[shraddha294]

Hi

I am working to implement a logic to keep the backlight on all the time on a particular screen.
I have tried all that this article says: Livelink - Redirection

The code turns on the backlight every 150 seconds (backlight is turned on for 255 seconds though)... however the backlight goes off in 50 seconds (not through the code). After 150 seconds (as implemented in the logic) it turns on again.

The problem i am facing is similar to this post.. couldn't post here as this is closed:
Reading set Backlight timeout value

Does anybody have any idea about this? Please post if you need more details to reply to the query.

[shraddha294]

Changed from 150 seconds to 10 seconds. It still goes off at times.

Debugged this on device. "time diff" is the SOP that i've put.
Looks like the timer goes idle and "time diff" goes beyond 10 seconds.

time diff: 1
JVM: bklt @295718: timer
JVM: bklt @295719: idle 6
JVM: bklt @295721: setTimer 9
JVM: bklt @296964: timer
JVM: bklt @296966: idle 16
JVM: bklt @296968: setTimer 15
VM:PFLAs=3e900
VM:+GC(F)w=20
VM:-GCt=82,b=0,r=0,g=1
VM:+CR
VM:-CR=46
JVM: bklt @298928: timer
JVM: bklt @298930: idle 15
JVM: bklt @300494: setTimer 15

time diff: 52 Making backlight on; Delay: 52

While it was idle the 10 second delay passed; backlight got turned off.. by the time it returned to the code the delay became 52 seconds and backlight is turned on (as delay exceeded 10 sec).
I don't think we can control this; except by changing defaultTimeout for the device that i want to avoid doing. Any comments/ ideas??

[Dawg]

try bblight

[shraddha294]

Originally Posted by Dawg

try bblight

Thanks.. yes that will work..
but isn't there anything that i can do with the native APIs then ??

We cannot use third party stuff in our app.

[Dawg]

its open source so why not make it better

[shraddha294]

Originally Posted by Dawg

its open source so why not make it better

Hmmm... Thanks.. checked bblight i can use that.

At the same time i still wonder why the timer goes idle.. it can be seen in the println statements that i got from the device. There should be some fix for that or atleast i should be able to explain why this timer sleeps and doesn't print the in-between logs like: time diff : 2,time diff: 3.. and so on... after reaching 10 seconds it turns on the backlight (most of the times except in some cases like this).