The dimmest level of the iPAG rx1950's backlight (above OFF, that is)
is too bright.

In many indoor situations, I'd like to dim it even further, since it's
plenty bright. It's as if you had a scale with settings 0 and 3-10, but
missing 1 and 2.

Don't suppose it can be tweaked? Or that HP will at least improve it in
later models?

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minimum dimming is driven by the "threshold" of the flourescent
backlight and the minimum setting is from the oem and can't be
altered... (long standing issue/question)

afaik, the only real option would be to find tinted plastic similar to
screen protectors.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly:

Thanks for reply. It hadn't occurred to me that the LEDs themselves had
a certain threshhold.

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>> LEDs <<

It's my understanding that the light source is not led, but a cold
flourescent... sure others will chime in on this.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

In new devices (even in notebooks), i'ts mostly LED. they have a lot of
advantages over fluorescent backlight (no need for easy-to-kill inverters,
won't burn out - for example, old IBM Thinkpads are famous for their
fluorescent backlight burning out after 3-4 years) etc

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"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
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> >> LEDs <<
>
> It's my understanding that the light source is not led, but a cold
> flourescent... sure others will chime in on this.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>

Unfortunately, this can't be helped. This is all because of HP's reluctance
to put a BETTER backlight applet in the 1950. Unfortunately, unlike with
Palm OS, you can't use generic backlight setters either under Windows
Mobile. (Under Palm OS, there're third-paerty tools that let you drive down
the (LED) backlight level to any abritrary value -I wish the same would be
possible on the PPC).

the rx1950, as with any new (manufactured in the last 2-3 years) PDA, uses
LED's; therefore, it'd certainly be possible to use much less backlight
levels.

Your only choice now is just dumping the rx1950 and switching to a device
with far less minimal backlight level. I recommend the iPAQ hx4700 or, to a
lesser degree, the Fujitsu-Siemens N560. They are much better in this
respect (too). Unfortunately, other contemporary PDA's have high minimum
backlight levels too (x50v/x51v, Pocket Loox 720, iPAQ 2210 etc)



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<baobob@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:1150749081.940873.259250@g10g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> The dimmest level of the iPAG rx1950's backlight (above OFF, that is)
> is too bright.
>
> In many indoor situations, I'd like to dim it even further, since it's
> plenty bright. It's as if you had a scale with settings 0 and 3-10, but
> missing 1 and 2.
>
> Don't suppose it can be tweaked? Or that HP will at least improve it in
> later models?
>
> ***
>