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Help use the camera LED as a light?

Where can i find an app that uses the camera led as a light

One thing to bear in mind is duty cycle. LEDs are capable of being driven at a very high level for a brief period of time, but may burn out if subjected to that level on a continuous basis. A better solution would be to use the screen back light. I believe I may have seen an app for that on the Market.
 
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On cars, on LED tv, on everything

In many applications, the LEDs are pulsed. This means the average power is lower than the peak, but because of the way the eye works, it appear brighter than if that average power were continuous, rather than pulsed. Also, as I mentioned in another note, applying sufficient power continuously may cause the LED to burn out, if you exceed it's ratings.
 
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I don't think Samsung is using a LED that would burn from doing a long video recording.

I have to say - i did not know Galaxy was using flash LED in dark conditions video shooting. Perhaps it is durable then. And if it does not have a failsafe - it should be covered by warranty. But do you want to try? )))

We could ask Drakaz to test it on a Galaxy that we sent to him, so long as he does not use it except for testing the firmware.
 
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Surely, LED flash and LED indicator, like the one on your TV, are not identical things. LED flash, as I understand, may overheat - which is logical, considering how much more light it emits than an ordinary LED indicator.

LED on Galazy do not over heat, the heat in that section is produced by work of screen and battery and internal signal antena, like when you use GPRS, so LED i cold, giving light, if you search for LED powerd batterylight, you'll se that they guaranty you a 10 year working..
So the only problem is if you picture 10milion times, because when picturing the flash get's much more power to do flash than to just light (gloving pear can flash when you click the screen)

I'm stupid for software, but hardware is my thing.
 
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I use MomentFlash on my i7500 and have had it running for many minutes at a time without issue.

It says it uses the flash in normal mode (ie: what comes on when focusing the camera), but you can enable 'super bright' mode (ie: what comes on when you take the photo as a flash) which gives you all sorts of warnings about burning things out. So I'm guessing for the 'super bright' mode it ramps the voltage up to a point thats unsustainable? FWIW, I've never got 'super bright' to work ^_^
 
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