Flashlight-extra for Maemo (Nokia N900)


Installation

Enable extra-dev on your N900.
Please READ this page first before doing so.

First method: From Application Manager:
Search flashlight-extra package and install it.

OR

Second method: From Terminal:

sudo gainroot
apt-get install flashlight-extra

Troubleshootings

1) After existing from the daemon, it can be started by 
/etc/init.d/flashlight-extra start

2) If you decide to remove this application for any reason, and the camera application has stopped working, try to run the following command from the terminal:

/usr/sbin/dsmetool -s /usr/bin/camera-ui

3) If you encounter other problems with this application, a reboot usually will help.

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10 Comments so far
  1. Cleon Kennedy September 8, 2010 1:29 am
    great update/add-on to a great app

    installs and works well

    many thanks to the developer
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  5. Birdflew September 17, 2010 3:58 am
    Great program, works exactly as advertised.

    Any chance for a launch Fcam option? Or a third button to launch a custom app?
  6. Marcus October 28, 2010 8:20 am
    This program drains my battery

    This was difficult to trace.

    Apparently the /etc/event.d/flashlight-extra script is started every 2 seconds.

    Could there possibly be some wrong registration?

    Btw: Deinstalling solved the thing
  7. Mike December 6, 2010 5:26 pm
    I don't know about pr1.2, but this does not play nice with pr1.3, including with Titan's power kernel.

    Upon installation, it worked but I noticed everything became real laggy. CPU util went way up. On de-installation the system was somewhat more responsive but CPU is still high: it has apparently done something to make ohmd eat cycles which persists between reboots.

    I'm trying to fix this and there are seversl TMO threads on the subject. This is a nice app, but you guys really need to fix this major bug!
  8. Mike December 6, 2010 9:58 pm
    Update: luckily, someone else figured out the problem--2 scripts are not removed by apt-get. According to http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=818013&postcount=19 and similar posts, you must remove the following 2 files:

    /etc/event.d/flashlight-extra
    /etc/init.d/flashlight-extra

    Reboot and you should be ok.

    Mike
  9. fer July 11, 2011 7:24 am
    how can i uninstall de program ?
  10. Minhaz December 13, 2011 1:09 pm
    great app! using it for months! only if i would want something more in this app then it would be to optimize for faster startup...currently it takes lots of time to startup..anyways thanks for your effort

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