[loosechange]

Works perfect. I'm interested in hearing people's feedback on batt life as well. Although so far I'm really happy w/ it. Is there any way to get a standard white light from all 4 leds? (benifit=stays on w/ backlight) Just curious.

[danmcg]

I got the newest version and when I set it to random it works fine until I end a phone call. The pearl goes back to its original color. If I standby the phone, and wake it back up it works again. Though sometimes when waking it up from standby the ball doesn't light and i have to put it back into standby then wake it up again for it to work.

[George1]

I find it hard to believe how much fun I am having with this little gem program. Thanks many times over.

[skateboarder873]

Originally Posted by metsfan

I haven't seen a way to turn that off. Your best option would probably be to upgrade to the TIM firmware and disable autodim. Or take the ball out and electrical tape over the white LED.

is that auto backlight?

[znino]

I did think of a few possible additions the programmer might think about in the future. It would be nice to be able to set the trackball to light up with a specific color depending on certain messaging events. Things like SMS received, Email received, Missed Call etc. Each could be a specific color so that if you look at your phone and see green, for example, it might mean you have unread emails. If you see RED it might mean you have missed called. If it alternates between red and Green it might mean you have both missed calls and emails. This might be a good thing to have especially if on a silent profile. You would get a visual color indication of what has arrived on your BB.

Just a thought!

[mpallo]

Originally Posted by metsfan

I haven't seen a way to turn that off. Your best option would probably be to upgrade to the TIM firmware and disable autodim. Or take the ball out and electrical tape over the white LED.

I had been using the TIM OS (4.2.1.66) since this colorpearl program came out. I had auto-backlight disabled and it was always a light blue color.

For a number of reasons I downgraded my OS back to the Cingular OS (4.2.0.71) and could not believe how dark the blue was. With the auto-backlight going on/off now with no ability to turn it off in the OS it still pretty much stays the light blue. Kind of annoying though jumping between the shades.

[sickmunkeyz]

ive been trying diff rrggbb numbers and the colors are not close to what i want. i did indigo and got pink.

[skateboarder873]

Originally Posted by mpallo

I had been using the TIM OS (4.2.1.66) since this colorpearl program came out. I had auto-backlight disabled and it was always a light blue color.

For a number of reasons I downgraded my OS back to the Cingular OS (4.2.0.71) and could not believe how dark the blue was. With the auto-backlight going on/off now with no ability to turn it off in the OS it still pretty much stays the light blue. Kind of annoying though jumping between the shades.

that's with the new OS, or old one?

[metsfan]

Originally Posted by sickmunkeyz

ive been trying diff rrggbb numbers and the colors are not close to what i want. i did indigo and got pink.

There isn't really fine control of the intensity of the three (red, green blue) LEDs, sadly. I can't make it do anything better. The RRGGBB number you set is just passed along to a RIM API function. My program doesn't manually do anything with those numbers.

[mpallo]

Originally Posted by skateboarder873

that's with the new OS, or old one?

jumps between both shades in the old one.

[robglasser]

Ok, so I had this problem with the other app, and now with this one as well.

1. Install and run the application
2. Have a bluetooth device connected to the blue LED flashes
3. A new message comes in and the red LED starts to flash as well
4. Either on it's own or when I go to press a key the LED will light up solid like it does when you get a call.
5. The only way to clear it is to go into your messages and open an unread message.

As soon as I un-install the application it stops doing this.

I love this application and want to use it but the solid LED thing drives me nuts so I have to leave it un-installed.

[coldconfession13]

is there a way to take out the track ball without opening the whole phone up?

[TheBigNewt]

Originally Posted by coldconfession13

is there a way to take out the track ball without opening the whole phone up?

Yes there it, using a jeweler's screwdriver. San Francisco did the original thread on this complete with numerous photos. Search trackball color or something to find it.

[coldconfession13]

Thanks I found it. Sucks i have to wait a full week to try it out.

[sickmunkeyz]

anyone have some good rrggbb numbers that look good? anyways i like this program with my white led with tape on it. stays that dark pretty blue all the time.

[jorv88]

nice work. this ap work way better than the first 1 that cameout.

[Nessa]

My first download on my Pearl and I'm super excited

The pink is so hot!!!

Thanks!

[sumwon12001]

Originally Posted by metsfan

Yeah, that's how it works. And it's a hex field, so the "numbers" go 0-F. To put in a letter, hit Alt-key. To put F instead of D, hold Alt and hit D/F twice.

I found this website useful too:

mediagods RGB to HEX color picker

though, the colors won't "translate" from screen colors to "light/LED" colors perfectly, because we're dealing with light combinations here and not screen pixels....if that makes sense.

[brimart]

Thanks! This was my first app to install. I am a Very new user! thanks again for a cool toy!

[canonbomb1987]

Idk if anyone else has noticed this, but using Dollar5's media player resets the trackball color to white. I hav no idea what is going on there, but i think it is a conflict between colorball and the dancing trackball option in the media player (I have the dancing trackball turned off and it still resets).