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nesty24
19-09-2007, 05:52 AM
Is there an app that makes the backlight lit lower than current backlight for a time (secs) if the device is not used? (just to save some power) Just like in some nokia phones...

I'm managing to build one but I'm a super noob in CE programming using VB.
I dunno how to use registry so that user who modified the app will stay as it is when you softreset the device.
Maggy
19-09-2007, 11:06 AM
With Mortscript you should be able to write this quite easily. I once built one script to turn backlight back on when Tomtom mistakenly turned it off. The next day I received the Tomtom update that didn't have that bug...
There is hardly any learning curve, the manual is just a short reference, download some sample scripts, look into them and you can start writing.

success
csc6361
20-09-2007, 05:50 AM
With Mortscript you should be able to write this quite easily. I once built one script to turn backlight back on when Tomtom mistakenly turned it off. The next day I received the Tomtom update that didn't have that bug...
There is hardly any learning curve, the manual is just a short reference, download some sample scripts, look into them and you can start writing.

success

Could you tell me more detail about Mortscript for TOMTOM?
I also worry about TOMTOM backlight. Now I use phoneAlarm to turn on backlight.
Maggy
20-09-2007, 11:50 AM
I actually used 3 scripts for Tomtom backlight problem, but didn't save them because Tomtom 6.03 no longer had that problem. Putting it all in one script didn't work because once the script started Tomtom it paused till Tomtom closed down. So one script called the Tomtom start script, that second script ended once Tomtom was starting but the first one was still able to call the third one, which wrote the correct registry settings for backlight.

Read all about Mortscript on http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=page&entry=ms_overview&action=view
nesty24
20-09-2007, 01:01 PM
still downloading Visual Studio 2005... 2GB+ remaining...
Any suggestions?
Maggy
20-09-2007, 01:09 PM
Who said anything about Visual Studio???
Mortscript is a very tiny download from the link I gave you. And it's freeware.

Visual Studio is nice for very professional programmers, although lots of them use freeware/open source tools as well. For such a tiny utility as what you were talking about it's like killing a mosquito by setting off all nuclear bombs at once.
utak3r
20-09-2007, 02:07 PM
Well said :D
Plus, he wouldn't use MortScript with VS at all :p

nesty24, just take a notepad (or Notepad++ or something else you like) and voila :)
nesty24
20-09-2007, 02:52 PM
Well said :D
Plus, he wouldn't use MortScript with VS at all :p

nesty24, just take a notepad (or Notepad++ or something else you like) and voila :)

LOL! yeah, i dunno mortscript. And besides, i don't like to make a program on my himalaya...

utak3r, what's with notepad? It's very hard to code just imagining your forms. And I'm noob in this programming with CE, i don't have resources at all.
utak3r
20-09-2007, 04:02 PM
utak3r, what's with notepad? It's very hard to code just imagining your forms.

But you won't code forms... Just a plain code. Consider it as batch files (or better - JavaScript scripts).
thientan
23-09-2007, 04:45 AM
hi.
i have 2 xda2 and i have updated it to wm6 aku4.2 but one it backlight is darker, it have only 64mb but in the board have 4 chip infeon=128mb. i don't understand why it recognize 64mb? thanks.
utak3r
23-09-2007, 10:24 AM
i have 2 xda2 and i have updated it to wm6 aku4.2

Then upgrade to AKU0.7.0, it's a newer build.

but one it backlight is darker

Did you try adjusting it?... ;)

it have only 64mb but in the board have 4 chip infeon=128mb. i don't understand why it recognize 64mb? thanks.

:confused:
64MB of what?...
Your 128MB of RAM is splitted between RAM, RAMDisk and page pool.
Maggy
23-09-2007, 12:04 PM
hi.
i have 2 xda2 and i have updated it to wm6 aku4.2 but one it backlight is darker, it have only 64mb but in the board have 4 chip infeon=128mb. i don't understand why it recognize 64mb? thanks.

utak3r answered it already but just to be clear to all: EACH Himalaya has 4 chips infineon, always 128MB. Most of us never pick up a screwdriver to check that or any other hardware specifications.

I personally did, but that was just because:
-I bought mine with broken screens
-I'm a trained hardware technician
-I'm very curious

Unless you have similar good reasons to open your device, please don't. Curiosity does not only kill the cat. If you want to see what's inside, look at the perfect pictures in the Wiki
utak3r
23-09-2007, 12:15 PM
Unless you have similar good reasons to open your device, please don't. Curiosity does not only kill the cat. If you want to see what's inside, look at the perfect pictures in the Wiki

Holy words :D

I was opening my one several times - its connector is soooo bad :mad: If you're using it in a car for navigation, this connector gets broken :(
I was resoldering it 5 times till now :rolleyes: