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[REQ] Flashing Lights

One thing I really liked about the Touch Pro was the little light wheel flashed when you had an incoming text, a missed call, or a voice mail. This was especially useful if I walked away from my phone, and came back.
Now I don't know anything about programming, but I was wondering if it is possible to make the little buttons on the Touch Pro 2 flash in a similar fashion. Like a wave of light across the bar, if you understand what I mean.
Sorry if there is something like this out there. I didn't know what to search for.

why don't you just set the notification led to blink for each of these events. you can set it in the sounds & notification settings.

xnifex said:
why don't you just set the notification led to blink for each of these events. you can set it in the sounds & notification settings.
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Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see where. On the sounds and notifications, it only has a tab for Sounds and a tab for Notifications. Not trying to sound snarky, but I don't see anything about a light on there.
Like I said, maybe I'm just missing it.

on the notifications tab theres a drop down menu for events. look in that & find which events you want the status led to blink for

That just flashes the little green LED at the top, right?

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That just flashes the little green LED at the top, right?
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Right, sadly the tp2 only flashes one color with notifications/events. Flashes amber when battery is low
Hopefully someone can figure this out in the future

tarroyo said:
Right, sadly the tp2 only flashes one color with notifications/events. Flashes amber when battery is low
Hopefully someone can figure this out in the future
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Yeah. I hope so too. I liked the little flashing ring of light on the original Touch Pro.

Froyo and no Trackball update?

I wonder why Google didn't give us this update that the hacking community has had for so long. Thoughts?

Because they didn't even give us this update... who knows, maybe it will be in the actual release, if this isn't it.
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It seems that there IS this feature built in, just depens on the app, etc... at least some are reporting colored track ball alerts for differing apps.

I can confirm the above edit. I get different colors but no way of changing to a preference.
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Alleviate said:
I can confirm the above edit. I get different colors but no way of changing to a preference.
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Which colors for which alerts? Mine seems white for everything.

On my GF stock nexus phone i updated to froyo and for text it came up as magenta color.
I tried using handcent sms to change the color but i dont think it is configured yet to control that.

Damn, mine's still white.

I just did a little test with AK notepad and set a notification to glow green and sure enough, it works. I guess the individual apps have to give you the option to change the color.

tamatama11 said:
On my GF stock nexus phone i updated to froyo and for text it came up as magenta color.
I tried using handcent sms to change the color but i dont think it is configured yet to control that.
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handcent allowed me to change color of notification, and it did work

People are getting mixed results with the trackball. I can get AK Notepad to work, but nothing else does. On an AT&T N1

ben_zin said:
I just did a little test with AK notepad and set a notification to glow green and sure enough, it works. I guess the individual apps have to give you the option to change the color.
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That's what it is. I use SMS Popup for my text notification and the app itself gives me the option to change the trackball color. Everything else is still white.

AK notepad works for me

I can see lilhermit creating a working patch for stock 2.2 seeing that Trackball Alert should work just fine now

Kpow said:
Which colors for which alerts? Mine seems white for everything.
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Uhm, SMS Popup allows you to use any color for SMS. And I use the Bloo Facebook App that gives me a dark blue notification when I get comments, wall posts, etc.

My color trackball works with AK notepad!
Change the LED color settings, create a new note, set the remind and turn standby mode (press power button) and wait!

I wonder if the .34 kernel from cyanogen breaks the trackball . For those of u who its working what kernel version you have? .34 or .32 stock

I really miss trackball alert and the modifications made to the messaging app, I need my colored notifications back!

There's a reason there are no configurable colors for the trackball.
The update to the trackball is behind the scenes and it's meant for the developers. It's up to the application makers to choose the colors for their notifications.
On the plus side, this is android and that's why we have things like lilhermits trackball notifcation alert modifier. =)

Trackball colors IS in Android 2.2:
http://twitter.com/kmobs/status/14587956644
Well I was wrong about the color trackball notifications. Apparently there is an API for it now (I don't mind being wrong haha)
27 minutes ago via web
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The STOCK Google apps don't let you configure the colors, but I'm sure someone will whip up an app to control all the colors within 1 or 2 days

Yeah I'm disappointed with froyo because I wanted color track ball for my gmail, talk, etc. How will third party developers be involved with the core stock Google apps? That was the whole point, Google! I'm sure its only 3 lines of code to add into settings to switch the color.
Otherwise you would just root in the first place which defeats the whole point of waiting all this time for official support in froyo.

Third party developers can and already do send the information to light up the trackball.

Notification LED

Has anyone found any app to change the LED color or flash frequency for notifications? That was probably my favorite thing about the G1, and when I got the Cliq I was disappointed. The Slide is leaps and bounds better than the Cliq, but I was still hoping for a blue LED...

Im pretty sure if you use handcent for notifications atleast you can change the color for text

I use handcent for all my texting, and that's about the only thing it won't do so far is change the LED.
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i dunno it may not be a multi color led
I haven't been able to get any colors out of mine yet but green orange and red(orange may be just red and green on together?)
why not put a led like in the g1 its nice to know what the notification is before the screen goes on... it cant be that much more costly, i am also coming from the cliq, I bought a g1, mt3g,cliq and not a slide all on the first day they were available from tmob.
im very glad to be back to htc, i have used htc almost exclusivity for the last 4-5 years and i doubt ill stray again in the future

Yeah That's what I did minus the original mt3g. Hated the cliq though. I went through 5 cliqs because of hardware defects. Worst phone ever made.
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i just noticed handcent isnt on the market.. wtf?

Seems like everyone says that, but I can see it just fine. Im using it on my slide right now.
Send me an email cdholland87_at_gmail.com and I'll email you the apk

There seem to be people that can get it, and cant get it. Like, I jsut downloaded Handcent yesterday, but others cant, but I cant Find/Download LauncherPro, but others can.
Been told its a Google issue.

i heard it was a problem when apps get updated they are not showing back up in the market, it only seems to affect the slide, odd but the first few days i had my slide the market was acting very odd it was slow and wouldn't show any paid apps at all, but it seems fine now...
bhang

Well I installed sms pop up and atleast have led blinking for sms now, before it didn't even have led notification

I use Ringo pro it allows u to change color mine is blue now
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hmmm, then why dont other apps change the color
for 5pounds I can wait till a free app changes the color... but if there is a multi color led in there why cant other apps use it?
bhang

chrystal0925 said:
I use Ringo pro it allows u to change color mine is blue now
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Are you sure your getting a blue led flash using Ringo Pro, cause i have it and its green only. Even if i set every setting on my phone to not show a led for notifications, using Ringo pro it still flashes for some reason. If you have a blue led pls take a picture so we can see this?

Trackpad Notification Light

I was taking a quick look at the leds in the G2.
When i look at the jogball-backlight in regards to the trackpad light, I am unable to change the color. It retains the following value.
# cat color
color : invalid length​I tried to echo "0 255 255" into that, and still see the same message when I cat it. Any ideas?
Also, I can cat 255 into the brightness with no effect. I see the value when I cat brightness, but the light is still off. Looks like you have to trigger it? When sleeping the display and forcing the notification light, the brightness gets set back to 0 after it's flash.
Also the jogball-backlight directory contains:
- uevent
l- subsystem
l- devices
- power/wakeup
- brightness
- max_brightness
- trigger
- color​
Also, check this out.
#cat trigger
[none] rfkill0 battery-charging-or-full battery-charging battery-full usb-online ac-online mmc0 mmc1 mmc2​
-oldsk00lz

You tried this after soft root, correct?
Hahhahha my mistake nevermind...

Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?

mortal300 said:
Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?
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It has a touchpad light like the nexus and a battery notify light next the speaker. Currently, the trackpad flashing during an incoming call and the led light by the earpiece flashes during low battery or solid while charging. No flashing anything for notifications such as messages/email/ or reminders which sucks obviously. No apps change this currently without root. I guess this was the concern and the color obviously.

Tweetdeck makes the led flash when new post appear

When I have a new text message, with Chomp, the trackpad flashes intermittently as long as it goes unchecked.

Well that's good news I look a bit harder for 3rd party apps that can make notifications without root and see. Plus, there is a trackpad light app that requires root but let's you change colors and it creates notifications for email/sms/mms/ and reminders.

Have you tried that application yet? Would be interesting to see if it works as the directory structure looks different than what I read about the nexus 1. I was wondering if the 'invalid number' for color was due to no color being available, or just something that we couldn't read/set.
The notification in the earpiece looks to be amber/green versus RGB.
-oldsk00lz
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The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.

phesone said:
The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.
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If you go to /sys/class/leds you will only see amber and green. On my G1 I see red, green, blue. I think the amber is actually used for the red. I think it would be hard to having any blue colors without a blue led setting.
-oldsk00lz

Im assuming none of you guys seen the other two ligths located at the top left of the device on the face? if im not mistaken if you hold it up to the light it shows a purple square bulb below and a blue one above. is the blue one for blutooth? and is the other thing the proximity sensor?

I'm pretty sure both of the other "bulbs" you see are actually both the proximity sensor, on my vibrant there were 3 things, one was the ambient light sensor and the other 2 were the proximity sensors. I guess its an emitter and reciever.
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Hey, I just got the G2 and I am also gravely missing the LED notifications from the G1. I installed handcent, and have gotten the trackpad outline to blink, but the blinking is so infrequent and limited to white. There must be a way to toggle the charging indicator LED's. I've tried the app "Blinker" with no satisfaction. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!

schwiz said:
not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!
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That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...

Lmao @ quit crying ! But really.. Am I the only one who likes the fact that I can see when I have a notification while my phone is charging? I think it was a good idea though to seperate them. Any dittos?

sino8r said:
That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...
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What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.

schwiz said:
What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.
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No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.

sino8r said:
No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.
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Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo

schwiz said:
Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo
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When the N1 came out, all we had was white notifications from the trackball. It took some time but devs eventually figured out how to get diverse colored notifications from the trackball, and from the charge LED.
Relax and be patient, surely the G2 will follow the same path. It just came out.

OTA Annoyances

Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer

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Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
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I've noticed that low light pictures suck now.

I'm not having the same low light picture issues.
Also, if some apps look bad because of the new theme, those app makers should fix their apps. If just one app inherits the new color-schemes, all apps can. Some programmers are not using "best practice" techniques in this case.
For example, they manually set the background color and font color, rather than inherit from the colors from the system. Should be a simple fix for them, if they care.

daneren2005 said:
Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer
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For those that don't mind using Bluetooth, I highly recommended the Motorola H720.
This headset isn't that expensive, and IMHO it greatly enhances the call quality on ALL of my Android phones.
I'm still on (Bell) Froyo, but the H720 might be worth a shot for anyone disappointed with call quality...
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Since upgrading to official Gingerbread, my Gmail icon no longer shows up in the messaging app. Gmail still works, but when I go into messaging all other accounts are listed except my Gmail app account. Gmail was always listed in the messaging app in Froyo. My wife hasn't upgraded yet and Gmail list listed in messaging on her Atrix. Is anyone else having this issue?
Daneren, I agree the new color theme is horrible. The color and symbols on the notification bar really bad.

low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.

Jonny Steele said:
low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.
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This is why I think Motorola should have put the new exposure setting onscreen instead of in the menu settings. That setting makes a huge difference in picture quality, and I have to adjust it way too much for it to be in menu setting.

I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.

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I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.
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Have you tried a 3rd party app like Barnicle Tethering?...
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If you're rooted wifi tether for root seems to work fine for me.
I'd rather do that than manually dig around sql files and possibly bork something (as per the mod in the dev section).
As a formed N1 user I miss my vanilla android sometimes

To add to that
-home screen seems to be less responsive
- battery indicator inaccurate
Haven't tested a lot. Will take time to test all the options and features.
However the new keyboard seems to be an improvement though.
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No bugs or issues here but new MOTOBLUR home looks and performs worse than its predecessor.
As far as picture and video quality I see no difference.
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the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!

wintermute000 said:
the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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Slide your finger to the left, you should then have an option to change that.

thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol

wintermute000 said:
thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol
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Should be on the album art, if that doesn't work... Idk.

thx doesn't work, over to winamp.
Would prefer stock (lockscreen features, less bloat/ram)

Car dock became atrocious. You now can only add 4 apps to it, the rest is either close button (two of that), and stupid music player functionalities (music player, internet radio, podcast player) or voice search.

I also have ran into the issue with the battery indicator.

wintermute000 said:
the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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If you are looking for a player that's close to the previous, give PlayerPro a try. (Has trial but not free)
If you want a free player with even less permissions used than Winamp, give Zimly a try.
I currently have both players on my phone...
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