Well I chatted with the handcent developer today, and we ran a few tests with the leds. We didn't do much, but at this point we found that you need su, or root access to control the led's to turn on and off etc... I'm not saying its not possible for support, and he didn't say anything either, but at least its being worked on and looked at

Originally Posted by swamp goblin

Well I chatted with the handcent developer today, and we ran a few tests with the leds. We didn't do much, but at this point we found that you need su, or root access to control the led's to turn on and off etc... I'm not saying its not possible for support, and he didn't say anything either, but at least its being worked on and looked at

cool deal. thanks for the update. Wonder if they will enable support and for those that have rooted phones, it should work, in theory anyways..

Originally Posted by blazinazn

cool deal. thanks for the update. Wonder if they will enable support and for those that have rooted phones, it should work, in theory anyways..

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I'm gonna talk to him tonight possibly, and try to figure out more about It.

But I'm pretty sure I will be switching to the evo this weekend because this Saturday is the 29th day, so if someone else wants to start talking to the dev about it that would be a good idea ha

Thank you for updating :)
I will just remain happy to have a red notification light

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Well, we found out that you do need root access for any led support.. this isn't a problem for many of us.

I was also told that they will consider and look in to adding support in handcent to change led colors for rooted epics, so its lookin pretty good at this point

I'm switching to the evo tomorrow, but I will still try to keep up to date with the dev, just to kinda finish what I started haha, just everybody cross your fingers ....

Its SO bizarre that these phone manufacturers will add LED lights but have limited or next to non-existent support/use of the LEDs.

If you are gonna include a LED, you can at least make it functional for more than charging. -___-;;;

Well, great news that Handcent is trying to make use of the LED! Would love for it to flash blue or magenta for text messages.

You don't need root to run the lcd test that you can change the colors with. Why would a program need root to change the color then?

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you are gonna be so sad when you get the evo. i cant believe you are switching im offended...........

I just found out (by playing around with the LCD test mode) that Epic also has magenta LED color besides the red and blue colors.
Try yourself by entering *#0*#

We could probably use three colors for three different events, for instance, email, sms, and missed calls.


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The magenta is do to the blue and red mixing

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