I was driving with Tomtom on my diamond 2 when suddenly the screen blanked out. Exactly after 30 minutes the screen went black. I pressed the power on button again, and tomtom was in the taskmanager list, so I could enable it rather quickly again.
I checked in Settings - system - energy - advanced and the settings were default. I did some testing, and without external power after 30 seconds the screen blanked out again. So, on external power after 30 minutes, and after 30 seconds without power the topaz shuts down the backlight.
This wasn't the case; I use tomtom a lot. Did a hard-reset after all, but no succes. The backlight/screen goes off on the same time, regardless of the settings. regardless of the used program. (my diamond 1 first dimmed the backlight, and after a short period the screen went completely black. The 2 doesn't do this..)
Anyone some ideas??
What ROM are you using?
If you have used a cooked rom, it might be something in there causing it...the 6.5 rom I have from Tom seems to do a similar thing but within 10 seconds the dim kicks in even though the power settings say otherwise
Do let us know!
I have the original HTC (Dutch) Rom.
After some testing, it seems that only Tomtom gives this problem, although no matter what settings I use, the backlight dims at 30 secs/ 30 minutes (without/with external power).
When I use Coreplayer, the screen stays on.
I just upgraded to the new htc rom (21-07-2009) but the problem persists. I just asked HTC; will post their response.
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Hi,
When I don't use my diamond, after some seconds the screen just gets a bit darker but never disappears. the buttons don't seem to block ether...
In settings/system/advanced I changed first and second item to 30 en 40 seconds...
When I push the on/off button everything seems to be turned off...
What to do?
Thanks
JEPEDEWE said:
Hi,
When I don't use my diamond, after some seconds the screen just gets a bit darker but never disappears. the buttons don't seem to block ether...
In settings/system/advanced I changed first and second item to 30 en 40 seconds...
When I push the on/off button everything seems to be turned off...
What to do?
Thanks
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So "Turn off device" doesn't work? What ROM are you using?
When I push the on/off button on the upper left edge of the diamond, the screen turns black and all buttons are turned off... just like it should..
I want the same thing to happen after (let's say) 30 seconds..
Now the screen gets a bit more "unclear" but never really trurns off.... (completely black...)
Hop you understand it better now.
Thanks
I think I understand. I'm trying to localize the problem. If, in the Power settings you set Turn off Device to 40s, it should do just that.
If it doesn't, there are two possiblities:
A program you installed won't let the device to turn off.
A bug in the ROM you are using.
Please note that the official ROMs don't have this problem, so if that's your case, perhaps you can give a list of the software you installed to see if we can identify the culprit.
I don't consider a hardware failure, as the hard button seems to be working.
I downloaded the HTC new rom version 1.93.404.1 NLD and installed it (Diamond works much better now)
Installed programms:
Tomtom
Data on the run
Nodata
TF3D config
Total commander
Spb Time
Advanced config
S2P
Sprite backup
That must be all I think
Thanks you for your kind help
Your reply rang a bell!!!
In Spd Timer there is a setting: "No sleep on timers"
It was checked.
I unchecked it and now everything seems to be OK...
I still need to study what the setting itself does
Thanks (helping without knowing it... must be great)
JP
Glad I could point you in the right direction
when htc turn off automaticly for 30s or so does he woke up when i get messege, and does he turns off when i am on browser and if i went somwhere for a 2mins will it turns of although i am in browser?
Hi Guys,
Although I set my backlight to stay on for 2 minutes, it randomly defaults back to the 10 second timeframe.
Why does it do this and can it be prevented?
I have the same problem. I did a hard reset, and it was fine, until I hit lock, now it's happening all over again. I adjusted it in kaisertweaks, but it just ignores it. Screen always dims after 10 seconds.
Check backlight and power setting for both battery and mains.
If you are also using S2U2, check the backlight settings there also. Whatever it says on S2U2, it will override the other settings.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
MAC
I have a tytn 2.
I set the backlight to go off after 30 secs but it ALWAYS seems to default back to 5 mins.
I have SBP mobile shell & S2U2 installed.
Any ideas please ?
oppostie problem on tilt
I have the opposite problem on my WM6.0 Tilt with stock ROM.
After every soft reset (daily, because I have a daily scheduled backup) it always reverts to the minimum setting of 10 seconds. I'd love to get it to stick at the maximum of 5 minutes.
Yep, mine keeps going back to 10 sec. but mine does it everytime I push the power button to wake it up. quite annoying when you are trying to read websites and the backlight goes dim instantly.
got a strange problem with my Touch Diamond since last weekend. The battery was drained so i recharged it as usual. But when i try to switch it on only the backlight lights up, but nothing is visible in the screen. No "Touch Diamond", no ROM info etc even when i try to get in the bootloader (SPL, by pressing down the volume button) it won't show any messages on the screen.
On the outside it doesn't have any notacable damages. The strange thing is that when switched off the 'enter' key pulsates in an upward motion. When powered up, all keys pulsate and dim over a certain period of time (approx 1 minute)
can't find anything on the net what could explain this problem and how to solve it.
anyone got a clue what's going on here ?
Regards,
W.
Hi all,
I frequently charge my X1i through USB. There are 2 problems with this method, however.
1) The device goes into USB drive mode, disabling my SD card apps (I keep them on SD card AT ALL TIMES due to frequent backups/restores)
2) Screen does not turn off! while connected to computer! The screen only dims, but does not turn off.
WITHOUT resorting to a) plugging into wall outlet b) connecting to Activesync, is there any to fix these behaviors?
Thanks!
just let it go into activesync mode, that way you can still access your files on your phone and micro sd card from both your pc and phone. And if you dont like the screen not turning off, they just change the settings or just press the power button, to shut off the display.
I know about the power setting, but when your computer is connected to the computer via USB, it refuses to turn off the screen (only dims it)
what? one simple button press and the screen is off. the device is still visible to the pc. I do it all the time - r3a generic uk rom.
in power options u can set after what time it disables screen... default is never
what? one simple button press and the screen is off. the device is still visible to the pc. I do it all the time - r3a generic uk rom.
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Weird. When I'm connected to Pc, it dims the screen, it does not shut it off. Also, it does NOT auto-shut of screen after the 2 minutes specific in the Power options
You can also use "safely remove devices" to disconnect the data connection from the phone, it'll still charge.
There's nothing we can do AUTO. But like said before, a simple pression on the power button will do it, or you can use My Mobiler and press F11 on your PC.
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Weird. When I'm connected to Pc, it dims the screen, it does not shut it off. Also, it does NOT auto-shut of screen after the 2 minutes specific in the Power options
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Yep, I've had 5 different WinMo devices since '05 and they all worked as expected except the X1. I like to use it as an MP3 player at night, Pocket Player has a sleep timer built in so I just like to leave it running as I drift off most nights. But if I do anything, change the volume, rewind, anything at all the screen comes back on and stays on until I hit some other button to turn it back off. All my other devices obeyed the settings you set in the Power tab, but not the X1...
I'd very much like the screen to auto-off if I tell it to while on USB power. It's not only wasting power, but it wakes me up and gets me fumbling for the tiny power button at 2 in the morning. Any fix would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
I bumped up thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561832 Since it has a better title and shows the exact same unresolved issue...
Reg Fix
Adding this potential fix here as well so anyone subscribed to this thread sees it.
Ok, I think I have a fix for this. I googled around some more and found that this might be an HTC problem more than an SE one. There were various registry keys people suggested to try to fix the 'backlight problem' - which may or may not be related. None of those suggestions seemed to work, but I kept changing keys myself and eventually found this seemed to do the trick.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts\ACUserIdle: 120
I confirmed that changing this value affects the amount of time before my X1's screen turns off - but my MP3s still play with the screen off and my phone wakes on receipt of a new call. This value is the # of seconds before the screen turns itself off (in this case 2 minutes). You do need to soft reset for the change to take effect.
This doesn't seem to be posted anywhere else that I've found doing this to fix this issue issue - I changed a few other registry keys as well that might be enabling this fix. So anyone with this problem, please do give this a try and if it doesn't work I'll post the other keys I changed as well - and if it does then post to say so and we're good
Peter
Update: I tested it also while hooked up to the computer and it does work with the phone accessible through active sync with the screen off and the battery charging (faster now that it isn't competing with the screen for power, except for the 2 minutes before it times out). If I want to use it I just click a button and the screen stays on till I leave it alone for 2 mins and it remains off. Get a call or a message and the screen goes on for 2 minutes and then off - Exact same behaviour on AC and USB - exactly the behaviour I wanted .