yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxMedia:
I think just about 3MB image is enough. as images of IP4S, average about 3MB but very detailed and smooth.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
Ya, i tried vignette app on market(full version) and it gave minimum 4 MB pic in 8Mpix mode with superfine setting

But its UI is very complex and slow, thats why i don't recommend it...

What always happens with me with vignette is-As soon as i adjust the settings, the object changes its position and the shot goes in vain
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
I know what you are saying, but try the vignette app and shoot 1 steady object from camera app and vignette app

Both will give same results on device, but as you will transfer them on pc, you can easily spot the difference
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Marcell96:
I just made 2 photo's

(one with stock app and one with vignette)

vignette is really slow by the way...

Vignette: 5,78MB

Stock: 1,14

but i really cant see any diffrence on my pc,

why would someone want a picture that's 4 times bigger...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] taaviu:
Try "HDR Camera Pro" :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
In my opinion Camera360 takes slightly better pictures than the stock cam (with quality set to 90%, not 100% since that forces the same compression as the stock app).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
No bro zoom the pic to 100% and see the noise level and sharpness in both
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
As this will only work for rooted phones(as you will need something like RootExlorer to change the file), you probably will have some knowledge in modding your phone, so here is a little How-To to do it yourself(tested;)):

You need apktool, SignApk, zipalign (search via forum).

- Copy system/app/SemcCameraUI.apk to your pc

- Copy system/framework/SemcGenericUxpRes.apk to your pc

- Copy system/framework/framework-res.apk to your pc

- apktool if framework-res.apk

- apktool if SemcGenericUxpRes.apk

- apktool d SemcCameraUI.apk

- find file "CameraController.smali" in extraced folder "SemcCameraUI\smali\com\sonyericsson\android\camera"

- insert these two lines at line 994 (next line after "setRotation")

const/16 v1, 0x64
invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, Landroid/hardware/Camera$Parameters;->setJpegQuality(I)V

- apktool b SemcCameraUI

- java -jar SignApk.jar certificate.pem key.pk8 <your new SemcCameraUI.apk> signed-SemcCameraUI.apk

- zipalign -v 4 signed-SemcCameraUI.apk signed-aligned-SemcCameraUI.apk

- copy the new apk to your phone (sdcard!) and name it SemcCameraUI.apk

- backup (copy) system/app/SemcCameraUI.apk to sdcard (somwhere)

- using f.e. root explorer mount system as r/w

- copy new apk to system/app (overwriting the old one)

- change file permissions (use the same ones as the other files in system/app, user needs r/w)

- reboot (not always necessary)

- find the camera icon and enjoy

Pictures are now using JPegQuality 100% resulting in approx. triple image size (from 800KB to 2.4MB in my test image). I'am seeing a slightly increase in picture quality (less artifacts), but don't expect to much (for better results you would probably have to mod the camera driver)...

As you know have a blueprint, you can do it for other FW-versions yourself:eek:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
Could you supply some samples? I'd just like to see whether the capturing of fine detail has improved a bit.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] taaviu:
But if we already tweaking, can we port 2.3.4 camera apk to 2.3.3.

I asking because i dont want use 2.3.4...but i want use video recording Zoom

Cheers!

Taavi
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
I will up some shots when i am back at home.

Regarding backporting:

1. Have you tried running the 2.3.4 apk on 2.3.3?

2. I have not tried it, but may be you can just switch framework libs to 2.3.3 just before doing the "apktool b".

Regards,

Frank
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] taaviu:
Im already tryed....only force close.

Old camera im remove via adb and new pushed via adb...permussions set right and only force close :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Regarding quality here are some infos from jpegsnoop:

Original apk:

Filesize: [832205] Bytes
Approx quality factor = 86.93 (scaling=26.13 variance=1.22)
Compression stats:
Compression Ratio: 29.09:1
Bits per pixel: 0.83:1

Modded 100% apk:

Filesize: [2360386] Bytes
Approx quality factor = 96.95 (scaling=6.11 variance=1.09)
Compression stats:
Compression Ratio: 10.19:1
Bits per pixel: 2.36:1

BUT, the real problem in both files is this:

Chroma subsampling: 2x2

This means the native driver is using 2x2 chroma subsampling (regardless of compression level). I am not sure if it is possible to change this to 2x1 (like K800i or most digicams use). If it is possible it has to be done on driver level (though i tend to believe this is some hardware limitation).

Background: www#.#impulseadventure#.#com/photo/chroma-subsampling.html and www#.#impulseadventure#.#com/photo/jpeg-quality.html

Example pics to follow when i am back at home....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
Hi frank,

As you said that 3 apk files, so i hope you can post them here so that people can just copy and paste them into /system/app and /system/framework
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolutiontheory:
Anybody did an unroot and claimed warranty?

I wanted to make sure I can revert back and claim warranty if situation arrises in future..

Going to flash tomorrow!

Thank you all in advance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freemini:
Unroot and use a USB jig to reset the counter and you should be fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooza:
Yeah mate.Was stupid enough not to back-up my efs folder and lost my IMEI.Wiped completely.Flashed back to stock used a jig and said kies crashed during an update and they fixed it under warranty.:D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolutiontheory:
Thank you for the reply..

What is the efs folder? Have never heard of it? Installing custom roms screws up IMEI?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Henrywcy81:
if u are using 2.3.5(KI3), u need to flash the older version of bootloader via odin otherwise u cannot use the JIG to reset counts.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
It may damage EFS folder /IMEI

EFS found under the search button .

Its all on the SGS2 stickied Guide .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolutiontheory:
Thank you.. Did a thorough search in forum and found the post regarding efs.. Thank you..

I was searching in android development section for this information all the while. Just now I found all the needed information in the general section.. I now very clear on the general facts
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c0diac:
in croatia there is 90% chance that they will not look for rooting or everithingy that is done with software :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooza:
Gotta back that file up mate.Dont be a clown like me:D.I had flashed that many times that i thought i was bullet proof.But then that bullet gave it to me from behind:eek:.Now i wear bullet proof nappies:D.Ive got efs back-up folders all over the place just incase.A copy/paste one(root explorer),efs.zip and efs.tar.gz(root explorer) in my phone and also on my PC in drop box.Just tryin to get terminal emulator to work so i can have RAW and im all covered:)
[Epic 4G General] epic_image:
wrong section
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hayabusa1300cc:
logcats are scary lol.

I see the 'phonesky' checkin thing as from the market 3.2.0 that floated here is the only thing I seen it from. even though I deleted the vending.apk it was still there.

So I think something fishy there.

Iqagent, I see that there too, I installed the files for the Ciq removal thanks K0nane!

I have no experience with these logs but just looks like information on my phone is being sent to servers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] k0nane:
What you see is "no implementation found" - meaning something might want it, but can't get at it, because it's gone. ;)

EDIT: For future reference, don't bother with screenshots. Hook up to your PC in USB debug mode, do 'adb logcat > out.txt', and copy the contents of out.txt to pastie.org and link it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hayabusa1300cc:
haha thanks =]

crazy something wanted my info lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] svetius:
Warning: Only install ROMs contained within this forum on an AT&T Galaxy S II. Failure to do so might result in a bricked device. :rolleyes:

Developers: please spread the word about this within your ROM threads. Thanks :cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] svetius:
Warning: Only install ROMs contained within this forum on an T-Mobile Galaxy S II. Failure to do so might result in a bricked device. :rolleyes:

Developers: please spread the word about this within your ROM threads. Thanks :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
I have an AT&T Galaxy S II "grandfathered in", meaning I get Unlimited Data for $30 per month.

I'm looking for a way to tether the HSPA+ connection to my iPad and MacBook. I use to do this on my iPhone 4 via PDANet. I can recall PDANet having an option which "stealth's" the connection, making it seem as traffic is going through the phone instead of another device instead. This way, you can get past AT&T's stupid restrictions and use your devices data plan to tether to other devices. I use to use about 30GB-50GB of 3G Data per month tethering and never had any problems!

I downloaded PDANet through the Market, but cannot find any "stealth" setting, neither can I find a way to tether wirelesses.

To sum this up: I'm looking for a way to tether my Galaxy S II's wireless connection wirelessly (making a wireless hotspot and having other devices connect to it). I want to do this while bypassing AT&T extra overpriced tethering fees; using my unlimited data plan instead.

Note: I can easily root my device. Actually, I'm about to now! (Booting Windows 8 rig)

Thank you for the help! XDA FTW!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] foxbat121:
Search is your friend. There have been million threads about this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BarryH_GEG:
AT&T analyses the data patterns of what's being transmitted to determine whether someone's tethering. I have no idea how accurate it is but my guess is if you're a high data user you'll probably get flagged.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
That's probably one contributing factor - their detection methods probably consume enough resources that they're not enabled in most cases until something flags you for investigation.

However I do know of at least one light tetherer (approx. 1GB usage) that apparently got nailed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
Just an update: I found out about Barnacle Wifi Tether, which seems to be my best bet. Two problems:

1. I'm not rooted (SuperOneClick is hanging while trying to root, but I do have a new kernel running). SuperOneClick hangs on "waiting for device". USB Debugging is checked in my settings and I have tried unplugging the device, turning off USB debugging, turning USB Debugging back on, then plugging the device back in. NO GO. Does anybody happen to know what my problem could be? I'm running the program as Admin on Windows 8 x64; running on a good rig.

2. "This item is not available on your carrier." SMD, AT&T. I'm sure there is a way around this - by downloading the APK elsewhere, perhaps? Any two cents on this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hotleadsingerguy:
Google has a Tether app. Does everything for you.

No, I don't have the link. No, I won't search for it. Why? Because people like you that use 30-50GB a month are the reason AT&T started cracking down on tethering. It's thanks to you that tethering plans are so expensive and why they keep trying to nail people that tether. I rarely tether but I use my phone pretty heavily and I still very rarely break 3GB a month. 30-50GB is stupidly excessive. Hope they backcharge you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
+1 on this ^^^

I never tether and use 6-8 GB a month using Pandora 5+ hours a day.

In the captivate forum someone claimed it was tracked down to the browser user agent. If you use IE they look for that browser agent. There was also someone that used the IE user agent data in the android browser to force desktop view and got a warning to stop tethering even though they never had. That might explain why you never got noticed with your iPhone, if you used safari on your Mac.

I don't think we'll ever know for sure how att sniffs it out, I bet they keep it under tight wraps.

Sent from my SGS II
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
The User Agent on iPhone's Safari and Mac's Safari are different; but AT&T may just be stupid enough to get them mixed up :p

Not to mention, I use a desktop user agent on my Galaxy S II sometimes. Hmm. Makes you think.

User agents can EASILY be changed, though I can't find an option for Dolphin HD to change it...Weird.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
Google's tethering App automatically activates AT&T's tethering data plan as far as I know. I went to activate it once and it said "Waiting for Activation" or something of that sort. I canceled it, though.

I don't use 30-50GB per month; that was only once and was due to my cousins watching porn and torrenting 24/7. It was actually accidental, I never knew they were using so much data until I checked my data usage one day at school to see how much I had used.

I use 4GB per month; max. Not to mention, I mainly tether to my iPad only most of the time. MacBook just isn't *that* portable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] foxbat121:
Google Tethering in this forum instead !

Answers and solutions are already there. No, you don't need another app. Yes, you have to root your phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] link12245:
Honestly, what a dbag. Get out of here with your 30-50gb/mth, thanks for making the rest of us suffer because you can't afford a land line.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
Finally got my device rooted. It was a driver issue, damn Samsung. Somehow the PDANet installer automatically installed working drivers for me.

I installed Barncale Wifi tether from their website and hooked up my MacBook and iPad. Pretty decent speeds, but since I live out in the country (around trees and such), I won't get above 3G speeds. In my town I get about 6mbit, though.

The time I hit 30GB+ of usage was a LONG time ago. If I were to hit that again, then I'd be throttled at about 10GB. You aren't suffering much.

Oh, and I do have a land line. It just sucks (4mbit). That's the highest I can get where I live.

Not to mention, I can't take a land line with me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] lordstrife:
Dude just ignore them they are clearly the kind of people who think you should use the amount of data ATT thinks you should!

I on the other hand pay for unlimted so i use as much as i can and don't care what others think.

Definitions of unlimited (adj)

un·lim·it·ed [ un límmitəd ]

not restricted: without limits, restrictions, or controls

infinite: lacking or appearing to lack a boundary or end

complete or total: not subject to qualification or exception

Synonyms: limitless, infinite, unrestricted, unrestrained, boundless, unconstrained, on tap, indefinite, ad nauseam, bottomless
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
+1 and I have never tethered. I was FORCED to a unlimited plan many many hears ago with a Motorola Q9h I think it was called, upgraded to a cappy grandfathered in, and now on the SGS2. So like it says I have UNLIMITED and that is exactly how it should be, directly taken from your example from a dictionary. I have ALWAYS used dolphin HD with it set to desktop and so far I have never received a warning text from them. Maybe lucky, maybe will in time, nut I WILL argue my point with them about it if/when it does come up. I understand that those who use a lot of bandwidth slow it for others but we shouldn't be able to gripe about it since most HAD TO be forced onto the unlimited plan at some point when att made us. So don't worry about others that cry about it, they GET what they pay for as do us with the UNLIMITED plan. It is just their tough luck they didn't get it when they could have.

Brought to you by my KICKASS CM7 AT&T SGS2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kinubic:
Flashing a custom rom and using the mobile tether ive never had a problem. Well.last september i used about 5gb tethering my touchpad and i thought that was a lot lol~ havnt flashed a custom rom on my sgs2 so cant test lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
You paid for unlimited WITHOUT tethering.

Tether abusers caused AT&T to kill the unlimited plans for those who actually use our devices in a reasonable fashion, and caused AT&T to institute the advanced tethering detection mechanisms they have in place now.

As a result, those who do tether responsibly are still at risk of getting nailed because of those that didn't.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] omgabunny:
Running cognition rom I can use the native tether and no probs here
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
What killed the unlimited data plan is not directly connected to tethering. It's the fact that AT&T was unable to handle the iPhone on their network alone.

Anyways, the new plans are making them MUCH more money. For one, people can now afford a smartphone as it's only $15/month more instead of $30/month more. This has caused many of my friends to get a smartphone, upgrading from their dumbphones.

Second, users who want a lot of data will have to pay more and more.

Third, most users didn't even go over 2GB of usage.

Verzion did the exact same thing, and I do believe Sprint is too follow. Sprint's network is slow enough already.

Don't go blaming people who tethered the reason behind no unlimited plan. Blame AT&T, the greedy bastards who just wanted to make more $$$. It's not our fault, sir.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Urge4Vert:
Detection

So, I've had AT&T for quite some time and enjoyed the 'unlimited' plan for equally as long. I had a Nokia N900 and I was able to tether/share and pretty much what-ever I want. Only problem was I never got 3G speeds on it.

About a year ago I was messing with a friends Android. I slapped my SIM in the phone, rebooted, played around some and then took my SIM out and gave it back to him. About an hour later on my phone I get this text message 'You've been switched to the 2GB Smart phone plan'. WTF?!?! So I call up AT&T support and they explain why it was switched and give me back my unlimited account (once I promised them that my friends phone wouldn't show up with my SIM in it again)

This brings me to last week. I see the S2 and decide that its the new phone I want. I call up and find out under no uncertain terms that my 'unlimited' plan will be taken from me the second I upgrade to any sort of smart phone. My only option is to leave AT&T and they are fine with that.

So then I think, I'll just buy another phone and be sneaky. Just to test I drop my SIM into my blackjack II I have laying around. Check my AT&T account about an hour later and find that sure enough, I've now been switched to the Smartphone plan again. No text message, no notification, nothing. No back out options, zip, nada, zilch.

In the end I gave up. It seems almost pointless to try and play games since I'm on their network which they run and control. Sure I'm quite sad about losing my unlimited plan and would do just about anything to get it back. I even considered leaving but everyone else's 'unlimited' plans aren't unlimited once you read the small print. I'm not a huge data user, but I do tend to go a little beyond the 4GB limit since I like to stream pandora and there are times when I'll need to download an iso image for someone's computer that I'm working on remotely somewhere and can't get online. Those options are now all gone for me.

If anyone has any suggestions I've only had my phone for a few days. If I knew I could call up AT&T and get my unlimited plan back with my S2 I'd do it. But each rep I talked to on the phone said that the 'unlimited' code that I had was no longer in the system and there was nothing they could do for me (of course). How everyone else is getting away with this or holding on to their unlimited plans I've no idea.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] akira02rex:
Blah that's BS. We all know why they got rid of unlimited plans and created tethering plans... MONEY. Cash is king and we are pawns for them to make money off of. They could care less how much data we use. What they care about is a way to score some cash for what we use the data for. Give it time, unlimited will be back to compete for dominance over a traditional land line.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
When I upgraded to my Galaxy S II, I was able to keep my Unlimited Data Plan. Weird.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mkrm444:
I was also able to keep my Unlimited plan when I upgraded to Galaxy S2 from iPhone 3G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Same for when I bought my Infuse. (My GSII was an outright off-contract purchase)

The general theme seems to be:

1) Never go to mall kiosk-style vendors

2) Phone call center reps are stupid and/or intentionally provide poor customer service

3) Corporate-owned retail stores are the safest bet for not having screwups in terms of losing your unlimited data. For the guy that lost his unlimited, a rep in a corporate retail store might be able to help you. Not sure - it's a lot harder to get it back when you lose it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] foxbat121:
Not weired at all. He probably has some old style non-smartphone data plan or $20/m data plan which are not possible to be grandfathered in.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Colton127:
My father pays for my bill. He knows the guys and gals down at the AT&T store where we live; so he can usually get discounts, better deals, his phone replaced, etc. Very helpful!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
Was your old plan one of those dumbphone plans? When I had a Nokia flip phone I bought a smartphone off contract. I added the only data I could through the website, $15 a month for unlimited. I added it before using the phone because I didn't want to be charged for pay-per-use. It only showed me plans that were compatible with the flip phone. After using it like that for about a year I got an iPhone 3G. I had no idea the one I had wasn't for smartphones, it had worked for my HTC 8525 running WinMo 6. I got full 3G speed, and everything. The att store employee explained it never should have worked, and that att was, at the time, working on getting their system to solve that on its own.

I don't know what kind of phone that Nokia you mentioned was, but it sounds like your plan wasn't a "smartphone" plan. How much was it per month?

I was able to keep my $30 unlimited data when I upgraded to a Pre, returned it for an Aria, then Captivate, then last month when I got my Thrill, and finally SGS II. But I always went to the att store for the upgrade. As others mentioned I was told there that 3rd party sellers get kick backs on the lines, and data plans, so there is sometimes 2 ETFs, one for the line, another for the data plan, all on top of the one from att. Most people here have said if you call and escalate they will put back the $30 "smartphone" plan, but if it wasn't a plan meant for smartphones you may not be able to get it put on a smartphone.

Sent from my SGS II
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ilordvader:
Hi

I have unlimited plan too now

will I loose it if i get a Samsung Galaxy S2 ?

will they be giving me a new sim for the 4g speed ?

will i legally be able to Tether cos i have unlimited plan ?

Thanks