I'd like my keyboard lights to turn on when I slide it out... a lot of times I need to write something in a dim light or while driving, so I have to press any key just to turn on keyboard light, then press backspace and begin writing... I'm sure there is a "civilized way" to do it... anybody knows?
Start - settings - buttons - backlight - Uncheck enable keyboard backlight auto sensor
wow thanks bro.
That doesn't work for me...
Keys only light when pressed regardless of that setting.
euth said:
That doesn't work for me...
Keys only light when pressed regardless of that setting.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
FWIW, this is the way it's always worked (even under WM5, which is why this doesn't belong in this forum, btw). Unchecking "enable keyboard backlight auto sensor" only forces the keyboard light on under ANY lighting circumstances. With it unchecked, KB only lights in a dark environment.
You still need to press a key, regardless. Get used to the placement of the Shift key ... very useful for this.
Again, this has been hashed and rehashed on these forums for many months. A little reading never hurt anyone, and you'd probably find your answers faster, without making so many Sr. Members angry.
-pvs
I know this has probably been mentioned 1000 times but why doesn't anyone make an app that will let you manually turn the soft key lights on or off on a non-rooted dinc.
So many clock apps, etc have the option of forcing the softkey lights off, prove that it could be easily done since those apps are available for non-rooted dincs.
If anyone has a solution (other than the black e-tape one) please let me know. You can't see the buttons worth a crap unless the room is very well lit. in other words useless at night in the house with normal lighting. Yes I know I could cover the sensor with my thumb but there has to be a solution lurking out there somewhere.
thanks in advance.... johncal
There is. It's called Screen Filter. You can use it to do really low brightness (like when you use your phone in bed, not what she said ) and also manually turn softkey lights on or off. Actually, I'm not sure about forcing on, but it does turn off softkey lights for as long as you want.
Seriously, why do you want to turn them off? I sorta memorized the position of the softkeys.
I find the softkeys way too bright, so I've always used apps to turn them off in the past, never on.
In addition to trying Screen Filter as recommended above, give LEDs Hack a try. It's primarily designed to turn them off, but maybe the "ON" button will work... I'm really not sure.
For what it's worth, CM7 lets you control the softkeys. Specifically, if you go into the auto-brightness levels, you can turn them on/off for a given brightness level. From my experience, it seems that these settings stick even when you're not using auto-brightness. I turned off soft-keys at all the levels, and they stay off even when I'm not in auto-brightness.
With CM7, I no longer have to use Screen Filter for turning off the softkeys, but I do still use it to dim the screen very low.
I really want to keep the softkeys on not off. I'm also running a stock non-rooted rom. Phone's fine for me the way it is except that I just want the ability to keep the softkey lights on. I guess I'm just surprised that no one has come up with a solution for that.
Screen filter is for turning them off and unfortunately, LED hack is for rooted phones. Thanks for the suggestions though.
byrong said:
I find the softkeys way too bright, so I've always used apps to turn them off in the past, never on.
In addition to trying Screen Filter as recommended above, give LEDs Hack a try. It's primarily designed to turn them off, but maybe the "ON" button will work... I'm really not sure.
For what it's worth, CM7 lets you control the softkeys. Specifically, if you go into the auto-brightness levels, you can turn them on/off for a given brightness level. From my experience, it seems that these settings stick even when you're not using auto-brightness. I turned off soft-keys at all the levels, and they stay off even when I'm not in auto-brightness.
With CM7, I no longer have to use Screen Filter for turning off the softkeys, but I do still use it to dim the screen very low.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Where are the softkey settings in CM7? I looked under the autobrightness settings place but couldn't find anything.
Nightly 37 btw.
-CM7 ADR6300
dpwhitty11 said:
Where are the softkey settings in CM7? I looked under the autobrightness settings place but couldn't find anything.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Menu > Settings > CM Settings > Display > Automatic Backlight > Edit other levels
Lower / Upper = readings from the light sensor
Screen = the screen brightness you want based on the lower/upper light sensor values
Buttons = whether or not you want the softkeys on. Unfortunately, they cannot be dimmed (hardware limitations, from what I've read), so 255=on and 0=off
In the default configuration, for example, if the sensor value is 0-199, the screen will be set to brightness 25 and the softkeys will be turned on. If the sensor value is >399, notice that the softkeys turn off (button value changes to 0). If you want the buttons on all the time, set all button values as 255. If you're like me, and you hate the softkey lights, set all button values to 0.
For what it's worth, CM7 lets you control the softkeys. Specifically, if you go into the auto-brightness levels, you can turn them on/off for a given brightness level. From my experience, it seems that these settings stick even when you're not using auto-brightness. I turned off soft-keys at all the levels, and they stay off even when I'm not in auto-brightness.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Byrong, youre the man. Did not know about this. Bye bye softkey lights. Thanks!
I'm currently on cm72-111128.2017-NIGHTLY-Defy.
Everything works fine except that recently I notice sometimes after I turn off the screen with power button the four function buttons are still bright (technically it's three b/c the search button seemed to be broken a week ago). And that might be the reason that occasionally the battery drains too fast.
My ways to solve the issue: 1) reboot; 2) go to Device settings - Button brightness and adjust the brightness level to whatever level and then back to the previous level you've set.
I know this might be a bug. Anyone has some idea to fix it? Our hero Epsylon3 has been devoted him to porting ICS and I'm afraid he won't have much time to care CM7.
I'm running the 8/12 build of jmz's primoC CM9. The backlight on my softkeys don't seem to be lighting up properly. When I go into settings and toggle my brightness off auto, the softkeys light up, but then they don't come back on while using the phone. When I toggle to auto, the softkeys turn off. Seems backwards...? I'm kinda stumped. Tried out Lux brightness and it seemed to fix the issue, but if I reboot the phone it gets confused again. Not a big deal during the day, but at night it's annoying to not be able to see these keys.
Anyone else having this issue? Thanks.
Is there anyway to have the capacitive back and menu buttons always be lit up? Touchwiz would allow you to do this but I recently upgraded to Cyanogenmod and this is bugging me like crazy. It only allows you to turn it off or have it turn on and off intermittently. I have seen plenty of threads on how to disable the backlight or the buttons completely but is there a way to just enable the backlight always on like in TW?
On 10.2.nightly: Settings / Buttons / Backlight ... Slider all the way to right is "Don't turn off"".
Betcha your battery goes south fast.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk