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Hi, I had just opened Firefox on my Z1 Compact and entered Youtube when suddenly the back torchlight turned on by itself - I don't know if I accidentally touched something but I doubt I did as there doesn't seem to be any hotkey for turning the torchlight on outside of the camera, which by the way wasn't open when this occured. I was unable to turn the torchlight off, opening the camera app resulted in a "Camera not available" message, and clearing the cache/data of the camera app didn't help either. I had to restart my phone for the light to turn off. I haven't been able to replicate this since.
Any idea what happened here? I must mention that I managed to drop my phone the other day (after having owned it for only a day or so...), but it didn't fall far and the drop wasn't very hard either, and I didn't notice any visible damage on the exterior nor any other oddities so far apart from this torchlight thing. Also this is my first smartphone, is it normal that built-in apps and features misbehave like this sometimes, even when the unit is so new?
This kind of behaviour is not normal,are you sure that a popup ad did not appear and you tapped on it?If it has not occured again,it might have been a simple glitch.
Yes I'm sure I didn't click on anything unusual, even if I did I fail to see how clicking on an ad would "hijack" part of my phone, maybe if it was on some suspicious website, but not Youtube.
Then I do not think you should worry about it,Android has its little glitches.But do be careful from now on,if you see any problems report here.
Okay thanks. Maybe I'm just paranoid I messed up my new phone already due to dropping it. On another note, there should really be a built-in feature to turn on the torchlight anytime...
You should have an app called torch(or you can find one on google play).
Alright, should really be built-in though. Still curious about what the **bleep** happened...
You could ask xperia care about this,see what you get:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/
I think I found out what caused this... the app "Clean Master" I had installed (to clean the cache and free up RAM and whatnot) apparently also had a torch function, which was available from the quick-menu thing that you swipe down from the top (don't know the proper term for it), which I didn't even notice before now. I guess as I still hadn't become completely familiar with the use of a touch screen, I accidentally swiped the menu down and hit the torch function when I tried to open Youtube or something. Activating the torch this way even results in the same "not available" message when trying to open the camera.
Task killers interfere a lot with the phone,making trouble.