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MissingLight – Free App Turns LED Purple For Missed Call

by Ronen Halevy on Mar 1st, 2009 at 12:55 pm EST
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Summer let me know about this free app released by Christopher Wong. It essentially turns your LED indicator Purple after you have missed a call so you can easily identify it instead of just the blinking red light. For some reason this indicator is missing on the 8320 on T-Mobile according to Christopher but MissingLight works on my Bold. Cant promise it will work on every device but its worth a shot. Christopher is making the app available temporarily for a few days but just wants to know what devices it works with. Not sure if it will become a paid app afterwards. Let us know if it works for you in the comments and what device you tried it on.

Product description | OTA download link

From the description:

MissingLight is a tiny app that turns on the BlackBerry’s status LED if you miss a call. A BlackBerry uses the status LED for many notifications: incoming call, voice mail, SMS, email etc. Unfortunately, the ability to indicate a missed call is curiously missing from my particular model (BlackBerry Curve 8320 from T-Mobile). MissingLight is my attempt to fill in this missing functionality for the status LED, hence its name.

To use, just install the app. This application will request access to your phone log when you first install it: don’t worry, it only uses your phone log to detect missed calls. If you miss a call, MissingLight will make your status LED blink purple. Because there is only one such LED, different signals can conflict. The missed call light can temporarily turn off the coverage indicator if you enabled it (blinking green). The missed call light can in turn be overridden by the voice mail indicator (blinking red).

I am making this program temporarily available for download for a few days. It’s free for you to use. I only ask that you let me know if it works on your particular BlackBerry model.

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77 Comments to “MissingLight – Free App Turns LED Purple For Missed Call”

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  1. Posted by: Faraz
    March 2, 2009 at 9:12 am EST

    i have bb 8310 curve OS 4.5.124 and its working :D
    It did ask for permission ! Is there anything wrong if it asks for permission ???????
    Well if message comes over miss call the indicator turns red from purple !!!
    So far so good :D

  2. Posted by: automan69
    March 2, 2009 at 10:23 am EST

    Works great on telus 8330 curve .131 just one thing if you have Aerize install disable it. Works great after.

  3. Posted by: b_nom
    March 2, 2009 at 10:26 am EST

    Works on my VZW 8330 and on my wife’s T-Mo 8320.

    We love this little app!!!!

  4. Posted by: Gareth
    March 2, 2009 at 11:57 am EST

    Works here: 8100/4.5.0.102

  5. Posted by: Paul Norwood
    March 2, 2009 at 1:01 pm EST

    Installed on my storm but the light is only blue and does not flash.

  6. Posted by: Connie
    March 2, 2009 at 1:10 pm EST

    It’s working great on my 8330-Curve, loaded fine.

    Thanks!!

  7. Posted by: prp2
    March 2, 2009 at 1:39 pm EST

    This program seems to work alright on my Curve 8900 (4.6.1.168), but occasionally when viewing the call log it’ll throw up an “Uncaught exception: Layout requested during layout” and I’ll need to do a battery pull. Otherwise if I’m typing something out, it won’t word wrap the line of text and it just disappears. This only started happening after I installed MissingLight and only seems to happen after I’ve gone into the call log, so I’m assuming it’s related.

  8. Posted by: MahBell
    March 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm EST

    Works on my 8820 and 8110 great!

  9. Posted by: Randy
    March 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm EST

    Work on my BB 8820 Thanks a bunch, very cool!!

  10. Posted by: Frank
    March 2, 2009 at 8:45 pm EST

    It works on my 8320 running OS 4.5

  11. Posted by: falosmic
    March 2, 2009 at 10:15 pm EST

    Works on 8100 OS: 4.5

  12. Posted by: Christopher Wong
    March 2, 2009 at 11:26 pm EST

    Hi. I am the guy who wrote MissingLight. I want to thank all of you for providing such enthusiastic feedback and testing for this app. At about noon today, the stats show that I have given away 5595 free copies of this app.

    The testing period is now over, and MissingLight is now a commercial app that will soon propagate to BerryReview’s software store and other affiliates of Mobihand. I have tried to price it low ($2.95), and I’m looking into ways of bringing the price down further. Of course, those of you who have already downloaded it are welcome to continue using it in perpetuity.

  13. Posted by: tom
    March 3, 2009 at 12:05 am EST

    On my 8900 works great. I really like the fact I can now tell if I missed a call, not an email ect.

  14. Posted by: conrad
    March 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm EST

    i had this installed on my Bold, works great i love it, but last night i updated my os and when i tried downloading it, the link doesnt work anymore, would be u able to send me a link to it

  15. Posted by: niken
    March 4, 2009 at 1:15 am EST

    Bb’s the best

  16. Posted by: brian A
    March 4, 2009 at 2:03 am EST

    Can someone email this too me, I missed it, Thanks
    xintensex@gmail.com

  17. Posted by: illPhever
    March 4, 2009 at 8:54 am EST

    works on my 8130 from sprint.

  18. Posted by: Victor
    March 5, 2009 at 3:41 am EST

    WEBSITE Not Found

    The requested URL /chris/bb/MissingLight.jad was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at the-wongs.net Port 80

    Where else can i download it ?

  19. Posted by: Auad
    March 5, 2009 at 2:44 pm EST

    It’s not free anymore, look at Wong’s page and you’ll see that, although, there is a zip file to donwload here:

    http://handheld.softpedia.com/progDownload/MissingLight-Download-74828.html

    Go quickly and get your free version! :)

  20. Posted by: Christopher Wong
    March 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm EST

    Actually, Auad, people have always been able to download MissingLight for “free” from Mobihand or any of its affiliates like Softpedia. This is because I provided a fully functional “free trial” which is actually the real thing so people can try it before buying it. That link you posted is to MissingLight’s free trial download. You are welcome to try it out, but please pay for it if you want to continue using it.

    I’d also like to point out that if you go to the MissingLight product description link in the original blog post, you will find a discount coupon. You’ll also find a free app that I just posted, and this one will remain free.

  21. Posted by: prp2
    March 6, 2009 at 11:50 am EST

    Evidently this doesn’t work well when combined with the Cerberus Call Filter 1.0.1 on my 8900. Kept giving me all kinds of errors when I went to view call logs and messages, and would sometimes leave the LED blinking forever. Finally had to uninstall it.

  22. Posted by: mass
    August 5, 2009 at 8:08 am EST

    thanks it’s working on my bold

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