Hello,
I've got a HTC Wizard (T-mobile Vario - Dutch) with TomTom Navigator and have a problem with tomtom..
When using tomtom the blacklight stays on. Since i do not have a car charger the battery of the wizard is running low very fast.
The most ideal setting i had on my C500 (typhoon) with TomTom mobile. If tomtom gave me an instruction (for example turn right in 200 Meters) the blacklight turned on for 30 seconds an then turned off again. and so on...
Is there a possibility to get exactly these settings, or even just turn the blacklight off..
I have already searched and read about this topic on xda-developers but all the things i tried didn't work out..
Please help me with a step by step instruction..
Thanks in advance..
Ghost
Can please someone help...
have got tom tom runnng n my Wizard and my C500.
dont thnk that you can get the back lght to turn off as a opton on the Wizard i have tred lookng everywhere
Whilest the backlight "keep alive" used to be an option in TTN3 i cant find any options for it in 5. the only 2 things i can suggest are:
Check your wizard backlight settings (start/settings/system/backlight)
And if its set correctly & set to turn off backlihgt after xx min then i'd suggest a "restore factory settings" in tomtom.
Mine definatly follows the wizard defaults, ie low brightness & then backlight off on batter, or full bright on external power.
Sorry its not much help :-/
Anyway thanks for the input,
Maybe someone else with a maybe better option?
Ghozd
Been playing about whilst windows updates, fraid i was mistaken.
If the backlight goes off before tomtom loads, it stays off (until you touch the screen & wake the device) but once TTN5 has loaded it stays at the settings the pda uses whilest awake (ie dim but on for bat or bright on charge). The only way i got the backlight to turn off was to turn it off in the backlight settings page.
sry for the mis info, i was sure it'd powered off on me before!
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Perhaps someone has an explanation why my backlight doesnt light up again when a button is pressed?
From time to time, the backlight goes dark and even though I am pressing buttons, screen, power button, etc, the backlight doesnt come back on. I have to search for the backlight adjuster (in the dark) in order to switch the light back on.
I have wisbar advanced and SpbPocketPlus installed - might that effect this somehow??
Thanks for any advice!
i have exactly the same problem and don´t know a solution. ;-(
Wisbar Advance 2.6.0.1 is installed, SpbPocketPlus not.
I think it comes more often if i use the camera, but it is not reproduceable...
I've never had this problem before, I dont have wisbar installed.
You may be doing a press and hold function on your device. Quick press of the power turns it off, a long press turns off the backlight. the only way to turn it back on is to long press the power button.
also you have settings that turns the back light screen off, which may be affecting this.
This problem used to occur on the O2 XDA2i ALL THE TIME!
Just my 2 cents. Sorry, not very helpful, but defo a problem we've seen before. You hvae to go into settings to start the backlight back up.
Squuiid said:
This problem used to occur on the O2 XDA2i ALL THE TIME!
Just my 2 cents. Sorry, not very helpful, but defo a problem we've seen before. You hvae to go into settings to start the backlight back up.
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It hasnt happened lately (actually ever I posted this thread strangely enough) but its quite embarrassing when you have to find your way through a dark screen.
I put a large symbol of the brightness adjuster in one corner (using SpbPocketPlus), so I only have to find that symbol rather then start --> settings --> etc..... its not a cure but it makes it easier switching it back on.
If anyone has a remedy for this problem, please share...
Not sure why this happens, but I fixed it using...
http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showpost.php?p=728080&postcount=27
This app - run on your prophet, and all is back to normal. Keep a copy on your SD card...
--Tosh
didn't help
I tried and still use the neo backlight fix. But this fix is only for forcing via startup a longer measured time for the light to stay on.
I too have suffered with the problem of the backlight not coming on every now and again after starting up the prophet. I've had this problem on numerous roms too which is interesting. What more interesting is that even in the days of my owning a Blue Angel (Orange M2000, MDA) I STILL remember having this intermittent problem with the light not always coming on. Only way I fixed it was to simply soft reset the device. Whenever I did that and when I do it now, it stops it happening for week or so at least.
I still use the neo back light fix too as my phone has the quick light turn off problem without it. Neo certainly created a good fix no mistaking.
All the best
Nicholas
i had the same problem...just put the same value to the standby and backlight ...( both 3 mins on mine)...and never happened again....i think it helps...
I have a strange backlight & power-off problem on my Qtek S200:
When the backlight is switched on and I press the Power button shortly to switch it to sleep mode, the screen gets blank but the backlight does not go off.
So now I wait first when the backlight timer goes off before switching the device to sleep mode manually.
Another problem:
When the power settings is set to switch the device off automatically, it reboots when the timer goes off. So my solution is to disable the auto power-off feature.
How to fix this to the original behaviour ?
I tried the neo_backlight_fix and set the backlight timeout to the same value as the standby timeout, but with no avail.
My Qtek S200 has still the original old ROM (G4 model) and Windows Mobile 5.0:
ROM version info:
IPL: 2.10.001
SPL: 2.10.001
GSM: 02.07.20
OS: 2.10.7.25
Please help me to solve the problem.
Maybe I messed up a lot and the only solution is to install a newer ROM which is available since some time at qtek.nl.
Thanks in advance.
hi
when i goto settings and set it to the time out i want i press ok fully come out it works fine, but when i turn the phone off then back on they go back to the original settings not the ones i changed
help
Hi please tell us the make and model of your phone and what rom you are using and if you have done any mods.
Also check the registry at HKCU\control panel\backlight - settings are there for battery and ac timeout etc..
Hi, I've got the same probs.
I have an i-Mate K-Jam with AKU2.
When I set the backlight timeout on battery to 1min, and put it in standby, it constantly reverts to 10 seconds. :evil:
Ever tried that? It sucks.
Also tried the registrykey mentioned above, but that does not work.
When I set the timeout via the GUI, I can see the change in the registry, so far so good.
But when the KJam goes in standby, it reverts back to 10secs.
The only way it does work is to disable the timeout completely
The backlight won't go out that way, but is draining your battery.
Especially when listening to MP3's and don't need any backlight.
PS: I don't want to do a hard-reset (yet), I want to wait until aku2.2, then I have to install the KJam again anyhow.
Hi all,
I have installed tomtom 6.0 and tried to fix the back light problem. I believe I have fixed the backlight problem, but now when I connect my himalaya to the cradle, the backlight goes off. And even when I run tomtom the backlight is off. Hard to see. Once I closes off tomtom the backlight comes on. Does any one have a solution for it?
Thanks
Re backlight
This may be a bit obvious but have you checked the backlight options? go to start, settings, click on the system tab at the bottom, then go to the back light. Once you tap on backlight you have a few options turn backlight on or off on battery power, or the same when on external power, choose which suits you best. Hope this helps you
Regards Cozmicray
Hi All...
I would like to set any program (each one i want...) not to switch off following the normal settings of my pocket pc...
Example:
When you start Tom Tom, your screen remains turned on, even if you set 1,2,3... minutes after then your screen must normally switch off...
So, i'd like a solution to set any program like TomTom and make my screen stay turned on untill i close that program.
Please can anybody help me???
I'll waiting for your solutions...
Thank you in advance!!!
Setting -> power -> advanced
and in TomTom -> Backlight on never
???
I didnt understand what you mean... The way you suggest doesnt make choose which program make my screen stay switched on or not bypassing the "normal" power settings...
I'd like to set any program (TomTom do the same thing by default!!!) deciding which one can bypass the power settings remaining with the light screen on!!!
But not all program, just the one i decide!!!
So.... i can i set my pocket pc to do this??? And how TomTom works doing this by default???
HEY?!?!
............ Really???
No one can help me??? What the...
I still waiting...
Pleeeaseeeeee!!!!!!!
No one... No one.....
SIGH.....
HELP!!!
When I run iGo8 and don't touch the screen for a minute, it seems the device acts as if it was inactive and goes into standby, then I have to turn it back on, unlock the screen and so on..
The only thing I can do right now is to turn off the power management options before launching iGo8 and putting them back on after I finished using it, but there has to be an easier way..
Can anyone help me with this please?
Thanks in advance!
hi!
start igo...--->settings--->more(little arrow on the right bottom side)--->device
there u can switch the power settings.
before u have to switch your general settings form normal to expert.
i use "always on" but then u might have an other issue...try to search for a street, your "a key" might gotta stuck.
you can fix that problem too...just search the forum.
Nevermind, I think it's solved now..
I guess I just had to post the question to be able to find the answer myself
For those who might have the same problem : there is an option for Power management, it was set on "Use Device Settings" instead of "Backlight always on"
I looked in the sys.txt and in every other option but missed that one
jayjoe030 said:
hi!
start igo...--->settings--->more(little arrow on the right bottom side)--->device
there u can switch the power settings.
before u have to switch your general settings form normal to expert.
i use "always on" but then u might have an other issue...try to search for a street, your "a key" might gotta stuck.
you can fix that problem too...just search the forum.
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Thanks for the quick answer
I had the problem with the aaaa key yesterday but solved it thanks to this forum, so I guess my backlight was on "always on" yesterday?
I don't remember changing that one...
indeed, you have to set the backlight feature inside IGO to "Always On". but then there's another problem - IGO overrides the general backlight settings in Windows Mobile (which I set to more than 40% constant, without the automatic adjustment). I didn't manage to make IGO to not synchronize with the OS backlight settings (tried to add the line "backlight_sync_with_OS=0") but it's a no go.
Each time I launch IGO, it will limit my general backlight settings to 40% for both battery and external power.
Fatherboard said:
indeed, you have to set the backlight feature inside IGO to "Always On". but then there's another problem - IGO overrides the general backlight settings in Windows Mobile (which I set to more than 40% constant, without the automatic adjustment). I didn't manage to make IGO to not synchronize with the OS backlight settings (tried to add the line "backlight_sync_with_OS=0") but it's a no go.
Each time I launch IGO, it will limit my general backlight settings to 40% for both battery and external power.
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It seems it did the same thing for me, except that "Automatically adjust backlight" is still activated, so the 40% Backlight adjustment shouldn't be taken into account.
Is it deactivated for you?
I deactivated the automatic adjustment in order to save some battery, and instead I've set my backlight to 50% while on battery, and 80% while using external power (in my car). I think that there's no known solution for this.