Anyone know where in the registry can I turn off the blinking bluetooth indicator. Not really a big deal until I'm driving in my car at night - it's like a cop is behind me!!! And bright too!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sea...dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=200
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Just to summarize: you can disable it, but only by disabling all the LED notifications - including WiFi, Radio and Power.
ZeBoxx: there is another less invasive way, but I've had no time to finish the app. But allledmgr will do the job for most purposes...
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you're working on way too much at the same time, vijay It leaves you with many unfinished projects, and a lot of posts going "maybe vijay will write it for me" :>
Not that I'm one to talk.. *eyes that darn colorpicker*
Damn, forgot about the color picker. VJCandela's "GUI" wore me out. Working on something very very non GUI right now
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haha, good! I really can't find time to work on that da*n thing :\
hmmm.... my cingular 8125 has no such key under Builtin. So, I added the key "AllLEDMgr" and made a DWORD value named "Index" inside it which I set to 0. Soft resetting had no affect on the LEDs.
Interestingly, I can't delete the key "AllLEDMgr" now as it's marked in use.
Sleuth255: dump your registry (and also your rom if you're feeling generous) and send it over to sleuth @ vijay555.com and I'll have a look..
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I'm using the Wizard with norwegian ROM, and I don't have this registry key either. Does anyone know why, and how I can tweak the LEDs?
De-solder the LED or if you're not that adventurous, put a little bit of electrical/insulation tape over the LED
This should work, but it's not exactly the solution I was looking for....
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put a little bit of electrical/insulation tape over the LED
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that'll block the green wifi one, too, though! What you really need is a bit of green gaffer tape; that should block practically all of the blue but leave the green coming through
Ok, I tried the green gaffer tape, but it didn't look too good. I'm going to try the soldering solution now, and probably solder inn an extra CPU while I'm in there, just to boost things up. Thanks for the good tips!
you're welcome!
and remember - use leaded solder. Sure, it's not as good for the environment, but it'll last longer!
It would actually be nice if there were a way to disable the flashing radio LED, but I have motive other than being annoyed by it.
I would like to be notified of new voicemail, appointments, & text messages via LED, however, since I am color blind (technically...I have a "color defect") I can not differentiate between the orange and green flashing LED (although I can see the blue one).
Therefore it would be better to have it off UNLESS there is an alert.
Is it possible that somebody can write something to change this or is it hopeless?
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I know some people wanted to increase the keyboard backlight time. In case this hasnt been posted already, mad monkey has a cab for it:
http://www.dweiniger.com/tips/k-jam.shtml
No i have not seen this posted. tried on my qtek did not work - does it work on your device. i have seen a hack for the universal not wizard
cheers
nope this don't work on the T-Mobile MDA (US model)
Is it supposed to be a DWORD value? Anyone has gotten this to work?
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Is it supposed to be a DWORD value? Anyone has gotten this to work?
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No joy here
didnt work either on 2.8
nope - doesn't work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38314
You would think someone at HTC would know how to do it. Do any of those guys/girls post on this forum?
not that I've ever seen - not on any of the official retailer sites either. good luck
p.s. the question might not be 'how to do it' but 'can it be done'
yeah, I'm beginning to believe that the whole thing is completely implemented with hardware: a keypress starts a LED "On" timer. This is also why the kbd doesn't illuminate when it gets extended. Even though WM senses this and flips to landscape, it has no control over the backlight: It takes a keypress to start the timer circuit that illuminates the backlight you see.
bummer.
Sleuth255 said:
This is also why the kbd doesn't illuminate when it gets extended. Even though WM senses this and flips to landscape, it has no control over the backlight: It takes a keypress to start the timer circuit that illuminates the backlight you see.
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Working under the assumption that it is indeed in-hardware, there would've been nothing to prevent the engineers from making the magnetic switch enable the backlight, too
Working under the assumption that it's purely software, there should be nothing to prevent WM5 from doing this... other than that nobody has coded it to do so
Working under the assumption that it's hardcoded in the driver, somebody would have to hack the driver to extend the backlight; adding functionality to turn the backlight on would be a bit more difficult.
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Working under the assumption that it is indeed in-hardware, there would've been nothing to prevent the engineers from making the magnetic switch enable the backlight, too
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I'll give you "glass half full" on that one :wink:.
However.... the magnetic switch would be more difficult to implement than a simple key press which also resets a timer circuit. You'd have to tie that additional input into a circuit that could be hard-wired with the keyboard itself.
there's my "glass half empty" viewpoint.... I've just got a bad feeling on this one..... sorry.
I guess I'm going to have to take a closer look at some of the disassembled wizard pictures to make up my mind on this.
I sure hope a way is found to fix this as well as control those other blinking leds.....
well the point was, basically, there already -is- a magnetic switch. It's used to signal the OS that the keyboard has extended, and allow it to react on that; the chosen reaction being that the screen orientation is changed.
There would be nothing whatsoever stopping the engineers who actually put the thing together (not talking about somebody taking it apart and tinkering in there and whatnot) to have hooked that up to the backlight control /if/ that is in hardware %)
And if it's in software, then nothing would have technically stopped the software developers from making the keyboard slide-out trigger the backlight that way; assuming they already do as much on keypresses.
exactly. But the kbd does't light up when you extend it you see.... This behavior shoud be obvious
ok weird doesnt even put this into perspective ... i edited that value and softreset my phone. backlight timeout is still 5 seconds and now my bottom ( previously skinned) bar has gone back to default colours ... tried removing the value and resetting again had no effect either ... lovely hack this is now i can try and figure out why the hell this just happened ... running newest official qtek rom only for info
I think this is one of the largest downsides to this device. When I pull the keyboard out the lights should come on AND it should be longer then 5 seconds. It would also be nice if it had a light sensor (like on the SMT5600) to know if the light SHOULD come on or not.
If someone (or HTC) would fix this it would be awesome.
oh, they'll fix it - for their next device models The Universal already works that way, and you can tweak the backlight time. I'm sure by now they've gotten all the feedback they need to decide that that is better than the fixed behavior of the Wizard (not sure who at HTC ever figured that would be a good idea to begin with).
Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
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VJPlumBum
PS Turn your volume up.
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It made me smile, thank you!
I had to SR after it because the left LED started to blink green instead of right, and I've lost BT indication, which was left blue before, and nothing after this app.
Sorry, about that. That was the whole point actually, it was a test of some code I wrote to control the other leds. You'll have to soft reset to get proper led indications again, but you don't have to, everything will continue to work, just leds will be off.
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vijay555 said:
Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
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VJPlumBum
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The plum worked but not the bumming led's on my wizard V! Peace
Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
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vijay555 said:
Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
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Cheers V - i will test on my brothers hermes when i next see him.
Take care
works on my spv m700 (trinity)
strangly i think this is a useful tool. I hate flashing leds so when it turns off the lights at the end it leaves them off. This is better than the registry hack as I don't loose vibrate on the ringing.
whilst I love the close encounters bit, can you make this into a little wizard so we can choose which led to turn off or reset to normal behaviour.
this is because i want all the leds off except the blue one which i prefer to leave on as I don't like to leave BT running all the time.
Don't need to know my phone is charging or that there is some notices, notification alert or alarm. (when its in my pocket Im not going to see it!)
thanks Vijay
One of the function I use most on my wizard is the (flash) light in the camera mode. But its pretty annoying to have to go to cameramode every time i need a light. Maybe someone knows how to add a light on/off button or a shortcut or something to add to the htc home plugin. I would help me a lot.
Would love to know from a dev if this is possible!
I have been wondering if this is possible as well ever since I first got my phone. I always figured that if it was easy to do someone would have done it by now...
I mean just write a prog that checks the status of the hook to turn on/off the light and simply have it switch the status. No GUI necessary simply click the exe to switch the light on/off that way you could simply drop a link or ref to the program in whatever launcher you use and have that act as the button itself wham-bam-boom-done.
Being that I have never seen a prog that would do this I figured that you would need to do something unnecessarily complex to accomplish this; like you would be required to initialize the whole camera 'stack' (prob wrong terminology but whatever), something akin to starting a really messy windows service in order to even get the light to come on. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that kind of cpu load just to have an easily accessible flashlight function...
But if it can be accomplished easily I would love to see this developed!
Ooh Ooh Ooh... Me too!!!
That would be an awsome little program!
I install Car Stereos and Alarms... Heres the Stereo Guys version of making this work...
1> Take apart the Phone.
2> Find the light and cut the positive side of the LED. (assuming there is a common ground. would test for this prior to cutting)
3> Diode Isolate the primary (camera side) of the circuit
4> Diode Isolate the Secondary (new function) side of the circuit
5> from that point run a toggle switch inline on the secondary side to the battery... (careful soldering here... as well on circuit board)
6> Mount toggle switch to side of phone with electrical tape and hot glue!!! Ta Da!!!
hehe...
The above is for humourous information purposes only... Anyone putting a toggle switch on the side of their phone to turn on an LED is 1> Way cool for doing it and 2> Way geekier than me! While it may work, I wouldnt do it... hehehehe
I think i saw something like this in the development and hacking thread try searching there good luck!
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Ooh Ooh Ooh... Me too!!!
That would be an awsome little program!
I install Car Stereos and Alarms... Heres the Stereo Guys version of making this work...
1> Take apart the Phone.
2> Find the light and cut the positive side of the LED. (assuming there is a common ground. would test for this prior to cutting)
3> Diode Isolate the primary (camera side) of the circuit
4> Diode Isolate the Secondary (new function) side of the circuit
5> from that point run a toggle switch inline on the secondary side to the battery... (careful soldering here... as well on circuit board)
6> Mount toggle switch to side of phone with electrical tape and hot glue!!! Ta Da!!!
hehe...
The above is for humourous information purposes only... Anyone putting a toggle switch on the side of their phone to turn on an LED is 1> Way cool for doing it and 2> Way geekier than me! While it may work, I wouldnt do it... hehehehe
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Hahahah sound like a good idea........i wouldn't want to do that to my wizard, i rather go the slowest way.
BLAH.......BLAH..
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJCandela
Comes with a (legitimate) warning that constant use will burn out the LED before the rest of the phone. If you can live with that it'll probably do what you want.
Thnx, works for me. for as long as its gonna last
Kinda says it all in the Title.
Ive recently changed my theme to be very minimal,
including removing the start & close softkeys on screen (WM6.5.5)
Now, I use the hardware keys instead.
The problem is that because I use the hardware keys a lot,
they light up a lot & I have actually seen a slight drop in battery life.
The other problem is when I want to use my phone at 3am after being woken
by a text from a friend & all of a sudden Im blinded by the backlights behind
the four buttons.
Does anyone know if there is a way to permenantly disable them without taking
the device apart & ripping them out?
cris_rowlands said:
Kinda says it all in the Title.
The other problem is when I want to use my phone at 3am after being woken
by a text from a friend & all of a sudden Im blinded by the backlights behind
the four buttons.
Does anyone know if there is a way to permenantly disable them without taking
the device apart & ripping them out?
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the blinding lights ! XD
but i used a soldering iron and melted the everlasting amber charging light.....
cris_rowlands said:
Kinda says it all in the Title.
Ive recently changed my theme to be very minimal,
including removing the start & close softkeys on screen (WM6.5.5)
Now, I use the hardware keys instead.
The problem is that because I use the hardware keys a lot,
they light up a lot & I have actually seen a slight drop in battery life.
The other problem is when I want to use my phone at 3am after being woken
by a text from a friend & all of a sudden Im blinded by the backlights behind
the four buttons.
Does anyone know if there is a way to permenantly disable them without taking
the device apart & ripping them out?
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I've been searching endlessly for this also. any luck?
Sure is guys... not sure if its the bsb Tweeks... you can disable and control led lighting as well as in call settings and sms backlighting and screen.
Hi!
I'm considering buying the phone, but I'm being put off by some things, among them inconveniently placed notification LED. Afaik it is in the power button, which quite sucks. So I'd like to ask what some handy alternatives there are? Probably something that would turn on the screen and it would stay on for some time?
Thanks
No one? How exactly do YOU solve this problem?
Got soldering skills? Buy micro led, solder it in front of speaker mesh, enjoy.
retsam88, it is better to be quiet if you don't have a reasonable answer.
The majority of us just don't consider this to be a problem.
OK, thanks, maybe I could also live with it.
I found two applications in case I could not:
Status LED:
http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000...http-i8000-modaco-com/301392/status-led-v0-4/
ReRemind:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=498161
Now the only thing remains to buy a Touch HD for a good price
Frankly, i never noticed if HTC Touch HD's led is blinking or not when you have missed calls/sms and have been using it for 2 years now. Only noticed it blinking when battery is drained. But you can use S2U2, which is a free lockscreen application and has the options of reminding you about missed calls/sms/emails by playing sounds at certain intervals.
Eh... is there an application which could be used to tweak the LED? Thanks
yes i have on top let blink for mesage mised call etc