When the phone was otherwise in a working condition.
I never had this happen to me I guess this is because I do research and take precaution on various technology.
I think the key to this would be to use the flash light less frequently and lesser times.
If you have no reason to leave the flashlight on for hours, don’t. Don’t flash it on and off again rapidly, the worse thing you can do to an led life cycle, you’l likely blow out the light which I know people to do carelessly before with light switches. Really, for the life cycle you should only use it if you need to and find any means to not have to use it and the life cycle would be more unlimited rather then limited. (although still limited technically)
If phone manufacturers cheap out, they can fail to handle the heat from continued LED use (e.g. as a flashlight) which can cause premature failure
Now I’m curious as well. I use it often, but not for that long each time. I know it gets hot after a while and it drains the battery.
How long is it supposed to last?
LEDs should last for tens of thousands of hours. There may have been a manufacturing defect in OP’s case.
This isn’t necessarily true. LEDs are capable of running for years, but not all LEDs are designed this way or are operated this way. An LED in a given application can die quicker if:
- the LED manufacturer cheaps out
- the phone manufacturer runs the LED at higher current for more brightness
- the phone is poorly designed, allowing the LED to heat up
- the phone is exposed to significant heat and/or the LED is covered while used for a long enough duration
Fail as in did not provide enough light to walk through the woods, then yes. I have flashlight in my EDC.
Why is it whenever I see someone say they have an EDC, I imagine fingerless gloves?
No, at least not independently of other hardware failures.
no but I have often thought that it would be a good thing if it did because I hate light
I hope you find peace in darkness one day, nutsack.
No but I did have a flashlight fail me while I was exploring a long abandoned power plant and in a dark room with evidence that someone may have been living in the facility. I only shit my pants a little
No
Yes. Samsung S6 edge I think? Before flashlight was an intentional functionality. I had an app or a ROM that gave me a flashlight button but if I used it too long it would stop working for a while. It would come back eventually but made me nervous so I avoided using it for more than a few seconds.
If you mean the screen, then yes.
I do not! I’ve edited the title to reduce ambiguity :)
We take those little workers for granted.
I do not take them for granted. everything I use, I use sparingly because I know what it’s like when things burn out & die & need to be replaced which is always an infuriating inconvenience, so to prevent that from ever happening, everything I use, I use exactly as long as I need to and then I turn it off.
when things burn out & die & need to be replaced
That statement just described me in a nutshell.
The LED should be expected to outlast the rest of the phone by a large margin. That said, given enough units out there, it’s statistically inevitable to get a couple with some issue that die earlier.
I once got a „refurbished“ phone from a third party shop where it was not working. But I guess it was a defect from the refurbishment itself. They repaired it though.
Other than that, no. And I don’t think the LED would fail, maybe the plug would rattle loose.
