Will pay $50.00 USD For Flashlight, Torch App

Hello All,

I am willing to pay $50.00 USD for an app that turns the Camera LED on and off.

I had an app called Zlight for my E-ten M800 that when you open the app it simply turns the led on and off.
I dont need any options just a simple on and off.
I will promply pay through paypal.

 

Save the $50!  Goto the camara.  Flip it to vidoe.  There is a lightning symbol on the left side of the screen...click that.  Check always on.  Now, whenever you go to video, the light will always be on.  I am a Realtor and use it all the time.  It is crazy bright too.  Great! 

The HD2 is actually pretty close hardware wise to the IQ/Expo (in so far as they're both snapdragons and running at least the same family of board underneath) so most of his existing knowledge should be transferable ... it's too bad he hasn't responded.

I was going to try posting in that thread or PMing him but I figured I should give it a shot on my own first.

Anybody that's reading this know anything about LEDs? I'd like to know if I go low on the amperage to the led if it'll be detrimental to it's health. I know overpowering it is. Superficial googling says no, but you can't believe everything you read on the internet.

I'm dividing my free time between this and a custom rom, so hopefully I'll have something by the end of the week ...

I've been playing with the cameraplatform.dll. Based on the little I remember of assembly from school, a couple of quick web tutorials on arm + asm and reading hd2 hacking threads I think I've got a decent shot at making it work.

That's why I was asking about the LEDs. The easiest route seems to be to call a function that literally tells the phone to pass X milliamps to the LED. This is one of the two methods torchbutton uses on the HD2.  For those that are interested, the other method entails going a little "lower" in the software stack to try and get a better "bright" mode[1]; which while I understand the concept is not something I really  want to mess with, so if I succed it'll at all probably be the one lower/safe setting. 

[1] apparently there's an auto-off in the hardware of the HD2 that cuts the bright mode after approximately 750MS... probably to stop the LED from overheating .... I don't think I'm brave enough to push my only phone's hardware to test that we have it too.

While all that probably could have been summed up with "don't give up hope yet" I'm in a rambling type mood

Could someone with an Expo post their cameraplatform.dll .. I want to make sure it's the same as the IQ and don't really want to download the whole Expo OEM package for the one dll.

I have used the camera app to use as a flashlight, but it is an extreme waste of battery life.  You see the screen is on and the camera is on as well as the LED, this is a big waste of resources.  I would really like an app to turn on the LED.

Mr Pants,  As far as underpowering LED's it should not be a problem, but overpowering would be.  I think a safe bet would be to start around 60 to 100 milliamps and not go above 350 milliamps. As far as DLL files go im completely clueless, that is why i have made the offer of $50.00.  And if Mr Pants can make it work as a flashlight then i will be paying.  I use the flashlight on my other phone on a regular basis and having a working flashlight on my new phone is worth paying for.  Keep up the good work.

Another disheartening day. For anyone following along, I hooked my phone up to my dev laptop and attached a debugger to the lgcamera app. It doesn't even load the cameraplatform.dll but instead uses a "lower level" dll (remote_api_clnt); which, I'm sure not entirely coincidentally, cameraplatform imports and wraps.

I haven't been able to find a test for the flash in the engineering menu or qtest[1], does anyone know if I missed it?

[1] There's a test that fires up the lg camera, records a quick video and then launches that video in media player, but that's not really helpful.

soooo .. I'm going back to trying to read through the decompiled dll (I can only spend so long in front of a debugger and stay sane .. not that staring at assembly code is any better ) to try and determine how to initialize the flash.

I've also posted on lgcommunity.com, maybe lgproductpro will hook us up

Still lacking progress and time, I've barely even looked at it since my last post.


After almost a month I got a response, basically saying they're sorry they took so long and they've made changes to ensure it wont happen again. Additionally they would be happy to help me with java, which (at least according to LG's SDK) is too "high level" for what we need but I've asked if they knew some way to do it regardless.

Well Im glad to see that people have not given up.  My offer still stands.  I do appreciate the time and work that has been put forth already.