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I can't seem to get the camera LED to light up as a flashlight with my Droid X. I've tried quite a bit, and am down to trying to decompile some apps that I know work. How can I get it to work?

I really think decompiling apps is going to be the only way for me to figure this out. :(

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  • Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3763935/turning-on-camera-flash-led-in-android – tylerl Jul 23 '11 at 03:54
  • Not really, there's device specific settings for the droidX that I can't seem to figure out. At least, things that work on other devices aren't working on this. – Rob Jul 23 '11 at 04:25

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[OT?] − As a Milestone's (the european droid) owner, I have installed CyanogenMod 7 for Milestone and that (great) rom is packaged with the TorchRoot application. The flashlight works well on my rooted milestone… Maybe http://code.google.com/p/n1torch/ could be a good start. From http://n1torch.googlecode.com/svn-history/r23/trunk/src/net/cactii/flash/RootTorchService.java, we can deduce that you need to be root to access the device.

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  • I actually asked the writer of TeslaLED and he sent me how he did it. Thanks for this though, it might be able to help me out. – Rob Aug 02 '11 at 17:07
  • After I get it working, I'll be sure to! Haven't had personal time to work on it in a while. – Rob Aug 02 '11 at 17:11
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The only thing I found that works on the Droid X is the code presented by Siddhpura Amit part way down the page in this answer here: Use camera flashlight in Android. He checks the manufacturer and checks to see if it contains the string "motorola." If so, he has special code that can switch the camera Flash LED on or off. I can verify that it does work as I have a Motorola Droid X and this is code I use in my applications.

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