99 vs RED (or was it PINK) Phone cases

[Tore Dalaker]

There should also be some sort of time controlled switch to turn the 
blinking leds off at night, because nothing is more annoying than trying 
to sleep and then some lights starts blinking..

Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards
Tore Dalaker
Rosenkrantzvegen 19
N-4353 Klepp Stasjon

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, steve wrote:

> I want a software switch that says  "unLEDed" so I can turn blinking lights
> off on any app if I so choose.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Alexey
> Feldgendler
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> Subject: Re: 99 vs RED (or was it PINK) Phone cases
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> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:05:20 +0200, Ron K. Jeffries <rjeffries at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's wonderful the focus of  the community is now
>> all about $399 vs $400 rather than availability
>> of Freerunner in certain colors.
>
> That's the marvel of communities. All it takes is a good topic-starter. :-)
>
>> and YES I agree, the remaining V5 vs V6 issues seem small
>> (but we did get extra info and  clarification, thanks Tony).
>
> BTW, there is a way to work around the v5 issue in software. Because the
> LED in an unmodified v5 shines 6 or so times as bright as it should (and
> eats 6 times more power), the solution is to correct the brightness with
> PWM to reduce it 6 times. This would bring the brightness and power
> consumption to normal. However, I suspect that for many community members
> who were so eager to prefer v6 over v5, simply knowing that there is a
> workaround, and thus no known unavoidable hardware bugs exist in v5, would
> be enough, and actually implementing the workaround would not be that
> important. :-)
>
>
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