Ever wonder if you can lower the brightness or disable the LED lights on the KEYone fingerprint sensor?
Out of the box, every BlackBerry KEYone has a set of LED lights enabled on the fingerprint sensor. It's cool that they're there as it helps you find the fingerprint sensor at times and acts as security indicator by letting you know when apps are interacting with the fingerprint sensor but it's far from a crucial addition to the KEYone. Have you ever wanted to disable them? I'm sure a few of you have and with the latest KEYone update rolling out you can!
How to adjust the fingerprint sensor LED lights on the BlackBerry KEYone
- Swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the notification shade.
- Tap the Settings icon in the upper right corner.
- Scroll and find Security.
- Select Fingerprint.
- Use the Optimize fingerprint LED slider
From there, you can adjust the setting as you see fit. You can turn the brightness all the way up, have it barely on, or just disable it entirely. It's a small feature that was never there until the latest update and one of those things you might miss without it being specifically pointed out to you. Now, go forth with new knowledge, master of LED lights!
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How to adjust the fingerprint sensor LED lights on the BlackBerry KEYone
I lost my hardware function (fingerprint sensor) a day or 2 ago, trying methods to troubleshoot, running battery down has been an all day process, meanwhile I have created back up of device and files for the last resort of software restore. Hopefully it will be an easy fix, I would hate to have a 3rd device malfunction, its barely a week old this one.
is there a way to make the whole keyboard brighter ? I have 2 KEYᴼᴺᴱ's and one is way bright but the other you can barely tell that it's lit up at all. I bought 2 when they first come out, each one of them are adjusted the same way and one is great and the other sucks!! The screen is even way brighter on one then it is the other. I'm driving so I'm using google voice text hope all this make sense
Now my fingerprint LED lights up like a boss!! Yeah! Thanks for the tip!
Ah, yes. Updates.
I remember those when I had my shopblackberry Priv.
Then I went and got a KeyONE from O2 in the UK and I've not seen an update since...
This is great info!
Thanks sir bla1ze.
Let's see where apple puts there finger print scanner on there new phones today. Lolol
Nice tips thanks,
Keep in up Blaze1
Blackberry keyone forever. 😀
Fingerprint scanners are bad for your health! Muhaha
Picture Password FTW!
I think this is one of the coolest features of the KEYone.. A nice touch. I hope the KEYtwo thinks about such ideas so that this iconic device shows users how much it thinks of issues like this. One complaint I have is that the lighting of the Android buttons is tied to the keyboard and not the screen. It means I have to swipe the keyboard at night just to see them. Can I change that?
I don't have it. i a have a French KEYone.
Option not showing on my phone. Verizon version.
I don't see this feature/option on the unlocked CDMA version.
Will this be in the next update? Or......?
Nice tip Bla1ze, thank you.
Hey @Bla1ze, there's a typo in the (good) article: "but its far from a crucial addition to the KEYone..." You're missing an apostrophe. Its should be it's. :)
Cool tip! I just adjusted that with ease! Thanks Bla1ze!
I suppose that's cool, I would have much preferred a track pad/ touch keyboard (whatever you wanna call it) optimization setting rather than that.
I mean seems a weird thing to focus their efforts on? Was it really that high of a priority? Was there a lot of complaints/ comments about that?
Or it was an easy add on their part.
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These "how to" blog posts are really cool. I'm sure it helps a ton of people out. Not everyone is able to find things easily :)
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Option is available on my unlocked KEYone, but not on my ATT Black model. Does this feature have to do with security updates? My unlocked has the Sept update, the black is still on the August update.
Lucky. I'm still on the July patch.
Nice, very cool. Why would anybody disable that??
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I actually never thought to disable the lights never was a concern and felt more like a continence than a bother
Okay! Now we just gotta wait for them to give us the option to adjust the keyboard backlight! :)
When you start latest update are you referring to the September security patch?
If so it would be helpful to detail that in the article.
Not available on BBB100-3 April update only.
Edit- I see now. Guess I should read all the short article before posting. ;)
Please remove one " B " and one " 0 " and we're talking.... ;-P
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Lil bit of corrective info.. This feature has nothing to do with the latest update. My KEYᴼᴺᴱ is still on the July 5th update and the the feature is also on my phone.
Dunno when it became available or if it's been there since the phone was released in May. Eitherway, for those without the latest update.. No need to worry.
For US/Canada, it does. It came in the Sept. patch. Other regions such as India, have had it before as it came on the limited edition black pre-loaded.
I'm in Canada and still on the July 5th update and it's there. I'd guess it was introduced maybe with the keyboard update or something else downloaded from Google Play.
Mine as well. I'm in Canada and am on the July patch. I've had this feature the whole time. Hoping to get a new security patch soon though but the phone is working really well so whatever.
Weeeirddd. I've never had it until Sept. At least I'm not alone since others also say they don't have it yet lol.
Told u fam. It had nothing to do with the latest update. Been there for a minute and then some. You just weren't aware of it.
Nice info... Thank!
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Great for night time!
Good tip had no idea was there! thanks!