Camera light locked on

[jphuffs]

Received the phone with the moisture indicator red. Phone wouldn't turn on, but the camera light stayed on as long as the battery was installed. I dissasembled the unit and scrubbed the motherboard with alcohol, dried it and reassembled it. Still would not turn on, but the camera light came on. I tried to turn it on in Bootloader mode and Viola it turned on in Bootloader. I then flashed T-Mobile ROM and now everything works fine, except the camera light is still on. The camera works fine. All functions of the phone work fine, except the camera light won't turn off. Must be a hardware problem. Phone is a G3 MDA. Any suggestions?

[jeffla]

The flash module is bad. As far as I know you can't fix that module, just replace it. What I did to one of my wizards was to just remove the flash module as the flash is more than just worthless. I did swap in a working flash and all was working again. If you were able to dismantle the phone, just pay attention and removing the flash module is very simply. You only need to take the camera cover off I believe and then gently pry it out.

Jeff

[jphuffs]

The flash module is bad. As far as I know you can't fix that module, just replace it. What I did to one of my wizards was to just remove the flash module as the flash is more than just worthless. I did swap in a working flash and all was working again. If you were able to dismantle the phone, just pay attention and removing the flash module is very simply. You only need to take the camera cover off I believe and then gently pry it out.

Jeff

I guess I don't understand how the flash module works. Seems to me the light will be on as long as it getting power from the motherboard. I swapped out the flash module with another MDA. Light is still on all the time. I have either got two bad flash modules or the motherboard is putting power to the flash module continuously. I would think the power to the flash module would come from a capacitance discharge circuit that is triggered by the camera switch. I'm guessing that that capaciter has gone bad, allowing power to flow continuously to the flash module. Just a guess. I'll leave the flash module out, insulate the power connectors.

[jeffla]

Well it looks like your problem is different than mine. I don't know why swapping modules out worked for me. I assumed the phone supplies power and the light turns on. But in my case, I had three flash modules and three wizards. And only 1 of them when put in the phone would always be on when the phone had power. The other two worked perfectly. If I put the bad flash module in the other two wizards and it would stay on. So I concluded that the module was bad and the cause of the problem and not the phone/motherboard. But again, our problems must be different.

Jeff