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I just updated to Gingerbread today (easy and recommendable!), but now I no longer have the blue LED flash on SMS notification. And the option, which used to be in the Handcent settings menu, has disappeared. Has anyone else noticed this? And do you know how to fix it? I tried LED me Know, but that didn't work.

I know this is a minor issue, but i really liked being able to tell the difference between e-mail and sms just by looking at the LED.

Thanks!
 
This isn't clear from your OP...

Did you install either the official (released 2 days ago) gingerbread update made officially by HTC?

Or did you just flash a new custom gingerbread rom? (if so which one).
 
Same here. I was using Go SMS with the blue LED, now all gone. I even changed to Handcent to see if that might work, nope, nothing there too.

And is it me or does the motion of the track pad seem very slow? I notice after the update that you get a green arrow/pointer in the text box to highlight the words now. Is this the way to scroll through text now rather than using the track pad?
 
I miss that blue LED too, like you said it was good to just glance at the phone after it vibrated on silent and see if that was a text or email...
 
I am in the same situation, Handcent with HTC issued Gingerbread. I notice that there is an option in Handcent for extended LED functions but when you press this it says..

"Please make sure your phone has been rooted and allow the root permission when super user dialog showed, you can disable "Notification" at SuperUser app also"

which I am not sure what this means.
 
I have the exact same issue. I used to have a different colour LED for different notifications. Also, have you noticed that the LED will only flash green for about 5 minutes before it stops all together. So if you dont look at your phone within those 5 minutes then you dont know you have a message unless you activate the screen. I know it's a small issue but at the same times its not.
I read that HTC/ Android have changed the access rights to the LED setting with 2.3 and you can onlt access these settings if your handset is rooted! The logic behind HTC/ Android doing this this...I have no idea.

If anyone figures out a way to atleast enable the stangard green LED to remain on until the message is read that would be something.
 
I contacted the Handcent dev about this yesterday, but have yet to hear from him. I will keep you updated, should he reply.
 
Sounds like clearly the official update to gingerbread broke it then. It was probably something in the coding HTC didn't get round to doing / is different to froyo.

The only other possible alternative is that the blue led function required root, which obviously now running official gingerbread you don't have.
 
I also emailed handcent on Tuesday but as of yet had no reply. I also spoke to some goon from htc about this. As per, they seemed to know less about anything than I did. But it does look like its to do with 2.3 and that its not going to be fixed, I guess it's not high on their agenda.
You also can't revert back to 2.2 (which i would be more than happy to do).
 
Don't know if this adds anything to the discussion. I rooted my phone a couple of weeks ago, installed Cyanogenmod 7, and the LED notification for Handcent stopped working. I've now installed Leedroid, and it's working perfectly again. Both are Gingerbread.
 
FWIW, I noticed that when I was running GingerVillain, the blue LED stopped as well.
 
I dont want to go down the rooting path. I dont want to risk f***ing my phone up and cant be doing with the hastle. I would just like to be able to access the LED settings on gingerbread in the same way as i could on froyo. Or atleast be able to make the LED flash until the message is actually read...
 
Given the responses here then, it would seem to be a rom specific issue with certain gingerbread based roms. So clearly, GB sense roms don't allow custom led's, I know from experience CM7 allows it but it doesn't work. However, Redux rom works and gives me a blue led, as does GB Miui.

So clearly, its an issue with some specific gingerbread roms.
 
Changing the colour of your LED appears to be restricted to root users now

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williamj1 said:
The only other possible alternative is that the blue led function required root, which obviously now running official gingerbread you don't have.
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Cough cough hate to say I told you so ;)

Just kidding, it does seem odd. I think the issue will lie somewhere inbetween. You probably don't need root on some devices / roms, but do on others.

So far, I know it works on....

- Redux (2.3)
- Miui GB
- Froyo ROMS

I am currently running Leedroid's port of the DHD rom, gingerbread version 2.3.3. which is a rooted Sense 2.1 / 3.0 based ROM. Is Handcent free? If so why I don't I try it and see if it works for me?
 
williamj1 said:
Cough cough hate to say I told you so ;)

Just kidding, it does seem odd. I think the issue will lie somewhere inbetween. You probably don't need root on some devices / roms, but do on others.

So far, I know it works on....

- Redux (2.3)
- Miui GB
- Froyo ROMS

I am currently running Leedroid's port of the DHD rom, gingerbread version 2.3.3. which is a rooted Sense 2.1 / 3.0 based ROM. Is Handcent free? If so why I don't I try it and see if it works for me?
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As I said, works on my Leedroid, which is Gingerbread with Sense.:) And yes, Handcent is free.
 
As one poster said earlier, it must be tied to the ROM that HTC has released. I just tried programming tasker to flash blue when a text was received, but even though I could choose the color in tasker, it still flashed green. So it looks like we'll have to live with the green LED, or root.
 
Hi.

Im a dev and I am myself working on an app which can give LED notification on Desire. I've managed to give out the 5 different color notification on froyo (HTC Desire 2.2, standard).

Just to clarify. HTC made restrictions so that devs. was not able to override the LED diode. There is a standard code which works on most phones for changing the color on the LED, but on Desire we need to use a "hack" to make it work on the un-rooted version. This hack involves writing another value to the file managing the LED.

With that said, what has happened in 2.3 is most likely that they changed the FILE LOCATION of thees LED-files. Therefor I'm confident that someone from xda can come up with a solution soon.

BTW: If anyone got the official update from HTC, rooted, you could check my theory by doing this:

find /sys/devices/ -name 'brightness'

And if there is a person which does this for me, I'll publish a working notification app for Desire 2.3 in no time ;)
 
Mantion said:
Hi.

Im a dev and I am myself working on an app which can give LED notification on Desire. I've managed to give out the 5 different color notification on froyo (HTC Desire 2.2, standard).

Just to clarify. HTC made restrictions so that devs. was not able to override the LED diode. There is a standard code which works on most phones for changing the color on the LED, but on Desire we need to use a "hack" to make it work on the un-rooted version. This hack involves writing another value to the file managing the LED.

With that said, what has happened in 2.3 is most likely that they changed the FILE LOCATION of thees LED-files. Therefor I'm confident that someone from xda can come up with a solution soon.

BTW: If anyone got the official update from HTC, rooted, you could check my theory by doing this:

find /sys/devices/ -name 'brightness'

And if there is a person which does this for me, I'll publish a working notification app for Desire 2.3 in no time ;)
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in connectbot:
/sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/amoled-backlight.0/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/amber/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/green/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/blue/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/button-backlight/brightness

in recovery:
/sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness
/sys/devices/virtual/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/green/brightness
/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/amber/brightness
/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/blue/brightness
/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/button-backlight/brightness

in recovery "echo 255 > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0066/leds/blue/brightness" works!
in connect bot "dont exist"

in connect bot with superuser "echo 255 >/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/blue/brightness" works too!

symlinks dont work for me
 
I tried the app "LightFlow". I configured all I want.
With this app anything works fine!

so, for me this is a solution.
 
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