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    Fresh Install Proximity Sensor

    Discussion in 'HP' started by alcaron, Mar 20, 2012.

  1. alcaron

    alcaron Newbie

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    So with the HP install of Windows (I installed a Intel 520 SSD so recovery wasn't an option) the proximity sensor turns off the display as well as the keyboard backlight.

    However on a fresh install the only thing I can get it to do is turn off the backlight. Anyone have any idea how/why? And how to set it up like it is on the HP official install.
     
    alcaron, Mar 20, 2012
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  2. sahaskatta

    sahaskatta Notebook Consultant

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    I don't think mine ever turned off the screen. It only turned off the keyboard backlight. Come to think of it, that might actually be a neat idea.
     
    sahaskatta, Mar 20, 2012
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  3. alcaron

    alcaron Newbie

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    It definitely did on mine, I've specifically shown several people (with a wave of my hand) that feature. It was very evident to me when I did my fresh install that it was different.
     
    alcaron, Mar 21, 2012
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  4. hy565

    hy565 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm also quite sure the proximity sensor utility only turned off the backlight (using a timer and not the sensor) and turned it on via the sensor.

    As for the screen, I believe it was the windows power options that turned it off after a certain period of inactivity(perhaps coincidentally in sync with the proximity sensor utility), and I'm fairly certain the proximity sensor does not turn the display back on.

    At least on mine..
     
    hy565, Mar 22, 2012
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  5. yknyong1

    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    This is correct.
     
    yknyong1, Mar 22, 2012
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    ryanb8409 Newbie

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    Sorry to revive this thread, but my ENVY does the exact same thing as the OP.

    Out of the box it didn't (with the stock BIOS F.04 or .05, can't remember and HP Win7 OS), but I had that keyboard skipping problem, so I did the Win + B trick to go back to F.00 (I believe that's the version it takes you to anyway), reinstalled Windows from scratch to debloat (didn't like the minimal image either), installed the proximity sensor "driver" from the ENVY thread on these forums and the keyboard backlight and screen started turning off and back on together (every setting for timeout in the Proximity Sensor CP applet worked) and it's definitely not a setting related to the Windows Power Options (since when the backlight comes back on, it turns the display back on too, that and my display timeout times are set to 15 minutes). Now when I updated the BIOS to the newest version (and previously the one before that), my ENVY stopped doing this, did the Win + B again and it started again.
     
    ryanb8409, Apr 20, 2012
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