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Mogul flashing light?

My previous phone (T-Mobile Wing) would flash different colored lights when something happened. Specifically, when a text message or voice mail came in, the flashing green light would flash faster and in orange. From what I can tell, my Sprint Mogul does not do this. Is there any setting I can change so it does do this?

i hope it is possible because that would be awesome to have all or at least more than one light flash when you get a call

the light flashes orange when you've missed a call or a message

sputnik said:
the light flashes orange when you've missed a call or a message
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Not mine :\
Not with SMS at least.

Sounds & Notifications
Start -> Settings ->Sounds & Notifications
Scroll down to: Messaging: New Text Message
Is "Flash light for "No Limit" selected?
If not, change it to that. The orange light should flash on and off when you get a new text.
Also, if you haven't yet, upgrade to DCD 3.2.0 and the newest Radio for the best results. If you're trying to kill the flashing green light, search for LED Killer.

Even better is nueLed

scotcha12345 said:
Start -> Settings ->Sounds & Notifications
Scroll down to: Messaging: New Text Message
Is "Flash light for "No Limit" selected?
If not, change it to that. The orange light should flash on and off when you get a new text.
Also, if you haven't yet, upgrade to DCD 3.2.0 and the newest Radio for the best results. If you're trying to kill the flashing green light, search for LED Killer.
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That was it, thanks!

how to increase frequency of blinking light?

I've noticed that the notification light for new emails and the like doesn't blink as frequently as the g1. Is there anyway to to reduce the time gap between blinks?

+1. You have to be staring at it otherwise you miss the blink.

lol +2 I catch myself stopping in my tracks and waiting a good 6 seconds to see if there's going to be a blink.

If you use the new CM build + Trackball SMS, the notification light will continue flashing every second until you activate the phone

The worst is when I "think" I see a blink in the corner of my eye and then I have to debate whether I should expend the energy to wake up my phone and check for a new message. Most of the time I hallucinate and think I saw a blink when really I didn't.

bobtentpeg said:
If you use the new CM build + Trackball SMS, the notification light will continue flashing every second until you activate the phone
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Where can I find trackball sms? I looked in the market and didn't find it.

bobtentpeg said:
If you use the new CM build + Trackball SMS, the notification light will continue flashing every second until you activate the phone
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Does this work with email too (gmail, non-gmail email) or just text messaging?

cupOjo said:
Where can I find trackball sms? I looked in the market and didn't find it.
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I don't see it either.

booloobunny said:
lol +2 I catch myself stopping in my tracks and waiting a good 6 seconds to see if there's going to be a blink.
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+3
Way too damn slow.
I also can't find trackball sms.

Its in this forum guys. Just search.

Mi|enko said:
Its in this forum guys. Just search.
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No results for Trackball SMS.
Is it "TrackballColoursConcept.zip"?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=613868&highlight=trackball+sms

Trackball SMS's link is in post 134 of the thread linked in Paul22000's post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5399764&postcount=134

Alpha code released:
[Here]
Please read carefully, no warranties provided.
lilHermit

From what I gather from your post, is that this alpha build doesn't play nice with what is current built into the phone. Is this a color changing thing, or a frequency thing? Would it be more feasible to write a program that just changes the frequency of the blinking?

[App] TrackballFlashRate
Ok you can change the flash rate from 1-9seconds, no colour changes take place. As the Stock ROM Notification system does not issue any period/rate changes this should work without problems.
It will also load your setting on phone reboot.
Download here
Change List:
- 1.0beta1 (30/01/2010)
Initial Release​Known Issues:
- 1second might not work, needs more testing​
Todo:
Add check for Nexus One​
Requirements:
Su/Rooted phone
Nexus One​
Use at your own risk, I cannot be held responsible for loss or damage etc etc yada yada yada.
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lilHermit

Does this work for missed call and email notifications?

scrappyabs2 said:
Does this work for missed call and email notifications?
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It should work for any notification where the trackball flashes until acknowledged.
lilHermit

Sweet. Please add to CyanogenMod.

Thanks a bunch lilHermit.

Thanks a lot for this mod!
However, it seems to be a little unreliable as sometimes it just stops working.
Also, if I reboot it will always stop to work and I will have to kill both SU and the mod itself and then restart the app for it to come back to life.
Any plans on further improving this mod or making it more reliable? Would really love to use this as the default for notifications.
Using Cyanogen Beta 4.

Bugs I have found

Alright, I got my Slide yesterday, and overall I am happy, but here are some things I have found. If anyone can help solve any of these issues, I will be indebted. This are in no particular order, just as I can remember them!
1. Can the LED change colors? My 3rd party apps have been unable to change the color.
2. MyModes:
Can I manually enter the location at which I wish the mode to change? Right now I need to be physically at the location for it to recognize that is where I want the mode to change.
Can I change the ringtone to vibrate instead of silent under mymode settings?
3. Custom notification ringtone: I can see the ringtones I have put on my SD card in some apps, but not in others. For instance, in Gmail - I cannot get my custom ringtone to show up in avaialbe ring tones, but I see it in other apps.
4. My GPS is ALWAYS searching
5. MyFaves: How do I turn off the notification for myfaves activity? CAn you turn my faves off?
6. Can you turn Sense (Expresso Sense, TMO sense, whatever they are calling it) off? Too many duplicate apps (mail, gmail, htc mail, music, htc music, 3 different messaging apps)
7. The messaging icon always displays an unread message, even tho I have read the message.
Thats all I have come up with, or can remember. What "bugs" have others found/fixed? Any one heard of an update to correct some of these bugs?
Thanks
K

kstar54 said:
Alright, I got my Slide yesterday, and overall I am happy, but here are some things I have found. If anyone can help solve any of these issues, I will be indebted. This are in no particular order, just as I can remember them!
1. Can the LED change colors? My 3rd party apps have been unable to change the color.
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At the moment no. But then again there hasnt been any dev. for this phone yet so its hard to tell if it suppports it.
kstar54 said:
2. MyModes:
Can I manually enter the location at which I wish the mode to change? Right now I need to be physically at the location for it to recognize that is where I want the mode to change.
Can I change the ringtone to vibrate instead of silent under mymode settings?
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Not exactly sure on how the my modes determines the location. buti only have 2 one for home and one for away.
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3. Custom notification ringtone: I can see the ringtones I have put on my SD card in some apps, but not in others. For instance, in Gmail - I cannot get my custom ringtone to show up in avaialbe ring tones, but I see it in other apps.
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try ringdroid. also do you have the folder structure correct in your sdcard for the notification sounds.
kstar54 said:
4. My GPS is ALWAYS searching
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i dont have this problem. make sure your gps is switched to be active and not just use cell towers
kstar54 said:
5. MyFaves: How do I turn off the notification for myfaves activity? CAn you turn my faves off?
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i dont use this feature it seams to get in the way of the phone. but i also noticed when i tested it. that when a fav person sent a message ... when i opened it once in any form it was read all the way around.
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6. Can you turn Sense (Expresso Sense, TMO sense, whatever they are calling it) off? Too many duplicate apps (mail, gmail, htc mail, music, htc music, 3 different messaging apps)
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install another launcher for eclair and then from homescreen menu > settings > applications > manage applications > htc sence > remove default > hit home > choose new launcher
kstar54 said:
7. The messaging icon always displays an unread message, even tho I have read the message.
Thats all I have come up with, or can remember. What "bugs" have others found/fixed? Any one heard of an update to correct some of these bugs?
Thanks
K
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this happend to me a simple restart solved the problem. this also happend on htc touchflo 2d, 3d on windows mobile so im going to say this is a htc bug.

A bug I noticed: plug in the USB, and there's 3 different modes: sdcard access, sync, and charge only. Setting it to charge only launches the sync software on the PC, setting it to sync mode does not. Also, it seems to turn USB debug mode off and on by itself.

try ringdroid. also do you have the folder structure correct in your sdcard for the notification sounds.
I have them like in my G1 - in a media/audio/ringtone, notification, and alarms
i dont have this problem. make sure your gps is switched to be active and not just use cell towers
Reboot corrected the issue.
this happend to me a simple restart solved the problem. this also happend on htc touchflo 2d, 3d on windows mobile so im going to say this is a htc bug.[/QUOTE]
Seems inconvienient that I would have to rebooteverytime to correct this
Another thing that has come up - My Homescreen is not rotating (yes it is set to) unless I open the keyboard (which is loose already).

goodwinm said:
A bug I noticed: plug in the USB, and there's 3 different modes: sdcard access, sync, and charge only. Setting it to charge only launches the sync software on the PC, setting it to sync mode does not. Also, it seems to turn USB debug mode off and on by itself.
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Not a bug. That's what it's supposed to do. Go go 2.1 and sense UI. You can set the default action for this in your settings
Menu > Settings > Connect to PC.
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I have noticed, the keyboard backlight doesn't always light up. I'll go to respond to a sms and the backlight for the menu buttons and the keyboard doesn't light up.

The keyboard is lit based on the light sensor. No light, it's on. Enough light, it kicks off.

here's a bug that i noticed, at least i think it's a bug. volume rocker/ringer volume does not control the notification volume(aka txt messages). any ideas on that one?
wasn't a problem on my cliq(which was my first android phone, slide is my second)

Had something last-night ping me when I was messin with home screens. After going back to SenceUI app icons were being selected with out my hand touching the screen, it happened about 4 times. Didnt activate the icon, just highlighted it, and would go away when I would select something else.
I thought it was my case or something, cause I was holding it, but then I saw wesgamer say something similar to the touchscreen messing up as well.
It was small and brief, but note worthy none the less.
kstar54 said:
Another thing that has come up - My Homescreen is not rotating (yes it is set to) unless I open the keyboard.
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Im also having this issue, happened on Home screen and DeskClock. DeskClock is fixed by Opening the keyboard, letting it go horizontal, and then closing the keyboard. Home screen, not so much.

I've run into a couple little bugs too...
Sometimes a text message thread will become out of order (the message I sent gets placed below the message I received as a response).
It also hapened in the very beginning when I only had a few texts in total on the phone so I dont think its related to having too many mesages stored.
A couple times the screen decided to scroll all the way up or down without cause. It has only scrolled down in a text thread and only up on a web page (XDA actually). I had a hell of a time trying to read something from the middle of a text thread! haha

I have had the messaging icon read 1 and all of them be read. I have also had the messages get out of order if text are sent back and forth between a minute.
I have one contact with a different ringtone and that ringtone never goes off, always the default one.
I've also had a problem with sd mounting, I had mine set to charge only and I hooked it up to my laptop and no option would come out to mount. I tried changing the setting to automatically mount and that didn't work either. A restart did.
Lastly, I had a theme downloaded from the theme site and had it as my installed theme. I went to the theme selection page and uninstalled the theme while still having it set as my theme and this made the phone crash and restart.

slvrblt - same thing happens to me
turboyo - I have had the messaging icon read 1 and all of them be read. I have also had the messages get out of order if text are sent back and forth between a minute.
i have that happen too. anyone not have their phone vibrate when text messages are received when vibrate mode is selected?
also sometimes when i'm writing a text message the cursor will jump around, anyone experience that?
this is a great phone with so many little dumb problems lol

The stock messaging app is garbage compared to Handcent and Chomp.
I was able to get rid of the duplicate Faves notification, but I can't remember how. Helpful, huh? I did go through the built-in "Manage Applications" via Settings and did some Force Stop on the redundant apps. I also went through via the Tools in Astro with Process Manager and took out a few things. So far, it seems as the management of processes being run is not as efficient as stock Android. Using the same process managers as on my G1, I always have much, much more to kill in the Slide. This has beat up my battery life and stopping several of these "unused" items has helped, but some apps have caused processes from several other apps to run and bloat the memory.
A couple other people mentioned it but Rindgdroid for creating notifications: sdcard/media/audio/notifications. Most of the things I've done I saved as a notification. I've used the pre-installed Voice Recorder then opened up that saved file in Ringdroid and saved as a 'Notification'. It's then shown up via Settings/Notifications in K9 Mail and the Gmail app. I have not tried this for other types of notifications.
So far, I love the phone. The standard "complaints" but have really taken to Swype as an alternate to the keyboard, especially for shorter messages. Genius is super. This is a phone that desperately needs a custom ROM though to help alleviate the excess stuff.

[Q] Notification LED

When the G2 first came out, I saw owners asking if they could get the LED (showing power/charging status) working as a notification LED. Fair enough, I thought, I'm sure someone will get that working.
However, when I got my DZ, I found in the settings (under "Display"), a section on "Notification flash", subtitled "Flash LED light for notifications". Then under that section you can turn on or off "Missed Call", "SMS/MMS", "Email", etc. Mine are all ticked, but when I get an SMS the LED doesn't flash.
In the PDF manual, the section on Settings->Display doesn't mention anything about this.
Does this work for anyone else ?
EDIT - Mine does work after all ! It's the trackpad LED that flashes. See post #21 in this thread

the option in the setting reffers to the trackpad light doesn't it?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

ddotpatel said:
the option in the setting reffers to the trackpad light doesn't it?
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I didn't think so, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, nothing seems to flash, neither the trackpad nor the power LED.

Same here, all ticket, but nothing happens !!

It works here, i can remember pad glowing on/off slowly. Also when got mail, the green led is blinking iirc. I will try to observe this more now if it works in all cases...
-- sent from htc z using xda app

I have no notification sound on new mail either. It does vibrate but nog sound.
All boxes are ticked (vibrate and sound) in the mail options...

U can use the LED for notifications when you install a program like sms pop up.
Standard the light notifications are set to use the track pad

Use the app LED me know , does exactly what you need it to do and more !!
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

****inglogins said:
U can use the LED for notifications when you install a program like sms pop up.
Standard the light notifications are set to use the track pad
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tried this, cant get compatibillity mode checked

Try reinstalling again, it works perfectly on my DZ with virtuous 0.6.1
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

I have a UK Desire Z too and I have the same problem that the LED does not flash when I receive a new SMS

Luckyman79uk said:
I have a UK Desire Z too and I have the same problem that the LED does not flash when I receive a new SMS
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Try the "LED me know" app from the Market, it's working great for me - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851220

It works on desire Z in both modes normal and compatibility.
I find it strange I don't see "Touchpad" until I enable Compatibility mode, I was expecting to see more options in normal, less in compatibility, as the name suggests.

At first I thought my LED was not flashing when I got an SMS, but i've realise its the trackpad surrounding light that flashes. Theres a long delay between flashes which is probably why i didnt notice it at first.

Luckyman79uk said:
At first I thought my LED was not flashing when I got an SMS, but i've realise its the trackpad surrounding light that flashes. Theres a long delay between flashes which is probably why i didnt notice it at first.
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Just with the stock ROM ? What version exactly ?

I havent got a clue about ROMS, but i'll tell you what its says on my software information page.
Baseband version: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
Kernal Version: 2.6.32.21-gd2764ed
Build Number: 1.34.405.5 CL273326 release-keys
Software number: 1.34.405.5

Luckyman79uk said:
I havent got a clue about ROMS, but i'll tell you what its says on my software information page.
Baseband version: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
Kernal Version: 2.6.32.21-gd2764ed
Build Number: 1.34.405.5 CL273326 release-keys
Software number: 1.34.405.5
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That's the stock ROM that the standard European DZs seem to have (I mean English ROMs). So the same as me. Weird, because it doesn't work for me at all.

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That's the stock ROM that the standard European DZs seem to have (I mean English ROMs). So the same as me. Weird, because it doesn't work for me at all.
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Its faulty then, send it back pal. When you receive an sms, the 1st 'pulse' of the light is when you get your vibration, then every 10 seconds ish after that.

I have no problems with this either however is kind of weird.
When I get mail, the led that is located at the top of the telephone (the one that changes color when charging from red to green when is fully charged) flashes.
However if it is a sms or miss called the one that flashed is the trackpad.
Is this suppose to be like this?

I think it's the same for me. Also, from what I've noticed, the upper LED will flash indefinitely until the email notification is dismissed, while the trackpad ring for SMS will only flash for a few minutes, not until I actually read the SMS.
Don't remember what the notification is for missed calls, I'll have to test more. I'd like to have that ring flash whenever I have an unread notification, and keep doing so until I dismiss the notification... The way it's now, also using the upper LED, seems inconsistent.

Notification LED Timeout

Hello guys,
I am trying to help a friend set up his Wildfire as he is new to android.
His biggest problem is the missed call / sms notification led. When he has a missed call, or a new sms the led notification lights up for five minutes and then turns off. Is it possible to leave the alert led on until he interacts with it?
The phone is brand new and still running the stock rom
Any help would be apreciated.
aalex

Just search for 'LED Me Know' on this Forum / GetJar. It should help.
I have used it personally, however, in the latest edition, theres a bug, that even after you have interacted with your phone, it keeps the notification LED on randomly. However, previously, I used v1.06, and, it worked flawlessly.

3xeno said:
Just search for 'LED Me Know' on this Forum / GetJar. It should help.
I have used it personally, however, in the latest edition, theres a bug, that even after you have interacted with your phone, it keeps the notification LED on randomly. However, previously, I used v1.06, and, it worked flawlessly.
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Thanks very much for responding,
I have tried both missed call and led me know, but they both time out after 5 minutes.
Am i missing something?

That's weird. Because I distinctly remember in my case, when I used it, the LED would keep blinking for hours at one go, till I checked the notification.
Did you try enabling 'Compatibility Mode' in the App Settings?

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That's weird. Because I distinctly remember in my case, when I used it, the LED would keep blinking for hours at one go, till I checked the notification.
Did you try enabling 'Compatibility Mode' in the App Settings?
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Hey 3xeno,
Thanks for responding.
Compatibility mode seems to be greyed out in my phone and i cannot select it.
Should the phone be rooted?
Thanks
aalex

No, it doesnt require root. One more thing comes to my mind, did you disable the stock ROM's option to flash the Notification LED?
Menu > Settings > Display > Notification LED
And GMail LED Notifications from GMail > Settings > More Settings
If, even after doing this, you cannot enable compatibility mode, refer the original thread of the app here and contact the developer, as he says:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837057
Good Luck

3xeno said:
No, it doesnt require root. One more thing comes to my mind, did you disable the stock ROM's option to flash the Notification LED?
Menu > Settings > Display > Notification LED
And GMail LED Notifications from GMail > Settings > More Settings
If, even after doing this, you cannot enable compatibility mode, refer the original thread of the app here and contact the developer, as he says:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837057
Good Luck
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Thanks again 3xeno,
I will try and contact the developer.
Happy New Year!
aalex