yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TomTcom:
I second doom. It's about pushing the limits of the device.

Good on ya for doing this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neofreek01:
I also agree. as some may not understand the reasoning, obviously oblonsky has a reason for doing this, just because everyone doesnt understand or agree with him is no reason to cut him off and remove his post... anything anyone learns or attempts to learn about android or the transformers code will progress understanding of the platform and the device. I vote let it stay and continue your endeavor fellow androidian.....
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oblonsky:
Yes, thanks guys. I'm already wondering now whether it may be possible to add new cameras, or disable cameras - do more useful stuff than swap cameras. Also I took the time to post the answer to my own question just in case it was useful to anyone else - so it would seem odd to want to remove the information that just *might* be useful to others at some point.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanctioned_k:
will this work on nougat......if not how to do it on nougat
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wokoloko:
Here is a reason to make the front camera the default camera: After getting in a terrible rain, my main camera on the back is not working anymore.

When starting a camera apps, it just quits with kind of a "connection to camera no possible" message.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SHUR1KEN:
Here's another reason to make the front camera as the default

I have a phone that's about 5 years old. It's been through heavy and rough usage. Hence, the connection between the motherboard and camera module are fried.

Now, when I have to login into WhatsApp Web or the WhatsApp App for Windows, I cannot because it needs a QR code scanned - which triggers the back camera.

So, I'm going to go ahead and try this, kudos! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runiyal:
Thanks for posting!

This was useful. Thanks. Please keep experimenting for no reasons.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mayowa_olu:
Uhm did it work?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SHUR1KEN:
Unfortunately, no, it didn't. Apparently, WhatsApp has gotten rid of the gate that used to allow for the "exploit" to happen before. I have heard of users doing it 2 years ago.

Anyway, what I had to do in my case was, I had to maintain pressure at the point on the camera module where it connects to the motherboard, while navigating to WhatsApp Web and scanning the QR code, all without even the most minute of movements. Otherwise the phone would fail to detect the camera module all over again, demanding me to repeat the whole thing again + a manual camera driver reset from my ROM settings.

Tried it like 20+ times. Succeeded in 1/20 of them... **** was tough, bro.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mafrasi2:
I finally managed to do this on my Redmi Note 5. This is probably applicable to most other devices as well.

Remount the system partition as writable:

$ su -c mount -o rw,remount /system

Edit /system/vendor/etc/camera/camera_config.xml and swap all

<Position>BACK</Position>

to

<Position>FRONT</Position>

and vice versa.

Reboot.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSnowpup:
Do you think this will still work?

If I unroot after modifying the file, will the change persist?

Many thanks for your excellent work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mafrasi2:
It still works for me at least. I think it will persist after unrooting, but I don't know how rooting works under the hood right now, so this may be incorrect.

If you try it, please report back your results! ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aiuw:
Semi side track: Any idea of how one could replace the camera feed with a video/image feed?

Use-case: Spoofing the camera feed for apps with integrated camera (i.e. not sending a camera intent allowing you to choose which camera app to use

FYI: Not doing anything bad. Just a step needed in a very convoluted solution for being able to perform a certain task from my Tizen watch.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adgluzdoff:
You could?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 14jchan:
How would we go about doing this?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
I'm not a stupid person, but I am a slightly distracted widowed father of a three-year-old, and I've become so frustrated that I can't think straight!

I'm not a developer, but I've always easily rooted my devices by following the instructions. Until the Kindle came along.

I had all kind of trouble, wrong drivers, general mistakes, etc. Finally, everything appeared to be working, and then I had a hard drive crash during the root process. TWRP was installed, but, apparently, nothing else.

Took it to a second computer, downloaded KFU, installed drivers, ran. Partial success. TWRP appeared to be running smoothly. Downloaded ROM (Don't even remember which, Kindle has been thrown in drawer for weeks!) ROM appeared to install, but wouldn't boot. Here's where I got extra-stupid:

Obviously, something is already wrong with my Kindle, but at least I can see it in device manager. At least I can access it through KFU. For some insane reason, I began trying everything I could think to do, and eventually got TWRP into a recovery bootloop. Yay, me!

Now, I've screwed around on multiple computers, in Windows and Ubuntu. I'm completely confused as to which drivers are loaded where, Kindle shows up in Device Manager as a phone, but does not show up as a drive in Windows Explorer, and KFU, while it runs just fine, alternates between between telling me that it's "waiting for device," or "the system cannot find the drive specified."

Help on the Forums has been wonderful, but I am beyond that. My last post was answered with "Which drivers have you installed?" Well, crap! I don't know. I probably knew a month ago when the problem started, but I can't think rationally (where the Kindle is concerned, I seem to do OK in real life) anymore!

Now, I know that I've got so much crap going on, that most of you don't want to trash up the forum by trying to address my multiple issues. Please do not post "Have you tried the search tool?" Re-read my far too long post. I don't even know what the crap to search for anymore!

So, finally, here's my question? Anybody want to try their hand at fixing my F-'d up Kindle? It's not doing me a bit of good as is so, even if I mail it to someone and they just keep it I haven't really lost much!

All I want is a nice, stable (STABLE!) Gingerbread or ICS ROM that my little boy can watch Netflix on. I'll gladly pay anyone a reasonable amount to anyone willing to take this problem off my hands...
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
If you have TWRP installed can you mount the USB drive in it and then flash what you want?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
When I mount usb storage in twrp, it does allow me to access the device on the computer, which is much better than I was getting. When I run KFU it still stated that it cannot find the device. If I run Kindle Unbrick, it open the command line, then just hangs up.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
No need to run KFU... Just copy FFF to the Kindle and flash from TWRP. Then copy what rom you want and Flash from TWRP.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedr108:
And, make sure you flash the FFF version (1.4a) in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1632375

Your download should be named: fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip.

You will see some notes in that thread about NOT flashing this file, but those are for an older zip. This is a flashable .zip ... I just installed (flashed) it last week from TWRP.

(P.S.) Your KF is not in as bad of shape as you might think. This is a quick fix with the right setup.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ichigo:
I had a similar problem. First you should download Kindle Fire Drivers(the one that came with KFU didn't work...) and install it. Then in TWRP mount the SD card. Update the drivers using that Kindle Fire Driver folder(I will upload it and give you the link). Then with KFU press 1(bootmode) and then 1 again(normal). I think this should get you out of bootloop. If that doesn't work, just flash the Kindle Fire Stock Rom.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ichigo:
When I said install Kindle Fire Drivers I meant download. Then manually install the drivers(My Computer, right click,

properties, hardware, and open up device manager. If you get android device or something, click on it. If you see Kindle with a ! then click on update drivers and select the kindle fire driver folder. If you don't see kindle, or if you see Android device, then uninstall. Then go to disk drives and find your kindle fire and uninstall. Close and re-open, and you should see Kindle! Then update the drivers. Open up KFU and change bootmode to normal. Do a 20 sec. hard reset and see if it boots. If your trying to install a Custom ROM(ICS or honeycomb) put the .zip file on you kindle fire. Then open up TWRP and choose Wipe, and Factory Reset. Then wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache. Then go to install and select the ROM. After install the boot may take awhile. You said you tried this but you got stuck in bootmode, so make sure you follow these instructions. Make a backup if you ever want to go back. Move the backup to your computer as it takes up almost 1.5gb of space. Please inform me if this doesn't help. Sorry if I'm not good at giving instructions,but I'm only 14.

Here is the Link for the folder. Just unzip and update your Kindle Fire with it: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lnx766ac84o7q1i
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barrmulio:
RobWoodall - hang in there, because a lot of us were exactly in your shoes. For the life of me I can't get most of the ubuntu stuff to work, and windows was a bit of a nightmare for drivers until sorted out. I bootlooped, thought I bricked, etc etc but all sorted out in the end.

The fact you can see it in device manager is good. What you need to do is to replace the drivers with the 'Android Composite ADB Interface' - this video may help you out

I'm sure folks here will try to help you out without taking your money
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
Thanks, but I don't seem to be able to find a current version of FFF. Probably because I'm not thinking clearly.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
tedr108,

Thanks, but the link appears to be unavailable at this time. I'm not hopeful, as I have been quite able to install ROMs. For all I know they are running perfectly. My most immediate problem seems to be that I'm trapped in a bootloop, and no matter what I do, the Kindle always boots into TWRP. Apparently I'm in boot mode 5001, and I should be in mode 4000 or some such. KFU should be able to change the boot mode, but it only gives me "waiting for device."
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
Here is the latest copy of FFF 1.4A that I have.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hashcode:
Dropbox link (while Rombot is down):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/41149741/KFire-Android/fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip

md5sum: 419c53b922c963082454b14b7de75a90

Edit: Tera Tike is on the ball! (Thanks I almost never ready this forum)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
josepho1997,

Thanks. Downloaded and installed perfectly. Unfortunately, the Kindle will still only boot into TWRP recovery. Apparently I'm in boot mode 5001, and should be in 4000 or 4001 or something. It's really getting frustrating!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
Use sudo command in ubuntu power it off type sudo fastboot getvar product plug your kindle in it should return kindle as a response your kindle then your kindle will be in fastboot then type sudo fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000 hit enter then type sudo fastboot reboot it should boot in normal mode
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedr108:
Nevermind, someone beat me to it...
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
It seems that your system is bad.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
Tera Tike,

Thanks! I think I love you! Worked perfectly. I'm now running CM7 Barebones, because that's the last ROM I had tried to flash. Now that I understand the process, I'll certainly experiment with other ROMs, but Bare Bones looks pretty darn good after staring at the TWRP menu for a month and a half!

P.S. Nope! My system wasn't bad, the operator was!!! LOL!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
Thanks, Hashcode! I got the file from Tara Tike. Fantastic work! That simple option to reset bootmenu on the first page was all I needed all this time!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
Great!!! Hashcode FFF is the best!! Now enjoy your hard work!

Thanks, Hashcode for all you have done for us Fire users!!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
I really appreciate everyone's help! I've been sharing the nook with my three-year-old. He's a pretty smart kid but, once he learned how to change icons and wallpaper, install and uninstall apps, it's a completely different experience every time I turned it on. I bought the Kindle so I could have MY OWN tablet!

If anyone is still reading this thread, please give me some recommendations for ROMs. I typically only use Google Play Books, Contacts and Calendar, Aldiko Reader and Netflix. I'm not in the market for fastest or fanciest, but most stable. I don't care if it's Gingerbread or ICS (Heck, even Honeycomb if it's stopped sucking!) So what do you all say?

What's the most stable ROM out there for a person who needs Google compatibility on the Kindle Fire?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tera Tike:
For me I like the stock Kindle Fire ROM but with Google stuff( calender, contacts, Gmail, market, books). So I built a Gapps and apps package using ADW launcher with SuperSU(you can temp unroot). This way I can use my Prime account and Google.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ichigo:
I was going to suggest to you that you just flash Amazons Stock ROM, and see if that worked, but it seems you got it working.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ichigo:
GedeROM(Completely working CM9 ICS). Works Great!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barrmulio:
with your needs you have a lot of choice

modaco rom is the stock experience + some...best of both worlds in gingerbread

gede is my fav cm9 rom

you'll find the KF ics experience a lot better than with the NC...ics roms are all pretty stable, but have a few quirks (like the charging display issue)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bozz5384:
x2!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstrom23:
GedeROM is fantastic. The issues with it are quirks. You'll be amazed once you go ICS.

Hashcode, thank you!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobWoodall:
Thanks, Guys.

I'm not really involved in the Amazon ecosystem, so I think I'll give GedeROM a shot. I've backed up my Bare Bones just in case...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
I would like to use this but have a feeling this technology is too new and hurts the battery more than the old fashion way of setting the screen off after a minute.

does anyone know if it is in fact a battery killer? Hope not
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpsauce37:
How do you even activate it?

I've never seen it working in my phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g2theno:
I wish I could tell you I have had the phone for a day now with that feature enabled and have only seen the eye pop up in the status bar twice. It doesn't really work good for me at all. :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
are any of the "S" feautures useful? My galaxy s3 is preordered and I don't have it yet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronj1986:
Go to Setting>Display>check Smart Stay in menu
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AMoosa:
It only checks for your face just before it turns the screen off, as opposed to all the time. I've been using it for a week and it hasn't really had any effect on battery life
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harise100:
In good lighting smart stay works for me.

It isn't perfect, but it is nice to have as opposed to the german version of s voice.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sgs2(ab)user:
No noticeable difference in battery life for me. I have found it doesn't work very well in low light conditions and it won't work at all when using most downloaded applIcations.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhiwltya:
Doesnt kill baytter as it doesnt use the front camera for actual photo,just for face recognition and that too when the original time out of the screen is reached.After that it checks every 5 second or so and isnt continuously using battery.Instead it saves u the irritation of powering up the screen everytym :-D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gam3r 4 Life:
I just discovered this feature and it seems to work great. But seeing that eye pop up on the screen every few seconds is distracting to me. Turned smart stay off.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSkylla:
I'll try to make this as simple as possible.

On VeNuM's GB ROM, I was getting at least a day on my battery, it was fantastic. Modem was EL29 (I believe, possibly 26 though). I could use the phone a lot and it still got good battery life. With the verizon PRL, forcing roaming 24/7, I could almost get two days on it since there was less time it was "Searching for service"

Now on ICS (have done stock, calk, venum), I have been getting dreadful battery life. Take it off the charger at 9 and by 3, after using the phone during my hour commute, it's dead. The place that I work has pretty bad service for sprint, barely hovers at 1 bar if I even have service at all. One thing I have also noticed is that even on stock (and stock PRL), my phone does not seem to roam, at all.

Here was day one on FE22 stock: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwjr5j3nd5vgody/2012-06-06 15.36.08.png

Day one calk FE22: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lroppsxl1bzbup/2012-06-07 18.14.04.png

Battery 2nd: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pttz5fla4us8evk/2012-06-07 18.14.08.png

You'll notice that there are a few bumps at the end. I did have it charging on the comp for a little bit before I left work, those are the two spikes. HOWEVER, it also rose on its own. It went down to 5% and then went UP to 6%, staying there for a bit and then going down.

There seems to be something funky going on, but I just dont know what. I'm currently testing what the difference is with the verizon PRL, I have that on there now.

Are there some battery logs I can post to perhaps decode this puzzle?

-----------------------------

Second question. How do I go about downgrading from ICS to GB?

Thanks a lot.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
You should try calibrating your battery and wiping the battery stats at 100%. That would speed up the settling in.

I suggest using sfhubs Odin one click package to revert back to GB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ankurcshah:
Something is keeping your phone awake. Download badass battery monitor and check whats using up your battery.!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSkylla:
I'll do that right now. I just took it off the charger an hour ago and it's down to 85, just sitting in my pocket. I'll let it charge back up to 100 and then clear battery stats. I'll use it today and if it's still bad, revert to GB.

You look at the pics? They're depressing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jay2o01:
i definitely think you have apps causing wakelocks. try disabling dropbox, facebook and other random programs that sync, same goes for other stuff u may have polling for updates. with exchange syncing every 15 minutes i think i get better battery life vs push. Kobridge tweaks helped a ton.

white signal bars- cm9, the other is stock fe22 w/kobridge

id defintely search the forums for better battery stats (the dev made it available for free to xda users) or badass battery monitor in the market (also free)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSkylla:
I'm on Kobridge aggressive! I tried moderate as well.

Can anyone else confirm the first reply as to how to downgrade to GB? A direct link would be nice as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jay2o01:
backup sms with "sms backup and restore"

backup apps with titanium or "appbak"

run the odin one click found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

if you dont want root, then run the autoroot package linked below(after doing above) and choose the option to remove root.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] randomfied:
Battery life is not as good on ics and I too had the same the same problem. System monitor wouldn't pick up any program eating up CPU. Took me for a few day to realize I had a bad install. I had to Odin back to el26 and re install. That seemed to fix my problems. Which is my understanding is the procedure one is supposed to take when flashing from ics. So regardless your flashing back GB everytime you flash roms. but might want to give ics another shot when you flash correctly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dgn_sandibalz:
Must say it took me several weeks to find the right combination of parts to get my battery right.

I found that several of the newer modems were overheating my phone and draining my battery in a couple hours. Right now I'm running wicked ff02 rom, agats ff02 kernel and fe21 modem. Battery never get above 90 degrees; and yesterday I got an 8 hour day of work with heavy use (no mid day charge).

Edit:	I tried venums boa rom, with very good results too. He included badass battery monitor, which seems to be one of the best of the bunch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSkylla:
I did downgrade back to GB, running Blazer's EL29 rom with verizon PRL right now and from what I saw it was decent, even through the first battery cycle with the ROM. I'll see how it runs this weekend.

If I want to go back to ICS, can I flash straight from EL29 or should I flash the EL26 kernel first and then upgrade?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] epic4gfaded:
I'm getting also great results with battery from wick from but with fe29

modem

Also tweaking settings using spar parts is helping too
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ankurcshah:
Any screenies?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] corbincc:
ICS Battery life

I have been running "Wicked Sensations" now for 4 days, with the FF09 Modem. I also added the FF11 Kobridge Tweaks to the mix using the aggressive zip. I have been getting roughly 15 to 18 hours out of my battery. I keep my screen about 15% on the slider for brightness. I am heavy user and this seems to be the best combination for my SII. I came from Calkulin's 3.0 GB... If you decide to go back to ICS, this combination. Good luck.
[HTC One X] mox123:
anyone experiencing this on their one x

I have attempted to record this and uploaded to youtube. In order to recreate this for yourself, make sure haptic feedback is enabled for your lock screen.

watch video from 0:22 onwards as I was struggling to record and hold the phone at the same time.

you will also have to enable show touches in development options in settings as well as keeping your charger plugged in as this is when it only happens if your charger is plugged in (mains charger the white one that the one x comes with)

here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5paZpvqKck&feature=youtu.be

I have not tested this with usb charging from pc/laptop

It happens when you try to unlock your lockscreen to fast, or pressing screen to fast in different areas.

I always prefer my phones to have show touch enabled so I can see where I'm touching if I'm browsing etc. and this is the only way I discovered this bug

EDIT: it turns out the default white charger that comes in the box of the HTC one x is causing the problem, if I use any other mains charger I am not having these issues. very weird!!
[HTC One X] John Freeman:
Checked mine and i cannot confirm it. Tho im running cm9.
[HTC One X] mox123:
could be kernel related, did you try with charger plugged in and charging the phone with show touch enabled and lockscreen enabled?