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I'd love to see an led flashlight for the Droid as well.

Until then, ColorFlashlight Fun Flashlight works quite dandy on the screen and all the little effects it has in its options are neato.
 
I'd love to see an led flashlight for the Droid as well.

Until then, ColorFlashlight Fun Flashlight works quite dandy on the screen and all the little effects it has in its options are neato.
 
phorts said:
Certainly brighter than the Curve 8330's screen. Talk about looking like a dinosaur next to this thing...WOWZAH!
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I was a huge BB fan and thats the reason I didn't go with another one. Not only do all their phones look old, they are buggy as hell lately and lack any origional innovation. So happy with the droidness.
 
runin2k1 said:
I'm playing with some code now to see if I can get the flash to activate which would be the first step to getting a full app created. Here's hoping I don't fry my camera flash.
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let me know if you need help. i'm a developer by day anyway, just installed the android sdk over the weekend...haven't gotten much time to play with it yet but i'll try help if you need it.
 
I'm playing with some code now to see if I can get the flash to activate which would be the first step to getting a full app created. Here's hoping I
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let me know if you need help. i'm a developer by day anyway, just installed the android sdk over the weekend...haven't gotten much time to play with it yet but i'll try help if you need it.
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I just want to thank you ahead of time for your efforts. we all value the terrific Android devs
 
Looks like root needed for the LEDs to work other than camera... I personally do not need a flashlight but miss the LED when taking video. That is the only thing I miss about my curve and I do mean the only thing.
 
sic4672 said:
I just want to thank you ahead of time for your efforts. we all value the terrific Android devs
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Still looking to see what can be done. The API changed from 1.x, to 2.0, to 2.1 and the methods used in other Flashlight apps seem to have gone away. I tried a couple back-handed ways of accessing them via reflection to see if maybe they were just private but didn't have much luck.

I haven't had a ton of time but I've been digging through the 2.1 source when I can to see what other options might present themselves.
 
CaptJager said:
Looks like root needed for the LEDs to work other than camera... I personally do not need a flashlight but miss the LED when taking video. That is the only thing I miss about my curve and I do mean the only thing.
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amen!! BBM was sweet too but holy hell is this so much better
 
Hey I noticed this forum seemed to slow down a bit. Any word on the app yet. I read somewhere that it would require root. I'm new to the community and I have no idea what that is and why that complicates things so much. Why is root inaccessible at this time and are any devs close to working it out?
 
BigBK said:
Hey I noticed this forum seemed to slow down a bit. Any word on the app yet. I read somewhere that it would require root. I'm new to the community and I have no idea what that is and why that complicates things so much. Why is root inaccessible at this time and are any devs close to working it out?
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Rooting is a process that allows you to get administrative access to your phone. It basically gives you access to files and commands that you otherwise couldn't get to. For example, the files that would allow you to keep the led on to use as a flashlight are not normally accessible. Once devs figure out how to root the phone, we'll be able to do the same and do all sort of things to our phones including load custom ROMS. Hope that helps.
 
Not too sure how the flashlight works on the Droid, but on my old Omnia, when you selected the flashlight option, which used the camera LED, it would only light it up at partial power, which was more than enough for most purposes. Maybe something similar can be done to prevent the LED from burning up on the Inc? I know that these flash LED's aren't made to be run at full power for extended periods of time.

Don't really know much about dev. for android, but I would like to get into it too.
 
So when you dig in to the root of the phone is that then considered more of a breaking in to phone kind of thing? Are devs supposed to only work around what can be done without looking Into root? Like app developers that post apps in the market, they can post apps that have to do with root access, or can they? How free and open is it?
 
Hey I just wanted to say I noticed the goggles app has a custom flash pattern. The led lights light up for like a full second or so and then proceed to flash. The code to hold the led on like that must be in the app code. Any devs able to get the led on for any period of time? What do you guys think? I also just noticed that when In the camera if you try to take a picture of something really close the flash stays on longer. I don't know If that does any good but that's my thoughts.
 
yep well i hope it doesnt need root access. I dont really want to risk harming my brand new incredible. Sure other phones in the past i could, but not this one, not yet.
 
You probably won't need root.

you just need to go to the command line and type

echo "1" > /dev/<? some device name here?>

to turn on the LED

echo "0" > /dev/<? some device name here?>

to turn off the LED

if someone can figure out what the <? some device name here?> is I'll write a free app for it.
 
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