Yeh, I was in a toss up about using the Gauge control or a simple number input. I settled on the Gauge control because I was actually working on having it adjust the color of the ball live while you scrolled.

Also, I planned to have the background color of the Gauge actually be RED, GREEN, BLUE.

So turning the white light off is impossible?

I am aware of that. I only monitor for the backlight to turn the ball on/off. Other applications that modify the light status could reset it but yes, when the backlight goes off then back on it will change to your set color.

I could add ability to monitor the phone but I'm not sure I want to do this as it would take some time. You should also be able to turn off that feature in the phone and it might work too.

The old ColorPearl app had this same issue. You just don't use Ringtone Lighting and BlingBall at the same time.

Time to break out a tiny piece of electrical tape or other tape.

Thank you rgeorge!

Wow, you are the man!!!! you made so many of us 4.5ers so happy!!!!!

I haven't been able to pry the phones out of their hands to get this done yet but it really does help.

nice job, but i can't change it from red to any other color, why is that?

Go to Options >BlingBall Options. Click on the color listed at the top. It will give you the other color options. After you choose your color hit the escape key and save the settings. That's when the color will change.

thanks JC, i had to do a battery pull first for it to show up in the menu, i thought that desktop manager did that, but i was wrong.

i love this app! the green and cyan colors are bolder than on Metsfan's color pearl, sorry Metsfan

Not sure how it's possible that the colors are any different. The led's are the same.

you are awesome thank you very very much!!

Wirelessly posted (8100 pearl)

Very very nice everything worked just perfect



Something I noticed once in awhile it seems like the white shuts off and the color is very bold I think its just my phone because once in a while when I didn't have a colored trackball it wouldn't light up when I was using the phone for whatever but sometimes it did

But once again thank you for your work



I think it would be cool to have a setting where the ball randomly changed colors always like a strobe feature don't know if that's possible or if battery life would be effected but just a cool sounding idea

When the color gets bold is when the white LED turns off slightly before the colored LED turns off. Thus, my suggestion of the black tape over the white LED.

Wirelessly posted (8100 pearl)

Ill give that a try.but its just nice to have color back in general it really tops off the pearl

rgeorge for president!!! Or something to that effect

Is hosting an OTA on geocities possible, I believe you can have 4.2MB per hour of download bandwith, and with the .cod file being 144kb thats about 240times an hour.
Just a thought.
Also, thanks again rgeorge! This program is awesome.

OTA Link added to first post.

Nice work, guys!

amusingly enough this isn't in my options menu.. attempting to reinstall it.. i'll get back to you

--EDIT--
I think i figured it out, that sneaky little vendor.xml! I could have sworn I deleted the darn thing, but for some reason it came back!
and shazam, the Blingball optioins are there.

You may need to reboot the device. I didn't but it's possible you may need to.

i had to reboot it, i love it, i am so happy, i love o.s. 4.5 even more now!

RGeorge your a bloody champ

I just did the tape thing over the white light, TOTALLY worth it, its easy and it looks awesome now.

works fine on my 8100 with 4.5.0.69!
Thanks a ton!

I can't believe I just found this, ima slacker, nice job. (I didnt have to reboot)

Well, it just came out less than 24 hours ago

You have made this BB user very happy!!

i don't get the obsession with the tape D: .. what does it do??

There are colored LED's underneat the trackball. There is also a white LED. When the white LED is on at the same time as the colored LED's it washes out the color of the colored LED. It just makes the color more vivid. The white LED comes on with the keyboard lighting.

great job dude...downloading.....

cheers joseph

I install BlingBall and reboot ok, the Trackball is red color,

Go to Options >I can't find BlingBall Options, no show BlingBall name in menu.

How to solution. thanks

You heard it before and here is it is again, Great Job!!! I loved this feature when I bought my pearl and now it is back. Feels like 4.5 is complete now. Covered the white LED with a tiny piece of electrical tape and away I go. It's working great! This is to cool man, Thank you.

Nuff respek bredrin. Mi did a wait fi dis.
Translation: Thank you my brother. I had been awaiting this.

it works excelent...thanks

Works on a 8100 w/ 4.2.1.107! Thanks a bunch!

No issues on a 4.2 device? Great! Keep us informed if anything arises for 4.2 devices. Thanks!

None that I have seen (in the five min I have been playing with it ). I also installed on a 8100 w/ 4.5.0.52 and the only difference in installation was I had to reboot the 4.2 OS to get the blingball options under Options. 4.5 I didn't have to reboot.

BTW, LOVE your avatar!

Very odd that it would run on a 4.2 device! It was built with the 4.5 JDE and I could swear that if you built with the newer JDE it was not backward compatible.