Strange happenings with Ipaq 2210

Steveg

Not sure which section to post this in - I hope it is OK here?

Over the weekend I installed the free trial of Mappopolis software and a few of the USA maps to test it out before my trip next week to the USA - it worked fine so I did a back up to keep it as it was (the unit was in the cradle as it needs activesync to install). I left the unit in the cradle until this morning as I hadn't needed it until now. When I cam to switch on this morning I could not get the backlight to work no matter what I did. I was able to faintly see the screen however (as I said without backlight) and check in the setting. The battery powered backlight setting was set to the bottom i.e. none at all, BUT it was also greyed out, I could not drag it up and change it Grrr

Fortunately I had a previous fully working backup from before Mappopolis and restored this and all was/is well again, BUT, whilst the backlight setting is now 4/5ths of the way to the top, it is still greyed out and is unavailable to change?????

Has anyone got any idea why this should have happened? Why can I not change the sttings any more (or does this only work when in the cradle?

I am at work and cannot check things in the cradle at the moment

I am just totally flumoxxed

Cheers for any help/advice

Steve

Steveg · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:41 am Post subject:

I should have added - Thank goodness for Sprite backup!!

One of my smarter moves buying that piece of software - I can heartily recommend it to all users

Steve

northamsaint · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 23

I have had a that before.

Try going into :-

Settings - Backlight - Brightness and then adjust the brightness.

For some reason my 2210 in the past has set these to minimum.

northamsaint · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 23

Sorry didn't read that properly see you have tried this. Mune has done it a couple of times but I have always managed to get it back that way.

Robin2 · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

I had a similar happening this week with my 2210. It locked up because I didn't close TomTom before switching off. When I did a soft reset and started it again, the screen brightness was minimum with power on, and greyed out so I could not reset it to maximum. I used Sprite backup to reinstall all the software, and that restored my original (maximum) brightness setting with power on. However, it is still greyed out, and I can't adjust the brightness in the Settings window.
Anyone got any ideas what can be wrong
Robin

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