keyboard backlight
 

has anyone had an issue with their mogul/titan/xv6800/ppc6800, in which the keyboard backlight wont work anymore? this started to go out before my ranch incident, and it makes me mad cause the whole point of having the keyboard is to see it in dark or dim light am i right? and the fact that im reduced to using a on screen keyboard is driving me crazy. any ideas???

~chevy

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Which ROM are you on currently? You may want to relock and flash a stock ROM and take her in.

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I dont have this issue nor have I read where anyone else has had this issue either. I am sure you have made sute the setting for the backlight is set right? And I assume you have turned it off and saved your settings and when back to turn it on to try to re-establish the settings, right? Other than that IDK anything else without telling you to try to use SPB Backup or Clone to create a backup image and do a hard reset to check and see if it is software related (solved by the hard reset) or a hardware issue (if its still there after the hard reset).

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I'm not sure if this will help.

Try going to settings/personal/buttons/backlight and un-checking the keyboard backlight auto sensor [strange place to put this setting]. This will cause the keyboard backlight to come on every time you open the keyboard regardless of the abmient light.

If the backlight auto sensor has gone bad this should eliminate the problem.

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You might wanna read the entire thread and not just the first post. Im not trying to be rude but I mentioned this in the 3rd post. Believe me when I say Chevy knows where the sensor setting is at.

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In the process of looking for the settings for the keyboard backlight the 2nd & 3rd posts were done before I posted mine. Since I did not refresh the IE page before I submitted my post [look at the time stamps, 10 min.] the 2nd & 3rd posts was made. So I did not see the 2nd & 3rd posts.

Chevy made no mention of trying/knowing the keyboard backlight setting.

Excuse me for trying to help. I won't make that mistake again.

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Youre cool bro and I know exactly what you mean by in the process of posting someone elses posts before you do. Ive been there and done that.

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I once saw this (either with a 6700 or a 6800) where the backlight settings somehow/mysteriously got set all the way down. Holding the phone up to a bright light allows you to see that there is an image on the screen. If this is the case, you might simply need to jack-up the backlight setting. However, based on weedahoe's posts, it sounds like you may have already seen to this.

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Youre close but he isnt talking about the backlight on the screen but instead the backlight on the keyboard. Nice try though. And yes you are right about both the 67 and 68 having adjustable brightness on the LCD backlights.

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yeh the sensor is shot. mr.obvious im using the new 6.1 from alltel and am prolly gunna get her relocked. wat relocker do I need to use? and with the whole fiasco that is the mogul backorder what phone am I likely to get? and I will not take a refurb I paied cash for my mogul and I won't settle for a refurb. anyone know what they are replacing the mogul with at alltel? and thanks for everyones help and concern. I think its just time to retire the old gal, her vibrate feature is getting weak and she creaks a lot lol.

~chevy

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so if im relocking my phone do i have to downgrade to a non gps rom before i relock it???

~chevy

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Brother do I have a deal for you!!

Go check you PMs.

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as much as i hate to say it i might be going to a black berry...

~chevy

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ok, lets just calm down. no need to anything rash.

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What exactly draws you to a BB? Did you check your PMS on the Alltel TP I sent to you?

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yes i saw that pm and thank you. the reason why is cause they are willing to work with me on getting a curve, really nice lady. but ive kinda gotten tired of touch screens. but i will still have my mogul to mess around with.

~chevy

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there not really that bad i was in the alltel store today and they are a solid piece of technology. not saying i dont like my mogul but im just moving on from the problems i have. and just trying a new taste in the smartphone's 37 flavors(just a random number)

~chevy

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im having the same prob...no custom ROM just the official 3.56 one...and has anyone keys started falling of?..has anyone seen a real solution to back light issue?

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its a sensor problem and you have to get a new phone...

~chevy

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ok so there has been a change in plans and im gunna stick with her until the third quarter. because thats when verizion takes over and i have the chance to get one of their cool phones like a touch pro if they have them yet...

~chevy

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That TP BNIB I sent you the PM on only sold for $153. By the time the 3rd Qrt gets here there will already be new phones out, LOL.

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like from htc?

~chevy

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I just picked up a used Mogul and this fixed my problem with the backlight not coming on. Thanks!

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Yeah, that BNIB HTC Touch Pro for Alltel that I sent you the link on

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since im not so nice to my mogul.... could something have come undone in the internals? does anyone have a link to a good guide to disassembling the mogul? I googled but nothing useful came up... it might just be the way I searched. any help is greatly appreciated.

~chevy

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There were some youtube videos showing the step by step.

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had this very same problem a couple months ago and finally had to take it into a sprint store and something was lose insode of the phone. It was repaired while I waited and it has been working fine since the repair. The only drawback to this is any program installed has to be reinstalled. Does not backup automatically when you sync to your computer.

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so idf i take apart my mogul then its gunna wipe everything off?? ftw???

~chevy

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so i took it apart and unconnected all of the ribbons and reconnected them and put it back together and it still doesnt light up is there something im missing?

~chevy

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No chevy part of their repair process was and most of the time is to do a hard reset. Taking apart a phone and putting it back together has nothing to do with the software or the rom installed on the phone as long as you don't go de-soldering the chips from the phone and put different ones in their place u should not loose any info off your phone by taking it apart, as long as you don't miss place your storage card in the tear down madness :mrgreen:

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well c the problem i hhav e is that it wont light up and ive usede multiple roms and the same thing happens

~chevy

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wat is the qwerty keyboard fix on the verizion page??? does it just do a thing in the rom or what?

~chevy

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My backlight works. Wanna trade and spend the money for me to do an insurance claim? lol j/k

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You all wouldnt be seeking an upgrade out of that would you? :mrgreen:

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Actually yeah I would. LOL. I seriously want a new phone. I mean my phone runs great with nueROM3 though.

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my back light on my key board dont work how can i fix it ?

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what i have come to a conclusion is that i have a bad led in the keyboard. so i think i need to get a new keyboard asssembly.

~chevy