Is there a registry hack to enable the keyboard backlight to remain on whilst external power is present?
Looking for this for use in-car with my Brodit Cradle.
No need for a registry hack. You can change it in the GUI
Go Start -> Settings -> System Tab -> Backlight.
The second tab allows you to set it so that the backlight doesn't go off.
Or doesn't that work for you?
snorbaard said:
No need for a registry hack. You can change it in the GUI
Go Start -> Settings -> System Tab -> Backlight.
The second tab allows you to set it so that the backlight doesn't go off.
Or doesn't that work for you?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Doesn't work for me.
Doesn't work for me, only ranges up to 10 seconds. I too would like to leave the kb backlight on because it's better whilst in laptop mode in the cradle.
Cheers
Ant
Anyone know where the light sensor is as my keyboard backlight ver rarely comes on (even when in total darkness), I think the sensor has been bunged up or moved.
Any ideas?
griffog said:
Is there a registry hack to enable the keyboard backlight to remain on whilst external power is present?
Looking for this for use in-car with my Brodit Cradle.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Take a look at the HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\QKeyLedTimeout setting - it's not battery/external power sensitive, but you can switch off the backlight by closing the clamshell, and re-opening. The value is the timeout in seconds, and can be set to a maximum of 10 seconds via the "Buttons" control panel applet, but I've got mine set to an hour, and it seems to work.
Cheers,
Steve.
the_ape said:
Anyone know where the light sensor is as my keyboard backlight ver rarely comes on (even when in total darkness), I think the sensor has been bunged up or moved.
Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sensor is small white dot above the left, green (answer) button on keyboard
Worked great
That worked great, thanks. I set mine at 1,000 seconds for now. It's goimg to come in handy, since it always went off too soon. I also found out if you cover the sensor with the flat black end of the stylus it shuts out the light perfectly (My finger couldn't cover it since it's really close to the edge).
How???
How what?
If you are referring to my HKCU\... stuff, then I'm talking about altering your registry settings, which should be done with care. You will need a registry editor, a number of which are freely available, and then you just need to make the change to the registry setting.
Cheers,
Steve.
I know how to edit the registry, I'm on about how to change it to 1000 seconds. Is there a string value giving the entries in the delay dropdown?
Ant
EDIT - oops I should've read what you actually put. Sorry
you can paint over the sensor window with a black permanent marker - this will get the keyboard light going earlier , and makes the sensor less vulnerable to the screen backlight.
Related
Does anybody know of a way of extending the Universal's keyboard backlight duration longer than the highest option of 10 secs? My eyes are hurting trying to see the keyboard at night. :shock:
Don't want it a lot. Maybe 20 or 30 seconds? Perhaps this is a registry setting?
TIA
Dont even need to change a registry setting mate
Go to Start > Settings > Buttons
Then click on the Backlight tab, it brings up the options here to either have the light sensor enabled or disabled, and also how long you want your keyboard backlight on for
Sorry
read ur post wrong
Only realised myself the highest option is 10 secs!
Doh!
Yes, there is a registry setting...
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedTimeout
Change it from 10 to whatever you want. I originally set it to 60, but found that was way too long. I've got it set at 30 right now and that seems to be working well for me.
You need to soft reset after making the change before it will go into effect. Remember to turn the device off before you soft reset to make sure the cache is flushed and your change is saved.
HTH,
Brett
What about a way to change the sensitivity of the keyboard light sensor? We all I think find it not sensitive enough, and when it's too dark to see the keys, it still doesn't come on.
BrettS said:
Yes, there is a registry setting...
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedTimeout
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Perfect! Thanks a bunch.
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
O2 XDA Exec UK
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
ice_coffee said:
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In what way doesn't it work? Are the keyboard lights always on or always off? At night, in the dark, do the keyboard lights come on when you press a key? Have you got the ambient light sensor enabled in the Control Panel?
I thought my light sensor wasn't working either when I first got it, not realising that you had to tap a key before it would light up.
I was also one of those that didn't know where the stylus from the box went (it was the spare)
SiliconS said:
ice_coffee said:
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In what way doesn't it work? Are the keyboard lights always on or always off? At night, in the dark, do the keyboard lights come on when you press a key? Have you got the ambient light sensor enabled in the Control Panel?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your reply, I have since hard reset and gone for corporate mode, and it has started working originaly in a pitch black room no matter what key I pressed, it refused to light up.
Hi Guys,
I have been playing with a Hermes for a day now in order to decide on using it or the Wizard. I am aware of the alignment and stylus grip issue, but is the keyboard backlight sensor iffy?
Until I turned off the sensor, I found that the keyboard backlight wouldn't always turn on at all, even with the phone in a completely dark room.
Apart from that, seems a nice phone (other historic issues nothwithstanding) and certainly faster and easier to use than the Wizard.
For info, my serial number starts HT640, which is much later than the others on the wiki (I have added it to the list) so maybe it's 'new an improved'?? We can but hope.
even in a dark room and you pull the keyboard out you still need to press a key on the keyboard before the backlight comes on...
johnk1973 said:
even in a dark room and you pull the keyboard out you still need to press a key on the keyboard before the backlight comes on...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep, I know that - it doesn't work.
lighting issues
I've taken to holding my thumb completely over the sensor for a second or 2 and beginning to type, this usually activates it when it will not automatically light the pad (even in virtual darkness). Mine does seem a but sporadic, sometimes it works automatically, other times not.
Why not just disable the light sensor?
Settings > Personal > Buttons > Backlight
V
vijay555;1036692 said:
Why not just disable the light sensor?
Settings > Personal > Buttons > Backlight
V
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
umm..if you have to disable features, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having them?
I don't really consider the light sensor a feature, more an option. I think the blue backlight is cool, so like to keep it on all the time when I'm using the keyboard, daylight or no.
However, for the purposes of this thread, removing the potentially buggy sensor from the equation will help narrow down any problems, is it the lights, the phone, or the sensor that causes erratic behaviour.
Works fine for me though.
V
I've been trying to find the registry settings that control how fast the backlight comes on when I open my keyboard to no avail...all too often I find myself in the dark waiting a full second or two for the keyboard to come on and it annoys the daylights out of me. If anybody has some insight on a quick fix, I appreciate the info.
if you go to settings - buttons - backlight you can disable the autosensor for the keyboard light, not sure if it will make it come on any faster but it might (since rather than checking ambient light it will just turn the backllight on by default)
When you turn off keyboard auto-sensing the keyboard comes on as soon as you press a button on the keyboard. I have found that the sensor is too strict with using the backlight, there were plenty of times I could not see the keys but the light did not turn on. Too bad, wasted feature.
nwcarlson said:
I've been trying to find the registry settings that control how fast the backlight comes on when I open my keyboard to no avail...all too often I find myself in the dark waiting a full second or two for the keyboard to come on and it annoys the daylights out of me. If anybody has some insight on a quick fix, I appreciate the info.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yeah i totally know what you're talking about...even with the light sensor option turned off, it still takes a couple seconds for the keyboard backlight to turn on. i've always found that a bit annoying. i'm guessing it's a hardware thing, i doubt there'd be a registry tweak to speed up the keyboard backlight. it'd be nice if there was though...
Hi,
there are 5 levels for the backlight.
I see a clear difference going fromn 1 to 3 but no difference when I go from 3 to 5.
Any of you experienced this ?
Another question:
The power-setting management is such that the backlight is reduced after some time. If I am on level 3, the backlight is reduced automatically down to a light intensity, which corresponds to a level of 2. Why not 1 ?
Nonody ???
Nobody ??? (sorry)
ratoto said:
Hi,
there are 5 levels for the backlight.
I see a clear difference going fromn 1 to 3 but no difference when I go from 3 to 5.
Any of you experienced this ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
mine has a big difference from 1-3 and a small difference from 3-5, but there is a difference.
ratoto said:
Another question:
The power-setting management is such that the backlight is reduced after some time. If I am on level 3, the backlight is reduced automatically down to a light intensity, which corresponds to a level of 2. Why not 1 ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
mines set to "turn off backlight" after 30 seconds. After that it drops to level 1 brighness. Not sure why yours is at lvl 2
ratoto said:
Hi,
there are 5 levels for the backlight.
I see a clear difference going fromn 1 to 3 but no difference when I go from 3 to 5.
Any of you experienced this ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i'm playing with some REG value and remembered your question
here is a nice one
open a REG edit
then go
HKCU/control panel/backlight/
edit the value of "max brightness" from 4 to 8
you will get more levels of brightness and if you keep it low but good for your use it will save battery
the jump between level 2 to 3 is still strong but not as much as …
FREE REG EDIT APP
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Thanks for the answer. I will try .
thanks EREZYAD, made the changes and it gave me the extra settings, but the jump is very small, so i went back to the default settings.
One thing i noticed though is even the lowest setting is rather bright. is there a way to make it darker?
my ipaq 6828 when set on the min setting was almost black.
thebranded said:
my ipaq 6828 when set on the min setting was almost black.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I HAVE IT ALSO , YOU NEED THIS ONE
http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/1313/turn-your-pocket-pc-screen-off-with-awady-screenoff.html
HAVING MORE LEVELS IS GOOD FOR MIN LIGHT - BATTERY...
On my HP 614 all screen off programs just blank the screen, but backlight is still on in this low level 1 (or 2). Also when I configure in setting switch off backlight after 30 seconds, it will not switch backlight off, but to low level.
Why is that? Normally it shut be completely off, both - screen and backlight.
I was told on HP support that's a feature. But I'm sure it's bug.
yeah the back light stays on just the screen "displays" a black image
you can see the back light shining around the edges and the screen looks more grey than black.
I dont think you can ever switch of the backlight without pressing the on/off button
Have a problem with my 614c, when is charging, and display goes off after some time, it wont go on when i press the display button, just keyboard lightens, display goes on when i unplug it from power
i have not seen that happen to me.
its not the slide show but with no pics so it showing a black screen right?
Maybe a hard reset (backup ALL data first) ?
Is there a program that will turn the screen off during a call when the phone is held vertical to your ear and then turn the screen on when the phone is lowered allowing use of the keypad similar to the Iphone?
Thanks,
Henny
You might try Mobile Magic from this forum. But I don't know for sure.
Mate there is already a thread for this, the problem is if there are loads of little threads we can't pool our resources to 'make it happen'.
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=451456
So far i don't think anyone has found a working solution.
check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
Advanced configuration tool works perfect for me. Just set the light sensor polling to enabled, interval to 10, threshold to 5 and threshold to turn screen off to 5 also.
PatrickSmelt said:
check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
Advanced configuration tool works perfect for me. Just set the light sensor polling to enabled, interval to 10, threshold to 5 and threshold to turn screen off to 5 also.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
interval to 10? that seems very high, 100 times per second. i'd say something more like 200ms or even 500ms interval. it would use a lot less system resources.
marko
Patrick and Elmarko,
Thanks for the replay.
Tried setting the light sensor as reccomended in your post via the advanced config tool and it does not blank the screen when holding the phone against my ear.
Also, when you lower the phone does the screen come back on?
from my experience I can get rid of the black screen during phone call if i press the <home> button; it gets me back to the dialer
Hennyb said:
Patrick and Elmarko,
Thanks for the replay.
Tried setting the light sensor as reccomended in your post via the advanced config tool and it does not blank the screen when holding the phone against my ear.
Also, when you lower the phone does the screen come back on?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
PatrickSmelt said:
check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
Advanced configuration tool works perfect for me. Just set the light sensor polling to enabled, interval to 10, threshold to 5 and threshold to turn screen off to 5 also.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
and what about when in the dark???? wanting to read or use the HD?