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Guest FatLadZ
Posted

nope gotta be proper flash and quickly losing faith here :(

i dont think anyone is able to do it as its a very hard thing to do and nobody on here has the capabilitys :(

Posted

Indeed it is not as easy as some people may think...

Calling stuff and working directly on the kernel is not easy...

A proper developer should be able to use the kernel and make some linking to the camera itself or even make the system face camera as a "device"...

Anyway, nothing is lost yet. :)

Guest admanirv
Posted

I have made a little bit of progress on this but will update as busy at the moment, looking at the Linux file system it may not be too hard.

Will update in time.

Posted

I have made a little bit of progress on this but will update as busy at the moment, looking at the Linux file system it may not be too hard.

Will update in time.

And how are you "making" it if I may ask?

Guest Skate Away
Posted

Seriously? why can't you just buy a keyring flash light?:rolleyes:

+1

Pretty obvious solution tbh and no risk of damage to the LED.

Everyone's a winner....

Guest Wacky.ddw
Posted (edited)

+1

Pretty obvious solution tbh and no risk of damage to the LED.

Everyone's a winner....

Who cares about damaging the LED its not like most people are going to use there phone for 5 years. I cant imagine its going to destroy your LED immediately :P Or people are going to keep the LED 24/7

+If all smartphones can do it the skate must two...

Edited by Wacky.ddw
Guest FatLadZ
Posted

admanirv you have just stopped me buying a galaxy s2 Tomorrow :)

a new hope.

im seriously considering buying a batch of led keyrings to drive over ha ha ha :lol:

Posted (edited)

there's no way it will damage the LED... my optimus 2x can record video with the LED on straight out the box

(like a torch) just like other phones & cameras, and if you think about it that's just the same as using it at as a torch just with out the camera recording...

things like this should be there already... it just defies the whole ''smartphone'' definition blink.gif

Edited by tillaz
Guest Skate Away
Posted

FFS here we go again

BECAUSE I DONT CARRY MY FRIGGING KEYS WITH ME ALL DAY LONG !!!!!!!! (but i do my phone)

sheeesh!

One day, you'll get locked out of the house - and then you'll realise why everyone keeps their keys on them.....

Guest FatLadZ
Posted

i agree tillaz it shoukld be there standard.

how you finding the X2?

i may invest in one :)

Skate Away i doubt ill ever get locked out of the house as we have fingerprint technology security system with iris recognition :rolleyes:

Guest Skate Away
Posted

i agree tillaz it shoukld be there standard.

how you finding the X2?

i may invest in one :)

Skate Away i doubt ill ever get locked out of the house as we have fingerprint technology security system with iris recognition :rolleyes:

All that technology and you can't invest in a torch ?

ohmy.gif

Posted

If you don't care about the torch function, why do you bother to discourage people who care?

I can't understand people who write in topics that don't care about.

Guest FatLadZ
Posted

its ok its because he's a tad special and cant really understand things very easily.

I find people like that you need to sit them down and say "shush" and draw them a picture of how things are.

Just think yourself lucky, as this could happen to you if you happened to be hit by a bus.

Just count your blessings that you "get it"

lol :lol:

NOW PULL YA FINGERS OUT AND SORT IT

:D

Guest admanirv
Posted

Made a little progress, ZTE implementation of camera is odd which is why market apps don't work.

Looking find out name of flash.

Posted

If you are looking for flash device within sysfs (devices exposed to userspace) you are wasting your time. It's not there :-) if you mean something else just disregard my post.

Guest FatLadZ
Posted

any news guys?

surely one of you is clever enough to suss this :)

Guest hecatae
Posted

There's a nice implementation on minicm7 for x10 mini pro. Can use as torch or strobe.

Guest Wacky.ddw
Posted (edited)

There's a nice implementation on minicm7 for x10 mini pro. Can use as torch or strobe.

I dont understand how we can use this? Or do you mean dev can take a look how they did it?

Edited by Wacky.ddw
Posted

There is an app in market that uses flash to take pics, I'll decompile it and look into it. As soon as I get myself a new PC -.-

Guest FatLadZ
Posted

Great i look forward to it i was starting to lose hope

cheers to D3abL3 and anyone else trying to sort it :)

Guest hecatae
Posted

I dont understand how we can use this? Or do you mean dev can take a look how they did it?

It's another msm7227 chipset with led flash. Just saying it could be possible

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