Hi
Can any one please tell me how to turn the keyboard
back light off on the Wizard........ :shock:
Its sending my eyes :twisted:
Many thanks for your time.
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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.
this has been annoying me for a LONG time. and i assume if there is a solution this would be the place for it.
WHY DOESNT THE BACKLIGHT FOR THE KEYBOARD AUTOMATICALLY GO ON WHEN THE DEVICE SLIDES OPEN ??????? it really should have a light sensor like some non-ppc based phone do that as soon as it slides open if the sensor does not detect light then it automatically turns on and vice versa
i hate, i repeat ... HATE that u have to push a key to get the light to go on, then press delete to get rid of the letter that u had to push so the light would come on.
is there a solution to this ?
GTAfinest said:
this has been annoying me for a LONG time. and i assume if there is a solution this would be the place for it.
WHY DOESNT THE BACKLIGHT FOR THE KEYBOARD AUTOMATICALLY GO ON WHEN THE DEVICE SLIDES OPEN ??????? it really should have a light sensor like some non-ppc based phone do that as soon as it slides open if the sensor does not detect light then it automatically turns on and vice versa
i hate, i repeat ... HATE that u have to push a key to get the light to go on, then press delete to get rid of the letter that u had to push so the light would come on.
is there a solution to this ?
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this has been covered many many times on this board.. and the last time i checked there is no fix for it
sorry for the re-post.
i was unaware
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sorry for the re-post.
i was unaware
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instead of flaming you i added it to the wiki since i didnt see it there, hopefully in the future people will read this on the wiki instead of posting
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
dwcliff703 said:
Sorry guys...only buttons that light up are the green and red phone buttons...the rest is by feel
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hi, my 8525 screen's backlight doesnt work so i thought to fix this problem is to get a replacement screen. install the replacement screen today and still the backlight doesnt work!! can someone please help me!! i dont know what else to do!
heres a post i posted a few weeks ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=323396&highlight=backlight
do you guys think its possible its the flex cable the is causing the backlight not to come on? is there auto thingy for the screen's backlight like the keyboard's backlight that automaticly turns it on? i'm stumped i don't know want to do... someone please help me..
no1 has no clue why my phone is doing this??
Hello
sorry for my bad english; i hope that you will understand my problem:
when i open the keyboard, the screen don't turn on horizontal and the keyboard light doesn't turn on.
I changed my cover and after it doesn't work.
i try to open it but i din't resolve the problem
i don't think that is a rom problem, however now i try to change it
thanks a lot for your help!
Khael said:
Hello
sorry for my bad english; i hope that you will understand my problem:
when i open the keyboard, the screen don't turn on horizontal and the keyboard light doesn't turn on.
I changed my cover and after it doesn't work.
i try to open it but i din't resolve the problem
i don't think that is a rom problem, however now i try to change it
thanks a lot for your help!
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I hope you have the old cover. You did not remove the magnet from the old cover and glue it to the new one! The screen rotation sensor is a magnet operated switch.
Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1449001&postcount=6
Mike
mikechannon said:
I hope you have the old cover. You did not remove the magnet from the old cover and glue it to the new one! The screen rotation sensor is a magnet operated switch.
Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1449001&postcount=6
Mike
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Thanks thanks thanks thanks
I resolved it...
sorry but i try to search without result.
my english is bad and i can't explain or found what i wolud like.... =)
really thanks!
khael