This is an enhanced version of the "BlackBerry as a Flashlight" type program. For all devices it simply puts up a screen and sets the backlight to 100%. For devices with a polychromatic status LED like the 81xx, 83xx, 88xx (and maybe others), it will set the status LED very bright.


OTA Download:
www.troybrownpc.com/freelight.jad

Free (as the name suggests)

Rgeorge are you the author or is there someone else on the site that has posted a thread about their work? If they have a link describing their product please post a link to that thread.

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I am the author.

Not much to describing this. Basically turns your BlackBerry into a flashlight. Works best if you have a device that has the polychromatic status LED as it will turn it on bright. Currently only tested on the 8100 Pearl with 4.5 OS though it should work on almost any device with a 4.2 OS or higher.

Have either of you loaded the video recorder app from the 83xx onto your 8100 to use the camera flash as a flashlight? It works perfectly for me.

This app works nicely for the 8800 series as it does not have a camera.

I have another flashlight ap - I think a very inexpensive one, but it doesn't do anything with the LED, just the screen, which is better than nothing, but pretty useless. Hopefully, this will be better.

>> Edit >> Much better solution than the other program I was using.

That's a lot of memory used just for a flashlight app.

It's great!!! Thanks

John.... what do you mean? the program uses a lot of memory or doing it with the video program?

Putting a useless video app on the Pearl just to get the flashlight...But now looking at the bare video app I guess it's not that big.

Is it possible to get an OTA version of this?

Save this text to a file named freelight.jad:

Place freelight.jad and freelight.cod into a folder on your media card, then use the Media Explorer to navigate and to the jad. Click on it to install right from your media card.

For a different program to use, which is small but I use quicknote that was created by Mark Rejhon. Its a good for taking notes/using the clipboard but also with pulling it up using the keyboard shortcut makes an easy flashlight with the all white background.

Here is the thread for it, about 3/4 down on the first post with OTA and Desktop download.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...es-thread.html

I created this file, and then uploaded both files to my website. I navigated to freelight.jad on my phone and it just pulled up all of that code on the screen. Any ideas?

You need to configure your webserver to properly serve up OTA files, a bit offtopic for this thread (I was referring to putting these files on your Media card, why not just do that?). You can read a blog post of mine on how to configure Apache here:

http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/2006/...bile-browsing/

This will serve up OTA (.jad, .jar, .cod, etc.) files correctly.

Nice threadcrap in another OP's product thread...
(but I use QuickNote also for this purpose... only 7452bytes).

The only reason I wanted to do it from the website is I'm at work and these workstations are locked down so I can't hook up my blackberry to it to copy the files over. It's no big deal though. I'll just wait until I get home. Thanks for the info!

I will host this OTA for rgeorge if he wants me to.

Nice app. Thanks rgeorge for your contributions.

Go ahead.

I am working on getting my web host to allow me to put up COD files (they don't allow that now for some reason).

OTA added to first post.

Neat app but I'd also like it to turn my screen to white at 100%. It only lights up the LED.

Is it possible to make this program turn on the LED flash of the camera on the Pearl 8130? It's quite a bit brighter than the LED on the front.

This app works good on my 8830, thanks alot It is GREAT

It's great.
Thanks.

Cool.

Awesome ive been looking for something like this.

I initially installed the app out of curiosity, I never planned to keep it loaded. I had heard that it was green and all. Once I realized that the flash light-on function was there, I decided to keep it installed. Plus, it is only 26.8k. Here's the link for those who are interested.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...ml#post1064480

Andrews that worked great the flash is super bright, although it tends to get stuck in the video software and I have to do a batt pull to get it to reset.

I'm getting a more memory drain ("File Free") than usual since I installed this program. It seems to decline relatively quickly after a hard boot.

Used this app last night to get from living room to bedroom. The LED is very bright. Thanks again rgeorge.

EDIT: andrews - thanks for the video recorder idea. that works well on my 8100 also.

just downloaded it and it works great. thanks. any possiblity of using the camera flash led as it seems it would be even brighter?

Developers have said that the camera flash is not available to them through the RIM API, so currently, no.

However, see post #28 in this thread for a workaround.

The app is nice but on my 8820 it does not make the screen 100% bright - it would be nice if it did.

Thanks,
SMF

Thanks!

This works great on my BOLD 9000 with version .147 of the OS.

I have to click the track ball to bring up Full Menu, so I can close the app.

Just pushing the back button closes it.

nice app. thanks

On my 8130 Pearl it does turn the status light on full bright, but the LCD backlight intensity is not affected. It will stay dim if it was already dim due to a dark environment.

I just installed it on my 8310. It works ok, but after closing the application my network status light stops flashing for a long time.

Same issue here on my Alltel 8130 / OS 4.5. I have to turn off/on the LED coverage indicator or "trigger" the status light another way...by pairing to something in bluetooth, or receive a message, etc. Otherwise, program works great!

One question though...I noticed the status light, when FreeLight is running, has a spectrum of several different colors. When shining the light on my white bedroom wall I see blue/green/red. It also isn't as bright as I thought it would be, compared to say...the video recorder light. Is that normal?