Droid2 global keyboard and softkey backlight

I don't know if anyone is having an issue when the keyboard and / or the soft keys backlight time out that they do not relight when you start doing things....this is an issue obviously when in dark areas...moto, google, verizon....is this a bug and when will be fixed. Searched my setting for backlighting and keyboard options and nothing solves this issue. This started with 2.3 update

My phone is doing this too, it makes it impossible to type in the dark! The little green notification light also keeps blinking even though there are no notifications! I called Verizon about the notification light and they told me I would have to factory reset the phone, which seems to be their answer for any problem I call in with. I called in about a month ago because my phone wasn't working at all... I couldn't make or receive any calls, texts, emails, nothing. They told me my phone booted itself off of the network and I would have to reset. I had to leave for work at that time so I said I would call back later to reset. About 30 minutes later my phone had apparently booted itself back on because it was working fine. Makes me hesitant to factory reset for anything.

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Hi all,
I'm having a major issue with my MacBook Pro built-in keyboard and trackpad. This issue is incredibly reminiscent of the previous widespread keyboard/trackpad freeze problems, documented in a number of threads, such as here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5860606
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196400
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6103438
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What's special about this case is that these issues began very recently, well after I installed Mac OS X 10.5.2, which I recall is supposed to provide a fix for exactly this issue. I've never had a problem with this MacBook Pro notebook before, so this is incredibly unnerving.
The issue is frustratingly intermittent, but frequent. Sometimes the entire keyboard and trackpad locks up (freezes) and won't acknowledge any input whatsoever. Other times the keyboard and/or trackpad appear to get "choppy", sometimes the keyboard will miss a key causing a typo while typing or the trackpad will suddenly stop moving the cursor. Other times the keyboard will repeat keys by accident, causing maaaaajor typos (kind of like that).
What's really weird is that I'm seeing the floating "eject" bezel appear (the symbol that you see when you hit the keyboard's eject button) very frequently, when my fingers are nowhere near that key and I'm sure it's not pressed. This even happens sometimes when I'm not using the keyboard at all, just the trackpad (most often while scrolling with the two fingers gesture).
I've troubleshot this in a number ways. Here is one such troubleshooting session's activity log that I kept while performing the troubleshooting:
---- CLIP ----
MacBook Pro Keyboard Freeze problems troubleshooting log
* Symptoms are a frozen keyboard and trackpad, that is, no input being recognized by the keyboard or trackpad. Not even the light of the caps lock key lights up when the issue is present.
* Restarted computer. Issue recurred moments after logging back in and beginning to type.
* Restarting, zapping PRAM. Issue is gone for a little while but has recurred.
* Found a single line at the time issue began again in the "All Messages" log shown by Console.app that reads as follows:
4/24/08 Apr 24, 8:58:15 PM kernel USBF: 551. 7 IOUSBCompositeDriver[0x65b7280](IOUSBDevice) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL
* Restarting computer again, trying to boot in verbose mode. Can't!! Keyboard wasn't recognized even at this stage! Can't log in either, keyboard unresponsive at login screen.
* Restarting again (via external USB mouse). Login window comes up and keyboard input is acknowledged. Very strange.
* Keyboard input lost once again after using the keyboard for a short period of time.
* Restarting, zapping PRAM again, and Logging in as Leopard's "Guest" user to try and isolate issue...no good, just seconds after logging in, the keyboard and trackpad freeze again.
* Restarting once again, this time everything works. Noticed that the keyboard backlight is not lighting up in low-light situations. Trying to change the light level with the keyboard keys always results in the keyboard backlight bezel showing up with a prohibitory symbol. This is looking more and more like a keyboard driver issue.
* Repairing disk permissions, no problems reported. Verifying disk itself, no issues reported. Issue persists.
Observations and Lessons learned:
* This issue began slowly, with freezes sometimes happening hours apart from one another, however it accelerated quickly. Now sometimes only mere seconds after logging in, my keyboard is frozen and sometimes the keyboard is even frozen at boot time, so that start up modifiers are not even recognized!
* Zapping PRAM helps, sometimes, but only for a short period of time.
* No other traditional Mac fix seems to affect the issue (repair permissions, etc.)
* The issue occurs regardless of whether or not any peripheral devices are attached to the system.
Perhaps unrelated, but interesting (and new!) to note:
* The Bluetooth menu item reports that "Bluetooth: Not available", the Bluetooth System Preference pane is not visible, and System Profiler reports that "No information found" about Bluetooth.
---- END CLIP ----
I've yet to try resetting the SMC, or doing a clean install, but from the copious amounts of users who reported similar errors in the threads I linked at the start of this post, those options only sound marginally hopeful.
Some of these issues (like the weird eject key suddenly firing on its own) have been present for a little under a week, but the freezing is brand new. The only system-wide change I've made in the last week was installed the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1, which was successful (verified in System Profiler; my boot ROM version reads as MBP31.0070.B07).
So mostly I want to know if anyone else using OS X 10.5.2 is also experiencing this problem. Also, though I'm grateful I could actually use my built-in keyboard to type this message (even with occasional missed keyboard presses, GRRR!!!) my only reliable workaround is an external keyboard. Which is a decidedly annoying thing indeed.
Help?!?
Thanks!
-Meitar Moscovitz
P.S. AUGH! Just as I was typing that last sentence the keyboard froze again! So I'm actually finishing typing this post via a VNC session. So, so, so so frustrating!

I wanted to post once again with additional information just in case someone else is also having similar problems. Unfortunately, I'm almost certain that this is probably bad firmware or bad hardware, not a software issue at this stage. Here's why.
KERNEL PANIC! Take a look at the backtrace and you can clearly see that the Trackpad is to blame. Also, in the system configuration report, not the boot ROM version string, which indicates that I have indeed updated to the latest firmware provided by the recent release of MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1.
Here's the Kernel Panic log and system configuration I reported to Apple:
PROBLEM DETAILS:
Fri Apr 25 14:46:15 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x34ba3a1a, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x013e5000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x04f1f800, ECX: 0x00000040, EDX: 0x0bbccd80
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x3492bbe8, ESI: 0x3492bca0, EDI: 0x3492bca0
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x34ba3a1a, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x0bbc0010
Error code: 0x00000000
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0x3492b9f8 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x3492ba2c 0x133230 0x0)
0x3492ba48 : 0x1a8c8a (0x461720 0x34ba3a1a 0xe 0x460ed0)
0x3492bb28 : 0x19ece5 (0x3492bb40 0x534500 0x3492bbe8 0x34ba3a1a)
0x3492bb38 : 0x34ba3a1a (0xe 0xba90048 0x10 0x10)
0x3492bbe8 : 0x34bae0c2 (0x0 0xbbccd80 0x0 0x40)
0x3492bc08 : 0x34bac46b (0x4f1f800 0x3492bca0 0x40 0x0)
0x3492bc68 : 0x34baed65 (0x4f1f800 0x3492bca0 0x40 0x40)
0x3492bd38 : 0x34baefc3 (0x4f1f800 0x0 0x0 0x59c159)
0x3492bd68 : 0x5955b3 (0x4f1f800 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x3492bdf8 : 0x823383 (0x4340000 0x43d2d00 0x0 0x0)
0x3492be68 : 0x8248a8 (0x4340000 0x43c9000 0x0 0x0)
0x3492bed8 : 0x8248e0 (0x4340000 0x0 0x0 0x135f38)
0x3492bef8 : 0x8277cf (0x4340000 0x2 0x5396a0 0x42636ac)
0x3492bf18 : 0x41f963 (0x4340000 0x437b180 0x1 0x19d4b1)
0x3492bf68 : 0x41eac0 (0x437b180 0x4257e40 0x3492bf98 0x1369d8)
0x3492bf98 : 0x41e7a2 (0x433c500 0x48c1440 0x4a81a00 0x4257e40)
Backtrace continues...
*Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):*
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad(1.6.3f3)@0x34b9d000->0x34bb5fff
*dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x590000*
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.5.2)@0x67b000
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI(3.0.7)@0x81d000->0x82afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x5bf000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x590000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x590000->0x5b7fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9C7010
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:
*Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B07*, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, 2 GB
Graphics: GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, spdisplayspciedevice, 128 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x87), 1.3.4
Bluetooth: Version 2.1.0f14, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
PCI Card: pci168c,24, sppci_othernetwork, PCI Slot 5
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MHY2120BH, 111.79 GB
Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, Apple Inc., high_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: Optical USB Mouse, Logitech, low_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer, full_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., low_speed, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., full_speed, 500 mA
Very strangely, Bluetooth functionality seems to have magically returned (it disappeared when this issue began occuring).
There are also further log messages possibly associated with these errors:
4/25/08 Apr 25, 2:46:07 PM kernel USBF: 2.411 CSRHIDTransitionDriver[0x445bf80](IOUSBCompositeDevice) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL
4/25/08 Apr 25, 2:46:15 PM DumpPanic[42] Panic data written to /Library/Logs/PanicReporter/2008-04-25-144616.panic
4/25/08 Apr 25, 2:46:28 PM kernel E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][StartInterruptPipeRead] there is alredy a pending read, skipping.
4/25/08 Apr 25, 2:46:28 PM kernel [InterruptReadHandler] Received kIODeviceNotResponding error - retrying: 1.
4/25/08 Apr 25, 2:48:19 PM kernel USBF: 145.306 [0x442ea00] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 2 of hub @ location: 0x5d000000)
Running an *extended test with AHT, got error: 4SNS/1/40000000: TD0D-85.500*
Also, *while running AHT, the keyboard freeze happened again*, and neither the trackpad nor even the light on the caps lock key was responsive, so now I am almost certain that this is not a software issue.
Sigh. I really don't want to take this to a third-party repair center, but as I'm in Sydney I can't wait for the Apple store to open up—whenever that's supposed to be.
-Meitar

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First, sorry to re-up that post after such a long time.
So, for some reasons, I had the same shortcuts problem since I installed Archlinux on my computer (more than ten months ago).
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Last edited by jjjaime (2009-03-19 10:50:18)

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Oddity: When I first installed Windows 7 and Boot Camp 3.x (same with Vista and Boot Camp 2.1), the keyboard and backlighting worked perfectly for about 3 Shut-Down/Re-Starts.
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Solutions?"
Any insight will be greatly appreciated. this issue is driving me crazy. Must have installed windows a good 30-40 times in the past couple months. thank you

As you all are probably well aware, this exact problem has been asked on a countless number of discussion boards and each is answered with a different "solution." Quotation marks are necessary because the solutions suggested work for some users but don't work for others. So, in a way, I offer those who read this reply this same disclaimer. The following solution worked for me (for now!) but it may not work for you.
Just like those other users, my volume and brightness function keys on my Macbook refused to work after installing the latest Bootcamp updates and after restarting Windows 'x' amount of times. In addition, trackpad scrolling, which worked great after one of the updates, also did not respond.
Here's what I did to get them working again, and it's rather simple. Find the Bootcamp application in Windows. Mine was housed in Program Files but yours may located be somewhere differently. Right-click the application and select Open. In my case the screen went black and the resolution downgraded to 800x600 or lower when the images on the screen returned so keep this in mind if or when you attempt this. The screen is significantly cropped so you may have trouble navigating to the Control Panel to fix the resolution to your liking. Anyway, now my brightness and volume function keys and trackpad scrolling work properly.
I should mention one or two more bits of information before I sign off. To start, I cannot say if this trick continues working after restarting Windows. Also, I do not know if this process is something you have to perform everytime you run Windows. In any case, let the world know if this or any other solution fixes this stated problem for you.

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I recently received a BlackBerry 8830 from a friend and the keyboard and trackball light aren't working. He's a stand up guy so I know he wouldn't sell me a faulty phone.
The Backlight Brightness is 100.
Is there a setting that needs to be changed or something that I need to download?
Is it possible that the light is faulty and needs to be changed?

Try re-setting the device by reomoving the battery for 30 seconds and then replacing.
That would be the first step.
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Stevie Ray! 1954-1990
** Don't forget to resolve your post with the accepted solution.

Brand New MacB Air and i haven't been able to get passed the format which has had to be done twice because, I have a French Numeric Keyboard and Language in English. The minute I type in my password, the keyboard gives me letters that i did NOT type.

I live in Switzerland and can only buy a Mac Air with a French or German keyboard, no chance to buy an English keyboard Mac here,. When setting up I chose the French numerique keyboard, although there are two choices French or French numerique. I put in my language as English. When all was set up I came to the start page and had to put in my password, by the grace of g....I just happened to see the first letter I typed before it turned into a dot. My password which was supposed to start with the number 2 showed a french e with accent before it quikly became a dot.
Because of the dot system, this meant that I had no clue what the keyboard was typing as my password ...........and true enough my password was not accepted despite my trying all combinations. I have had to reformat twice now thanks to Apple Chat and both times my password was not accepted. I am in the process of formatting it again, this time on my own. If the Start page does not accept my password again this can only mean that the Mac left the factory with faults. I could not be more disappointed with the money spent and the time and trouble that Apple Chat and I have spent in trying to correct a brand new out of the box Mac. I have a cheap Toshiba laptop also with a french keyboard and english language which gave me no trouble at all. I am not impressed with the so called King of computers! First of all the dot system is daft. People want to be able to see and confirm their passwords before they are set for good. Second, this problem is going to give me a lot of grief. Switzerland business is not renowned for its after sales service or the time it takes to do repairs. When I had an issue with my Vaio laptop which was still under warranty, they kindly picked it up from my house, repaired and promptly returned it. How's that for good proper service.

i didn't read a lot of your 2nd paragraph, but it seems like the password is the issue, right?
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