[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by SteveHoward999

Not on my Toshiba. The auto setting is brighter ths minimum in total darkness. :?

If you've already got it tweaked to the dimmest setting, and the registry data reads back as 1, then I think that's as far as it will go.

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by SteveHoward999

Not on my Toshiba. The auto setting is brighter ths minimum in total darkness. :?

If you've already got it tweaked to the dimmest setting, and the registry data reads back as 1, then I think that's as far as it will go.

[SteveHoward999]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

If you've already got it tweaked to the dimmest setting, and the registry data reads back as 1, then I think that's as far as it will go.

That's the conclusion I reached before, but you never know what some bright spark or other might come up with 8)

[papasula]

Using PHM Regedit on my Samsung i730 I found the following on the keyboard backlight:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight\KeyBacklightTimeout

The value is set to 8 when I set it to 8sec in the power settings
The value is set to 4 when set to 4sec, 2 for 2sec, and 1 for 1sec.

When I try other values nothing changes. I tried 16, 32, 64, 120 and they all timeout at 8sec.

What am I missing?

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by papasula

The value is set to 8 when I set it to 8sec in the power settings. The value is set to 4 when set to 4sec, 2 for 2sec, and 1 for 1sec.

Do me a favour and try a number within 1 to 8, but outside the preset values. So, say, 3 or 6. Does it timeout exactly after the number of seconds specified?

I'm seeing if Samsung has locked the keyboard backlight to respond only to 1,2,4, and 8 in the registry. If so, that's probably why anything greater than 8 does not work.

[papasula]

I tried 3 and 6 with success. It appears to be fine with any number 1-8 and that is all!

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by papasula

I tried 3 and 6 with success. It appears to be fine with any number 1-8 and that is all!

Hmm, it could be hardware locked to 8 seconds as the maximum. I can't think of any other possibility. I do wish I had an i730 to explore this further though.

[Menneisyys]

A similar subject: arbitrary suspend timeout: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1