Motorola Droid

Using Motorola Droid as a Flashlight

Posted by on August 21, 2010 at 3:43 pm

Quite a while back I posted a vague statement about using Motorola Droid’s camera flash as a flashlight and that I was able to do it using reflection.  Well, here’s the code I’m using, sorry it took so long to post.  It is actually a snippet from a more complete example I found over on [...]

Using a the LED flash for a flashlight

Posted by on June 1, 2010 at 8:40 pm

This is something that I struggled with for a while until I finally found some code demonstrating how to do it.  The key is that it uses the android.permission.FLASHLIGHT permission along with some reflection to do the magic.  I haven’t got time at the moment, but I’ll post some code later–just wanted to get the [...]

How to do an Android factory reset on the Motorola Droid

Posted by on May 28, 2010 at 8:01 am

If  you use your Motorola Droid for application development, or if you just want to start fresh for some other reason, you will need to know how to do an Android factory reset on your Droid.  Performing an Android factory reset isn’t complicated, but you must follow the correct sequence of events and timing is [...]

Motorola Droid – A Cell Phone Without Contract

Posted by on May 26, 2010 at 7:32 am

Do you have a Motorola Droid that you wish you could use but do not want to pay for a cell phone contract? While at first it may seem that a cell phone without contract is a pretty useless, but these days, cell phones are just small computers that happen to make phone calls and [...]