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Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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When i first got my PDA the backlight was a bright strong white light which made things easy to read. However its now faded to a dim grey and makes it really hard to make out the screen esp in bright light. I removed the screen protector sheet as that had bubbled which helped a bit but still some cutomers cannot see the box to sign in. Strangely when all the PDA's are sitting in the charging rack you can clearly see some are a lot dimmer than overs.

I ve asked my PDA trainer if he knows how to turn up the backlight but he said it cannot be done ?
My DOM just said we will have to send it away, but that was 2 months ago. :mad

Anyone got any idea's
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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It sounds like you battery is going, I take it you tried a soft reboot and a hard reboot and it hasn't helped. Best thing to do is just hand it to your DOM and tell his you cannot use it until it's working properly and let him send it away to be fixed (and he'll have to give you a replacement because he gets into trouble for not scanning items in).
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:It sounds like you battery is going, I take it you tried a soft reboot and a hard reboot and it hasn't helped. Best thing to do is just hand it to your DOM and tell his you cannot use it until it's working properly and let him send it away to be fixed (and he'll have to give you a replacement because he gets into trouble for not scanning items in).
Could be the battery but its dim from 100% ? Yes tried soft/hard boots, removing battery etc. It seemed to change after it received a flash update a while ago. Oh there is no spare PDA's so they cant send it off. It looks not too bad in the darker office but show it some daylight and its quite dim. :sad:
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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Go in early and swap it for someone elses PDA (best doing it to the office creep/runner) and say nothing else about it :wink:

100% charge :chuckle the maximum on mine would be 95% after being on a charge all night :chuckle
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krussel wrote:It looks not too bad in the darker office but show it some daylight and its quite dim. :sad:
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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No sorry but ask a manager, it will keep him occupied for days. :dance :crazy: :cfo :nana
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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There's a little orange pic of a lightbulb above one of the keys - the dot I think. Press the orange button on the left and then hold down the button with the light bulb, the PDA will cycle through the different brightness levels.
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uphillstruggle wrote:There's a little orange pic of a lightbulb above one of the keys - the dot I think. Press the orange button on the left and then hold down the button with the light bulb, the PDA will cycle through the different brightness levels.
I didn't know that :hmmmm keep this up and you'll become the PDA Moderator :chuckle :chuckle
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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uphillstruggle wrote:There's a little orange pic of a lightbulb above one of the keys - the dot I think. Press the orange button on the left and then hold down the button with the light bulb, the PDA will cycle through the different brightness levels.
Great thanks :Very Happy I will give it a go tommorrow :nana
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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:Go in early and swap it for someone elses PDA (best doing it to the office creep/runner) and say nothing else about it :wink:

100% charge :chuckle the maximum on mine would be 95% after being on a charge all night :chuckle
Yeah i did think of swapping it for one of the brighter ones :hmmmm BUT they have stickers with our walk numbers on :no no
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Re: Anyone know how to turn up the backlight on a PDA

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Gave the orange button and bulb symbol a go today and it worked a treat :Very Happy Backlight upto full brightness :nana
Also showed some others to get thier PDA brighter :dance Great TIP!
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