http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/27/annoying-blinking-led-lights/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/27/annoying-blinking-led-lights/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11492 Hardware devices that I buy seem to come quite frequently with annoying blinking led lights that cannot be turned off. The first device that made use of a bright blue LED was the Nokia N73 cell phone that I purchased about 2 years ago. The blue light was automatically turned on when the cell phone entered sleep mode without the possibility to turn it off. Well that was not entirely correct. Turning off sleep mode, and therefor reducing the power of the battery faster was a possibility. There was however no way to turn of the light without disabling sleep mode.

The light was that bright that I had to turn the N73 before going to sleep because of the distraction by that light. My next purchase was the Razer Arctosa gaming keyboard which uses one ultra bright white LED in the top left corner of the computer keyboard. And guess what; It is not possible to turn off that light either.

Now I’m no expert when it comes to usability and quality control but I’m beginning to wonder if I’m overly sensitive to LED lights or if the manufacturer’s quality control fails big time.

The only working way of dimming down those bright LED lights was to use – preferably black – tape placed directly over the light. Do you know of other devices that have annoying blinking LED lights that cannot be turned off?

Tags: blinking led, blnking light, computer hardware, gaming keyboard, hardware annoyances, keyboard, led, led light, n73, razer, razer arctosa

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/27/annoying-blinking-led-lights/feed/ 16 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/02/nokia-n73-and-the-case-of-the-blinking-blue-light/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/02/nokia-n73-and-the-case-of-the-blinking-blue-light/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:20:31 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/02/nokia-n73-and-the-case-of-the-blinking-blue-light/ I really like my new mobile phone which is a Nokia N73 Music Edition. There is however one disturbing thing and that is a blue light that is blinking whenever my phone is activating sleep mode. Sleep mode is great because it consumes less battery when it is active but that blinking blue light is really getting on my nerves.

I mean, I know when my mobile phone is turned on and just in sleep mode which means that the blinking blue light of the Nokia N73 is completely useless. The problem is that you can turn it off but this also means that you turn of sleep mode which in turn means that your mobile is wasting more battery.

To turn it off you navigate to: Menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Phone -> Display -> SLEEP MODE => off. This sends the blue light and the sleep mode to Nirvana which is probably not such a good idea. An alternative would be to place the phone with the front on the desk to get rid of the light without disabling sleep mode.

I’m not sure why there is no option to turn of the light only and still keep the sleep mode. Nokia, it is time for a firmware update that fixes this problem.

Tags: blinking light, blue light, n73, Nokia, nokia n73

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