Comments on: Camera LED As Flashlight on Non-Rooted Android Phones

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:23:24 +0000

Works on Motorola Defy

By: Marley

Marley — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:58:42 +0000

LED light does not function on the Incredible, at least it gives you a nice message telling you that it won’t work.

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:04:40 +0000

@pepe: I actually tried that a few months ago. Unfortunately i wasn’t able to do it without having a preview window. I didn’t work much on it afterwards though to try any workarounds..

By: pepe

pepe — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:12 +0000

Seems to me one only needs to write an application which captures the camera feed, but doesn’t do anything with the image. That would turn on the light, no? What am I missing?

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:10:28 +0000

oh ok.. looks like Moto Droid has somewhat different implementation for the LED and hence it can be used by droid-specific apps without rooting

By: Clif

Clif — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:07:42 +0000

DroidLight by Motorola has worked quite awhile. Not rooted, but LED based and works very well on a Droid.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:28:16 +0000

This is not true. I got my wife a Moto Droid and she is using Tesla LED on her non-rooted phone just fine.

By: arley

arley — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:36:54 +0000

Sigh… doesn’t work for me on MotoDroid (classic)… and I _am_ rooted.