Help LED Flash for optimus m

[btrig1990]

Has anyone given any thought on what it would take to hardwire a LED for the camera?

I have, and all I really get out of all this wondering is why in the world would LG put such a dinky camera on this phone with no flash...

The actual mounting of a LED is fairly simple, a drill and some epoxy would be structurally sound. As far as the DC connections I would need an electrical diagram for the phone, and I would also have to create software that would work the LED on demand and/or enable it to work with the camera. Does anyone know where to get access to the electrical layout for the phones mainboard?

 

[killa57]

That would be a great project if anyone have any info please let it be heard cause i would not mind having a flash on my camera probably would need an extra button just to turn off and on....... or could it be coded into the rom to turn on and off?

 

[btrig1990]

It's possible to create code. The code would be controlling a specific circuit, connected to the LED.

Now this is slighty dangerous considering you'd have to take your phone apart and solder your LED connections to the circuit board, somewhere in between the LED and the connection on the board would have to be a switching device that can be controlled by the phones internal code. This is pretty much an impossibility and at the very least would require numerous amounts of motherboards you can retry with after you've shorted out the previous.
The only other way to have the LED work without a physical switch would be to locate the circuit that was designed for this (assuming the motherboards are the same on all optimus models, its possible to connect a LED to this circuit and control it by software)

In reality its not worth going through all this...go out and buy a keyring flashlight and damn the product engineers at LG for subjecting its consumers to a low-res flashless camera.

 

[ChazzMatt]

When we bought the phone, we knew the limitations. Last November, I bought two for me and my wife, as we are longtime MetropCS customers and I wanted an Android.

It's not a "high end" Android, but it's better than most low-end Androids like the Huawei Ascend. I didn't realize how SLOW it would be on Metro's 2G network.

And yeah, I wish it had a camera flash.

So, I'm waiting for the better LTE Androids that are coming from Metro in the last quarter of this year. I'm hoping LG will make an Optimus M-type Android with LTE chips and an LED flash.