Disable Flashing Blue LED?

[Guest philg2000]

I've had a quick search for this but to no avail.

Is it possible to disable the flashing blue LED, but still have BT on?

Another thing I'd like to do is reassign the camera key to toggle BT on & off - that would be VERY useful !

[Guest Jasonkruys]

Why would you ever want to turn it off? Unless it is actually being used for something it doesn't use any significant extra battery power

[Guest zippy172]

The Bluetooth LED does a very good job of illuminating my bedroom as I'm trying to get to sleep! Obvious solution to this problem is to turn the phone upside down :)

Having said that, it would be nice if you could disable the LED...

[Guest midnight]

gah, this old thing again, this cropped up with the original SPV, and no, you cant disable the LED.

Besides, you guys must have VERY thin eyelids if you can see the led light through them.

philg2000, you can turn BT off by holding down the Home key and selecting the Blutooth option in the menu that appears.

[Guest philg2000]

I've just found the BT Toggle app, and installed that on a SpeedDial. Works a treat!

I think I need to do some research about custom homescreens and plugins, maybe be able to run this app from a home screen?

As for disabling the Blue LED, I agree its useful, but not in the car when driving in the dark. I have the phone "attached" to the dash so I can use it to dial out, using a SOnyEric BT kit. But the flashing blue light is very distracting.

Maybe I'll just put a small piece of black tape over it.

[Guest syrus]

Come on guys, don't you have something better to do than try and figure out how to turn off an LED! Try fixing > 500/600k bluetooth incoming transfers instead :)

[Guest philg2000]

Well, Bluetooth raw data rate is only around 750kBits/Second, so with overheads (such as packet headers, Acks, etc) getting around 500-600K is good, and certainly up neat the maximum possible.

[Guest syrus]

I was talking about max file size, not bandwidth!