Keyboard Backlight

[Guest pdtp]

So last night i was doing some Excel work in bed it was dark and the damn keyboard light will go off after somthing like 3 sec of no use, this anoys me to no end ;) !

is there a way to keep the back light on longer?

i did some research on the net and i get conflicting stories i even found a reghack that i tried to no avail. any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Edited May 17, 2006 by pdtp

[Guest chucky.egg]

I had heard of a registry change (that might be what you tried), but haven't tried it

Haven't heard of any other ways to do it

[Guest pdtp]

This was the reg hack i tried

; Set keyboard backlight timeout to 30 seconds

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight]

"QKeyLedTimeout"=dword:0000001e

got it from the mobility today forums.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Hmm

Looks odd, but what do I know?

DWORD values are normally 0,1,2 etc

So you went to HKCU \ ControlPanel \ Backlight and created a DWORD key with a value of 0000001e ???

I found link that says this:

HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedtimeout

I use 60 and this work great for me. Not sure why Microsoft didn't allow up to 1 minute to begin with.

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthre...t=111537&page=2

But I dont know if the Treo is different in that respect. Theres a reference on XDA Developers to the same key for the Universal

I also found another reference from Modaco that refers to HK Local Machine:

HKLM,"ControlPanel\Backlight","QKeyLedTimeout",0x00010001,15

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?s=&showtop...ndpost&p=727824

But again there may be differences between devices

[Guest chucky.egg]

Ah, just found this:

Actually that regedit does not work on the Wizard series, only the Apache (6700). The ledtimeout has not been able to be hacked for the 8125, K-Jam, QTek 9100, etc.

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthre...t=111537&page=2

[Guest pdtp]

Man that sucks there has to be a way to get this damn light to stay on longer i wonder if i call HTC tech support if i would get anywhere?

and the 1e is 30 in hex.

Edited May 17, 2006 by pdtp