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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] trevmar:
Max Video length with ICS ?

I still have GB on my Note, and am resisting change because everything is stable. The phone is rooted with bLED and JKay_Deluxe, and does everything I want.

Well, everything -- except one thing :)

When I try to record video of a lecture, the camera stops after about 45 minutes. Its H264 encoder uses VBR, so the exact time depends a little on quality and what is being photographed. I tracked down that this is due to the 4GB limit on the FAT32 filesystem on SD cards. The GB camera can only be switched to the SDcard and External_SD destinations.

GingerBread will not recognize the exFAT file system, while ICS apparently does. Can anybody confirm whether the ICS camera software still enforces this 4GB max video recording limit when running SDcard formatted for exFAT (or NTFS, for that matter)?

Thanks muchly :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lhurtado:
When you have something too bright or something to dark in the frame you are going to picture, the camera tries to make it looks good if the metering is made in this spot, so everything around this object will be too dark (if you point to the bright object) or to bright (if you point to dark object). This happens in the second and third picture. Try using Matrix metering, maybe you can get better results.

To deal with tose "difficult" scenarios you need some manual control as lock the metering value or change the exposition value manually to adjust that.

I would say that those pictures are Ok for a cell phone camera without using any "advanced" manual controls.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hajime_android:
I tried Camera Zoom FX (which people called the best camera app for Android) and compared two photos taken by this app and the stock Camera app on my Mac. I could not see any difference. I found some inconvenience with this app.

1. I took a photo of a building while holding the camera in portrait mode. After I pressed the button, the photo automatically rotated and displayed in landscape mode. So, when I viewed the photo on my Note, things became smaller.

2. I could not pin zoom.

3. There were several zoom methods. Around four as far as I recall. I could not see the difference between a photo (taken with the app under 6x zoom) and a photo (taken with the stock Camera app under 4x zoom). In some zoom options, even I increased the zoom value, the image did not enlarge.

I should have spent about 10-18 minutes on the tests. I could not find the refund button on the play store site. Any good thing about this app that is worth my keeping of it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] endura:
Hi hajime_android

I have tried many camera apps since iPhone days. I unless you want to do fancy stuff like photo frame or mirror your phone, I believe the galaxy note stock camera is pretty decent. Have you try all the feature available in it? Go to menu > edit short cut.

If you want we can discuss one by one of your short coming using this phone camera here. Tell us what is most unsatisfied photo issue for you now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] endura:
Hi hajime_android,

I don't a good photo sample but want to just make a point.

If you need to adjust the WB, try using the stock PHOTO EDITOR app. Adjust the SATURATION slider till you are happy.

The example here, top photo original and bottom photo adjusted to near white.

With galaxy note I don't need any third party apps to do my photo stuff
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] madbird:
this app is mainly made to manipulate pictures and put all kind of effects to them, after the pictures are taken!. i think the app uses the original camera app to take a picture, that is why you cant see any difference.

if you really want an app that gives you more control about the camerasettings, i can only repeat myself and again give you the link to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.lite

this app give you control about your camera settings in a more DSLR like fashioned way. it is the lite version, you can test it as long as you like for free, and if you like it, you can buy the full version with even more features.

but when i read trough all of this i think what you really need is a good book about photography basics, and something to peel off the plastic foil from you camera lens ;).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] endura:
Downloaded and purchased the full version of Camera FV5.

Pro. Shutter speed can control, major controls within reach, shutter click sound can be silent, can set ISO. WB can set.

Con. Using S program with any exposure timing the photo over exposed. This is different from Dslr. I am trying to achieve light trail photo.

Crashed several times and slow respond on my galaxy note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hajime_android:
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but there are so many settings that I have no idea how they affect the results. It is a bit difficult for novice like me to use efficiently especially when I need to capture the images that can be gone quickly. I am sure that once I have knowledge about photography basics, this app would be helpful. So, I keep it on my phone.

By the way, have you guys tried HDR Camera and Pro HDR Camera? I tried HDR Camera and it "seems" to take better photos than the stock app.

Is there an app that takes better videos than the stock Camera app? How come there is no app to take HDR videos?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] madbird:
HDR on a cellphone camera is reached by manipulating the image after taking it. if you want to know more about HDR and how it works read on at wikipedia . so at least HDR as a software can make pictures looking better in some way. because it is doing some kind of 'rendering' to images it dont work in realtime, thats why there is no video HDR.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
I pushed local.prop to my rooted .62 XM to update to ICS and root as instructed by puppet13h in this post - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1688980

After pushing local.prop i had problems affecting my Mini, which i posted here -

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27423564&postcount=99

It could get fixed by deleting local.prop as told by him.

The ICS update still has not come to PCC/SUS and i used my phone often, restarted often till now after pushing local.prop.

Now today after deleting local.prop since pushing local.prop 3-4 days ago, my phone has no sound only vibration. I restarted and factory resetted many times but the sound is not coming back.

After somany failures, i flashed/downgraded to .42 from .62. Still the phone has no sound after downgrading.

No sound when call comes, when music plays, loud speaker too not working.

I think this local.prop has killed by Mini's sound and speaker.

What will i do now?.

I bought my Mini last month and flashed 3 or 4 times for getting root..

Please will someone help.. ?..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sidharth.gtm:
even i had a problem using that script .. :mad:

but i updated to ics via flashtool..

now everything is working fine :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
but there is no sound even flashing stock 62.., only vibration is working.

Also when i call, i can hear sound from call speaker, but the back loud speaker is not working..

I am afraid that the sound is gone for ever.....

Update: Opened camera. The usual beep sound(.i.e from speaker) comes before capturing pic. Played a song. Yes, sound comes from speakers. But when the screen locked, music stopped and sound is gone.

Opened camera again. The beep sound is gone too and am unlucky again. No ringtone volume sound, no music, i.e. speaker stopped working.

Cant understand why the problem is still there after flashing new firmware.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sravan242:
do u wipe data n cache while flashing rom?? if not then try to flash rom with wiping data n cache. also try flashing ICS ftf file as sidhartha did, which is available in development forum!! do wipe cache n data when u flashing i think it will surely help.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
yes, wipe data n cache is always checked in flashtool...

i flashed 42, no sound.

then flashed stock 62, no sound.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
what will happen if i write ro.kernel.qemu=0?.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] UchihaDareNial:
I afraid there is sound problem with your phone (hardware,not software) :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sravan242:
try flashing ICS it will change total kernel... may be changing kernel may help!!:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
had no problem before creating local.prop.

how will this script create a hardware problem?..

lets try and post what you are getting.

push/create /data/local.prop with ro.kernel.qemu=1 on rooted .42 or .62, restart, lock screen and try to unlock...

Also tell about the sound and vibration..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
will try this now...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
While flashing perform a fully clean install. Clean everything (before starrting remove SD card and SIM card) using flashtool while flashing the ROM.

Report back.

Thanks,

Rick

Update: Seems like you did wipe. Remove SD Card and try to use camera. Activatre touch sonds and try taking a screenshot and see if sound is there.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Feanor88:
I don't really understand people who don't care about continously flashing 0.42 and 0.62 ROMs but will wait for ICS update to be available on PC Companion...

That method is supposed to be used before flashing ICS. What was the sense of pushing the file if you knew you wouldn't have upgraded yet?

Anyway, let us know if flashing ICS solved the problem :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
Pushed local.prop and switched off. Removed sim, sdcard and flashed Generic_World_(1249-8388 R2I) ICS with wipe data unchecked. Upon start i pressed volume up button to test sound beep is there. I heard a beep sound once and upon pressing the up button again the sound is no more heard. No sound after reducing or increasing volume.

Very laggy user interface.

Inserted sim and sdcard.

Opened camera and complete darkness (will have to say camera died or is not working). Tried to take screenshot by power+vol down buttons. Showing "couldn't capture screenshot. Storage maybe"...(cant see rest in notifications. tried to rotate. it is not rotating).

My sdcard has 7.3GB space left. Opened music player and played a song. Song plays, no sound.. Sound is gone again..

I must say ICS is lagging fully on Xperia Mini now...316MB free phone memory, 220MB RAM free, but big lagginess.

Maybe a wipe could make it lag less.

WTF is this?. A local.prop file killed my phone's speaker?. Speaker is not working on ICS too...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Why are you pushing local-prop.cmd? Do not push it. Delete it. Factory reset your phone. And then flash the .62 or ICS ROM, wiping everything.

Thanks,

Rick

Anyways, according to the tutorial, you are supposed to run the 2nd cmd file soon after the update is over.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
If i want rooted ICS, then when will i push local.prop?. You told in tutorial to push local.prop before updating ICS and after push root files.

Pushed root files and restarted. For surprise Lag is now low...

Update:

Camera and screenshot working after restart...........

Now am seeing super user.... But my speaker is gone for ever.....i am very sad..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Feanor88:
He's just saying that you should try to flash a clean, non rooted ICS to check if everything goes fine.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Very bad Smiltron. You did not read properly before doing the things.

There are two cmd files in puppet's zip.

Read my tutorial all over again. I had mentioned "after executing the first cmd of puppet's zip, go for updating the phone right away". I said "DO NOT ToUCH your PhOne after this and flash the ICS ROM".

After the flashing of ICS ROM is over run the second cmd file of puppet's thread right away soon after the phone boots. I had mentioned. You did not read that too.

Read it now. Execute the 2nd cmd now and see if something happens.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
"DO NOT ToUCH your PhOne after this and flash the ICS ROM". it was not clear to me whether to update ics suddenly after creating local.prop or when ics arrives. I used, restarted the mobile for some days after creating local.prop.

I came to know about the screen lock problem and sound problem then.

"after executing the first cmd of puppet's zip, go for updating the phone right away" - i did this now.

after creating local.prop, i switched off and flashed and then pushed root files. Now i am having super user rights. What is wrong there?.

see my post above

Dragonclaw, what will i do now with my speaker?.. Should i do a clean non rooted update from 62?..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Right. You edited your post now. Good. You did the rooting process correctly. The whole thing. Good.

Now. Coming to the sound problem. You need audio of your phone back. And you do not care about root. You will owrry about root once sound is back.

Saying that, I will tell you what to do now.

Take out the SD Card of your phone and the SIM card too. And then using flashtool, flash the ICS ROM, clearing everything. See if things are fixed or not. And report back.

Thanks,

Rick

After the update is over do not insert the SIM or the SD Card. See if sound is there for the other components. Like touch sounds. Unlock sounds. Etc etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
yep.... i believe you....

should i choose MTP or MSC?.

clearing everything means should i check or uncheck wipe data, wipe cache, wipe apps log?..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Did not get you.

Mtp or msc does not come under question as while flashing you turn off your phone and boot in flashmode.

Thanks,

Rick

Yea. You should check all that for a clean install

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
Removed sim, sdcard, flashed clean.....

All sound settings are on... But sad to say still no sound..only vibration.

What to do now...?..

Seems its a bug produced by local.prop. After pushing local.prop, restart and check sound and vibration, then lock, screen and press home or power to unlock.

Screen goes blank, but software is working.

Only we can do is to hold power button and switchoff by tapping in middle of screen imaginarily, where the switchoff button is placed..

Now power on and can see screen works before the next screen lock.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] UchihaDareNial:
Hmm...I think it is better to send your phone to some service phone shop :D they are more advance than us ;)

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
want to see what Dragonclaw has to say...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Come on. Do not push local-prop.cmd again and again. There's no point.

Now do this. Turn on phone. Let screen be black. And run 2nd cmd of puppet's thread. This will re enable the phone to working completely.

Now stay away from those two cmd's till the phone sound is working again.

Turn off the phone. Then turn it on. When the Xperia Text comes up, and the bootanimation starts, press all the physical buttons of your phone one by one. Press them again and and again, each for a few times. Volume +/- and home button.

Phone will boot into safemode.

Go to settings, and then sound and then turn on touch sounds. See if there are sounds on touching.

Remove your SD while doing this. I have a feeling that the problem might be with SD. So I want yo to test if other sounds are working.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] UchihaDareNial:
See already lol

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
what are you telling?. you told to do a clean non-rooted installation. I didn't pushed local.prop and did a clean non-rooted flashing now and got no sound still.

For that, i have to downgrade to 42 and root, isn't it?. Then push local.prop and flash ics and 2nd command to get rooted ics. Again frustrating steps..

After pushing local.prop, which is the 1st comand, Sound goes and Screen goes black, only after restarting and locking screen. On restarting, screen is normal before next lock.

So for that not to occur switchoff after pushing local.prop and flash ics and push root files, which is second command..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Everything is in a real confusion now.

If your phone is working now, (I mean everything other than sound), then remove the SD card and see if sounds other than music are working. For example lock sounds, touch sounds, etc, etc.

See and report back.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
Not to be confused. You told me to remove sdcard, sim then do a clean ics flashing.

I did it and found there is still no sound in anything even if all sound settings like lock sounds, touch sounds are checked.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Feanor88:
You really don't understand each other. Calm down a restart from the beginning, both of you :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
That's the reply I wanted. Good. Sounds aer not working.

You can try a few more things. Download an app claeed volume+. Change the values beyond what is allowed by your phone using the app, and see if it does the job. (reinsert SD. SD IS NOT A PROBLEM)

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
what about this.......? should i downgrade, root, push local.prop, ics flash, push root and start overall again to check this.....

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27822146&postcount=25
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
You need not downgrade for that. Safe mode can be accessed any time. Root or no root. So the answer is yes. Try to do it now. Turning your phone on on safe mode.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
But to push command 1, flash ics and command 2 and then press safemode keys, i need root as you told in that link i posted. Now i have done a clean ics non-rooted installation as told by you before that reply in link. So to get root i have to start overall again isn't?...quite lengthy....and frustrating...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Feanor88:
Oh my God. He's not telling you to push those files. Forget those files. Those files never existed. You dreamt of them. no one ever invented a procedure to root Xperia phones. Root does not exist on Android. Android is based on Windows. No, on DOS.

Forget everything you've done until now, and do the following:

Turn your phone off.

Turn your phone on.

While booting, keep pressing all physical buttons until you enter safe mode.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
He dont say/. then what is this he told ...?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27822146&postcount=25

First he told to run cmd2 and check.. Then said keep away from those 2 cmds.

I havnt done nw wht he said first..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Feanor88:
Don't mind what he said. You both said a lot of things, and none of you understood the meaning of what the other was saying. From now on, I'll be the official translator when you have to communicate. Start doing what I said.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Thanks bro.

Anyways. Smultron. I am assuming that now you are on a clean stock ICS ROM. Is that correct?

If it is, turn off the phone and turn it on again. When the boot animation starts to show up, keep on pressing the volume +, the volume -, and the home button of your phone, one by one, each for sometime. Your phone should boot up in safemode. Try to check "Unlock Sounds" and "Touch Sounds" and see if they are coming.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
what keys at when on booting?.

power+vol.up+vol.down+home?.

will i hve to hold all of these at same time on boot..?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Just rock all the buttons. Randomly. Need not do at the same time. Any one will trigger the safemode. I do not know which one.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
which boot animtn?. sony globe rounding?

oh oh, sorry, xperia ics loading...

yes done n got to language menu..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Press the buttons randomly and repeatedly. Like a mad man. :D.

And do it when the bootanimation starts. If you are in stock ICS, the boot animation is the Xperia Text glowing. If you are in Stock GB, the boot animation is the Sony Orb forming from the orange color.

Just press all the physical buttons randomly during the animation.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
got language selection menu
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Yea. Is there a safe mode written at the bottom cornerr of your screen? If yes you are into safemode. If no, then retry to enter into safemode.

If you can not enter safemode, or in case sonunds still did not come, you try to download volume+ app and see.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
safemode is not written. Then where does the setup guide now come from?.

I configured it after flashing itself..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] UchihaDareNial:
AFAIK to enter Safemode you only need to press and holddown the low volume key when the 2nd bootanimation play until you enter Safemode... :confused:

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
I have no idea what happened. No idea at all. Never mind. Try again. Or as someone upstairs said. Send to Sony Centre.

Before sending to Sony, flash a stock ROM, and do a factory reset. And then send.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
i got into safemode by pressing menu key.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Sound workin? :hopefull:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
no sound...only ear speaker (call receiver) works as before.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DragonClawsAreSharp:
Try Volume +. If it doesn't work, I do not know what will work.

Thanks,

Rick
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ▐▬SMULTRON▬▌:
no change with vol+ too. finally doing a repair with pcc/sus.. unlucky to taste real ics...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] &$m%M6:
it's repaired now?