I have a new issue with my backlight. I didn't really see anything scanning a search on backlight so I'm hoping someone has seen this before and can help.
I just got a new 3200mah battery. Ever since I started using it, after turning off the device, I go back to it, press the power button or backlight button and while the screen itself comes on, the backlight does not. No light at all. I also often find that the screen is on already when I open the phone (which might explain why my battery is sometimes finding itself dead in a matter of a couple hours). I change the backlight setting to be the second tick on the scale (lowest light level) and turn the phone off again and then if I go back to it 5 mins later it's gone back to the first tick (off) on its own. However, turning on the phone right after I turn it off and it stays at the first tick. I've not be able to figure out why it keeps resetting itself to off.
Please, if you are familiar with this can you offer some direction? I'm using Helmi's WM6
Thanks
I never encountered this problem.. have you tried to keep pressed the power button and verify that backlight turns on? Or is a settings problem (backlight settings turn itself automatically to zero)?
It 0's itself. I can turn it back on again with a little difficulty (as it's hard to see the screen without the backlight).
really weird ...
have you try back to use the original battery? just for check is it something wrong with your 3200?
if it still ... (also for all problem that i can not solve) ... backup all data and ... hard reset!!
Backlight fixed with new flash...battery problem now
Ok, I reflashed with the Business rom and the backlight issue is gone. However, I have another issue now. When I charge it overnight, in the morning the power light is green, but if the Universal is off when it goes green it seems to hang and I have to reset. If the Universal is on, it responds fine. However, in both cases, when I unplug the power from the Universal, the light stays solid green and requires a reset to show the true battery status.
Also in both cases, after this overnight charge, the battery dies within an hour or two, the power level going down to 4%. As a result, I end up charging it at work (with a different charger) until it gets to 100%. I haven't tried leaving it to charge longer. But once charged on my work charger it seems to discharge properly without dying in an hour or two.
I'm very perplexed by this situation. Is this a battery problem, charger problem, phone problem? The battery, as I mentioned earlier, is a brand new 3200mah. Should I return for an exchange? I'm looking for any comments at this point.
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Timeshell said:
Ok, I reflashed with the Business rom and the backlight issue is gone. However, I have another issue now. When I charge it overnight, in the morning the power light is green, but if the Universal is off when it goes green it seems to hang and I have to reset. If the Universal is on, it responds fine. However, in both cases, when I unplug the power from the Universal, the light stays solid green and requires a reset to show the true battery status.
Also in both cases, after this overnight charge, the battery dies within an hour or two, the power level going down to 4%. As a result, I end up charging it at work (with a different charger) until it gets to 100%. I haven't tried leaving it to charge longer. But once charged on my work charger it seems to discharge properly without dying in an hour or two.
I'm very perplexed by this situation. Is this a battery problem, charger problem, phone problem? The battery, as I mentioned earlier, is a brand new 3200mah. Should I return for an exchange? I'm looking for any comments at this point.
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Hi,
The locking up could be down to the overclocking/stepping built-in to some of the newer Roms. Some Uni's over/underclock quite happily some do not. Mine will happily overclock but locks up when stepping back down.
As far as the battery/charge issue it could be the battery itself or the charger, when charging at work are you using USB to charge and mains at home? It could be that the mains charger is charging too quickly for the battery to hold the charge and the device reads the battery as 100% and thus stops charging it, whereas the USB trickle charge is slower and thus the charge remains for longer.
Do you have another battery to test?
It could simply be the battery, there have been a lot of reports of Ebay batterys not reporting and holding charge correctly.
Cheers,
Beasty
Yes it is an eBay battery. The charger at work is a "main", however, not an original "main", but its also an eBay special. The original "main" at home was designed for UK but I'm in Canada so there's a voltage difference but within the tolerance indicated on it's input definitions.
I'm however inclined to agree with the "trickle charge" comment. It could be charging more slowly. And I have not left it to see if the charge light will lock on green after the charge. I'll try that during the day and charge overnight with the work charger to see if I get the same result.
I'm still open to more comments.
when you charge your 3.200 next time, try this ... on backlight uncheck turn off backlight on battery power. I hope its work for you too.
backlight problem
hello, lately I have a problem with my PPC i-mate MDA Pro with wm 6.1 v2 rom by capante for universal, the problem is that the backlight often does not turn, the screen remains off to the lowest level of light, please who can give me a hand for resolve this problem?
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hello, lately I have a problem with my PPC i-mate MDA Pro with wm 6.1 v2 rom by capante for universal, the problem is that the backlight often does not turn, the screen remains off to the lowest level of light, please who can give me a hand for resolve this problem?
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I had the same prob with a ROM used on the past, backlight movet to lowest or even off randomly.
I corrected changing to another ROM.
innuendo1973 said:
hello, lately I have a problem with my PPC i-mate MDA Pro with wm 6.1 v2 rom by capante for universal, the problem is that the backlight often does not turn, the screen remains off to the lowest level of light, please who can give me a hand for resolve this problem?
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well try hard reset or try new rom...
Hi,
Suddenly after 1 year of use my battery does not even last for 6 hours and that too without bluetooth, wifi or even gprs. The only other thing that I have noticed is flickering of the qwerty keyboard backlight and dimming of the light behind central (G,H,J,K) keys. Is it a primary battery fault or some defect in circuits which has caused the battery to become faulty.
I hope it does not signal an end of my battery life.
Hope the members can shed some light.
Thanks in advance.
Siddhartha
Have a look at the connectors between phone and battery! Did you install anything recently?
The lights flickering aren't normally a sign of a bad battery or a battery not holding a charge. Seems like something might have come loose. Check the connector pins at your battery and if you feel like it, open the slider and seperate the keyboard and ensure the flex cable connects tightly.
I was curious to see how many of you leave the backlight on when making/answering calls. When I do so I noticed that the phone gets extremely hot.
Will having the backlight on all the time shorten the liftetime of the screen? What are your thoughts?
Hi guys
Just got my new XA handset and I have noticed that when the phone is on charge it wakes straight away when I press the power button, but when it is not, it takes around 6-7 seconds for the screen to wake.
Any help or advice in getting this resolved please?
winwiz said:
Hi guys
Just got my new XA handset and I have noticed that when the phone is on charge it wakes straight away when I press the power button, but when it is not, it takes around 6-7 seconds for the screen to wake.
Any help or advice in getting this resolved please?
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I have the same problem since first day, for me it,s when the screen is off and i want to wake it just after pluged it to the charger. I think it's because the phone allow a lot of backgroud tasks in same time when charging. Don't forget that Stamina, Doze Mode and battery savers "lock' a lot of things to improve battery life. But it's just my theory
Actually this is now resolved for me - the memory card I had was faulty. I've swapped it out and the phone is now perfect
Is it just me or does the Ambient Display on this device have a pretty high battery drain?
AccuBattery reports 14% in 9 hours screen off drain with 91% of the time being deep sleep.
I'm coming from an S8 where the AOD drain is barely noticeable.
Is this normal or am I missing something?
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Is it just me or does the Ambient Display on this device have a pretty high battery drain?
AccuBattery reports 14% in 9 hours screen off drain with 91% of the time being deep sleep.
I'm coming from an S8 where the AOD drain is barely noticeable.
Is this normal or am I missing something?
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No idea i never have it on. Just turn it off.
Unstroofy said:
No idea i never have it on. Just turn it off.
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I just did and will see if that gets rid of the drain. Was just one of the minor reasons to get the Pixel over the Zenfone 6 ^^'
Velcorn said:
I just did and will see if that gets rid of the drain. Was just one of the minor reasons to get the Pixel over the Zenfone 6 ^^'
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So how did it go?
Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
If you turn the phone face down (or otherwise block the proximity sensor) the screen completely turns off. So it is pretty easy to control when the always on screen is on or off. I turn my phone face down overnight and usually see a 2% reduction in battery over 7-8 hours.
I think with the always on screen on, I see a drop of between 1-1.5% per hour on average. But my phone is also having more notifications and other activity that time of day too which keeps it from deep sleep.
tl/dr - you can leave the "always on screen" setting on all the time. If you don't need the screen and want to save battery, simply turn your phone face down and the screen shuts down completely after about 10 seconds.
Thanks for the input, everyone, I now settled with leaving it on and turning it face down over night or whenever I don't need it.
It just seems that this phone has a significantly higher standby drain than my former S8 in general. Already checking for some wakelocks or other causes for drains with BBS, but maybe it's just normal and I'm being paranoid. It's not an abnormally high drain either, guess I'm just spoiled ^^'
You don't have to put your phone face down. You just need to disable the ambient display and wake it up temporarily by double-tapping on the screen of lifting the phone, whenever you want to check the time or notifications.
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I just did and will see if that gets rid of the drain. Was just one of the minor reasons to get the Pixel over the Zenfone 6 ^^'
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I turned off ambient display also and switched over to double tap the screen to see my notifications without pressing the power button or unlocking.