P910i What is "Car use"?

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Hi

In the Control panel / Display / Power tab it has a "Light (car)" option.
What does this do?

I don't have a car kit but I assume it's supposed to let you set the
backlight if you put it in a holder.
How does the phone know?. I'd like to be able to set the screen light to
"On" if it's being charged, but this doesn't seem to be an option. If I put
it in the charging / link cradle the backlight still goes out even with car
set to on. Is there another setting somewhere?

Regards

Jeff T

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Thanks for that Martin. I have a bluetooth car kit but just leave it in my
pocket not charging.

It's when I have it in my speaker phone holder that it'd be useful to have
the light on as I use it for notes / data a lot.

Regards

Jeff
"Martin" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Jiff" <jeffT@NoSpmvirgin.net> wrote in message
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>> Hi
>>
>> In the Control panel / Display / Power tab it has a "Light (car)" option.
>> What does this do?
>>
>> I don't have a car kit but I assume it's supposed to let you set the
>> backlight if you put it in a holder.
>> How does the phone know?. I'd like to be able to set the screen light to
>> "On" if it's being charged, but this doesn't seem to be an option. If I
>> put it in the charging / link cradle the backlight still goes out even
>> with car set to on. Is there another setting somewhere?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jeff T
>>
>
> Don't know Jeff but the light stays on with mine plugged in to the power
> calbe in the car. I use a B/T car kit.
>
> Martin
>
>

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Tym

Any idea what in the SE car kit triggers this behaviour, i.e. is there a
special pin in connector which tells the phone it's in a SE car kit or is
it voltage driven or something else?

I asked SE but they just said it isn't possible to set the backlight to
always on when connected to a charger. However if you can do it in a car
holder it must be possible elsewhere, by replicating the same conditions.
(I'll give them another try.)

Jeff


"Tym" <spam_trap@ictis.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 24 May 2005 19:46:33 GMT, "Jiff" <jeffT@NoSpmvirgin.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>In the Control panel / Display / Power tab it has a "Light (car)" option.
>>What does this do?
>>
>>I don't have a car kit but I assume it's supposed to let you set the
>>backlight if you put it in a holder.
>>How does the phone know?. I'd like to be able to set the screen light to
>>"On" if it's being charged, but this doesn't seem to be an option. If I
>>put
>>it in the charging / link cradle the backlight still goes out even with
>>car
>>set to on. Is there another setting somewhere?
>>
>
> Whent the phone is connected to a SE car kit - in my case HCA20 - the
> phone setects it. After a short time out, the phone's display dims to
> the level determined by the car (dimm) level. when the phone is
> active, eg making a call, the car(full) level is displayed. The
> car(dim) is important as you don't want it on 100% when idle as it
> lights up the whole car interior at night!!!
>
> Tym
>
>