Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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ConiKost
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Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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If I do charge my Montana, the backlight stays off until it reaches 100%. While this is fine when charging, I would like to have also the ability to disable backlight, when it's fully charged. Is there any way to do that?
Garmin DriveSmart 86 MT-D (FW 6.80, HW V8, GPS 9.00.50, 32GB SD)
Garmin Montana 750i (FW 19.00, HW V6, GPS 2.90, Touchscreen 85.07, ​64GB SD)
Exurban
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Re: Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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Just open the status page and adjust the display brightness. You can also set the time out to 15 seconds if you might want it on briefly.
ConiKost
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Re: Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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The device is in low power mode, so you only see in the middle of the screen, how much already has been charged? So I don't think, that the status page will work in this mode?
Garmin DriveSmart 86 MT-D (FW 6.80, HW V8, GPS 9.00.50, 32GB SD)
Garmin Montana 750i (FW 19.00, HW V6, GPS 2.90, Touchscreen 85.07, ​64GB SD)
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Re: Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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Just tested my 750i, and the backlight is off at 100% charge level. I do have the backlight timeout configured for 30 seconds in the Setup > Display menu.
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Re: Disable backlight when battery at 100% charged

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gpsrchive wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:32 pm Just tested my 750i, and the backlight is off at 100% charge level. I do have the backlight timeout configured for 30 seconds in the Setup > Display menu.
Hm, yes. This setting seems to be releated, as I have it set to 'Always On', since I want to have backlight enabled during normal operation. But this is strange, that this setting still has effect on low power mode.
Garmin DriveSmart 86 MT-D (FW 6.80, HW V8, GPS 9.00.50, 32GB SD)
Garmin Montana 750i (FW 19.00, HW V6, GPS 2.90, Touchscreen 85.07, ​64GB SD)
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