led

Is there a way to set the LED intensity that I desire? I know that to turn on the LED I use: p.setFlashMode(Camera.Parameters.FLASH_MODE_TORCH); mycam.setParameters(p); But this code just turns on the LED. But is there a way to set different intensities to the LED for a stronger light or to reduce the light intensity? HTC has an alternative API that supports this, however it's only on HTC Sense devices, and as of Gingerbread they've changed the permissions so it's only for their Flashlight app, not third party ones (unless you use root). But on 2.2 HTC devices you can use it by writing a

So many LED flashlight API questions for Android. I'm afraid to ask yet another, but here goes.. Using the tried and true FLASH_MODE_TORCH I am able to achieve satisfaction with my Samsung Galaxy SII and get the LED flash turned on. On my friend's Galaxy Nexus, no such luck. Nor on my other friend's Droid X. I'm noticing for a not insignificant number of devices specific native IOCTL calls seem to be required. Is this the case for the Galaxy Nexus? How do I find a reference to program it? I am doing the standard FLASH_MODE_TORCH/"flash-mode"="torch", startPreview() chain. Kind of disappointing