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yahyatinani / flashy-alarm

Use your smartphone's flashlight to wake up in the morning.
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Flashlight flashes after deinstallation #38

Closed uli-on closed 1 year ago

uli-on commented 1 year ago

After deinstalling Flashy Alarm, my flashlight - activated via tile - now flashes every n seconds. Tried to reinstall, turn the effect off, and deinstall: no effect, even after system reboot. Help!!

yahyatinani commented 1 year ago

Hi, I'm using this app for a very long time now never had such issue. Can you explain step by step how to reproduce this behavior? Meanwhile, try to install the app again, go to "Flash patterns" page and pick Blink or Signal, tap to customize the speed, press Test, then press stop. Go to the app info from Android Settings in your phone, then force stop it. Hope this solves the issue!

yahyatinani commented 1 year ago

@uli-on also please make sure to share if you solved the issue.

uli-on commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the depicted steps didn't help. And sadly, no, I don't remember exact steps that caused it. I only remember having customised flash speeds in both flashing modes, but don't remember whether I had any setting and/or the listener service activated or not when I deinstalled the app.

Just in case it might ring some bells with you: the light flashes around twice a second.

yahyatinani commented 1 year ago

@uli-on That's unfortunate. What is you Android version? Try this, activate "Developer options" on your phone and go to "Running services" and see if the app's service is there? I managed to reproduce almost similar behavior by:

  1. Opening the flashlight pattern test vie the app.
  2. Going to "Running services" from Developer options and killing the service, but the torch kept flashing.
  3. Uninstalling the app turned it off!

If that didn't work. Maybe "Factory reset" from Settings after backing up your data? If you can provide more info since it's hard to just guess what the bug might be.

uli-on commented 1 year ago

Yesss!! That nailed it! Thank you very much!

The only thing I needed to do that you didn't mention was turning on the listener service.

My Android version is a stock v10 coming with Fairphone 3. If you'd like to know further details just ask.

Thanks again!

yahyatinani commented 1 year ago

Hi @uli-on, you're welcome and I'm very glad that helped and fixed your phone. And yes I would love to know more details about what exactly nailed it in my solution so I can enhance the app. Thanks.

uli-on commented 1 year ago

The difference was leaving the test running plus stopping the service.

But meanwhile I had it fixed twice and broken another two times. While Flashy Alarm is not being installed. Currently it's flickering again. Drat!