hidden Contrast applet

[EngrPaul]

Is there supposed to be a rectangle of garbage above the slider?

I find it useful to lighten the contrast for viewing at low angles (near the buttons) when the device is laying on a table in front of me.

(Cool find!)

[Marcello]

The slider does absolutely nothing on my x51v (A04). I open the window and move the slider, but nothing happens when I move it between light and dark. It also resets to light each time I open the panel.

[zerograviti]

Is there supposed to be a rectangle of garbage above the slider?

The rectangle is actually 4 tone boxes, white/l.grey/d.grey/black.

For some reason, they are not garbled on my device if I open the setting in landscape mode. You can even switch back to portrait with it open and it's fine.

So if you'd like to see them, have a look at it in landscape mode.

[mmo]

On what device did you find this? I tried on my X51v (ROM version A06) and no such applet shows up.

Michael

[Whitey2006]

ok another person, I used tweak2k2 on my x51v to hack the contrast setting. Where the heck is it now?

[Whitey2006]

got it. you have to start up tweak and make sure you uncheck the contrast box then re-check it and then soft reset.

:)

[PaulGTE16v]

Hi,

This looks quite useful. How do I get into the registry on the Axim though ?? ( Is there a Pocket PC version of regedit ? )

Help would be appreciated.

Paul.

I found that you can enable a hidden contrast applet by going into the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Contrast

and renaming the "Redirect" value to "Redirect_" (or rename to something else, or remove it completley).

Then soft reset and go to start > settings > system > contrast and adjust the contrast. The only thing is, it doesn't remember the contrast after a soft reset. This should help with reading in the dark -- the screen brightness is too bright when you are in the dark.

I peered around for a hidden mixer applet too, but there doesn't seem to be one.

Thats a great find! I am going skiing in vermont and will be in the car for about 5 hours tomorrow. Since i wasnt able to get sienfeld on my axim (fairuse only copied the 1st episode) i decided i might as well read "Great expectations" for school during the ride.

[sargetalon]

Hi,

This looks quite useful. How do I get into the registry on the Axim though ?? ( Is there a Pocket PC version of regedit ? )

Help would be appreciated.

Paul.

There are a couple of programs that let you edit the registry on the Axim. I use Resco File Explorer. Does a decent job when its needed.

[snissenbaum]

Just found this thread, works on x51v WM5 as well.