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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] egotheist:
very nice app, something I've been missing, since changed Touch to Diamond. thx a lot, Zevele!

and one question, can it cause any noticeably bigger power drain? been testing on my HD2 all day long and got some anxiety..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
I can't say I've noticed a major hit on the battery life - I Usually start the day fully charged, and by the end of the day I'm on 85~90% (after ~9 hours). I didn't see a change with Blinker running. Did anybody else pay attention to the subject?

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] egotheist:
such a speedy answer :) thank U, Z.

may be I'm just a paranoid... I'll keep an eye on a battery for a couple of days and let you know. just for statistics.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Starwing:
What a great app!:cool:

Tested and works on my HD2 nicely!

Thx!!:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] egotheist:
about the power drain...

according to CHT 2.0 state indicator (that was placed on main page for the test) while using the Blinker current power drain never goes lower then "-6" after some time of device's sleep. more often it's about "-15" (+/- 5). without the Blinker the index is about "-4".

so, I can say, that the bigger power drain can be noticeable while using the app but if you really care. maybe the problem is ROM-dependable. in my case I'll solve the it easily, just by taking away the state indicator from the main page of Sense (the less you know, the better you sleep...). 'cause the Blinker is worth it! thnx once again, Z!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] silenced3:
hi z!

i tried out your app finally on my tmous hd2. unfortunately it seems to be conflicting with my usual led notifications (sms, missed call). the blinker works fine when the phone is lighted up or in sleep mode. i dont suffer the problem that the others are having of the blinker going to sleep with the phone.

however, whenever i get an sms or a missed call, the green led flashes (in the default way) only till the time the blinker doesnt blink. as soon as the blinker blinks, from then onwards, the notifications are muted. it seems that after a notification event, as soon as the blinker blinks, it overrides all pending notification led actions. this makes it quite pointless :(

i havent changed any registry settings. i just changed the normal blink from green25 to orange25 to see if that solves it. sure enough, my green led flashes when i get a missed call/sms. but only till the time the orange flashes. from then on, its just the orange flashing every 10 secs. in the case of a missed call, i still have my keypad flashing no problem (courtesy netripper led notifications).

i gave it a few tests before and after a restart. no luck. also i am running tmous 2.13 rom. a (perhaps) separate issue of my led notifications is as follows: the flash duration of my normal led notifications varies. sometimes it blinks normally. sometimes it stays ON for a longer period. i dont think the time interval between the blinks changes, its just that the ON time increases. when i restart the phone, sometimes it goes back to normal flash, sometimes it goes into elongated flash 'mode'. only a restart causes it to change from one 'mode' to another. this problem i have had ever since i can remember. it wasnt really a 'problem' anyway...

any help?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
I think Blinker overrides the default blinks. What I could suggest is to allow a shorter delay in case of unread messages/missed call. This will not turn on the default blinking but serve as an alternative notification...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sebibv:
Hello.

The application is not good....it is perfect. Thank you very much for this. I look for something like this from a long time.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] malkrae:
good job I will check it out.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] silenced3:
im not sure what you mean here... i dont know how to change the delays of the default led notifications. is that possible? or maybe i have you completely wrong here.

also in your first statement you said that the blinker overrides the default led actions. if so, then perhaps i had this all wrong. i thought the blinker blinks AND the led notifications ran concurrently (by some multiplexing or something)... does this mean that only one of the two will work at a given time? if so then i might have to move my sms notifications to netripper's leo notifications as well... or perhaps you can give higher priority to phone notifications over your blinker program?

its funny that nobody else mentioned this... or is it that i am the first case?

i must say this is a great addon for the hd2... its something the htc folk should have taken care of themselves!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
What I meant is that I can (and will) add a new feature to Blinker which allows you to set different delays for the blinks in cases you have unread SMS etc. Maybe the missing bit here is that in the next version of Blinker I will also add notifications for SMS, missed calls etc.

I maybe misunderstood your problem, is it with htc's default blinking or with netripper's leo notifications? In both cases I don't think I could suggest another solution than the one I stated above.

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] silenced3:
:D i didnt know there was a new version in the pipe which was going to monitor calls/smses as well... hence the confusion :D

and yeah there is no interference with netripper's program. the conflict is with the htc's default blink notifications only.

thanks for your dev efforts!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] enobrec:
led not working in no-signal zone..

any news??

thanx..for this and other applications...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
It's supposed to be fixed in the new version (couldn't really test it, but I'm pretty sure it should work now)... I'll try to release it by the end of the week...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kajos:
#zevele

very nice :) :) :) :):) :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
released version 1.1

Hi,

Just released a new blinker version, check the first post for more info...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] egotheist:
wow, great app became even greater! gonna test it right now!

thanx Z!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Marct77:
Thanx Zevele V1.1 seems to have cured the unattended sleep problems for my HD2.

Do you advise I should remove Netrippers Led keypad leo extended notifications

as your new Blinker Version has this function....will there be conflict ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Thanks, that's good to know.

Regarding leo extended notifications, I cannot suggest anything - removing it is entirely your decision. I don't think the two should conflict.

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dchd310870:
Thanks mate, looks to be working as originally intended now. And the new setup is great too, changed to just the way I like it really easily too. Great work mate well done
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] s_from_hell69:
Great

Great job man!!!!

:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] russpattaya:
Fantastic is the only word:) HTC should have built it in...maybe they are spying in and taking note of all this great stuff that you guy's are doing.

I donate to XDA-Developers. hope every one else donates one way or the other.

Thks

Russ
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] enobrec:
perfect!

now no signal zone has red led ..

re-thanxx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kajos:
Great work! :)

...but - for me - it's altogether a little bit oversized, and complex in normal using /watching.

Is there a way, that it shows only the "no-signal status", for instance by additional settings and all other notifications will be the normal of the HD2 ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
You can set all sequences to empty strings, and disable "ACNotification", this should get you what you want...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] loomi:
Unattended mode

Thank you!

From now on I can SEE if my HD2 is switched off. Why didn't HTC realize that as a built-in function? :confused:

Anyway: Even the unattended mode works fine. I use it in conjunction with S2U2 and everything works fine.

The only thing I had to do after installation was to put Blinker into the AutoStart of my phone.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ryahp:
Does not work correctly

On my non Phone Device (iPAQ200 WM6.5.1) Blinker.exe quits with an

InvalidOperationException
Sequence contains no matching element

at System.Linq.Enumerable.First[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)
at Blinker.SMSMessages..ctor()
at Blinker.CBlinker.NotificationsBlink()
at Blinker.CBlinker.Blink()
at Blinker.CBlinker.ThreadLoop()

The startup sequence blinks before the program crashes, but only the blue LED which is apparently invoked by the green LED command. :confused: (btw. my device has one blue, one orange and two green leds)

It would be extremely nice to have this work on this device, too... Maybe customizable LED numbers may also help.

regards
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
It looks like there is some compatibility issue with the SMS code (maybe the name of the SMS store is different between the HD2 and your iPAQ). As a work-around I suggest you try disabling the SMS notification - just clear the SMS sequence.

This is again a compatibility issue, since I developed and checked the application only on the HD2 - I coded the led control according to it (I don't have any other device to check it on...).

To fix it I need to know how to control the iPAQ LEDs. Its probably different values passed to the same function, but I need to know those values nevertheless...

I'll make the led control and SMS store name configurable via the registry.

Let me know if any of this helps.

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ryahp:
Thanks for the quick reply... I've tried to clear all the sequence strings including the on- and offseqence - with the same result.:(

How does the sms code check for new messages? Does it use some unread counter in the registry or some file? Maybe I can try and add that value as a workaround for now.. My device doesn't receive SMSes anyway.

I don't know what values are passed to the led function, but with other software which could control two of the leds it seemed like numbers?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ryahp:
I just managed to fumble around with the registry and create a mail account named SMS of the SMS type, after which the program seems to work (with the blue LED by green only as mentioned above), at least if I'm not charging (at which state the LED is always on).

I didn't check much further, but for Devices without SMS account or maybe one that is named SMS, it would probably suffice to simply turn off that notification in a way that prevents the program from looking for unread mails in that account rather than just from playing that sequence.

i.e. simply not looking for any of the alert states associated with an empty sequence string could make it easier to locate problems on other devices.

So, for me the only problem now is that I can only use my blue LED...:rolleyes:

looking forward to the next version.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Version 1.2

Hi,

Just released another build. This build allows to set the green and orange LED IDs and to set the SMS store name. It should also solve the crash if the SMS store was not found.

links can be found on the first post.

ryahp, let us know if this solves the problems you encountered...

thanks,

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ryahp:
Wow, I didn' think I'd see a new release so soon. :D

On my iPAQ the green LED is 0 and the blue LED is 1 (assigned to orange).

SMS notification seems to continue to monitor the SMS account even if the SMS Store name is changed. As it seemed impossible to remove the SMS account I hard reset the device and reverted to a recent backup. The program now works correctly without the presence of an SMS account.

I tried to create an SMS type account with a different name, but that didn't work. Windows Mobile seems to have the "SMS" account name reserved for SMS only. So the customizable SMS storage name probably is the same on any windows mobile device and unnecessary, unless it were able to detect unread mail in ordinary accounts. For now I would say the custom SMS Store name simply isn't working. If it were, It could for example notify of unread messages in an account with high priority.

Regarding the LED behaviour while charging, I'm still not sure what is going on. I even got the orange LED blinking once, which I haven't seen any other software do before. The orange LED and the second green LED are for displaying the charging state which is working even while in bootloader mode and I had hitherto have thought that they couldn't be controlled by software... The windows' built in notification LED blink function seems to have interfered and caused the orange charging LED blink (usually blinks the green one).

A separate checkbox for turning on/off the battery and charging state indication and blink sequence notification while charging may be useful, just to be able to choose what to display with the leds. Wireless connected or searching distinction might also be useful.

If you still need ideas how to make this brilliant software even better, you might think about remembering the last state and comparing it with the current state to detect new message arrivals (I don't know whether your code checks for numbers or just the presence of unread mails).

This way custom blink sequences to alert incoming mails would be possible (I don't know whether windows mobile phone devices do that without your help already).

Firing a notification message could even replace the built in notification system... oh sorry, you are not trying to replace the already existing system.

Thank you very much, anyway for your efforts. This program now works very well on the iPAQ200, too. Sorry for carrying around a big wish list. I hope you can make use one or the other idea.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] remak:
How can I disable keyboard blinking ?

THX for great apps
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Megolk:
that's a good question.

please give us the opportunity to turn this off.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Just change the sequences in the settings application and don't use the keypad LEDs... (see 2nd post)

To get the settings application click Blinkers shortcut again.

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] remak:
Thank You, it's work perfect. Great job Zevlele :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] remak:
Soorry for mistake Great job ZEVELE
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] peterpan911:
It would be very helpful if there is a possibility to have the bilinking notification for new mails (in that case I have an envelope in my taskbar), not for unread mails. I often leave mails unread in my inbox because I can't suppress sending a read confirmation when using exchange server.

Perhaps useful: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Shell\Notifications\Active

It is empty and there is an ID value 23 (0X000017) if there is the envelope in the statusbar.

Thanks for this great tool.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Thanks, I'll include this with the next release, do you know the values for the other notifications?

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] peterpan911:
No, I am sorry; I found that by coincidence.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] p50kombi:
way to reduce CPU usage and therefore battery usage?

Hi Zevele...

Well done on this app..

I have noticed that it uses quite a lot of resource on the HD2 at certain intervals though (5% cpu every second or so with 0% in between).

I think if you can improve this, there will definitely be a significant increase in battery life.

Did you ever look at lednotifications?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=647875

It works without using any resources when no notification is raised.

The sourcecode is published, so you might find a way to combine your way of blinking with his way of finding out if notification is raised.

Keep up the good work...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Thanks for the information, I'll check the code again to see if there is something I can do to improve the performance (I don't have to much free time lately so it might take a while...)

I'm aware of this project, in fact - it's the first to one in the acknowledgment list on the first post...

thanks,

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] p50kombi:
oops, my bad...

hope you get unattended problem fixed... I really like your app, but it stops working for me (specially on new text) after a while until I walker device up.

I can also see the normal led gets stuck every now and then (almost a if device is slowed down, blinking twice takes forever in stead of milli seconds.

hour this info helps, keep up the good work ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ai6908:
I just installed this in CDMA TP2 and it seems to work. More info later...

Thanks for this nice app! Now I have blinking LED in my CDMA TP2...:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] p50kombi:
just to let you know, the program I quoted is not netrippers notification program, it actually uses the led of the top of the device.

just so you know, it might have something new for you to solve unattended mode.

unfortunately your little app stops working for me very often when device switches in unattended mode.

I'm using s2u2 as lock program, but not sure if that's what causes it.

good luck with developing.

keeping eye out for new version ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kimot:
nice app

nice app
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
I've found that when there is a v-mail notification, this registry key receives the value 0x4400 (17408). Oddly enough I couldn't turn on the email notification... I sent myself emails both to my Google account and outlook account, and the notification did not turn on... I wonder how this registry key works, is it a mask? ie what's its value when there are both v-mail and email notifications?

Blinker indeed wakes up every second and resets it's power mode (to unattended) - I did this in an attempt to solve the "unattended issue", but to no avail... I've removed this code, and you should see activity (if any) only when Blinker wakes up to blink the leds...

Thanks,

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rclark27:
I need some help here. I just want to have the LED blink only, no notifications, no battery status, etc., just green led 1 second blink. How do I do that? You said "set all sequences to empty strings", but I don't know exactly what you mean. By empty do you mean nothing (I'm assuming this) or all zeros or what? Thanks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Yeah, just empty strings (not zeros or anything else) - Select all and delete...

Sorry for writing "empty strings" again - can't think of any other way to describe it...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] aviatorsk:
SMS Safe storage

Hi Zevele!

Thanks a million for the grate and useful application!

Please tell me is there any options to check safe sms storage? Probably in this case i have to rename default sms storage location but I couldn't find how to do it.

Thanks in advance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
You can change the SMS store name in the configuration screen. To get to the configuration screen run Blinker again...

Let me know if it does the trick.

Thanks,

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] aviatorsk:
Hi Zevele!

Thanks for your prompt reply. I understood that it should be renamed, but I couldn't understand how exactly. Do you know where in the register might be the mane of safe SMS storage?

Tanks in advance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
I'm not sure I understand your question... If you're asking how to rename the SMS store - I'm not sure you can do it (Correct me if I'm wrong).

But, you can try changing the value under "SMS Store Name" in the settings dialog to "Safe SMS" - so Blinker will check this store, instead of the default one.

In the next version I intend to release, Blinker could be configured to use the notifications system instead of checking itself the state of the different accounts (thanks to peterpan911's lead). This might solve your problem as well.

Thanks

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] aviatorsk:
Yes, you understood correctly. I tried to rename to Safe SMS – it doesn’t work. Before that I search though register and didn’t find any keys that might be related to it. So I will be waiting for your new updated version.

Thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Blinker V1.3

Just released version 1.3

Check the first post for more info...

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] reidler:
Thank you for this program. I downloaded it but have not installed it yet. I have a SPrint Touch Pro 2.

How about doing something for controlling the vibrate functions of the phone. Like a program that will allow the user to set up how the phone should vibrate for incoming phone calls, emails, sms messages, Calendar Reminders, Missed calls and Voice mails. The way my phone works now is very frustrating. It vibrates non-stop when a call comes in. By being able to program the vibrate to be a different pattern for each type of notification it is easy to be able to tell what type of notification the phone is vibrating for.

Is that something you might possibly be able to add to this application? I had a program that incorporated what you do with the leds and vibrate for the Palm Treo. It was called Treo Alert. It's an excellent program.

There are a couple of programs out there that only do the vibrate controls but they are incomplete - they do not offer all the notifications type (one only offers for incoming phone calls, the other only for emails and sms).

Thank you.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] p50kombi:
Giving it a good test run over weekend...

Great news.

Going to give it a proper test over the weekend.

Did you manage to improve the fact that Blinker sometimes stops working?

Do I still have to set untended mode?

Thanks buddy for the mention in the first post, well appreciated :) but all credit goes to brilliant developers who are willing to share their little gems....

:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
I can easily add vibration to the application (I know how to do it on the HD2 - not sure how it will work on other devices...). This means vibration for notifications (SMS, EMail missed calls etc.) but not for incoming calls. Theoretically I could recognize when the phone rings and react to that, but I cannot override the original behavior - that is, I don't know what will happen when the phone is set to vibrate...

btw, I really like the idea of including vibration to the sequences...

Thanks,

Z.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zevele:
Sorry, no news about the unattended mode...

My pleasure...

Z.