Keyboard Light

[CountryDevil]

Originally Posted by mdodge

He is talking about Advanced Configuration Editor

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151

In there under input, keyboard backlight timeout. However this doesnt work. All this does anyway is change the qkeyledtimeout which we already know does work.

Are you sure? Becasue I have changed this setting in the registry and it does not have an effect on the time out.

[mdodge]

Originally Posted by CountryDevil

Are you sure? Becasue I have changed this setting in the registry and it does not have an effect on the time out.

My bad a typo. I meant to say "which we already know doesn't work"

[PocketPcUser]

Originally Posted by eptd

I hope this isn't true. I don't know why they made it like this. It makes sense to me to have the light synchronized with the screen backlight.

Guys... I think we are going about this whole thing wrong; doesn't the Pro have the light sensor to automatically turn on/off the backlight? I bet you that this is where we need to pursue the issue. Maybe look under the light sensor registry, and see if there are keys there that control this aspect. I think the light sensor is for the backlight on the screen, but perhaps they are connected?

[stroths]

MicroP.dll appears to be linked to this somehow. I stopped that dll and the kb light stopped working until I rebooted.

You can see it in the reg under HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\KeyLight

There's also an interesting entry under You can see it in the reg under HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\KeyPad called DisableKeyLight

I ran across THIS THREAD over at XDA where someone was playing with these registry settings.

[mdodge]

Problem is MicroP.dll controls not only the keyboard leds, but all the Led's (status's, buttons..etc)

the disablekeylight setting doesnt appear to do much on the pro that I tested and observed. Need to find what controls only the keyboard lights whether its a reg key or another module/dll.

[phelony]

If someone fixes this and makes a cab ill donate lol I hate the effing keyboard backight time out so bad...

[TheDude1120]

this is pissing me off too wtf

[mdodge]

Yeah this is one of 2 big issues I have that I'm trying hard to find a solution too. During some tweaking/testing I disabled the led's all together and had to hard reset to get them back lol.

Seems that GSM Touch Pro's respond to the QKeyLedTimeout value but the Sprints/CDMA do not. hmm

[stroths]

I have a feeling no2chem will have a driver for this in the near future. He released a backlight driver for the Mogul last month and was trying to figure out the kb backlight at the same time.

[Cicatrize]

I searched the registry, LED dlls, and the keyboard DLL's with a hex editor and didn't find anything. This is the single most crappy thing about the phone, and it's starting to piss me off more every day.