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I set backlight to always be on during activity on I2X. But it won't come on?

net1994
over 1 year ago

This.  I have worked out a few times locally before sunrise at 6AM or so.  I start an activity but the backlight is off, despite me specificing 60% brightness.  I checked out all the settings and I don't see where it's amiss.  I've also tried gesture mode, and that doesn't do anything briefly for the backlight to come on. One setting I thought I swore I saw was something like 'Back light on after sunrise only.'  Battery saver is not enabled.

I also set background color to black, but it's showing a white background with black font.  I want it the other way.  If this is set properly, what other settings should I check?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    AFAIK, there is no setting "backlight always on" on Instinct 2. It would drain the battery rather fast. The gesture (not the backlight self) can be set either On (yes, always on) or After Sunset, but it does not mean the backlight will be always on (resp. always on after Sunset). It only tells the backlight will turn on, when you rise the hand. And it does work, although you should also configure correctly the hand you wear the watch on (left / right) to facilitate the gesture detection.

    net1994 said:
    I also set background color to black

    You can only change the background of the watchface, but not of the activity screens. The only way to do it, is using the Service Menu (hold the Down button while booting), where you can invert all screens.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Actually, that’s not true. You can set the background color in the Activities and Apps menu for each activity. It has been that way for every Instinct if I remember correctly.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Derp

    Yes, you are right. It were in fact widgets and some other system screens that are not directly configurable. I forgot about the option in activities.