[Q] Proper Camera Flash? - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is it possible to get a proper "Flashing" LED when taking a picture (I've seen the HTC Desire does this), instead of this very poor "Photo Light" option that's been on this device since Android 1.6?
I've seen little info on this subject, all I remember was reading about it back when it was on 1.6. Back then I recall some mentioning that it was an OS limitation, so should be working and fixed when we received the 2.1 update.
But since we're now well in to a long list of 2.1 updates and yet to hear about why there is no proper camera flashing, I thought I would ask it here, in hopes some one could shed some light on this (no pun intended).

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arkedk said:
Is it possible to get a proper "Flashing" LED when taking a picture (I've seen the HTC Desire does this), instead of this very poor "Photo Light" option that's been on this device since Android 1.6?
I've seen little info on this subject, all I remember was reading about it back when it was on 1.6. Back then I recall some mentioning that it was an OS limitation, so should be working and fixed when we received the 2.1 update.
But since we're now well in to a long list of 2.1 updates and yet to hear about why there is no proper camera flashing, I thought I would ask it here, in hopes some one could shed some light on this (no pun intended).
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I believe since Vignette app does it, it's doable. Probably someone will have to heavily modify the camera apk though.
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My_Immortal said:
I believe since Vignette app does it, it's doable. Probably someone will have to heavily modify the camera apk though.
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I've tried vignette it doesn't flash. Also only turns on as a Photo Light does.
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arkedk said:
I've tried vignette it doesn't flash. Also only turns on as a Photo Light does.
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I just installed Vignette and it had the autoflashing thing... Only, vignette sucks to make photos... It focuses so bad.

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PlayGunsta said:
I just installed Vignette and it had the autoflashing thing... Only, vignette sucks to make photos... It focuses so bad.
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Where do you find the flash? Just installed it and cant see any flash options.
Are you on stock or custom firmware?

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arkedk said:
Where do you find the flash? Just installed it and cant see any flash options.
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It works in an older version of Vignette (I think from November or December '10).

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HouseM said:
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Don't have that.
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Vignette has a dedicated button to flash ( auto / on / off) on newest version (2011. 06.23) and works fine for me.
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alexmartinsrj said:
Vignette has a dedicated button to flash ( auto / on / off) on newest version (2011. 06.23) and works fine for me.
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Well as you could see on my picture above your post, the place where the flash button should be, is blank.
But figured out why it wouldn't give me the option.
Because I am using EW Jet where Eric has set the product device & product model to X10x. So edited those values to say X10i and now it's working.
Don't know why he chose to call it X10x, as there is probably more apps and tools that needs a correct value to function properly.
But back to the initial question, it still doesn't flash it only activates the light.

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I was on Froyo, when I'm on stock firmware I use stock camera app. It works great, altough flash isn't automatic...

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arkedk said:
But back to the initial question, it still doesn't flash it only activates the light.
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It used to work much like a real flash in older versions, as I said earlier, so you could either use one of these, or maybe contact the developers and ask them to sort it out.
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