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SLVR L7 - Keypad light sensor / Force keypad backlight on?
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Posted by: ZippoMan

Lately I have had my L7 keypad backlight turn off even while I'm using the phone in fairly low light.

Does the L7 have a light sensor like the V3?

Is there a way to force the keypad backlight on in all situations?

Posted by: gbcue

Yes, there is a light sensor. Nobody's figured out a way to have the keypad come on all the time.

Posted by: ZippoMan

Looks like I'm an idiot, I was pointing my L7 right at my bright ceiling fan which was causing the keypad backlight to turn off.

Posted by: Bubbleman

Turn power save to off in settings should do it..

Posted by: ZippoMan

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Originally Posted by Bubbleman

Turn power save to off in settings should do it..

Where is that setting?

Posted by: feverfive

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Originally Posted by Bubbleman

Turn power save to off in settings should do it..

I did that on my L7 (I always do on any Moto phone I've had the past couple of years--either MotoX or xlr8, I think, wrote a post or article stating that "power save" really consumes more power in the end, or somehting like that

). Anyway, I digress....chaning that setting did nothing for the keypad light on my L7....

Posted by: ZippoMan

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Originally Posted by feverfive

). Anyway, I digress....chaning that setting did nothing for the keypad light on my L7....

Agreed, the setting does nothing on the L7.

So does anyone know how to make the keypad always light up?

Posted by: gregski

I think I may have found it. In P2K Advanced Editor, under the Phone Services menu open Seem 32 Functions. After reading the seem from your phone, scroll to Abs #746 (Offset D - 93, Offset H - 5D, Bit - 2) titled "Light Sensor Available". Mine was on. I turned it off, read the modded seem to the phone and restarted the phone. Now my key lights are on whenever my backlight is on, or at least until the screensaver kicks in. We'll see what this does to the battery life

Posted by: GarfBC

Awesome man, thanks a lot! Here's a pic to help out any noobs

Posted by: ZippoMan

Oops I was logged in under my girlfriends account. I'll post your findings in the other L7 threads too

Posted by: ZippoMan

Is it just me or is the SLVR keypad volume REALLY quiet. I set the gain table volume for the keypad to 3...but it's still very quiet. If the room is not perfectly quiet you cannot hear the keypad when navigating through the menus. My keypad volume in the phone settings is maxed at 7.

Has anyone been able to get a reasonable volume out of the keypad? If so, how did you do it?

Posted by: Bubbleman

BTW any knows whether the L7 can activate 'Flight mode' like the V3i??

Posted by: gregski

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Originally Posted by Bubbleman

BTW any knows whether the L7 can activate 'Flight mode' like the V3i??

Try searching for "airplane mode". Some have it, some don't. On mine it is under Settings > Airplane Mode.

Posted by: gregski

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Originally Posted by ZippoMan

Is it just me or is the SLVR keypad volume REALLY quiet. I set the gain table volume for the keypad to 3...but it's still very quiet. If the room is not perfectly quiet you cannot hear the keypad when navigating through the menus. My keypad volume in the phone settings is maxed at 7.

Has anyone been able to get a reasonable volume out of the keypad? If so, how did you do it?

I think that is the first time I've read anybody complaining about the key beeps. I don't remember having a phone that I didn't disable them altogether. I may have used them years ago when the lag time after pressing a key was tremendous and you didn't know if you really pressed the key entirely. But the SLVR is almost instantaneous. To me the beeps are annoying. But hey, that's just me. But back to your question. You can adjust the gain setting in P2K Advanced Editor. I think the default keypad gain setting is 2. Try increasing it and see if that satisfies your need for beep.

Posted by: milenko11

Sorry to dig up a really post but I can't get the keypad thing (or airplane mode) to work. Anyone have this done right now?

Posted by: milenko11

I see you don't have the SLVR anymore Gregski but I got mine to work and was wondering how your battery life was with the keypad lighting up like that. Thanks

Posted by: gregski

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Originally Posted by milenko11

I see you don't have the SLVR anymore Gregski but I got mine to work and was wondering how your battery life was with the keypad lighting up like that. Thanks

I always charge my phones every night, so it was never a problem.

Posted by: robocellkid

The battery life is great. I charge everynight. One time i didn't cuz it wasn't accessible and it went for like 2 days!

Posted by: linuxmatt

I know a way to keep the backlight thinking that its dark without SEEM editing: Cover the light sensors with electrical tape.

Posted by: robocellkid

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Originally Posted by linuxmatt

I know a way to keep the backlight thinking that its dark without SEEM editing: Cover the light sensors with electrical tape.

would look kinda goofy

its easy to SEEM edit becuz P2kTools has the thing built in so its just a matter of checking and unchecking

Posted by: grnamin

If you don't have P2K Advanced Editor or can't get it to work right because it crashes, you can also use P2K Seem:
http://howardforums.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=1814

Posted by: ViV04

hi everyone, i'm new

Where can i get P2K Advanced Editor or P2K SEEM?

And can i edit the volume of the ear speaker and Speaker-phone(is wayyyyy too low) thanks!!

Posted by: djneo

so where would the sensors be..i cover the the hole on the top-left side it dont work..but it works for the right-top one!!? i hope mine is not spoilt