When I try to turn up the backlight of my keyboard, it keeps giving me the "zero" symbol that looks like a O with a / through it. I have not spilled anything and haven't tampered with anything. Will it refuse to light up if I'm in a lit enough area?
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Backlight Refusing to Light Up
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I was just sitting in my living room. No unusual bright lighting either. I guess regular daylight will prevent it.
Its true, when the computer is in a bright room the lights will not turn on. This is probably because it is useless in daylight. It can almost not even be seen and if one was to use it on battery it would drain it quite fast.
You can hold your hand over the ambient light sensor and activate the light by pushing the light up button (F6). The ambient light sensor is located a few millimeters to the left from the iSight camera on your MacBook Pro unibody.
If you have a MacBook Pro that is not unibody there is two ambient light sensors, each one under the two speaker grills on the sides of the keyboard.
You can hold your hand over the ambient light sensor and activate the light by pushing the light up button (F6). The ambient light sensor is located a few millimeters to the left from the iSight camera on your MacBook Pro unibody.
If you have a MacBook Pro that is not unibody there is two ambient light sensors, each one under the two speaker grills on the sides of the keyboard.
http://labtick.proculo.de/
Lab Tick allows you to control your back light so that it will turn on in brighter light.
Mooch
Lab Tick allows you to control your back light so that it will turn on in brighter light.
Mooch