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2015-04-18 , 15:16
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Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
that sounds scary
does it do hardware damage ?
Not entirely impossible but pretty unlikely. I can't tell for sure since I never looked into fcam to investigate what exactly it does. In theory bogus noise on I2C bus *can* do hw damage.
`man ic2detect`
WARNING
This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse!
for some chips "data loss" == damage. Also there's a known hw bug in N900 LP5523 circuitry that could result in CPU damage when enabling an illegal config of the chips, however unlikely it may be to do this by accident with noise on I2C.
Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
if i dont enable the blink led feature would it be safe ? considering fcam is the one i use normally though it dosent do flash and i have taught myself weird workarounds for that
IIRC disabling that indicator light (lower left besides the LCD display) blinking feature in fcam should fix the issue. Sorry again I can't tell for sure but it sounds plausible.

HTH
/j
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