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Has anyone found a compatible flashlight app that uses the LED?

I have tried LED Flash, Moment Flash, Falaxy Flash, and more from the market than I can count or remember and so far none work.
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List of apps that work
WINNER: Tiny flashight + LED
The best option IMO
This is the real deal here. Works perfect and adds some other neat features. Thanks doink123 for developing this great app and for making it free for all of us,
The only single, tiny little complaint (or rather, suggestion) is a widget to toggle the LED on/off, but other than that, amazing.
Runner Up 1) Power Control Plus - $1.99 In The Market)
It works as a widget to toggle the LED on and off. And it works great, only down side is it is $1.99. For me, I use the flashlight on a daily basis so it is worth it for me until a free alternative is found or developed. it does have a lot of other great feaures to but you can read those in the market.
Runner Up 2) Instant Heart Read - Free In The Market
An app to check your hearbeat, but instantly turns the LED on so it works as a flashlight app. Kind of a cool app anyways, I am leaving this on my phone just for fun.

Dunno about the Epic... hard to say. But on my EVO I use "LED Desire light" which gets very bright when turned up all the way (probably because the EVO has 2 LEDs). And it has a widget.

Hopefully they make a compatible app/widget for the Epic flash soon. EpicFlash would be a nice sequal to MomentFlash (love this)

Well I found an app that works... sort of.
It is called Flashligh LED
The app itself is very basic. It does not turn the light on/off like a toggle. Rather, there is a timer and when you hit the button, it turns on the light for X amount of time.
Now, the app will turn on the light, but only for about 1 second or so, no matter what you change the time setting to.
Still not what I am looking for, but getting closed. Woot!

Nexus One Torch was my favorite on my Nexus! The widget matched perfectly with the Galaxy TW theme!
I surprisingly use the flashlight ALOT.

chris5h said:
Well I found an app that works... sort of.
It is called Flashligh LED
The app itself is very basic. It does not turn the light on/off like a toggle. Rather, there is a timer and when you hit the button, it turns on the light for X amount of time.
Now, the app will turn on the light, but only for about 1 second or so, no matter what you change the time setting to.
Still not what I am looking for, but getting closed. Woot!
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This is a very good sign. I'm sure trrobert(might be a bit off on the spelling) who did momentflash could peek at this to adopt what does work and get his working for us.
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Bump. Hopefully now that this device is released someone can take a stab at this. Woot.

I'm using Power Control Plus from the Market & when you add flashlight as one of your buttons it works! It turns on & off the light with no problems. It is a slight delay when turning the light on.

^Awsome tried it and it worked. Thanks!!

I can confirm it Power control plus works, such an elegant solution, better than some cheesy flash light picture taking up the whole screen.
Thanks journeyman73!

Just so you can fix it OP, its Power Control Plus is $1.99.

Instant heart rate app
Instant heart rate automatically turns on the flash, so thats one way to do it.

morlocx said:
Instant heart rate automatically turns on the flash, so thats one way to do it.
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Right, it's what I'm using at the moment. As an addendum, you can turn the flash on and off with the icon in the top right.

Hi guys,
I've just released Tiny Flashlight + LED v2.2. I tried to make it work on Epic 4G by guessing the right parameters (because I don't have an Epic 4G device).
Can you check it and tell me if it works?

Sorry great app but led did not light up

Confirmed, Tiny Flashlight does not light up the LED on my epic.
I reorganised the first post with the new apps that have been found to work.

chris5h said:
Confirmed, Tiny Flashlight does not light up the LED on my epic.
I reorganised the first post with the new apps that have been found to work.
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When you tap on the light sources button (the white button in the upper right corner), how many items do you see? 4 or 5?

doink123 said:
When you tap on the light sources button (the white button in the upper right corner), how many items do you see? 4 or 5?
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Four sources, LED is not one of them.
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DEinspanjer said:
Four sources, LED is not one of them.
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OK, I've released v2.2.1. Can you check it?

doink123 said:
OK, I've released v2.2.1. Can you check it?
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My goodness that thing is bright...
So LED shows up now, and clicking the power turns it on, w00t!
There is a little red label above the power button that always says 0%, what controls that?
Also, the power button doesn't turn the light off, but exiting the app does so this is much better than what we had before!
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Flashlight

Anyone know of any flashlight apps that work with this phone yet?
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Tesla LED works for me.

Yes, Tiny Flashlight + LED has been updated for ICS and works well.

I recommend Tesla LED

Grant H said:
Yes, Tiny Flashlight + LED has been updated for ICS and works well.
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+100000 IMHO, better than tesla
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justin94 said:
+100000 IMHO, better than tesla
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don't like tiny flashlight+led AT ALL. +1000000 for tesla

Tiny flashlight ftw!
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is there any way to remap power button long press to turn on the flashlight??

Triple-z said:
is there any way to remap power button long press to turn on the flashlight??
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No need, there is a shake feature in the new version of Tiny Flashlight.. on the unlock screen just shake it and the LED turns on

Tesla works ok, a bit slow to power the LED on. I wasn't able to get Flashlight's shake feature to work.

Grant H said:
Yes, Tiny Flashlight + LED has been updated for ICS and works well.
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Just confirming what this guy says.

I found out that "your flashlight - torch - ICS"works the best
It is:
-Small
-Turns the flash faster on then tiny flashlight/tesla flashlight.
-It has an auto mode wich will turn off the flash if there is enough light according to the light sensor
-ICS optimized
-You can let it make the screen white to altough useless in my opinion.
https://market.android.com/details?id=your.yuvalluzon.flashlight

I am currently trying "Flashlight HD LED" and seems to work fine on my GNex
you can place a widget which works, turns on the LED and opens the App in one tap!

Tiny Flashlight works well on ICS NS

Guys (and gals),
definitely check out Search Light: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.scottmain.android.searchlight&feature=search_result
-free & open source (!)
-unbeatable few permissions (1)
-fast and simple - when I need a flashlight on a phone it's very likely that it's some kind of "emergency" and fancy features will only be in the way
-small (209k)
-can turn screen completely BLACK (!) while in use
-perfect
I searched for a long time for the perfect flashlight app and this is it (for me).

As others have said, tiny flashlight +HD is recommended. The lock screen shake to turn on is handy. Otherwise the 1x1 widget is handy. Comes with a full range of useless flashing modes too if you're into that.
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Question:
Why does Tiny Flashlight need so many permissions just to turn a light on and off??
I can understand network access if it has ads but what about the others?
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Valynor said:
Guys (and gals),
definitely check out Search Light:
-free & open source (!)
-unbeatable few permissions (1)
-fast and simple - when I need a flashlight on a phone it's very likely that it's some kind of "emergency" and fancy features will only be in the way
-small (209k)
-can turn screen completely BLACK (!) while in use
-perfect
I searched for a long time for the perfect flashlight app and this is it (for me).
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Now that's the kind of flashlight i like, simply turns the light on and off and doesn't need to use my GPS for whatever reason! (read the permissions on some of the others!!!!!)

Valynor said:
Guys (and gals),...
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No gal in XDA

[Q] Torch for Galaxy Nexus

I've been using Liquid ICS 1.4 until a stable release of c9 s released. One thing I really miss that my old phone had was the Torch. I used the super bright mode that turned up the led's and I'd like to be able to have it on my Galaxy Nexus. I haven't been able to find anything at all and tried many flashlight apps. I am unsure though if cm9 even has it, is it possible with the Galaxy Nexus?

Some of the roms have the torch baked, in some don't. I haven't used Cm9 in a few weeks, but at the time, I don't recall it having the torch built in.
The current rom I'm using does have a torch baked in. It's just in the toggles though. So maybe if you check the different toggle settings of the rom you may run, you may find a Torch toggle that just needs to be selected.

AOKP had it baked in.
I still preferred Flashlight HD LED. It would light when I opened it and it was simple.

I use Tiny Flashlight + LED. It has a widget that allows you to turn the light on with one touch. I don't think it allows you to change the brightness of the LED though.

AOKP ftw. I have the toggle in the notification bar and its so convenient and easy to use from there.
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I use DroidLight....

"Galaxy Nexus Flashlight" in the market free and no ads, it works perfectly.
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I am downloading the aokp rom and I am going to look for the apk. I wanted a flashlight (Torch) that turned up the output on the led's. It was super bright and that's an awesome tool to have. I currently and have always also had TeslaLED but I notice when clicking the widget it takes 3-4 seconds for the light to turn on. So I now use the widget include with "GN Flashlight"

Fastest way to LED flashlight from lock screen?

Constantly using assistive light, but I dislike having to unlock, then click the widget (which is HUGE, and thus not on my first page)
What are your favorite solutions for quickly accessing flashlight from lock screen?

What you could do is buy Widget Locker ( something like a $2 app, i knoow, not free ) and then add a flashlight widget to it. If u look up widget locker you will know what im talking about, but in essence, its a customizable lock screen and u can put widgets there to click on.
Alternativly, some ROMs will have the ability to have a flashlight as a quick tool when u pull down the notification shade. Paranoid Android 2.1 has this ability, and it is Jellybean. Great daily driver, and also stable. Give it a shot!
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Exactly what I've done
I haven't rooted/flashed anything custom to mine yet as I'm waiting for JB before I do that, but I've got widgetlocker installed with the jellybean style unlock orb - pull right to unlock, left for camera, down for gosms and up for 'brightest flashlight free' which is the fastest loading of all the ones I've tested (plus it has a cool on/off sound that reminds me of splinter cell lol)

Flashlight
Gabeloooooo said:
Constantly using assistive light, but I dislike having to unlock, then click the widget (which is HUGE, and thus not on my first page)
What are your favorite solutions for quickly accessing flashlight from lock screen?
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No need to unlock the screen to get your Torch App.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DEsImNvbS5pZG1vYmlsZS5mbGFzaGxpZ2h0Il0.:good:
Hit "Thanks" button if it help:highfive:

THANK YOU for all the great suggestions, will try a bunch of stuff and report back.
I had read that Widget Locker drains the battery quite a lot though, have you found that to be the case on the S3?
So far I was using brightest flashlight free from lock screen, but it opens the app, I basically want to stay on the locksreen for toggling on/off.
LED genius concept is nice, but I'm afraid it will keep opening in my pocket when I shake my hips (seriously, I'm already using shaking to silence the wonderful eCID app when it is speaking)
I've a bunch of stuff to investigate thanks to you all! Cheers!

Get the app called TeslaLED it has a cool and easy on/off widget as well as a shortcut which you can put on the lockscreen. I like this app cause it doesn't need all kinds of strange access/permissions like the others do.

Quick update:
Tried all that was suggested. Ended up using Widget Locker + assistive light widget on lock screen. While the widget is not very pretty, t'is the fastest way to launch the led I found (slightly faster than teslaLED for me).
So far, Widget Locker doesn't seem to drain the battery too bad. And it is very sweet to have more than 4 shortcuts on the lock screen

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my solution
you download teslaled apk free
in setting to lockscreen your put the app on the lockscreen
and in the setting of teslaled you select "start light when app is open"
and now on the lockscreen you have the icon teslaled you pullup and the flashlight come
sorry for my very bad english!!!!!
see you soon

You should check out Search Light
It's the fastest starting flashlight app on my phone (Galaxy Nexus). Much faster than Tesla. And no silly permissions like internet and positioning like some flashlight apps need.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottmain.android.searchlight
Maybe that in combination with widgetlocker? I don't have widgetlocker so I can't vouch for the combo.

On my SGS II, I use a ROM with JKAY support just so I can have this lockscreen: youtube.com/watch?v=JL-sc2QlNtA
As you can see around the 16 second mark, you just need to slide that tab left to toggle the LED. I'm not sure what the status is on JKAY MOD on the S3 but I know he is making a version for this phone, so check it out.

Regarding this topic, just to add one other advanced method (which I am using) is to combine Tasker, Widgetlocker, and teslaLED with the S3's proximity sensor to control the LED flash.
Basically you turn on the LED flash on or off by putting your finger near the proximity sensor which is on the left of the front-facing camera.
**This method is not necessarily faster than using a widget, just a heads up to those people who are using tasker and widgetlocker, that this is one possible implementation they can use.
The reason i did this was because the widget on the lockscreen sometimes activated from accidental pressing in my pocket which resulted in huge battery drainage and a hot phone.
(Another reason was that I was bored and wanted to do something with the proximity sensor, and this was a pretty cool way to do it, plus you have one less widget on the lockscreen if you find it ugly)

elencross said:
Regarding this topic, just to add one other advanced method (which I am using) is to combine Tasker, Widgetlocker, and teslaLED with the S3's proximity sensor to control the LED flash.
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Is Widget Locker necessary for this? Don't Tasker and teslaLED suffice?

joazito said:
Is Widget Locker necessary for this? Don't Tasker and teslaLED suffice?
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Yes Tasker and teslaLED would be sufficient, however Widgetlocker is there to set up the condition for this profile to work. So this profile only activates IF widgetlocker is running (that is when your phone is locked). You could do without this condition if you wish, however do note that without such a condition, the proximity sensor will remain on indefinitely, which would cause a huge battery drain to occur. By setting it so that it requires Widgetlocker to be activated, the sensor only turns on when the phone is locked.

Gabeloooooo said:
Constantly using assistive light, but I dislike having to unlock, then click the widget (which is HUGE, and thus not on my first page)
What are your favorite solutions for quickly accessing flashlight from lock screen?
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A little late to the party. Flashlight LED genius is free and also has a 'shake to activate' feature. Hit the home button to turn on the lockscreen and shake. it has sensitivity options to avoid accidents.

Nexus One LED Flashlight
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jazzmoonstudio.android.widget.flashlight&hl=en
Fastest and simple one click flashlight widget. If you want to start it with an app shortcut you can install the addon. It is very lightweight, has no running services and stuff. I always return to this one.
Seriously, try it!

Thank you!
Nexus One LED Flashlight is indeed the simplest solution! Shortcut available as addon from Google Play for TouchWiz plus needs no suspicious or permissions (as of dec. 2012).
Thanks fallenwout!

If it's fastest way, I'd go with Jkay's mod, don't think it can get faster than this. It has an option where you can press the home button once to wake up the phone and press a second time and keep it pressed for a second to light up the led. Phone will remain awake but you never even need to unlock it. Turn off by keeping home pressed for a second again. It has helped me a lot.

kaynpayn said:
If it's fastest way, I'd go with Jkay's mod, don't think it can get faster than this. It has an option where you can press the home button once to wake up the phone and press a second time and keep it pressed for a second to light up the led. Phone will remain awake but you never even need to unlock it. Turn off by keeping home pressed for a second again. It has helped me a lot.
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Definitely the most simple solution witch is btw an awesome feature, same like double press home on lock for camera.

I vote for Led Genius, but it is really "user dependent" and i will explain why.
I use a phone case that actualy cover the screen, it's a leather flip-case. In case i want to open the flash light, i press the power button without opening the case and then i shake the phone. The light turns on. Since you have the sensitivity adjustable and the fact that if you don't press the power it will not interpret no matter how hard you shake it, it is virtually impossible to activate it in your pocket by mistake. (my power button is not side-accesible other than using your finger)
This method allows me to operate the flashlight without even looking at my screen (or at the phone for that matter), and to turn it off exactly the same: without opening the flipcase. Once i finish with the flash light i am shaking it again to stop it, then i press the power button to turn off the screen and that is all.
Just my 2 cents...

I use Tesla led in combination with appshaker. Shake phone on lockscreen turns led on.
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Is the flashlight app really using this much data

I downloaded the flashlight app last night cause I needed light as the rom doesn't have torch but I did notice my battery dieing faster than usual today... Did this thing really use 811mb?
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Just use tweaked rom. Really great with lots of options including built in torch in notification toggles.
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Or use one of those modules like wannam
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BACARDILIMON said:
Or use one of those modules like wannam
NOTE 3
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You could also use AppOps and cancel some of the permissions, that the program has, but personally I would consider it a malware and delete it ASAP altogether. It really makes me wonder what did they use so much data for, it couldn't be all advertisement?

Idk what was going on I left the house with the battery topped off.. Reboot and topped off to make sure it was really 100 and got to work and I was already at 94 % then 5 hrs later 50% which by then it should have been only 80-70% then I just started looking thru my settings and saw that, I wouldn't have thought that was with ads and I wouldn't have thought a flash would need anything past 0.1mb to use.. Just blew my mind
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ezsoulja said:
I downloaded the flashlight app last night cause I needed light as the rom doesn't have torch but I did notice my battery dieing faster than usual today... Did this thing really use 811mb?
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There is a build in Widget for the light.
Hold your finger on the empty home screen, tap on Apps and Widgets, the tap on Widgets and look for it.
It is called Assistive Light.
Drag it to your screen and you have the flash light any time you need it by tapping it on or off. :good:

maniep said:
There is a build in Widget for the light.
Hold your finger on the empty home screen, tap on Apps and Widgets, the tap on Widgets and look for it.
It is called Assistive Light.
Drag it to your screen and you have the flash light any time you need it by tapping it on or off. :good:
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Works great, thanks.
I think I read something in the news, was it GSMArena?, about Flashlight I believe, that it was requesting permissions for things totally unrelated to the operation of the program, like contacts etc, that's when I downloaded AppOpp and started using it, even just seeing what permissions some of those programs request makes you wonder, what are doing behind the door. That's why I don't like Android that much, not easy to even see where the program is located.

I read a flashlight app has "backdoor".
Just add Assistant Light widget and call it a day.

mingkee said:
I read a flashlight app has "backdoor".
Just add Assistant Light widget and call it a day.
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Specifically, the app called Brightest Flashlight Free didn't have a backdoor, but rather was giving out user location along with a unique id for each device.
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday issued its first enforcement action related to location-based technology, reaching a settlement with the maker of Brightest Flashlight Free for allegedly hiding the fact that it sold information about the location of its users and the unique string of numbers assigned to a device.
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I also use the "Assistive Light" widget. Useful to have a light when in the dark.

But that still doesn't explain 800 odd MB of data used, as stated in OP post unless the program crashed and was sending garbage in the loop, or the info itself was incorrect, but battery usage would suggest something was going on. It could have been browser cache history, for all we know.