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[Application] FlashApp : use your LED Camera as a flashlight

Hi HTC Desire users.
I develop a little and basic application that allows you to use your HTC Desire as a flashlight, using your LED Camera. This application is call "FlashApp" and is available on the Android Market (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-damunix-android-flashapp-CDiD.aspx)
There is 2 mode :
- "flash": for a short time, but full power light.
- "on" : for a longer timer, but less power light.
It only works on the HTC Desire for the moment. I made some tests on the Nexus One, and My application will note work without rooting it.
If you have any questions, suggestions, idea, post it on this thread.
Note : this is the official thread of the app, the old one was : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667474

hey, thanks for the app! great use for it! It made it to the center of homescreens.
Can you make a on/off flash mode? So that it will last while on and will stop on closing/or pressing of?
Thanks

Great work, thanks. can you create a nice icon for it?

blackfox888 said:
Great work, thanks. can you create a nice icon for it?
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A new icon will be put in the next update

@ Damunix
Great app - I was following the other thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6374683#post6374683 and did a write up which should be on the front page later today... fyi it links to the original thread.

Thanks , but please add icon .

Great job Damunix!
At least someone gets it. Saves people having to read every thread which asked for such an app unsuccessfully as well as some rather vapid, churlish and irascible troll posts.
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Good work fella. Thanks

Great work mate, I'm glad you got it up as an official app. I don't actually have a Desire yet but it should be arriving on Wednesday and this was the only missing feature that I felt a bit let down about. Now it's there and I can't wait to receive my Desire and download it. Thanks for your work.

Very useful app for getting my gas & electric meter readings! TYVM

Awesome! thanks

I cooked your app posted in the previous thread into my rom and changed the icon. Maybe you like it, looks good on a Amoled screen, its attached
Did you change something with your app when you started this thread?
Regards!

Excellent app! It's only a little thing, but makes life so much easier when trying to find the right key!

Just a little update,
new : Application icon, thanks to Pr0sper
this is because a lot of people ask for an icon as soon as possible

wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! works on my Desire ( Orange UK ) fab!!.. Infact I'm still seeing the light every time I close my eyes!!!!!!!!!.... Note: don't look direct at the light .. well done!"

I don't understand why, but in the last version it seems that there is a sign problem of the application.
Sorry about it, you need to uninstall and re-install it

works great! thnx!

I installed on my T Mob Desire - app works almost.
Light stays on - flash only flashes briefly. Can't get full brightness permanently on.
Is this the idea?

Yup, you can only have the full brightness (flash) on for a short time. There are some worries that leaving it on full brightness permanently could damage the LED.
I think the normal, lower brightness setting to be adequate in most situations.

@subharmonic
This thread might also help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667474

Total Rotation... (hack/app request)

Any devs out there wanna give this a go?
I would love to be able to rotate my phone in any direction and have the screen flip like on my omnia... I know sense doesn't flip to landscape, thats not a prob, what I really want is to be able to flip the phone upside down and still use it as the correct rotation.
Reason I want to be able to do this is so I can use my phone in the cup holder of my car again, and to do this it must be upside down because of the charger placement... (same as on my Omnia)
Seems a pretty simple request, would be nice if it could auto run and run in the background without using up to much resources to.
If anyone is able to do this, would be awesome.
Thanks

Seconded ... but
I too would like to be able to rotate at least the other way; when showing off the Incredible, people rotate to landscape the other way and nothing happens, so they figure it doesn't rotate. I have to say "no turn it the other way" but it would be great to just not have to think about it.
BUT ... regarding the OP ... I simply took a dremel to the dash mount I bought (the beanbag, since California law doesn't allow sticking to the window in the middle). Carved out enough for a charger, and am done with it

I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.

Agreed. This would be useful.

mattwood2000 said:
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
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I would think it's because the majority of the world is right-handed and by rotating to the left, the optical track button is on the right side. I could complain because I'm left-handed, but hey at least my phone still has a signal when I hold it in my left hand, unlike other phones out there

This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.

br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.

br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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My phone aint even rooted yet, for some reason I've tried everything and won't allow me to get into adb recovery... anyways, if it's in another rom, it must be possible, if someone could make this an app!! it would be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have limits as to which rom we would have to use.
...just a thought...

JustinD2473 said:
I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
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Yeah you should hes got a lot of good stuff.

So will this be possible as an App?

forgot to reopen

Thanks Mikey for re-opening this thread , you can delete the Why thread now if you like...
So anyone know if any of this is possible?

Missing that flashing track ball

I just recently went from Nexus one to Vibrant. I mean I am not a fan of the Touchwiz whatever, but the thing that I really miss is the track ball. Anyone know of any great app that will flash the screen every time I receive google voice, txt msg, miss call.... The app flashnotify only notify me of miss call and txt but not google voice and others thing.
Can't wait until someone have come out with a rom with just stock android that thing will fly on this thing.

I don't miss the stupid blinkenlites at all.
I can't help you.

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I don't miss the stupid blinkenlites at all.
I can't help you.
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That's a very constructive and informative post. Thumbs up.

I actually couldnt stand the trackball blink either. would freak me out at night while trying to sleep lol.
But I do miss having some type of lighted notification telling me when I have a new email or text message. I think there was a project being worked on to make the lights at the bottom of the phone light up when a an email or sms came in...I am sure it is being worked on to give us some type of notification light. Seems so silly Samsung left that and the camera flash out of this phone. those two missing things are critical components to modern cell phones in my honest opinion.
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NexusX said:
I just recently went from Nexus one to Vibrant. I mean I am not a fan of the Touchwiz whatever, but the thing that I really miss is the track ball. Anyone know of any great app that will flash the screen every time I receive google voice, txt msg, miss call.... The app flashnotify only notify me of miss call and txt but not google voice and others thing.
Can't wait until someone have come out with a rom with just stock android that thing will fly on this thing.
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I've not tried this program yet, but there's this:
androidcommunity.com/forums/f12/app-noled-for-galaxy-s-family-phones-37584
(Being a new user I apparently can't post outside links, so just copy/paste...)
Let me know what you think of it.. I'm kind of in the same boat as you are.

Coming from a BlackBerry to my first android phone, the Vibrant, I know exactly how you feel. I miss that blinking red light so dearly.
But as strictlyrude said, noled is a nice alternative.

AMOLED LEDnotification
forum.xda-developers(dot)com/showthread.php?t=725458
Take out (dot), I can't post links...
Here is the start of the thread. Developers have already figured out how to utilize the beautiful AMOLED screen so just read on. I haven't tried so let me know how it goes.

Notification LED

I'm noticing that the LED flashes only some of the time for things like Twitter and SMS. The notification bar has the update on it but the LED seems to not want to play ball.
Has anyone else experienced this or similar? I know the LED works because it shows when charging and when the battery was low it flashed. Specifically I use Touiteur and had the LED set to blue but even on the standard green it's hit and miss.
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Mine doesn't flash when I get email, but seems to work for SMS or missed calls.

I was hoping someone would make a thread about this, I never got around to making one!
Mine flashes for everything which is annoying!!! I get a lot of emails so is constantly flashing! I've tried going into Settings -> Display -> Notifications and deselecting everything except Missed Calls and SMS/MMS but made no difference!

i'm so used to Magic 8 colors... shame DHD has only orange and green
also it somehow tends to turn it off after a while being on.

I've sent an email to HTC to ask about it since it's a big issue to me. Notification sounds feel similarly hit and miss so I'm suspecting some trigger is being missed, possibly due to the new Sense UI. I'll post any reply I get.
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I've got two led's. One for the battery on the right of the speaker and one on the left behind the speaker. The left one is for notifications only n I must say I'm disappointed as its located being the speakers its not as visible as I would like it to be. Is there anyway to get the battery led to function as a notification led as its not covered so much more visible?

I've got a reply but nothing helpful. So far it seems they're willing to blame app compatibility. I've asked for information regarding any changes that have been made to the LED notification system on the Desire HD and now I wait for another reply.
I told them I had no such issues on two other Android phones and they seem to be implying that the apps are coded for specific phones when we all know apps are coded for an SDK version. To quote the part of the reply...
"All the functions/programs you mean are made for Nexus and G1/Dream most of the times, Desire and some other are similar enough for it to work. Cannot help you with third party software."
Pretty clear the guy doesn't have a clue about this so I'm hoping if I nag long enough he'll pass me on to someone with more knowledge.
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lefty83 said:
I've got two led's. One for the battery on the right of the speaker and one on the left behind the speaker. The left one is for notifications only n I must say I'm disappointed as its located being the speakers its not as visible as I would like it to be. Is there anyway to get the battery led to function as a notification led as its not covered so much more visible?
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I see two LEDs up top but charging uses the same LED as the notification system. The left one behind the grill. I haven't seen the second one light so it's probably the proximity sensor.
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i only see one led too (with two colors).
Dyonas tel HTC that even GMail (2.2 app) acts like that... and gmail.apk 2.2 aint made for g1!

Another really pointless reply from them.. in the initial contact I mentioned the camera being misaligned so that's what the first part is referring to. Here's the latest reply and below it is how I have just responded.
Dear <me>,
Since receiving your e-mail i have looked for any more known cases and was unsuccessful if you are concerned that this may cause issues i recommend that you take the device back to the retailer.
Regarding the LED,
We do not give developer support so i cannot help you with this.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number <not important>.
Sincerely,
Adrian
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Response to it from me..
Hi,
With regards to the LED notifications, I'm not asking for developer support or any support in fact. I'm simply trying to find out if HTC have changed the method for using them with the Desire HD. You said that programs are coded for specific phones and I'm sorry but that's not true. They are made for SDK versions, most going as far back as Android 1.6 for widest compatibility, so any changes in the programs affecting the LED notifications would show in ALL versions, not just the version shipping with the Desire HD.
This again points to either HTC changing something with the Desire HD or a programming bug with the Sense UI in some way. I realise this isn't an easy issue to look into but it is a very important one and while I appreciate you're trying your best, I will not let this issue drop until I get a more satisfactory answer.
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To me this is a very big deal because if you leave the phone for a few minutes and aren't close enough to hear an audio notification the LED is what I rely on. Missing notifications like this I might expect from a custom ROM but I haven't touched the phone in any way like that. I didn't see your reply in time to mention the GMail issue and I only have my experience to go on which is Twitter updates not always firing. You should raise a ticked too, the more we get raising the issue the better the chance they'll look into it.

i stop sending tickets to HTC last year... they never fix anything.
I rather find a perm root and put CM onto it!

Their latest and seemingly final reply seems to have something that may point to an answer. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to check if it is of any use. The guy suggested any changes would be in the Kernel and linked me to the source code area. Is anyone able to look into the source code and see if there are changes to the notification LED system for the DHD? It's pointless not useful to ask app developers to look into it until we have something concrete to point at as a cause.

Dyonas said:
Their latest and seemingly final reply seems to have something that may point to an answer. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to check if it is of any use. The guy suggested any changes would be in the Kernel and linked me to the source code area. Is anyone able to look into the source code and see if there are changes to the notification LED system for the DHD? It's pointless not useful to ask app developers to look into it until we have something concrete to point at as a cause.
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can you leave the code sample, please?
thanks

The source code? It's available on http://developer.htc.com to download.
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I asked Cyanogen about this and he thinks the lights driver he wrote for the G2 may work.
Being a basic user I have no idea how to try that out without instructions so... I've done the fact finding, who's going to help with this part?

My email LED notification has not been working properly, sometimes yes but mostly no.
Got email mid morning today, sound and LED worked. Left it in this state for several hours still okay. Just got another sound notification for the same previous email, how does that work
Think this is yet another bug....

I've now had this happen with the GMAIL app so I'm bugging them some more.
Would there be any point in posting in the development section to ask for help using the G2 lights driver from Cyanogen?
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I've also had GMail fail on LED notification and SMS! It seems to be random now. Coming from a WM6.5 defector I quietly smile to myself

I think I figured it out and if im right it's really stupid. I had two notifications earlier, one for Twitter and the other for e-mail (not gmail). The LED wasn't flashing for either. I opened Touiteur to view the updates thete which cleared that notification and straight away the LED began flashing for the e-mail alert.
Why one notification would disable the LED if it's already on I have no idea but the above has happened more than once now. There's an LED test on the phone which HTC had me test. It has other tests too for anyone curious.
Key this into the dialer.
*#*#DIAG#*#*
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Where can i find the test for the LED? Mine doesnt seem to flash for any alerts.

developing for the atrix LED notification light

Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it

franciscojavierleon said:
Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it
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i am very interested in this as well as i see it has multi color support as i have seen red, blue, purple green etc already... first step will be to get logs of the led getting lit for all colors and compare .... i am working on a variety of projects so if you would start with obtaining that i will look at logs and see where to go from there

Check out general forum. Sounds like the app called blink is what you want. There's a whole post about led for notifications.
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i know there are apps for it, but the ones i have seen aren't open source therefore i can't learn from them unless the devs are friendly enough (haven't asked)
and for what i have read, most if not all aren't fully compatible with the atrix yet (mixed report on the blink one)

franciscojavierleon said:
Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it
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The android SDK certainly supports the notification LED, if the hardware doesn't support it then it just ignores what the program tries to tell it about the led.
See this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#ledARGB

Light flow works with the Atrix and allows you to assign different colors to specific apps:
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Rage+Consulting+Limited

andy2na said:
Light flow works with the Atrix and allows you to assign different colors to specific apps:
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Rage+Consulting+Limited
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I would agree with that! I'm the author.
Yes the android sdk does support the notification color as s3gfault points out.
Motorola phones are one of the very few that actually implement the standard android notification method. It's all the other manufactureres that make general support difficult.

andrewpmoore said:
I would agree with that! I'm the author.
Yes the android sdk does support the notification color as s3gfault points out.
Motorola phones are one of the very few that actually implement the standard android notification method. It's all the other manufactureres that make general support difficult.
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Very good app. Thank you!

Ronaldo_9 said:
Very good app. Thank you!
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I agree.
I bought the full version and I am really happy with it.
No problems at all.

i think you all should try LEDme know.
it what we use on our HD2's
LED me know
sorry, jsut stopped by as im more than certainly getting a Atrix. so im reading up before i asked stupid questions lol

sal2708 said:
i think you all should try LEDme know.
it what we use on our HD2's
LED me know
sorry, jsut stopped by as im more than certainly getting a Atrix. so im reading up before i asked stupid questions lol
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last time i tried that it didnt actually work, only worked when you hit test.
regarding LED flow, is there a way to keep stock colour on apps and only change gmail?
reason is whatsapp has a nice light blue but colour option is led flow is different and there are loads of apps i dont have installed that are supported but would want allow system colour and not blue. ...if any of that made sense

This app does NOT work correctly on ATRIX it has problems with the LED, also, it cannot show a charging LED for the battery, it just fails. I have tried all I can find and guess what? none do what I want. If the battery is charging, it should be solid red, if its charged solid green, turn off when screen is ON unless its still plugged in. Also, low battery warning notification with sound you choose, when I did this the notification went off when the battery was fully charged and there was NO LED lit. I don't understand.