just super!

Only one word can describe your level of awesomeness... Unfortunately all human languages are too limited to convey this word, someday hopefully we will evolve enough to come up with this word, until then you are it.

Awesome job, thank you.

Blingball is awesome! loving it. hopefully for the future a random option and a way to have it so that the white led doesn't turn on when the keyboard does

As mentioned before, you can simply remove the trackball and place a small piece of electrical tape over the white LED.

See the "How to Clean Your Trackball" sticky thread for how to remove it and it also tells you which is the white LED.

Good luck!

-Adam

Almost done with the updates. This will have the fix implemented for the application switcher and also the random color options. I am also working on a "disco" feature which will actually run the ball through a pattern of colors when on. RIMs documentation on what the actual pattern can consist of sucks balls so I have to do this all with trial and error. It also sucks because the device simulators do not simulate a colored trackball so I have to load onto a device every time.

Ok here it is. BlingBall 0.9b2. Troy, could you update the OTA host when you get a chance. Thanks.

rgeorge, I've updated the first post with the new zip file. I just added the new one and left the old one too. Once everyone says the new one is working fine, we can remove the old one. Let's try and keep the first post up to date with all the latest info.

Yeh it wouldnt let me edit my original attachments.

BTW: Think your daughter will love the new disco mode! This alone is why the name "BlingBall" really works now!

I'll load it for her when she gets home from school!

Ok!! The new Disco ball is absolutely awesome!!! It flashes through all the colors whenever it's on. Very creative! Another well-done!!!

OTA Updated

OTA link seems to be dead.

Wow, thanks...my trackball was feeling lonely since I updated to 4.5

Ahh, just when I'm days away from receiving my 8120 this comes out. Not having a color pearl was one of the things holding me back from upgrading my 8100.

Sounds like you did a great job though, and made a lot of people happy. Awesome!!

So what does everyone think this needs before I would call it version 1.0?

I already know how to fix the issue that is requiring a battery pull for the options to show up so that will for sure be in 1.0. The only other item would be to change the way the custom color is set.

Any other thoughts?

LOL, I was going to delete this program. didn't really see the need, though it is a nifty little program--then I switched it to disco. I'm keeping it-:P

Still getting a 404 not found for OTA.

Do I need to delete the earlier version before upgrading to the new one, or will it just overwrite itself?

This has been fixed.


You can just upgrade and it will overwrite itself.

If you used the alx/cod to install the first beta, and you're using the new alx/cod you'll need to delete the app from the BB first before loading the new. For some reason the apploader doesn't see it as an upgrade.

If you're doing OTA, it doesn't matter. It will overwrite.

What about controlling the speed of the Disco lights? Is that possible? When I showed it to my daughter her eyes lit up. 10 minutes later she came and said she wished she could make it go slower.

Thanks so much for all your hard work. Here are a few suggestions:

1. User adjustable speed of the Disco mode.

2. Similar to Disco, it would be really cool to have a 'Pulse' mode for each of the preset colors. I.e., it would pulse or glow red, from 0 to 255 to 0.

3. Don't know if this is necessary, but if the drain of the LED's is more than trivial, then maybe don't activate LED's if the battery is <10%.

Has anyone noticed that when you set Blingball to Red, it's exactly like HAL 9000, even the chrome surround. I think I will have to have a ringtone of HAL singing "Daisy, Daisy".

Rgeorge....I feel like you saved my life. I can't even explain how happy I am now....THANK YOU SO MUCH! if I had a way to pay you I would because the DISCO feature is tha shizzit and now I can be in the game with 4.5 AND colorpearl...which was the reason I downgraded. MUCH THANKS rgeorge...

good job

This is possible and will be looked into.

Not easily done or maybe not even possible. The disco mode uses a built in feature from RIM, you actually set the trackball to a pattern. The pattern takes the form of 0x00RRGGBB, duration, transition. So for example, doing RED then GREEN then BLUE would be something like 0x00FF0000, 150, 50, 0x0000FF00, 150, 50, 0x000000FF, 150, 50. I am not sure how long the pattern can actually be since this is not well documented. If you can make it big, you could do a bunch of levels of red. I'll play with it and see what happens. It could have a big impact on the memory if the array that holds this pattern gets really big.

LEDs in general are very lower power consumption so I suspect this is not really needed. Your backlight draws much more power than the LED.

Thank you very much!!!

Great Work!

my BB it´s cool again, Thanx to you!!!

Zh

will try this
thx

EDITED: not gonn work for me :(

Nope, it's 8100 only. No other devices are supported. That's even in the first post.

He's got a donate button in the first post. He's not asking for donations really, but I'm sure he's happy to get them.

Works great! Thanks for doing this!

love the updates thanks alot!

OMFG! I just can't help myself from yelling "YEAH!" when I saw your Beta2 ver. THANKS SO MUCH RGeorge! You are THE ONE! You brought us hope to stay long with our 8100!

- I think it's great to have the "Fading Color" function, to automatically, lovely and smoothly change the colors.
- Another is the "ON and OF switch" in the BlingBall Options. Just in case right?
- And, err... it's good if it automatically turns to Disco Mode if you play a song in Media? Auto Off if you play a video? And turn back to previous state after quitting Media?

rgeorge. I owe you my world and maybe $10.

is now no more beta and tagged as 1.34?

Fntastic work rgeorge

just loadedto both of my 8100's

my customers are gonna flip out as are my co-workers

Another grandly majestic application. Waiting for disco light speed option. Great job RGeorge

Hi, i don't download this file. Report me an error archive. Is possible new post for this file? Excuse me for language but i am italian... )

so how come ota link says it's 1.34? and .9b2 here? is it the same version?

I have the 4.2 version and this works perfect on it too. You need some kind of pimp award for this program.