Difference between revisions of "IR Proximity Sensor"

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That's probably an Agilent HSDL-9100 Miniature Surface-Mount Proximity Sensor. Palm specs say the proximity sensor is used to turning off the screen when the phone is put up to your face as you are making a call.
 
That's probably an Agilent HSDL-9100 Miniature Surface-Mount Proximity Sensor. Palm specs say the proximity sensor is used to turning off the screen when the phone is put up to your face as you are making a call.
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Latest revision as of 01:48, 20 July 2009

Walking the /sys/class/ tree, there's something that identifies itself as an hsdl9100

<source lang="text"> root@castle:/sys/class# cat input/input3/name hsdl9100_proximity </source>

That's probably an Agilent HSDL-9100 Miniature Surface-Mount Proximity Sensor. Palm specs say the proximity sensor is used to turning off the screen when the phone is put up to your face as you are making a call.