Turn off button lights?

[ipsadixit]

Is there a way to turn off the lights under the hard buttons?

They light up when I touch the screen, which gets annoying when I am reading ebooks in the dark.

 

[Arelunde]

Button lights and, especially, flashing alert lights are the bain of the DX at night. The button lights only go out when the screen goes dark, which doesn't help you. And the flashing red and green alert lights can make a dark bedroom look like the fire department is outside the window. To survive having the DX in the bedroom at night, I turn it face down and have the alert sounds set waaaaay low. I can hear them, but barely.

If you put the DX in a charging cradle (or any kind of a cradle), it will shift to a landscape night mode where the screen is barely lit, but the flashing lights still operate. There's a chance (I haven't tried it) that a cradle might kill the button lights while you are reading.

There's an inexpensive sturdy plastic cradle available that can come with a charging cable with a right-angle micro-USB plug. However, note that it's currently landscape only - not wide enough for DX portrait cradling. A rep from the company said they are working on a new design for the DX.

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There are some threads in this forum on controlling the button lights, but I think this is just one thing that, so far, isn't an option. It certainly should be added to the options and let's hope the 2.2 does this ... as well as many other little fixes.

 

[anon(40252)]

I read somewhere that this is fixed in 2.2 but until then good luck. I don't have a source and just going off memory.

 

[sahmad88]

There is an app called LEDs Hack that works for several phones but not the Droid X. I used to use this for the Droid Incredible. It's lights were much brighter than the ones on the X. I have emailed the developer asking him to work on something for the X. Maybe if more of us email him he would develop the app to work for the X. It only works on a rooted phone though.

 

[dmcman73]

Another alternative, albeit not the best solution, is to buy the black silicone case from Verizon. Not the shiny "hard" silicone cases but the standard black silicone ones. For some reason they designed those silicone cases to go over the buttons and cover them, maybe for better protection? But in any case, I can confirm that they hide the buttons well and no light comes through the silicone at all. Also gives it a better feel in hand while holding the phone reading something on it.