Ever since I got my Note 3 in October 2013, I have had a problem with the flash on the phone's camera. If I set the flash to trigger for each photo, then when I press the "shutter button", the flash immediately flashes. Then 5 seconds or so later the picture is taken in the dark. It turns out VERY dark. If I set the flash to NOT flash, the same picture will come out considerably lighter, but definitely not as light as it would with a flash. If I set the flash on "Auto", it will almost never flash, but on the rare occasion that it does it will flash first, and then 5 seconds later the picture will be taken. I posted this on a different message board and the other posters suggested that it may be a problem with the camera app. They suggested I download a different camera app to see if that fixed the problem. I downloaded 2 different camera apps, and both of them work exactly the same as the originally installed camera app. So it's not the app, it's the phone. Any ideas?