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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gambler_3:
I am specifically talking about the still picture camera.

When I compare the nexus S with other phones using the gsmarena photo comparison tool, it actually seems like one of the best 5MP camera around and gsmarena says "good 5MP snapper" and they say it's noticeably better than galaxy S.

On this forum(and the rest of xda) on the other hand I have seen many people say that the camera is mediocre. I want to know what do they mean by that? I understand since it's only 5MP you can forget about widescreen photography but how is it as far as image quality is concerned?

Do these people mean mediocre compared to something like galaxy S2 or you think it just doesnt cut it for a reasonably good daily snapper?

I have used galaxy S camera and I found it satisfying minus the lack of LED flash. Will I be satisfied with nexus S camera?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
i LOVE my nexus s camera!

i think the people that rate it mediocre either dont know how to use it or take photos with a smudged up lens cover.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Exactly. I get great shots with my NS.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tycruickshank:
seconded. I like the camera a lot
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doc_v15:
The camera is awesome! we should rate it with objective perspextive. Meaning, do we take shoot with low light? Any camera will not get maximum rrsult out of it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BumbleG:
+1, I found it had better stills than my old Galaxy S. I compared it to an iPhone 4, and it seems to be quite a bit better for point and shoot scenarios.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gambler_3:
Ya it really does look good in the gsmarena tool and the photos on flickr for the nexus S. Most people complaining about it must be the ones who think "the more megapixels the better" which is so wrong.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 309041291a:
It wins and life and is a bawse. That is all on the Nexus S camera.

:). It really is AMAZING though. The quality is outstanding

Nexus S (GSM i9020a)

CyberGR Hybrid ICS (v6)

Eugene's Kernel (Speedy-7)

OC 1100/100 (ondemandx)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resetreflectt:
It's good, but my pictures would come out better on my old Epic.

Still a great camera though.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harbb:
As the others have said, definitely a solid camera in comparison to many phones. Megapixels don't stand up to a good lens and sensor.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Giwex:
I'm afraid the people who rate the camera mediocre is because of lack zoom that is instead absolutely useless and destructive. I'm really happy about the camera and sometimes pictures are better of the digital compact camera (Panasonic, 4 years old) my wife uses.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HAKA:
IMHO, its good for indoors but not THAT impressive for outdoors, dont exactly know, i also went for a comparison between the pics taken running CM7 & stock ics. i went to a conclusion that cm7 camera pics were far better than ics(dont exactly know the reason).

maybe the focused-preview and the camera shutter are not calibrated?

anyways..i will rate it 8/10.

:)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlin:
I think the camera is great, especially with ICS.

tapa tapa tapa
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will of fire:
I just got a nexus s 4g I have an epic 4g touch and the picture quality is good on the ns4g not as good as the e4gt but its really close I like it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvaju:
I had galaxy s before nexus, and I think on galaxy camera is much better for outdors, for indors i found that they both suck.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glennkaonang:
IMO, when taking still pictures, Nexus S' camera is on par with iPhone 4's.

However, based on what I observed, iPhone 4's camera shots brighter pictures than Nexus S'. But still I think Nexus S is one of the best 5-megapixels shooter.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce lee roy:
A picture is worth ... well you know the rest. View attachment 889748
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dadaz007:
I find it really goog for a phone camera.

Picture with flash are sometimes too white for me.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phegard:
It is obviously not as good as SGS2 & iphone 4s, but still fine for daily pictures n videos. No complain at all!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deetailed:
I have never found a phone camera that takes as good pictures as a cheap, decent digital camera, though SGS2 comes close. For outdoor/long shots, the NS is acceptable, but with closer objects the noise is really noticeable.

I used to have a Nokia N95 and I think it had better camera than NS.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murfi:
compared to my n900, its image quality is rather bad.

but still no reason to complain. if i want to make decent photos, i dont use a cell phone anyway.

what i find more disturbing is that the gallery shows pictures only in low quality.

the first time i made a picture and watched it on the phone, i was shocked how extremely bad the picture looked when i zoomed in completely. i calmed down when i saw the image on the pc.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] developersdevelopers:
I think the quality is good considering that its a phone camera. Its fine for typical point and shoot scenarios.

For a good variety of sample pics, check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271088
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] theSavant:
I have a stock Evo View running Honeycomb 3.2.1. Interestingly, neither of my computers, both mac and pc, will detect my tablet when I connect it by USB. This worked just a few weeks ago when I moved some files onto the device. The tablet charges through USB, but I do not get the notification option to use as USB storage. Within "settings > connect to pc" I've tried a number of configurations (default configuration type = disk drive, charge only) and I have also tried checking and unchecking "ask me about USB connection type whenever I connect my tablet to a PC." Nothing new happened.

Additionally, on the mac, I have the Android File Transfer app installed. When I open that i get a notification that says "No Android Device Found"

Coincidentally, I recently installed the Dropbox desktop beta for Mac which automatically detects pictures on a camera and uploads them to Dropbox. When I connected my device, Dropbox checked my device for pictures because it recognizes it as a camera. I instantly got a system error message saying that my device was not ejected properly. However, the mac never detected my device as a drive. Following that, I tried to connect to my PC and all it does is charge. My PC also does not detect my tablet as a drive. I'm thinking the new dropbox desktop client may have been the culprit for breaking my usb connection between my tablet and mac.

Has anyone else experience this problem? If not, is there a way to rebuild my usb connection between my tablet, mac, and pc?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] AidenM:
well i would try uninstalling dropbox
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] tito12:
Also in Settings/Applications/Development/Usb debugging should be checked.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] theSavant:
Thanks. Appreciate the advice.

I did uninstall dropbox, on the View and on the Mac. That didn't help.

USB Debugging was checked. I can see my device in fastboot and adb. However, neither Mac nor PC will detect my tablet and allow me to mount as a hard drive.

I did a factory data reset and that worked. Both computers will recognize the View and I am receiving the notification "charge only, hard disk, htc sync, etc." again.

I wanted to break the usb connection again to confirm that it was in fact either dropbox's android beta, desktop beta, or a combination of the two. I am fairly certain that something broke the first time around because the desktop beta was able to scan my device for photos without my permission to mount the View as a hard disk. But now I'm having trouble proving this since I haven't been able to break the connection again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilspeak:
hello everyone i have a droid x rooted running miui ics ive installed supercharger thru script manager how do i install the different options in superchager in widgets ? apprecatie the help thank you
[HTC Rezound] troy7548:
Has anyone used Rom Toolbox with the Rezound Im running CleanRom 1.6.5 SP1. Is it possable to change Icons,Fonts without affecting anything.
[HTC Rezound] tbgreen89:
I'm using it right now and its amazing. Font changer works and memory optimization works.
[HTC Rezound] Envy Nixon:
Also using it, fonts do work, but some fonts will show boxes on Twitter/facebook/ friend stream.
[HTC Rezound] troy7548:
Well I tried to change my 3G icon and rebooted.phone but nothing changed.
[HTC Rezound] phillybizzle:
I use it everyday.. so ffar fonts only.seem to.work
[HTC Rezound] MrSmith317:
ROM Toolbox doesn't change the Verizon LTE icons(which is what we have) Check the theme forum or msg me if you can't find what you want.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TwilightSparkle:
Is there any way to talk on XBL with my GN?

inb4 lolno
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] McDizzle:
Talking? Not that I have found. However you can send and receive messages from XBL with an app called Spark 360, which also shows your avatar, your gaming history, and how many friends you have online, among other things.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlin:
Hello, I have been running a backup (gzip compressed) for about 2 hours now. I am not sure if its frozen or really takes this long to backup (stupid if it does, TWRP compressed backups in like 20 min). What would happen if I interrupted the process?

Edit: No harm done. SD card is still intact with no data lost, phone still works.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niteh@wk:
shouldn't impact anything other than a corrupted incomplete nandroid backup.. btw, i haven't tried the compress option with nandroid. i usually zip up the nandroid backup with WinZip and keep 2, 3 of these incremental backups on my PC as well as on dropbox.
[HTC Desire S] Jiia:
I'm a bit confused about this ICS related camera problem. Apparently the camera driver needs to be rewritten due to huge changes in ICS. I've been searching around but could only find an abandoned thread, last post one month old.

So is there any developer group/person actively working on the camera? Or is everyone just waiting for someone else to fix it?
[HTC Desire S] microlah:
The Virtuous Quattro and CM9 Roms have the camera

kinda

working, although they are still a little buggy, but usable.

I am sure those guys are working hard to fix it.
[HTC Desire S] AndyPap:
I was watching an SXSW presentation on android evolution and ICS and they mentioned taking photos instantly with ICS, without the need need for focus delay etc.

This implies the camera driver is performing some form of continuous focus, as opposed the the previous driver which performed focus on request. This is, from a software perspective a very different form of driver operation, and driver interface and other underlying assumptions will be accordingly different.

Andy
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
All we need is kernel 3.0..
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purevulcan0:
I really tired of AT&T not updating the Xperia Play and I want the advantages of a custom rom and kernel, but I dont know how to unlock the bootloader on my r800at, can someone explain the process?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuckM:
I'm assuming since its AT&T then you're sim locked. Quick test, turn your phone off, hold the search key and plug it in to your computer. If the status light turns blue, congrats, you can unlock for free through sonys online utility. If not then the only way to unlock is through a pay service like this one (~$24):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1322827
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purevulcan0:
Well what do the paid services do, could you just do that by yourself for free, I really need a free option.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuckM:
If everyone could do it for free no one would pay for it... If you can't get that blue light then your unlocks not going to be free. You need to remote hook up with someone with the physical hardware capable of unlocking the phone, even then they need "credits" to do the unlock, which cost them money. Can you do this yourself? Sure, keep in mind the hardware costs $$$ and credits come in bundles so you can't just buy one, so in the long run you're paying x10 more.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cetus90:
You explained if its sim locked and the light turns blue then you are good...

What if you arent sim locked (entered unlock code) but still get the orange light from hell.. is there anything that can be done ??
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trooper_Max:
Speaking as an AT&T user who got Alejandrissimo to unlock, I highly recommend his service. It only cost $24 via paypal and was quick, easy, and professional. Having come from a Nexus One background, at first I kind of balked at the idea of paying to unlock, but it was worth it to me. If you're willing to stick to Stock roms (which is probably best anyway for game compatibility) and don't care about a custom kernel (like DoomKernel or others for overclocking, which you can't do with the stock kernel), then you do not need to unlock. Guess you said you wanted a custom kernel though, so I recommend the unlock.

~Troop
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luis12285:
Do not mean to resurrect a dead thread but has anyone successfully bootloader unlocked their r800at through the Sony website?
[HD7 General] taiwos1:
Hello forum, i have been doing alot of research on my phonne but all the "geeky" words just confuse me, i have tried many ways to jailbreak my phone but they all dont work. after my research i belive its becuase i have the fully updated verion of my HTC HD7. ALL I WANT IS TO BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD FREE GAMES ON THIS PHONE, THATS ALL I WANT! if any one could help me :mad: , ty
[HD7 General] FooisM:
You can already download the games labeled as free. If you want to download none free games for free, then I suggest you gtfo :)
[HD7 General] RobbyRob:
And people wonder why they want locked down app systems...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
I went to see if my bootloader can be unlocked from the sony website.

I followed the instructions by putting that code into my phone dailer.

Under the section if it says my bootloader can be unlocked, it says no.

Does this mean I CANT use custom roms?

Is there no other way to unlock the bootloader?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuckM:
You can always unlock the bootloader, it's just a matter if it's free or not. It all goes back to whether you can use fastboot or not ( the tool used to flash kernels). If you bought your phone sim unlocked it more than likely means fastboot is enabled and you can unlock for free through sonys tool and be on your way to flashing custom kernels. If your phone is sim locked or you paid to get the sim unlocked by a code then fastboot will be disabled. So to rephrase: turn your phone off, hold the search button and plug it in to your computer, if the status light goes blue (and you're not on a CDMA one, r800x) then fastboot is enabled and you can unlock for free through sonys utility, otherwise you're going to have to use a pay service like this (~$24):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1322827

And to answer your question, yes and no, while it's not possible to flash ROMs that use a custom kernel like cyanogenmod without an unlocked bootloader you CAN flash stock based ROMs through the recovery made for locked bootloaders.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
I have an R800A from Rogers.

The LED doesn't go on at all when I press the search button.

When I goto sony's website, I go into the phone settings, where it says if the bootloader can be unlocked, it says NO.

You mentioned a paid servers. Is unlocking the phone by allowing it on another network the same as unlocking the boot loader?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuckM:
No, that's sim unlocking. Confusingly a bootloader unlock will actually sim unlock you as well though, the difference between the two is a sim unlock is a code and the bootloader unlock is done through test points. So ya, if you didn't get the blue light your only option for unlocking is a paid service, sorry.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MemoryController:
Well actually an unlocked bootloader allows booting of custom(unsigned) kernel images and can be achieved with various means according to the situation.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuckM:
Which is what I said in my above post... And the only ways to unlock it are:

- Through sony's online tool if fastboot is enabled and you have an IMEI (sorry CDMAs)

- Or a test point unlock, such as setool2 or omnius, which will enable fastboot
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MemoryController:
Oh ok sry then, thought u were being general.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
Thanks for the help. I contacted the guy about getting it unlocked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tiguy99:
OMG! I LOVE THIS PHONE even more. Tonight I was able to connect my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Rocksoul Bluetooth Mouse and am now doing my homework on my new tablet computer! Our Galaxy S2 really is an amazing device. Not only is it a sick phone, it allows us to have a personal computer in our hands ready to do whatever work we need at anytime.

This phone's value just went UP in my book. I got my Apple Silver Wireless Keyboard for 65.00 & currently use it with my Mac Mini.

The Rocksoul silver mouse set me back 25.00 tonight at Microcenter. I'm sure there may be cheaper alternatives however I can confirm both work very well and complement the phone very well.

Any questions please ask....by the way I posted this from my Apple keyboard!

The only caveat is that the phone allowed me to pair 2 devices at once. I had to unpair my bluetooth earpiece to get my mouse to pair up.

I'm sure there's a work around out there...for now I'm happy I'm able to do my homework on my phone it doesn't matter
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tiguy99:
HDMI to mini USB Cable works with this as well! So now I'm using my 32" HDTV as my computer mononitor...

Anyone who is on the fence about this phone now has another reason to be sold
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] YourAntic:
What do you meam hdmi to USB? Explain please am confused
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tiguy99:
I meant to say the MHL adapter. I couldn't remember what its called when I wrote the last post lol

I'll post pics later on
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tiguy99:
Few pics....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cr0wz:
awesome ... good job... gonna check for cheaper bt kb and mouse ...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cjoe7:
Nice, good find. Definitely will try it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zaventh:
I noticed you're still on 2.3.5? I can only get bluetooth HID to work on 2.3.6 by flashing the stock KL1 kernel. Latest versions of Darkside, Synergy, Faux, etc. all seem to break HID functionality...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ninosmaxima:
Make a nice donation and pray.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] poseidon5213:
Thsts amazing imma go buy the keyboard and mouse right now thanks for the review
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SiL3nTKiLL:
legit! gota buy all this stuff now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danielblakes:
....this is new? Bluetooth keyboards and mice almost all work. Including media control buttons, and dine special function keys.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] YourAntic:
ive been on this forum for over a year and had not seen anything that showed how these would work as easily as this poster described so yes i believe its new!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rastlin:
This setup is sick! I was thinking on how to create this setup but in a dock like fashion with the MHL adaptor hidden... The only thing that would make it sicker would be if it could send the video signal wirelessly
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danielblakes:
I stand corrected! I must have taken it for granted. :)

Happy keyboarding!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lawalty:
Now, we need a keyboard app that once installed and selected, the on-screen keyboard will stay hidden. i remember back in the days before Android, with my Windows PDA, they had a small keyboard program that when activated will prevent the on screen keyboard from popping up when you needed to type.

It seems something like that should be out there in the market. i havent found it though.

Edit: i think i found one -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apedroid.hwkeyboardhelper&hl=en

It does exactly what i asked. theres a free version also.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi guys,

let me know wich score did you got in quadrant's benchmark test :)

This is mine
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romcio47:
Don't post quadrant score because this app is not accurate and it can be easily hacked f.e. with DooMLoRD's god-mode hack (it gives more than 10 times bigger I/O score).

You want to compare benchmark scores?

Use AnTuTu and then post a screen.

Cheers
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ok, will test it!

Thanks
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sesamo:
3400 — 3900 on antutu... Is that good? My device feels good...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roshi69:
Is this any good? I don't know much about the tests just thought I'd try it and share lol
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
that any good? Please respond
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] German-Guy:
Here is my best score @2GHz OC

Gesendet von meinem R800i mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xSWIGx:
German-Guy, what is you ROM?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] German-Guy:
Stock .42 ROM with Doomkernel V10, lips patched .36 Baseband and V6 Supercharger U9 RC5.2

Gesendet von meinem R800i mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
Why is mine quite low? Have all you guys rooted? I haven't
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brochador:
my antutu score is 2960.. all stock..
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terry 7 7600:
Mine

Looks good for .42 Stock ROM....
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkaterOllie795:
What profile are you using on Supercharger? eg powersaver, megaRAM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0b0:
I started this thread to list and discuss problems related to teamhacksung build. I installed build 15 a couple of days ago on my samsung galaxy S i9000. It works pretty smooth barring some minor issue. I am listing my problems here, don't know whether this is ROM specific, or generic problem with ICS. Anyone with solution please update the thread.

1. youtube app doesn't work. It keeps loading, while the same url works in browser. So, for the time being I have created a bookmark for youtube in my home screen

>worked after reflashing, I think there was some other problem. Dont know what

2, when i attach headphone, headphone icon doesn't appear like in CM7. Though the headphone works, but I have problem with mic

3. when I switch ON wifi, wifi icon appear in status bar, but when I toggle the GPS from power widget, it doesn't appear in notification area

4. battery life is not impressive, but looking at the forums it appears as a general android problem.

But apart from these small hiccups I think it is good for daily use ROM, though it is only alpha release.

will update this same thread if and when I find new issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0b0:
which kernel for battery life

I am looking for kernels, which this can support, and can give me extra battery life. After reading forums, I get that this kernel doesn't support init.d, so no kernel tweaking, no OC, etc (tell me if I wrong). I see mostly people discussing two kernels in particular, devil's and glitch. So, which of these can I install.