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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladvertigo:
i had same issue, when i switched from x10 to arc s, but probably after 2 weeks i got used to it, and now if i take any x10 in my hands that looks weird to me :D:D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeyLanRuigbie:
So, you have NO solution, just an annoying opinion, and in fact, you're telling her she's stupid. MMMMMkay. I'm sure you didn't intend to be like that, but that's how you come across. Tragic.
[General Questions and Answers] gabezermeno:
Why is it that the galaxy nexus and all other phones that seem to be coming out with 720p screens are 4.6 inches and the HTC rezound has a 720p 4.3 inch screen? 4.3 is already a little big. But it seems like all the new ics phones coming out have 4.6 inch screens.
[General Questions and Answers] bionicpassero:
It seams like a lot of people today love bigger screens like I do. Plus you are not forced to get the bigger screen you have a lot of options with Android. I guess it doesn't make a lot of sense to have 720p on a 3 inch screen. I had both the rezound and I have the nexus now and I think the rezound has the best screen out right now. Higher ppi then nexus because smaller screen, plus it is not pentile. It's not amoled but the rezound screen is absolutely amazing
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
This is mod of Home.apk which the original file came from Alifdroid. But i'll post this to you all. All this mod does is if you set the device to landscape, it should be able to auto rotate the home (without the need of opening keyboard in Xperia Mini Pro)

I know the screenshot is from hdpi device, but it should give you the idea of this mod :)

CAUTION: To apply this mod, better to empty your home widgets first. Some error may occur. If this mod gives you error, please flash the stock and the home will be reset and when you reapply this mod, it will work :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dumraden:
What file exactly did you change? I was trying to do this for over a week, but couldnt manage to do it. Props!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
Just homeactivity.smali with modified default orientation :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Lasy:
Thank you.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Orochixxx:
not work xperia s home screen files corner home screen ???
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihotiho:
Nice feature, thanks!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] qrim:
First i make backup for my home.apk and then I flash auto rotate. I don´t like that auto rotate and I replace in system folder home.apk and now I have black home screen. Stock zip don´t help me. Any ideas?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] whalesplaho:
Help

Not working on my mini pro..... brov can yhu please gimme a hint on how to go bout it so i can do it please!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] light19940120:
working on x10 mini?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
Read my thread at Android Hacking General. You'll find one.

X10 mini is not supported sorry.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] whalesplaho:
Please can yhu help me with tha thread link.....? am not getting it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552949
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] whalesplaho:
thanks so much brov..........
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] semsemx:
home auto rotate.... usefull..thank you :D

download dulu gan :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] D-dy:
Great :-D

Mantap gan...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgoode1985.jg:
Hi all, just bought a 2nd hand Xperia play, and noticed it was missing the play pocket thingy and when i slide open it doesnt go into the play games, also the home button doesnt work, only works when the phone is idle /sleep and i press the home button and it awakes the phone, could it be some kind of custom rom?? can i install a stock rom? not sure what info to give.

MODEL - R800i

android version - 2.3.4

kernel ver - 2.6.32.9-perf SEMCUser@SEMCHose#1

build num - 4.0.2.A.0.42

cheers jgoode
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightningdude:
I'm not exactly sure which threads you'll want, but you'll want to use a program called Flashtool. You will end up downloading an .ftf file that corresponds to your model and build number. You will flash this .ftf file to your phone and restore it completely to factory stock. That should fix your problems.

Perhaps someone with an actual R800i could help? I believe things are a little different with the R800x, which is what I have.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgoode1985.jg:
Cheers, after i posted i start looking through a lot of threads on here and managed to download a generic uk stock rom and flashtool, just now trying to get java to work properly on my lappy and then see if i can install this rom lol, cheers again
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logseman:
The person who sold it to you probably had an old custom ROM installed (which usually had issues with hard resets), and when s/he wiped the phone s/he didn't realize that it was going to cripple the phone. A stock ROM flashed with FT will cure the sorrows of the phone.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crickyo:
the play app can be changed to not open when you slide out the pad, im thinking the home keys action is set to open the main home screen meaning that it looks like its doing nothing because thats the screen its set to, you could try installing another luncher from the market like launcherpro etc and see if it overrides the home key binding and asks what you want to set the default action to
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgoode1985.jg:
Long time

firstly sorry for the long wait, ive been in hospital [seems im not made of rock and im not an american cowboy who can ride through open countryside lol]

Still have the same problem, i cant get flashtool to work [something to do with java?? But i can play minecraft ok]

As for the home button i downloaded a few launchers but still nothing from it so i downloaded an app [button savivor] i can now go straight to my home screen when surfing the web without pressing the back button a million times lol

Is there another way of flashing / installing a custom rom, offical sony rom???

Cheers again, [slighty battered and bruised] jamie
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightningdude:
Do a google search for Wotan Server. That basically does what Flashtool does, but through an online resource. You won't have to download the firmware files yourself, just install their client and follow instructions.

I think. I've never used Wotan Server, but I've seen it recommended a lot.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgoode1985.jg:
Cheers, going to have a look at that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
4-3 v1.3.1 for FC24 is out!! Nothing has changed from 1.2.8. I just incorporated the fix for the low battery issue Calkulin added. Again, watch those file sizes - they get big very quickly.

I've been working on this for a while. Just a little rundown this is the camera from Calkulin's ICS rom so anything he's added to it is still there. I've tested it myself and it works - just make sure to read everything and install it correctly.

*There's an audio/video sync issue, this is across all roms and multiple phones that have this mod. So far there is no fix but it's being looked in to. Until then thanks to rafalense there is a solution to re-sync everthing after you record it.

Use Avidemux (Windows/Linux/BSD/Mac)

Follow rafalense post on using it. HERE​

What I've changed:

1080p new(stock)

Superfine: 24Mbit (17)

Fine: 18Mbit (15)

Normal: 14Mbit (13)

720p

Superfine: 18Mbit (12)

Fine: 14Mbit (10)

Normal: 10Mbit (8)

640x480

- because it's used for the front facing camera also

Superfine: 3.159Mbit (3.078) Will implement in next version.

Audio bitrates for these is 128kbps (64 stock)

Sampling rate 48kHz (unchanged from Calkulin's, stock is 16kHz)

While I did put in the time doing the conversions, decompiling, and other stuff - I did not make it silent and a few other things. Credits for that goes to:

Calkulin - ICS goodness, making it silent, other mods I didn't do to this apk.

Agat63 - For helping me out and supporting me on this. Also for including this mod in his rom.

rafalense - For his post on editing the arrays.

To install just use Root Explorer. Any others using adb or terminal - I assume you know what you're doing already there with cp, chmod, and chown commands. Just in case though I put them up in the second post

Just a note: It may close on you a few times - this is normal from what I can tell. After a few tries and a minute or so it will work flawlessly. Also, feel free to bake this into your roms or whatever you desire. Just make sure to give me and others credit if you do.

U haz the bugz? Post them. I'm still new to this but I'll do my best to get them resolved. Have a solution? Post it. Don't leave others hanging.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Terminal code and future plans

Flashable zip located in first post. If you like to do it the 'hard' way, want to learn, or you're just old school like that the permissions for both are rw,r,r change owner/group to root also.

In terminal:

$su
#mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system
#cp /mnt/sdcard/file/location /system/etc
or
#cp /mnt/sdcard/file/location /system/app
#chmod 644 /path/to/file

Then to change owner/group:

#cmown root:root /path/to/file
#reboot

That should get you taken care of :D

Future plans

More audio adjustments (hopefully 192 without it cutting out)

Increase front cameras 640x480 bitrate

Try to get the time between each picture down.

Raise the FPS above 30 (might be hardware limited)

Currently checking with the OP of THIS thread. Hopefully we can get some of these mods included also. < I got the ok from the dev so I'll be decompiling over the next few days and looking through it to see how/if any of it can be added to this one.

If you can help with any of these (or more) please jump in. I'd especially like some help from anyone knowledgeable in audio/video or photography to help on numbers for quality tweaks. some questions I have are:

Since we only have one mic does setting audio recording to 2 channel really matter or is it better to set it to 1 and let the playback equipment (home theater or VLC for example) decode it to stereo?

How high should the bitrates (video) go before it becomes unnoticeable in terms of quality?

I've heard the stock audio gain is too high - if I can adjust it, how much should I drop it?

If you'd like to see how this is done and try it yourself I have a how-to on page 8, post 75. LINK There's also a 'cheat sheet' attached to the post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Keep it up. My E4GT being the only video camera I have any improvements to bitrate and other options are good news.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] painkillaz:
So if we are currently on Calkulin's E4GT 2 v1.1 is this any different from the camera on there?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
I'm doing what I can. It's my only one also not to mention I can take it into concerts that won't allow video cameras.

I'm working on the fps setting. I've read that Sammy didn't give us much to play with in that area but hopefully I can get it above 30fps. The bitrates for video can go higher but Potatoman over on the i9100 forum says it doesn't make a difference past 24 or so. It just makes a huge file.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Not in looks, just in performance. The bitrates for audio and video are higher which leads to better quality (to a degree). What we got stock just wasn't a good as it should be.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Is this issue (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1556355) fixed in this Camera app?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] master acehole:
Will this work on gingerbread?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Haven't checked. If it wasn't fixed in Calkulins then it's the same here. I didn't mess with any of that yet. Let me check and I'll update this post.

UPDATE: The image is flipped. It flips it to what someone looking at you would see - not what's on the screen which is more like a reflection in a mirror.

As long as you have a unicorn in your driveway pooping Skittles. Seriously though (you know it will be asked) this doesn't not in any way work on Gingerbread. I actually made one for GB, jst search around in the General section for the E4GT.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] spankmaster:
i deleted the original camera.apk and replace it with this one, is that all I should have to do to install? I click on in to install like a normal apk but it gives me a parsing error.

Edit: Just a bad DL :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
So it's working for you now? And yes, just delete the original camera and put this one in it's place. Change permissions (rw,r,r) and for good measure change the owner and group to root. Reboot.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
People expect to get the same picture as shown in the screen and feeling like who's this in the picture because the image reversed. Looks different person. :eek:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
People are so self absorbed these days:rolleyes: Maybe Samsung is trying to correct that??

Seriously, I don't see it as an 'issue' really. Most people won't know or care when you send the the picture. For others - rotate. I guess I could look into it though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] master acehole:
10-4 buddy and what you say if I did have a unicorn pooping skittles but in my garage?..... ;) and will try this soon thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
OP,

Sorry to drop into your thread like this but in OP you promised a flashable zip file and I thought I'll do it.

For those of you who don't wanna deal with adb, rootexplorer, renaming etc. here is the link:

http://jumbofiles.com/l281z31g34oi

This zip will flash new enhanced and silenced camera and at the same time will turn off camera system sounds like shutter, video on and of etc.

OP if it's OK with you just place the link in first post so users don't have to look for it.

If you think I'm outa line here just delete this post and keep link in first post if you want.:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Agat63 thanks for the save on that zip. Been busy here at work today. I'll put up the link right now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jnhelman:
Works like a charm, thanks to both of you!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Glad you like it.

BTW to best of my knowledge silent cameras are illegal in some of the states.

You guys better check it out.

If any problems just use rootexplorer and rename:

/system/media/audio/ui/Shutter_01.mp3 to Shutter_01.ogg.

It will turn on camera shutter sound.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jnhelman:
Yeah, it's frowned upon lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Good call. I'm hoping most people know that by now. Just don't do anything idiotic with it (you know what I mean...)

Anyway, uploaded another file and instructions for using terminal to install all of this. Almost forgot to include it. The camera doesn't work to it's full potential without it. Agat63, I'm working late - could you include it in the zip and I'll update the link in the OP in a bit. I posted where it needs to go inside the rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
NP.

Will do it in a bit.

Gotta finish something first.

Don't tell any one but I'm at work too.(Tssss).

Edit: Just checked the OP. Can't find uploaded file and/or instructions. Am I blind?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AsinX:
Does this camera have the Funny Face Effects or Panorama working? Does anyone have a clue if we'll be able to ever get those?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Panorama has worked in every ICS leak we had so far.

Not sure I know what the funny faces are.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AsinX:
Its on the Nexus. Its video face effects in real time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
We cannot record in stereo because we do not have 2 mics. International has a second mic for noise cancellation, we don't.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] athlet1c:
Thanks for both of you with such great work. May I make a request to have the camera setting stick when added. Seems like you have to set them every time. I forget who, but I remember someone compiling one before. Thanks in advance guys
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jerdog:
Moving to Themes and Apps as this is a modified version of a Stock App. Great work!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Here is modifed zip with .xml file included in /system/etc folder.

http://jumbofiles.com/dmpqgavgiihj

This will take care of permissions as well. (I hope).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] athlet1c:
Your Tue best
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Nah!!

All I did is putting a zip together.

Hard work has been done by Calk and by KCRic.

I'm just trying stay around smart guys in good hope to learn something.:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdss:
Works great, thanks guys ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Will log on my computer in a few and update the OP with the new link from Agat63. Thanks for doing that by the way.

Fair enough on the move jerdog. Completely understandable.

EDIT: Updated OP with new link.

Sent from inside the matrix
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
No problem. Enjoy! Just as with agat63 I'm still learning this stuff. I'm glad I seem to have nailed it on the first release. I'll look into other additions to keep this going for all of you.

Well that blows. Oh well, we still have stereo just not true stereo.

Mine stick, not sure what's going on with yours. Try clearing camera data and reboot. System settings>Applications>'tab' All>Camera
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MochaCharok:
I was wondering if anyone knows...

Does flashing this over AOKP/CODENAME fix the camcorder issue?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
I would tread very carefully with it.

AOSP/AOKP has bits and pieces of CM. Most of the bricks lately happened when flashing ICS in CWM recovery over CM.

Read more about it before you do it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] biggtiny210:
hell yeah!! thanx!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
I doubt it. You probably need TW framework to use this. About the best you could do is use root explorer or adb to install this to /system/app then reboot and see if it takes. Obviously backup the original camera first just in case. As Agat63 said though, tread carefully if you're considering flashing the zip.

You're welcome. Glad you like it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darkfire2024:
Great Work! Hopefully we can include some of the HTC mods into this camera app as well. I'm also hoping that this improved camera will work with AOSP roms.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
I'll work on an AOSP one as soon as I figure out what's going on with this one. ICS is really being a pain, the GB camera was a lot easier. I need to learn how to break apart a zImage and see if there's something in there. I have it opening but with a black screen and then it crashes after 30 seconds.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
zImage?

AFAIK you can't break apart zImage. All you can do is extract initramfs from it.

I have done that few times. But I don't know how to repack it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Yeah that's what I've been reading. I'm going to try that tonight and this weekend. It seems like the kernel really does limit the bitrates so hopefully I can edit the kernel to allow higher ones. Also I'm checking a few files in the framework tonight to make sure something in there isn't causing errors.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
But initramfs is not kernel but kind of the custom part of it.

You wont have access to source and I think you need source to do nessary changes to bitrate limitations.

In initramfs you can set root/busybox/su binary/recovery that kind of stuff.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Well that bites. You're right though, we don't have the source yet for the kernel. Not ICS anyway. If it's the kernel limiting it then I'll just find the max it will allow and set the camera to that for now. I wonder why they would do something like that (if it's true) since they didn't do it with GB. :confused: I'll hold out hope that I just need to edit something in the framework.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] qubanaso:
Hey i flashed agats modified zip that includes xml file bit camera app just freezes along with phone have to reboot everytime?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darkfire2024:
Thanks for the update! Do we still need to push media_profiles.xml?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
No, it's included in the updated zip.

You're using the old version? Use the new one I just put up tonight. If that's the one you flashed you might try using Root Explorer to extract and move the files. I edited this updater-script from another zip so it might not be working correctly. I'll deal with that soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Villain123:
Am I doing something wrong?

The last version I could flash successfully through rogue, but this one fails and says install aborted. This one is titled bluray something and the last one said something like camera mod. Does this one have to be installed manually?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Just took pictures and make some videos on running my rom.

Camera in rom works fine here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
The updater-script must be bad then. I'll fix it once I'm at my house.

Sent from inside the matrix
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Drybonz:
Was just wondering if this modified camera saves the edited shortcut buttons on the gui? The default camera loses your edited shortcuts each time you restart the camera.

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
I haven't really looked at that. My phone is rebooting after testing the new CWM zip so I'll know in a minute.

EDIT: Yes, the custom shortcuts stick after reboot.

Also: New CWM zip up with correct update-binary. Tested and it works. THIS WIPES THE DALVIK-CACHE SO FIRST BOOT WILL TAKE A FEW MINUTES
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
This is really awesome! I'm glad someone is trying to get the most out of our camera hardware. Big thanks for the work done here!

Are there plans to expand and attempt these mods on the aosp camera? That is once ICS source is released and those video encoding bugs are resolved.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Yes, once the source is released and the AOSP roms start popping up I'll be modding it also.

By the way, if anyone want's to know how this is done I'll gladly post it and provide files/programs (open source/free - not warez) to help out. You can also reference the post linked in the credits.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mijjah74:
Hey KCRic, just notice you live in Overland Park, KS? I work in Overland Park, small world.

---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:38 AM ----------

Agree, always nice to see improvements/enhancements.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
You're the 2nd person I've seen here that's from this area. Jerdog is here too. Really is a small world, we've probably flipped each other the bird on 435 and didn't even know it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mijjah74:
Ha..maybe that was you this morning..:p

Mijjz Sammy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
That information would be very cool. I see you may try to add additional zero-compression mods, so if you posted a how-to when you've gone as far as you want to is a great resource.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
In this city you never know:rolleyes: This whole area is a mess right now, I35, Quivira going over 435, 69 highway. But at least 435 is done now *sigh*

I will definitely be trying to add that. Probably will post a version without it since some don't feel it helps enough to warrant the file size doubling. I'm curious about the ISO 1250 mod - Is it for night pictures? Does it help a lot? Also, have you seen anyway to decrease the shutter lag?

I'll definitely post up a how-to. I learned from those so I feel I should do the same for others. As soon as I implement some of your mods I'll add you to the credits too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Icebluemale30:
great ill try it now