yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slap-Yourself :):
Since the Nexus 4 has back glass like the iPhone 4/4S/5, do you think they will make custom back glass replacements for the Nexus 4? My gut says no, but just curious? What do you think they'll look like?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhruvmalik:
I was thinking of the same thing considering the 2 screws on the back. I would also look forward for a back "Screen protector" like the iPhone 4/4S/5.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slap-Yourself :):
Yeah, I'd really like to see a market of custom backs..... Not sure if I'd like them, but it would be cool. And I was hoping for back screen protectors too.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectroBeijing:
That would be awesome. What I'd REALLY like to see is something like that one glowing Apple replacement back, except with a glowing Nexus symbol.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentBEATS:
This. Although maybe just have the X in Nexus glow. Plus whatever kind of other backs we can get. Variety is always good.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zurginator:
Unfortunately you'd have to add a few mm to make it glow. Still might be worth it though. :P

We won't get metal backs because of antenna issues, but we might could see carbon fiber and plastic.

Other possible issues with the whole idea is the fact that the antennas are actually on the back plate, which would make replacements more expensive.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slap-Yourself :):
YES!:good:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vido.ardes:
IIRC the NFC antenna is attached to the back plate, as well as the wireless charging coil
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zurginator:
More than that, check out all the contact pins:

http://cdn02.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lg-nexus-4-teardown-1.jpg
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectroBeijing:
So does all of those things attached to the back plate make replacements very unlikely, or just more expensive?

Personally, I'd give up wireless charging (I have a super long USB cable, good enough for me) if necessary, (and if the phone could still function without it) to keep the price down on a back cover.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Thanks to dmmarck over at A.C

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=220830

Enjoy guys

Flash zip with all files http://db.tt/8zIWJktF

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Manual edit:

Camera apk:

http://db.tt/xmpgkZIA

Add this apk to system/app after installing camera apk first only for manual.

http://db.tt/OZF6D8fL

This are the lib files place them on system/lib fix permission then reboot.

http://db.tt/73lcCrcl

http://db.tt/wQ7bfR8N

for those with device not supported, change the following lines in build.prop and reboot:

ro.product.model=Galaxy Nexus

ro.product.brand=google

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Sphere fc and picture editing but some say if your on cm10 everything works

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] radrian92:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] QBANBOY407:
Installed it but when I take a picture the camera freezes and the pic won't show on the gallery :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
New fc fix thanks again to the guys on a.c

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Humzaman:
So I added the lib files and edited built.prop and photo sphere works and stuff. But now my phone keeps saying Preparing Network...

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Sent from my SPH-L710 running FreeGS3 v1.0.0

"Wake me... when you need me." -Master Chief John 117
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] neuteboomt:
Works great on GSIII running ParanoidAndroid 2.51.

I moved .apk to system/app and extract the two zip files to system/lib

After a few hours the gallery crashes. Then the camera no longer works. After a reboot it will work few one picture.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hoopsdavis:
Works like a charm on Freeza's Sprint Touchwiz Jelly Bean 4.1.1 rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kr0matik:
Also working perfect on Jellyblazed v.0.3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fidorulz:
any chance this supports external memory?

Dont think so since its from the new nexus but curious
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] neuteboomt:
It does not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
Anyone suffering from excess battery drain after installing this?

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] OxyClean:
Thanks for putting the info all in one place.

Have not changed my build prop, but everything but the sphere viewing is working.

Although I can see the sphere view on Google plus on my computer, which is really neat. No more taking multiple pictures of a worksite, can just take a sphere pic, and attach to my work order. Company already used to street view to look at. Will be using this a lot...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drewmonge:
Keep getting "download unsuccessful."

Is it just me??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] neuteboomt:
I am not sure. I downloaded it on my PC and sideloaded it to my phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
yea downloads for me also but im using my pc.. try a different browser
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
I love this feature lol

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drewmonge:
Got it to download on my PC finally. I dunno why it won't download straight to my phone. I've noticed this problem though with 4.1.2. Anyways, thx
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VikingoRMCF:
What ROM is everyone using?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
Freegs3 here

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
I'm on tw jb lj7

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blown00gtp:
So I did everything in the o.p but after I take one pic the I get the "gallery is not responding" message...any ideas?? I'm on blackbean 6
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drewmonge:
I'm getting the same thing too. The only way I can get it to stabilize is by touching the screen to focus before pressing the shutter button. If I take two consecutive pics in a row, the second one always causes the camera to freeze up, "unless" I tap the screen to focus it. Try that.

I'm on AOKP 10/28 build, btw.

Although reading thru the thread, seems to work pretty good on some of the TW Jelly builds. May try that as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blown00gtp:
Also the pics that I take do not show up in the gallery...hmm
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Try deleting gallery with root explorer and flash the zip again

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeregister:
This happened to me also. The only way I got it to go away is changing the build.prop back to stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drewmonge:
Should we delete old camera app as well? Found old gallery, and deleted that. But I still have two cameras. Was wondering if the old one was clashing with the new. But I tried looking around for old camera app in system apps, but I can't seem to find it. What would it be under? Thx
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
I have my old camera and gallery along with the new ones. Works fine. Make sure you fix permissions and make all the files read and write.

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
YES. 100% to 8% in two hours. No joke.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
is there a 3rd party app that does this sphere thing and also anyone got a link so I can "see" how one of these looks online like street view with a sphere taken from an S3 ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
Same here. Significant drain.

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It's almost the same as panorama.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brooklyn718941:
Everything works except you can't view your 3d pic
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
My battery isn't draining wish I can help let me ask dylan

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Dylan found the new missing apk fixes couple more things ....

http://db.tt/OZF6D8fL

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
I still can't get this thing to just take a normal pic. Hmmmmmm. I've tried every trick every flash and manual way known right now. Oh well. Will just wait.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
When you take a 360 pic and you wanna edit its better to edit while using the camera app and not the gallery app ...weird but works for me

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stefanACM:
Nice,

can you make now ".zip" that will uninstall this because battery dieing :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
To go back some people say reflash your rom ....I think deleting gallery from system/app and then extract the gallery from your ROM and place it to system/app is much easier

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fresh_TD:
LMAO.. That's crazy:D:D

Sent from my GS3... RLTW!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Here is a nice 360 view
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fresh_TD:
One thing I noticed when viewing a pano in gallery you're suppose to have 3 icons on the bottom of the screen I only have the left and middle icon, anyone else have all 3 or missing any of the icons?

Sent from my GS3... RLTW!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
so is there a way to make a nice high resolution "movable" walk around 360 pano type thing with this?

I use to do this with an Egg Lens but even with my 12mp cam it ended up as a really low res 360 pano.

by stitching with our cams we should be able to get something much higher resolution.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
What's everyone who has it working running?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fresh_TD:
I'm running Goodness jelly bean... But still got some bugs with the 4.2 Camera /PhotoSphere

Sent from my GS3... RLTW!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
Anyone get it to take a normal picture?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fresh_TD:
Yuuup!!

Sent from my GS3... RLTW!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
Well ****. That's great for you and not so great for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jimmyjoe:
On Stock Rooted Jellybean here and flashed the zip and placed the apk in the directory and all works flawlessly.

THANKS! Damn I love Android!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
Anyone running aosp and have thus running?

Flawlessly?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
i am running this on cm10 latest nightly and its useable for me if i tap to focus before each shot otherwise it locks up and crashes. but even the photosphere works along with gallery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LG710S34LYFE:
I got my APK from QBKING77 and it works great. Took great shots too. On goodness rom.

[YOUTUBE]fOOUU-8u8rk[/YOUTUBE]

Here is my shot of my apt
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
I can get photo sphere to work just can't get the regular camera r to take a pic. Would live to know if burst shot is working
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
have you tried to "tap to focus" before trying to capture?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
I believe i have but getting tired so i may not be doing something right i am going to try again tomorrow
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DutchDogg54:
I'm on LiquidSmooth, a new 4.1.2 AOSP derived rom and it's not working. Gallery force closes whether I tap to focus or not...bummer :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VWEBBJR:
WOW! Thought that was my place for a second...we have that EXACT set of furinture..pillows and all. Hilarious. Good shot...going to reflash this, had the same issues many here were having and I too got my APK from him.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
How did you install

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] siraloz:
Does this camera installation require root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
will the stock camera function along side this camera? can you "package" the sphere shots so others can see then and interact with them?

anyone tried this running at 240dpi?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
I have the stock camera and this one. Same with the galleries. Both work and function correctly.

Sent from Pluto.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] .Bambino:
Yes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smoothone:
I'm on AOKP and it just crashes. Seems to be working on TW roms. How ironic!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Update the zip file with all new files included

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
Are there anymore newer items added that you haven't posted in this update?

I have everything up till the last thing you posted in addition.

So in all I have four things I installed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
2 apks and 3 libs

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] souless poet:
Ha I know right. Oh well I'm sure the devs will get it perfected. They always do. Nevertheless greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pizzlewizzle:
looks like the OP still says that you need to push the GmsCore.apk to system/app, but I believe its included in the new zip you posted....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Thanks forgot about that

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smoothone:
Ok so if I touch to focus and then take a pic then all is good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RickyRage:
So do i flash the "everyrhing" zip in whatever custom recovery i have?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] neuteboomt:
You are using the latest 2 apks and 3 libs?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smoothone:
Yes that is what i am using. Clear data and cache in settings and then touch to focus before you take the pic.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ls1ssz28:
Anyway for this camera app to use the new note 2 gallery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
You can use that gallery if you want just open the sgn2 gallery app I'm using both gallery's

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nitekillerz:
if i use the zip package do i use have to something with the lib stuff? i don't know much about those
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
No that's only for manual use

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fishingmedic:
What about permissions? Or will fixing permissions in TWRP take care of that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Flashing the zip fixes the permission in recovery it self no need only fix permission when using manual

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] james33440:
I get it to install and world perfect. However, after installing the apk and file fixes I can't play videos. Ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] radrian92:
How do we go about sharing these pics with others without having to post them on maps? Reason I'm asking is that we just purchased a house and would like to show the interior with family. I'd like for them to have the same experience as when played thru the phone not just a long pic.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fresh_TD:
Not sure how big your file/pics are.. But I did one and sent it through mms with no issue ;)

Sent from my GS3... RLTW!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MzGx09:
Awesome! :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Anyone got it working on nexus 7 ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] holysmokesbatty:
Doesn't make much sense for a device lacking a rear camera.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Humzaman:
I wish I could use this amazing camera but it causes EXTREME battery drain on my phone. How could a camera possibly drain battery? Does it run in the background at full power or something? Is there anything I can do?

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Sent from my SPH-L710 running FreeGS3 v1.0.0

"Wake me... when you need me." -Master Chief John 117
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
You could feeze it when your not using it w/titanium backup.

Edit added:

I installed a lil over an hr ago & don't notice any extreme battery drain.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] radrian92:
Yea thru mms but it's not the same experience for them. They get a pic but I'd like for them to scroll around ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hoopsdavis:
I'm starting to wonder if this only work on the 4.1.1 roms and not the 4.1.2 roms.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] holysmokesbatty:
I think you may be onto something here. I have the "touch to focus before shooting to prevent camera drivers from locking up" problem running CM10 11-01 and my wife does not running Freeza's Stock DeOdexed LJ7.

Hmmmm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] OxyClean:
T-mobile, stock, touchwiz, rooted:

ICS: flash and video issues.

Jb: everything works

Main app thread has a nice post with maps, Google+, camera and gallery that can be used to upload to maps.

Use gallery and share to maps. :thumbup:

App forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33626980
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Tks op!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
I have no idea why but for some reason I can't have both camera apps and gallery apps at the same time. The new one, with the full package overwrites the previous one.

Anyone else with this problem?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Av8torGuy:
Hi- Thanks for instructions! I installed the zip on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 CM10 running 10-20121104-NIGHTLY-d2spr, and the camera freezes after the first picture. Subsequent tries to take pictures yield a "can't connect with the camera" error message. Any ideas? I have not made any changes to the build.prop, because I'm concerned about causing other problems -- is that a valid concern? Thanks!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pastert33:
Go clear data in the gallery and reboot. Should het the cam working again. Did you touch focus before taking the pic?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Av8torGuy:
Thanks for the quick reply! I cleared the data and rebooted. This time I was able to get the camera to work (touching focus before taking pictures), but the gallery became unresponsive after a few minutes and I was forced to restart... I guess I'll wait until the official release... Thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mackentosh:
Lol :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] desmond2:
i cant get the sphere to work on my rom jelly bean edition rom by team venum,it worked great on the ics wicked rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aneyboy:
I can't get the original camera to work after installing the 4.2 camera
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hofs1:
Odd after much mucking aroud I have both 4.2 Cam/Gallery AND Orig JB Cam with Note II Gallery working at same time on my Jellyblazed 0.3 Rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Upstreammiami:
Got sgn2 camera and 4.2 camera working at the same damn time lol

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aneyboy:
That's the same Rom I'm running but I have kt kernal
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hoopsdavis:
Jellyblazed isn't that a TWiz based rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hofs1:
YUP I didnt notice u were talking about CM10.......sorry

If it helps any I had weird freezing with 4.2 untill i removed ALL cam/galleries then pushed samsungcamera.apk to sysapps then installed note2 gallery via TWRP....then after i tested sammy cam i then installed 4.2 package via TWRP and it all worked
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hoopsdavis:
No worries, any info is good info. I appreciate it.

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Where are the cam/galleries located?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
How do you guys manage to install all the camera's at the same time
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Xontic:
I have BB6 running with KT kernel, no power drain, both cameras and galleries work.

I simply cleared cache/dalvik installed and rebooted from CWM. Just putting myself in the tally board to give props to the dev who pulled and compiled.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Mutiny32:
Stock rooted Sprint JB with Ktoonsez kernel. Installed zip from CWM, cleared caches, fixed permissions and well, you be the judge.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.94997...p=12,,,,&z=16&cbll=38.949977,-94.266999&hl=en

For some reason, the compass metadata is not correct, BUT, this is one taken with V1 of the zip. Haven't yet tried V4 or later/whatever.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
figured out how to display these on the computer and for other people !! (I am pretty sure you need an internet connection for this to work as I think it remotely access google servers to make it work) in fact I can check that hang on.

Confirmed it does NOT work offline :(

I googled about the custom streetview API. I copied the code changed it and made it work (I suck at complicated html and java stuff)

http://naramlive.com/panotest/

that is what I have so far. you can view that on the PC or on the S3.

just have to figure out how to change the default zoom. I think the "grey bar" at the top is because its not a 2:1 ratio like it prefers. I think if I resized the original from 4000x1680 to 4000x2000 that would fix that. (in fact gonna try that now) well even at 4000x2000 it still has the grey bar but at least there are 2 now top and bottom so its even :) its interesting that the grey bars are NOT present when viewed on the computer in firefox but ARE present when viewed on the mobile browser.

its not the "sphere" view you get on the phone but it is a 360 pannable view :)

Change this part

// Return a pano image given the panoID.

function getCustomPanoramaTileUrl(pano, zoom, tileX, tileY) {

// Note: robust custom panorama methods would require tiled pano data.

// Here we're just using a single tile, set to the tile size and equal

// to the pano "world" size.

return '2012-1109_Lake_&_Shore_RV_Storage.jpg';

}

to use the file name of your Pano

and change this part

tileSize: new google.maps.Size(4000, 2000),

worldSize: new google.maps.Size(4000, 2000),

so both sets of numbers match the "dimensions" of your pano (they are all a bit different)

Change this

<div id="pano_canvas" style="width: 465px; height: 810px"></div>

to change the size of the "viewer" so for example on my webpages I would probably use 700x400 or something like that the size above scaled right on my S3 (I assume it has something to do with default zoom in the browser ?? no idea it works so I left it as it is :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jbsyst:
I'm on an HTC EVO 3D running JB 4.1.2 by ParanoidAndroid 2.5.

I initially tried the zip, but ROM wouldn't reboot, so I used the manual method. I changed my original .apks to .apk.bak as well as the one lib file that my stock camera had in common with this camera.

Everything works. Right after reboot phone updated and I was able to go right into the camera.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
I am loving this photosphere. its VERY finiky though. I think I found part of the problem with image alignment. te gyro's appear to have a lot of "slop and drift" in them. I was trying to use VNC so I could see the camera's phones screen on another phone (too slow might work if I bring a micro router with me and do it P2P over wifi instead of over the cell network)

I would have to hold the phone in one spot till the vnc image updated and I noticed the gyro's started to drift by the time I was done the gyro's were over 100' out of sync with reality.

later in the day I lost an axis and had to reboot. (I shot a lot of sphere's today) including one INSIDE a best buy that came out fantastic !!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ediebol:
Finally able to view my photospheres, but it took changing over to ParanoidAndroid from FreeGS3... Everything is good now, except for the FC issue if you take a photo without focusing...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nerys71:
mine seems to take pictures just fine and I never "prefocus" I only tried it for still since it lacks the full AI and burst capacity that the stock app has.

my primary issue is Gyro Slop. the gyro's will start slipping and I have to aim the phone more and more "down" to get a lock so I just reboot (sphere's are unusable when the gyro's slip)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] p0rkguy:
Are you running an AOSP rom? I believe the problem only occurs with auto-focus in AOSP roms.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] monty_python:
Anyone getting reboots and or freezing and force close when switching to camcorder front camera and back camera?