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My Himalaya not responding after sometime I turn it off

I flash the my hima with the TofClock 2.01a32WWE ROM, and it works fine, and I'm very glad with it.
But now, some time I turn off my hima by pressing the power button, the screen went black, after a while, I want to light it to operate, the hima keeping black, and the hima cannot operate any more, and I tried to call my phone(hima), the hima didn't ringing. Also, SMS, MMS, all function dead. But the same time, the 2 leds, Blue and Green/Red, flash like normal.
At this time, the only way to operate hima normally was soft-reset it by press the hole with my pen.
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Is there someone experience this situation, and is there some way to solve the problem.
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ps: in the Settings --> System --> Power --> Advanced page, the 2 options can set "Turn off device if not used for" some minutes, when "turn off" time out, the same problem occurs like above, I called it Auto Turn Off
My device is Dopod 696 (Maybe Chinese mainland version of O2 XDA II).
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I also experienced similar problems, but with the 64 version.
After a while, when I tried to turn it back on, it began to act strange. First the automatic turn off backlight option was every time reset to 10 sec and then after a day or 2 I noticed that the screen was sometimes still showing some black lines. Changing the volume still gave the corresponding sounds, but nothing else seemed to work (or wasn't visible). Normal operating mode was only reinstated after a soft-reset.
I gave it a hard reset and restored a backup (using SPB). It's operating again, but it already contains the 10 sec change.
So probably have to start clean again and install everything from the beginning, but before I do I would like to make sure it will not happen again.
Appears like the Power Off option is screwed, no matter in which way I use it (button or a program).
Anyone have any thoughts on it?

zplei
yes, i have same problem on my O2 XDA ATOM
with last rom and other

I have the same problem too, the only ay to have it back is softreset

i was using spb to toggle display mode.

someone said can be solve by reegedit. but how to.

anyone found a solution..?

My backlight wont go off since last night.

It wastes lots of battery. I think i might have damaged the light sensor but i've tried turning it off but it doesnt change anything.
Anybody know?

Even if the light sensor is damaged, your backlight will go off after your device idles for some. Check your settings

thanks for the prompt reply.
ive checked all my power managment settings and they're all on the lowest time settings..
i dont understand why it would do this.

Are you using any softwares that manages the backlight timeout? Such as Tweak2k2, etc

it seems to be working fine now after i restarted my phone.
i wasnt using any software.
thanks for your help.

ducamie said:
it seems to be working fine now after i restarted my phone.
i wasnt using any software.
thanks for your help.
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my phone did this before. but yea just a simple reset fixed it

Maybe you installed maniac's AutoKeyLock, I had the same behavior a couple of time...
It seems like after some time, it overrides by mistake the power mgt values.

Hi!
I have the same problem. Wm6 The back light turn to the dim mode and that"s all. It does switch off the screen. If I connect to the AC power It does the same. When I lock the keypad, every thing seems to be all right. It switches the screen off. Any idea. I restarted the phone, but nothing changed, i didn't install any Autokeylock program.

Hi, this problem exist occasionally after you install some apps (i.e. AutoKeylock). You can fix it easy - enter registry and open key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power" then modify value in key "Display".

Thanks, it is working.

Touch Cruise Backlight Problem

When I am on a call the backlight on my Touch Cruise turns off - I don't mind this. The problem is that when I try to turn it back on it is extremely dim (even if the backlight setting is "bright") and I need to use "Adjust backlight" to make it brighter. In sunlight this is almost impossible to do since I cannot read the screen. Even after I readjust the brightness, whenever the backlight turns off and I turn it back on, the backlight is dim again.
I have tried renaming the \HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevel folder to LockLevelx - this has not worked.
I have tried setting \HK:M\Drivers\Builtin\RIL\EnableFastDormantDisplayDuringCall to 0 - this has not worked.
Help please!

Do you have this problem all the time or you can see this misbehaviour just now?
I'm asking, because this could be caused by some other software you installed on your device,
which does some "things" with the backlight or some call manager like PhotoContacts etc.

This happens all the time. It does not happen after I soft reset the device until I use the phone. As soon as I use the phone the backlight turns off and is dim whenever I turn it back on.

- Are you running some "cooked" unofficial ROM?
- if you are using HTC Home, try to deactivate it, just choose some different homescreen schema but not HTCHome, make a soft-reset a try it.
- check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel\LockLevel - this should have the value 0

- running standard ROM
- deactivating HTC Home doesn't help
- LockLevel is set to 0

This periodically happens on my device too. And it's really, really annoying. I found that one way to make it go back to 'normal' for a while is to change both lock levels (in locklevel and locklevelx to value 1) then back to level 0 (including the waiting and the soft resets) and then it seems to go back to normal again.
what seems to set it off for me is using the call history to dial a number, but this is sporadic.

Thank you Marissa and Hujer. Unfortunately both your suggestions have not worked.

I have had the same problem. What helped in my case is deleting locklevel and locklevelx from the registry and then soft reset. Worked for me!!

Thanks Tim B but that did not work either. If I soft reset my device OR delete locklevel & locklevelx and soft reset, then the backlight comes back on at the correct level of brightness....until I make and end my first telephone call - then the backlight only comes back on dim. By the way if I delete locklevel, it stays deleted until I make and end my first call - then it's in the registry (with value 0) again.

sclhtc said:
Thanks Tim B but that did not work either. If I soft reset my device OR delete locklevel & locklevelx and soft reset, then the backlight comes back on at the correct level of brightness....until I make and end my first telephone call - then the backlight only comes back on dim. By the way if I delete locklevel, it stays deleted until I make and end my first call - then it's in the registry (with value 0) again.
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Exact same happens to me, using Bepe 64 rom. Real pain in the neck.

Possible workaround
This sounds very much like the same problem Trinity users have faced since that device was released. Try searching the Trinity Forums. There was a reg fix...something to do with "fast off" or similar.
The workaround there was, after the phone call, to press the power key to put the device into standby, and then when it wakes the next time the backlight is restored. Try that anyway.

No luck with this either.

I now have the same problem. My earlier solution (delete locklevel and locklevelx) is not working anymore. There must be someone who knows how to solve this.
I am willing to do a hard reset but then I will have the problem again that after turning the phone on when it is locked the display is not readable.
Any good solutions??

Tim B said:
I now have the same problem. My earlier solution (delete locklevel and locklevelx) is not working anymore. There must be someone who knows how to solve this.
I am willing to do a hard reset but then I will have the problem again that after turning the phone on when it is locked the display is not readable.
Any good solutions??
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Exact same happens to me, using official rom.

I had to do a double reg edit, try this which is what I use:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL]
"EnableFastDormantDisplayDuringCall"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"Sleep"=dword:00000000
Reboot!

Thanks but that didn't work either.
Just to be clear I do not mind the backlight staying on, dimming or turning off during a call but when I press "Call End", the backlight dims (which I do not want) and if the backlight turns off after a call it is dim when I turn it back on (which I also do not want).

Did anyone find a solution to this?
Have tried all the things on here, and some work for a little while, but then the problem reoccurs

Wow, this is so strange. Mine comes back on at the same brightness level.
You all are experiencing the same thing as Marisa?

It is an odd problem because it seems that it occurrs all of a sudden out of the blue.
One time you make/receive a call and afterwards, even if the call was only a few seconds, you terminate it and the screen either is already dim or then dims and will stay dim unless you hit a backlight changer. Even then, if you lock the phone, or the phone dims after your prescribed time, it then stays dim. The only way to temporarily fix it is to set it to the normal level and then soft reset. It will then behave properly until the next phone call.
It is very inconvenient as if it locks while this is going on, you can hardly see to unlock it.
I have trawled the internet for hours looking for solutions to this. The Kaisertweak does not work for this on this device (don't know why!) Installed Schapps but the very tweaks I need do not appear when installed on my device.
All the registry edits don't work. In fact when I go to do them, the value is already at the recommended value anyway. Renaming locklevel seems to work sometimes for a while, but then reverts back.
I think it is more a problem of undimming than dimming. It dims when I expect it to dim, but does not light up again afterwards. The Kaiser solution of pressing the power button or d-pad to do this does not work on the Orbit.
I have a fairly non scientific feeling that it's something to do with either Shell, Pontui or Co-Pilot. I have uninstalled Shell & Pontui, but it has made no difference. Makes no difference either if HTC Home is/isn't installed/running.
Another strange thing is that when it is in its dimmed state, I only have to touch the page where the backlight slider is for the light to come back up. I don't need to touch the slider at all, it's already where it should be, 3/4 of the way up.
In fact I have done the registry tweak which is supposed to stop it dimming during calls altogether, and checked to see that it 'took' and it is still happening.
Somewhere, there must be a registry key or somesuch which controls what happens after this "temporary" dimming, which says, the call is over/the device is unlocked - go back to prescribed brightness. But I can't find it.
This is a really insidious problem which drives you mad, especially when you are out and working, you don't have time for this nonsense. If all else fails in a week or so I will try a hard reset, i just don't have time right now.
Any help gratefully received.

I have just emailed O2 with this problem. Let's see when/if they reply.

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