QTek S110
Minimal backlight (1st position of lever) is too bright for me... And it exhausts batteries fast.
Is it possible to adjust a backlight finer?
Some software, patch, links, etc. ?
Hi, I've been searching for an app to achieved that but... no joy!
When I'm reading under my sheets I get blind with that light...
If that's your problem try Haali Reader. It's a freeware when you can change back-color and text-color and make a poor contrast better for your eyes.
C ya!
If you find a way to do it... let me know.
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Hi all.
Dont flame me for this strange request.
My bed side clock is about to die so instead of getting a new one, I am thinking of using my universal as a replacement. My problem is that having the display on even with the backlight set to minimum is too bright for night time use.
With the backlight turned off the display is useless when pitch black so does anyone know of an application I can use that'll allow me to have the backlight on all night whilst charging on a very low setting so that it can be seen in the dark but not light up the whole room.
I assume the built in alarm function will wake me in the morning so dont need to replace that...
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Good luck trusting any Windows Mobile-powered device to wake you up reliably. I thought my Exec was better than my XDA2 but no. It still fails from time to time.
However, if your machine is to be left turned on all night (on charge) then there's a possibility it might be reliable. I'd run it alongside your alarm clock for a while though before trusting it.
I like the idea of the app you request. vijay555 managed to get the screen backlight to respond to settings above the normal control panel range with his VJLumos app - perhaps it can also be set lower using a similar method.
You'll still need a large enough clock display to be readable with blurry eyes at night though.
Incidentally, you can set your Exec to turn the backlight off after (say) 30 seconds of inactivity, but then use the backlight hardware key (next to the volume slider) to turn the screen backlight on again when you need to know the time in the dark.
Just a suggestion
ptravelalarm is an app that displays big clock digits, in landscape mode too. Perhaps worth checking out in conjunction with the backlight hack? oh, and it features loud alarms with volume override too.
Pocketclock is another app but is only 2003 compatible though i kow there is a beta wm5 version available. Not sure when it will be released fully, or if it will support landscape mode (which the beta didn't).
Have a look at 'stoptime'....
And yes it's reliable ! I used it for months for taking my medication (and it's dosing was quite time-dependant !)
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Have a look at 'stoptime'....
And yes it's reliable ! I used it for months for taking my medication (and it's dosing was quite time-dependant !)
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are u using this app on a wm5 pda? I checked out the site and it seems to mention 2003 and earlier, plus no updates since 2004?
No, on a WM2003 ...
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No, on a WM2003 ...
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According to the thread title it's for use on a Universal, therefore wm5 (unless he's seriously tweaked his roms ). Shame, because it looked interesting...
Here's what I have as my Alarm.....
It is SPB Time v.1.1 which you can find here :
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/?en
In the picture below, it is set as BLACK CLOCK and also displays the calendar aside from the time in Digital format.
There a lot of diffeent skins available for free and also you can choose between analog, digital or world clock....
phupton said:
My problem is that having the display on even with the backlight set to minimum is too bright for night time use.
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seconded. The minimum backlight brightness setting is way too bright. Is there any way to influence this in the registry?
the big clock display looks great with that spb product. Just need a hack to sort out the bright display at night time now.
Its not something I can do but if anyone knows of someone that might be able to help then point me in their direction...
I use the ptravel alarm on a daily basis, as commented above though, the dim setting is still bright enough to light the room. If that can be dimmed further then will be fantastic.
As for relibility, the only time it has failed when on mains was due to finger trouble...
I'd suggest something like that Big-Clock from SPB, if you run the Exec while it's plugged in the backlight will stay lit - all you need is a black background with dark coloured numerals so that the light output isn't that much (on lowest backlight obviously).
You'd ALSO need to turn off the flashing LEDS - I've discovered these are really very bright in a darkened room and very irritating.
Chronos is also very good, only analogue clocks though, although it says it is skinable and I would like it in digital...
Anyone know how to skin Chronos???
http://www.activekitten.com/en/games/detail.php?ID=351
Regards Simon
hi,
i have a problem. i own a hermes (o2's trion) and a herald (htc p4350).
on the hermes you can choose from 7 points of backlight brightness.
but on the herald you only have 4.
the thing is that the lowest level is way too dark (you can barely see something) and the second lowest way too bright/light for me (eye cancer: help).
is there a way (registry?) to make all the 4 backlight levels darker or to find a way to get between the lowest and second lowest level of the backlight?
it's really so bright now, and that also needs much more battery.
thanks very much in advance.
i think backlighting levels are on a deeper level in the machine (hardware or driver) then a registry entry can fix.
SPBPocket Plus for Herald could maybe help (read the features). But I didn't try it.
http://www.handster.com/software.php?id=6&for=HTC+Herald
I would like to recall my previous post. There is no such thing like a special version of SPB Pocket Plus for Herald. It's just fricking dynamic webpage changing according to your search
Well, we can still keep hoping at least.
While playing with my HERMES I noticed the following:
First:
The screen is not as bright as on the WIZARD!
Second:
When turning on the camera you shortly can see that the backlight gets increased while opening the CAMERA application. Now, that tells me that there could be a way to increase the background backlight permanently over its default maximum.
Has anyone an idea? I tried already to raise the registry values for backlight without success.
VJ's
There is a program by VJ called super bright I believe it what you are looking for, if so post a little love for VJ's hard work here is the link
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjlumosiii/vjlumosiii.exe
Well, it makes the screen nice and bright - that's for sure!
The drawback's on this neat little application: You can't shut it down other than restarting the PDA, you can't adjust brightness and you can't use the CAMERA as long as the application runs.
I just wonder if the brightness could be increased via Registry Hack - that would be great!
how very odd! i've noticed that comparing my Vario I (Wizard) with my Vario II (Hermes) the Hermes has a considerably better and brighter screen! the colours are a lot more 'fuller'!
i havent tried the 'VJ' app, but will do when i get home,
why would you want it so bright anyway?!
Well, the brightness helps while watching a movie on the go!
Also if you do some work on the road or navigation in the car it comes in handy. I just wish the application mentioned above would not have so many side effects ...
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Well, it makes the screen nice and bright - that's for sure!
The drawback's on this neat little application: You can't shut it down other than restarting the PDA, you can't adjust brightness!
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I just 'click or ok' Super Bright the same way to turn it on or off (no pda restarts needed).
Run the program again to shut it off. I mapped it to one of the hardware buttons.
Thank you vijay555!
I want to ask you something. On direct sunlight the display light is not enough, when I manually set it to 100% the display is much more bright and everything is ok, but when is AUTO, it wont go to maximum never! I'm asking is there any tweak for this, or anyone who knows how, to be kind to make something about this.
Hey - there's a couple of programs that can manage the light sensor instead of the default built in one.
First i used lumos however i found it wasn't that customisable. Yesterday i found a program called AutoLight which works by adjusting a graph to how you want the backlight to change according to the ambient light. Works really well so far!
Just search for them on here and they'll come up.
Htc Hd2 has only one flaw: outdoor display contrast. in the bright day contrast is not on the iphone display level.... if there is a possibility to increase display light and contrast?? i try lumos but result is same as before... I dont want to use antireflect foil or anything similar ....
I suppose that's very subjective. I use lumos with my own settings for the brightness curve (linear with a deep slope) and I can use it in daylight with no big issues.
In case you wanted to test, you probably could set the screen brightness to 100% manually from manila preferences to see if that suits your need, and then agjust lumos curve to your needs
I try again with lumos .... probably something I was not well set up ...
hey! -------> this time it's better and brighter!
But isn't the auto-backlight feature doing the same thing? Making Backlight bright when outdoors?
How is it compared to lumos?
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But isn't the auto-backlight feature doing the same thing? Making Backlight bright when outdoors?
How is it compared to lumos?
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Lumos gives you control over the backlight. You can set up minimum and maximum backlight as well as the backlight intensity curve (vs external light intensity).
The built in auto backlight feature is very weak. It is fine for indoor use but it does not seem to get any darker in the pitch black and does not get much brighter in direct sunlight.
I find myself manually adjusting it everytime...
Agree - the automatic backlight is not working sufficiently. You all need to log this with HTC customer support so they can add it to the next firmware release. Issues really need to be logged sooner rather than later as this phone is going to soon be too old to warrant HTC spending any more time fixing things.
I've been trying to report everything I can before windows 7 comes out and everyone forgets about the Leo.
Hm, well I recognized that the Auto-Backlight is sometimes "slow". But not always. If I walk from a bright room into a dark room the display gets darker. But sometimes it stays quite bright.
Perhaps I give lumos a try. At least to compare.
But when Lumos has so many options to set a brightnes curve, won't you find yourself setting up an adjusted brighnness curve everytime because there is no curve that fits to every situation?
Sometimes there is bright sunlight and shadowy corners, sometimes there is a thunder-storm and barely light.
The light gradient won't be a linear one .
Ok, I played around a little bit.
What are your Max values with HD2? 1178 at mine.
0 is Min value but thats clear. Only thing that is wierd: When I move to a place not directly near a lightbulb the sensor goes very fast down to zero.
It shows zero but it is not dark in the room at all.
Is it the same at yours?