VJ Candella Appears To Break Flash

[davenash]

First of all, I would like to make clear I'm not slating VJ at all in any way, I think the effort he puts into developing all the programs that he does is fantastic.

However, I installed VJ Candella on my universal about a week ago, and since having had the flash on for a total of about 30minutes or perhaps an hour, my flash has gone from white to green to dim blue and now nothing.

I had VJ Candella Lite assigned to the 'backlight' button, so it is also possible that the button got pressed in my pocket and the flash was actually on for many hours rather than the 30min or so I consciously had it on for.

Either way I would highly recommend against using VJ Candella. Unlike many other phones, the flash is NOT a standard LED, and I think it burns out with too much use.

VJ already makes clear on his site that he cannot guarantee the effects using the program might have in the long run, but I'm sure he doesn't realise that it could do this.

It is probably the case that you can use the flash for say 30seconds a day, but I would be very wary how much.

Cheers,
Dave

[vijay555]

Dave, reading through the VJCandela thread, you can see several people have reported the same problem (and results :() - I've stated that I wouldn't use it for more then a short time, bursts of a few seconds. Earlier last week I released a version in that thread that limits the bursts to 15 seconds (I think).

It's good advice not to sit on the flash and keep it burning, and it definitely seems to be a bit of a crap led, given that it has the ability to burn itself out. But I apologise for your experience, and urge everyone to use caution in the use of the app. But remember, it's a hardware problem, and how the hardware is used....

V

[richardlai]

Dave, do know that you can disable all the buttons apart from the power button when the Universal is off? I think that should solve the problem for those who are still using the program.

[davenash]

@Vijay - I don't blame you at all - in fact I still thank you for writing the software, because it was a very good idea, except for the hardware is crap!

@richardlai - I have all the buttons disabled except power anyay, but somehow the power button seems to get pressed many times while in my pocket, and hence after that all that is required is one tap of the backlight key (shouldn't have set the app to run from there...). Thanks anyway!

[davenash]

@Vijay - I don't blame you at all - in fact I still thank you for writing the software, because it was a very good idea, except for the hardware is crap!

@richardlai - I have all the buttons disabled except power anyay, but somehow the power button seems to get pressed many times while in my pocket, and hence after that all that is required is one tap of the backlight key (shouldn't have set the app to run from there...). Thanks anyway!

[richardlai]

@richardlai - I have all the buttons disabled except power anyay, but somehow the power button seems to get pressed many times while in my pocket, and hence after that all that is required is one tap of the backlight key (shouldn't have set the app to run from there...). Thanks anyway!
Right... You may want to consider getting a leather case with a belt clip, but just don't run around too fast with it; I did that and it dropped... :(

[cktlcmd]

In my case, I assigned Vijay Candelite as one of the 7 apps in the "Start Menu". Thus, the only way to light it up is through the "Start Menu". To turn it OFF, I just press any button. I never had any problem with Vijay's app. Thanks!

[mdaexecfan]

Dave, do know that you can disable all the buttons apart from the power button when the Universal is off? I think that should solve the problem for those who are still using the program.

Sorry for the thread hijacking, but how can you do that?

[richardlai]

Dave, do know that you can disable all the buttons apart from the power button when the Universal is off? I think that should solve the problem for those who are still using the program.

Sorry for the thread hijacking, but how can you do that?
Start -> Settings -> Buttons -> "Lock" tab