yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nonpaq:
No problem on my TF with WiFi when HDMI connected. I watch Netflix all the time while connected to TV via HDMI cable. I have a B60 model on 3.2.1 .
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudbaseandbeyond:
Thanks nonpaq, seems like I need to know more about the level of support with the cable etc. Good to know it's not a solid problem.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izbr1234:
Problem with hdmi and wifi

hello,

i have same isuue when hdmi connected.... wifi go away, not all the time, but its happen specially when whatch youtube movies .....
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomac01:
I have the same problem. I Use the revolver-rom (3.7).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lobo07:
I had the same problem , and i had change the canal of the wifi , and all ok
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlac666:
I'm on the stock ROM and have the same issue on 3.2.1. Seems to be intermittent - Works some of the time. I have noticed that the Wi-Fi signal always looks strong but web pages won't load either. Other posts seem to suggest that you need a 1.3 HDMI cable. I have a 1.3a (whatever that means)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hitekguruaz:
Hdmi disables wifi

Same here. Have a Tf101. Updated to ICS two weeks ago. A week ago i bought new headphones noticed the left earphone not working. Tested with other headseats same issue. Did a factory reset, same issue. This week whenever i plug in the HDMI the internet connection slows to unusable.

I think its all hardware related. Time to send it back to the manufacturer and pick up that IPAD 2 I was offered today.:(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadow-Nexus:
Hey does anyone know another way to access facebook?

because since I'm using my school's wifi network it has a bunch of blocked urls including facebook

So can anyone tell me an alternative way to access facebook?

BTW the app doesn't work either

Please help!

Stewie just said that!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
you can turn on text message alerts and post statuses/pictures via text.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT4Z1N4TRx:
Try SEESMIC app, pretty good

Sent from my Desire Z running @ 2GHZ
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krisdee:
I have just instaled new digitizer from Ebay

item nr. 280711354855

Now touchscreen doesnt work on the bottom area.

Looks like it only registering touches on 800:480 pixels (not 854:480)

Any idea if this can be fix, calib. etc?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SantinoInc:
Hey guys. I actually don't even have this phone yet but will be getting it shortly. I definitely want to root it (I have a rooted EVO 4G and Xoom tablet) I'm a little confused though about the different methods I'm seeing.

My goal is to obtain a fully rooted phone w/ stock everything. What is the best method to do this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Smoked600:
ODIN this and you will get CWM, root, Ive found the LOStkernel to be a lot better than stock.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1296348
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
Sorry for the noob question but when I watch Qbking's video on this kernel he says you need to be rooted and have CWM installed to flash the kernel. But what you're saying is this kernel can provide root, add CWM and flash the kernel if you use Odin to do it? If so, I'm right in saying I'd want to download the TAR file rather than the ZIP? For root, would I need to flash SuperUser via CWM or is it built into the kernel?

I've been thinking about jumping into root soon to try out the Starburst ROM and I've evaluating the cleanest way to gain Root + CWM. I was thinking about using Bubby's method, but this seems solid too if my assumptions above are correct. This would be my first Android root by the way so I'm being patient and extra careful.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revengesrage:
I just got this phone recently and rooted it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1268548

thats a really good place to start. but to be honest every time you use odin and you flash a kernal in odin you'll get an annoying Yellow triangle that pops up in the beggining. So Your best bet is to flash to a kernal to gain root then flash the kernal from the unroot tutorial as if your unrooting the phone it wont remove superuser.apk automatically, and it will remove the yellow triangle, then from that point just use either cwm or the zimage flasher from adb to do it.

My recommended steps are

this one first for gaining root

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExN-Y2pfxA

then this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySskTt-S-cM

Follow links in youtube description.

after you do that, don't use odin anymore just use cwm and that adb script for changing kernals and you'll never get that annoying triangle again.

Also be aware that everytime you flash with odin the phones bootloader records that you flashed it, meaning even if you take it back to stock if sprint wants to look at it for warranty purposes they can still see that you did something to it. which means that youll need a $2 jig to wipe that count which I don't even know where that is.

If you can use a temp root thats used for 2.3 gingerbread on other devices then use second link in youtube to avoid using odin, I kinda wished I knew before because then I would have done some more experimenting with the phone. so annoying, I have control of this device and at the same time not which really sucks!

Edit BTW: Why use the starburst rom it doesnt really look that snazy to me for me to consider jumping to it the stock one works great why not just flash a deodex stock one and flash a theme to it, theres some really sick themes in the theme section of xda check it out! XD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Njnear:
I had some wake lag (about 2 second delay between pressing the power button and screen turning on) with the LoStKernel, so I've been running this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1284511

It's been working well for me so far. You'll have to get root access first, so try out the LoStKernel to gain root access and if you don't like it switch to this.
[XPERIA X10 General] milton.bain:
What will be the best weather forecast(4 or 7days, hourly preferred) app with notification.

I am from india.

Presently using weather and toggle widget.

From X10i+TEAM v3.1 using XDA premium
[XPERIA X10 General] cam3ridge:
I use Fancy Widget. It is the best.
[XPERIA X10 General] xdomx:
Do you really think that this must be in GENERAL section???!!
[XPERIA X10 General] Candy[MAN]:
Palmary weather is great as well. Nice Widgets.
[XPERIA X10 General] alankstiyo:
well can be fancy widget, weather bug, simtab weather (or something like that)

world weather widget
[XPERIA X10 General] pyromatic18:
I use Beweather and it has a really nice slick UI. There's a free and paid version.

Sent from my Xperia X10i with a little Gingerbread on the side.
[XPERIA X10 General] Pawnty:
I agree. I love the 1x4 widget, runs nicely along the left side of my center home screen :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Reserved...

If you like the mod i can do a 2.3.3 version and/or try a 2.3.4 to 2.3.3 backport (but i will need someone for testing as i don't want to change my rom).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tinyXperia:
Nice. I hope to be able to test it tomorrow.

Sent from my Mt15i using Opera Mobile.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sipi1302:
not working on my Neo 2.3.4. say camera not available. I set permissions writhe.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxMedia:
not work on my neo 2.3.4 :(, i have set permissions.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Marcell96:
also not working :(

(the same as MaxMedia)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
I suppose that you need to give a framework's apk and a semccameraUI apk too

Donate to my paypal acc. if I helped you & if u can't, atleast hit the thanx button
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Hmm, thats strange.

Lets verify a few things:

- you have a Neo (not Neo V) on stock 2.3.4 GENERIC (fs WORLD-1-8_4.0.1.A.0.283), rooted

- Camera was not running (task stopped)

- you did replace /system/app/SemcCameraUI.apk

- permissions are rw-r--r--, filesize 1.881.049, owner system, group sdcard_rw

Now, regarding the error:

- Were you able to start the camera app? Is the app not found(old shortcuts will not work) or is the error coming from the app ?

You can try to run(install) the apk after it is installed. I did this accidently a few times so i am not sure if this is neccesarry to get it to work. If the app is not finding the camera(driver) is think something is not correctly initialized.

If it's still not working you might try doing the mod yourself (see blueprint).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] inteks:
here it does not work, too...

btw. isnt 90% or 95% enough ? what is the default ?

i dont need 4mb pics . 1,5mb instead of 0.7mb would be fine ;o)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
You've got an 8 GB card free for that i suppose

Donate to my paypal acc. if I helped you & if u can't, atleast hit the thanx button
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
For the verification step, i did evrything-Verified

Error is- camera not available and 3rd step about reinstalling, I'll do that when I'll be free and then give feedback

Donate to my paypal acc. if I helped you & if u can't, atleast hit the thanx button
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] devrruti:
I totally agree, I'd say go with 90 or even 85, it reduces size a lot and it almost doesn't affect the quality, at least it is what most picture software does in the pc.

We could compare.

I don't know what settings had done Sony, I see to much noise and poor detail in my pictures, but I suspect they could be better.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
It's hard to notice actual visual improvements in your sample pic since even the stock settings took a really good picture. Perhaps try taking a pic of something where the stock app doesn't do as well (something further away than a mostly macro shot) and then take a modded shot and see if it's any better.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] inteks:
if have 32gb card in my phone but i've till now more than 1000 photos

my picturebackup at home with all pics is allready more then 20gb (only pics!!)

pls dont waste space if it doesnt improve quality ;o)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
You mean, leave the house :eek:

Well, as i am interested to see if this really improves anything i will try to do some shots outside using stock, modded and Camera360.

Btw, if anyone has a max quality photo from Camera360, Camera Zoom FX or Vignette taken with the Neo/Arc i would like to run it through JpegSnoop in order to see if these have different chroma subsampling.

Regarding the compression i could easily make versions with different settings(or try to make it configurable, which is a bit tricky only having smali code).

Regarding the installation problem i am not sure where the error is. If anyone would be willing to do the easy blueprint steps on there own(not using the provided apk) this might enlighten me:confused:

EDIT: Please try to wipe the camera settings. This might solve the problem. (Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->All->Camera->Delete Data)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Ok, i just wrote a small test program to see what formats are supported by the driver.

Bad luck: only JPEG is supported (default compression is 85%)

This means in order to get rid of the 2x2 chroma subsampling the driver itself has to be modded (its even possible that the code is in firmware or limited by hardware jpeg compression).

So at the moment the best i can archieve at apk-level is setting the compression level up to 100%.

Btw, does anybody know which are the driver files for the cam?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] inteks:
wiping data does not help.

i tryed to do the mod for myself and got the same error ?!?

btw the codeline was on mine at 999 and not at 994 ..... :confused:

im on 2.3.4 stock
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Chaotic behaviour is difficult to reproduce :rolleyes:

However, just hold on a bit, i am currently deeper in the rabbit hole and trying to mod the camdrive itself (atleast i already figured out places of the quantation and diffie huffman tables and that the driver can either use the dsp chip for hw-jpeg compression or fall back to sw-jpeg compression.) I will have to poke around a bit after i reanimated my phone (got a bootloop by a wrong change to the system files:eek: Well, at least i now can switch to doomkernel while in the process of fixing...)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hdavid1:
Well, if you are playing with the driver, can't you edit night mode? Current exposure time is 1sec, which is short... :) It should be longer, at least 10sec...:D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] nexus2515:
vignette sample

here comes the vignette sample from my neo:cool:View attachment 757862
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] code28h4p:
would you tell me how you did this, i wanna make one for an xperia mini pro

Thanks for advance.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] inteks:
***fixed !!*** system volume was 0 ?!? how can this happen ? i dont have a volumeApp on my phone till now... so i had no chance to fix it without external soft.

i have a wierd problem since i tested the modded camera...

the focus and shutter sounds are near silent i can only hear them with my ear directly on the phone.

i have allready delete the camera data but it does not help :(

then i made a backup with recovery and wipe all data and sound is back ...

then restored the backup and sounds are gone :confused:

does anyone know where else the camera store settings beside the /data/data folder ???

thx

inteks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Rojikaft:
D: after compression, please post before and after xD :D nice job
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Removed (reasons see first post)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] K4L:
I don't really understand the compression thing. If compression is 100%, it means it compresses the image a lot, so you get a smaller file (bad quality)?

If you put compression to like... 0% (if possible, or 10% or a low number like that), would you get much higher quality images (and also bigger files?), or is it the other way around?

edit: What do I need to do in order to get the highest quality pictures as possible? I don't care if the files are 5mb instead of 1, the file size doesn't matter to me :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hdavid1:
There is a the "Camera libraries for the 2011 Xperia™ phones" in Developer World.

With this, can't you change the chroma subsampling? :D

Or the shutter speed... :p

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/w...ralibrariesforthe2011xperiaphones?cc=gb&lc=en
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] edibetta:
raw file

Hi

someone of you knows if it's possible to have from the camera raw file and not jpeg compressed files?

Thanks in advance

Ernesto
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tinyXperia:
Nope, not yet.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] edibetta:
do you think it'll be possible?

Could be very nice to have raw file and to use this good camera as semiprofessional camera from sony!:)

Could be interesting also to modify aperture or speed....but I think these won't possible!:confused:

Thanks

E
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Qwerty123 \m/:
So basically by using this mod i will get better pictures from my Neo v ??

The camera s***s !!! :/ 786kb pictures :/

Download link please :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tinyXperia:
It didn't work.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] stuntdubs:
This is the one issue I have with this phone.

I got this over an iphone for the photos/videos but I really should have researched properly first.

I still believe the camera can be better with a modded driver though.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] csiziktomi:
I think that should be put in the SE Arc drivers. The System/lib and hw_config.sh.

maybe the two devices is perfectly same.

someone here to compare two folders

sorry my bad english (google translate)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] stuntdubs:
Thanks, will try tonight
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hi1922:
good job,thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
RAW is not possible due to heap size limits on android phones (as stated by some google devs). They said they might think about per line RAW-callbacks for the future but it's not on their prio list.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Nope, this is just a zip of the libs already on the phone. To change chroma subsampling the libmmjpeg.so (undocumented jpeg compression lib from qcom) has to be modded(if anyone has Hexrays for ARM they might give it a try:eek:).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] csiziktomi:
where from can be downloaded se arc camera driver? some idea?(google translate forever :) )
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] inteks:
are the arc driver better ???

you can get everything from arc by getting a light modded stock rom from arc section (in recovery format (CWM image) like this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1278758) then search for unyaffs for windows and extract the system.img ....

;o)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] csiziktomi:
Sorry ,i dont know which files a camera drivers and have to which must
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] onyxonia:
how to install

How i install "100% JPeg compressionArrow" in SE NEO?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] adridu59:
Can we steal this from another Xperia ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Akath19:
We could theoretically grab this from an Arc ROM ('cause the Arc is the only other Xperia that has an 8MP sensor)

@inteks: I've read in reviews that the Arc's camera is better than the Neo's, however I think it's a placebo effect since the hardware is the same, I think the only way of truly knowing would be comparing both libmmjpeg.so, but this is WAY beyond what I can currently do, maybe frank_harmann can give it a shot??

Also has anyone tried to use the Arc's libmmjpeg.so on a Neo, I really want to try it but I'm afraid of causing any hardware damages (my phone doesn't have warranty)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frank_harmann:
Onfortunately the Arc has the same crappy compression issues, so using it's version of libmmjpeg would not help at all.

Well, let's hope that this issue will either be fixed with IceCream or we can backport something from the upcoming ArcHD ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] actioman2006:
Real nice work! :eek:

In my opinion the Neo Camera has a quality that leaves much to be desired :(.

When I bought the phone, thought to be a sony would mean a good camera. Unfortunately I was wrong.

And do not understand how it is possible that the engineers did not improve this. They should learn from frank_harmann, to have this desire to improve things.

Basically is the image of Sony Ericsson is impaired ... :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Disharmonic:
Well the issue isn't really the camera but the software for the camera.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] midix:
About heap size: I have read, that only Java VMs have limited heap size (it is mostly about 16MB or 32MB, but depends on the phone manufacturer). Native code can exceed this limit ... but I might be wrong, I just found this info on stackoverflow.com.

I guess, 32MB would be enough to allocate 8 Mp image on the heap:

3264 x 2448 = 7990272 pixels

8 bits (1 byte) per RGB channel => 7990272 * 3 = 23970816 bytes

/ 1048576 => 22.8 MB

If it would be too much to ask 23MB from a Java app, still it would be nice to have raw pixel data available at least from a native C++ code.

The device driver should provide only the basic access to the hardware and some API to get the image, and not do some fancy stuff like 2x2 chroma subsampling or compression stuff :(

Maybe there is also a bit of a fault of the Google devs: why their API has assumed only JPEG pictures form the camera? If they would provide also some function like getRawPixelData(), there would be a greater chance that SE devs would implement such a functionality in their camera drivers as well.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Pät:
I dont really understand what the previous User said :P but Androids default heap size is 24. There is a tool "Vm heap tool" with witch u can change it up to 48.

I rly hope some1 can modify the camera drivers or that Sony integrates it in 4.0...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] adridu59:
No default heap size is 32m.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] midix:
Yes, VM - that most probably is for Android Java (Dalwik) virtual machine, but someone said that form C++ app we should be able to get a heap with maximal available RAM block of the device.

Here is that thread on stackoverflow I mentioned earlier:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5350465/android-heap-size-on-different-phones-and-os-versions
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silasje1:
The Ray has same camera's :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Akath19:
Your calculations are correct, if you want a JPEG, if you want a RAW image you'll have to use 12 or 14 bits per channel, which would probably exceed the max heap size for a Java app.

And yes you're correct, native code doesn't have any heap size restrictions (see here).

According to forums I've read there is a RAW image format available on some phones, however they specifically need to support it, dunno if any SE phone does
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frsp2:
Hello Frank,

Are there any progress on driver hacking?

Could you please contact FreeXperia team members and ask them for requesting some driver details from Sony engineers?

The main problem I see with picture quality is over aggressive noise reduction.

It looks like excessive smart blur and this lead to poorly rendered images.

The fact is 5mpx old iPhone camera produces about the same detail level and much better color balance and overall image perception than latest 8mpx SonyEricsson cam. And the main reason is nonoptimal image processing, not the sensor itself.

http://i.imgur.com/OCM25.jpg xperia neo

http://i.imgur.com/lb9ta.jpg iphone 4 (NOT 4S! 4S leaves no chance for Xperia shots)

http://i.imgur.com/HhcAl.jpg neo

http://i.imgur.com/FLYWe.jpg iphone 4

http://i.imgur.com/zjR6x.jpg neo

http://i.imgur.com/LdxMk.jpg iphone 4

I would be more than happy to turn off noise reduction in driver. There is an excellent software for Windows (http://www.picturecode.com/ and many others) so no need to kill all details right in the camera.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] oxwewe:
The iphone is very god :eek:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frsp2:
oxwewe

Check for 4S photo samples. You'll be impressed even more.

That's pity since I bought Neo and not iPhone.

And I believe it is possible to squeeze out the quality from Xperia sensor.

I can make very similar looking photo to iPhone samples from Neo jpegs, in Photoshop. I did it before. But it is absolutely impossible to get washed out details back.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
The 4S actually uses SE's 8MP sensor so it's very obvious it has more to give but is somehow being held back.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] frsp2:
The same pixel count doesn't necessarily mean the same sensor model.

I'll try to compare xperia and iphone peepholes when I get a chance to do so.

And here is enlarged by 300% xperia sample

no leaves on the tree, no windows on the right building.

It's not the right price to pay for reducing digital noise.

Very crude workmanship.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
This is what I'm talking about

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/14/first-iphone-4s-image-sensor-to-be-identified-comes-from-sony/

Also notice how the Neo's end in production, the earthquake in Japan, the iPhone 4S and the NeoV all coincide.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silasje1:
Can we use the ICS beta libjpegm file now? the file which does compression etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Akath19:
Sorry but we can't, the camera drivers in ICS are completely different than the one's on GB, so simply copying the driver wouldn't work.

Also porting it would be EXTREMELY hard since Sony didn't release any source code for it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] DrearierJester1:
Anyway ICS for our phone which has better camera drivers plus uncompressed images, in the next 2weeks so better yet wait and stop asking for driver porting...