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Licence: Freeware
Category: Home >> Treo Extensions
Last updated: 19 Mar, 2008
Author: Treoware
BrightCam 0.7.8 (for Palm OS)
Important notice: when upgrading, don't forget to disable BrightCam before installing the new release!BrightCam is a "must have" application!
Main features: BrightCam uses the Treo/Centro camera to measure the amount of ambient light and adjust the brightness/contrast of the PDA screen to suitable levels every time the user switches applications or powers up. Also, BrightCam will determine whether the keyboard light is required and make the necessary adjustment in the user's preferences. Don't miss a phone call when your Treo/Centro is in your pocket or when you are in a noisy place! BrightCam will detect the dim lighting condition and the noise level and will boost the volume to its maximum value if needed.
Main features are Freeware, but if you want to contribute you can make a donation.
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pinnz: it really sucks that I can't control how bright the screen should be depending on the amount of light comming through. instead it gives you predefined settings that makes it generally brighter or generally dim. which meant that, for me at least, that i was stuck with either too brighter during the days and too bright in night times (which meant more power consumption) or just right brightness during the day and the backlight turns off at night time. (which means that I have too constanly goin into the program to adjust the settings depending if i was outside or inside or nighttime). it would be nice if I could move white lines in the light range meter so that it keeps the screen on the lowest setting (without being off) and that the screen never goes ultimately brighter in day situations, and turn off the screen in non cloudy bright days. cause my eyes don't need a bright screen and thereby killing more battery. as of right now, i'd rather just manually change it myself.
SirDeimos: Yikes. It dosent work to well for me it made everything very dim and made my buttons not light up at all anymore to fix that you have to do a reset btw. I dont reccomend but it could just be me
vicoleon: No too useful, I prefer Power Hero
ooo_600: This would be perfect with on demand backlight adjusting feature.
Gregbenimble: I have never written a review for an application before but now that has changed. This is the absolute best damn piece of software you can get! Hands down the most functional, simple, effective, no bullshit app going. If you miss this one you have missed the best!Definataly a MUST HAVE! ps. did I say that I liked it? Get it now!... It's free? WOW!
anonyME: Stupid design. It keeps dimming the display with the darker ambient light until it is totally off in darkness. Conversely it hopelessly increases the backlight brightness in the blazing sun when it should just turn off the backlight. It also lowers the ringtone loudness in quiet places like inside your purse or backpack so you don't hear anything.
thunder claps: Realy nice on my 600
endofthewoods: Not bad. It works very well for me. The other comments I have read seem as if they didn't take time to set it up or let it calibrate. The down side is that it's not very clear about the tweaks. A little trial and error because you have to play with it some.
gum: This program works nice but on my T650 it slows app switching a lot, what makes it useless :-/
hofs1: Works great even on my 755p but does take a bit of time to fine tune it. Im in and out of offices all day long and i love this app from t600 - 650 - 700 -755p.
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2008-03-12: BrightCam 0.7.8
- Primary Centro GSM support
2007-11-04: BrightCam 0.7.7
- Primary Treo 755p and Centro support
2007-08-01: BrightCam 0.7.6
- Improved Treo 700p support
2007-03-23: BrightCam 0.7.5
- Fixed an issue preventing proper measures on some Treo 680 devices
2007-01-15: BrightCam 0.7.4
- Improved Treo 680 support
- Minor GUI changes
2007-01-01: BrightCam 0.7.0
- Primary Treo 680 support
- Updated "no-autooff" list (PalmPDF removed)
2006-06-07: BrightCam 0.6.9
- Code cleanup in events loop
- Primary Treo 700p support
- New "no-autooff" list (cotoGPS, PalmPDF)
2005-11-04: BrightCam 0.6.7
- Added BackupBuddyVFS in the no-refresh list
2005-08-15: BrightCam 0.6.6
- Added some applications in the no-refresh list
- Profiles 1.01 integration now available
2005-08-05: BrightCam 0.6.5
- Fix the slowdown issue on Treo 650
2005-07-27: BrightCam 0.6.4
- Quickset added for Treo 650 (P+Option)
- "no-refresh" list updated (pTunes, RealPlayer, TCMP...)
- Noise measure fixed for Treo 650
- Faster brightness measure for Treo 650
- Fix the "white" issue at poweron
Compatible with: Treo 600, Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700p, Centro, Treo 755p | Last updated: 19 Mar, 2008