I am using the Moments Button on the Fairphone 6 for my flashlight, but it doesn’t work when the phone is sleeping.
If I switch the moments button when the screen is off, then I also have to wake the screen with the unlock button before it works. Can this be changed?
It’s courios. If screen ist locked I have to put switch down then up then the light goes on and down the light goes off. If screen is unlocked the way is vice versa.
Oddly enough, I can enable the flashlight with the switch without issue while the screen is off. So I guess it CAN be changed, but I have no idea what might be influencing things.
I’m using the Android version, perhaps you’re using the /e/OS version?
I am using the Android version as well.
Sometimes it does work after I’ve awaken the screen once. So if the phone has been sleeping for a while, then it doesn’t work and I have to wake the screen first.
I think the battery optimisation is killing it the flashlight mode for the button
I haven’t noticed a reversing switch but that could be, I often have to try a couple times. Might explain it 
I use the Android version with “Smart Launcher”.
Switch down enables flash light, switch up shuts flashlight down, doesn’t matter whether locked or unlocked.
It always works for me too, even with screen locked for a long time.
I have the exact same issue, very annoying.
I have to wait some seconds before it turns on with the screen locked. If I wake the screen after i pushed the switch down it goes on immediately, but then the switch is meaningless this way.
Also if i don’t wake the screen, after the light has gone on and i push the switch back up it takes a few seconds for the light to turn back off.
Phone’s a bad joke 
Not my experience at all.
Don’t generalize.
Btw I noticed that this improved a lot with the last update. Can you also confirm?
It works for me with locked screen.
Here’s the exact functionality on my FP6:
1st try: Locked screen, button up:
2nd try: Locked screen button up:
3rd try; Goto 1st try. 
I I believe that in lock screen mode, the switch position isn’t being checked correctly and is being evaluated purely randomly.
The function works fine with the screen unlocked.
Are you on the newest Update (15.162)? For me everything works like exptected.
Flashlight turns on after <0.5s when I put the button down and goes off again if I put the button up.
Yes, the situation with the last update is better and it works for me randomly.
Same issue new FP6 with latest android. The switch works very inconsistantly when in lockscreen or unlocked. May have to toggle multiple times or it is reversed.
I’m on the newest update and it is still pretty much unusable.
When the screen is locked for over 30 seconds, the switch takes something like 10 seconds to react. Except if you quickly switch it again, then it reacts instantly but inverted, but with an additional delayed reaction.
Something about this implementation is very wrong and it’s not a technical limitation of android: I previously had a motorola phone and it has a motion activated flashlight which always works instantly.
I’ve also had this problem but finally found a sort of workaround: Enable the always-on display (called “Always show time and info” in settings). As long as that’s on, the switch (and the fingerprint sensor which has also been buggy for me) always work as expected.
I’ve reported this to support but haven’t heard anything about a fix. Just got the 15.176.0 update today so we’ll see if anything improves with that. Edit: I just tried after the update and the bug is still there.
Same issue here. Unusable feature on my phone : the switch is unresponsive unless there is some activity in the background (audio/download).
Don’t generalize. It hasn’t failed me once.