Bugzilla – Bug 12513
Screen Goes Blank
Last modified: 2009-07-30 15:49:43 UTC
I am still having the same problem that I previously reported in Bug #12026 that was supposedly fixed with release of 7.3.3. I have Screen Dimming set to Never. Screensaver When Playing set to None Power Management: Sleep Timeout = 60 Suspend Timeout = 3600 Suspend Enabled = Off Wireless Power Save = On I have tried just about every combination of the above settings, but my screen will always go blank after one minute when out of cradle and playing music. It seems like the number in Sleep Timeout overrides any other setting. Unfortunately, there is no 'Never' choice. I have verified my Controller is at 7.3 r6038. Thank you.
Does this happen when the Controller is in the Charging Dock or out of the Charging Dock
Screen Dimming: will lower the amount of backlight displayed. When you set it to never, that turns off the 'low' backlight setting only. Sleep Timeout: when the SBC is out of the Charging Dock, we shut off the backlight in (Max 60) XX seconds. We do this to conserve as much battery life as possible, if we didn't the battery would be dead in a matter of hours. Picking up the device will immediately turn on the backlight. CPU and WiFi are not turned off Suspend Timeout: can be set higher, (Max 3600 seconds) this setting will put the SBC into the lowest possible power setting. Turning off the CPU and WiFi controllers. The device must be 'woken' from this state. Suspend Enabled: ON will put the CPU into suspend mode at XX seconds from setting above. OFF will ignore this setting, never putting the CPU to suspend mode. Wireless Power Save: ON will put the WiFi into suspend mode. OFF will ignore this setting, never putting the WiFi to suspend mode. NOTE: A few Access Points (Home Routers) have issues when WiFi Power Save is enabled if you experience connectivity issues, try turning this setting to OFF. Enabling this setting (default) will result in the best possible battery life for your SBC
(In reply to comment #2) > Sleep Timeout: when the SBC is out of the Charging Dock, we shut off the > backlight in (Max 60) XX seconds. We do this to conserve as much battery life > as possible, if we didn't the battery would be dead in a matter of hours. > Picking up the device will immediately turn on the backlight. CPU and WiFi are > not turned off I would prefer to make that choice myself! I often play some music for my kids over breakfast, and they love to be able to see the cover art of their favourite CD when it plays - and so do I, when I hook up the Controller to a couple of small PC speakers in the garage. In earlier versions this was not a problem - even when the Controller was out of the recharging cradle, it would keep the cover art showing during playback. Maybe it is just me, but I consider this a substantial setback - one of the "wow-effects" about the Controller was to have it lying or standing on the table showing the cover art while music was playing. Personally, I don't really care if it eats battery - if/when the battery is about to go flat, I will put it back in the charger, but until then, I want to be able to see what I am listening to without having to pick up the Controller. I urge you to reconsider the RESOLVED WONTFIX status on this one.