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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.
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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...
AT&T Fuze screen issue - bottom menu-area of screen is flickering almost constantly
(Forgive me for the length of this post. I am just trying to provide as much information as possible! If anyone has encountered this same or similar issue, your help is greatly appreciated).
I need help! (professional and otherwise) ...with my AT&T Fuze (rebranded Touch Pro).
I am developing a game for Windows Mobile called Scrobble (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3206316&posted=1), and I left it running overnight.
My screen is set to turn off after 1 minute, and my device set to sleep after 5 minutes when plugged in to external power.
I had the Fuze plugged into wall outlet power to recharge. I left it lying, like I always do, face down on a black soft-leather CD case (so the glowing charging light doesn't bother me).
I left it alone for the 7.5 or so hours I was asleep. When I woke up in the morning and picked it up, the screen was on. It usually is not on, and I don't think I pressed the button to activate the screen.
When I looked at the screen, the Scrobble program was still running, and the bottom menu portion of the screen was flickering. Scrobble has two menu buttons at the bottom -- "Turn" and "Game" -- with a SIP keyboard icon in between them (same as nearly all WM apps).
In any other program, or the Today screen, the menu portion of the screen flickers (the brightness constantly and rapidly fluctuates consistently... like a fluorescent light that is on its last leg).
I did a full power off and power on, and during the "world phone" screen and the the AT&T 3G "power up" animation, the flicker was -not- there. But as soon the Windows Mobile loading/splash screen appeared, the flicker returned, in the exact same spot.
And I can see the ghost "Turn -- [SIP] -- Game" menu in the flicker. But I don't think it's burnt into the display, because it's not there during the first two loading/splash screens.
Currently I have the battery completely removed from the device and will leave it out for a while. If that doesn't work I will do a hard reset.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! (This device is about 2 months old -- does HTC provide any support for it directly?).
Fixed
Phew! My screen flicker issue is no more.
I'm not sure if it's because I took the battery out and let it sit and think about what it had done for ~22 hours, or if it's because it just went away after a while (with the battery out for 22hrs). But either way, my Fuze is back to normal!
So if anyone leaves theirs on overnight and wakes up in the morning to a flickering ghost of a menu at the bottom, my suggestion is to fully reboot it, then take the battery out and leave it out overnight!
(It's kind of nice going a full day without any phone calls!!).
good for you.. you dont need a new phone giving you damage issues already... glad to hear that its gone
Thanks you for this post. I am going through the same thing with my ATT Fuze. This time it is Tomtom that I left running overnight with the screen turning on and off. I can add that the flicker and ghost is there the second the phone powers on. I have already hard reset and took the battery out for a few mins, but the flickering still there. Now I will take the battery out for several hours and hopefully it will be normal again.
I had a similar issue this week. I was using the phone all day, getting emails and phone calls, no problems. I get home and go to charge my phone and it doesn't appear to be charging. I flip on the screen and the whole screen is flickering on and off like it's not getting enough power. I charged the device over night, hard reset, pulled battery for 24 hours and still it won't go away. I just got the device thru amazon so I already reordered a replacement.
I've never left my screen on for hours at a time and I sometimes run into that same issue. The bottom of the screen flickers, and I can see a ghost image of my left and right soft keys when doing things that pull up a dark grey or black screen, like adjusting the volume. I usually try a few soft resets, and if that doesn't work I turn it off and take the battery out for a while. From what I am reading it seems to be correlated with extended periods of screen usage, but my screen has rarely been kept on for more than 30 minutes at a time.
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I was just having the same problem with my Fuze: the bottom quarter of the screen was flickering, but without the ghosting you spoke of. Out of curiosity, I went into my "Power Settings" menu, and for some reason the "auto adjust backlight" was unchecked, and the brightness settings were maxed out. I checked "auto adjust backlight" and the flickering stopped. Not sure why, but thought I'd add it to the thread.
kart_racer3 said:
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I was just having the same problem with my Fuze: the bottom quarter of the screen was flickering, but without the ghosting you spoke of. Out of curiosity, I went into my "Power Settings" menu, and for some reason the "auto adjust backlight" was unchecked, and the brightness settings were maxed out. I checked "auto adjust backlight" and the flickering stopped. Not sure why, but thought I'd add it to the thread.
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Yeah I did notice that it's only really noticeable when the screen is set to max brightness. Setting it on auto adjust cleared it up for me also.
proj3ktpat said:
Yeah I did notice that it's only really noticeable when the screen is set to max brightness. Setting it on auto adjust cleared it up for me also.
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thx guys...helped me out too...
Just sent my unit in for repair (under warrenty) due to the screen flicker issue, lets see what happens when it comes back.
I just started to experience the flicker today. Has be somewhat concerned. The device is only two weeks old.
However, it seems to have stopped by itself while I was searching the forums for an answer. If it returns, I'll try the 'remove battery' method and see if that helps.
Also, I love Scrobble! Shame it doesn't work on QVGA displays. Or, at least, didn't on my Wizard...
Related thread
Hey guys there's a thread with the same exact issue and a screenshot on the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535099
Seems to be something related to the Hardware 3D Acceleration driver for Windows Mobile, I get this problem only once 3d has been activated.
If Sense/TF3D is turned off, I never see this problem. It only comes up once a game or Sense has been launched.
I can also boot into Android without 3D activated and not have this problem, but if I run Sense then go into Android I get the flicker from a Windows Mobile screen while in Android.
protwitness: That doesn't seem to be the case (for me, at least.) I don't run TF3D and it still happens. I can't really discern what the trigger is, but I have a feeling it has something to do with the screen brightness auto adjustment. (Sometimes, I'll turn my phone on when it's dark and it jumps to full day-light brightness for some reason.)
I've adjusted to it and it doesn't really bother me any more.
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?
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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...
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...?
Basically this, every 3 or 4 days or so my OnePlus screen will go dark. It isn't *crashing*, though - it's happened when I've had headphones in listening to music and the music still plays, responds to headset controls, etc., so I think it's just the screen. Normal reboot will not work (holding the power button), although this might be because that presents a reboot menu rather than just rebooting the device. I have to do power button + volume up to reboot the device, at which point it reboots and everything is back to normal. I'm happy to gather any addition logs/data needed to debug, but I can't find anything in my crash debugging app (because it's not a crash...). Other interesting pieces of info
- I get the "Intent Verification Service stopped responding" issue every reboot
- I originally installed by wiping OOS + Android 12 and trying to install 19.1 and 19.1 recovery; this failed (same problem as here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/denying-ota-because-it-is-a-spl-downgrade.4463975/), so I installed 18 instead, which failed, but then wiping and going back to 19 succeeded (because the update was newer and thus no longer a "downgrade", I presume. IDK what really happened there).
- Trying to do Android Beam hard crashes the whole device; I've disabled NFC for now
Other than that the build runs swimmingly. I can live with the other stuff but the screen shutting off randomly is worrying to me - anything I can do to fix this or help you guys help me fix it?
hyve9 said:
Basically this, every 3 or 4 days or so my OnePlus screen will go dark. It isn't *crashing*, though - it's happened when I've had headphones in listening to music and the music still plays, responds to headset controls, etc., so I think it's just the screen. Normal reboot will not work (holding the power button), although this might be because that presents a reboot menu rather than just rebooting the device. I have to do power button + volume up to reboot the device, at which point it reboots and everything is back to normal. I'm happy to gather any addition logs/data needed to debug, but I can't find anything in my crash debugging app (because it's not a crash...). Other interesting pieces of info
- I get the "Intent Verification Service stopped responding" issue every reboot
- I originally installed by wiping OOS + Android 12 and trying to install 19.1 and 19.1 recovery; this failed (same problem as here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/denying-ota-because-it-is-a-spl-downgrade.4463975/), so I installed 18 instead, which failed, but then wiping and going back to 19 succeeded (because the update was newer and thus no longer a "downgrade", I presume. IDK what really happened there).
- Trying to do Android Beam hard crashes the whole device; I've disabled NFC for now
Other than that the build runs swimmingly. I can live with the other stuff but the screen shutting off randomly is worrying to me - anything I can do to fix this or help you guys help me fix it?
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Go into display settings at the bottom and turn off pocket mode.
mattie_49 said:
Go into display settings at the bottom and turn off pocket mode.
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I don't see anything that says "pocket mode", here are my settings:
Brightness
Brightness level
Adaptive Brightness
Lock Display
Lock screen
Screen timeout
Appearance
Dark theme
Font
Font Size
Display size
Icon Shape
Color
Night Light
LiveDisplay
Colors
Other display controls
Rotation Settings
Display white balance
Smooth display
Full screen apps
Screen saver
Tap to wake
Prevent accidental wake-up
Tap to sleep
Wake on plug
All the "tap to <blank>" settings are on.
hyve9 said:
I don't see anything that says "pocket mode", here are my settings:
Brightness
Brightness level
Adaptive Brightness
Lock Display
Lock screen
Screen timeout
Appearance
Dark theme
Font
Font Size
Display size
Icon Shape
Color
Night Light
LiveDisplay
Colors
Other display controls
Rotation Settings
Display white balance
Smooth display
Full screen apps
Screen saver
Tap to wake
Prevent accidental wake-up
Tap to sleep
Wake on plug
All the "tap to <blank>" settings are on.
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Prevent accidental wake-up
mattie_49 said:
Prevent accidental wake-up
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This setting has been turned on, I'll keep my phone running for the next few days and see if it crops up again.
hyve9 said:
This setting has been turned on, I'll keep my phone running for the next few days and see if it crops up again.
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Ok, it's been about a week and a half, I thought this was resolved but lately the issue has cropped up again, always at inconvenient times. Any logging I can enable or other settings I can tweak?
Had the same issue when I upgraded from C.61, which I now have learned breaks some sensors like light and proximity.
I'm currently back to stock until I have some time on the weekend to experiment again with downgrading to C.47 and then installing LineageOS.
Seems to be happening more frequently as of late. Friendly reminder for those of you experiencing this to not press the power button a bunch of times to try and resolve as (at least on my phone) this calls 911 and then you have to awkwardly explain to emergency services that there is no emergency :/
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Prevent accidental wake-up
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I'm having the same issue continously, basically every time I put my phone into my pocket, it is unable to wake...
It is responsive but it's like the proximity sensor gets messed up.
I used on the proximity sensor tester apps to prove that it is still functioning properly, which I could turn it off at this point as it's certainly causing the issue based that it only happens when I put it into my pocket.
I've tried almost every combination of those settings at this point and it's not working. Might try doing a factory reset at this point..
Edit: I've used SD Maid to clear everything, it helped a bit.
Still having black screens. Going to just downgrade back to lineage os 18 till Twrp comes out for 12