yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keirnoth:
Apologies in advance for bringing back old posts, but I wanted to followup on this post just to see if more people have any other ideas.

Thank you to all of you for your assistance. Not sure what software touch focus was, but what I did was take some of the guidelines from voltaic's posts and also switch over to Camera360. I took some tests shots with it and they seem to be pretty decent. Loads of image altering features similar to its iOS competitor. I just needed basic picture taking and from a few test shots, they seem to be a bit clearer. It also allows me to lower the image resolution so instead of taking giant grainy shots I can take smaller clearer looking shots.

I suck at using the default Camera app. The only thing I know how to do is adjust the Flash, and zoom that are on the right side when you take a photo (horizontal orientation).

Not sure if changing the Brightness/Contrast/Saturation/Sharpness, White Balance, and Focus mode does any good. I see Continuous, Auto, Infinity, and Touch. I don't mind having to press an extra button if it will help stop these grainy looking pictures - would switching it to Touch help a bit?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
I just made a long post of tips on another thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1478405

Touch focus lets you tap on the screen to focus a particular part of the screen; whereas default is center focused, with maybe face detection (don't know if 360 has face detection).

Grain or nose is a function of high ISO. Lowering the ISO will reduce the grain, but may result in not enough light for a decent shot (will be underexposed or too dark). Increase the light if possible, so you can lower the ISO. Sometimes just changing the angle of the camera, your position, or simply turning on more lights in the room can make a huge difference. Manually setting the ISO and white balance might help a bit. But the fact of the matter, is that if there isn't enough light, you are going to need high ISO to get a decent shot.

Special effects can be fun. But most (or all) of these effects can be applied to a photo after the fact (Picsay Pro and Vignette are my favorite phone apps for simple photo edits). On the other hand, if you take a picture with the effect, it can't be undone afterwards. OF course, there may be times when you don't care for the "raw" photo (

Manipulating brightness is useful if the pic looks too dark or light. For instance, the picture looks much lighter than what your eyes see (outdoor night photos is a good example). But those settings (brightness, contrast, saturation) usually won't change graininess or the overall quality of the picture (how its captured). Again, these are all things that can be fixed after the fact. However, I've found setting white balance manually to be very helpful. Setting white balance manually (while it takes time to do so for each different environment) gives much better results than Auto. Auto takes extra time to evaluate the light conditions when you hit the shutter, and sometimes does so incorrectly. Technically, white balance can be fixed after the fact. But the fact Auto white balance delays the capturing of the photo, means it can often cause a blurry picture.

Long story short, learning the basics of how a camera works, and simple camera techniques (angle and position) have much more influence on photo quality than messing with different apps or effects. Aside from settings that fundamentally change how the photo is captured (ISO, focus, white balance), the rest is just frosting on the cake. And you can't polish a turd.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kéno40:
I'd noticed battery drain with Camera360, even if I've cut the localisation.

Anyone else?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarroyo:
Try using HDR Camera+ it's been HIGHLY recommended by PocketNow.com to get the best quality pictures out of your android phone.

Available in the android market.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treleung:
Anyone know where to find housing for this device yet? I dropped it (already) and the silver sides took some damage.

Thanks,

Trevor
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
those after market housings might take a little longer to become available on ebay, give a couple of more months
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jjday7:
Keep an eye out on ebay because they will probably be on there soon. Once those oops I lost my phone people start posting. The epic 4g touch had them showing within 30 days of being released.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ninjabeaver:
Recently when I click on "my apps" nothing shows but a white screen. I have cleared the data in the settings restarted and even restored an old backup but nothing has worked. Has anyone experienced this problem? If ibsearch for an app I have installed ibvan find it and it shows that its installed
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ctfrommn:
Trying to fix this right now myself.....not sure what changed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] asdfjkasldf:
Same here,

i tried market, 2.3.6, 3.1.5, 3.3.11 (cleared data every time).

Nothing worked.

Then i rage-deleted every user-app from the phone and surprisingly "my apps" worked again.

Then i reinstalled the apps in batches, after each set cleared marked data again, to see if a specific app was causing it.

After some time the error re-appeared. But after uninstalling the latest batch of apps, it was still there... so i don't think any specific app is cauing it.

I also noticed the following:

When using vending 2.3.6, logcat showed:

DownloadsLoader: com.android.vending.api.ApiException: Error from backend. Request=com.android.vending.model.AssetRequest, Response=INTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR

When using vending 3.3.11, logcat showed:

E/Finsky ( 6393): [1] AssetList.<init>: Received a null AssetsResponseProto or asset list.
D/Finsky ( 6393): [1] PageFragment.rebindViews: Page [class=MyDownloadsFragment] loaded in [1455 ms]

I spent hours trying to figure out what's causing this, trying all sorts of wipes, restores, titanium backup market doctor, whatever, nothing...

Probably is google's fault...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ctfrommn:
When I installed 2.3.6 I was getting a server error and couldn't continue to my apps, so I think this may be a temporary Google server issue. If you look at some other threads it appears this is a common problem. What Rom/Device? N1 and CM7 here.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] asdfjkasldf:
Desire-Z CM7.1
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Turge:
I have the same logs with 3.3.11 using my EVO 3D and HP TouchPad running CM7:

E/Finsky ( 2216): [1] AssetList.<init>: Received a null AssetsResponseProto or asset list.
D/Finsky ( 2216): [1] PageFragment.rebindViews: Page [class=MyDownloadsFragment] loaded in [855 ms]

Here's another thread about this same problem: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1332778
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ninjabeaver:
I recently switched from liberty to cm4gb and my apps are back...so I don't know what is going on...its not just liberty
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] onslaught86:
Hey guys,

So, you know that official Facebook app is supposed to have push notifications, right? Yeah? Well, it apparently does, they just never worked for me at all. Turns out, there's a fix, and it's quite the strange one - you have to sign into the Facebook app on a Blackberry. Once you've done that, you'll start getting push notifications for wall posts, comments, and event invites, with an entirely new notification icon. Weird, no?

Of course, it's not like I had a recent BB device just lying around.. Thankfully, the Blackberry emulator software works just fine for our purposes. I've written up a guide for the curious, with links to the emulator software and so forth.

Seems the fix was found in May over at AndroidCentral, but I'd certainly not seen it posted anywhere I frequent, and had to spend some time searching for a fix to stumble across the post - hence this topic.

Let me know if it works for you. :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Deleted member 308374:
Really interesting, I'd like to try and see!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] onslaught86:
Cheers - Weird, isn't it? I'm planning to make a walkthrough video later on today, unfortunately my Galaxy S II's camera is the best I have, so I'll need to convince the girlfriend to let me tinker with her Nexus One to show how it's done.. We'll see if she lets me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JBL74:
This trick worked for me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] StevenBX:
I've always had that notification icon (little sign-post looking thing), and have never signed in on a Blackberry, so I guess mine have always worked for some reason.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] onslaught86:
Interesting, have you got anything else of note authorised on your Facebook account?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tylerdurden83:
Didn't work for me, got no notifications of the private messages that I received since doing this
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] onslaught86:
What do you mean by 'private messages'? Facebook chat/messenger? This works for wall posts, comments, and event invites, not messages - that's what the separate Facebook Messenger app is for. ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] drelite08:
Worked 100 percent for me. Thanks :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tylerdurden83:
Then I might have said something stupid, I'll keep you updated.

One observation tho, in your guide you say that it's possible, once you enable this, to deactivate the periodic check, since you get push notifications. I agreed and removed it. If push doesn't "push" private messages tho, I guess that I'll have to re-enable the periodic checks, since that checks private messages received too.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Deleted member 308374:
Would you be able to do this for us, if we give you our Facebook credentials? (big big sign of trust I know :) )
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tylerdurden83:
Update, it works :)

Altho I wish it would push private messages too, so that I could remove the periodic update of 30 min
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hansbert:
Works perfect! Thank you sooo much!

[Don't forget to activate notifications in BB-App, like I did first :D ]
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] onslaught86:
I guess I could if you really wanted. Do you not have access to a Windows PC to use the emulator?

Glad to hear it's working - But isn't that what this is for? :)

Ooh, that might help. I'm pretty sure they were enabled by default when I tried it, was that not the case for you? Anyone else have the same experience? Happy to update the guide if need be.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Galactus:
Private messages get pushed to me and have done so for the past 2 months, something must be up on your end. Make sure you've turned on notifications for messages in the FB app, if that doesn't work then I'm out of ideas mate
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] benlc:
Could you send me your Database files in /data/data/com.facebook.katana/databases after cleaning them from any private information ( I'm particularly interested in the key_value database ).

I'm wondering if there's any way we can activate it without this long process, so I wanna compare settings from a push activated device and a not push activated one.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] pbrown77:
So why do you think this wasn't implemented in the app itself?

Is it because its buggy or a battery drainer?

Or is it because Apple and RIM pay royalties to Facebook to have the better features?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wander_jarra:
Thanks man ... working like a charm here.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] scottishlad80:
I have always got fb notifications without having to do any of this.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ukdtweak:
worked a treat for me, nolonger need Fb to check every hour so less battery drain :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] thehatedone:
Thanks worked like a charm for me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
OMG guys this trick works as a charm!! :)) thanks a lot at the possible, and blame on FB developers for being unable to make push work as intended after years of android app development..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] malavan:
Wait for your feed to load in the Blackberry Facebook app. Once it’s updated with your information, simply log out again.

how did you log out?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Qliratu:
iam so unhappy... the app doesent show up here.. on facebook page.. logout login nothing helps activate notifications deactivate.. any ideas>?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hofinho:
+1 here.

it works a bit better but the blackberry app is still not in my applications in my account. used the emulator btw. tried several times logout login, even reinstalled the whole emulator and deinstalled the android facebook app from my phone, but still no luck. any suggestions would be great! perhaps some set-up thing in my facebook account?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Qliratu:
Iam waiting for someone to send me a pm or anything to know if it works now.. but i dont think it will. the idea that i have to login using a bb to get push notifications working on a android device, well i dont know that gives me the creeps!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
The blackberry app is not listed under application in your Facebook account!!

You have to go to 'notification's and the choose 'other notifications', last voice of the list. There you'll find the blackberry app to enable notifications for. And you are done.

I hope it's clear enough, I'm typing from my phone now ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
Beware that it won't obviously work until the app appears and is checked to send notifications.. Have a look at my post just above ;) it worked as a charm , today I had two comments and an event notified on my android device with real push!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hofinho:
yeah i know that it is down there, too. i have ticked it already but it only works partially.

believe me, i have already done more research on that issue than i ever should but it kept nagging on me ;)

saw in several forums that it should look like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jGW60FHhzk8/TrGRUWyw4yI/AAAAAAAAAGc/lmvOEqGF6VA/s1600/Facebook+-+BB03.png

think i gonna have to find some guy who owns a blackberry and try again
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] XanoZuke:
This really works :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ctomgee:
Unfortunately, this did NOT work for me. I confirmed I now have "Facebook for BlackBerry® smartphones" listed under "Notifications" > "All Notifications" > "Other Applications"... but I am still not receiving the signpost notification.

Not a HUGE deal since I've lived without it for so long, but kind of disappointing.

EDIT: turns out it DID work! I'm now getting the signpost notification.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Qliratu:
Hell yeah it worked (couple days now) forgot to post the result..

Thanks allot.. u dont need to see it under apps (the bb device).

No idea how but it just works, dont forget to activate it in facebook app on your phone :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
Still working great!! How cool!! :))
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JaX3RiR:
Using the BlackBerry emulator was a real hassle on my below-par netbook, for example I had to actually use the virtual BB keyboard instead of my physical one and install some sort of Java development kit package before anything would run, but I digress.

I also realized that the Facebook for BlackBerry isn't showing under Apps on my Facebook but everything is working smoothly anyhow.

Thanks for the great tutorial !
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] freaked:
This push up notifcations stop worked in ICS, anyone knows why ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Kylobayd:
Got the same problem the guide worked on gb but since ics the push notifications arent working anymore >_>
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] drelite08:
Just use the blackberry method. And if they stop working log out then back in again. Work 100 percent fine.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Kylobayd:
When I follow that guide the blackberry app isnt standing in the app sector but I can only see it at notifications and I enabled it but I still dont get any push notifications.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] roylee11:
Seems legit...

Does this "Facebook sync problem" comes with stock ROMs? Because I'm on a custom ROM and have no problems for over 3/4 months.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] power_tennis:
Looks Good

.....I'm a Mickey, I'll try it!:D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks, dood. Appreciate it. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Jurellz:
Thanks, my clockwork mod has to be 4.x?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] flashinglights:
There was something familiar about the intro to your video preview, sure enough you're the fella who did an installation/semi-review of wildhero a while back on your youtube channel. Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] moisaal:
yes. got the flashable zips (V4 and V5) below if you need em or anyone else for that matter.

Rom looks great sirthumpalot, love tha icecream theme
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Maybe I meant 3.x or whateverz. Basically it needs to support the newer scripting as opposed to the ones we've grown to know and love back in the Amon RA recovery days. Miss those days, man!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Yupperz... that was me. By the way, big-ups to ya' for that ROM. Dope ish for sure, homie!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks bud.. appreciate it!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ajrty33:
Please send donations to me as well. I did no work, but there's no reason someone else should get all of the money.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] youdug:
Great work man. Im gonna fully charge later, make some additions, and flash. Again, great job, i appreciate your time and effort.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thanku7:
couldn't download...

only me?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
No problem... Anytime. Since I baked it for a friend of mine, I figured I'd share. Hope ya dig it... Cheers
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
This is the 1st I've heard of this issue. Maybe try again. Are u trying to download it directly onto your phone?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gidkid:
Looks amazing. Always good to see something new around this forum. Thanks! I'll try it out and report back soon. If everything runs well, this could be a great ROM.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] InsaneHien:
Just flashed this, and it was kinda slow until I enabled 16-bit transparency in the advanced settings. Now the scrolling speed on home screen is fast. :D

Also, this works with Amon's RA recovery. The ROM just needs to be signed so that it'll flash.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks, dood. Lemme know how it goes for ya'!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks for the tip on the scrolling speed. I'll add it to the original post.

In regards to getting it to flash with Amon RA, did you have to change the script type for it to work?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gidkid:
So far, I'm liking this ROM. It looks nice, and while it was a bit of a shock going back to AOSP/CM after a while with Sense, it was worth it for the ICS looks.

It's not slow, not by a long shot. It's not perfectly smooth, either, and, especially while scrolling the app drawer, there are some hangups, with or without 16 bit scrolling enabled.

The one little bug I found was that when you tap the soft home button on the launcher while on the main homescreen, when you return from the helicoptor view, the soft buttons and the app drawer button are gone. They return with a quick reboot of the launcher, or after some time using other apps, but it's slightly inconvenient while they're gone.

Other than that, great ROM, great contribution. I'll be running this as my daily pending GPS and other tests.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
I appreciate the detailed feedback. I believe you can simply press the back button when the soft buttons and app drawer disappear. I'm not sure what causes that unfortunately and I may not be able to look into it anytime soon cuz I have about two weeks to pack up my entire house to move. I'll see what i can do. I'm glad ya dig it. Cheers!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] InsaneHien:
Nope, I didn't change anything. All I did was use PPCGeeks Android APK & Zip Signer program to sign the zip. That's pretty much it lol.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Hmmm... I'll check it out. The Android kitchen is how I had signed this ROM. I wonder if I should make 2 different versions
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
FYI - Updated ROM has been posted with only some minor fixes which are as follows:

- Updated version of ICSLauncher

- Updated gapps and newest Market baked into ROM.

Haven't actually tested it myself as it's kinda late. Feel free to try it anyway. I'll personally be testing it myself tomorrow morning.

Thanks all and have a good night...Peace!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] BallZDeeP:
I didnt get any gapps when flashing your Beta1, had to do them manually. Yes I followed your instructions :)

Can this update be flashed over current?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks for the feedback, dood!

Hmmm.... In regards to gapps, the only actual gapps baked into this ROM should be pretty much the setup wizard & the Market. With that said, the most recent update should also include Gmail now as well. When you flashed the Beta1, did you at least get the setup wizard & market? I'm just curious.

Yes, you should be able to flash the most recent update over Beta1, however, make sure you wipe cache and dalvik cache a couple times before flashing the update. It seemed to have worked flawlessly for me this morning. Having said that, I then did an entire wipe, reformatted my partitions, etc, then did a fresh install to make sure that worked properly also.

Either way, I would make sure to rawk a nandroid backup first before flashing the update just in case you run into any issues.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] moisaal:
Youdog, would you mind sharing your rom after your done tweaking it? Im a big fan of your work
[Hero CDMA Android Development] youdug:
No problem man. As soon as i get around to it ill post what i got. Thanks for the compliment
[Hero CDMA Android Development] BallZDeeP:
Yes everything worked according to your plan then. I assumed the standard gapps were included, no biggie. Great F'in work brother... everything including battery life is incredible
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Awesome...whew! That's a relief. Thanks for the feedback, homie. Also, I almost forgot, Google Talk should've been included with Gapps as well. The newest update includes the Google Talk app with voice & video but I haven't been able to get the video or voice working on my hero for some reason. Either way, glad ya' dig it, man. Enjoy!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MassStash:
yea.... might be "divorcing" sense for a while. This rom's pretty nasty already
[Hero CDMA Android Development] moisaal:
THis rom is dope, feels like i have a new phone. keep up the good work
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
Thanks ya'll... I appreciate the feedback. I'm gonna try to add some tasty visual changes to it as soon as possible. Cheers!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jmkarnai01:
What I did was since I was using the nighties, I just cleared cache and davlik and just applied this over. Got bad battery life at first, then cleared again and put jaybob's kernel on. Then applied the update and reapplied jaybob's kernel and this shizat is smooth and sweet. Great job. Haven't been this happy since my exgirlfriend broke up with me.......Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jmkarnai01:
One thing I noticed is the music mod is kinda funky so I got rid of it. Maps started if better then I can call from any ROM, just ass quick as my brothers evo, but then wouldn't lock on to my location. cleared all I could but wouldn't lock on till I restarted my phone.