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One Question About The SK3 (Trackball)
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Posted by: LeroyTheGreat38

After the phone has gone "idle" the trackball starts to blink. How do i get rid of that?

Posted by: bparrott03

Go to menu>settings> battery & display

then uncheck the device sleep.

Please note, this will drain your battery since the device HAS to "wake up" from its idle every minute to sync the time up with the servers..

Posted by: LeroyTheGreat38

So if I turn it off then it drains my battery?

Posted by: bparrott03

no, not too terribly.
Basicly it will make it last a tad bit shorter than with the blinking...

It may cost you a few [1-4]battery % but nothing horrible.

I wish the blinking was every 20 seconds or something... every second is ANNOYING. I just turn it over..

I was just letting you know it will sorta effect your battery life, i forgot to say minimally.

Posted by: ladylime

I love the blinking light. I wish the phone would just go into sleep mode whenever I do key lock instead of waiting for the light to blink.

It's green for no messages, and blue if there's messages. I can see my phone blink if I'm on the computer with my headphones on, or if I'm across the room if I don't hear the sound go off instead of having to take a look down at it periodically to see if I have a SMS or IM. It's actually really great imo!

Posted by: LeroyTheGreat38

Lol I'm really starting to like it too. I wish I would get more messages though that way it would blink in blue because blue is my favorite color. That'd be cool if you could change what color stuff would blink for.

Posted by: miniperez

Yeah I love the fact that it blinks its great, especially when im at work and cant wake it up to see if i have a message. I just look at it and it blinks and im like oh i have a message time to "use the restroom" and check my messages.

Posted by: I Am The Game

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Originally Posted by LeroyTheGreat38

Lol I'm really starting to like it too. I wish I would get more messages though that way it would blink in blue because blue is my favorite color. That'd be cool if you could change what color stuff would blink for.

You can but you have to purchase that program. Under Catalog>Applications>Personal Productivity>Message Sentinal

Now I haven't purchased it but it says that's what it's supposed to do, allow it to blink red for an IM, blue for text, green for email, etc.

Posted by: LeroyTheGreat38

Thanks for that info.

Posted by: eimajuno

I have the message sentinal on my sk3. Whats cool about it is that you can have different colored lights for different alerts. Very handy.