I picked up a second tytn for my wife. There are some noticable differences in the way it works, specifically, where my tytn goes dim after 30 secs, her backlight goes off completely. Her screen also appears to be slightly different than mine, almost as if hers is a transflective version (not sure on this one). Mine has a wider viewable angle than hers, as well as having more accurate colors.
If they are in fact different rev screens/hardware, thats no biggie, but I'd like to know if it's possible to update hers so the backlight dims after 30 secs as opposed to shutting off completely. I currently have both tytns at identical radio / protocol / lvsw versions.
Thanks in advance for info.
Al
Power off settings: Start > Settings> System tab > Power > Advanced tab
Backlight off settings: Start > Settings > System tab > Backlight > Battery Power tab (or External Power tab)
arghness said:
Power off settings: Start > Settings> System tab > Power > Advanced tab
Backlight off settings: Start > Settings > System tab > Backlight > Battery Power tab (or External Power tab)
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yeah, both phones have identical settings. the issue is that on my tytn, 'backlight off' is actually the dimmest setting, where on hers, 'backlight off' is actually off completely, which is almost impossible to differentialte with the device being off completely.
i also notced that the lowest notch of the backlight slider - on mine, it's dim, on hers, its off (her second notch up is equal to my dim).
Ah, okay, sorry can't help then, although I have seen early pictures showing two Hermes side by side with the same today screen and obviously different colo(u)r balances.
My backlight off turns the backlight off completely, but I can still see the screen faintly (not enough to ever be practical in day to day use in any light though and practically impossible to identify colours).
One notch up and the colours are clear when out of direct sunlight.
Mine was bought new last November, if that's any help.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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...
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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
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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
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 ?
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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 ?
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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 ?
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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.
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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) ?
Hey guys i like to ask you something .When I'm in a internal place like bedroom where the light is low and need to make a call ithe screen goes black completely (apparently the sensor detects the change) but in the external space when iremoved from the part of the ear the screen activated, but not in the internal room.
I can't choose my keyboard to press the options.backlight settings either got on or off remains the same. Is it possible to hurt the light sensor from the registry and raise prices?
Any suggestion, help is always acceptable.
Thanks for your time.
I don't have this problem on my HD MINI. Do you have a screen protector, that covers the sensors? Have you tried to disable the light sensor and set the the screen brightness to max?
yes i did that.How can i disable the light sensor?
georgelaros said:
yes i did that.How can i disable the light sensor?
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Go to the settings tab in Manila => Menu => All settings => System => Energy => Backlight => Turn off "Automatically change brightness". It's possible these texts ain't correct, 'cause my device is in Dutch
Within the latst few days, the screen on my Galaxy S5 (T-mobile version) has had the following issues:
- Screen not turning on when I click the power button.
- Part of screen flashes when I click power button before going off.
- When screen does come on, it's pulsing quickly and and colors are off -- like all green.
I haven't dropped it or anything. I bought it from Ebay in September (https://www.ebay.com/itm/361348692112).
It seems to do this whether battery is charged or not....
I have solved this. The brightness setting was the lowest and it seemed to have a problem on this setting.