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Display goes out in seconds?!

Hi there, my SP5m display always goes out (e.g. turns black) in less than 5 seconds even though I didn't specify such setting anywhere on my smartphone?! It doesn't keylock it, it just goes black and doesn't prevent key presses, whenever I hit a button it comes back to normal and it's a real pain for the moment!
FYI, I'm using WM6 perfect edition (thanks btw!) and here are my settings for "power management" options:
Backlight timeout on battery: 15 seconds
Display timeout: 1 minute
Light sensor: enable
By the way, what's the difference between backlight timeout and display timeout?
Also, I enabled the "Low light" application and modified some "Keylock Config" options...
I also played with "Multi Flash Light" if it helps you guys investigating... Btw, is there any other purpose for this application other than being a "flashlight"? Why was that application loaded in the ROM? Are you guys really using your smartphone as a flashlight? I'd like to know...
Thank you all for your time.
highmighty

Maybe this will help?

It sure helped me... but I modified another key instead of "LockLevel" cause this one looked OK.
Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power\Backlight the key "BatteryTimeout" was set to 0 instead of 15 seconds... and I don't know why?! I modified it and so far so good. It finally works like a charm
P.S. And what about Multi Flash Lite?
Thanks to all

Bottom keys backlight issue

Hello guys.
I want to ask you regarding Home/Back/Green/Red keys backlight,that is often on,while in suspend state with slided-out keyboard.
IOW:
- keyboard slided out
- backlight of bottom keys is ON
- while suspend the backlight goes NOT OFF(sometimes is it working normally)
This happens with WM6.1,WM6.5 as well.
Can someone help with this?

Is anyone else having this same issue? I can confirm that it is happening to me on the stock ROM/RADIO and on EnergyROM 3.0 and the latest ATT radio.
I go to check my messages using the slide out keyboard, and when I'm done I put the phone in standby and close the keyboard, the DPAD backlight is still lit. To 'clear' it, I have to turn the phone on again and press a button on the DPAD (like the center button) and then turn the phone off.
This isn't a show-stopper or anything, but it sure does worry me that one day I'll put my phone in my pocket and take it out at the end of the day with an empty battery... Any help would be most excellent!
Thanks!

Backlight dimm and lock screen

Hi
i'm running wm6.5 on my raphael and i've got a problem:
when the screen is automatically locked, the screen dimm to save power. fine
but even if i unlock it, the screen is keeped dimmed.
i have to press the power button to get the screen bright again
i've found in Advanced config in the screen section an option: "Backlight lock level " but when i try to change it, after a soft reset, the value is not saved...
is there a fix?

warenbe said:
Hi
i'm running wm6.5 on my raphael and i've got a problem:
when the screen is automatically locked, the screen dimm to save power. fine
but even if i unlock it, the screen is keeped dimmed.
i have to press the power button to get the screen bright again
i've found in Advanced config in the screen section an option: "Backlight lock level " but when i try to change it, after a soft reset, the value is not saved...
is there a fix?
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Check to see if your backlight is set to auto adjust in your Power settings.

there is a bug in WM6.5... autolock and/or the auto dim is causing this problem(for me too)... i disabled autolock, and the problem's gone...
use S2U2 or something else

yep but i've got some problem with the last version of s2u2... i wasn't able to answer

i asked the same question few days ago in teh NRG rom thread - basically it was suggested to me to use a different program other than adv config to setup the autolock - searchn the forum for an app called 'Smartlock' - ive installed version 1.6 and it seems to work
only thing is it ignores slideshows (i.e. will dim and lock while viewing slideshow), slightly annoying but no biggy
hth

Wm6.5 Auto Lock and Backlight

I have an htc Touch HD
used almost all of the wm6.5.x roms and on all of them the same problem.
with autolock function enabled using HD Tweak when the back light is deeming due to small time of touching the screen when tapping again the light want return to default (bright so i can use it).
i must turn off the screen (using the power button) to revert and start using the phone again.
Any one has a solution for this?!
ps: Backlight is on auto adjust mode

Don't use that autolock, it causes the problems that you just stated. Use csdevctrl instead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386451
Its a little tricky to figure out, but the autolock on it works perfectly. I can't remember what you have to press to initiate the autolock, but it isn't called autolock, something like lock display after suspend

How do the soft key lights work?

The soft key lights on this device seem to work differently then most other android devices with back light soft keys. I've been trying to figure this out for a while. When exactly does the phone decide to turn them off, and and why can't I turn them off using apps like screen filter, and even on the stock t mobile rom?
Is this a hardware or software issue?
What I know is that the soft key lights in kj6 (gingerbread) roms turn on every time you turn the screen on or touch the screen, and turn off after 3 seconds of inactivity (not touching the screen or pressing any buttons).
But it seems that in some situations the soft keys turn off and stay off, even when touching the screen, which is seemingly random. Why does it do this?
Does anybody know when exactly the soft key lights decide to turn off?

From what I can tell, the Team Acid ICS driver does what it is supposed to do -- turn on and off the lights when the magic number is written to the right sysfs location.
The control of the lights is supposed to happen in the Android world with PowerManager and LightsService. The "problem" is that it seems as though the chip that controls the touchkeys and their backlight have a mind of their own and turn on the lights when you touch them. This gets the Android world's idea of if they are on or not confused, resulting in LightsService not "turning off" the light as it thinks they are already off.
I'm working through a good way to resolve this. Messing with the framework code is not the best as it means that TeamAcid would have their own version, and keeping up with upstream changes would be more difficult. Unfortunately, how it was done in GB is something of a mystery as it isn't clear to me from the Samsung code drop.
https://github.com/teamacid/android_device_samsung_galaxys4gmtd/issues/32

Are the soft key lights on the sgs4g the same as the original us versions of the Samsung galaxy (the vibrant/captivate)? If they have a fix for this (I assume they might because they have a larger development community) , would it work for our device?

I'm looking into if I can find some dev information for the Cypress/Melfas key controller, and possibly the Atmel mXT224 and looking for other devices that use it (Motorola Atrix, for example). If I can disable the "LED on when touched" behavior, things are a lot easier.

i was wondering about this as well... my back button, is messed up and has no sensitivity at all so im trying to disable the whole bar and just use an onscreen nav bar. i know that paranoid as it in their settings but that rom eats up the battery like a mad man ill be down to zero by noon i dont get that problem with CM9 BUT CM9 doesnt have the onscreen Nav Bar
does any one know where i can find more info on adding this nav bar to CM9?

Aokp has it too

V1R3Z said:
my back button, is messed up and has no sensitivity at all
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You might try Hefe Kernel Of Darkness (second post in that thread) to mainly turn off the touchkey backlight.
I'm curious as to what poor back-button sensitivity problems you are seeing. You can PM to keep the thread clean.