Nice and useful app but the prob with camera conflict is important. Thumbs down. Keep going the good work;)

Neat app, but since camera doesn't work after using this.

How ever, there is a way around this. When the flashlight is turned on, it should first cleanly close the camera application (i.e kill the camera process) and warn the user that flashlight and camera can not be used at the same time.

You can't keep track of the camera being turned on while flashlight is on without constantly checking if it is on, so after the disclaimer, it is the end-user who chooses whether those two apps should be on at the same time.

Very neat app, and would be quite useful to have. However, because of the conflict with the camera, thumbs down for the moment -- this is not something an end-user should have to deal with.

"Simple" solutions could be just to shut down the flashlight when the camera is active, or block the camera while the light is on. I'm not sure how simple these are to implement, though.

After using the applet the camera application fails to take pictures until a system reboot, this is a major blocker, since the application breaks a system component.

Tested with 51.1.

Way tooconfusing needing to open the camera lid and then turn off camera.

Due issues with camera (already explained in detail by others), thumb down. Its just not reasonable for end-user to have camera broken, despite whose app actually has the bug.

in my opinion "breaking" of the camera bug is one of the reasons why extras-testing process exists. It will cause problems with end users, thinking that the camera is broken.

Like Robbie below suggested, maybe it's possible turn of flashlight when camera is launched. Real bug might be in camera app itself, so maybe it's good to wait and see if the exists in PR 1.1 firmware too.

apologies for multiple posts. internet stopped working.

App is properly optified.

Issues I have found during testing:-

• Leave the flashlight on and launch the camera app. Take a picture with or without flash results in the camera app crashing and not working until after a reboot. The flashlight app remains on although the flashlight is off. Can you somehow make the flashlight app turn off when the camera app is started? this may stop it from crashing.

The camera app works fine if you turn the flashlight off before taking a picture.

App is properly optified.

Issues I have found during testing:-

• Leave the flashlight on and launch the camera app. Take a picture with or without flash results in the camera app crashing and not working until after a reboot. The flashlight app remains on although the flashlight is off. Can you somehow make the flashlight app turn off when the camera app is started? this may stop it from crashing.

The camera app works fine if you turn the flashlight off before taking a picture.

App is properly optified.

Issues I have found during testing:-

• Leave the flashlight on and launch the camera app. Take a picture with or without flash results in the camera app crashing and not working until after a reboot. The flashlight app remains on although the flashlight is off. Can you somehow make the flashlight app turn off when the camera app is started? this may stop it from crashing.

The camera app works fine if you turn the flashlight off before taking a picture.

Great app, really enjoying it, helped a lot when opening my friend's ps3 today (yellow light of death) and it was fairly dark. Thanks for creating it.

One thing I agree with is Mustali above me. It should always be visible, and then when you click it, it says open cover. That way I do not need to basically open the camera app and close it each time I want to use it (assuming you can program that out).

Works for me and was already very helpful!

Just one thing.

I check your package with "dpgk -L" and noticed, that your were already using /opt/maemo/*.

I had a rather long discussion on IRC about optification that more or less suggested to put everything in /opt and/or /opt/maemo/{usr,bin,share} and if required link stuff into the root FS (really only if required), so you might consider to but the curren stuff in / to /opt/ and link it in.

Anyway, in the current state the applet is working, no bugs (at least I couldn't trigger one), optified (as far as recommended up to now) --> Thumb up!

Ah, one thing might be really interesting: Is it really safe for the LEDs in torch mode? You might want to check back with a Nokia dev.

Thanks for this nice and damn useful applet! Just love it!

Cheers Bjoern

@Mikko: Yes, you are right, but I think this is problem of camera application. I think I will be able to reproduce this problem also with vlc or some other application directly accessing v4l device.

Camera application doesn't work after taking a picture (with flash) when flashlight is on. Camera application crashes when taking the picture and crashes on startup even after turning flashlight off and closing the lens cover.

works well for me.

just put the info that the status applet is only shown when the cover is open into the package description, it's not really obvious.

took me a few moments to figure that out :)

@Mustali: I will update package description to let user know, that they need to open lens cover in other to see applet in status menu.

@Venomrush: Applet is designed to be visible only when lens cover is open. If you see applet also when cover is closed, could you please check output from this command: hal-device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_cam_shutter

@Mikko: I can't guarantee you nothing, but from what I found it could be safe. LEDs are connected to Flash/Torch LED driver ADP1653 from Analog Devices. Datasheet is here: http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/ADP1653.pdf

ADP1653 can work in "flash" or "torch" mode (flashlight-applet is using "torch" mode). Max. possible intensity supported by ADP1653 in "torch" mode is 11, but for N900 it was limited to 1 (~50mA) (by Nokia's kernel developers). For example, this is the reason, why I can't control intensity, but only just turn it on/off.

Are you sure that continuous usage of flash LEDs doesn't damage them?

Installed Flashlight but could not see it on status bar right after installation. It randomly shows up at one point, I used it for abit and disappeared again. Reboot did not help.

• The instructions in the description need to point out that the lens cover needs to be opened first in order for the icon to appear. I rebooted because I couldn't see the icon.
• It could be that the flashlight icon always stays visible. clicking it when the lens-cover is closed could display a banner indicating 'open lens cover'
  Thanks