I have a Touch Pro, and am wondering if there is anyway to turn off the display without going into standby? Sometimes I Like to hook up to the computer without re-charging the phone, but don't want it to be draining battery power the entire time I'm looking at the file system through the PC.
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Thanks, will have to check that out.
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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...
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I'm finally switching back to an o2 Serra / Touch Pro after they finally admitted to having some in stock again! (Not through sales channels though, and it took a five page letter complaining about their Customer Service!).
Anyway, over the last 3 months I've had to make do with an SE xPeria X1.
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
Cheers,
FM
fatmonk said:
I've searched for this one but can't find any mention of it...
I'm finally switching back to an o2 Serra / Touch Pro after they finally admitted to having some in stock again! (Not through sales channels though, and it took a five page letter complaining about their Customer Service!).
Anyway, over the last 3 months I've had to make do with an SE xPeria X1.
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
Cheers,
FM
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Find a program that only shuts the screen off like HandyMenu.
The power button puts the phone in standby.
I use Pocket controller to view the phone on my PC and use Haandy Menu to turn off the screen.
Is there much difference in power consumption between standby and just screen off?
What I'm thinking is, is it a good idea to change the function of the power button (I know there are tools to do that) to only switch off the screen in normal use as well or am I going to just make the short battery life more of an issue?
Cheers,
FM
I might have missed the point here, but why would you only want to turn the screen off in normal use?
I can understand not wanting the screen on (in line of sight) if its in a cradle syncing all day, but unless you're wanting to have programs running & working all day (gps mapping something i guess) i cant see any advantage.
Finally, i'm not sure if you can unmap the power button, you can almost certainly re-map it, but that may not remove the original function (i cant test today, mine's off for repair).
fatmonk said:
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
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I've often wondered the same thing. My phone sits on ActiveSync all day at work with the screen un-necessarily on. There has to be a fix other than a paid application...
Essentially I'd like to replicate the power button function of the SE X1 on the Touch Pro.
The X1 seems to only power off the screen rather than going into standby - ie all apps keep running, bluetooth and wifi stay connected etc.
This means that when the phone is connected using MyMobiler or similar the screen can be off as I am displaying the screen contents on my PC screen.
Rather than having a seperate function to switch the screen off (I'm going to try EdgeWat PocketPC Utils for that), it would be nice if the power button could be mapped to just switch the screen off.
My concern is that if I swap the functionality of the power button (their do seem to be a few apps that allow you to re-assign the power button funtion) I won't just be using it this way when the phone is connected to a PC, I will ALWAYS be just switching the screen off. So, when I am out and about would doing this cause a big increase in battery drain?
-FM
And I would guess this functionality must be possible in software as it seem the Pandora client does it when you are running it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534319&page=7
-FM
Is there any possible way to turn the screen off on the Touch Pro while running video out? I have a Pico Projector that we all watch football games but the battery is dimminished in no time using data package and screen on. Was wondering if there was any way to turn it off because if its hooked to the video out cable and you hit the power button it just turns right back on. Thanks so much in advance.
Just got the pro and have some questions about the power behavior. Does it behave like a laptop where after a certain amount of time it hibernates? What are the optimal settings to save battery say I carry it around all day and don't want the power draining while its sleeping. Sometimes I hit th epower button and it turns right on, sometimes the Surface splash screen comes on and it takes a little longer to turn on.
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It behaves exactly how you set it in the Windows power configuration tools... which by default is similar to a laptop, yes. Surface Pro is basically just a standard Windows portable computer (such as a laptop) with a touchscreen and a really nice chassis. Treat it like one.
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It behaves exactly how you set it in the Windows power configuration tools... which by default is similar to a laptop, yes. Surface Pro is basically just a standard Windows portable computer (such as a laptop) with a touchscreen and a really nice chassis. Treat it like one.
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So it is not really something to use as a tablet, where you are constantly turning it on and off as you would an ipad? If I am going to treat it like a laptop then it's more like turn it on to use, and leave it running? Because I certainly would not wake and put my laptop to sleep as I would a tablet.
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So it is not really something to use as a tablet, where you are constantly turning it on and off as you would an ipad? If I am going to treat it like a laptop then it's more like turn it on to use, and leave it running? Because I certainly would not wake and put my laptop to sleep as I would a tablet.
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If you go into the power settings you can set the power button on the surface (it is a power button btw) to hibernate or sleep instead. Windows 8 resumes from sleep near instantaneously (like a tablet) or from hibernate within a matter of a second or 2.
Plunging in and out of hibernate wont do it any harm. You can then just use the shutdown option already on the system for when you want to shut down normally.
Sleep makes more sense than hibernate for this use; even with solid-state storage resuming from hibernate does take a bit of time. Sleep, ever since Win7, has been instant for me on modern hardware. I see no notable difference in wake-from-sleep times between my phone, my (RT) tablet, my (x86 Win7) laptop, and my Win8 desktop.
The main reasons one would use hibernate instead of sleep are either if you aren't going to be using the machine for a day or two (hibernate draws no power, sleep still uses a tiny bit) or if you use BitLocker and need the device to be secure against DMA attacks (in sleep mode, it's possible to pull the storage decryption keys out of memory with the right hardware; in hibernate those keys are wiped and can't be recovered by an attacker.
Hello, I was wondering if you could help, I have a Dell Venue Pro V02s that wont boot, all that happens is the slide out keyboards backlight comes on, then off, then on again, over and over. Also it sometimes gives a screen with a battery and a plug on it, but that doesn't happen often. I think it may need a fresh install of windows phone 7, so if somebody could find that it would be great, thanks!
Status update, I can get the screen with the battery and plug symbol to show up by just putting my finger over the battery pins, but the moment I put in the battery, the screen disappears and the keyboard backlight stays on until it is unplugged and the battery is removed