Hi!
When I slide the keyboard out and start typing, keyboard backlight sometimes doesn't switch on. Its annoying when I use the keyboard in the night.
Anyone has the same problem / or know how to solve this? Thanks.
I have same problem!
just turn off automatic backlight in settings..
Weird
Sometimes for me it doesn't come on immediately, but after the first key press it always comes on.
How annoying.
Although, are you typing in half light? I tend to be typing in bright light or pitch black, never half light that would mean it'd affect the backlight but i couldn't see the thing unlit.
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hi!although the option for using the light sensor is on, when i open the keyboard there is no light on it...does anyone have any suggestions?i bought the phone about 4 days ago...
Hi,
the keyboard lights should switch on as soon as you press a key but not before. Have you tried e.g. writing a text message in the dark?
There is also a light sensor on the keyboard just above the letter "P" on the top right of the keyboard. It won't turn on the light until it's dark enough.
At least that what mine is programmed to do.
There is a way in the settings menu to 'turn off' the sensor on the keyboard and then the keyboard lights up everytime you push a key...my preference.
I've been trying to find the registry settings that control how fast the backlight comes on when I open my keyboard to no avail...all too often I find myself in the dark waiting a full second or two for the keyboard to come on and it annoys the daylights out of me. If anybody has some insight on a quick fix, I appreciate the info.
if you go to settings - buttons - backlight you can disable the autosensor for the keyboard light, not sure if it will make it come on any faster but it might (since rather than checking ambient light it will just turn the backllight on by default)
When you turn off keyboard auto-sensing the keyboard comes on as soon as you press a button on the keyboard. I have found that the sensor is too strict with using the backlight, there were plenty of times I could not see the keys but the light did not turn on. Too bad, wasted feature.
nwcarlson said:
I've been trying to find the registry settings that control how fast the backlight comes on when I open my keyboard to no avail...all too often I find myself in the dark waiting a full second or two for the keyboard to come on and it annoys the daylights out of me. If anybody has some insight on a quick fix, I appreciate the info.
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yeah i totally know what you're talking about...even with the light sensor option turned off, it still takes a couple seconds for the keyboard backlight to turn on. i've always found that a bit annoying. i'm guessing it's a hardware thing, i doubt there'd be a registry tweak to speed up the keyboard backlight. it'd be nice if there was though...
Hello
I have a problem with my 8525 hardware keyboard.
I have the backlight auto sensor enabled and the light doesnt turn on when i slide my phone open.
But... when its on the charger it works
Whats the problem??
Im using joshes m2d light 3g rom
Thanks in advance!
Does it turn on after you start typing or does it stay dark?
it does turn on after i start typing,
but i would like to get the sensor to start working
so it will turn on when i slide the phone open
Backlight issue
I've discovered from just using my 8525 that the backlight to the keyboard goes on when I first press a key on the keyboard but only if the light in the room is very low. Sometimes it seems like the light level in the room is low enough but the backlight still doesn't go on. Too bad there isn't a low-light level adjustment for the backlight feature.
Just so folk know - it is possible to set it up so when you open the keyboard it lights up regardless of the light level and key presses. Right now I can't remember how!! but I set mine up that way ages ago. Does use more battery power however so it is not necessarily a good thing - but looks pretty.
Mike
Is there anyway to get the keyboard to remain at its brightest when i type. sometimes its really bright and other times the light is on but it's dim.
thanks
I believe in the power options you can disable the snap using the light sensor to adjust keyboard brightness and if you do that, it should be full brightness when in use.
i have tha checked off and it still have the same problem.
Thanks
I have this same problem with my Sprint HTC Snap, even with the keyboard sensor is disabled. If screen goes off and I hit a button to bring it on, the keyboard is a dimmer that the screen, if the screen just goes into Dim mode and I hit a button the keyboard comes to full brightness like it should.
Does anyone know how backlight is suppose to work for Home, Menu, Back and Search keys? Is it suppose to stay on as long as the screen backlight stays on or is it certain amount of time? What triggers them to come on- key press, screen touch, trackpad touch or all of the above? Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason, at least I couldn't trace a pattern. I know that I was messing around with the phone last night in the dark and they would come on and go off as they pleased. Does light sensor have anything to do with it? Please sound off your findings and ideas.
Thanks!
Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason either - it's a bit maddening. And the same goes for the backlight of the physical keyboard (sometimes it comes on, sometimes it doesn't - no telling why), and also the automatic adjustment of brightness (i use the phone for a minute and suddenly it gets super-bright).
Hopefully these are all just bugs that will be fixed with an OTA update, but it is weird and I'm glad to know it's not just my unit since I don't want to replace it (I got a solid hinge - good stuff!).
I think I figured it out. Backlight for touch keys is controlled by light sensor and also has a timer (few seconds), so if it's bright enough outside - they will not even come on. If it's dark - they come on and stay on for certain time then go off untill you press one of them again.
Now, the other thing that I'm noticing is that my haptic feedback is not working when pressing one of those buttons or long-pressing the screen. Anyone else has that problem?
I have used my phone primarily in the dark. All my lights are always on (when the screen is) and the auto-brightness is too bright. If I turn brightness to minimum, the always on lights are way too bright compared to the screen. I really wish the designers had tried to use this phone in the dark (laying in bed) and realized the auto-brightness and lights are too bright in pitch-dark!
Also I am getting real sick of rotation. On my G1 I could disable it completely unless the keyboard was out. I like to lay in bed or on a couch and use my phone sideways, but not rotated. This seems impossible to do on the G2. Disabling rotation doesn't do anything for 3rd party apps or even GMail for that matter. For some reason this was not the case on the G1.
It will be hard to go back to the G1's one-second+ lag after every press and the incredibly slow loading webpages now that I have experienced the G2, but there are too many really annoying problems, so I think it is getting sent back.
if you have your backlight set to automatic... it will cut on only if the room is dark... check your backlight settings
It's an issue with the way android uses the light sensor. It's very poorly coded.