John Clark, Now you know... if someone else asks, there is in fact a program that turns on the backlight when someone texts you...
Just tried "PocketDay Personal" and it works perfectly.
When some one text me, the backlight comes on, stays on for a while, it vibrates 3 times and the status light blinks until answered.

I don't have either one of those apps, so I don't know. Since you have a 30 day trial of PocketDay, try it with those 2 apps and see what happens. I'd try it with one at the time, and if everything is cool, then try it with both.

I found that all three work together fine. I'm a happy camper!

Excellent! I'm glad they are working for you.

Thank you and everyone else who has taken the time to help me.

This is my first time reading through this tread. The idea of the backlight coming on is a good idea. It will be especially nice with the kickstart when it is released. Have the front screen light up when a message or SMS comes in so you don't have to open the phone every time you receive a message or SMS

I hope BBlight or BBalert that I already have comes up with the backlight feature so I don't have to spend the $20 for the PocketDay Personal. However if they don't when my 30 trial is up, I'll gladly buy it.

bblight does NOT work on my blackberry 88830 Sprint phone.

I started playing with this idea last night, adding it into BBlight. It seems to be working for incoming SMS and incoming email to the default inbox. I am testing a version now, that will hopefully catch email to all inboxes (such as multiple email accounts that are set up on a BIS).

I have implemented SMS watching through datagram/connector.open and email watching through a folder listener. There are check boxes in the BBlight preferences to turn SMS and email watching on/off.

I will hopefully have a test version available later today.

Hey! I really want to see that. Let me know how it goes and how to use it.

Thanks for taking the time to do it.

tateu,

While you are looking at bblight can you look at the issue I'm having with it. I put a request in another thread - http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...e-updates.html

I would appreciate it.

SMF

Test version is available...OTA install from your blackberry browser:
http://www.tateu.net/software/bb.php?f=bblight

If you are installing over an old version, you will need to reboot.



To use:

Navigate to the BBLight Icon and run the program.

To have the program launch automatically every time your blackberry turns on, select "Activate on Startup."

Poll interval is how often the program checks to see if it should keep the backlight "Always On." Set this to something less than your device's backlight timeout. My device's backlight timeout is 30 seconds, so I set the Poll Interval to 24000 (milliseconds).

To keep the backlight "Always On When" ... check the appropriate box (Active, Out of Holster, or External Power/Charging).

To have the backlight turn on when an SMS or email is received, check the appropriate box.

To have the backlight turn on at a specific time of day, check the appropriate box, set the time and duration that the backlight should stay on.

Once you are done setting the options, press the menu key and choose "Save." This should save your options and activate BBLight.

If you want BBlight to be actively running, make sure it says "Active" at the top and press the menu key and choose "Close." This will leave BBlight running in the background.

If you want to turn BBlight off, press the menu button and choose "Exit." This closes all monitoring functions and exits BBLight.



UPDATE to Instructions:
And the first time that BBLight tries to turn on your backlight you will receive a notification from your device that BBLight is trying to change system settings (turning on the light). In order for BBLight to function, you have to allow this. Choose "do not ask again" and press Yes to allow. The message will appear twice. Allow it for both. I would recommend that the first time you run BBlight, turn on the "Out of Holster" option, then choose "Save" from the menu. This should immediately bring up the change system settings notification. Once that is done, you can turn off the "Out of Holster" option and save the settings again.

Wow! Cool! Did you do this program tateu?
Couple questions before I try this.
Should I just delete BBlightfirst and start from scratch? or is this just an addition/update for it?
Should I disable PocketDay Personal so I can test BBlight?

Like all of the BBTools suite (BBWeather, BBCorrector, etc.), BBLight was written by Chris Miles atleast 3 or 4 years ago and released as Open Source software.

Because of this forum thread of yours, I rearranged the options menu, added the SMS and email monitoring functionality and changed the way the "Out of Holster" and "External Power" options work. In fact, the "Out of Holster" and "External Power" options never worked for me, so that is why I changed them.

Installing over the old version should work fine, it did for me. You might be forced to do a reboot after uninstalling it anyway.

I'm not sure about disabling PocketDay but it would make sense to disable it while testing BBLight, you would never know which app was actually controlling the backlight.

Fast reply!
Sounds great! I'll try it now. Your pretty talented.
Last question, I downloaded the BBLight.jad file to my computer. Can I just hook up my BB via usb / desktop manager / applications or should use the BB OTA method?

No, you cannot use a jad file for installing through the desktop. You can use the jad file only through OTA or you need a cod and an alx file to install from the desktop, like this:

http://www.tateu.net/software/bb.php?f=bblightdt

Ok, I OTA the BBLight.jad file and rebooted.
Then when I clicked on the bblight icon, I got this message:

Error starting bblight: Class
'org.bblight.BBLightOptions
$BBLightOptionsData' multiply
defined.

Then I guess you need to uninstall first. Maybe it left the old and new versions installed. I would go to Options -> Advanced Options -> Applications -> Modules (Menu Item) and delete anything that says BBLight. Then go to Applications and delete anything that says BBLight, then reboot, then install again.

tateu,

Unfortunately your modification doesn't fix my issue.

The backlight stays on when on external power like it should until the device locks (per my pushed security setting in 10 minutes). Once it locks the backlight cycles on and off (it looks like it does that at the polling interval). If I manually lock the device the backlight starts to cycle in a similar fashion.

So when my bb is locked bblight does not keep the backlight on when it is connected to external power like it should (it cycles) and bblight, when keeping the backlight on, does not keep the bb from locking (which is behavior that I would like).

I really appreciate you putting time into this.

Thanks,
SMF

Great update to another great app! Thanks Mr. Tateu!!! I've edited the main sticky with this download and a link to your post with instructions. Excellent work! You added some features that have been asked for many times. I'm sure Jack is a fan for life!

I second that!

(It also helps to be persistent... I know I was getting on your nerves a bit on that) )

THX... Happened to come to the same conclusion myself but I appreciate the prompt reply & suggestion.

For me, BBLight reverts back to "Inactive" after a hard reset.

Yes, I just noticed that "Activate on Startup" does not work. I'll look into it.

There is an application called 'SMS Display ON' availible for $3 that allows you to switch on the Display when a SMS is received. You can even set the number of seconds the display should be on!
SMS Display ON - Personal Productivity Blackberry Software on MobiHand

I also wanted the phones screen to kick on when I receive a text message. So I tried tateus app and it works like a charm on my 8330.

THANKS SO MUCH

I downloaded SMS Display ON and it works like a charm. Note that from now until Tuesday it's also a dollar off and is now the ultra low price of $2.

Do you want to start a new Thread about this app?

Wow, I just looked at my calendar and realized I had the date all wrong haha. There's still a week left in the promotion, my bad. I'll go ahead and start a new thread about it now.

This is nice to know.
All that searching and I never found that site. I'll get it just to have it for that price, but I will still use the BBLights as after all I talked tateu into redoing the code for me and others, PLUS this is FREE!

Once again I thank tateu for taking the time to do that!

... and thank you murene for the link.

Has anyone noticed an issue with a constant red led indicator after installing bblight? After I installed and selected to turn on for SMS, my red led indicator light is flashing and I have no unread messages.

It's super annoying, I'm prolly gunna uninstall.

i battery pulled and it seems ok for now...but it's only been a couple minutes..

One thing I wanted to ask was if you could put in an option for bb messager to light up the screen..not just sms or email.

FYI it BBLights does NOT work with SMS when the phone is suspended (using the mute button).... and BBAlerts does NOT work with SMS on 4.3

Does on my 8130

Ive not had this issue

SMS Display ON - Personal Productivity BlackBerry Software - Crackberry Store

Follow the link, I noticed it yesterday. $3 to solve your problems.

BBlight is free and works great

What OS version? Maybe it's related to 4.3

I am running 4.3 on my pearl