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How to fix flashlight
- Thread starter Chelle88
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what flashlight app are you using?
svim
Extreme Android User
Have you restarted your phone since the accident? If this blue light issue is just a one-off glitch, restarting might solve the problem.
But more details might reveal more about what's going on. Have you also done any tests like using the camera app to see if the light is still discolored? Typically it's a pretty balanced white light but when you're stating it's now blue could you explain more about this? Is it now a deeper, more saturated blue or just a white light with a bluish tinge?
Offhand, since the phone was dropped if restarting doesn't help than it's less likely to be software issue and more likely to be a hardware issue -- if it's something like a solder joint was damaged from the impact that could be a much more involved fix (replacing the logic board) but if the camera module is modular there's a possibility it might only involve replacing just the camera module (but that is a big 'if' as most manufactures do not make individual components modular and replaceable, and instead just solder them directly onto the main logic board).
Was your phone in a case when it was dropped? How far did it fall? Was it a solid surface or something like a carpeted floor?
But more details might reveal more about what's going on. Have you also done any tests like using the camera app to see if the light is still discolored? Typically it's a pretty balanced white light but when you're stating it's now blue could you explain more about this? Is it now a deeper, more saturated blue or just a white light with a bluish tinge?
Offhand, since the phone was dropped if restarting doesn't help than it's less likely to be software issue and more likely to be a hardware issue -- if it's something like a solder joint was damaged from the impact that could be a much more involved fix (replacing the logic board) but if the camera module is modular there's a possibility it might only involve replacing just the camera module (but that is a big 'if' as most manufactures do not make individual components modular and replaceable, and instead just solder them directly onto the main logic board).
Was your phone in a case when it was dropped? How far did it fall? Was it a solid surface or something like a carpeted floor?
Chelle88
Lurker
Yes, I've tried restarting the phone and also tried resetting my app preferences neither of those helped. It is a deeper more saturated blue. The camera app is working normal. It was in inside a case and it fell about 2 1/2 ft onto a carpeted floor.
svim
Extreme Android User
My mistake, should have asked the question on the camera app more clearly. It wasn't about if the camera app works but rather if the camera's flash is or is not also having this blue discoloration issue. If both the flashlight app and the camera app are having problems with that LED flash component, that would indicate it's not software related and probably a hardware issue.
Sean Kleinkauf
Lurker
My Stylo also did the same. The tech at a local phone repair shop told me there's a small, white internal"cap-like" cover that goes over the LED and that has been dislodged allowing more bluish light out.
This usually happens when the phone is dropped or banged into or onto something though it can happen just from being jostled around during normal use in a purse, pocket, etc.
The only fix is to have the phone case opened and the cap / cover put back over the LED.
Hope this helps
This usually happens when the phone is dropped or banged into or onto something though it can happen just from being jostled around during normal use in a purse, pocket, etc.
The only fix is to have the phone case opened and the cap / cover put back over the LED.
Hope this helps
bambaleilo
Lurker
I dropped it yesterday, the flashlight stopped working, nothing from what I've tried functioned, so I'm getting it to a shop tomorrow. I hope they figure out what's wrong and fix it. Mine didn't turn blue, it just stopped working, so I don't know if it's the same thing that happened to yours. I don't use any specific flashlight app as well, it's the one that's on the phone, so this doesn't have anything to do with that. I did restart it, nothing changed, I used the camera app, the light is still discolored. It wasn't in the phone case when I dropped it, so it was a pretty bad hit.
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