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    keyboard light

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ironman, May 8, 2011.

  1. ironman

    ironman Notebook Evangelist

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    How do I make the keyboard backlight stay on all the time instead of turning it on manually after I turn the computer on or is there no such thing?
     
    ironman, May 8, 2011
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    Hmm, for me it remembers my last setting. If I have it off, it stays off, and if I have it on, it stays on. Weird.
     
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    Just for the heck of it...go into your bios and disable the HP hotkeys. When you are in Windows...you can use Fn-F5 to turn the keyboard on and off and it should remember what you choose. I turned off the bios hotkeys...because I use programs that use F1-F9 and kept getting the wrong functions, because of the bios hotkeys...

    Try that...
     
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  4. ironman

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    wow tried that and sitll doesnt work... is it drivers because I do have a clean install

    edit: light stays on when rebooting and when sleep/wake, not shutdown/start yet
     
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    I know if you use the official AMD drivers instead of the HP provided ones, it can mess up your brightness control. Perhaps it messes up the keyboard backlight controls as well?
     
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  6. ironman

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    what I dont understand is how the keyboard special keys work and the wifi/mute/CAPS lights work even after I uninstalled hp quick launch and hp smartmenu.

    edit: this is gonna be fun.. uninstalling everything that says HP in its name
     
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  7. ironman

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    wow everything on the keyboard works with no HP software and drivers................ reinstalling time

    update: still doesnt save light setting


    update2: hp says you always have to manually turn the light on. can someone confirm with an envy 14?
     
    ironman, May 8, 2011
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  8. ironman

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    ah can any1 update me on their envy 14 backlight, does it stay on after shutdown/ start? Im talking to hp
     
    ironman, May 8, 2011
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  9. spencerp

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    every time you start your envy you must manually turn on the back light. It cuts off by itself on shutdown.
     
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  10. ironman

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    Alright, HP says backlight will not save setting after shutdown/power but will stay after restart or sleep mode. So back to my question, is there a software that I can use to keep the baclight on when computer starts?
     
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  11. MagusDraco

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    what spencer said.

    that's how mine has always worked (it's a manual thing)
     
    MagusDraco, May 8, 2011
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    My keyboard light always turns on when I start the laptop no matter if it was on or off when I closed it, a little annoying but it's easy to turn off so, same with the mouse pad I wanna keep it off but it also turns on at every start.
     
    MiRRe89, May 9, 2011
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  13. ironman

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    I wish my keyboard turns on every start.
     
    ironman, May 9, 2011
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