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WM6 Backlight issue

I am not sure if this is a bug in the rom or something I need to configure somewhere but....
I have adjusted my backlight settings such that when the device is on battery the backlight stays on for 30 seconds.... work fine, no big deal...
However, if my device is "locked" (i.e. hit lock on today screen) and I press a button to look at the today screen,time,weather or whatever the backlight will always turn off in about 5 seconds.
Is this something I can configure somewhere?
Thanks....

WM6 screen goes off after 5 Sec

hi got Tornado imate sp5m i ve flashed the rom with WM6 Perfect English after flashing i seems corrupted it gets freeze if i dont use it for several hours and when use it the screen goes off every 5 seconds with an annoying chime and tried Vanila aswel but getting the same problem.
Note: After Clear Storage it works fine again for sometime. i have T9English and Sp5m Buttons Installed nothing else
Any Solution
i ve format my phone installed GSM update and then WM6 and followed step by step.

Same problem here with Vanilla Edition.
Screen goes off after 7secs no matter what time-outs are set under power management. If I cange values in power management, it works fine again, but after some time it starts cutting off screen after 7secs, that is very annoying.

yes it doesnt care about time management it got its own time well much annoying thing is it hangs sometimes and i found no call is recieved when it seems hang
did u Clear the storage ? the problem seems solve but for a while

Set these registry settings and you'll be fine:
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power]
"Display"=dword:0000003C
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:00000000
The display will go off after 60".

pauliusba said:
Same problem here with Vanilla Edition.
Screen goes off after 7secs no matter what time-outs are set under power management. If I cange values in power management, it works fine again, but after some time it starts cutting off screen after 7secs, that is very annoying.
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screen goes off after 7 seconds only after the keypad is locked (that's the best i can do to prevent screen from lighting when the joystick is accidentally toggled inside your pocket for example). but if it is not locked, (in my experience) it corresponds to the timeout set under power management. but still i will check on that.

This display timeout behavior is normal for WM5/6.
In [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power] there is usually only one key when the keypad is unlocked. The "Display" key stores your normal timeout setting in seconds. When you lock the keypad, the "Display" key is set to 7 seconds and your normal timeout setting is set to a new key called "TimeoutSaved". When you unlock the keypad, the "TimeoutSaved" is deleted and the "Display" key is set to your normal timeout setting. So far so good...
But, there's also another key in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power\LockLevel] called "LockLevel". It seems that it controls the normal Display/TimeoutSaved behavior. It's normal value is "0". But some times it is changed (I think AutoKeyLock and LowLevel have something to do with it) and set to "3" or "4". All you need is reset it to "0".

That value keeps restoring back and 5-sec time-out problem remains. There is no workaround here...

Just to point out, Nitro's registry settings appear to be in hex, whereas most ROMs I've used show it to me in normal numbers (is that binary? because I thought binary was only 0 or 1).
Either way, 0 is 0. I wonder if it's possible that this key should be in hex and the keylock programmer used the wrong way to enter info, or maybe vice versa but still wrong data?

pauliusba said:
That value keeps restoring back and 5-sec time-out problem remains. There is no workaround here...
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It's actually 7 seconds and you have to power off your phone, wait a minute (or two) and start it up again.
This is a really common problem/question. If you had used the search you wouldn't have had to post and wait.

Look at this. This is solution for your problem

Possible cause
I think I may have found what is causing this issue. I noticed that if I let the keylock program run, it changes the backlight, etc to timeout and go black in about 5 seconds. I have to go into config and change it to a higher number, then back down to what I want it to be.
It got to the point that just had to disable that keylock program, otherwise, I have to constantly reset the power management settings.
When I don't have the keylock program running, the timeouts all work as advertised. Strange, eh?
Quakie

I had this, I found a solution, delete the LockLevel key with a registry editor, reboot and the problem has never occurred again

Tytn II (WM 6) and Keeping The Backlight Going When Using the Phone

I am the proud new owner of a bog standard (unflashed) Tytn II running WM 6 Pro. By and large fairly happy with the device except . . .
When I use the phone (and only when using the phone) the screen dims after about 8 seconds and blanks out after about 14 seconds. This gets very annoying when I am checking messages as by the time I have listened to a message and need to delete it the screen has blanked out and I have to hit the power button to bring the screen back up.
I have checked all the obvious culprits and set my backlight preferences to a suitably long time but the screen behaviour when I use the hone (and only the phone) is the same - within 15 seconds the screen has shut down completely.
Any suggestions on how to fix?

Have U checked settings>system>power>advanced timeouts?
Also, there is a forum section for the tytn 2 with a lot of info...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=376

How to turn off screen dim after 5 secs

Apologies if this has been answered before, I've done plenty of searches, and can't find out how to do it.
On my stock HTC Touch Pro, if I don't touch the screen or keyboard for about 5 seconds, then the screen goes to a dimmed state. Is there a way to turn this behaviour off?
Cheers,
Steve.

Settings - System - Power - Advanced tab. All of the options are there...

There are no relevant settings there. There's only the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for x min" and "Turn off device if not used for x min" for both battery power, and external power.
I'm not talking about the screen going off all together, I'm just talking about it dropping to minimum brightness after a few seconds of inactivity. I've tried the "Auto adjust backlight" and "Dim the backlight if the device is locked" settings, and they make no difference.
Cheers,
Steve.

Settings>Power>Advanced>Walla

StevePritchard said:
There are no relevant settings there. There's only the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for x min" and "Turn off device if not used for x min" for both battery power, and external power.
I'm not talking about the screen going off all together, I'm just talking about it dropping to minimum brightness after a few seconds of inactivity...
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Steve,
You should be adjusting the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for..." setting under 'on battery power'. This setting relates to the dimming of the screen (backlight). It's most likely that this is set to 10 seconds or something short on your device. Increase this to the longer duration that you would like.
FYI, the "Turn off device..." setting relates to turning off the screen completely.
Hope that solves your problem.
xzibitB

Thanks for the responses. I was being a little confused by the fact that a) it's not turning off the backlight, it's just dimming it, b) it was doing it while sat in its cradle, and those settings were unchecked, and c) it was doing it after 5 seconds, and not the 1 minute it was set to.
Fiddling with those settings seems to have resulted in the behaviour I'm after.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Steve.

I have exactly the same issue, as does my g/f's Diamond. The screen dims after 7 seconds of inactivity. I know this because I've timed it. I have all of the advanced settings turned off so the device should not ever turn off the backlight or power off. I'd really like to be able to stop this as it makes reading or watching video on the device extremely annoying.
Steve, what settings did you change?
Thanks.

I *think* what sorted it out was changing the settings to new values, then selecting [OK], and then going back into the Advanced tab, and setting them to what I wanted in the first place - it was almost as if the changing the settings didn't stick until I had changed them to something else, and gone out of the page.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Steve.

Having the settings not "stick" is a problem I had with my Apache/XV6700 under WM5. There was a fix out there for this problem that I could never get to work, either. It finally got fixed with a custom ROM and stayed fixed under a WM6 custom ROM.
But now I'm pretty dismayed to see the problem back with the stock Fuze ROM and a slew of tweaks/installs -- just when I got the phone how I wanted it. Anybody have any new ideas on getting the change to stick? A registry edit or something?

i am having the sameissue as leeJS, i had none of the boxes set to dim or turn off, it would dim after 7 seconds. i tried multiple settings even checking all the boxes with over 2 minutes, the screen will still dim. any solutions?

On another fourm I came across a fix that works for me - I had similar frustrating problems
In HKCU\Control Panel\Backlight rename the folder Locklevel to Locklevelx (or something).
System recreates the locklevel folder with the correct locklevel key inside it (and doesn't keep changing it back)

S2U2 has a setting that dims the screen after 7 seconds... Do you have that loaded as well? If so, check you s2u2 settings...

TP keeps turning itself off every 30 seconds

Hi
Unless I'm actively using it my TP keeps turns itself off after 30 seconds no matter what power settings I use (and despite a factory reset and SPB restore). This isn't too much of an issue, except when I'm trying to use GPS/Satnav (TT7) whilst driving, where turning itself off is a real pain.
Could anyone please suggest how this issue can be resolved?
Many thanks in advance...

Is it physically turning off, requiring you to press the on key, let it reboot, or,
is it going to sleep, and you press the on key to wake it up?
If it is the latter, go to start>settings>system>power, click on the
advanced tab and change the backlight & power off settings there.
If it actually turning off, sounds like it might be a defective phone.

Thanks for your reply!
I've repeatedly altered the power settings but it makes no difference at all, if I set it to turn off at any given time (or not at all) it'll still turn off after 30 seconds. And to claify, it doesn't reboot, it just turns the screen off. It *feels* like a software issue, because it'll stay working forver as long as I tap the screen occasionally, something somewhere just counts down 30 seconds if i don't and turns off the screen...

The max time you can put on it is 5 min. The default setting out of the box is 30 seconds --which sound like what you currently have.
Set the "On Battery Power: Turn off backlight if device is not used for xxx MIN). Make sure first that that's checked, and select the drop down.
Eventually --to conserve battery power--, it will 'sleep'.
Your NAVIGATION software should have a setting to over-ride this to NEVER TURN OFF DISPLAY WHILE NAVIGATION.
Aside from that, there is no other way to keep the backlight on --unless it's plugged into a power outlet.

Many thanks again for your reply; As I mentioned previously I've already changed the power settings settings (frequently) and I'm definitely not on the 30-second default, no setting appears to make any difference, be it 5 minutes or 'never turn off'. It also happens when the 'phone is plugged into a power source too.
(And I have got the 'don't turn off whilst navigating' box ticked for the satnav but the issue applies generally, not just to the satnav, that's just where it's most irritating).
Is there any possibility something has changed in the registry to over-ride the control panel settings in this way?

How about doing a hard reset and not doing a spb restore? You realize that all you did when you restored the phone was restore the bug, right?
Edit: I doubt it will work, but you can try the backlight cab. It will restore all the stock backlight reg settings if yours are messed up.

timpollard said:
Hi
Unless I'm actively using it my TP keeps turns itself off after 30 seconds no matter what power settings I use (and despite a factory reset and SPB restore). This isn't too much of an issue, except when I'm trying to use GPS/Satnav (TT7) whilst driving, where turning itself off is a real pain.
Could anyone please suggest how this issue can be resolved?
Many thanks in advance...
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Hi,
I have same problem as you. TP keeps turns itself off after 30 sec!!
And I am using TT7. So this problem is so annoying.
I tried hard resetting and install programs one by one. and check if TP is keeping backlight on or not. And I installed TT7 and worked perfect.( display is always on)
That was yesterday.
Today I was using TP, it happened again.
The registry setting is still 3min on battery, uncheck on AC power.
30 sec problem happens both status.
This thing did not happen before Raphael_Cingular_US_5.11.502.2_Radio_Sign.
TP worked fine for a while on this radio.
Now even I check " NEVER TURN OFF DISPLAY WHILE NAVIGATION" box in some apps. TP turn off backlight.
I tried backlight.cab, that did not work and still turning off.
(thanks anyway )
ATT Fuze
Raphael_Cingular_US_5.11.502.2_Radio_Sign
Added Japanese IME
Resco Explorer, regedit
Resco Today Plugin
Spb time, Today plugin
TT7
TomTom 7 - v7.910.9185
I will try hard reset again.
Somebody please help us out.

Did you try the cab? If that doesn't work, just flash another rom.

I am also having this problem. I did get it to stop once by going in to the registry and actually editing it. But it started to do it again after a wile. I am trying it again today and see if it work. I am using a trial version of BestRegEdit and was wonder if it could have changed it back because it was a trial. So if some one elce wants to give it a shot it us under HKey_Current_user\ControlPanel\Power\Display and you will change that 30 to what ever amount of time you want. I pick 0 because i never want it to turn off. Hope this helps Oyeah, does anyone know of a free resitry editor? This is my last day on the BestRegEdit Thanks

Uh, total commander, regedit, dotfred's task manager and probably a few more.

Farmer Ted said:
Did you try the cab? If that doesn't work, just flash another rom.
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Thanx,
I tried cab, and did not work. So I installed test rom and works fine now. NO 30 seconds backlight off now.
[March 1st] New ATT test rom Radio 1.12.25.19 OS AKU 1.4.6 Build 20771
I will use this until new "Signed" and Works Ok radio comes.
* Recently I use resco explorer and regedit addon. Free app: regedit.Mrln works fine, I think. I have been using these for keyboard layout section.

Glad you solved it, I had an interesting problem, similar to the screen issue, wonder it it might be related. I flashed to a new rom over the weekend, and no matter what I did, the backlight would turn off after 10 seconds. You could reset it to 30 in the power profile, but after a reboot, it would revert back to 10 seconds. Reflahsed it, and after the flash, when it starts loading the customizations, it would freeze. Flashed again, and it hung at customization again! Downloaded the rom again, deleted the old one, and flashed and it worked and the backlight would stay put!
Maybe the one you downloaded was corrupt?
Anyway, glad you got it working.
P.S. The rom isn't an "official" that I downloaded, it was one of the 6.5 that the cooks on the rom page whipped up. I think it was just a corrupted download.

This issue has happened to me a few times. even while i'm still using the phone and typing the screen goes off.
very annoying.
I found it only happened to me using EnergyROM. when I flashed to a different rom the problem was solved.
recently I flashed back to the newest version of EnergyROM again (after the previous ROM decided to hard reset all by itself) and this issue happened again in the first hour!
I really wish I could find a usable ROM for once and for all

My Case: WMWifiRouter was it!
This happend even when TP under Test rom env. I just gave up and installed latest version cause this ver is less stressfull.
Luckly 30 sec issue did not happend for a while until I installed WMWifiRouter.
Just after I install V1.50 30 sec thing and happend.
KB0907027: [BUG] v1.50 backlight timeout issue
http://support.wmwifirouter.com/knowledge/KB0907027/
I Installed V1.52 and now works fine and no backlight problem.
If you installed WMWifirouter check the link.

I use EnergyROM as well and i noticed that right after a fresh flash, if you tried to modify certain settings using the gui (i.e. alarm times, connection settings etc) they wouldnt stick - perhaps a direct registry edit using one of the tools previously mentioned might force the device to remember the changes? this worked for me when i had trouble with my alarm times not being saved.
ive also heard that sometimes a soft-reset isnt enough to commit changes to the registry - i.e. once making a reg edit, cold boot the device - that is press and hold the power button and turn it entirely off.
hope this helps