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belinea

29th October 2006, 01:36 PM

Hy,

Is it possible to hack the system drivers for the LEDs of a Windows Mobile device? So you can fully customize the appearance of the LEDs. A flashing red/blue LED for a new incoming SMS would be great.

The people in german forums said: It is definitely not possible to do that. But it´s posible to hack PayTV, so I think it should also possible to hack an WM5 device.

Ingvarr

29th October 2006, 04:07 PM

Its possible.
Just very hard to do ;)

belinea

29th October 2006, 06:03 PM

Of course this could be useful (Notification LED Drivers)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wceddk5/html/wce50oriNotificationLEDDrivers.asp

But it seems that you can only read the status of a LED, but you cannot set the status.

vijay555

29th October 2006, 08:19 PM

That's not quite correct, you can change the status of the leds (for leds, that curiously includes the vibrator). VJEschaton has this functionality I think.

However, the leds the OS controls are just the notification led (the one that turns orange on alarms etc) and vibrate.

The other leds could be controlled, but probably not without some ingenuity.

V