How to use a Nokia 9300i as a Torch at Night time
or at dark places with DiscoLight
I do own a
Nokia Communicator 9300i for some time I've been
looking for a while for an application for my mobile phone enabling
me to transform the normal
Nokia 9300i phone capabilities
into a
torch (flash light)
Many telephones come with an embedded software or hardware light
led, that gives the option for the phone user to use his / her
phone as a torch in the dark.
However with Nokia 9300i by default there is no such led to be able
to emit bright light neither through a feature integrated with the
mobile's hardware nor through it's embedded pre-installed
software.
The phones torch I see as a very essential and handy feature for
every mobile phone, so I have to say that it was rather strange why
the flash light wasn't decided to be made an integral part of the
Nokia 9300i Communicator
It took me a while until I finally found an application able to
show a brigh light on my phone Nokia 9300i internal screen and
therefore allow the mobile to be used as a torch in the dark.
Anyhow the effort of spending an hour of Googling around was
awarding :)
The software that allowed my Nokia 9300i to have the
Torch
capabilities is called
DiscoLight / (Disco Light)
Here is a
download
link to discolight I've found online
I also made a
mirror of the
discolight app that can be downloaded here
Discolight is actually not actually planned to operate as a Torch
for the Nokia 9300i, it is just a program able to either fill your
mobile phone screen with a colors you might choose from (e.g. white
light, flash sequence, auto color, standard flash) or do a sequence
of colors (like in the discoteques I guess that's where the name of
the application comes from).
To use the DiscoLight program as a torch, right after the program
is launched
press the 5 key on your Nokia communicator
keyboard.
Another very simple program that is able to transform your Nokia
Business class phone to a Torch is
FlashLight
Both
DiscoLight and
FlashLight are written in Java
and works perfectly fine with the 9300i mobile.
The only disadvantage about using my Nokia 9300i as a torch is my
Nokia communicator inside panel has to be opened, e.g. I had to
walk with the phone cover opened to use the torch.
Anyways still I find this feature very handy for me, hopefully it
will be of an use to somebody else who is looking for the same
functionality on his mobile.