I used to do things when the display is off with my old PDA phone but I found that my new Diamond tried to change my way of life, it will disable all key function when the screen is off except the keys of vol and up and down key. Does anyone know how to enable all key press when the screen is off? Many thanks
So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
Start/Settings/System tab/Key lock (or something like that).
There you can enable keys.
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So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
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I used to use my ASUS PDA phone as a book reader in the way that I read a book with my ears using text-to-speech software while I am walking or riding. surely when I don't need to read the screen, the screen can be turned off to save power. In addition, I used the hardware keys to go backward or forward one sentence to control the reading speed. The point is this diamond seems to be unable to response key function with the screen staying off. Letting user to customize the device is the reason I choose WM over other devices like iphone, but HTC seems to break this way.
So I have spent the last 3 hours scouring the site and web looking for a theme that works like the Blackmod Enhanced theme for fascinate. Have not found a single thing to mod the backlight timer so maybe can't be done yet. Anyone tried that theme on the captivate?
I am rooted and tried cog 2.bv6 but it killed my wi-fi at home which was a deal breaker for me. This time trying to just tweak the stock eclair and really would love to have the 15 second extended backlight for the soft keys, the enhanced power button with reboot, recovery etc options, a battery percentage indicator (and full flash support, I realize that is more than just theme based and gets into full blown ROM's but doesn't hurt to throw it in, getting by with Skyfire browser for now)
Anyone know of a theme or very very very stable ROM that will give me these features? Backlight is the biggie as it's the only thing I can't stand on the phone.
Rob
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I flashed Assonance 4.3, disbled the lagfix, flashed SetiroN's 1200MHz 1.4.5 Kernal, followed by the gingerbread theme (I only got the theme to flash by renaming it to update.zip and flashing in recovery manually) and it is running very stable and has backlight notifications.
AFAIK there is nothing that currently extends the backlight to stay lit longer. I'm hoping someone figures this out soon because I'd like the keys to stay lit for as long as the screen is on. The only thing available is backlight notifications which are lit up when you have a new text, email, or missed call.
I would love to have them on while the screen is visible (Except for video watching) as well. I wonder why manufacturers don't use a technology similar to the screen like the nook for the buttons? It would just be backwards... have it be all dark with a bit of the lighter color showing through. It would be easy enough to see and not take hardly any battery power right?
So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
Was talking to someone about this in another thread and there was a misunderstanding. The point to extending the backlight for the soft keys, for me anyway, would be to keep them active thus eliminating the need to touch the screen to enable the back or home button (or pressing the button several times to get it to wake up). Just in case someone had the wrong impression of the goal here.
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So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
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I think just giving the option of the length of time someone wants them to stay on kind of solves this. I would love them to stay on for 15 seconds or so instead of the 3 seconds it is at now.
Ya I seriously would like this implemented. DEVS someone please try to do this. I would gladly be willing to donate for it.
So I wasn't clear before. I'll try again.
There are technical issues with detecting when the user has stopped touching the screen. It isn't as simple as raising a timeout value, you'd have to create an application that was constantly monitoring all gestures, using a good bit of processing power and battery.
This appears to be controlled by hardware for the most part.
How about as a start the application can at least extend the time to 15 sec after any one of the bottom 4 buttons are pressed.
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I would be happy just having the lights lit. The key activity for the 2-3 seconds is fine.
I am getting old i guess and need to see where the keys are
On Di11igafs 2.5 they stay on at least 10 seconds so there must be a way..
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Hi there, I'm using CyanogenMod nightly 181, and I was wondering if there was an app, or another way of changing the back light timeout for the 4 touch keys on the the front of the phone? Ideally I would like the keys to remain lit when the screen is illuminated. They keep going off whilst I'm using the phone and they are very hard to see when not illuminated.
I already use the great touch key notification feature of CyanogenMod. Thanks in advance. Anil
Hi there.
I`m seriously considering this phone. So far it has everything I need except one thing - button for waking up display is on the top left corner. I only have right hand so this is not good at all. So far, I`ve been using Galaxy Nexus, which is perfect. It has On button on the right side of phone, right on my thumb.
Is there any app for waking up screen with volume rocker? Or maybe even answering calls? Or do I have to wait, root and use some different rom?
Thank you!
I don't think it's possible without rooting. But it definitely works with a custom rom. I am using the trickdroid rom (see developer forum) and that gives you the option to use the volume rocker to wake the screen. I am using that option and it works well.
I normally don't have capacitive button phones (or disbale the backlights on Samsungs) and this is my first DROID phone.. but I do notice that the capactive buttons backlight will auto turn off outdoors or in areas with a lot of light.
Has anyone found a way to manually disable the capactive button backlight without root? Is it even possible without root? I'd like to turn them off, becomes a bit of a distraction when watching videos or reading in the dark. Hopefully Motorola will put in an option in the near future.
Also, is anyone else kind of disappointed that Motorola did not implement the new graphic button layout design that Android 5.0 Lollipop will use? I understand it might be confusing to some newcomers or people in general, but I wish it was done personally. They were plenty aware of 5.0's layout. Just a weird oversight.
The Lux app allows you to turn them off.
I accomplished it by using Screen Filter and auto-launching it on startup with AutoStart.
I'm coming from the same background, a Galaxy S3 with the capacitive backlights turned off (CM11) and an S5 right after that briefly (they have that feature built into the OS).
So far literally the only complaint I've had is the backlight on my recent app-switcher is super uneven, likely an air-bubble in the glue. It bothered me having it on because it was uneven and this was my solution (which I prefer to having the lights enabled, even if it was an even distribution).