconnecting the power then reconnecting it causes the display to behave as
expected.

Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2008-07-14 18:02:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Having had a play today, the way to trigger this problem appears to be to
> restart the N800 with the power connected. After it's started, the light goes
> out after a few minutes.
> Disconnecting the power then reconnecting it causes the display to behave as
> expected.

Is this 100% reproducible?

Comment 5 Andre Klapper 2008-07-14 18:03:12 UTC

Setting hardware to N800.

I can confirm this on my N800 running a stock diablo install (4.2008.23-14). 
Upon reboot, the "Display stays lit: When charging" setting is ignored, even
though the battery is being charged.  Display will dim at "Brightness setting"
interval.  If I unplug/replug the power, the display stays lit.  Reproducible
100%.

Comment 7 Andre Klapper 2009-06-22 15:50:40 UTC

This is a WONTFIX for Diablo (not critical enough).
Haven't seen an internal ticket for Fremantle yet.

This makes it very difficult to automate performance/unit tests on a farm of
N810's.

Comment 9 Eero Tamminen 2009-07-17 16:23:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> This makes it very difficult to automate performance/unit tests on a farm of
> N810's.

What if you include in your test-case something like:
  gconftool-2 --set --type=int /system/osso/dsm/display/inhibit_blank_mode 3

The number at the end is display mode which is one of:
    * 0 - no inhibit
    * 1 - inhibit dim with charger
    * 2 - inhibit blank with charger (display still dims)
    * 3 - inhibit dim (always)
    * 4 - inhibit blank (always; display still dims)

(In reply to comment #9)
> What if you include in your test-case something like:
>   gconftool-2 --set --type=int /system/osso/dsm/display/inhibit_blank_mode 3

Thanks for looking into this.
I:

1) changed the Display control panel to Brightness: 2min, Switch off display:
5min, Display stays lit: When charging
2) uninstalled Moredimmingoptions
3) verified Display settings
4) ran |gconftool-2 --set --type=int
/system/osso/dsm/display/inhibit_blank_mode 3| as root while ssh'ed in
5) let the n810 sit, idle, plugged in.
6) noted that the screen dimmed ~2min later, went blank ~5min later.

There doesn't seem to be a /system directory; is that ok?

Also tried this after reboot, but ssh'ed in as root, su'ed to user, then ran
the gconftool-2 command.  Screen dimmed after ~2min.

Comment 12 Eero Tamminen 2009-07-20 12:47:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #11)
> Also tried this after reboot, but ssh'ed in as root, su'ed to user, then ran
> the gconftool-2 command.  Screen dimmed after ~2min.

Hm. It works on Fremantle.  I thought it should work in Diablo too.  David?

Comment 13 David Weinehall 2009-07-20 21:14:34 UTC

@Eero: no, it's not supported in Diablo, only in Fremantle.

Disconnecting and reconnecting the charger makes things work as they should,
thus I suspect that the first charger state signal from bme gets lost, making
mce not recognise that the charger is connected.

Comment 14 Andre Klapper 2009-07-21 13:32:11 UTC

Closing as Fixed in Fremantle as per last comments.

This is a WONTFIX for Diablo as Diablo is in maintenance mode and Nokia will
only provide bugfixes for critical issues if at all.
For your interest the Mer project aims to provide a community backport of
Fremantle for N8x0 devices. See http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer for more information.

Comment 15 Andre Klapper 2009-09-18 23:16:10 UTC

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