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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?
I'Ve been searching a long time for instructions re the Xperia XA flashlight ever since I turned it on accidentally. Could not find any info other than to install an ap. But have now discovered that if you swipe your home screen diagonally from top right to bottom left you can get flashlight option. Touch the torch to turn on/off.