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hello
i am searching for a little program, which starts the flashlight.
because if i want to turn it on, i must start the camera first.
please help
regards,
pulyka
You can try one of these:
- Artamata Pocket Light
- VJCandela
I tried Pocket Light, but the light won't turn on. In Camera it turns on fine. Is it the rom I'm using that causes it?
thx!
i tried pocket light, but it did not worked
vjcandela unfortunately also not worked
is it my fault or they are not designed for wizard?
regards,
pulyka
I'm also interested in such program!
If anyone knows one, please let us know!
Maybe an alternative coul be the following:
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/plamp/
Quiyaro said:
Maybe an alternative coul be the following:
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/plamp/
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I have used that before and it isnt very bright as a flashlight. Its just a neat little gadget that could be used as a flashlight in a really dark room with no windows and the brightness is turned all the way up on your device.
Well, you guys want to turn it on and leave it on...mine's on and won't turn off. Going into the camera and turning off or on/off the flash doesn't help.
I've got this under the T-Mobile MDA moniker, a G3 with 2.26.10.2 sanctioned ROM. In fact, I just flashed to the 2.26 because I was hoping that might fix the issue. I even downloaded the VJCandela program and installed it to see if that might turn it off. No such luck.
If there's another way to turn it off, I'd appreciate the help. I apologize if this is a noobish question but for the sake of my poor besieged battery life, I request your aid. Thanks in advance.
Widgett said:
Well, you guys want to turn it on and leave it on...mine's on and won't turn off. Going into the camera and turning off or on/off the flash doesn't help.
I've got this under the T-Mobile MDA moniker, a G3 with 2.26.10.2 sanctioned ROM. In fact, I just flashed to the 2.26 because I was hoping that might fix the issue. I even downloaded the VJCandela program and installed it to see if that might turn it off. No such luck.
If there's another way to turn it off, I'd appreciate the help. I apologize if this is a noobish question but for the sake of my poor besieged battery life, I request your aid. Thanks in advance.
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I hope you can find an answer soon because eventually the flash will burn out....a hard reset doesn't disable it?
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I hope you can find an answer soon because eventually the flash will burn out....a hard reset doesn't disable it?
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No, and that's what's really weird. Nothing turns it off. Powering it off, soft reset, hard reset/restoring factory defaults--like I said, I even upgraded the ROM to 2.26 in the hopes that doing that would trip it off. Nada.
Try finding a compatible copy of Haret. Not sure if one exists, but then you want to flip through the GPIOs. Again, not sure how you do that on the Wizard.
VJCandela has never been compatible with the wizard because I've never had one to test it on. I think I know how to do it, but can't release it until I test the hardware
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Try finding a compatible copy of Haret. Not sure if one exists, but then you want to flip through the GPIOs. Again, not sure how you do that on the Wizard.
VJCandela has never been compatible with the wizard because I've never had one to test it on. I think I know how to do it, but can't release it until I test the hardware
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Vijay,
I would think he's willing to test since the alternative is his flash is gonna burn out and his battery is gonna drain like crazy....sounds like a captive audience.
Lol. Ok, when I say "test", I'm being over optimistic. I need to write. But I need hardware to write for, because I think I know how to write it!
However, this issue doesn't sound minor, if the flash is being forced on, and if you've tried a few different rom upgrades, it sounds more likely to be a hardware issue.
Does the flash go off when you enable and disable it in the camera app?
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However, this issue doesn't sound minor, if the flash is being forced on, and if you've tried a few different rom upgrades, it sounds more likely to be a hardware issue.
Does the flash go off when you enable and disable it in the camera app?
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Hey, thanks for the responses, guys...no, going to the camera app and turning it on and off is ignored by the light.
And yeah, if somebody's got an idea for a software gizmo or a settings hack or something, I'm all ears. Just flashed, so haven't had a chance to do too much in the way of customizations to the thing. No better time for screwing around with stuff.
Widget. I had the same problem on my 8125 before I upgraded to WM6. My problem was do to water damage. The flash got wet and would not go off. I finally dried it out (or so I thought) and it went away. It came back and would not go off and drained my battery rather quickly. A week before I upgraded to WM6, I removed the flash and ordered another one. Works great!!!
If you dont know how to remove the flash, its pretty simple. You can google search how.
I've had the same problem with a Nokia 6111, it was wet inside. That's no software issue.
I was about to say water damage, if it is outside of warranty (or your warranty doesnt cover liquid ingress) then just whop the back cover off, give it a squirt of isopropyl alcohol and then wipe it off and use a rubber (like on a pencil) to try to remove the rubbish around it, try to avoid using something like an exacto knife to scrape it off.
So I've read about this problem some time ago and now I have it too.
Flashlight is always turned on. It isn't turned on to full brightness. Im sure no recent water damage was done. I have the protective flash and camera cover off because they were too scratched to use.
I hope it will solve somehow
btw: it is turned on even when I turn the phone off (not into standby - fully turned off!) only thing that stops it is when I remove the battery
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so I've removed the flash LED from the back cover as it was just held there by those "hooks" (I don't know the right name for those).
The voltages was there from the board so changing flash wouldn't help. mainboard just didn't turn the flash off so problem is somewhere else.
Btw the battery says 3.7V but my voltmeter shows 4.8V, isn't that a problem? Do you have similar experience?
Did anyone else notice that their LED will faintly flash red after flashing 3.0.2.5? It has to be real dark, but I can see it flickering. Anyone else?
Not happening with mine in a pitch black room. Might wanna make sure you removed the previous version completely. It's in the options somewhere.
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Did anyone else notice that their LED will faintly flash red after flashing 3.0.2.5? It has to be real dark, but I can see it flickering. Anyone else?
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Do you mean the light shows in general?... or only when you are in CWM?
If the former, I am still on 3.0.2.4 and have seen this faint red light myself when on a phone call on occasion. So it would not be a new bug with 3.0.2.5
This is the first time I have noticed it. I tried re-flashing CWR and there is still a faint red light.
Not positive, but I think that's the proximity sensor's light you are seeing. Try to watch it through another phone's camera if you have one handy, the sensor should detect the infra-red (near infra-red?) and it should look brighter.
Just tried it myself and it is indeed the infrared from the proximity sensor that you are seeing. As to why CWR would be using the proximity sensor, that is a whole other issue =)
I also noticed this on my phone then walked over and grabbed my wifes bolt that is stock and not rooted and hers does the same thing. Very faint red flashing light. Hers is stock so it must just be the phone
The infrared sensor will pulse intermittently to see if the phone is near an object or not. To tell if the phone is by your face, upside down, in your pocket, etc.. Don't worry pulses of this sensor don't take much juice at all. I'm just surprised you saw the light at all lol most people wouldn't be able to.
Maybe it's my new glasses
I'm glad it's just not me and/or my rooted phone.
I only get that light to show up when I got Skype running in the background.
faint led flicker in earpiece
mine is doing this too, but I don't have "clockwork"-i don't think. I've noticed that it's not the "main" led, but it is right beside it!
anyone have any ideas about what this could be!?
it is, indeed, skype, and i believe it IS the proximity sensor. why?... i have NO idea, but i feel better now that i know the correlation and that I'm not alone!
I found out the proximity sensor AND Skype was the cause of my battery issues.
Obviously nothing to do with CWM.
More info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14565447&postcount=26
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it is, indeed, skype, and i believe it IS the proximity sensor. why?... i have NO idea, but i feel better now that i know the correlation and that I'm not alone!
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On my evo shift why would the sensor to the left of the speaker grill stop flashing for notifications such as sms/mms, missed calls etc. Now that it has stopped, the led under the speaker grill on the right, which was just the charging led, flashes for my notifications. Because of this, I no longer have two led notification lights so if my phone is charging i now have to turn on my screen to check notifications.
Ive tried calling Sprint three times. I was told to take the phone to sprint and have them check it out and install a previous software version. I went to sprint told them about my problem an how the tech made a note on my account. they said they did not do that there and said id have to go to the other sprint store down the street. When i got there, they seemed clueless about loading software or anything for that matter manually. Ive tried factory resetting and everything else I can think off. I bought 2 evo shifts with a new contract that had 2.3.3os out of box and a few days later checked for updates. Im not sure what the software number was before but after i updated it was 2.76.651.5(now.6) the same problem is happening with the second shift also.
Is this like unheard of to everyone? Ive looked every where about this problem and im not seeing anything at all about anyones proximity sensor ever even flashing for notifications.
What looks like a led on the left of the speaker grill is actually the proximity sensor, when you put the phone to your ear it turns the screen off so you don't open an app or hang up on the person you are talking to accidentally. The notification led is the one located to the right of the speaker grill.
Without them(developers) this place would not be called *Insert You Device Forum Name Here* but something else, e.g Mobile Phone & Tablet User Support Services For Ungrateful Nerds.
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Yeah the sensor has never flashed for me,my girl and my homie, all we have had is the orange charge light/green notification light to the right of the speaker grill.....
Shifted to the extreme, cause I rawk Supreme
FdxRider said:
What looks like a led on the left of the speaker grill is actually the proximity sensor, when you put the phone to your ear it turns the screen off so you don't open an app or hang up on the person you are talking to accidentally. The notification led is the one located to the right of the speaker grill.
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I know what it is and does, but what I am saying is that on both the evo shifts I bought, the proximity sensor acted as an actual led notification light. it flashed a bright green for every notification while the actual led notification light was only lighting/flashing orange and turning solid green to be charged,charging and finally when its fully charged. the proximity sensor would flash even when plugged in while the real led was being used for the charging light. I swear im not lying about any of this lol.
Well unless HTC has changed the sensor in newer makes thats not the way mine and others phones works so Guess you had a different phone. Try taking it to sprint repair and see what bthey tellyou . Good Luck
Without them(developers) this place would not be called *Insert You Device Forum Name Here* but something else, e.g Mobile Phone & Tablet User Support Services For Ungrateful Nerds.
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FdxRider said:
Try taking it to sprint repair and see what bthey tellyou . Good Luck
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Lmao They looked at me like I was nuts.
I bought the two phones in late October. They both came with 2.3 out of the box. The proximity sensor acted as a second notification light for about a week after I decided to go into settings and check for updates and applied them which caused this to stop. Ive tried everything I could think of to get it to do it again but I cant find anything.
Im hoping someone here could help me look more into this and try to make it possible again.
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Hopefully since the sensor CAN and at one time did emit a green flash for notifications, can someone out there please figure out how to make it happen again. I don't really know anything about developing so I sadly can't do it myself...
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Lmao They looked at me like I was nuts.
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...because the proximity sensor has never acted as a notification LED on any ROM. Sorry.
x99percent said:
...because the proximity sensor has never acted as a notification LED on any ROM. Sorry.
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grr, Okay, I know Im a newly registered user here and I havnt posted enough for you or the other members here to get to know me but Im being 100% honest about this guys. If this means anything, I swear on my daughters life and my mothers gave who has passed away that when I started my contract with 2 lines an 2 brand new evo shifts with 2.3 out of box that this really happened. The sensor flashed for notifications until about a week later when I performed the firmware, profile,prl and software update. It didnt even act like the prox. sensor should during calls until after the updates. And this was weeks before i even rooted the phones, they were completely stock.
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grr, Okay, I know Im a newly registered user here and I havnt posted enough for you or the other members here to get to know me but Im being 100% honest about this guys. If this means anything, I swear on my daughters life and my mothers gave who has passed away that when I started my contract with 2 lines an 2 brand new evo shifts with 2.3 out of box that this really happened. The sensor flashed for notifications until about a week later when I performed the firmware, profile,prl and software update. It didnt even act like the prox. sensor should during calls until after the updates. And this was weeks before i even rooted the phones, they were completely stock.
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You must have gotten a very very special shift and seeing as none of us have ever had a special shift like you i doubt we would even know where to begin on helping you fix your problem . You now have a normal shift thats not special anymore which is a shame... Not trying to be mean or sarcastic by any means
YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
You must have gotten a very very special shift and seeing as none of us have ever had a special shift like you i doubt we would even know where to begin on helping you fix your problem . You now have a normal shift thats not special anymore which is a shame... Not trying to be mean or sarcastic by any means
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Right...
Okay fine, I give up. It seems no one here wants to believe this for whatever reason. >.< What would be the point in posting all this if it wasn't true?
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toast1224 said:
Right...
Okay fine, I give up. It seems no one here wants to believe this for whatever reason. >.< What would be the point in posting all this if it wasn't true?
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Dude i believe you, but seeing as none of our shifts have ever done that i don't think we would know where to begin on helping you. Take what i said however you want but i really wasn't trying to be mean or sarcastic cause i'm not the type of person to do that seeing as i don't know as much as everyone else on here about android
First of all I am not talking about Notification light.
A Red light in proximity sensor next to sony logo is always on when device is connected to wifi, or when connected to mobile data only whrn the arrow indicators appears.
This red light is on even if i disable adaptive brightness.
I am shocked why no one raised this quesrion.
Hence here I am.
I hope this is not intentional by Sony.
Coz ffs i cant get one thing to my mind that how it is helpful. It is rather annoying.
Anyone with a clue pls share.
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First of all I am not talking about Notification light.
A Red light in proximity sensor next to sony logo is always on when device is connected to wifi, or when connected to mobile data only whrn the arrow indicators appears.
This red light is on even if i disable adaptive brightness.
I am shocked why no one raised this quesrion.
Hence here I am.
I hope this is not intentional by Sony.
Coz ffs i cant get one thing to my mind that how it is helpful. It is rather annoying.
Anyone with a clue pls share.
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It's on on my phone as well. It was also like that on my Xperia X
I call it the "I'm watching you." light. I think its the proximity sensor's lazer. I dont think it should be on 24/7, but then there is this "Led light's lifetime depends on how many times they are turned on/off" thing. May be it is some kind of an optimisation?
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I call it the "I'm watching you." light. I think its the proximity sensor's lazer. I dont think it should be on 24/7, but then there is this "Led light's lifetime depends on how many times they are turned on/off" thing. May be it is some kind of an optimisation?
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It definitely has to do with data recieving signals.
But whatever it is for I am concerned about battery life
It is just plain stupid of sony to not recognize this.
Coming from z5 I thought speakers were average on z5, but I doubt XZ even have any speakers at all.
Sound is that bad on XZ. I can barely listen to ringtone and I was sitting right next to the phone. What if we are in the other room or @ some distance? We' ll definitely miss the call.
Disable adaptive brightness and the flickery red dot will go off. I can only see it in a darkened room so it doesn't bother me. I'm looking at the screen lol!
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Disable adaptive brightness and the flickery red dot will go off. I can only see it in a darkened room so it doesn't bother me. I'm looking at the screen lol!
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It bothers me when people don't read ?
agentsandy007 said:
First of all I am not talking about Notification light.
A Red light in proximity sensor next to sony logo is always on when device is connected to wifi, or when connected to mobile data only whrn the arrow indicators appears.
This red light is on even if i disable adaptive brightness.
I am shocked why no one raised this quesrion.
Hence here I am.
I hope this is not intentional by Sony.
Coz ffs i cant get one thing to my mind that how it is helpful. It is rather annoying.
Anyone with a clue pls share.
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this is wierd...becouse if i turn off adaptive brightnes the red led light turns off but it blinks when turned on...definetly something wrong with ur sensor..nothing new these days,its a comon thing for sensors to be broken
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this is wierd...becouse if i turn off adaptive brightnes the red led light turns off but it blinks when turned on...definetly something wrong with ur sensor..nothing new these days,its a comon thing for sensors to be broken
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Interesting.
With the same settings as before, now red light is on only on the lock screen.
I noticed just when i was reading your reply.
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Interesting.
With the same settings as before, now red light is on only on the lock screen.
I noticed just when i was reading your reply.
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so u say that red light turns on only on lock screen...what happens when u unlock the phone is it still on (red light)? becouse mine is always on except when screen is locked and turned off course and then it turns on again when i turn the screen on...this is how sensor should work... If urs doesnt work that way then go send the phone to waranty... I wouldnt investigate anyomre just go to Sony.
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so u say that red light turns on only on lock screen...what happens when u unlock the phone is it still on (red light)? becouse mine is always on except when screen is locked and turned off course and then it turns on again when i turn the screen on...this is how sensor should work... If urs doesnt work that way then go send the phone to waranty... I wouldnt investigate anyomre just go to Sony.
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Until yesterday it used to be always on, but now only on the lockscreen. It stays off when I unlock the device.
Why can't we seen to find the real use of that light?
Is it even a feature?
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Until yesterday it used to be always on, but now only on the lockscreen. It stays off when I unlock the device.
Why can't we seen to find the real use of that light?
Is it even a feature?
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looks like this proximty sensor works that way by having red light turned on...so does ur adaptive brightnes still work after it turns off when u unlock the screen?i feel its faulty sensor!i can share u my experience with Z5...i had white spots on screen so i send it to repair and they replaced the screen but also they managed to break proxity sensor aswell... i actualy laughed out loud how can they be so careless ahhh nwm hope u fix it soon.
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looks like this proximty sensor works that way by having red light turned on...so does ur adaptive brightnes still work after it turns off when u unlock the screen?i feel its faulty sensor!i can share u my experience with Z5...i had white spots on screen so i send it to repair and they replaced the screen but also they managed to break proxity sensor aswell... i actualy laughed out loud how can they be so careless ahhh nwm hope u fix it soon.
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Well now I get it, atleast I think so.
Red light stays on if we turn on adaptive brightness.
It also turns on when data packets are being sent to our device (via wifi or mobile data)
But why? That is the main question here.
Previous devices never had this feature, and what diff does this make?
Looks like my adaptive brightness works fine.
Do you mean the light in the attachment?
It should be the infra-red light used by the proximity sensor anmd it is not meant to be seen by human. I can only take this from the camera of another device but I cannot actually see it.
Trust me, if you tries to use the camera of another device to view it, you will see it blinks a lot when the screen is on.
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Do you mean the light in the attachment?
It should be the infra-red light used by the proximity sensor anmd it is not meant to be seen by human. I can only take this from the camera of another device but I cannot actually see it.
Trust me, if you tries to use the camera of another device to view it, you will see it blinks a lot when the screen is on.
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That is exactly what I am talkin about.
It is not supposed to be visible for naked eye until you use a camera.
This one just stays on. Doesn't blink.
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Do you mean the light in the attachment?
It should be the infra-red light used by the proximity sensor anmd it is not meant to be seen by human. I can only take this from the camera of another device but I cannot actually see it.
Trust me, if you tries to use the camera of another device to view it, you will see it blinks a lot when the screen is on.
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OK so looks like im having a camera in my eyes LOL cuz i can see that red dot light constantly turned on...ill see what Sony will say about that.im gonna call waranty just for curiosity.maybe they know something
There may be some variation of the wavelength produced by that LED from device to device, while I cannot see it in my XZ, I can saw it in my last LG device. It won't cause any battery draining problem because either you see it or not, it is still blinking.
My God
This is not a problem
By using this proximity sensor our phone controls the automatic brightness setting.
which is called Adaptive Brightness
zohaib0001 said:
My God
This is not a problem
By using this proximity sensor our phone controls the automatic brightness setting.
which is called Adaptive Brightness
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hey buddy we all know that but we just want to clarify why some ppl can see the light and some not.... read next time
Xperia X and XZs does this and its annoying, Sony obviously did a bad job in defining what's visible to humans.
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Hi.
I have a dead proximity sensor in my Nexus 5, the light sensor is still ok.
The problem is when making a call the screen goes black, and will not light up.
I´ve tried alot of different apps that should make a work around but with no luck.
Does anybody have a good solution ?
Are you sure it's dead? I've had issues with mine, but it turned out to be a purely software issue.
Here's a link towards the solution.
You're going to have to root your phone though.
That worked, thx
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Are you sure it's dead? I've had issues with mine, but it turned out to be a purely software issue.
Here's a link towards the solution.
You're going to have to root your phone though.
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