LED notification

Jason Cawood jason at jasoncawood.com
Thu Oct 9 05:07:54 CEST 2008


What I think I didn't communicate very well is: 

1. phone is in suspend mode.
2. GSM wakes phone for sms notification
3. screen blanks after timeout
4. LED blinks while phone is not in suspend.

Would that be a possible solution?

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 23:51 +0000, zing wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:21:08 -0600, Jason Cawood wrote:
> 
> > Someone posted awhile back and asked about a blinking LED to notify
> 
> that was me :)
> 
> > missed call or message and someone responded with can't do it when the
> > phone is suspended.  In the current state, if you don't have your
> > setting to suspend automatically, wouldn't the phone wake up from
> > suspended mode to notify of an event?  and while in that state, couldn't
> > we make the LED blink?
> 
> My understanding was that blinking in suspend mode is no go (or at least 
> not exactly battery efficient because you'd need to wake/blink/suspend/
> wash/rinse/repeat), but brightness fully on during suspend was possible 
> (eating into your battery though also.) AIUI.
> 
> 
> 





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