Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
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VJPlumBum
PS Turn your volume up.
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It made me smile, thank you!
I had to SR after it because the left LED started to blink green instead of right, and I've lost BT indication, which was left blue before, and nothing after this app.
Sorry, about that. That was the whole point actually, it was a test of some code I wrote to control the other leds. You'll have to soft reset to get proper led indications again, but you don't have to, everything will continue to work, just leds will be off.
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vijay555 said:
Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
V
VJPlumBum
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The plum worked but not the bumming led's on my wizard V! Peace
Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
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vijay555 said:
Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
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Cheers V - i will test on my brothers hermes when i next see him.
Take care
works on my spv m700 (trinity)
strangly i think this is a useful tool. I hate flashing leds so when it turns off the lights at the end it leaves them off. This is better than the registry hack as I don't loose vibrate on the ringing.
whilst I love the close encounters bit, can you make this into a little wizard so we can choose which led to turn off or reset to normal behaviour.
this is because i want all the leds off except the blue one which i prefer to leave on as I don't like to leave BT running all the time.
Don't need to know my phone is charging or that there is some notices, notification alert or alarm. (when its in my pocket Im not going to see it!)
thanks Vijay
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I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
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I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
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Your device is not defected it happens to other devices too depends on the rom that you're using..
depends on the rom????
i tried a qtek rom and a imate jam rom and they have the same
behaviour, in camera mode the brightness is increased.
i try also to hack the registry keys, but nothing happens.
who can explain?
Maybe its simply the camera application instructing the screen brightness to 'gain up' to make using the viewfinder for pictures in dark conditions more clear.
Alot of digital camera reviews say an camera digital display that gains-up at night/poor light is a plus as it allows you to see the subject of your photo more clearly (wanna buy a digicam and keep reading about this in all the reviews)
Could this offer an explanation?
Oh and P.s. My Qtek S100 with WWE 1.12 rom also does this.
Gero
Do you think that its possible to do something with the registry and increase them to same brightness as camera mode?? It would have amazing screen them!! I am really bad at registry tweaking hehe . Need advice from the pros pleaseee :lol:
Screen Brightness increases when camera is on
Did anyone figure out how to tweak the registry so that the screen brightens can be left at the higher level that it switches to when the camera is turned on? I would really like to keep my Jam's screen at that brightness level at all times. There must be something in the camera exe file that changes the brightness level beyond what is allowed in the settings.
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
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vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
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YEP! please!
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vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
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YEP! please!
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I'll second that !
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ratcom said:
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
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Me too! :lol:
Guys,
After having a brainwave this morning about how to do this, I've knocked together a little app to enable it. However, the technique has some issues I want to sort through to make it a bit more foolproof for you guys. It's not a great way to do it, but it does work for now until someone can think of a better way.
I'm a bit curious why HTC didn't enable it by default. It's not MUCH brighter, but it makes a difference, and going back to the old brightness is quite disappointing!
Just keeping you all informed
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Great invention again..
More brightness can't be that bad i guess...
....but doesn't it drain your battery quicker ?
I suspect this won't only affect battery drain but display lamp life time. May be this setting is slightly above specs which is ok for a few seconds, but it might most probably decrease your displays life time if you leave it enabled for hours.
That's my assumption why HTC did not make it available to the average user.
I agree. As it happens, I might not release this at all.
For now it only works once per soft reset. After powering off, it goes back to normal brightness. Then you can only get the superbrightness again after a soft reset. Too impractical to be of any use, but an interesting idea for me to play with.
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When i put my hands on the Qtek S100 (MDA Compact to be exact, in my case), i was so amazed by the screen and its high resolution/size (i never had a PPC/PPCPhone before) but a co-worker of me bought the SP5 (aka HTC. Tornado) and that screen is 4 times brighter compared to the S100's screen.
Chatty - about the screen life. I guess it must be relatively safe if it's enabled by default in the camera mode. Potentially you can leave you phone in camera mode all day, and there's no automatic time out or power off or anything.
I imagine the issue is more battery life than screen life. And for most of us, I guess we'll all be upgraded in < 1 year?
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@vijay555: So any progress in making it usable? What API is used for that? RIL?
@Chatty, as I said in my earlier post, I'm not going to release this because it's not properly usable. Yet :wink:
The effect works, and you have superbrightness across the system, but only until you power off the system. When you switch on again, I can't get it to re-enable the superbrightness or the camera until you soft reset. HTC have used some curious programming. So it works once per boot for now, and that's nearly useless.
I'm only using a very dodgy hack to do this (which achieves the goal), but the best way would be to reverse engineer the camera/LCD drivers, and frankly I haven't looked into this at all, no time.
I doubt RIL would help, I think this requires direct interfacing to the screen driver/hardware.
My way is simple, and works, but not something I would put my name to as a release product...just an interesting trick for now.
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vijay555, if you don't intend to release this "software" can you share the trick?
kta - let me see if I can pack it together into an app that won't cause hardresets. Soft resets I can live with, hard resets are a pain in the bum.
The trick? Sure: start the camera, click on the tools button near bottom right (you will now be in normal brightness), choose tools menu, then adjust. You should now be in superbright mode. the trick is keeping it there :wink:
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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)
Anyone know where in the registry can I turn off the blinking bluetooth indicator. Not really a big deal until I'm driving in my car at night - it's like a cop is behind me!!! And bright too!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sea...dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=200
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Just to summarize: you can disable it, but only by disabling all the LED notifications - including WiFi, Radio and Power.
ZeBoxx: there is another less invasive way, but I've had no time to finish the app. But allledmgr will do the job for most purposes...
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you're working on way too much at the same time, vijay It leaves you with many unfinished projects, and a lot of posts going "maybe vijay will write it for me" :>
Not that I'm one to talk.. *eyes that darn colorpicker*
Damn, forgot about the color picker. VJCandela's "GUI" wore me out. Working on something very very non GUI right now
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haha, good! I really can't find time to work on that da*n thing :\
hmmm.... my cingular 8125 has no such key under Builtin. So, I added the key "AllLEDMgr" and made a DWORD value named "Index" inside it which I set to 0. Soft resetting had no affect on the LEDs.
Interestingly, I can't delete the key "AllLEDMgr" now as it's marked in use.
Sleuth255: dump your registry (and also your rom if you're feeling generous) and send it over to sleuth @ vijay555.com and I'll have a look..
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I'm using the Wizard with norwegian ROM, and I don't have this registry key either. Does anyone know why, and how I can tweak the LEDs?
De-solder the LED or if you're not that adventurous, put a little bit of electrical/insulation tape over the LED
This should work, but it's not exactly the solution I was looking for....
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put a little bit of electrical/insulation tape over the LED
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that'll block the green wifi one, too, though! What you really need is a bit of green gaffer tape; that should block practically all of the blue but leave the green coming through
Ok, I tried the green gaffer tape, but it didn't look too good. I'm going to try the soldering solution now, and probably solder inn an extra CPU while I'm in there, just to boost things up. Thanks for the good tips!
you're welcome!
and remember - use leaded solder. Sure, it's not as good for the environment, but it'll last longer!
It would actually be nice if there were a way to disable the flashing radio LED, but I have motive other than being annoyed by it.
I would like to be notified of new voicemail, appointments, & text messages via LED, however, since I am color blind (technically...I have a "color defect") I can not differentiate between the orange and green flashing LED (although I can see the blue one).
Therefore it would be better to have it off UNLESS there is an alert.
Is it possible that somebody can write something to change this or is it hopeless?
I know some people wanted to increase the keyboard backlight time. In case this hasnt been posted already, mad monkey has a cab for it:
http://www.dweiniger.com/tips/k-jam.shtml
No i have not seen this posted. tried on my qtek did not work - does it work on your device. i have seen a hack for the universal not wizard
cheers
nope this don't work on the T-Mobile MDA (US model)
Is it supposed to be a DWORD value? Anyone has gotten this to work?
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Is it supposed to be a DWORD value? Anyone has gotten this to work?
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No joy here
didnt work either on 2.8
nope - doesn't work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38314
You would think someone at HTC would know how to do it. Do any of those guys/girls post on this forum?
not that I've ever seen - not on any of the official retailer sites either. good luck
p.s. the question might not be 'how to do it' but 'can it be done'
yeah, I'm beginning to believe that the whole thing is completely implemented with hardware: a keypress starts a LED "On" timer. This is also why the kbd doesn't illuminate when it gets extended. Even though WM senses this and flips to landscape, it has no control over the backlight: It takes a keypress to start the timer circuit that illuminates the backlight you see.
bummer.
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This is also why the kbd doesn't illuminate when it gets extended. Even though WM senses this and flips to landscape, it has no control over the backlight: It takes a keypress to start the timer circuit that illuminates the backlight you see.
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Working under the assumption that it is indeed in-hardware, there would've been nothing to prevent the engineers from making the magnetic switch enable the backlight, too
Working under the assumption that it's purely software, there should be nothing to prevent WM5 from doing this... other than that nobody has coded it to do so
Working under the assumption that it's hardcoded in the driver, somebody would have to hack the driver to extend the backlight; adding functionality to turn the backlight on would be a bit more difficult.
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Working under the assumption that it is indeed in-hardware, there would've been nothing to prevent the engineers from making the magnetic switch enable the backlight, too
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I'll give you "glass half full" on that one :wink:.
However.... the magnetic switch would be more difficult to implement than a simple key press which also resets a timer circuit. You'd have to tie that additional input into a circuit that could be hard-wired with the keyboard itself.
there's my "glass half empty" viewpoint.... I've just got a bad feeling on this one..... sorry.
I guess I'm going to have to take a closer look at some of the disassembled wizard pictures to make up my mind on this.
I sure hope a way is found to fix this as well as control those other blinking leds.....
well the point was, basically, there already -is- a magnetic switch. It's used to signal the OS that the keyboard has extended, and allow it to react on that; the chosen reaction being that the screen orientation is changed.
There would be nothing whatsoever stopping the engineers who actually put the thing together (not talking about somebody taking it apart and tinkering in there and whatnot) to have hooked that up to the backlight control /if/ that is in hardware %)
And if it's in software, then nothing would have technically stopped the software developers from making the keyboard slide-out trigger the backlight that way; assuming they already do as much on keypresses.
exactly. But the kbd does't light up when you extend it you see.... This behavior shoud be obvious
ok weird doesnt even put this into perspective ... i edited that value and softreset my phone. backlight timeout is still 5 seconds and now my bottom ( previously skinned) bar has gone back to default colours ... tried removing the value and resetting again had no effect either ... lovely hack this is now i can try and figure out why the hell this just happened ... running newest official qtek rom only for info
I think this is one of the largest downsides to this device. When I pull the keyboard out the lights should come on AND it should be longer then 5 seconds. It would also be nice if it had a light sensor (like on the SMT5600) to know if the light SHOULD come on or not.
If someone (or HTC) would fix this it would be awesome.
oh, they'll fix it - for their next device models The Universal already works that way, and you can tweak the backlight time. I'm sure by now they've gotten all the feedback they need to decide that that is better than the fixed behavior of the Wizard (not sure who at HTC ever figured that would be a good idea to begin with).
Can anyone shed any light on why my buttons, just the ones on the unit itself, aren't producing their lovely orange glow anymore? The d-pad light still works, but the OK, Win & browser buttons are dark.
The only thing I could think of was that I installed SBSH, like everything because I'm fed up with Spb, so I uninstalled w/ several reboots. Still no go.
Maybe it's better that way. Less battery drain. It's not like I can't find them, but they were cute. My 3-year-old daughter loves the orange.
UPDATE:
I never did figure out what it was. Between booting up with PhoneAlarm, UltimateLaunch, MccMoblieFinder, LivePVR (which I'm not sure works) something crashed, so I hard reset.
I did figure out after my reset that the backlight doesn't actually go all the way off; when the buttons are off the screen is as dim as it's going to get (and now with rk-backlight, I am finally free of SPB - they lost thier robustitude with newer OSs and everyone else seems to have caught up with thier graphics, but with a smaller footprint.)
Does your backlight work? i always thought it was just the backlight shining through the buttons.
Well, no, actually I've never really thought about it.
Mine are off until the backlight comes on then they are on.
I noticed the other day that mine had gone off too, but a soft reset sorted it.
keyboard backlights!!!
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Can anyone shed any light on why my buttons, just the ones on the unit itself, aren't producing their lovely orange glow anymore? The d-pad light still works, but the OK, Win & browser buttons are dark.
The only thing I could think of was that I installed SBSH, like everything because I'm fed up with Spb, so I uninstalled w/ several reboots. Still no go.
Maybe it's better that way. Less battery drain. It's not like I can't find them, but they were cute. My 3-year-old daughter loves the orange.
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I never did figure out what it was. Between booting up with PhoneAlarm, UltimateLaunch, MccMoblieFinder, LivePVR (which I'm not sure works) something crashed, so I hard reset.
I did figure out after my reset that the backlight doesn't actually go all the way off; when the buttons are off the screen is as dim as it's going to get (and now with rk-backlight, I am finally free of SPB - they lost thier robustitude with newer OSs and everyone else seems to have caught up with thier graphics, but with a smaller footprint.)
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HI GUYS,
A late entry but tot u guys might b able to help a brother in need, my Ameo's keyboard back light never seems to come on EVER, & have check for setting or cab files but all to no success, can any1 help PLEASE either by just replying on here or PM me please :-(.
Umm, the ameo keyboard doesn't have a backlight???
Backlight off
there's rk-backlight.exe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328114&highlight=backlight
check the Settings/system/backlight
The backlight on a working x7500/1 doesn't actually go all the way off, the screen does (standby), and the buttons do when it's in it's more-or-less "off" state (the buttons are off, and the system calls the state "off" but it's just really low.)
If you can see the screen, but there really is NO backlight, my suggestions in this order:
a soft reset
install a backlight contolling software like rk-backlight & set it
a hard reset
a flash of a new rom
send it in to ppctechs.com for repair