Use your Android phone as a Flashlight

Having to unlock your car door in a parking spot with bad lighting, or the door to your house, or having to search for something that you have dropped in the dark, is something that can become an unpleasant experience very fast. Especially the dropped in the dark situation, be it on the outside, a dropped car key or door key for instance, or while you are in bed trying to find that last piece of sandwich or cookie that you dropped there, can be problematic without proper light source.
A flashlight would be handy, but who has a flashlight nearby in situations where one is needed? I do not. What I do carry around at all times and have even in reach when in bed is my mobile phone. Before you say that I'm addicted to the phone and all, I have to say that I need it in reach as I'm receiving server down and "there is a problem with your website" SMS messages and sometimes even phone calls on it.
Tiny Flashlight is an application for Google Android devices that can turn your phone into a flashlight that is usually bright enough to produce enough light in situations where it is needed. While it is excellent for finding locks and dropped items, it can also be used in other situations from letting others know where you are to morse code or reading in the dark.
Here is how it works. You install the app on your phone or tablet and start it afterwards. It displays a big power button that, when activated, turns on the camera LED flashlight to use it as a light source. This works only on devices that have a LED flashlight, like my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. If your device does not have that, you can still use the application as it also can use the screen of the phone instead for light.
The application comes with a set of different lighting profiles that you can enable that serve different purposes. It takes two clicks to activate another lighting profile and depending on its functionality, it either makes use of the LED flash or the screen itself.
The warning light, depicted by the ample on the screen above, uses the front screen for instance to alternate between two red lights that aim to warn others, while the strobe light uses the LED flash instead for its functionality.
It needs to be mentioned that turning on the light using one of the widgets will drain the battery faster, but it is obviously better to use the light in situations where you need to than to worry about the draining of your phone's battery.
Tiny Flashlight is a free application for Android devices that you can download and install from Google's Play store. The application displays a single ad banner at the bottom of the screen when run.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.