tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62738186848314543062024-03-18T11:48:25.542+02:00cat **/*Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273818684831454306.post-82617517732490852462009-02-18T20:27:00.004+02:002009-03-01T12:50:56.668+02:00LooxLight 2007-11-19I don't know why I didn't write anything about the new version one year ago. But here I am going fix this mistake.<br /><br />LooxLight is a tool for PDA Fujitsu Siemens C550/N560 (<a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">click here</a> to find more information).<br /><br />In version 2007-11-19 I added a new feature. It was ability to block (turn it off) the device's screen. Before I implemented this feature, I had used wossname program to turn PDA's screen off. But this wossname program had been buggy. So I had decided to implement the same feature in my LooxLight app but make it less buggy. And I implemented it. It allowed me to turn off the screen and block keyboard (including suspend button, that was what no other program could do!). It appeared that with screen turned off, the PDA consumed up to 50mA less battery power. This helped to prolong time I could enjoy music/audiobooks.<br /><br />Here is the <a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-11-19.zip?attredirects=0">cab</a> file with LooxLight 2007-11-19. Remember that it is for Fujitsu-Siemens Loox C550/N560 and maybe for 720, but I can't give you any guarantee. <br /><ad></ad><br /><b>How to use.</b> After you have installed LooxLight 2007-11-19, run LooxLight Control and check "Permit blocking" option. Then setup up "Unblock by" keys. Remember, when your PDA is blocked, you will have to press these buttons one after another in order to unblock the PDA. By default these buttons are button 2 and button 4. Then, go to Settings/Button assign "LooxLight Block" to a button that will be used to block PDA. That is it, the configuration is over. Enjoy new feature.<br /><br />New versions and latest news about LooxLight will be published <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">right here</a>.<br />Another <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/goodwavpower">project</a> helps reduce power consumption on Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560/C550.Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273818684831454306.post-92048331884146240422007-05-26T18:46:00.006+03:002009-03-01T12:52:42.816+02:00LooxLight & GoodWavPowerMinor update of utilities for PDA Fujitsu Siemens C550/N560.<br /><br /><a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-05-26.zip?attredirects=0">Here</a> is the new LooxLight version (2007-05-26). You may try it if you are enough annoyed with this message:<b><br />Error while starting: Return status 2 of ReqQueryValueEx<br />for hnd indicates error<br />lasterror=0<br />lasterror=0</b><br /><br /><a href="http://toril.ru/pda/GoodWavPower-2007-05-26.zip">Here</a> is the new GoodWavPower version (2007-05-26). Message '<b>GoodWavPower: error play sound</b>' is simply disabled.<br /><ad></ad><br />New versions and latest news about LooxLight will be published <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">right here</a>.<br />Check for GoodWavPower updates <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/goodwavpower">here</a>.Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273818684831454306.post-19671626029509217392007-03-04T22:38:00.002+02:002009-03-01T12:53:39.583+02:00LooxLight 2007-03-04LooxLight is a tool for PDA Fujitsu Siemens C550/N560 (<a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">click here</a> to find more information).<br /><br />I've released new version of LooxLight. Changelog:<br /><ll><li> Full support for the GPS led.<br /></li><li> Support for the Broadcom Bluetooth Stack.<br /></li><li> Full support for the power led.<br /></li><li> Better support for the keyboard led (it survives brightness changing).<br /></li><li> The LooxLight service is not an EXE, but a DLL now. It is an improvement becouse wince has the limitation on amount of proccesses -- 32 processes.<br /></li><li> Twice as smaller footprint than even before.<br /><br />The CAB archive zipped: <a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-03-04.zip?attredirects=0">here</a>.<br />The source code (GPLed): <a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-03-04.tar.gz?attredirects=0">here</a>.</li></ll><ad></ad><br />New versions and latest news about LooxLight will be published <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">right here</a>.<br />Another <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/goodwavpower">project</a> helps reduce power consumption on Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560/C550.Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273818684831454306.post-26820185113052881632007-02-04T03:12:00.002+02:002009-03-01T12:54:52.479+02:00LooxLight-2007-02-03LooxLight is a tool for PDA Fujitsu Siemens C550/N560 (<a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">click here</a> to find more information).<br /><br />Update. I hope I fixed problem: owners of localized versions of WM5 were unable to install LooxLight. The error message is much more detailed now - it must help to understand cause of the problem if the problem still exists.<br /><br /><a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-02-03.zip?attredirects=0">Zipped CAB file (2007-02-03)</a>.<ad></ad><br /><br />New versions and latest news about LooxLight will be published <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">right here</a>.<br />Another <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/goodwavpower">project</a> helps reduce power consumption on Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560/C550.Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273818684831454306.post-57100443702334585682007-02-01T06:55:00.002+02:002009-03-01T12:55:54.492+02:00LooxLight<img src="http://toril.ru/lj/LooxLight-0.png" align="left" /><br />I've done it! I wrote my second application for pocketpc. LooxLight is a tiny application which is intended to help you control lights (LEDs) of your FSC PPC.<br /><ad></ad><br />Features:<br /><ll><li> LooxLight provides controls for leds of: keyboard, wifi, bluetooth, gps, power. You can keep each led in its individual state. LooxLight can be set to continuosly keep led in ON/OFF state or just temporarily switch led to a desired state.<br /></li><li> Small footprint. LooxLight service takes only 3.5k of memory when it is loaded. LooxLight doesn't waste CPU cycles: it does nothing, when there is nothing for it to do.<br /></li><li> Command line operations. You can control leds from your scripts. No resident service needed to be loaded for command line operations. For instance, "LooxLightCtrl +keyb sleep100 -keyb sleep100 +keyb" winks you with keyboard.<br /></li><li> Tested on Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560 and Fujitsu-Siemens Loox C550. But AFAIK it must work on Loox 720 or Loox 718 as well.<br /></li><li> I'll open it under GPL in a next few weeks, as soon as everything I plan to implement has been implemented.<br /></li></ll><br /><br /><a href="http://downloads.akshaal.info/looxlight-1/LooxLight-2007-01-31.zip?attredirects=0">Download zipped cab archive (17k).</a><br /><br /><b>How to install and setup.</b><br />1. Download the CAB file and copy it into your LOOX.<br />2. Run the CAB on LOOX. Proceed with an installation process as usually.<br />3. Go to Programs menu and click on the LooxLight Control icon.<br />4. Setup it in accordance with your desires.<br /><br /><b>Short description of dialog controls.</b><br />KBD stands for KEYBOARD, BTH is abbr of BLUETOOTH word, PWR is the POWER word as you already suppose. Each line of controls is prefixed with name of led.<br />"On" button just switches LED on and "Off" button switches LED off :). Blink means blink.<br />"KEEP ON"/"KEEP OFF" means that LooxLight must reset state to required when some other program changed it to unwanted.<br /><br />Some controls are disabled for now, becouse they are not yet implemented.<br /><br /><b>Command line options:</b><br />LooxLightCtrl.exe <op1> <op2> <op3> ... <opx>, where opN is one of:<br /><ll><li><i>stop</i> - tell service to exit<br /></li><li><i>setup</i> - tell service to reload settings from registry<br /></li><li><i>sleep123</i> - sleep 123 milliseconds (where 123 is positive any integer)<br /></li><li><i>flashlight</i> - switch all lights on<br /></li><li><i>+wifi</i> - switch wifi indicator on<br /></li><li><i>-wifi</i> - switch wifi indicator off<br /></li><li><i>+bluetooth</i> - switch bluetooth indicator on<br /></li><li><i>-bluetooth</i> - switch bluetooth indicator off<br /></li><li><i>+gps</i> - switch gps indicator on<br /></li><li><i>-gps</i> - switch gps indicator off<br /></li><li><i>+keyboard</i> - switch keyboard light on<br /></li><li><i>-keyboard</i> - switch keyboard light off<br /></li><li><i>+power</i> - switch power indicator on<br /></li><li><i>-power</i> - switch power indicator off<br /></li><li><i>=power</i> - switch power indicator to blink mode<br /></li></ll><br /><br /><b>History:</b><br />Oneday, I found out <a href="http://www.textzombie.com/keylightc/">KeyLightC</a>. It was useful program but it lacked in ability to turn on/off individual led without touching others. Also I had to run the KeyLightC when some program was changed state of leds or just after PPC was awaked. I mailed Phill McManus. I asked him for command line options like +keyboard or -keyboard. I asked him to open KeyLightC sources in order to add these features by myself. But he didn't answered me. So I started my own research. It took nearly twenty evenings, before I found how to control leds in right way. Then it took ten evenings to find out how to program for PPC in MS Visual Studio and to learn WinCE API. Next it took three days to abandon that ugly MS Visual Studio and migrate to nice mingw32ce under linux. After all, I have to say I hate Win32 API for its tons of caveats.<br /><br /><b>TODO:</b><br /><ll><li>Implement flashlight mode (Sometimes darkness is not a friend of me).<br /></li><li>Implement mechanism to keep power/gps leds in choosen mode.<br /></li><li>Implement backlight control.<br /></li></ll><br /><ad></ad><br /><b>About firmware of Loox N560/C550.</b><br />I am too tired of this post. I am going to describe it in a next post.<br /><br />Feel free to leave a comment with suggestions or information about how it works on your PPC (I am still not sure about 720/718).<br /><br />Latest news about LooxLight are <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/looxlight">HERE</a>.<br /></opx></op3></op2></op1>Another <a href="http://www.akshaal.info/search/label/goodwavpower">project</a> helps reduce power consumption on Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560/C550.Akshaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05677582369584740657noreply@blogger.com1