Charging and the annoying lights, skins, and java apps...

So, as you all may know... When you plug in this phone to charge it, the rave-ready lights start pulsating away on the sides of the phone. For someone that sleeps with thier phone on the nightstand next to them, this is totaly annoying. I contacted Motorola about this to try to find a way to shut them off (while charging). They said 'No', this is just the way the phone is. My wife is about to throw this thing accross the room at night. If you think the lights aren't bright, try it in pitch black... it blinks the whole room. I don't want to have to put a shirt over something i paid this much for. Anyway, just in case anyone else wondered about that, that was as far as i got.
So there is a lot that can be done with this phone via bluetooth. I'm just figuring a lot of it out now. Since the base firmware is pretty much a duplicate of the e398 most all java games and applications that worked with that phone work with this one. I fould an older application that works with bluetooth to install free games and applications (finding them on the internet isn't too difficult) with no hassle, totally easy. If anyone wants to know more about that they can email me off the list, becuase i don't know if apple wan't that sort of thing discussed here. Who knows.
One thing I haven't been able to figure out it how to change the skins. You can do it with a pc pretty easily i think, with the same application that you did it to change skins on the e398. But as a mac user, it's been a little tougher to figure out. When you plug the phone into the computer there are a whole lot of folders in there. I didn't know if i could drop new skins somewhere and they would show up in the skins options. I've tried a couple different folders with new skins to no avail.
I guess i'll talk more about my regular experiences with the phone later, but i will say, a lot of plusses, and a couple negatives. Take care, and thanks to all

Saving your marrriage:
you obviously haven't had a sony-ericsson phone eg se 910- this has green and blue leds that blink all the time and you can't shut it off BUT with the rokr your wife doesn't have to put up with it!
Ignore motorola support; all you need to do is go Menu, Settings, Ring Styles (Audio on Cingular phones), Event Lights and change to Off. It will no longer flash green when charging, blue when bluetooth activity etc.
At least that option is on standard rokr - I hope cingular haven't removed that option.

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