Entry : Backlight Time Toggle

[Guest muff]

It's one of those programs you either love, or dont care about at all

I'm submitting this, as there is a lot of talk about backlight atm - and though I was going to extend it, I'm busy working on games at the moment, so thought I'd release as is

Name

Backlight Toggle

Author

muff

What is it?

It's a simple little program (and tiny) that just toggles the backlight timer between 5 secs and always on - this means that you can quickly change the setting, and is great when linked under something like XBar or even a speed dial

What are the requirements?

erm, a Smartphone?

Screenshot

N/A

Download

bltoggle.CAB

bltoggle_10.CAB

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Nice one muff! :)

Out of interest, what did you plan to add to it?

P

[Guest JoelRae]

Great idea muff :)

[Guest muff]

a suggested partner program was one that allowed you to set the lower time limit, rather than the default 5 seconds I have coded in

personally I'm quite happy with it as it is, but if there is sufficient demand for the partner program, then I'll take a look when I get some time

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Can you have it time out immediately?

Basically a fix for the annoying 'phone lights up at random in the night while on charge' bug? ;-)

P

[Guest muff]

it can be set to zero, but you get a really nasty flicker that looks like the phone is faulty :/

this is because it does fullbright, then halfbright, then off in 3 successive refreshes

and in general the shorter u set it, the less practical it becomes for actual usage

so it wouldn't solve the charging bug, it would make u think that the phone was generating lightning or suffering a short :/

I can pm u copy if you really want to see what I mean

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Hehe, no, you're OK ;-)

P

[Guest kjk]

you make it :lol:/

[Guest fozzie]

Muff,

Any chance of doing a version that switches between 'Never' & '10 secs' please? [-o<

Thanks.

[Guest FrankyG]

Muff,

Any chance of doing a version that switches between 'Never' & '10 secs' please?  [-o<  

Thanks.

I would second that....10 or even 15 secs makes it more useable.

[Guest FrankyG]

Does it have to be installed on the phone? I installed to Card and it doesn't work for me :cry: Just gonna try a re-boot to see if that helps..

[EDIT] err..after a re-boot; the backlight won't go off!! MUFF... :?:

After checking the settings in power management, the toggle is actually changing the setting but it's not being applied to the phone. More, it's actually changing between 5secs and Turn Off Backlight...muff any guidance here? Not doing what it says on the tin :wink:

[Guest muff]

at the moment the code toggles the registry value between 5,000 (5 seconds) and 99,999 (99.999 seconds - always on)

personally I install the program to the phone - it's tiny (7k), so we're not eating the phones precious resources too much :lol:

once you have toggled the value, sometimes you need to press a key on the phone for it to start using the new value (depends on wether you use my installation shortcut or create your own with something like XBar)

due to when it was coded + released it was only tested on SPV + E100 - so if you have a different phone and it's behaving strange let me know - I can't promise anything, but we can at least look at it

I'll see if I can get a 10 seconds version made for you guys today tho

[uPDATE] a CAB with a 10 second version is now also attached to the first post in the topic [/uPDATE]

muff

[Guest gpcarreon (MVP)]

tnx muff. ill give this a try. :lol:

[Guest fozzie]

I'll see if I can get a 10 seconds version made for you guys today tho

[uPDATE]a CAB with a 10 second version is now also attached to the first post in the topic [/uPDATE]

muff

Cheers Muff :lol:

[Guest natalien]

Great!

[Guest ronswens]

It doesn't work in my Mio 8380 :lol:

reboot didn't help

what exactly key does it change in registry? Just to check.

[Guest katan]

was just looking for anything that would make Media Player backlight always on while playing video cuz it p***es me off toggling the volume just to keep the backlight ON.

well, ill try this one. =)

[Guest lutzh]

thx buddy, nice tool. i always hated the fact that in messenger conversations the backlight goes off and doesnt come up again if the conversation partner answers. now i can simply switch on the backlight as long as i chat...

cheers, lutz

[Guest katan]

have installed backlight toggle but it just switches on 10sec/1min backlight ON status. still cant watch the whole movie without toggling the volume (Media Player).

am i doing anything wrong here? do i need to tweak some settings first?

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K T N

[Guest joolsca]

Any of you guys tried a program called Torch? It keeps the backlight on until you quit it.

torch.rar

[Guest beersoft]

Hh Ho

It doesn't work on the good old mpx,

for some random reason it sets the backlight timeout to 10 seconds or off. which is a bit of a pain

the samething happens with pocketmpv, that sets the backlight timeout to 10 seconds when it quits as well

it must be the other bug everyone was looking for in the phone

later

Owen

[Guest katan]

just downloaded torch, still my backlight turns off...

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K T N

[Guest thom]

Hi there...

so does this app support mpx200 ?

if not, can muff (the kind sir) please update it to support mpx200(?)..

i am really having trouble finding an app to do this very function :0(..

cheers,

Thom

[Guest robertperalta]

I have Audiovox SMT5600 but it switches from 5 secs to 10 secs (does not switch to "never"). Any advise? Thanks!

rperalta

[Guest Rui_Costa]

any ideas if this will switch the backlight OFF - i'm having problems with wma playback under WMP9 (i.e. backilight staying on continously)