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Q: 2.2 and trackball colours

oniongirl

oniongirl

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So it's been a while since I got my N1 back in January, and the only temptation to root has cone from wanting changeable colours on my trackball.

Does anyone know if access to that ability is being made available again, either for developers or natively supported, with Froyo?

Cheers for any rumours /speculation/ hard facts!
 
ive been wondering about that casue ive seen the track ball with diffrwent color lights but when i got mine i was disapointed
 
I guess Googles i/o was about the general things they were bringing to 2.2 not the things they are gunna do with the N1 so recon its just wait n see.
 
This seems like an interesting article: EXCLUSIVE: New Android 2.2 Features Exposed! (Update All, Auto-Update Apps, Speed Boost, Tethering, Flash, Color Trackball, Car Dock Improvements) [With Pics] | Android News, Reviews, Applications, Games, Phones, Devices, Tips, Hacks, Videos, Podcast

New Feature: Colored Trackball

Though custom ROM builds such as Cyanogen have been doing this for a while, this is neat eye candy. This feature, of course, applies to the Nexus One, but other devices may gain some new comparable feature. While new Email and SMS notifications still cause the trackball to glow white, installing Twidroid showed a neat new feature: a BLUE trackball when a new tweet was downloaded — talk about color/brand tie-in!
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There does not seem to be any means to let the user customize the trackball color within the operating system.
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So it seems there's limited trackball colouring from 2.2
 
I don't understand why changing your trackball color is so important, I mean, come on!

Root or don't, but don't make your decision based on this fact alone! Jeez. :cool:
 
If you want something for the trackball go download lilhermits trackball pro. It lets you customize color for each app and notification. Very fun to use. You need superuser permissions
 
Roze said:
This seems like an interesting article: EXCLUSIVE: New Android 2.2 Features Exposed! (Update All, Auto-Update Apps, Speed Boost, Tethering, Flash, Color Trackball, Car Dock Improvements) [With Pics] | Android News, Reviews, Applications, Games, Phones, Devices, Tips, Hacks, Videos, Podcast
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Just what i was looking for, thanks!

zillah said:
I don't understand why changing your trackball color is so important, I mean, come on!

Root or don't, but don't make your decision based on this fact alone! Jeez. :cool:
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Don't "Jeez" me :P Everyone has a reason for rooting, it doesn't matter whether it's for tethering, custom roms or, god forbid, wanting a bit of extra customisation in the form of changeable trackball colours.

As it stands, Android does everything I need it to without rooting, and with 2.2 that includes tethering, the only reason I can see left to root is customisation.

I never said it was important, I just said that I haven't been tempted to root, and will probably remain untempted if, as the linked article suggests, Google have re-enabled to ability for app developers to manipulate the trackball LED.
 
If I were you, I would still be tempted to root - battery life for me on 2.2, seems pretty bad compared to running Cyanogen (my preferred) and certainly, Enomther roms.....
 
zillah said:
I don't understand why changing your trackball color is so important, I mean, come on!

Root or don't, but don't make your decision based on this fact alone! Jeez. :cool:
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And don't forget, OnionGirl is obviously female, so it goes that style is probably everything ;)
 
daffyduck said:
And don't forget, OnionGirl is obviously female, so it goes that style is probably everything ;)
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Ohhhhh! If only there was a suitably irked smiley for what I was feeling right now ;)

Unfortunately, the genes that allow for women to colour co-ordinate were not passed down to me. Nor the genes for multi-tasking, come to think of it, and so knowing at a glance whether it's a text, missed call, home email, work email, tweet etc, etc that's found its way onto my phone whilst I wasn't looking would be ace :D

I love how people are pretending that the ability to do this wouldn't be the icing on the already scrumptious cake!

As for rooting for battery life... I haven't had any problems with battery running stock vanilla Android. I can sometimes get to days of very minimal use out of it, and it never dies before bedtime unless I've been sat in a signal hole for an hour. That kills it pretty sharpish.
 
Having different colors rates of blinking ont he trackball for Gmail , Tweets, individual contacts etc..

pffttt..
Anybody that does any messaging should see this benefit.

Theres a reason people were bombing google to reimplement it.
 
amen to that! having different colours so you know just from a glance what notification you have is genius. Doesnt seem like we can change the stock gmail colour from white though :(

My 2 colleagues here have rooted their phones and tried a variety of different kernels. The only time they out perform my vanilla build on battery life is when they tried using some lower power usage kernerls someone had built.
 
Works fine with sms popup also. I can changer colors for individual contacts as well as create my own color

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Ace, thanks guys, this info is much appreciated, especially with the latest 2.2 isn't-is-maybe-possibly-not-supposed-to-actually-be-released-we-think-maybe-it-might- break-your-phone-but-that's-probably-not-right-either rumour.

Think I'll stick to waiting for the notification to pop up on my phone, be it tomorrow or next month... yeh, that's not actually that long away. Gimme gimme gimme :D
 
oniongirl said:
Ace, thanks guys, this info is much appreciated, especially with the latest 2.2 isn't-is-maybe-possibly-not-supposed-to-actually-be-released-we-think-maybe-it-might- break-your-phone-but-that's-probably-not-right-either rumour.

Think I'll stick to waiting for the notification to pop up on my phone, be it tomorrow or next month... yeh, that's not actually that long away. Gimme gimme gimme :D
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rumor probably started by an apple fan boy, google themselves because they pissed we took initiative, a pissed off hero user who just got 2.1, a mytouch user still on 1.6 or an evo buyer who thought for a second they were on our level. lol
 
oniongirl said:
Ace, thanks guys, this info is much appreciated, especially with the latest 2.2 isn't-is-maybe-possibly-not-supposed-to-actually-be-released-we-think-maybe-it-might- break-your-phone-but-that's-probably-not-right-either rumour.

Think I'll stick to waiting for the notification to pop up on my phone, be it tomorrow or next month... yeh, that's not actually that long away. Gimme gimme gimme :D
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Oh go on, root the phone, you've been thinking about it for ages I bet....I never had an issue with the phone in 4.5 months :D.
 
daffyduck said:
Oh go on, root the phone, you've been thinking about it for ages I bet....I never had an issue with the phone in 4.5 months :D.
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I've been thinking about it since about the 18th January when my phone turned up ;) But alas, I am a sufferer of the dust under the screen issue. I never notice it, but I know it's there, and if (when!) I decide to root, I'll probably want HTC to fix that first, even though they seem to be honouring hardware faults on rooted phones.
 
I don't see why some Dev does not come up with a non-root needing app that will allow you to change trackball colors. It's in the OS, just need some Dev to do it. :D

Oh well... I will root, but not until the official build is out and Cyan comes out with a Foyo build.
 
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