No Keypad Backlight On Sprint Moto Q - Page 2 - Motorola Q Forum

RoguePope · 03-29-2007, 11:00 PM

It would be idiotic to ship a device without the backlight installed. Since installed, there's a high liklihood that it can be activated if the vendor has deactivated it by policy. (For whatever whacked-out reasons...) There are registry hacks to do PLENTY of things the vendor has disabled, and a keyboard backlight would be one.

The Q is awesome - my light works, has since I put the battery in 90 seconds after UPS gave it to me at the door Monday! If you are waiting to hear from this forum regarding a backlight - I say go4it! You are going to love this device. (GAWD I sound like such a FANBOY...) blech-h-h-h

iLL_WiLL · 01-24-2008, 11:58 PM

I got the moto q and it is frustrating texting in the dark because the qwerty back light don't turn on. How do I turn it on PLEASE someone help me

Lucky13MN · 01-25-2008, 02:02 AM

What the heck, I'll post the obvious...

Go to: Start/Settings/Power Management
Backlight time out on battery

mike250rs · 01-25-2008, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucky13MN

What the heck, I'll post the obvious...

Go to: Start/Settings/Power Management
Backlight time out on battery

i did that in his other post..hopefully he got it fixed

Lucky13MN · 01-25-2008, 02:14 AM

Gotta love two threads going at the same time about the same thing.

mike250rs · 01-25-2008, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucky13MN

Gotta love two threads going at the same time about the same thing.

p.s. look at date on first post

Lucky13MN · 01-25-2008, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by mike250rs

p.s. look at date on first post

Holy crap! I need to get to sleep... oof, didn't catch that lol.

loppydot · 04-18-2008, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucky13MN

What the heck, I'll post the obvious...

Go to: Start/Settings/Power Management
Backlight time out on battery

That didn't work for me... could they have sent me a defective one? I just got my moto q a few weeks ago from Sprint...

BriCo84 · 06-04-2008, 12:56 PM

try turning off the "Smart Backlight" which is not very smart. Go to settings, power management, at the bottom it says Smart Backlight. Change it from enable to disable. that should fix your problem

loppydot · 06-07-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by BriCo84

try turning off the "Smart Backlight" which is not very smart. Go to settings, power management, at the bottom it says Smart Backlight. Change it from enable to disable. that should fix your problem

Thanks, but I actually had a defective Q. I still had it under Motorola's one year warranty though, so I shipped it out to TX and they got it back to me pretty quickly. So my Q is nice and lit now, but the week without it was kinda rough... Oh well, I guess that's just how it goes sometimes.