Keep Wifi (Bluetooth, GPRS and ActiveSync) connected while phone is in standby.
I've had problems with my wizard finding my wifi network when I come out of standby and I use programs like RemoteAmp and would like to have a constant connection to my network so that when I come out of standby I dont have to wait to reconnect.
Warning!!!
This will also keep Bluetooth, GPRS and ActiveSync connected! You can always manually disconnect.
This will probably work on any WM5 device, but was tested on a WIZ100 running my edited 2.25.11.1 rom.
Using your favorite registry editor (Resco Registry) navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Resuming\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Unattended\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
If you need to search for networks you won't be able to do so by putting the device in standby (quick press of the power button off and back on), instead turn the wifi on and off.
Power state 1 is a low power state, if you find it's not working that well try changing the value to 0. Power state 0 is a full power state.
Yes, your battery will drain faster. I'll report back on how much faster later.
Special thanks to Summiter and Faria for all their hard work, and to buzz_lightyear (buzzdev.net) for pointing me in the right direction!
O man, was looking ages for this tweak.
It's working on my wizzard with the 2.26 ROM.
At last I can leave my HP H6340 at home that did the same without the tweak.
Only thing is that the H6340 WLAN module was turned on every 5 minutes to check for new mail by Active sync.
I will see how it will drain my battery this week.
Cheers,
Drifter
Battery drain is huge.
Switched on the WLAN on 8:30 and at 10:30 the battery is on 71%
Think I’m going back to the old settings because it won’t last all day.
My Wizzard is getting somewhat warmer du to the batterydrain.
Funky B can you explain what these 1 to 4 setting do?
Standard it’s on 4 so it will shut down the WLAN hardware completely if you disable WLAN or when the device is in standby.
Cheers,
Drifter
In 8 hours my battery died with wifi on at all times (not necessarily connected) and bluetooth was off. With all connections off there was no noticable difference in battery drain. If you turn Wifi/BT/GPRS off when not in use you won't have any problems :wink:
buzz_lightyear wrote this description of the power states:
Full on -> D0
State in which the device is on and running. It is receiving full power from the system and is delivering full functionality to the user.
Low on -> D1
State in which the device is fully functional at a lower power or performance state than D0. D1 is applicable when the device is being used, but where peak performance is unnecessary and power is at a premium.
Standby -> D2
State in which the device is partially powered with automatic wakeup on request. A device in state D2 is effectively standing by.
Sleep -> D3
State in which the device is partially powered with device-initiated wakeup if available. A device in state D3 is sleeping but capable of raising the System Power State on its own. It consumes only enough power to be able to do so; which must be less than or equal to the amount of power used in state D2.
Off -> D4
State in which the device has no power. A device in state D4 should not be consuming any significant power. Some peripheral busses require static terminations that intrinsically use non-zero power when a device is physically connected to the bus; a device on such a bus can still support D4.
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-State 0 is full on and will always give power - works great
-State 1 is partial power when not active - best choice
-State 2 is standby and has some issues. The backlight on my device turns back on because a wake request has been issued, but the today screen doesn't load until a button is pressed. Omap overclock may cause some of the issues.
-State 3 will cause wifi to disconnect
-State 4 is off
IMO the battery drain is resonable for holding a wifi connection. It's more annoying to wait for a connection frequently than to worry about the battery. I don't need a constant connection to my home network for 8 hours at a time, but when I'm playing poker at home and want to use RemoteAmp to control my music for a couple of hours this is a perfect solution. As long as you turn off your connections when not in use you should be fine.
Thanks Funky B for your reply,
It’s much clearer now.
I’m going to experiment with the D2 setting and see how that goes with my Wizzard.
I’ve got a TyTN since today and if it will do the same we will see.
Cheers,
Drifter
Doesn't Seem To Work
I tried setting the above registry values to 0, 1 and 2 and none of them seem to work. When I turn the Wizard to standby and then ping it, it seems to stop responding. Am I doing something wrong?
muizmotani said:
I tried setting the above registry values to 0, 1 and 2 and none of them seem to work. When I turn the Wizard to standby and then ping it, it seems to stop responding. Am I doing something wrong?
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Make sure you do a soft reset on your device in order to make the changes take affect (power off device with power button, then power back on is most efficient way).
Well I have cingular 8125 and without these changing the battery will not last half a aday.
trojan9x said:
Make sure you do a soft reset on your device in order to make the changes take affect (power off device with power button, then power back on is most efficient way).
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I did do a power-off/power-on sequence but this still does not seem to make a difference. Are you sure you don't mean that I should do a soft-reset by using the reset button by the IR port?
Funky B said:
Using your favorite registry editor (Resco Registry) navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Resuming\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Unattended\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
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Hi I'm looking to solve the same problem on a number of devices. I've located these keys (or created them if they were not there) but to no avail.
I'm a little confused about "-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1", since the 'nameless' key is a REG_SZ (null terminated string).
So do I need to add a key called "(Default)" with type DWORD or do I need to set the (Default) REG_SZ key to 1 (char value) or to 1 (DWORD value) but what about null termination in that case?
Could you shed some light on this?
i have changed them and it doesnt worked i wana get the last configuration but i have forgetten what its was can someone say me what are deafult values
value should be "4" however this hack does work for me, so i would be interested in why it don't for you?
I have an HTC TyTN with Windows Mobile 6 and a Bluetrek G2 bluetooth headset. I am on the road for at least an hour everyday Monday to Friday, and for safety use the bluetooth haedset while driving.
I tried this hack and it works for me. However, my TyTN keeps going active while using power settings of 1 and 2. However, with a setting of 3, it stays suspended without losing connection to the headset. Perfect!
Afterward I switch off the bluetooth on the TyTN.
Also appears to lessen battery drain. Usually the battery lasts two days max, so far it's not even half drained after two full days. Definitely worth it.
Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448783&page=7, there is a perfect solution.
Authenticated WiFi & Standby?
I connect to a secured WiFi network (WPA2-Enterprise using EAP-TLS Authentication & AES Encryption) and made this tweak to allow me to use VoIP & MS Office Communicator over the WiFi whilst my device is in standby. It works but the WiFi network is set to re-authenticate devices every 30-minutes (Radius session-timeout of 1800-seconds). What seems to be happening is the device is failing to re-authenticate when it's in standby. I need to do a bit more research but was wondering if anyone else has seen this behaviour and found any workarounds (except obviously removing the reauthentication timeout...).
Cheers
Andy
anybody know if it's possible to make it reconnect to the wifi while in standby mode ?
HTCKeepWifiOnWhenUnattended d-_-b HTC Tilt 2
Wifi allways on------- thanks Jzhyok
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\BCMSDDHD1\Parms]
“HTCKeepWifiOnWhenUnattended”=dword:00000001:
Hi, has someone posted a cab to keep Wifi on when unattended for the HTC Touch pro2 Sprint?
Thx in advance!
Funky B said:
Keep Wifi (Bluetooth, GPRS and ActiveSync) connected while phone is in standby.
I've had problems with my wizard finding my wifi network when I come out of standby and I use programs like RemoteAmp and would like to have a constant connection to my network so that when I come out of standby I dont have to wait to reconnect.
Warning!!!
This will also keep Bluetooth, GPRS and ActiveSync connected! You can always manually disconnect.
This will probably work on any WM5 device, but was tested on a WIZ100 running my edited 2.25.11.1 rom.
Using your favorite registry editor (Resco Registry) navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Resuming\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Unattended\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}
-change (Default) DWORD Dec to 1
If you need to search for networks you won't be able to do so by putting the device in standby (quick press of the power button off and back on), instead turn the wifi on and off.
Power state 1 is a low power state, if you find it's not working that well try changing the value to 0. Power state 0 is a full power state.
Yes, your battery will drain faster. I'll report back on how much faster later.
Special thanks to Summiter and Faria for all their hard work, and to buzz_lightyear (buzzdev.net) for pointing me in the right direction!
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HI i see many thing can work with reg edit , is it posible make .reg file and lunch it like the .reg file in windows ? thank for replying
Reg file provided
phamtuanchip said:
HI i see many thing can work with reg edit , is it posible make .reg file and lunch it like the .reg file in windows ? thank for replying
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I just added the HTC Keep Wifi Awake .reg file to my post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5962350
I call them Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 Stock 6.1 Tweaks because I can guarantee they work for that phone. Odds are they work for most new HTC phones. The WiFi Keep Awake reg entry I went with was the one mentioned above by zoom4zam / Jzhyok.
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Hi everyone,
I just switched from the Touch to the Kaiser and have a problem with the device not going into powersave mode. I am NOT talking about the backlight settings but the power settings that turns off the device after x min of inactivity. The device never turns off for some reason.
This was working fine on the Touch. Is this a common problem on the Kaiser ?
Thanks
pchronos said:
Hi everyone,
I just switched from the Touch to the Kaiser and have a problem with the device not going into powersave mode. I am NOT talking about the backlight settings but the power settings that turns off the device after x min of inactivity. The device never turns off for some reason.
This was working fine on the Touch. Is this a common problem on the Kaiser ?
Thanks
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You don't mention what settings you have it set to. When you tap the battery icon (top bar) and then "advanced", are there time limits set?
If there are - untick the boxes and exit the screen "OK"
Then return to the screen and tick the boxes again and enter time limits exit with "OK"
Personally I always turn to standby manually. WM5/6 often seems to prefer this. WM5 in particular has a habit of not coming out of standby if it goes to standby by itself. The Kaiser seems MUCH more tolerant of this but I just got the habit of doing it manually.
Mike
My backlight settings are not set and my Power settings are as follows:
Turn off device if not used for "1 min" is SET for batt power and NOT SET for external power.
I will try unchecking everything and rechecking to see if that helps.
Thanks,
BTW, TouchFlo scrolling is horrible on the Kaiser compared to the Touch especially in the Internet browser. Surprising for a device with so much more memory and horsepower over the Touch...
i had a same problem with my kaiser... Try to hard reset u phone after hard reset you wont see any problem...
Thanks for the suggestions..
I did a hard reset and the problem remains. It is very strange because if I manually power of the phone it does wake up when I call comes in bit stays on after that.
During a call however the screen goes off !!!
I did the recommended reg hack to stop the screen from blacking out during a call but it still does it.
Has there been any updates to the original (HTC) firmware since release ?
Thanks again.
check this:
\HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableFastDormantDisplayDuringCall
from "1" to "0" will leave the screen on long enough for voicemail use (probably falling back to the backlight/power settings)...
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From this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330583&highlight=screen+off
Moving from the Touch to the Kaiser I love the 3G performance and the built-in GPS however there are two MAJOR issues I have that did not exist on the Touch and I cannot understand why the Kaiser with double the memory suffers from this.
1- Erratic scrolling in IE even after the page has loaded ?
2- My other problem (and this is more serios) is that the device does not turn off after the 1 min settings I set in the Power settings. I do not set the backlight dimming settings. I just want to phone to off itself after 1 min. It does not and if I forget to turn it of it just drains the Batt.
Again, the Touch did not have either of these flaws.
Any help with the power issue would be great.
Thanks in advance
pchronos said:
Moving from the Touch to the Kaiser I love the 3G performance and the built-in GPS however there are two MAJOR issues I have that did not exist on the Touch and I cannot understand why the Kaiser with double the memory suffers from this.
1- Erratic scrolling in IE even after the page has loaded ?
2- My other problem (and this is more serios) is that the device does not turn off after the 1 min settings I set in the Power settings. I do not set the backlight dimming settings. I just want to phone to off itself after 1 min. It does not and if I forget to turn it of it just drains the Batt.
Again, the Touch did not have either of these flaws.
Any help with the power issue would be great.
Thanks in advance
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There is a known issue that I and others have been reporting regarding scrolling in PIE. We have not yet identified a way to resolve this. However we have discovered that :
Opera Mini a java midlet based application works well and super fast. A great application for straightforward browsing. No frills but good viewing options and due to the way it works may reduce data charges for some and will certainly impress with its speed. (Freeware)
http://www.operamini.com/beta/
OR
Opera Mobile. Works well and fast, no scrolling issues and actually a pretty good full spec.browser. Not free but has a trial period to test it out. Iuse this and am very pleased with it.
http://www.opera.com/download/mobile/?man=Windows+Mobile+5.0+Pocket+PC&ver=8.65&heading=Windows%20Mobile%205/6%20PPC,%20Professional,%20Classic&img=/img/products/mobile/platform/865.gif&extra=
As for your switch off problem, that I think is just a settings issue, but I'd need to check.
Mike
Regarding turning off after 1 minute.
I suggest you go back into:
Start?Settings>system>Power icon>advanced tab
Uncheck turn off device after 1 minute, click OK.
May be best to perform a soft reset.
Now go back and recheck "turn off device" after 1 minute
Perform a test to see if the one minute turn off is now working, and report back here on success or otherwise.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Regarding turning off after 1 minute.
I suggest you go back into:
Start?Settings>system>Power icon>advanced tab
Uncheck turn off device after 1 minute, click OK.
May be best to perform a soft reset.
Now go back and recheck "turn off device" after 1 minute
Perform a test to see if the one minute turn off is now working, and report back here on success or otherwise.
Mike
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the feedback. I unchecked the power setting to turn off after 1 min, power cycled the phone and set it again. The phone does NOT power off.
I power cycled one more time and still i does not turn off.
Can you please verify this behavior ?
Nothing is checked in the backlight options and ONLY "Turn off device if not used for" 1 min is checked under "On battery power".
The phone never turns off on its own.
Thanks again,
pchronos said:
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the feedback. I unchecked the power setting to turn off after 1 min, power cycled the phone and set it again. The phone does NOT power off.
I power cycled one more time and still i does not turn off.
Can you please verify this behavior ?
Nothing is checked in the backlight options and ONLY "Turn off device if not used for" 1 min is checked under "On battery power".
The phone never turns off on its own.
Thanks again,
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I tested this before making the above post. I tried different time settings and it powered off at the set time. So I can only think that either some application is keeping it "alive" ie. not "idle" so the time trigger never starts or this is something that will only be cured with a hard reset.
If you have killed all running applications and it still will not auto sleep then hard reset may be the only option. If you have full backup facilities this should be a painless operation, though if you reinstall the backup and the problem is caused by an installed application then the problem will return on backup installation.
Mike
The only app that is running ( that I can see ) is Activesync due to push email. This was the case with the Touch so I do not think it is Activesync that is keeping the phone from turning off.
Thanks anyway for your efforts...
Found the problem!
Well it looks like Activesync (DirectPush) is the problem.
If I kill ActiveSync the phone turns itself off at the established timeout. If ActiveSync is running (with DirectPush active) it does not turn off. Again, on the Touch this was not the case so it is not proper behavior.
Any ideas or reg settings to correct this?
Thanks.
pchronos said:
Well it looks like Activesync (DirectPush) is the problem.
If I kill ActiveSync the phone turns itself off at the established timeout. If ActiveSync is running (with DirectPush active) it does not turn off. Again, on the Touch this was not the case so it is not proper behavior.
Any ideas or reg settings to correct this?
Thanks.
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There may be, but I at least don't know them. There are reg keys that tell the device to suspend but keep an application running (sometimes known as "unattended mode". However we know yours does suspend when AS is not running. I just wonder whether there are any "sync" settings within your push mail client that may be running a sync too frequently.
Another, but more remote possibility is that when AS is active it may also be servicing other apps, like weather apps, time sync etc - so perhaps just worth checking there are no other less obvious apps running. AS can also rather stupidly attempt to sync with the PC even if you are not connected to it. So perhaps double check any AS settings.
Mike
I played with the ActiveSync settings and the only way the phone turns off while AS is running is if I disable DirectPush. On manual sync or periodic sync the phone turns off at the proper timeout.
Any idea where DirectPush settings are ?
Thanks
I've this same problem NOW, but I've working over a month with activesync and pushemail active without this issue!!!!! (My configuration was also "as items arrive")
The only thing I can say is that today i suddently saw my exchange settings had been dissapeared without doing anything, then I reconfigured the exchange setting again, and from that moment my kaiser does not suspend if "as items arrive" is selected!
I have the same problem with the phone not switching off, though on mine it doesn't matter whether direct push is on or off, it still won't power down.
Edit: Now that's typical. As soon as I submitted the above and started playing with it, it started working...
Hi im having a problem can someone tell me if this is right or not.
When i have wifi turned on conencted to some point and using msn, after a while of not touching the phone the phone goes to sleep mode automatically when i press the side button to get back to the screen menu wifi shows its turned off and msn was already dissconnected the moment my phone went to sleep mode.Is this nromal?If so is there a way of fixing it.Thanks
As my first time using windows mobile not sure if its right or not.
Wifi will not remain active once the phone enters standby mode. If you switch the phone on again, wifi should also automatically wake up, but needs to restore the connection to the wireless network from scratch.
I see thanks.
Is this different for bluetooth even when its in stayby mode it seem to work.
Thanks
That's correct. Bluetooth remains active in standby and therefore a major battery sucker.
I see thanks everyone. So pretty much impossible to have MSN on the whole time unless i set my phone so that it will not go to sleep mode. Hence msn beceoms a big battery sucker as wifi will be on for a long time?
Thanks
Is it really impossible to tell WM to leave Wifi switched on when my Diamond goes to sleep mode?
Has somebody a solution for this?
Yeah I have a similar problem with emails... I'm trying to get emails over wifi/wireless lan, auto send and rec every 15 minutes but the device enters standby before this time... Done a ping to the device and as soon as it enters sleep mode it kill the connection... I would think that if there is an active app (like MSN or EMail) that wants to download data it would reconnect to any setup wlans or stay connected when using a service like msn... Is there any reg hack for this..?
My next question is when the back light dimms (not enter stand by) is it possible to set up keylock? i.e. disable the touch screen/HW keys, then I could standby the device after 30-45 mins (see how the battery goes on that one..!)...
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Edit: I did a bit of digging around the web found this tool called PocketToolman - http://freewareppc.com/utilities/pockettoolman.shtml - Looks like it has an option to enable wifi in standby mode Seems to work anyone else want to give it a test to see if it works... I'll see if I can find a reg key for this tomorrow, unless anyone knows of one already? Looks like the standby kills the CPU so WiFi packets can be processed etc..? But Win Mobile 6 Pro has an "unattended mode", that should allow wifi to work and emails to s&r and MSN to stay connected... For eg this app calls unattended mode to keep wifi active... http://www.pda-ppc.com/download/communication/content/WMWifiRouter.html
EDIT 2:
I've been able to find the following keys that should work with the wifi...
make sure the 98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006 class mataches wifi adapter
Disabled Enabled
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Resuming\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Unattended\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
Now I'm assuming that HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default will keep the wifi connected in standby mode... I'm going to test, can others also test to confirm?
DWORD Dec values have states 0-4, 0 being full power 4 being off... Just to test it, use vaulue of 1... Need a soft reset... It may be worth changing the vaules to 2 or 3 to see if WiFi still remains connected but what the battery drain is like...
Found another app that may also work - http://freewareppc.com/communication/wifiprofiles.shtml
Creds to http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cach...wifi+unattended+mode&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=au for key locations
Someone else test these and let me know what results you get/what power settings you use...
Given how quickly my phone battery drops with WiFi enabled I doubt you'd get more than 3-4 hours out of it if WiFi was enabled in standby mode.
When you want to use MSN over wifi set the following reg keys to dec value of 2:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\ Suspend\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\ Resuming\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\ Unattended\{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\Default
Power state of 3 doesnt seem to work..? Ideas?
Did some testing using each value as 2 (low power)... For me it drained about 35% of the battery in 4 hours... So you should get a full day (10hrs) out of it before you get to 10% or so...
Be worth making an app that allows you to toggle this...
I know this doesn't really apply to MSN (which needs always-on wifi), but for emails at least maybe there could be a way for the phone to activate wifi instead of the data connection when it wakes up every N minutes to check for new email. And then maybe after a timeout period it could activate the data connection (i.e. if there is no trusted wireless network available) to get the emails. Anyone heard of such a thing?
Also, why does wifi drain the battery so quickly in standby mode but the data connection does not?
Bumping this. Does anyone have any ideas? I might cross-post this in the Touch Pro forum if no one has any thoughts here.
This may help:
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/tag/dontsleep-wifi
Honestly no expert on this, however if you install Advanced Config, under Menu/More Settings/Connections there's an option "Enable Wi-Fi on standby mode" I guess if you tick that you mught have your solution...
I personally haven't tried it.
Yep, just checked it myself and it seems to be do the trick...!
Obviously what sucks there is that you'll need to manually turn your WiFi on and off or otherwise you miht get some serious battery drain...
I spent half of last night and the last 3-hours searching on here and via Google but am stumped if I can solve this issue.
I have a ROM based on the HTC Official 5.2.19212. Included in this I have Battery Status (now HomeScreen PlusPlus) and the Tools page is set to enable 'DeviceLock on WakeUp', 'Lock if Device is Off or vice versa' & 'BackLight Fix for 10s-Bug & 30 sec.' (these settings are included by default in the ROM). I also have the BackLight settings for Battery Power set to 'Turn off the backlight if device is not used for 30 sec'.
No matter what I try the Battery Power BackLight settings ALWAYS revert back to 10-seconds in the GUI, however in the registry it is 7-seconds (HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\BatteryTimeout:00000007).
It looks like if the Device Lock kicks in (either manually from the Today Screen or as a result of Battery Status) the registry entry changes to 7 and there is nothing you can do about it. This is by far the most annoying thing with the Kaiser (and it seems most other WM6 devices based on my searching). I have tried some of the StartUp utilities that are supposed to fix this as well as all the registry tweaks I have found and the the behaviour is always the same.
Believe me I have searched and searched and there seems to be no solution that I can find for this. Is there one that I have missed?
Andy
(There is another issue where if you go to the Battery Status settings the registry entry [HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel] always gets reset to 0, however as I don't open the settings to Battery Status very often this isn't a big deal).
you might try reviewing this thread over at Cingular (oops - The New AT&T) Forums:
http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=cingular&thread.id=101227
prubin said:
you might try reviewing this thread over at Cingular (oops - The New AT&T) Forums:
http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=cingular&thread.id=101227
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Already found that and it doesn't have any solutions...
Andy
Latest post from Cingular Forum:
The backlight has not dimmed in nearly four hours after I set HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel\ACTimeout to 0.
I did a soft reset and the setting remained 0.
I put the phone into stand-by (quick press of the power button) and when brought out of stand-by, the value of ACTimeout was reset to 8.
I have been getting so pi$$ed off with this I just disabled the Battery power backlight settings and deleted the registry entry that keeps getting reverted:
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\BatteryTimeout]
This was just to stop it dimming after 10-seconds - i.e. just leave the backlight on regardless. Anyway its now behaving exactly like I want it to - The screen will dim after 30-seconds whether its locked or unlocked. If I hit the power button or the Device Lock on the Today screen the registry entry does not return (so far anyway) and its still waiting 30-seconds before the backlight dims. I need to do some soft resets etc, but it's looking good....
Andy
My backlight stays on when ever i get a text or a call. Even if i hangup, it still stays on and then i have to manually dim it. Its damn annoying, as my fone is not always with me. Ill come home and the thing would be flat due to a text early the morning and the backlight staying on the whole day.
I did a hard reset a while ago and that seems to cure it, but when i backup my data, the backlight issue is back.
I almost want to think that active sync is the culprit. dont know how or why, but it has some influence on the phone. Any Ideas?
thanx
Check your backlight (dim after X minutes) and power (turn off after Y minutes) settings?
Turn off backlight if device is not used for - 10seconds (battery power)
Turn off backlight if device is not used for - 1 minute (External power)
thats the current setttings?
Do you have your phone connected to the PC via activesync (usb or bluetooth) all day?
No, not at all. Bluetooth is off, wifi is off, its just idling. If i get a text or a call it stays on.
when i do connect to the pc its via usb
Have you installed any non standard applications that adjust the backlight???? I had the same problem when I used wm5 Ipaq programs on my TyTN.
not at all. I recently did a hard reset.
then plugged it into the pc a couple of times. So i gathered activesync connected a few times and now its giving me the same old crap
Did you install Manilla TouchFlo?
nope. there is only oem software on the fone
http://www.jongma.org/KaiserTweak/
KaiserTweak is just what you need! You can change all the 'sleep' options around, without having to dive into the registry.
tanked said:
http://www.jongma.org/KaiserTweak/
KaiserTweak is just what you need! You can change all the 'sleep' options around, without having to dive into the registry.
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Installed it prior to asking for help.. does not do jack