Flashlight app quit working

[ShaggyKids]

I had a flashlight app on my Note 3 that I could swear was working but now is not. I download and tried approximately 6 more and none of them are working. I even tried one that said it was for the Note 3 but it didn't work either. Anybody have any ideas?

Deb from my Note 3

 

[ferndog75]

That happens to my flashlight every so often. The thing I do all the time is just reset my phone and then try it out again. It seems to work after the reset, why, I don't know.

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[Baby_Doc]

Just reboot your phone. I haven't figured out what periodically causes the flash LED not to work, but rebooting the phone always works for me.

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[12v]

My first note3 flashlight app that came on the phone and the camera flash didn't work either so I called Verizon and they gave me another phone

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[dpham00]

Definitely try a restart first

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[ShaggyKids]

Reboot worked, thanks.

Deb from my Note 3

 

[bobodobo]

Same here. Flashlight apps and camera flash stop working once in a while, but a restart fixes it every time.

 

[jbutewicz]

I can confirm. Been messing around developing a flashlight app and the way android works with all of these devices sure is a pain. You shouldn't have to ever reboot if the application is designed well, but usually doing so will solve the problem.

 

[dpham00]

Yeah it sucks. It rarely happens but unfortunately when it does happen, it happens at the worst times. I was trying to take some pictures at a wedding and it just died. Had to restart but by then someone with an iPhone already took the picture

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[Baby_Doc]

Let's only hope that this annoyance gets fixed with the KitKat upgrade.

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[Vudumedic]

It is a known bug with the Verizon variant of the Note 3. They have known about it since shortly after the device was launched. There was a maintenence update that was supposed to be pushed with the fix back in January so I can only presume that it will be baked into the OS upgrade when big red chooses to grace us with that.

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[Lochmore]

Is it really so hard to make a flashlight work?
I have Samsung S5 mini and I had the same problem. The torch stopped working just hour after I first discovered it's existence. I could still activate the led using the magnifier function instead which had a button for light too. It's nice to know there is back up light when I don't have time to reboot. It was also amazingly hard to find the flashlight function in the first place. I almost thought it HAD no flashlight, but found it when I tried the easy mode and there it was on the first page. After some while I discovered a way to bring that function (and the magnifier) to normal mode too and also found User manual in the process!

 

[pasel]

Restart the phone