One way T989 cannot match my old HD2 - flashlight - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

The flashlight on T989 is probably the 2nd brightest I've seen on a phone, but nowhere near as bright as the dual-LED HTC. I loved stunning (literally, as in blinding) people with the HD2. The extra brightness came in handy many times. This is my biggest complaint about GS2, by far. Otherwise, I've grown to really liking it.
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I always thought my hd2 was so bright until I tried a nexus one on cyanogen mod and I put like the super bright feature and omg that one led destroyed the hd2. It lit up an entire backyard
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Another thing with all the flashlight apps I've tried is that all of them have only on/off; my Kumar ROM WM6.5 flashlight app on the HD2 has low/medium/high. Anyone know if this is a hardware or Android limitation?
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Was your HD2 on WM or Android? When I went with upgraded WM ROMs, the flashlight was way brighter than on the stock TMo, although even stock the HD2 is pretty bright.
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hella356 said:
Another thing with all the flashlight apps I've tried is that all of them have only on/off; my Kumar ROM WM6.5 flashlight app on the HD2 has low/medium/high. Anyone know if this is a hardware or Android limitation?
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You can have varying levels of brightness. The app just has to support it.

lol what? really? the flashlight is your complaint?
Not the fact that the screen is low res or has issues with blobs and vertical lines?
If the flashlight was my only problem, I would have kept the phone(s).

Use CM7 with the flashlight app, and you can get some awesome brightness.
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Related

Q: Flashlight app?

i just got my G2 today, and i love it. but i was wondering if there's an app that allows me to use the LED for the camera as a flashlight? i'm not rooted and dont plan to be for awhile, but i was wondering if there's some app or some way to use the LED without opening the camera app.
Look at tesla in the market
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Just installed it, works great. Thanks!
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I particularly am fond of the DEATH RAY flashlight built into cyanogenmod all you have to do is pull down your notification bar and hit the flash..and it will turn night into day. Its so bright it will blind someone if you direct it in their face.
vision
Cyanogenmod comes with a handy Torch application
I have a original Torch app on my desire Z. European.. pre installed!!

G2 Strobe while ringing ???

Any dev on here ever considered modifying the TORCH app with the strobe to make the camera LED strobe on incoming call.. or flash every minute or so for a notofication??? Ive done this before with a .pat file for a z3 rizr, but not to familiar with doing something like this for android. Thoughts? Comments??
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I think LEDmeknow might be the app that does the flashing on calls, I know I read about it a few months ago.
Tried that app. Kind of cool how it makes the main menu home button back button flash along with the trackpad -- but does NOT make camera LED flash. Thanks for pointing me in the direction of that app.
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You are going to want this app: http://db.tt/9m8CqOS
I've been using it for my past 3 phones and it works perfectly on all of them. Including on this one both Froyo and Gingerbread.
NICE thanks you!!!
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Light Sensor

Is there a way to force keyobard lights to stay on when you slide it out?
My ambient light sensor doesnt always stay on even in complete darkness
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Are you stock? Or rooted with custom rom?
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I am rooted
Is there a way to make my phone light up the whole house so I can save on electric? You know how the economy is right?
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You can try this app LEDs HACK
Not completely sure if it has the option your looking for but give it a go
daboy00 said:
Is there a way to make my phone light up the whole house so I can save on electric? You know how the economy is right?
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But then you have to charge the phone more
I have a problem with my rooted G2's light sensor as well. I check sensor values using either an app or Cyanogen's light level editor and it's permanently stuck at 219. I guess that's what I get for upgrading my radio. :/
I'm not sure it's the radio, but my light sensor needs calibrating or something. Even in a pitched black room, it jumps up to 320lx, making it shut off the keyboard when I need it. Ugh, ugh, ugh. It still works though -- just not on the low end of the spectrum.
LiquidRain said:
I have a problem with my rooted G2's light sensor as well. I check sensor values using either an app or Cyanogen's light level editor and it's permanently stuck at 219. I guess that's what I get for upgrading my radio. :/
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In the virtuose sense 2.0 thread, they have made some flashable zip that adjust the proximity sensor and light sensor... I don't know if they will work on that rom...but if you want to try..
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LED Flashlight

Can someone suggest nice app for flashlight purpose?
Which one are you using?
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telsaled. I use it often.
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Tesla LED works well for me.
thanks
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Tiny Flashlight works well for me.
I'm liking "Your Flashlight - Torch - ICS".
I used telsa for a while and it works perfectly but I switched to tiny flash light because of the features that it has. I didnt even think of some of the features it offers, for example you can 'shake' your phone in the lockscreen and it will turn on the LED light.
I found tiny flashlight to have less delay when switching it on than Tesla. I use Tiny Flashlight because of this. I will definitely be testing others.
Try flashlight+led
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droid.pr.coolflashlightfree
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Notification lights

Sorry if this has been addresses....search sucks on the xda app.....what app do we use to have our capacitive buttons work as the notification light?
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You need to have a kernel that supports BLN and download the BLN app from the market.
Dark side support it?
Edit: it works.....thanks alot....just came from epic 4g touch......missing my led notification light
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theres also an app called noled on the market, its what i use..works great :0
Does it light a single one instead of all of them at once? Customize which light does what?
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Danial723 said:
Does it light a single one instead of all of them at once? Customize which light does what?
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That is not possible with our phones, there's only one LED board for all 4 buttons, not one for each of the 4.....
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OK ....that's alright....just happy to have some sort of light lol
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Danial723 said:
OK ....that's alright....just happy to have some sort of light lol
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I don't know why they didn't include one!!! That notification light is saweet!!!
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I like the four touch buttons lighting up. It looks cool. Better than a regular notification light in my opinion
Damn right it is.....my epic touch with the light had 3 colors you can modify per notification.....I still like this phone better..... be nice if we had the same amount of developers the epic touch has
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NoLEDs a pretty neat app..
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I've had my phone for a month or so and didn't even know this existed. Came from a Nexus One so missed my trackball notifications. Thank you OP for asking.
bchon said:
NoLEDs a pretty neat app..
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until you realize it is constantly turning your screen on and off.
algorhythm said:
until you realize it is constantly turning your screen on and off.
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Is that why people say it is a massive battery hog? Only ever used bln myself
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algorhythm said:
until you realize it is constantly turning your screen on and off.
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False..it only illuminates the required pixels not the entire board
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iLeopard said:
False..it only illuminates the required pixels not the entire board
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But therefore it is turning the screen on and off, but in parts. Plus most, if not all, of our phones have CRT Off, which does use most/all of the pixels.
I used NoLED for a few days, switched to the paid version of BLN afterwards.
I tried both NoLED and BLN. NoLED was cool for a while, but BLN in the end is the best alternative for notifications.
algorhythm said:
But therefore it is turning the screen on and off, but in parts. Plus most, if not all, of our phones have CRT Off, which does use most/all of the pixels.
I used NoLED for a few days, switched to the paid version of BLN afterwards.
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Fair enough....in the end it seems like we all prefer bln
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algorhythm said:
But therefore it is turning the screen on and off, but in parts. Plus most, if not all, of our phones have CRT Off, which does use most/all of the pixels.
I used NoLED for a few days, switched to the paid version of BLN afterwards.
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So is that bad for our screens? ..to have only certain pixels light up? There is an option to have a white bg instead of black...
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check this app on market "missed call reminder v1"

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