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Auto screen off during phone calls?

Hello,
In the past I am sure that my display screen went off after a certain time during a phone call (saving on battery life). I have noticed recently that the screen stays on the whole time, regardless of call length. I have looked through all the settings I can think off, and can't seem to find one relevant to auto screen shut off during a call.
I have installed Pocket Bluetooth Tools and PocketZenPhone (previously I was using Myhonerofiles).
Is there a setting I am missing, or some software that I can use to have an auto screen shut off during a call.
Many thanks for any help.

The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)

Are you sure that in Settings/Backlight/Bttey Power: the "Turn Off Backlight" option is selected?, it should be selected to turn the device screen off after 30 seconds or so.
I use a car kit running on bluetooth, and the screen goes off after 30 seconds!

I've set both the power and the back light to go off after 1 minute. There is not normally a problem and the screen powers off ok, unless I'm on a call (with or without a bluetooth headset).

There is an option in JGUI Phone Profiles that does this.
If you no longer have it installed then you won't get that effect.
When I uninstalled Phone Profiles I missed the screen off option so much I reistalled it just for that.

Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
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mine does.

Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)
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So does mine.

After installing Pocket Bluetooth Tools (PBT), my screen won't turn off while on call. If I do turn it off during a conversation, my bluetooth headset cuts out while the other person is still on the phone and won't be able to recover it until I hang up.
If I have the timer working for the PBT, then my autoshut off will work, but that's after I change the timer from 60 seconds to 10 seconds in the registry. If I disable the timer, the autoshut off will work. So if you don't want to play around with the registry, then I suggest leaving PBT timer on.
But either way, if the timer is on or off, during a call, it won't turn off automatically with PBT installed. I like PBT because I was able to quickly connect to my headset faster than the built-in MS Bluetooth Stack.

I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
I am reluctant to return to My Phone Profiles. I am really enjoying the latest version of PocketZenPhone. I think I will make a request to have autoscreen included in a future version. Who knows, I might get lucky!

Swiftcorp said:
I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
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IF you have Pocket Bluetooth installed, then while on call, it will not automatically turned off. But if you turned it off manually, while on call, it will cut out from the bluetooth headset and I find no way to get it back yet.

Screen dims after few minutes of inactivity

No matter what I set in Settings -> Power, screen dims after a (short) while of inactivity both on battery or power. I had similar issue sometimes with my Elf. I just had to check those boxes and uncheck them and press OK, sometimes I had to restart it. But it never worked with my HD. It always dims backlight after some inactivity no matter what I set in power settings. I want to have backlight on full power (according to L-sensor) all the time even if I don't touch it for hours. It's really annoying to tap screen every minute when reading something because it dims.

mcano said:
No matter what I set in Settings -> Power, screen dims after a (short) while of inactivity both on battery or power. I had similar issue sometimes with my Elf. I just had to check those boxes and uncheck them and press OK, sometimes I had to restart it. But it never worked with my HD. It always dims backlight after some inactivity no matter what I set in power settings. I want to have backlight on full power (according to L-sensor) all the time even if I don't touch it for hours. It's really annoying to tap screen every minute when reading something because it dims.
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did you install any extra software? could be some conflicting settings/registry entries

buggybug0 said:
did you install any extra software? could be some conflicting settings/registry entries
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I remember it was like that out of box ;-( but the time was longer, now it dims after one minute.

I've got the same problem. Very frustrating indeed.
Onel

I unchecked the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for x sec" and the phone never dims, so it seems to be a problem in your devices/software only.

Removed TF3D no MP4 playback

Ok well I have to confess Im a newbie with this, my 1st windows mobile phone.
So I installed TF3D then I had no MP4 playback so I removed it and now on my today screen there is nothing and also I still can't play MP4's
Please someone help me, is there a factory reset or something I just want it back to how it was when I took it out of the box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance

To get it back to factory defaults, you have to perform a hard-reset. This is an easy operation.
1) Turn off your unit
2) Hold the two (silver) buttons below the screen
3) Turn on the unit while holding the buttons
4) Follow on-screen instructions
5) It's done!
TF3D installs so much crap, it's better not to install it if you intend to uninstall it again. Just leaves too much behind.

install advanced config
choose more options out of the menu
edit file type extension
search fpr mp4
change it to "WMPlayer.exe"
problem solved. not sure if it works as workarround for tf3d too.

So I did factory reset and got everything back, but one minor poblem.
When I answer a call my phone goes into sleep mode in 10 seconds but I'm still on the call and when i goto into settings and power and over to advance and set back light to turn off in 1 min and phone turns off in 2 mins it doesnt keep the phone on. I found out when I get short calls and lok at my screen after 5 secs and its off already. But my phone is set to sleep in 2 mins and backlight off in 1 min. Is there something else that needs to be done?

So my problem is when on a call i goto start-settings-system-power-advanced its says backlight is set to 10 seconds so ill change itto 1 min but when i hang up and call again it reverts back to 10 seconds so evverytime i change it its only applies the change for that one call. So is there anyway of fixing this?

Another update about my problem, while usig all other phone functions backlight shuts off at 1 min as programed, but on call it still goes into sleep mode in 10 seconds. So I tried staying on a call with my bluetooth headset and surf the net and problem still exists while on call... there must be a fix to this...someone pls help I have tried hard resetting to factory settings twice to no avail.

I think there is automatic screen turn off while on the call.

Yes your right, but mine is stuck at 10 seconds and when i click on the battery icon and click on advanced its set to 10 seconds so i change it to 1 min then make a phone call and it reverts back to 10 seconds by itself. Im trying to find a way to keep it at 1 min. Anyone have an answer for me?

Called Sony Ericsson support and their phones are going into sleep mode after 10 seconds too, so its not just my phone and asked them to put in a trouble ticket to be fixed for next firmware upgrade.

Wunderradio

When i am playing this marvelous streaming radio i cant play it for very long. Because my device goes off in a couple of minutes. I know you can change that with the battery configurations. But i can only set it to like 5 min. Is there a program that can turn your light on for a amount of time. (the time you configure it)
Thx in advance

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you want to keep the HD out of standby, but turn off the screen? You can do that with a couple programs. I think the easiest implimintation would be Gyrator or changeScreen, and just have the program turn off the screen when the device is flipped upside down. This should allow u to continue to listen to the radio but not drain the battery from having the screen turned on.

Ill try that, thx

Screen not turning off

For some reason my screen just dims instead of turning off when I dont use the phone. If I press the hang up button it goes off like normal but if I just set it down it dims and stays on, draining my battery... Has anyone else experienced this?

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For some reason my screen just dims instead of turning off when I dont use the phone. If I press the hang up button it goes off like normal but if I just set it down it dims and stays on, draining my battery... Has anyone else experienced this?
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I take it you've already checked your backlight settings in Settings, Power ?

Yes and I have done a soft reset as well. I'm not really a "phone guy" so I hope this is something easy to fix....

Hello,
The way I have my device setup to get round this problem is this:
Go to Settings>Sound&Display> then scroll down until you see Display then click on Backlight.
On the page that appears, scroll down to "On Battery Power". Here put a tick in the box "Dim Backlight..." and set the time you want to allow before this function kicks in (mine is set at 2 mins).
Next, move down to "Turn off Device..", put a tick in here, and then set how long you want the device to stay on for before it goes off (mine is set at 3 mins).
You can use whatever time settings you feel comfortable with. Please note that it is the setting for "Turn Device Off..." that will blank your screen for you. The other setting simply dims it and leaves it running, as you have said before.
If battery performance is an issue for you, take the tick off "Automatically adjust backlight" and put in your own settings. So here, for example, I have my backlight on battery permanently set at 30% and on External Power, 60%.
The screen is so big you get blinded at anything above 60% (well at least I do).
Hope this helps.
WB

screen not turning off...during call via BT-headset
Hi guys!
My screen does not turn off even during phone call via Bluetooth-headset.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks!
anyone?