How to set brightness through ADB on nexus 7

Question

I found some info on the web:

echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness

But on my Nexus 7 (flashed an AOSP), I couldn't find that directory.

Any idea about which file should I write to? Is this doable?

After ls /sys/devices/platform, I got:

LID
alarm
arm-pmu.0
bcm4330_rfkill
bcmdhd_wlan.1
bluesleep
fiq_debugger.0
fsl-tegra-udc
gpio-keys.0
grouper_misc
leds-gpio
oprofile-perf.0
power
power.0
pwm-backlight
ram_console
reg-dummy
reg-fixed-voltage.1
reg-fixed-voltage.10
reg-fixed-voltage.11
reg-fixed-voltage.2
reg-fixed-voltage.3
reg-fixed-voltage.4
reg-fixed-voltage.6
reg-fixed-voltage.8
regulatory.0
sdhci-tegra.2
sdhci-tegra.3
serial8250
snd-soc-dummy
spdif-dit.0
spdif-dit.1
spi_tegra.0
spi_tegra.3
tegra-ehci.1
tegra-i2c.0
tegra-i2c.1
tegra-i2c.2
tegra-i2c.3
tegra-i2c.4
tegra-nvmap
tegra-otg
tegra-pcm-audio
tegra-se
tegra-snd-rt5640.0
tegra30-ahub
tegra30-dam.0
tegra30-dam.1
tegra30-dam.2
tegra30-hda
tegra30-i2s.1
tegra30-i2s.3
tegra30-i2s.4
tegra30-spdif
tegra_camera
tegra_pwm.0
tegra_rtc
tegra_smmu
tegra_uart.1
tegra_uart.2
tegra_uart.3
tegra_uart.4
tegra_wdt
uevent

Answer 1

There is a new binary shipping with Android Jellybean 4.2, which can be used to directly read/write to the system settings provider, accessible via command line.

For example: in order to increase brightness of the screen, use below command:

adb shell settings put system screen_brightness 200

Read more about SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS Note that the range of values is [0 - 255]