I to am noticing lighting probs after up date and NEVERE B4. My soft keys went off and stayed off until my phone froze then went black. then the red eye came on and then my lock screen. then the soft keys were lit but keyboard wouldnt. my auto brightness has been off. locking and unlocking the screen does turn the keyboard on, but this shouldnt be happening and IS most likely update related.
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no keyboard backlight
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bigthinker
Member
does anyone know how to keep the keyboard lights lit up for longer than 10 seconds? Is there a setting for these somewhere?
bbrruuccee
New Member
I'm assuming you said that just to get a rise. I woke up to find all backlighting nonfunctional, dark, light, covered, auto or anything. after restart, no change, but a few minutes later, slid the keyboard and spontaneously "voila". I'm in Mensa, and it was no stupidity on my part. The update is intermittently disabling the backlight. Comprende?
Thanks for posting this as it was the fix for me. Not even a reboot/battery pull would solve the issue for me. I found this thread and simply pushed the lock button and upon pushing it again the keyboard and 4 buttons at the bottom (or right in this instance) lit up and saved me from potentially discovering the flight characteristics of my shiny new Droid.
I also never experienced this problem prior to the update. Not saying it caused it but noting that I also can't disprove that claim either. At least that's my personal experience anyway.
Checking and unchecking the auto adjust worked great thanks!!
Hello, i got to end of this thread and could not figure out a way to get this to work. could you provide me with the steps you found to fix the problem? thanks in advance
Hey all, so I'm having this same issue, I'm using Smoked Glass 5.0.1 ROM, here is what I've done and whats happening:
When I push the lock/unlock button, the capacitive buttons will turn on for about 1.5 seconds, then turn off, when I then unlock the phone, the backlight is off.
When I turn on/off the auto-dim function, the capacitive buttons light up, and stay lit up, but as soon as I slide my screen to use the keyboard, they turn off, and the keyboard lights are off as well.
When I toggle the backlight control on the power settings widget (while the phone is closed) the capacitive buttons light up and stay lit up, when I slide the screen, they turn off and the keyboard lights are off as well.
When I open the physical keyboard, and do any of the above steps, the keyboard and capacitive button lights turn on and stay on, until I close the phone, then they all turn off again.
I couldn't get them to come on at all before now at least I have a remedy when I need to type in the dark instead of guessing, but does anyone have a permanent fix for this yet?
When I push the lock/unlock button, the capacitive buttons will turn on for about 1.5 seconds, then turn off, when I then unlock the phone, the backlight is off.
When I turn on/off the auto-dim function, the capacitive buttons light up, and stay lit up, but as soon as I slide my screen to use the keyboard, they turn off, and the keyboard lights are off as well.
When I toggle the backlight control on the power settings widget (while the phone is closed) the capacitive buttons light up and stay lit up, when I slide the screen, they turn off and the keyboard lights are off as well.
When I open the physical keyboard, and do any of the above steps, the keyboard and capacitive button lights turn on and stay on, until I close the phone, then they all turn off again.
I couldn't get them to come on at all before now at least I have a remedy when I need to type in the dark instead of guessing, but does anyone have a permanent fix for this yet?
My hardware keyboard did that for the first time last night. I was typing in a semi dark living room on my hardware kb when the backlight went out. It came back on in a matter of seconds though.
HarvesterX™
Member
I wonder is amb is still subscribed to this thread after almost a year. 
...But, this happens to me as well. Doesn't matter what ROM I use or how many time I've wiped this baby clean. To be honest I never thought about it until reading through this. I just though that was normal behavior since it happened on my first Droid as well (rest in piece my friend).
...But, this happens to me as well. Doesn't matter what ROM I use or how many time I've wiped this baby clean. To be honest I never thought about it until reading through this. I just though that was normal behavior since it happened on my first Droid as well (rest in piece my friend).
andykillsu
New Member
Hey everbody. I had this same problem. My backlight was fine. But when I installed the newest version and it rebooted the backlight didn't work too. I found out a way to fix it for me at least. All I did is went into settings (from the home menu) then display and the autobrightness. I turned it off and when I did that the lights came back on!!! I have no idea why it is doing this when you install the new version but there's a fix now!!!! Good luck seeing your keyboards now!!!!! Lol
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