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BBLight v1.95 – Free Backlight App Adds Vibe And Ring Functionality

by Ronen Halevy on Mar 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm EST
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Developer: Tateu Cost: Free

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Tom let me know that Chris Miles has added a very useful feature to the free BBLight opensource application. Version 1.95 now adds the ability to make your phone vibrate at the same time it rings. This has been a feature you had to pay for in the past and now you can get it free. Let me know if this works for you in the comments. Nice work Chris!!!

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I definitely recommend checking it out and downloading version1.95 at this link OTA

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24 Comments to “BBLight v1.95 – Free Backlight App Adds Vibe And Ring Functionality”

  1. Posted by: Tom
    March 2, 2009 at 4:30 pm EST

    And the app only takes up 17.4 KB!

  2. Posted by: Dan McG
    March 2, 2009 at 4:42 pm EST

    What I’ve wanted out of this app forever is the ability to set a schedule. I want my backlight to be on when charging between 9am and 9 pm. This can’t be that tough right? :)

  3. Posted by: Genaro
    March 2, 2009 at 4:58 pm EST

    i downloaded the app but dont know how to set up the vibrating and ringer at the same time… unless if it doesnt work for my bberry curve 8320

  4. Posted by: Bo Jangles
    March 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm EST

    BB 8900 here and the phone wont vibrate while it is ringing. Any help?

  5. Posted by: Sandman
    March 2, 2009 at 6:05 pm EST

    Wibe and Ring DOES NOT work. Hello?!

  6. Posted by: moosc
    March 2, 2009 at 6:40 pm EST

    will this work on the blackberry Storm 9530

  7. Posted by: tateu
    March 2, 2009 at 7:29 pm EST

    I realize it is impossible to figure out on it’s own…simple has never been a strong suit of mine…

    To correctly set up simultaneous vibration and ringing:
    –a) In your active device Profile, set BBlight to Vibrate and Repeat
    —–Notification to None, Number of Vibrations = 1
    –b) In your active device Profile, set Phone to Tone
    –c) In the BBlight application, set “Vibration for Phone Calls” to
    —–something other than 0.

    To turn off simultaneous vibration and ringing for a specific profile:
    –a) In that device Profile, set BBlight to None
    –b) In that device Profile, set Phone to None or Tone Only

    To completely disable simultaneous vibration and ringing:
    –a) In the BBlight application, set “Vibration for Phone Calls” to 0.
    –b) And you can do the following but don’t really need to
    —–In your active device Profile, set BBlight to None

  8. Posted by: Genaro
    March 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm EST

    Thanks alot Tateu. That really helped out alot!, it working perfectly on the curve 8320 !!

  9. Posted by: Dean
    March 2, 2009 at 11:27 pm EST

    Regardless of what ring tone is set for BBlight in the device Profile, the ring tone that’s set for the phone itself always runs. I prefer this anyway, but it makes setting the ring tone in BBlight redundant.

  10. Posted by: tateu
    March 2, 2009 at 11:37 pm EST

    Dean,

    That’s why you don’t set a tone for BBLight. You set it on Vibrate only. If it worked where you could set BBlight to “Vibrate + Tone” to get it to vibrate and ring simultaneously, then you wouldn’t need BBlight at all for this because you could then just set Phone to “Vibrate + Tone.” If a profile item (Phone, Messages, etc.) is set to “Vibrate + Tone,” the BB waits for all vibrates to finish before playing the tone. BBlight gets around this OS limitation (if setup the way I described above) because, when a new phone call is received, the BB triggers the Phone profile to play a sound and simultaneously triggers BBlight to vibrate.

    • Posted by: Dean
      March 3, 2009 at 12:27 am EST

      Yeah, it’s a bit convoluted, isn’t it?

      RIM *really* needs to integrate this functionality into the OS cleanly, and it’s better native than third party. Great OS, but some of the stuff that they leave out, which should be common sense, but you need third party applications to do such basic things like this… where the hell were their heads???

  11. Posted by: John
    March 6, 2009 at 12:31 am EST

    I don’t get the instructions…
    I can’t get it to vibrate and ring???

  12. Posted by: Renni
    April 17, 2009 at 8:24 am EST

    Hi
    This app is fantastic – the one thing that i love is the ability to now have a clock permanetly displayed on the screen whilst my BB 8100 is charging.
    However, on the downside my phone now keeps chiming every 15 minutes and is REALLY annoying me. I cant work out how to turn this off – does anyone have any ideas?
    Kind Regards

    Andy

  13. Posted by: @ngel
    April 22, 2009 at 2:44 am EST

    Nice work! Thank you!