Keyboard Light

[tommc4]

I am having an absolute FIT with the damn keyboard light on my 750! It gos off after about 5 seconds, and THAT is ridiculous! I was told by a source at Palm there IS a registry entry to fix this, but he could not divulge the info (I did tell him I was open to receiving an anonymous email, but haven't seen it yet!)

Anyone have any ideas? He said it was the same one that worked on the TyTn/Hermes/8525 but I have not found it yet....

Help??

[insidr]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight and key is QKeyLedTimeout. The number of seconds is usually set to default at 10. you can make it any number you like. Mine is set at 20.

[steve1215]

I wonder if this also relates to my current issue too - can anyone comment?

The backlight on my Treo 750's keyboard refuses to come on IN USE - however I'm fairly convinced it's not a hardware issue; when performing a soft reset the keypad lights up fine during the boot cycle.

It's as if there's a registry entry that sets the "turn off keypad light after" value to 0 (i.e; always off).

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Steve

[tommc4]

I traded in my WM6 phone for a Treo 750 with WM5 - wow, everything is where it should be, and the phone works the way it should!

As far as the On-Off issue, Steve, I see that in line in my phone - the key is set to 1, so I would try changing that:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight and key is QKeyOnOff change it from 0 to 1

Let me know - this could be my first crack at helping someone else out!! :)

[dbarber@dedicatedmicros.c]

I have a question. I can not seem to find the registry edit area for the Treo 750 running WM6. Can you help me in giving me some instructions on getting to this so I can edit the file to keep the keyboard lights on for longer than a few seconds?

[gibs]

on my kaiser it's set to 30 by default.

[PeterW]

I have a question. I can not seem to find the registry edit area for the Treo 750 running WM6. Can you help me in giving me some instructions on getting to this so I can edit the file to keep the keyboard lights on for longer than a few seconds?

Hi there,

There is no default registry editor on WM devices, so you will have to install one if you want to make any changes. You will find a few built into well known commercial apps such as MemMaid and Resco Explorer (I've used both and they work fine on WM6). There may also be some free ones around.