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
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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!
Anyone know how to get the backlight back to the original setting? I tried to go into Settings to Battery Icon and clicked on Backlight and adjusted it there but everytime the phone goes into sleep mode, the backlight always reverts to power saver mode and I cant see a damn thing on my screen. It is very frustrating...anyone know how to correct this problem? Am I doing something wrong???? TIA....M3
I have the same problem, but in my Wisard the problem happens when a soft reset is executed ... I was searching about it on the internet and I found that maybe the problem is an incopatibility between the fone and the SPB Pocket Plus backlight functionality ... I will try to uninstall the SPB to see what happens ...
Here's my backlight bug theory...
On the Wizard there are problems with any programs that try to change the backlight settings and often the result is they end up turning it off.
PocketZenPhone, PhoneAlarm and SPB Pocket Plus all have features to control the backlight (do you have the backlight plugin installed on your today screen?) that load at boot, or on the Today screen, and these seem to cause problems.
I use PhoneAlarm and have problems on occasion. Believe it or not I found the solution was to tell PA to set the backlight at 40% which it can't be set to on the Wizard (25% increments only) and it stops shutting it off. If I have it set for 50% (which *is* valid on the Wizard) it shuts it off.
Anyway this is my theory on the mysterious backlight bug, if anybody else has any other ideas, I'd love to hear them.
-JMS
If you go to the backlight applet and check the Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen is tapped on both the Battery Power and External Power tabs you should be all set. Had the same issue after the last iMate ROM update and this is what fixed it.
Hope it works for you. Good luck.
db
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,
I have upgraded my 9100 with QTEK latest ROM update (2.17.7.6FRE).
Since then, I have difficulties setting the power and backlight settings. They seem to be overriden sometimes.
I want my phone tu turn to stand by after one minute when battery powered, but it doesn't. Backlight switches off after 30s OK, but the phone stays on.
It seemes to be related, but sometimes the backlight settings is reset to 0 (no backlight) and I have to open the control panel to reset it to middle.
Anyone has an idea?
Tahnks in advance,
Guillaume
Hi,
weird thing here: Always when I awake the device after suspend, the backlight is off. I have PZP installed, but it's configured to do nothing to backlight or power, settings in backlight/power are to never switch off backlight, but suspend after 2 minutes.
Any ideas where else I could check?
after mr.clean update, my backlight auto set itself to turn off after 10sec no matter what i do
I tried to set the back light to never turn off, but it still will not work
all i have running on background is spb pocket plus
CAN ANY HELP?????
hm, also mr. clean here.. coincidence?
My out of the box MDA Vario did this too. I finally figured out that it only did it if I changed the brightness level from the default to max. If I left it at the default, it worked fine on resume...
before the mr. clean rom I had a standard vodafone one, and didn't have the problem. What is default level (steps from topmost) for testing?
TauTau said:
hm, also mr. clean here.. coincidence?
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ok, i THINK i solved it now
it is caused by a software called vito audio note
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=21235&associateid=17
which will uses its power saving mode to turn off Wizard
I had the same problem. Rebooting the device didn't fix it. But when I actually SOFT-resetted the device, it came all back to normal.
Backlight off on resume, not hardware
Hello everyone,
I've got a very frustrating problem. Here's the summary:
My backlight doesn't come on when I resume from standby. However, when I soft-boot the backlight behaves as normal. After boot, if I continue pressing keys to prevent the backlight from turning off, then it operates as normal. However, if the backlight times-out, or if I put it in standby, the backlight refuses to come back on.
Any suggestions?
I bit the bullet
Well, i finally decided I couldn't live with the dark screen anymore and Hard Reset my 8125. It fixed the problem, but now I have to reload everything.
Oh well, now will be a good time to upgrade my ROM I guess...