Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Always Keep LCD On in BlackBerry Simulator in Eclipse 3.4.1

I used to program my BlackBerry project in Eclipse 3.1.4 with a 9530 simulator. The LCD display of the simulator will dim out after a while. This is very annoying.

Here is to config the simulator to always keep LCD on :

  1. In the menu bar, click Run
  2. Click Run Configurations...
  3. Click the Simulator tab sheet
  4. In Profile:,click the New button
  5. When prompt for Enter profile name, for example, input 9530 English
  6. Then, click the OK button. Now, you can edit this profile.
  7. Click the Advanced tab sheet
  8. In the text box under Command Line:, there is a long command line string : ... fledge.exe ... /app=Jvm.dll Go to the end of this string, add one more option string : /keep-lcd-on
  9. Then, click the Apply button
  10. Then, click the Close button

Then, the next time when you test run your project using the simulator, the LCD display will always on. You can click the main menu View to double check. The Keep LCD On should be tick


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