Hi there, just got my K-jam.
The phone buttons light up, and the keyboard, but I was wondering if the buttons above the phone buttons (the smart / menu buttons) should light up also, they have cut outs but it does not light (on mine any how ;-) )
any comments would be great.
come on guys - you are reading this, and no one is posting - surely one of you has a wizard
No, they do not light up. They are NOT cut outs, but rather silk-screen printings.
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Hello,
I own a Qtek 9100 and i believe it has worked, but now the softkeys do not lightup when using, only the phone keys light up. Is there a way to correct this? Is iut my imagination and it never worked?
Your experts help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Luis Faustino
I believe soft keys never light up...
I believe soft keys never light up...
indeed they do not
I had somewhat hoped that e.g. the messaging button (top-left) would light up if you had a new message, myself - but alas The buttons are non-transparent, so even if there were a little LED behind them, you wouldn't see it :>
I had somewhat hoped that e.g. the messaging button (top-left) would light up if you had a new message
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That's an awesome idea! You should work for HTC
I know, right? And have the PIE / T-Mobile hotspot (silly branding!) one light up if your wifi is on and a publically accessible hotspot is within range. Whee!
meh, anyway 8)
Hi,
I got my Orange SPV M3100 on Friday and already i've noticed what i think is a hardware fault. Not a big fault and i totally love the phone (Skype over wifi an encrypted connection works perfectly), but i'm worried as the phone is only a day old.
The first few times i opened the slide out keyboard I thought i noticed a nice blue keybourd backlight come on. I say thought as i can't find any reference to it in the manual. However whatever i now do, i can't get it to come back on. I've installed a few applications, but i doubt they would have caused it to stop working.
I don't suppose anyone else out there could tell me under what situations the backlight should come on (or if one exists), so that i can test it, and if it doesn't come on, i can phone up and get a replacement sent out. Its not a big problem and i can still use the phone, but you don't expect hardware to die after only a day.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Neil
there's a small hole in the top right of the keyboard. This is a light sensor. So, if light's on your keyboar led will be off, and if it's dark your keyboar led will be on.
you have to press a button too before it comes on iv found.
there is a setting for it as well somewhere to turn it on
Thanks for the advice guys, but the keyboard still doesn't light up if i open an application that asks for text to be entered and then slide out the keyboard in the dark and then press a key. Looks like my light sensor has died. I've just phoned Orange and they are sending me a replacement for between 6 and 10pm today (what fantastic service!).
Same issue over here
Hello I am experiencing the same problem over here.
It worked for the person who sold it to me and now it does not anymore.
Do you know if this is an HW or SW issue ?
Any other cases around?
TX
seems I have the same problem. i'm on orange and the light was working now it doesn't.
EDIT: no i dont have a problem. I went into a dark dark room and then typed something and it worked. if i cover over the "light sensor" with my finger and press a button, it doesnt work.
Indeed
Indeed I had a wrong interpretation of the function of the sensor:
The sensor works in the following way:
If it is dark AND there's a key pressed AND the setting in "Settings" is set to enable sensor THEN keyboard backlight is turned on if no light in evironment.
If the setting in "Settings" is set to enable sensor THEN keyboard backlight is turned on AS SOONS AS you press a key.
A little dumb from my point of view: if I slide the keyboard in the dark, is it to look at it in the obscurity? The simple sliding should turn it on by night.
luke.a.jones said:
you have to press a button too before it comes on iv found.
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I've noticed that the backlight on mine (Vario 2, it's a red backlight... urgh) doesn't come on all the time if it's dark or dusk-level, which is really annoying. Sometimes hitting the tab key brings it into life, but sometimes it just doesn't come on at all.
One of those 'temperamental', 'great idea in theory' designs methinks.
I also found out that if the turning screen backlight off on inactivity is disabled, then every time I slide out the keyboard, its backlight is turned on.
Hey all,
Does anyone know of any means to turn off the keyboard backlight, force it off no matter what the situation? As well, does anyone know of any hack or program one could use to force toggle the keyboard on and off?
Aside from this, does anyone have any pictures of the keyboard open? I specifically want to see how the leds are arranged in there. I want to remove the blue leds and replace them with a few white or red ones.. or, put a resistor in, so that the blue leds are EXTREMELY DIM compared to their brightness now.
It's annoying to me that the keyboard leds are so bright, that they actually outshine my main screen (which has the brightness turned down).
Any ideas, anyone?
Hi Brad,
Most of the pics available had no shot of the keyboard PCB removed... I am also looking for it. I wanted to shim the right side of the keyboard since that part is lower than the left side.
Is your keyboard keys also going a little sunk from left to right ? you need to feel/look for it hard, since it is just a matter of half millimeter.
No.. no issues with my keyboard, other than I can't even stand to look at it. I literally just can't look at it. I have to close my eyes when I type. I think I have some extreme blue-light sensitivity or something.
My Hermes is fairly new, though... but again, the keys all seem fine. I can't *see* the keys, but they feel fine.
I just refuse to stare at extremely bright and annoying painful to look at things. I mean, didn't these guys notice that the Hermes seemed to be all blurry, when the backlight was on? And really bright??
Hello all,
Please don't flame me for this simple question, I did a search but couldn't find the answer
I just purchased a used 8525 over ebay...
I was just wondering which buttons are supposed to light up when using the phone?
Currently, only the ON and OFF telephone buttons light up as well as the keyboard...
Is this normal or are the buttons corresponding to the soft button also supposed to light up?
Thanks.
Good question...
I just got one too, and now that you mention it, it looks like they should light up, doesn't it?
Mine don't either.
Sorry guys...only buttons that light up are the green and red phone buttons...the rest is by feel
Thanks for the info dwcliff703
Just wanted to make sure my 8525 wasn't defective.
Thanks again
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Sorry guys...only buttons that light up are the green and red phone buttons...the rest is by feel
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I would really like to have something like that. Can I use the menu button to scroll or do such things?
I like this phone but I would like
1. A led light (to use it for lighting when walking in the night)
2. A gyroscope (ya I know)
3. Better casing
4. A notification led (e.g. red when I have missed calls, amber when sms etc) - I do not know which mobs feature this think apart from nexus
And by the way does it have a video out?
It does have Video Out, you use the 3.5 mm headphone plug to plug in the TV out plug.
The "button" in the middle, the big one, it's only one button that takes you to the home screen or if you long press it you get recently used tasks to multitask, etc..
it is not a Dpad nor a scroller (I really wish to was !! would have been nice to have a trackpad).
the other things are your dreams , well a better casing is possible with cases but they're not out yet.
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I would really like to have something like that. Can I use the menu button to scroll or do such things?
I like this phone but I would like
1. A led light (to use it for lighting when walking in the night)
2. A gyroscope (ya I know)
3. Better casing
4. A notification led (e.g. red when I have missed calls, amber when sms etc) - I do not know which mobs feature this think apart from nexus
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I always wonder why people don't bother to read not just 5 similar topics here, but just one freakin basic review of the phone, that answers all idiotic questions about it.