Flash coming on after upgrade

[sonnythemoney]

I have a very strange issue, after upgrading my phone to 4.3. After I did the official firmware upgrade via Kies, my phone appears to be taking pictures randomly. When I am using the phone, the flash just goes off, as if a picture has been taken with no input from me. These pics do not show up in the gallery anywhere. Now, I am not suggesting that Samsung is secretly gathering photos, but I am interested to know what setting needs to be changed for this to stop. Is it a notification of some kind? Just very weird to me. And on another very strange note, after the upgrade 1 of my icons on my homescreen vanished, and the strange part is, I cannot recall which one it was!!! All I know is there is an open space, where 1 did not exist previously. Ideas?

 

[Stuntman]

I found that after upgrading to 4.3 the flash comes on whenever I get a phone call and when the alarm goes off. I haven't figured out how to turn this off yet.

 

[Stuntman]

I found the solution. Go into System Settings | My Device | Accessibility | Flash Notification. Although my phone has this option unchecked, my phone calls and alarm activates the flash on my phone. I think it is happening to your notifications. I checked and then unchecked this box and after that, my phone calls and alarm no longer activates the flash. Try this and see if notifications still activate your flash. My notifications did not activate the flash, but my phone calls and alarm did.

 

[sonnythemoney]

I found the solution. Go into System Settings | My Device | Accessibility | Flash Notification. Although my phone has this option unchecked, my phone calls and alarm activates the flash on my phone. I think it is happening to your notifications. I checked and then unchecked this box and after that, my phone calls and alarm no longer activates the flash. Try this and see if notifications still activate your flash. My notifications did not activate the flash, but my phone calls and alarm did.

I found the setting, checked it and unchecked it, rebooted many times, but it still randomly seems to be setting off the flash. It does seem to be on a notification, but not all notifications, just text messages and calls. This is driving me up the wall.

 

[Stuntman]

I found the setting, checked it and unchecked it, rebooted many times, but it still randomly seems to be setting off the flash. It does seem to be on a notification, but not all notifications, just text messages and calls. This is driving me up the wall.

I would suggest trying to change the notifications on those apps that is causing the flash to go off and see if that works. If not, try reinstalling those apps.

 

[funkylogik]

Nice one stuntman mate :beer:
Op if it isnt notifications causing it then id suggest a factory reset because you have some kind of bug in there from the update :thumbup:

 

[funkylogik]

P.s... are you using the Light Flow app by any chance?

 

[sonnythemoney]

P.s... are you using the Light Flow app by any chance?

Not using light flow. The only other app I have that uses the flash, other than camera is a flashlight app. But had that for quite some time. I may have to reset.

 

[yuukei]

And on another very strange note, after the upgrade 1 of my icons on my homescreen vanished, and the strange part is, I cannot recall which one it was!!! All I know is there is an open space, where 1 did not exist previously. Ideas?

This happened to me too, and I couldn't figure out which one it was either for the life of me lol

 

[TAWM]

I was having same problem and the solution above fixed mine. Thank you

 

[yuukei]

When I first got the 4.3 update, the flash on my phone was acting normal. Up until last night it started to flash every time I receive a phone call....

 

[DroidUser1]

This update is weird I'm liking the newer features but there's some weird stuff like this thread mentioned. Why would the flash turn on when a phone call come through? Thanks for the fix though.... I have another weird problem now all of a sudden everytime I go to the play store and download or update an app it downloads these random pdf files every time. I can't get it to stop, and it only started when I upgraded to 4.3 wtf is going on? Now I'm reading they are halting the updates?

 

[TAWM]

Try going to your downloads app. You should see two groups. I clicked on delete or clear cache and I don't have the recurring problem any longer.

 

[DroidUser1]

Try going to your downloads app. You should see two groups. I clicked on delete or clear cache and I don't have the recurring problem any longer.

Thankyou that fixed it....

 

[funkylogik]

The flash thing in Accessibility is for the deaf but i dont know why its turning itself on