Flash Light App for the PSVita released by Arkanite
It’s happened to almost every smart device user…. Sometimes, you simply need to use your phone/game console as a torch to see in the dark. Thanks to developer ‘Arkanite’, who’s brought us the PSP homebrew browser and some other things, you can now use your Vita as a flashlight easily.
What’s the Flash Light app?
As the name suggests, it’s an app that allows you to use your PSVita as a flashlight. The PSVita doesn’t have flash with the camera so obviously you’ll be using the screen. Thanks to the OLED PSVita’s (1k/Phat) screen, you can get some bright light out of it with this app.
This app displays a white screen with brightness maxed out. Your PSVita’s screen won’t dim and the device won’t go into stand-by mode when you’re in this homebrew. To exit, you just need to press the PS button like most other homebrew. A small flaw I found is that you have to reset the brightness yourself after closing the app since it doesn’t return by itself. This application is there to make life easier since it’s much quicker than other methods to use your Vita as a flashlight.
The great white screen you get when using it 😉
How do I get it?
To install it, you need to do the following:
- Download the VPK from the link below. It’s an unsafe VPK so get it from a trusted source or compile it yourself
- Copy it to your Vita via FTP/USB
- Install via VitaShell
- Profit!
Have fun being a little lazy thanks to this little tweak 🙂 If you have any issues, report them to Arkanite on GitHub. Unsafe permissions are needed due to the fact that this homebrew changes system parameters such as the brightness level.
Download link + source code: https://github.com/ArkSource/flashlight/releases/tag/v1.0
Aurora, this homebrew does reset the brightness if you use circle to exit. It does NOT when you use the PS button to exit.
Edit: On VHBB it says this in the description.
Just a quick note : if you press the Circle button the app will close and reset your previous brightness settings.
I haven’t found a way (yet) to achieve this when a user swipe-closes the application. If i do i’ll add it in.
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must be from the reddit post request. Thank for developing it anyway
Fk reddit. That place is full of flakes. No thanks.
That well, sony could not have put this great utility, had to come the people of scene, although small pareca is very useful, thanks
fact: my phone costs over $700 and the feature i use the most every single day is the flash as a flashlight alternative.
You can press CIRCLE button to exit normally and it should restore your XBrightness 🙂
Source: Sourcecodw :S
My comment is still waiting approval… What I said was that the hb does reset the brightness if you press circle. Doing so will reset the brightness and exit the application. It doesn’t reset the brightness when closing it normally. And in VHBB it is in the description.