Hello,
i am using my touch cruise (or better o2 xda orbit 2) for navigating on my bike.
I use it in my pocket, only listening. After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption. But when locked the backlight is only turned to minimum, not off. How can i turn off the backlight completely ?
I tried several tools which turns the whole display off. This works fine with all applications except tomtom, i dont know why but as soon as the display is switched off tomtom stops.
So i want to turn at least the backlight completely off, but how can i do that?
remoh said:
Hello,
i am using my touch cruise (or better o2 xda orbit 2) for navigating on my bike.
I use it in my pocket, only listening. After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption. But when locked the backlight is only turned to minimum, not off. How can i turn off the backlight completely ?
I tried several tools which turns the whole display off. This works fine with all applications except tomtom, i dont know why but as soon as the display is switched off tomtom stops.
So i want to turn at least the backlight completely off, but how can i do that?
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With my older pocketpc's and pocketphone's the backlight could be turned down with pressing the power button for a longer period.
I told it was about 3 sec holding te powerbutton and the backlight stops.
But with the HTC TC i din't tried it yet..and my device is now at the repair centre..so you have to try it.
But when the backlight is down..you don't see a think when ther is enough sun light..so why do you want that..buy a usb car powerplug and you can charge it and use it with full light on!
Does not work (3sec pwr button)
I dont need to see anything on the screen. it will be in my pocket while navigating so theres no need for backlight.
And a car charger on the motorbike - that would need a socket to plug it in.
remoh said:
Does not work (3sec pwr button)
I dont need to see anything on the screen. it will be in my pocket while navigating so theres no need for backlight.
And a car charger on the motorbike - that would need a socket to plug it in.
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Strange with my device it works.
But you can try this software: http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/english/
TDO
TDO said:
Strange with my device it works.
But you can try this software: http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/english/
TDO
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Thanks, i already tried it before. As soon as the screen gets black TomTom stops.
It says it turns the backlight off but as far as i can see it disables the whole screen. And as soon as this happens the f***ing TomTom stops the Navigation.
If i press the pwr button for 3 sec the device asks me if i want to turn it off.
remoh said:
After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption.
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Hi remoh, I'm having the same problem. Have you found a solution for disabling the backlight by now?
How did you manage to lock the screen and keep TomTom navigating?
Let me get this straight... do you want to turn the screen off (i.e. lock it) or just turn off the backlight (in which case the screen remains active)?
For the second case there should be some options for it in TomTom, but it's primarily for in-car use. (never used TomTom before, it's crap for my country... i'm just basing on iGO)
gnick666 said:
Let me get this straight... do you want to turn the screen off (i.e. lock it) or just turn off the backlight (in which case the screen remains active)?
For the second case there should be some options for it in TomTom, but it's primarily for in-car use. (never used TomTom before, it's crap for my country... i'm just basing on iGO)
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Being able to turning the screen off would be great but just being able to turn off the backlight would be fine also. Tomtom doesn't have an option for this afaik.
Now, thats the second reason i won't use TomTom... if the first wasn't enough
Not even power saving options?
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I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
Nobody? So everybody's unlock feature works like it should?
Then I think it's reset time for my Polaris....
I personally don't use, the device lock feature... Just the standby, whith the HW buttons off... and it works just fine for me
I have noticed that when you press the central button in the TC, what you describe is what exactly happens. But this happens to me only when I do that. If a tap the screen without touching the button, I have the normal behaviour.
Yes, exactly.
@gnick: if I use the standby with HW keys lock it works ok for me also.
The issue is only with the HTC Home lock feature and the central key
dtancu said:
I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
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Yes, but very rarely and even then when I press Cancel the normal lock screen resumes and I unlock in the normal way. I have "Do not lock all buttons" selected in the Key Lock settings. Don’t know if this is significant.
2 stages for screen lock?
I use my TC while riding motorcycle, so I want several apps (TomTom, gps tracking [gps.run]), music [was WMP, but now Coreplayer] and TellmeText) running and the screen off so as to save battery power.
If you press the power button when key lock is on it will turn the display completely off, and *most* programs will keep running. TomTom is a notable exception- it stops working, presumably because it can no longer access the gps?. But better behaved/next generation GPS apps such as run.gps continue to run. WMP, bless its pathetic cotton socks, seems to work sometimes!
Are these inconsistecies uinique to my unit, or known quirks?
Anyone suggest a app that will turn the screen off and allow ALL open apps to run, including TomTom?
Thanks
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
hambola said:
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
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anyone got anything more useful to add to what was a serious comment/Q
Man, the battery life sucks on this device So my quest on how to turn the screen completely off and lock the keys properly while running all software (especially GPS based such as TomTom) continues....
Anyone know of a 3rd party app that will do this?
I have not read all 200 pages, but it seems there are mixed results for running S2U2 on the Touch Cruise (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008) ? Anyone having success?
Thanks
I know its late but I just saw this and thought I would mention that I managed to over come using TomTom without the device being on. However it doesnt save much on power as the GPS device need power to work.
But I using a simple function I wrote in my application to lock the device using the standard device lock API calls and then rather than switchingthe device into sleep mode (off) I switched it into IDLE mode, which is basically just switching the screen off, the device lock prevents any unwanted button presses.
The power button would just return this back to normal.
I have not yet worked out how to stop the device brightness changing when the screen lock is enabled on the device... :/ Which is my next task.
Ramakin...
well that would be great because even saving having the screen dimmed during lock would help battery life. And, pressing the power button to resume would be MUCH easier than stabbing around at in the sun trying to unlock the screen. It would also make TomTom behave like all other 21C GPS applications, i.e. run on idle.
So, can you send details?
During a recent motorbike trip where I just used TomTom and tracking software (even turned the phone off) I was SHOCKED at how crap the battery life was
Hi All,
I have a (strange?) problem with the screen backlight - dont know if this is a feature or a bug? I have the "Auto adjust backlight" checked on (by default). While I connect to my pc (via usb) during autosynch, the screen dims after a certain time - which is good, but the screen backlight does not brighten up when I start using the phone (the phone still being connected to pc via usb). The screen brightens up if I click the power button off and then on but this disconnects the autosynch and reconnect.
Am I missing something?
P.S, I have installed "Autoconfig" and "Diamond Tweak" both, but have not configured anything from there.
Thanks,
pkshr
Any suggestions ....
be patient... people will eventually help you
In the mean time why don't you just turn off auto backlight ?
Hi abc12345,
I am noticing this issue not only during syncing but even when using the phone too. If I use the phone for few minutes the backlight automatically dims even I am still using the phone.
Sorry if this seems a stupid question but why does the power button turn off and on brightens the screen if it has to dim after a while? Is this an expected behaviour? Is unchecking "Auto backlight" the only issue for this?
Is this problem only with my fuze ??
pkshr said:
Is this problem only with my fuze ??
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I have the problem too
Just waiting for a solution..it used to fine with my phone until i installed ThrottleLock0.4.. then the same things happened..i would auto sync my phone and when i would push the power button ..it disconnects the autosync..
same issue here
Ok so I have a little problem with my HTC Diamond. In options I set to turn-off the backlight after 10s of inactivity which is standard. The problem is that after those 10s I can see that the screen backlight is fading out but it doesn't fade out completly - if you look from an angle it might appear that it's off but if you look at the front of the phone or simply in the dark you can see that the backlight is still on only set to something near 10 or 5%. As you know the battery just sucks in this device and I don't want the backlight to drain it so any ideas or tips on this matter? Of course I can put the phone to sleep mode but I'd just prefer to make the backlight turning off so I can take a look at the screen to for example check the time without having to press any buttons...
Same problem here
After those 10s the screen is not turning off completly, just fading to 5, 10 %. The screen with all the info, the home page let us say, is still visible and drains the battery. I also could just press the power button to turn is completly off, but I would also prefer it to do this manually after ten second.
Did you find a solution to this problem yet?
Help Battery Drain
Same thing here, and my Backlight is stuck to 100% i think,
anyone found a solution to this? any hints?
Guys, i assume youve set the "turn off device if not used for xxx mins" correctly whilst in battery and external power correctly?
If you have, what roms are you using as you give us no information to help any further
Hello,
I had the same problem with ROM 2.03.421.2, date 12/24/08.Back then I had SPB mobile shell installed and a very few applications and I couldn't find the problem. I made a hard reset so now, with nothing installed, the device also enters standby. You should take care because it is possible that the device is not entering standby either and it is making calls. When I had this problem my friends were complaining that I kept calling them and not talking. It is strange as I'm sure I put the device to sleep with the power button. But still, somehow, it was making calls...
Hi
I am using HTC touch 2 (MEGA) with TomTom navigator.
Before I bought yhis device, i was using Tomtom without the screen, and only listening voice.
But on this device, when I press red button (to turn off display), the Tomtom is still running, but GPS is deactivated.
How to turn off display without disconecting GPS? Or leave GPS working, while tomtom is running and the display is turned off?
Thanks
kuby said:
Hi
I am using HTC touch 2 (MEGA) with TomTom navigator.
Before I bought yhis device, i was using Tomtom without the screen, and only listening voice.
But on this device, when I press red button (to turn off display), the Tomtom is still running, but GPS is deactivated.
How to turn off display without disconecting GPS? Or leave GPS working, while tomtom is running and the display is turned off?
Thanks
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I never found a solution for this
In tomtom, change the backlight settings to use the devices settings... then the backlight will drop out. I don't think you'll find a way of running with the screen off, because when you turn the device off, it goes to standby.
You could use mortscript, and have a script with 'Toggledisplay' in it, then assign it to the lng press of the send key - that would turn the screen off and on without putting the device into standby.
TangerineTractor said:
In tomtom, change the backlight settings to use the devices settings... then the backlight will drop out. I don't think you'll find a way of running with the screen off, because when you turn the device off, it goes to standby.
You could use mortscript, and have a script with 'Toggledisplay' in it, then assign it to the lng press of the send key - that would turn the screen off and on without putting the device into standby.
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I´ve a screenoff aplication (wich not goes pda to standby) and the GPS goes off too.
My XDA Serra (Touch Pro) will let me view the screen for about 20 seconds before it switches off. Not just a backlight dim, but a full switch off. If I keep poking the screen it will stay on, but then I end up selecting something on screen.
My settings for the screen make no difference and it's making the thing unusable. Anyone know of a decent backlight / power management software that can take it by the scruff of the neck and make it behave?
Thanks.
66mustang said:
My XDA Serra (Touch Pro) will let me view the screen for about 20 seconds before it switches off. Not just a backlight dim, but a full switch off. If I keep poking the screen it will stay on, but then I end up selecting something on screen.
My settings for the screen make no difference and it's making the thing unusable. Anyone know of a decent backlight / power management software that can take it by the scruff of the neck and make it behave?
Thanks.
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Check your power off button isn't stuck pushing down forcing phone to turn off. It has reportedly happened on a number of other devices
No, I just checked. Seems to be OK. Thanks
Have you tried flashing another rom?
If not try that, and if that doesn't work, the lock button must make contact somehow as fallen spartan says.
Solved.
I had to uncheck all the power management crap, soft re-set, and then. Re-check the settings I wanted.
Don't you just love WM...?