Paul at MoDaCo is as fed up with the blinking LEDs on our devices as most of us are. The difference is he can code an application. :wink:
He has written a small app that you download and it shuts down the LEDs on the HTC Universal, Prophet and Hermes. Right now, there is no GUI, so to turn them back on, you need to uninstall and soft reset. This topic started nearly four years ago on this site. Obviously, the OEMs are more interested in bells and blinking lights than working on serious issues, because four years later, we still have annoying blinking lights and issues with alarms on Pocket PCs not firing reliably. :roll:
I'll tell the truth and let everyone know that I thought the blinking lights on my first PDA phone were pretty cool...right up until I got in bed while the phone was blinking away on the night stand in both blue and green...and at that point I realized there was no way to turn them off without turning off the function they are indicating. This is even worse if driving at night and trying to use a bluetooth headset. The LED is so distracting that I would try to hide the phone under something or put it in the door so I would not see the darn light blinking.
I think there is good reason to have blinking LEDs on these devices. Indicator lights let me know what is going on with my phone at the time. If I have a new message it blinks orange. If I hav eBT on it blinks blue. As long as there is a signal it blinks green as well. Not to mention the other indications they can and do provide. They do not need to be as bright as they often are and they should certainly have an "off" setting. It shouldn't be mandatory that my device annoys me as much as it helps me.
I love my i730 but the blinking lights drove me nuts. I use it as my alarm clock and the blinking lights at night seem like airplane strobes!
I read of a registry hack that turns them off. I applied the hack and - bingo - no more LEDs. But, also, no more vibrate...ever. Bit of a bummer. Bruce, over at pocketmax.net (phoneAlarm) tried to implement this for some of the pdas, but couldn't get them all to respond to the plugin.
Anyone know if this would work for a non-HTC device? (And maybe get back vibrate? :lol:
I'm such a geek that I like the blinking lights for their own sake. I've been known to turn Bluetooth on just for the light, in the past when I had no BT devices. Even I had enough sense to turn my phone face-down at night.
I also really like the functionality of knowing my coverage, message, or Bluetooth status by the LEDs.
There are some options in Tweaks2k2 to alter the settings of the LED's on the 4700 and a couple for the HTC Blue Angel and Magician too. Personally I don't use them, I cover the PDA with a black lens cleaning cloth at night whilst it's cradled.
What realy disturbs me, is all these people that are apparenly have to sleep with their PDAs right next to them. :lol:
Well my PDA is always next to me when I sleep - its my Alarm and wakes me in the mornings - wouldn't be much use anywhere else now would it! I just look at it from this angle - I want to get my money's worth from it - so ... what's the problem exactly?
;-)
A Fix For The Pox That Is The Blinking LED?
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