Hello everyone ... at night while chatting ... my eyes hurts me because of the screen light ... I've decreased the back light brightness from the backlight icon in settings ... but it still bother me ...
is there any registry value to change it to decrease it more ??? or any program ??
thanx in advance
Unfortunately, this is a hardware issue. The prophet has only four levels of brightness. Newer windows mobile devices, e.g. Diamond, have ten levels of brightness.
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I'm a old palm user, and on my Treo I used a program that could change the back-light to a lower level when it was dark.
It simply measured how "bright" the camera was. If the "picture" was dark then it changed the backlight to low. A very cool program that made the phone more "easy" to use at nights. And it did it completely automatically.
Is there such a program to the vox, or is the only thing I can do is to load one of the programs where I can change the back-light manually?
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Hello all. Fantastic forum and many thanks to all those contributing.
I received my O2 Xda Orbit 2 last week and I'm very pleased with the unit.
I only have two small issues with the device.
The first is more with WM6. As a left hander I would really appreciate being able to place the scroll bars in applications such as IE on the left hand side of the screen so that I don't obscure the screen almost every time I'm reading something. I don't suppose there's much hope of this happening though.
Secondly, I've read with interest the issue regarding the backlight on the keylock screen and I will try the registry tweak to get the backlight to come on at full brightness so that you can see the lock-code keys in daylight.
However, is there any way of making a short cut to adjust the backlight brightness from the 'today' screen? I'm finding that I adjust the backlight brightness for my office/indoors and then when I go outside and use the unit I can barely see the screen and it takes several attempts to get in to the unit and vary the backlight brightness.
It would be lovely if you could say press the central button and then turn the jog wheel clockwise/anti-clockwise to brighten/dim the backlight. Does any bright spark know if there's a means to do this or at least make backlight adjustments simpler?
Same goes for backlight on the Co-pilot software. As it's usually plugged into the car's fag-lighter socket the backlight's on full. Then when you drive at night it blinds you. It would be lovely to be able to press the central button and twirl the wheen to adjust screen brightness. All it actually does is to zoom in/out of the Co-pilot map.
Otherwise, a fantastic unit.
Hello,
First: If you find some software to handle the device easier for left handers please tell me. I'm always interested.
Second: If you install the GPRS Monitor Software (was delivered with my device) it places an slider for backlight on your Today Screen. So you can easily vary the intensity of your backlight.
Maybe not the best solution, but better than nothing.
Hope that helps...
P.S. Do you know a trick to disable the screen, so I can only hear the commandos? (Would be helpful when I go for a walk and get lost in the wood. In most cases I don't have some breadcrumb to mark my way home...)
Hi,
Yes, backlight control isn't all it could be on the orbit2/touch cruise (or any other windows mobile device).
For Copilot if you go into settings / map styles and select "automatic" under day night mode then it does behave better at night.
As for easy control over the backlight - after searching for a few days I noticed that the HTC Home screen that I'd already installed, had a backlight control app on the third tab. Each time you press on the app with your finger it changes the backlight intensity (in 4 stages)
Finally - The bluetooth light was really irritating me whilst the phone was in the car cradle at night. The following link discusses a means of disabling the light.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=365892&highlight=bluetooth+light
Backlight adjustment
Thank you for your replies.
I've been experimenting with the HTC home plugin.
I downloaded the version for WM6 that supposedly correctly the backlight adjustment this morning but have discovered that the backlight function does not work on my Orbit 2. Of course, I may be doing something stupid.
May I ask which version you're using and which works with the Orbit 2?
I've also installed the GPRS monitor software but I can't see anywhere where it displays a backlight slider on the today screen.
Many thanks again.
Lom
Backlight and gprs monitor
Sincere apologies,
I just discovered the backlight slider on the notification icon of the gprs monitor. Not the best solution but something.
Many thanks for the suggestion.
Hi, I wonder if there is a possibility to make the TC adjust backlight automatically? I know there's no light sensor, but can't the front-cam be used as one?
What do you think?
Or am I overseeing an already existing tool for this?
Many thx,
Eric
Same idea provided in "development and hacking" but no response!!
I think it would be a great thing
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to interest many people, both of my postings have so far been ignored... It's a pity, because I think it could be done by some pros inhere.
Hi! I'm a first time poster here, have had my TP for a week now (previously used SE UIQ phones). Anyways, first I just wanted to THANK all of YOU who make these amazing apps and tweaks for this very cool phone!
Now to the point. I like the idea that the light sensor adjusts the backlight level automatically, but I find it much too bright especially in very dark conditions. Even if it's completely dark, the backlight doesn't go all the way down, i.e. I can make it much dimmer by manually setting the brightness to a low level.
Is there any way to "calibrate" the brightness for the auto adjusted backlight (so that if it's dark it would lower the brightness even more than it does now, and if it's bright it would set the backlight to 100%)?
Thanks!
Greetings
I want to save some energy on my Vox, and I'm wondering, is it possible to change (reduce) brightness of backlight on Vox, by using specific program or other trick? Original backlight is really too strong for me!
I've searched for information about it, but I've found nothing...
And if that is not possible, I want to totally turn off backlight. Without it screen is bright enought, I can clearly see everyting on it. Only in good sunny weather could be some problems with it, but I can always turn it on again. So is there any program or other trick to disable backlight?
I founded program called OldSap's OS Power, which should do this. But download page is offline! So maybe someone has got that program and want to share it?
Any solution?
Thanks to all
To decrease brightness you can use Light Toogle from this topic. It works fine with my C600 and should with Vox.
For enegry saving you can also reduce CPU clock (manual with OmapClock or automatically with Tornado PowerControl).
Unfortunately this program doesn't work on my device (it shows only white screen with some chinese "软件大" and do nothing...). Backlight works normal with this program background running...
Other solutions? Maybe this OldSap's OS Power?
It's seems to be easy thing to shut down the backlight, isn't it?
Vox has only two backlight states (excluding no backlight) - full and dimmed. You can use Tornado LowLight or Tornado Power Control to switch between dimmed and full backlight.
torrentonly, thank you very much! This is what I'm looking for!
Program runs perfect, problem solved
Once more time - thanks!
Hello all,
I've got an HTC shadow smartphone. The problem I'm having is that the display is too bright when I'm reading in a dark room. This reading mostly involves IE Mobile or Opera Mini.
1- Backlight solution:
Unfortunately, the shadow does not have an adjustable backlight. It appears to have a "high" and a "low" level. I can get a program to make it stay on "low", but this setting is just too dim to read by.
2- Software solution:
Im usually using MobileIE or Opera Mini in these reading situation. Is there a hack either at the application level, or at a lower level to modify the brightness by somehow scaling the RGB values?
3- Screen protector solution:
I'm thinking one of those anti-glare screen protector things might reduce the brighness. Has anyone tried one of these?
Thanks for any help,
Steve
I would go for the software solution. The screen protector only protects the screen. It won't affect the brightness in any way. I am pretty sure you can find a freeware application to adjust your screen's brightness.
cktlcmd said:
I would go for the software solution. The screen protector only protects the screen. It won't affect the brightness in any way. I am pretty sure you can find a freeware application to adjust your screen's brightness.
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Thats the thing though... I cannot find any way to reduce the brightness via software. I've searched for hours.
If anyone could help it would be greatly apprecieated!
Thanks,
Steve
try g-light by ageye
or lumos by some one else on the forums ! these apps do exactly what you want!
i know they can be found in the diamond forums for sure
For browsing there is UCWEB that has a skin named "Night", that's all black, and is more confortable in a dark room.
idrisito said:
try g-light by ageye
or lumos by some one else on the forums ! these apps do exactly what you want!
i know they can be found in the diamond forums for sure
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Thanks idrisito, but I dont think either of those would work on my HTC shadow (omap850 based smartphone).
Adjust 4rm Registry
using PHM Registry Editor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight\Intensity
Value Data
60 is level 1 on my phone backlight very dim
70 Level 2 Dim
80 Level 3 Dim
90 Level 4 Dim
150 Level 10 Average Brightnesr
200 Level 15 Very Bright
255 Level 20 Last Level Super Bright heck back light be a flash light