SDA, Adjust Screen Brightness?

[Guest hyedipin]

The screen on my SDA is very bright, during normal days and conditions it is very good, but when it is dark, or if you are in low light conditions, the screens feels too bright, and I could not find a way to adjust it.

Thanks.

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Welcome to the site ;)

Unfortunately a Smartphone does not have a screen brightness adjustment feature that Pocket PC devices have.

[Guest flywest]

The screen on my SDA is very bright, during normal days and conditions it is very good, but when it is dark, or if you are in low light conditions, the screens feels too bright, and I could not find a way to adjust it.

Thanks.

Actually with WM2005 the smartphone display brightness is now adjustable but only thru 3rd party software. Give this software a try. Works great for me on my Qtek 8300. Same hardware as SDA.

Low light App. It is a .cab file.

http://www.spv-developers.com/forum/attach...44&d=1136132598

More helpful software here;

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=858861

[Guest hyedipin]

Thank you very much for both of your replies.

Another thing came up, which is a much bigger problem.

When I put it on keylock and put the phone in its case, something presses a key and keeps lighting up the screen, which drains the battery. I think there should be a way to disable light up.

Thanks again. ;)

Edited April 23, 2006 by hyedipin

[Guest swivel]

Thank you very much for both of your replies.

Another thing came up, which is a much bigger problem.

When I put it on keylock and put the phone in its case, something presses a key and keeps lighting up the screen, which drains the battery. I think there should be a way to disable light up.

Thanks again. ;)

There's no solution for this. It's a widely agreed-upon fault.

[Guest hyedipin]

I guess we'll have to live with it.

Thanks again.

[Guest Islanti]

There are a couple of free programs that address these issues. It's disappointing that no one else mentioned these great utilities! And did I mention they're free?

Maniac's Automatic Keylock does just that, with a number of handy options (including disabling keylock for certain applications or profiles). He also has a Cell Profile Switcher which allows you to change your profile based on the cell sites your phone sees on his page.

TornadoPowerControl allows you to control the brightness of your phone (toggle dim/bright settings). It has the added benefit of being able to run programs automatically when the phone goes idle or active. The main use of this is to under/overclock the phone with OmapClock during these transitions. Underclocking saves battery life and overclocking gives better performance, in case you're not familiar with the terms.

Enjoy!

Edited April 24, 2006 by Islanti

[Guest hyedipin]

Hi Islanti,

Thank you for the suggestions, I will try Automatic Keylock, it was just recently released but I can see there are already 6000+ downloads.

Let's see how it performs.