leoboiko’s computing log

Since I won’t have an Internet connection at home until I have, well, a home, I’ve been playing with the Crackberry a lot. I was quite impressed when I asked one through the relevant web service in the morning and got it in the afternoon.

Now the Crackberry 8700 has a bright LED right above the screen. When you have new messages, it flashes red; when the battery’s low, “amber” (looks like yellow to me); and when you make a Bluetooth connection, (you guessed it) blue. Someone also had the amazingly braindead idea of making it flash green when you have a network connection, which is, like, always. You’re forced to hide the damn thing with a sock or something when you go to bed, but the light is most annoying when you’re actually trying to use the device and it keeps flashing in your face.

I was ready to cover it with duct tape, but luckily I googled for a solution before; since it was a bother to find it, I’m writing it down here for the benefit of my fellow nooglers. Just go to Settings → Screen/Keyboard → LED Coverage Indicator → Change Option → Off → Save. This is a good example of what the Gnome developers call a “fix my application option”; an option that shouldn’t even exist.

[From my Google blog, 2008-01-11]