Closed Bug 1176914 Opened 11 years ago Closed 8 years ago

[spark] Can't use camera LED as a flashlight

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Product:
Firefox OS Graveyard
Component:
Gaia::System
Platform:
ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: callahad, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

References

Details

(Keywords: DevAdvocacy, feature, foxfood, Whiteboard: [spark][triagr] [foxfoodUX][DevRel:PX])

Android and iOS both allow users to quickly turn on the camera LED as a flashlight. This is even available from the lock screen. As far as I can tell, I can't use my Aries as a torch at all, much less easily from the lock screen or anywhere else.
This isn't a feature in the OS as of yet. There's apps you can download such as LED flashlight. Pinging ux.
Flags: needinfo?(firefoxos-ux-bugzilla)
It also turns out that on aries, the LED is being held as busy by another process. So there's 2 bugs here. one for product/ux and one on device.
QA Whiteboard: [foxfood-triage]
Keywords: foxfood
Keywords: dogfood
Component: Gaia::Feedback → Gaia::System
Flags: needinfo?(fxos.triage.feature)
Whiteboard: [spark] → [spark][triagr]
Keywords: feature
Whiteboard: [spark][triagr] → [spark][triagr] [foxfoodUX]
There was some work on exposing lights as an API to allow this .... bug 1065404
Depends on: LED-API
Removing NI as it's already been tagged with feature. It will come back on our radar when the feature is picked up for a release. Thanks for pinging the UX team!
Flags: needinfo?(firefoxos-ux-bugzilla)
See Also: → 888845
This works already as the add-on Quick Settings Enhancement provides this feature
"torch" from the Marketplace allows for use of the LED as a flashlight and seems to work just fine, for me at least.
Whiteboard: [spark][triagr] [foxfoodUX] → [spark][triagr] [foxfoodUX][DevRel:PX]
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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