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Thanks Phil. I have been waiting for an app like this for ages!

Many thanks for your work.

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[jhernand1102]

Phil,

Nice program, a couple of problems on my end though. First after I install I get no icon for it on my programs tab. Also when I enable bluetooth it changes my red flashing led to green instead of amber, I have all setting at the default. I have an unlocked HTC Tytn II.

This post has been edited by jhernand1102: 19 September 2007 - 06:40 PM

[Phil_UK]

Hi

I'm not sure why you would not have got the program icon, are you sure it isn't there? It is just a standard cab install, it isn't doing anything special, was it there after a soft restart? Could have just been the icons hadn't refreshed after the install.

I'll take a quick a look at the colour issue, has anyone else seen this?

Regards

Phil

[DragonStar]

jhernand1102, on Sep 20 2007, 04:39, said:

Phil,

Nice program, a couple of problems on my end though. First after I install I get no icon for it on my programs tab. Also when I enable bluetooth it changes my red flashing led to green instead of amber, I have all setting at the default. I have an unlocked HTC Tytn II.

My guess is that you're not looking in the right spot, that's what I did for a while. Look in the "start menu", when you first hit it, don't actually select programs.

[jhernand1102]

DragonStar, on Sep 19 2007, 13:56, said:

My guess is that you're not looking in the right spot, that's what I did for a while. Look in the "start menu", when you first hit it, don't actually select programs.

Yes that was it, I was looking for it in the programs group and it is actually in the start menu, now the only issue I see is I can not get the amber led on any type of alert I select.

[Phil_UK]

Hi

There is a problem flashing amber on the left hand LED, currently it is Green rather than Amber.

The code that flashes the LEDs sends a RED on and a GREEN on command for Amber, this worked with other HTC models but on the Kaiser each command supersedes the other, so as the Green command is received by the LED it turns Red off, hence you only get Green.

I've had a go sending random commands to see if I can get Amber but have as yet not found a way to get Amber, but will not give up easily!

Regards

Phil

[weeerob]

Phil_UK, on Sep 20 2007, 07:15, said:

Hi

There is a problem flashing amber on the left hand LED, currently it is Green rather than Amber.

The code that flashes the LEDs sends a RED on and a GREEN on command for Amber, this worked with other HTC models but on the Kaiser each command supersedes the other, so as the Green command is received by the LED it turns Red off, hence you only get Green.

I've had a go sending random commands to see if I can get Amber but have as yet not found a way to get Amber, but will not give up easily!

Regards

Phil

Does anyone know if there is this or a similar program for the Hermes? Since upgrading to WM6 I don't get the LED flashing amber to inform me of a text/voicemail without switching the phone on.

[Phil_UK]

Hi

weeerob, on Sep 20 2007, 11:59, said:

Does anyone know if there is this or a similar program for the Hermes? Since upgrading to WM6 I don't get the LED flashing amber to inform me of a text/voicemail without switching the phone on.

The part of the code switching the LEDs is actually a program originally written for the Hermes LEDs, you could try it, it will not do anything permanent so if it doesn't work you can just uninstall it.

From how this Hermes code works and the differences between the Kaiser and it, it may mean the LEDs come on but do not flash, which would drain the battery fairly quickly.

Regards

Phil

[jhernand1102]

Phil_UK, on Sep 19 2007, 23:15, said:

Hi

There is a problem flashing amber on the left hand LED, currently it is Green rather than Amber.

The code that flashes the LEDs sends a RED on and a GREEN on command for Amber, this worked with other HTC models but on the Kaiser each command supersedes the other, so as the Green command is received by the LED it turns Red off, hence you only get Green.

I've had a go sending random commands to see if I can get Amber but have as yet not found a way to get Amber, but will not give up easily!

Regards

Phil

Thanks Phil,

Its still is a neat little program, one other thing I did noticed is I still get a solid amber light during charging and then when its fully charged it turns solid green. Just wanted to let you know because according to the the instructions it said that this would no longer work.

[Phil_UK]

jhernand1102, on Sep 20 2007, 15:44, said:

Thanks Phil,

Its still is a neat little program, one other thing I did noticed is I still get a solid amber light during charging and then when its fully charged it turns solid green. Just wanted to let you know because according to the the instructions it said that this would no longer work.

Is that when the phone is off? I think if the phone is powered off and then charged it will work okay, just that when it is on and charging it doesn't.

Regards

Phil

[jhernand1102]

Phil_UK, on Sep 20 2007, 08:57, said:

Is that when the phone is off? I think if the phone is powered off and then charged it will work okay, just that when it is on and charging it doesn't.

Regards

Phil

Yes this is when the phone is off, I put it on the charger today with the phone on and there was no solid light as you have said. Keep up the nice work on this program.

[ako9000]

Just FYI, it also works on Trinity. Thanks a lot!

[Phil_UK]

Hi

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Just FYI, it also works on Trinity. Thanks a lot!

Excellent, thank you for feedback.

I am currently working on some extras to the program, these are:

1) Being able to set a schedule so that all flashing stops during that time, for example night time.
2) Repeating alerts using audio and vibrate for unread messages, for example every 10 minutes the Kaiser will vibrate or beep if messages are still unread which makes it behave similar to most mobile phones.
3) I'm also trying to sort out the amber colour on the left LED, and to add red and amber to the right LED to give more options for visual alerts.

Regards

Phil

[Flubster]

Hi,

I'm using the default setup for led colours, and using a 3 sim in my kaiser.

If noticed when the phone is in a 3G area, the left led flashes red as normal.

As soon as I leave the 3G area, back to a 2G roaming network the red led stops flashing.


Also anyway of being able to set the leds to flash when gps is enabled?

Flubster

[Phil_UK]

Flubster, on Oct 2 2007, 09:23, said:

Hi,

I'm using the default setup for led colours, and using a 3 sim in my kaiser.

If noticed when the phone is in a 3G area, the left led flashes red as normal.

As soon as I leave the 3G area, back to a 2G roaming network the red led stops flashing.


Also anyway of being able to set the leds to flash when gps is enabled?

Flubster

I've worked out what is causing this I think. With 3 they don't have their own 2G network so you roam on 2G, is that correct? If so it will be fixed in next version.

It works fine for me between 3 and 2 on Vodafone, but with them you are not classed as roaming on 2G.

I will see if I can add a GPS/3G data flash to the next version.

Regards

Phil

[Flubster]

Phil_UK, on Oct 2 2007, 18:32, said:

I've worked out what is causing this I think. With 3 they don't have their own 2G network so you roam on 2G, is that correct? If so it will be fixed in next version.

It works fine for me between 3 and 2 on Vodafone, but with them you are not classed as roaming on 2G.

I will see if I can add a GPS/3G data flash to the next version.

Regards

Phil

Yep thats correct, you roam on the 2g network on 3.

Thanks for the fast reply, looking forward to the next version.

Flubster

[chaimd]

Thank you for the very useful tool, Phil_UK.

I translated the setup front end program to Japsnese, and re-packaged it.

Attached File(s)

•  KaiserNotification_JP.cab (26.17K)
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[Tones@]

Although I admire the effort here, this app has some problems. First off, there are no color options for the GPS or WiFI on the right side LED. In fact, it turns both OFF with no way to turn them back on other then uninstalling and rebooting. Secondly, when charging, there is no longer any indication of a solid LED nor does it turn green (or whatever color) when fully charged. These two things are fairly major omissions. Not to mention the amber color problem noted above. The shortcut also doesn't show up under "Programs", just on the start menu, which is strange.

Hopefully these issues can be addressed. It's almost still worth installing since I REALLY want that missed phone call left LED notification to be RED - amber is just to close to green. But still too many issues to keep this one installed.

Tony

[Phil_UK]

Hi

Thank you for your feedback.

Just to answer/respond to your concerns:

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First off, there are no color options for the GPS or WiFI on the right side LED. In fact, it turns both OFF with no way to turn them back on other then uninstalling and rebooting.

Wi-Fi and GPS indicators are delibrately missing as in my opinion these are pointless (and I wrote the program for my own benefit first and foremost ). Wi-Fi only works when the device is on so you can see the status of Wi-Fi while looking at the screen, and you know GPS is on from most navigation programs and by the fact it is working or not in those programs, so why bother flashing LEDs? I would think that while driving the flashing LED is a distraction anyway so I'm not sure what HTC were thinking.

By removing Wi-Fi and GPS indicators means the right LED can be used for Email and SMS notifications, making these more noticable.

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Secondly, when charging, there is no longer any indication of a solid LED nor does it turn green (or whatever color) when fully charged.

The missing static charging indicators are listed in the description as a known issue. The reason they are missing is I have found no method of controlling the LEDs to light static. Charging indicators are on the screen when the device is on anyway and charging so I personally haven't found this a problem.

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The shortcut also doesn't show up under "Programs", just on the start menu, which is strange.

I think this has been mentioned before however when I install it I always get a program icon under 'Programs' as expected. When I do another version I will check what the cab install is doing.

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Hopefully these issues can be addressed. It's almost still worth installing since I REALLY want that missed phone call left LED notification to be RED - amber is just to close to green. But still too many issues to keep this one installed.

I agree entirely, the biggest omission I think is how on earth HTC decided on these indicators in the first place, then to fix them so they could not be changed by the end user, unless resorting to some other program such as mine.

Regards

Phil

[iannik]

HI,
do you know if it works with WM 6 for smartphone? for example on HTC S710 ?

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