Overall the upgrade to 10.7 worked very well, I'm posting this here as it's specifically a Macbook issue. Everything works great except that I can no longer disable keyboard illumination? I had it disabled pre-install and now its on and will not turn off. Hardly the end of the world but has anyone else seen this and have a fix for it?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I'm having the same problem plus a couple of other issues with some apps.
What year/model do you have?
Does it stay on even in bright light?
Experiencing the same problem here on a MacBook Pro 13" mid-2009. Control for keyboard illumination not working. Have restarted to no avail. Confirming that keyboard light is staying on all the time regardless of ambient light level.
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Same here. The illumination just doesnt go away. Restart dint help. Even if i am in good light, its on. Any key pressed or any action on trackpad activates the light. For now i have set the timer to 5 sec. Hope we get a fix soon. Its just a waste of battery power.
I upgraded mine and it works fine.. I have an early 2011 MBP 15.
I am having the same issue as well. I have a 2008 MBP. The keys keep on illuminating and then de-illuminating. Very annoying
Early 2011, same problem. It is beyond me how this could slip through Apples testing/QA. I mean, it's really really visible...
yes Im having this problem and its getting to be impossible to use laptop, I cannot see the keyboard letters etc as its the titanium version.
I would recomend reseting the SMC. I looked into resetting pram/nvram but they did not control the issues..
Take a look at this KB http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 the smc directly controls keyboard illumination.
I hope this works for you.
Have we overlooked one solution, which is to use the keyboard backlight level function keys, F5/F6, to take illumination level down to zero light? That seems to work for me.
Yeah I have dimmed it completely. It's the best workaround but we still have the issue. Working with apple support. SMC reset wouldn't help. They are researching this issue. Could very well be the default behavior with Lion. And they did say it varies from year and model of your MBP
I have a MacBook Pro and have the same issue. Annoying. Resetting SMC does NOT fix it.
I am having the same problem. MBP 13 - Mid 2010. The work around for now is to use F5 key to dim it completely. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next patch.
I was having the same problem but just read the suggestion about using the F5 key and kept pressing until it finally went off. Thanks for your help!
I am having the same issue; MBP 17-inch Mid 2010.
Macbook Pro - Lion Keyboard Illumination
