Perhaps is supposed to be this way, but I have noticed that my backlight won't turn off when plugged in - even though set to turn off after 2 minutes when plugged in. Instead of turning off, it seems to revert to a dim mode - but the light still remains on. I have to manually turn it off. Any thoughts?
That's what it does. Unless the phone is off, the display can't be turned completely off. This is because the screen is not transreflective.
I understand that, but the trouble is that the backlight remains on. Surely that's not supposed to happen, right?
no, thats not normal behaviour.
do you have anything running in the background? its sometimes a good idea to go into the settings and untick the boxes, soft reset the device, then put the settings back the way you want them. This has worked for me in the past.
Are you talking when the device is plugged into the USB port w/ ActiveSync running? If so that is how it works - device will stay on.
If you are talking about plugged into AC then it should power off after x amount of minutes.
To be clear, if the phone is ON, the backlight will always be ON. This is different from the previous Hermes/8525 that had a transreflective screen which could be seen in bright light with the backlight off.
The Kaiser/Tilt's don't have transreflective displays so they changed the backlight control to dim instead of OFF. When the display brightness slider is put to minimum or the display timer expires the display just dims.
Pressing the power button and going to standby is the only way to turn off the display that I'm aware of.
Now, Auto Power off after a timer expire is different. If you set the power settings to turn off after 2 minutes while on A/C, the Kaiser will turn off, IF it's not connected to Active Sync, and IF there isn't some other application keeping the phone alive (Apps like iNav keep the phone alive).
Im running Froyo, rooted Amon-RA 1.7. I use the Power Manager app set with profiles. USB and AC adapters brightness is set high when plugged in and battery is set low for obvious reasons. Now when I plug in the brightness goes up and it displays i.e. AC adapter profile or whatever... when I unplug, it displays "battery profile set" but the brightness is all the way up still. I have to manually press the power strip brightness button until it is off, then open power manager app and select battery mode and then it works fine. From my knowledge the app has not been updated but it is working in every other department.
This is the only bug I have noticed for me. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this.
I know that this question has been asked before, but I cannot find a simple solution. Is there not a power manager that enables us to set the phone to stay awake whilst its connected via USB. I currently use green power premium, which is an excellent power manager but again has no such feature, as far as I can see.
To me the problem is that I use my phone Explorer all day long and every time I go to sync the phone is turned off and as such my phone Explorer can't find it.
This is the first phone that I have had that does not appear to have the ability to stay awake whilst connected to a power supply.
Wondering if there's a way to have the Power Saver turn on when the charger is unplugged.
That might be something "Tasker" or a related app can do.
Pretty new to tasker and struggling to create the above
going to fix an old phone into car dash to use as infotainment.
Wanting to save as much battery when car ignition/usb power is off so though airplane more and enabling a battery saver might be the way to go
any thoughts?
To trigger a task when there is no power applied, just create a profile state -> power -> power then select "any" and check the "invert" box. Then add your actions to turn on airplane mode or whatever.
That context will be active when the power to the device is removed. The invert tells it to recognize the opposite condition. So instead of triggering when power is connected, it triggers on disconnect.
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