Froyo and no Trackball update?

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Kpow

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I wonder why Google didn't give us this update that the hacking community has had for so long. Thoughts?
 

pjcforpres

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Because they didn't even give us this update... who knows, maybe it will be in the actual release, if this isn't it.

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It seems that there IS this feature built in, just depens on the app, etc... at least some are reporting colored track ball alerts for differing apps.
 
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Alleviate

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I can confirm the above edit. I get different colors but no way of changing to a preference.

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tamatama11

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On my GF stock nexus phone i updated to froyo and for text it came up as magenta color.
I tried using handcent sms to change the color but i dont think it is configured yet to control that.
 

ben_zin

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I just did a little test with AK notepad and set a notification to glow green and sure enough, it works. I guess the individual apps have to give you the option to change the color.
 

Kpow

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People are getting mixed results with the trackball. I can get AK Notepad to work, but nothing else does. On an AT&T N1
 

Andrew.s

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I just did a little test with AK notepad and set a notification to glow green and sure enough, it works. I guess the individual apps have to give you the option to change the color.

That's what it is. I use SMS Popup for my text notification and the app itself gives me the option to change the trackball color. Everything else is still white.
 

nDrg

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I can see lilhermit creating a working patch for stock 2.2 seeing that Trackball Alert should work just fine now :)
 

cristianomad

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My color trackball works with AK notepad!
Change the LED color settings, create a new note, set the remind and turn standby mode (press power button) and wait!
 

flak0

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I wonder if the .34 kernel from cyanogen breaks the trackball . For those of u who its working what kernel version you have? .34 or .32 stock
 

codito

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I really miss trackball alert and the modifications made to the messaging app, I need my colored notifications back!
 
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diversificationied

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There's a reason there are no configurable colors for the trackball.

The update to the trackball is behind the scenes and it's meant for the developers. It's up to the application makers to choose the colors for their notifications.

On the plus side, this is android and that's why we have things like lilhermits trackball notifcation alert modifier. =)
 

RogerPodacter

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Yeah I'm disappointed with froyo because I wanted color track ball for my gmail, talk, etc. How will third party developers be involved with the core stock Google apps? That was the whole point, Google! I'm sure its only 3 lines of code to add into settings to switch the color.

Otherwise you would just root in the first place which defeats the whole point of waiting all this time for official support in froyo.
 
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diversificationied

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Third party developers can and already do send the information to light up the trackball.