[How To] Record Video with the Flash ON!!

[Mr. Berry]

There is an On/Off Widget for LED Light. There is the App shortcut like you stated, but also a Widget as well.

And this came with the phone?

 

[Raf]

Actually I was not busting your chops at all. The app itself says that! I am simply curious in general about the LED.

Did/do you happen to visit Unscripted360 by chance?

 

[NorthBayX415]

I remembered I saw a thread in this and I was recording video for 30 secs in low light so instead my friends busted out his iphone 4 which can by default use led light with camera

 

[jerseypimp]

This thing is crazy bright. If you use it periodicaly over the course of months could it still cause damage?

 

[lucky4meman]

I use incredilight. It works great for me and has different brightness settings. You may have to have your phone rooted to use it though.

 

[Gekko]

i don't want to use any apps that leave the flash on. i'm afraid of damaging it and i don't need to do it.

 

[Fahrenheit]

i don't want to use any apps that leave the flash on. i'm afraid of damaging it and i don't need to do it.

Don't be scared...LED's, by design, are spec'd to last 50,000 hours or more:

How long do LEDs generally last?
The industry standard for LED is around 50000hrs.
As all things do they will degrade initially up to 10% over the first 1000hrs of operation followed by a slower rate of decline to 30% loss after 50000hrs.
Commercially available LEDs are generally blue LEDs with a fluorescence applied to them and its the fluorescence that degrades not the chip/diode itself.
It also depends if the LEDs are being "driven" hard or voltage is variable.
The types of commercial dome-typeLEDs available these days are called "static sensitive" and can be badly affected by variations in voltage and current - that's why they're OK on batteries (if not run too low) but sensitive to other forms of power like 240vAC/12vAC transformers. ​