Is there a way to kill the blinking lights?
 

Does anyone know of a method to kill the blinking lights? I come from the Treo 700wx world and I got quite used to not having the blinking lights, and I used them for alerts only, (which was very helpful) and now I find them very distracting and completely useless.

Green, blue, green, blue…. Arrrghhh….

Thanks!

Scott

The blue won't blink if you turn off your Bluetooth. I don't think there is a way to turn off the blinking green light.....but it's nice for the holidays! :mrgreen:

I don't know who the author is, but LED Killer is great. I don't think it stops the blue though, which is best IMO. I want to know if I forgot to turn off bluetooth.

I can't kill my Bluetooth, I use it way too much, between my car, my hotsync, my headset and my xlink gateway for home I use my bluetooth on my phone ~80% of it's on time, so I *never* turn off my Bluetooth!


Thanks I will give that a try, hopefully it will just kill the 'stock' signal blink and not my alerts. I will let you know what it does to the 'blue'

My other option was to request this as a feature for PhoneAlarm, the author seems pretty receptive, and make a great product.


Thanks,

Scott

It leaves the bluetooth light alone and it's nice to just have the alert blink when you have an alert....

If you do this registry edit, it turns off all led's except the charging led.

Unfortunately it will also disable vibrate, which in my case I don't care about so it doesn't matter.

HKLM/drivers/builtin/allledmgr/ "dword:index" Value should be 1 for LEDs and vibration on Value 0 turns them off.


I hate those blinking lights, that's the first hack I do.

If you don't know how to do registry edits or just want a fast way to enable/disable hacks, download the Famous TrianglePowers PPC-6800 Hacks.
Everything works for the Touch also, it's a great little program that does a bunch of different reg hacks by just checking and unchecking a box.

You have to register, but it's well worth it, these guys are Great, they have some other good stuff too. Check it out.

http://www.trianglepowers.com/PPC/ViewApp.aspx?ID=54

I don't like the problems with disabling the LED blinking.

Besides, the blinking LED is behind the ear speaker grill, it's much more subtle than other Pocket PC's.

Comming from the Mogul. These lights are nothing..... The mogul lit the whole room up when the room was dark.

Agreed, the Mogul lights were a major distraction and I used LED Killer. The Touch lights hidden behind the ear piece grill is kinda cool actually. No LED Killer for my touch.

I think I may check this program out.

Here is what I would like to have my Sprint Touch to do:
- No blinking green light for signal. Ever.
- Blinking blue for BlueTooth when enabled.
- Solid Red (orange?) for voicemail.
- Solid Green or fast blinking (not the speed of the 3 second default connection green) for SMS & appointment reminder.

That way, I can leave my Touch on vibrate or silent - and glance at it to quickly know if I have something that needs attention.