[MOD] Native trackball colors... Official!! [3-16]

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For anyone who missed it, Google open sourced the official lights and sensor libs. Attached is the update.zip with official colorful LED lib. It's just about functionally identical to mine, but they have some better color mapping, and the white is finally white! Just flash from recovery and enjoy.

Special thanks go out to lilHermit, his app gave me a lot of insight into the LEDs, and metalhead8816 for helping me through some tough code, and Google for releasing the official code.

Root is required...

This is how it works:
- Screen on: incoming whatever - one white flash
- Screen off: notification - one white flash, then colored flash
- SMS, Gmail - green
- Missed call, twidroid - cyan
- Incoming call - rapid white flashing
- Incoming call while on bluetooth - rapid blue flashing

** Please read **
This file offers no customization because it's only an interface. What this file does is allow apps and the system to set the color and blink rate of the trackball and the trackball obeys.

Also, I cannot guarantee support for Desire roms. I know nothing about how the Desire is supposed to handle notifications. If HTC didn't try to do something fancy (read: stupid) with the notification code, then this will work as advertised. I have no plans to use or test this on a Desire ROM myself.

Attached is a real update.zip that I made myself. No waiting this time. Flash from recovery and let me know what you think.

Originally Posted by ChainsDD

I pieced together a new led driver that shows colors on the trackball. Everything seems to work as advertised and it should work on any ROM.
It's being pulled into CM, so if you run that, you could probably wait for the next release if you want.
Other than that you can grab the .so here and push it to /system/lib/hw. It requires a reboot to take effect.

Note: This is not an update.zip. I'm too tired to put one of those together. just extract lights.mahimahi.so and push it with adb. or someone else can make an update.zip

interesting ... was this a binary edit ... or did you build this from scratch/source?

Nice work.

~enom~

freaking sweet! now i just have to figure out where my flipping cable is since I just got to my hotel room on a business trip. what a great surprize.

Originally Posted by enomther

interesting ... was this a binary edit ... or did you build this from scratch/source?

Nice work.

~enom~

Sort of built from scratch. I had the lights.msm7k.so source to look at.

What directory does this go

Originally Posted by bobtentpeg

What directory does this go

/system/lib/hw

Originally Posted by ChainsDD

Sort of built from scratch. I had the lights.msm7k.so source to look at.

In that case ... very well done sir ... nice indeed!

EDIT: Ah, I just saw it up on github too ... cool.

~enom~

thanks for the hard-work it'll be great to have the trackball work the way it should have from start. I put together an update.zip but its my first time putting one together just kinda edited and re-signed another zip file i had, i flashed it myself it didn't have any errors and seems to be working but standard disclaimers apply make a backup flash at your risk im not responsible for anything that happens to your phone.


updated the file its the new one 2/22

edit i forgot that there was issues with the screen being on and color changing properly the zip works fine

edit removed zip to prevent confusion

Originally Posted by godsfilth

thanks for the hard-work it'll be great to have the trackball work the way it should have from start. I put together an update.zip but its my first time putting one together just kinda edited and re-signed another zip file i had, i flashed it myself it didn't have any errors and seems to be working but standard disclaimers apply make a backup flash at your risk im not responsible for anything that happens to your phone.

I didn't try it, but looking at that, it should work just fine. putting it in the OP. Thanks!

Originally Posted by ChainsDD

I didn't try it, but looking at that, it should work just fine. putting it in the OP. Thanks!

no problem glad to be of some help. i cant code and i'm poor so gotta give back to the community somehow