[Q] x10 mini pro keyboard backlight - Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini

I've tried searching in the forums, but no luck..
I've installed CM6-v3.1 on my phone, and now it seems that the backlight on the pull-out-keyboard always is on? (as long as the phone's not at standby) It drains my battery.. Any ways to fix this?
Also, I wonder if it's possible to get the key-setup fixed for the pull-out-keyboard?
It's now in English, and I have an Norwegian phone..
Then I have 3more letters in my alphabet (æ-ø-å), which means I have some extra keys on it.. The keyboard is messed up with the signs, but not the letters and numbers.. f.inst. : my dot button (.) and the '':'' button now shows ''?'' and ''!'' ..
My ''æ'' button shows dot (.) and '':''...
See my point ? I think I just need the Original SE ''pull-out-keyboard'' file to replace the CM file? If, how do I get it?
Please answer my first question first, as that is more important to me
Thanks!

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HanMedSverd said:
I've tried searching in the forums, but no luck..
I've installed CM6-v3.1 on my phone, and now it seems that the backlight on the pull-out-keyboard always is on? (as long as the phone's not at standby) It drains my battery.. Any ways to fix this?
Also, I wonder if it's possible to get the key-setup fixed for the pull-out-keyboard?
It's now in English, and I have an Norwegian phone..
Then I have 3more letters in my alphabet (æ-ø-å), which means I have some extra keys on it.. The keyboard is messed up with the signs, but not the letters and numbers.. f.inst. : my dot button (.) and the '':'' button now shows ''?'' and ''!'' ..
My ''æ'' button shows dot (.) and '':''...
See my point ? I think I just need the Original SE ''pull-out-keyboard'' file to replace the CM file? If, how do I get it?
Please answer my first question first, as that is more important to me
Thanks!
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the keyboard light is a quick dirty fix coz we have bigger bugs to solve now i fixed it that way for now
and don't panic the led almost don't eat battery mike and i will look into it after fixing the bigger bugs
and please reflash make an backup in xRecovery flash se firmware back
then please copy the /syetem/usr folder and sent it to me (pm) and i will fix your keyboard (i thougt it was the same as swedish (try to flash that one first) if it dont work sent me your usr folder)
after you sent it you can place your floyo backup back
Owain

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i have the same problem here.. Not just about killing battery owain, but it reduce our own visibility of the keyboard characters itself when we are on the bright room.. Maybe there's a generic fix that we can apply by ourself if that's quite easy for us?
Well anyway if it's easy to fix then i guess you must be already bundling it on the next version Thanks so much for the hard work.

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hansip87 said:
i have the same problem here.. Not just about killing battery owain, but it reduce our own visibility of the keyboard characters itself when we are on the bright room.. Maybe there's a generic fix that we can apply by ourself if that's quite easy for us?
Well anyway if it's easy to fix then i guess you must be already bundling it on the next version Thanks so much for the hard work.
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if you really wanna turn it of do this in root explorer
put a "0" in "/sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness" file and save it now your led is off and if you want it on again just put a 1 or any number above 1 in the file it is quite simple lol
im trying to get it nice fixed in the CM settings but that kinda hard so when i fail at that i will try another way bash script i guess

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owain94 said:
put a "0" in "/sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness" file and save it now your led is off and if you want it on again just put a 1 or any number above 1 in the file it is quite simple lol
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with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin, you can automate this task so that keyboard led turns on when keyboard is out and it turns off when not out

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owain94 said:
Please reflash make an backup in xRecovery flash se firmware back
then please copy the /syetem/usr folder and sent it to me (pm) and i will fix your keyboard (i thougt it was the same as swedish (try to flash that one first) if it dont work sent me your usr folder)
after you sent it you can place your floyo backup back
Owain
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Ok, I got a little confused in there.. Im really a noob so ;
* Reflash to CM again? And then make backup.
* Then flash to SE fw. and copy ''/syetem/usr'' (< u mean system right?)
* Then flash back to CM again, and w8 4 U fix 4 me?
(About the SWE. Keyb. : Sweden have 3 letters 2, but it's not the same symbol.. :S Then I'll probably get the key-setup right, but it will input the swedish letters?)
Thanks 4 the help! (I dont rlly care about the backlight, just wondered ^^)
P's, I did take backup in xRecovery b4 starting with CM (and thats the 2.1-update1 version..). Is it possible 2 find the file in the backup? or i can send u the backup? Then I wont have 2 reflash..
Also : When im gonna reflash, which program should I use 2 backup my apps ?
My keyboard : http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:19&biw=1366&bih=625

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drsood said:
with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin, you can automate this task so that keyboard led turns on when keyboard is out and it turns off when not out
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Really ?
I tried it, but no chance that tasker detect the keyboard out event.
You did it ?
regs
Dominic
Edit :
Sorry, I am stupid, of course it works, I had to enable the task

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just flashed the ''danish.zip'' works perfectly" ;D

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TESTED and working like a charm...
with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin on the STATE Keyboard Out, executing echo "1" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness and as exit task echo "0" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness
starting from the above minimal procedure, you could customize as you want (else trigging from light intensity) the keyboard led behaviour...
respect

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I have that same issue about that special bottom right button "àü" in Belgium, which had to show me a panel of symbols or could push it with another key to have a special letter like these "é è ë ê à ç"
it should normally be the same as the french keyboard (don't know if they have QWERTY or AZERTY keyboards tho)

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liquidsk said:
TESTED and working like a charm...
with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin on the STATE Keyboard Out, executing echo "1" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness and as exit task echo "0" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness
starting from the above minimal procedure, you could customize as you want (else trigging from light intensity) the keyboard led behaviour...
respect
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hello how to change /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness into 1 or 0???
im trying to do with rootexplorer but when i open this file via text editor it shows blank & after i changed the value & exit after saving its not changed means file remains blank..
please help?

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liquidsk said:
TESTED and working like a charm...
with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin on the STATE Keyboard Out, executing echo "1" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness and as exit task echo "0" >> /sys/devices/platform/msm_pmic_misc_led.0/brightness
starting from the above minimal procedure, you could customize as you want (else trigging from light intensity) the keyboard led behaviour...
respect
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Not sure where to input these commands. Mind give me a simplistic step by step where to go to input these commands? thanks in advance!

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ctalcant said:
Not sure where to input these commands. Mind give me a simplistic step by step where to go to input these commands? thanks in advance!
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Make sure u have installed Tasker and Locale Execute plugin (from market)
after that just import the attached profile into tasker...

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drsood said:
with Tasker and Locale Execute plugin, you can automate this task so that keyboard led turns on when keyboard is out and it turns off when not out
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Please help me with this :
I don't want the backlight to be off.. I just want it to be off when the keyboard is in, and if it's out> I want it to turn off when not touched, and turn on as long as I use the buttons..
Think thats how the default in the 2.1-update1 SE fw was..
At least thats how it was on my phone

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Working with locale plugin ... just one thing, every time I open or close physical keyboard, a notification appears, echo "x" >> .... on half of my screen, how to remove it ?

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D4rKn3sSyS said:
Working with locale plugin ... just one thing, every time I open or close physical keyboard, a notification appears, echo "x" >> .... on half of my screen, how to remove it ?
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u must have entered the command as "echo..........."
just add @ infront of the command and the notifications (toasts) should disappear e.g. "@ echo...."

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drsood said:
u must have entered the command as "echo..........."
just add @ infront of the command and the notifications (toasts) should disappear e.g. "@ echo...."
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Nice man thanks

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keyboard light
Works perfect for me tasker+locale execute= problem solved. thanks.,..

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widget
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a noob. But it seems to me that if you can switch it at runtime with a command it would be fairly easy to make a widget for the switching right?
That way you can manually select at any moment whether you want the light to be on or not. (Possibly working together with the solution above to automatically switch it off when the keyboard isn't out.)

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JDRX said:
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a noob. But it seems to me that if you can switch it at runtime with a command it would be fairly easy to make a widget for the switching right?
That way you can manually select at any moment whether you want the light to be on or not. (Possibly working together with the solution above to automatically switch it off when the keyboard isn't out.)
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In Tasker you have the ability to "link" the keyb-light-on command to the keyb-out state, aswell to "link" the keyb-light-off script to the keyb-in state (or as exit task)...
BUT
you could also make the command on + off on exit task (keyb-in) LINKED to a variable determined by an external condition (external LIGHT intensity):
in simple words:
hi tasker, i would like to have my keyboard backlight on when i slide out my physical qwerty but only ***IF*** the ambient light level is not enough to make me easily identify the buttons, then, please tasker, turn off the light when I close my qwerty if before you have turned it on.
To achieve this behaviour, just check the ***If*** box by editing the execute command in the created task (keyb-light-on when keyb-state=out) to set the If variable. Select as variable **Light level** (%LIGHT) and link it to a math **Condition Operator** like "less than" (<) then put the desired percentage of ambient light below which (in this case) the command keyb-light-on triggered by keyb-out state will get executed. Remember to also create an exit task with the keyb-light-off execute command (obviously without setting the **IF** variable).
Note:
On tasker, the first time you use the %LIGHT (light level variable) you should expose your device first a while in a dark place, then a while in a WELL lightened place. Do that in order to allow tasker to set properly the on-off border working conditions to internally understand light sensor datas
Hope that could help.
Any doubt --> post here
best regards,
respect!