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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] matexone:
Unfortunately Xperia T is not the leader in good quality pictures. I would say my T makes awful pictures!! I have it now for a few weeks and I am really really disappointed in photo quality by my new Xperia. I had Samsung Galaxy SII before but I didn't like it due to network signal problems so I sold it after a few weeks and I decided to go for Xperia T. S2 was making way better pictures than Xperia T does. I wanted to by S3 but I didn't like the week network signal in S2 and I have used Sony Ericsson for many years before so I picked Xperia T. I was very disappointed when I noticed after my first shot how noisy it was. It is hard to catch focus, many pictures are blurred. Making a shot in bright sun is fine. But as soon as You will get inside and use a lamp as a light sources even with LED light it will be hard to make a nice clear shot. I had SE Satio before and it was making much better pictures. I also compared shots in the same room and lighting with my friend's Galaxy S3 and Samsung was making much better pictures without that much noise. So If you are looking for a good camera with your smartphone Xperia T might not be the best call.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] djfuego:
Yeah coming from a Nokia N8 I have to agree that the image quality is just not to the standard I've been used to. I got camera zoom fx app but even with uncompressed images @ 12.8mp there is far too much noise in low level lighting. There is a mod you can get that will probably give you a real uncompressed JPG but as far as taking a decent shot without any motion blur it's almost impossible..The Video capture on the other hand is good.

I may have to wait a bit before trying this mod out as need to root the phone. Personally I would prefer if Sony wouldn't handicap the camera quality as the images are re-sized for sharing online.. The phone can store 14gig plus 32 gig of expanded memory.

IMHO if you want good camera hardware in a phone go for the Nokia 808 or the 920.

Irrespective of operating system. If you want a good photo you need good hardware and I never needed to buy extra software with Symbian to get a good shot every time I used the camera on the N8.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] matexone:
I don't know why Sony made such a poor quality camera/pictures. I am not sure where the problem is - is it the hardware or software, but pictures out of Xperia T are barely usable. I can compare pictures to old but good Sony Ericsson C902. Compared to Galaxy S3 Samsung makes much better pictures. If camera would be better T would be the best phone. For a plus is that videos are quite decent.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] doministry:
And most of the tests show the opposite as well as many other users say the oppostite too.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] peetr_:
Another thread in loop. One likes this, another one likes that. :)

Truth is, that the image stabiliser needs to be turned on, to make not blurry photos in low light conditions. Noise is normal on this kind of cameras. If another phone has no noise, then it's only post processing.

Btw. this camera is perfect scanner of documents, even in low light conditions. It proved to be very useful for me. ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] crmb:
But the stabiliser is a digital stabiliser right ? Do you know how does it work for pictures ?

edit : by taking multiple picture and keeping the sharpest one a suppose

So the image stabilizer is most likely "off" with the auto setting ? Why they don't choose to keep it "on" if its better ?

I also have been surprised by how much chroma noise the pictures have.

So maybe Sony just made the choice to apply less chroma noise reduction than its competitor. (but having chroma noise at lowest iso setting feel weird for sure)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] peetr_:
Just a prove that it's not possible to make photo without noise in low light conditions with this optics. ISO is not everything. ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Bwyan Benton:
Not sure about the xperia t, but on my sgs3 when i turn on image stabilization all it really does is increase the iso therefore producing a faster shutter speed...which is what you want to prevent blur. The exif data of each photo shows this.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] icstm:
Camera questions

Hi all,

New to the Xperia T and, more importantly, new to XDA. This is my first personal smartphone!

I got the Sony as I wanted a smartphone, but I wanted one that takes good photos, as I cannot take my dSLR everywhere.

A

In the default app, can you change jpeg compression? it is reported to be very high

What app do people use?

Image compression - can you set the shutter button open a different app?

B

Why do some reviews show that you can change the ISO, whilst others report you cannot?

Is this option "lost" in an update, ie has Sony removed it?

Thanks for your help!

icstm

Right now to find where to ask the idot's questions of - i)how do you stop free apps installing their advertising engines, or at least access the same information that you permit the app to access - ii)apart from allowing you to tinker what is the benefit of rooting (which I assme means gaining admin access df. unix) iii)what are the additional features on the xperia t of the popular customer ROMS
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Arcano:
I'll answer what I know:

A1- No you can't, the compression seems to be performed internally, as different programs yield similar results.

A2- Personally I use Camera FV-5 for its versatility, but keep in mind what I said in the previous point, the compression will still be there

B1- You can change the ISO, both in the stock camera app, and in Camera FV-5.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] icstm:
Thanks for your reply. For Camera Zoom FX they say:

does that not work on this phone?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Arcano:
I don't know the app you mention, but in Camera FV-5 you may choose PNG as the image format, which has no lossy compression, and the result is still almost equal to jpg. So my understanding is that whatever compression you apply in a program will be used after the internal compression.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] icstm:
wow, real shame!

with the image processing capability of Sony, you would expect more.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Arcano:
Yep, kind of a letdown for a device boasting a 13 Mpixel camera.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] icstm:
Has anyone tried to add 3 lines in build.prop

in ADDITIONAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES

ro.media.enc.jpeg.quality=100

ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap=8000000

ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000

In previous Xperia's ppl have tried different things to reduce JPEG compression. Do any work on this model?
[HTC Desire V] rohan007:
Any developers out there having HTC desire v and interested in building roms for our device, post here.. I have been helping in development of galaxy mini, and a member of team jellaxy as well..

I am currently not having free time so cannot build one! If anyone else interested post in this thread, I will try out when I have free time in a couple of weeks :)
[HTC Desire V] AKA_noodle:
i create this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2007243 this is my first ROM, but i wont to build for our Desire V CM10 or AOSP;)
[HTC Desire V] kyinx:
That's great @AKA_Noodle. I used to own the Galaxy i9003 and have experience in testing ROMs, customizing, boat ware removal etc. for 10 months. I have just bought a Desire V yesterday and this is my first HTC. I am getting to know the difference.

I have followed your post and am going to ROOT the phone in a couple of days. I am giving my stock 7 days for the just in case hardware issues with my handset. Post that I will unlock the bootloader and free my device. I am ready for testing and development.

And by the way,

Congratulations to all. We finally have a dedicated thread for our phone.
[HTC Desire V] flight727:
Thanks @AKA_Noodle, i use the European Rom, great
[HTC Desire V] MaartenXDA:
Guys,

I don't own this device, but I'm interested in developing for it.

I believe I could try to port a ROM or two from the desire X to this device, if anyone would test it.

The only thing I need to know is: do you guys have android 4.0.4 or 4.0.3?

Sent from my awesome fridge
[HTC Desire V] Rew64:
4.0.3
[HTC Desire V] MaartenXDA:
Thanks. I hope that little difference doesn't affect the ROM.

I don't have time in this week, but I'll try to get you guys a ROM next week.

Sent from my awesome fridge
[HTC Desire V] IluvID:
I'm interested with HTC Desire V Rom Development. And I will first make CM10, then MIUI, etc. I'm following the tutorials at XDA.
[HTC Desire V] rohan007:
Finally i have device tree ready for HTC DESIRE V :D The next task is to download sources for CM9 ( takes a hell lot of time :/ ) and start working on it, hopefully with community's help, it will be completed :)

i will be uploading the device tree soon, so anyone can help me building it..
[HTC Desire V] Deleted member 5186178:
I'm waiting for that CM9, because all other ROMs I tried are disappointing. I posted here earlier a version for Baidu ROM but turns out that was also buggish.

So, please someone make a Cyanogenmod for this phone.
[HTC Desire V] charmainelooi:
yeah... please develop a CM9/10 version for this dual sim phone ///
[HTC Desire V] KGNTSTNY:
Until today, i still can't find an easy way to root my device. LOL!
[HTC Desire V] charmainelooi:
I did some snooping - it turns out that it's buggish because we are using the nightly builds version of the Baidu . The official version is V4:

http://translate.google.com/transla...m.php?mod=viewthread&tid=62590&extra=page%3D1
[HTC Desire V] Deleted member 5186178:
I know, but my version was from that stable one, which is based on version 27. Still it had some "things" because for Baidu stable not means final, it's a project in developement. I guess, if no one develop a CM for our device we'll have to wait for some final Baidu.

One other thing is that they develop Baidu to integrate with their service (let's not forget that Baidu is Google for China), and it will be more suitable to users from China :( .

Too bad that HTC couldn't release a ROM without bugs. Baidu, even in beta, didn't restart my phone randomly like HTC rom did (stock version too), and I have a friend with Wildfire stock, unrooted, untouched which do the same. Maybe it is something with HTC rom platform, I don't know.

I don't think it is hardware, because if it was, Baidu would restart too.
[HTC Desire V] Deleted member 5186178:
For developement

I just finished to try every single open source of android to make a new build for this phone and my conclusion is not good.

HTC announced that this phone will not get JellyBean - understandable 1 single core processor, 512 MB Ram, not enough.

That will be a huge obstacle in order to get Paranoid, PAC or Slimbean to this phone - they mentain those sources now only for jellybean. Or for jellybean, we need a new kernel to support that. And even so, we can not know if it will work - poor phone specs.

Cyanogenmod doesn't support DualSim, and I bought this phone for that function only.

MIUI doesn't support DualSim either - I know there are a lot of dualsim phones with MIUI, but these are ported not compiled from source - and MIUI source isn't public (what they have on github is a patch tool, wich doesn't work very well, especially with HTC phones which are more difficult).

LewaOS has a source open on github, but is only for Gingerbread - if they upgrade this it will be our best alternative, because LewaOS is a very stable, fast and reliable ROM, and works well even in low specs phones. Baidu ROM seems to be at the begining some port of LewaOS (I still found some mediatek references in baidu, and mediatek is the main processor for Lewa).

So, we're stuck with Sense...
[HTC Desire V] praveenkumar.as07:
Desire V Rom Development

Hi Rohan,

I am interested In developing Android Rom for HTC desire V, so i required few things, can you suggest where i get the device identity (Device Tree, Vendor) details.
[HTC Desire V] ManthanRB:
I have the same problem with my htc desire V, can you please link the rom that solved your problem?
[HTC Desire V] Deleted member 5186178:
None, it's a hardware issue. I took it to a service shop and then I sold it and never bought a HTC again.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] darb1985:
I have edited my build.prop with an app from the market (luckily I made a backup) but when I rebooted my phone wont boot up again..

Now I am in recovery and try to copy the backup to its place, but I dont know where the file is..

could someone point me the path of the build.prop file?

Sorry I know its a noob question.. :(

Edit: its in the /System folder, but if I copy the backup still my phone wont boot.. :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] 18th.abn:
Pick door 1,2 or 3

1. Reflash the ROM

2. Pull the build.prop from the nameofrom.zip, and replace existing

3. Make sure you delete the modified build.prop, when putting the backup file in /system, make sure you change name from build.prop.back to build.prop
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] darb1985:
Actually restored a backup I had made from recovery.. so all good now..

Thank you for taking the time to answer :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
I tried FoxFi and OpenGarden's Wifi Tethering app and both crashes when enabling Wifi tethering...

Anyone knows a working app for that purpose?

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOHCtor:
Ever try the built in one?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
Is there one? where? :silly:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OverTheBelow:
Settings > wireless & networks > more.. (it's a button) > tethering and portable hotspot.

:silly:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horr1blek1tten:
I laughed at the title lmfao native tethering always works .
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luckylui:
Native tether has always worked. Even with T-Mobile unlimited data :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horr1blek1tten:
Yup even tho we aren't supposed to tether on the unlimited plan :p
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
Ok tried it... and won't work. When I click to activate it I see "activating wifi hotspot...." and inmediately "deactivating wifi hotspot..." and the box unchecks itself so it remains deactivated.

Any clue?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horr1blek1tten:
If your on the unlimited plan of course its not going to work. That plan blocks tethering.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
Im not and it was working normally in Htc desire
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horr1blek1tten:
Hm that's weird maybe a factory reset?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
Im coming from a factory reset after rooting. :confused:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick1707:
Well, another factory reset did the trick. I think that something related to tethering screwed up when i installed opengarden's WiFi tethering or FoxFi since any of those did not work and always crashed when activating tethering.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dellenrules:
Easy fix.

Go to APN

Verify APN type says "default,mms,supl"

If that doesn't work, try "default,mms,supl,dun"

No spaces.

Default tethering app should with one of those 2 settings.

This could have saved you from doing a factory reset
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossman137:
Where is this "APN" you speak of found in settings?

---------- Post added at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 PM ----------

AHHH your wondeful, thanks for the tip, Mine was the first, and i changed it to the second and whammy!

FYI for anyone refering to this System Settings>more>mobile networks>Access Point Names>(click whatever one options is there mine was T-mobile US)>APN type ..... change apn type and YEAH IT WORKS

---------- Post added at 10:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

AHHH your wondeful, thanks for the tip, Mine was the first, and i changed it to the second and whammy!

FYI for anyone refering to this System Settings>more>mobile networks>Access Point Names>(click whatever one options is there mine was T-mobile US)>APN type ..... change apn type and YEAH IT WORKS
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ivan Fuentes Hagar:
Not in my case. Unlimited AT&T LTE Data. I've always thought it was the actual ROM with the carrier's modifications that had that tethering plan verification step.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_phekt:
I'm on the unlimited plan and was able to Wi-Fi tether just fine until today. Now a T-Mobile web page just pops up. I know there used to be some workarounds... Does anyone know if any of those still work?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] threeclaws:
Have you restarted? Sometimes my wifi will act a little funky and a restart fixes it BUT the native witfi hotspot works just fine for me.

edit - nvm
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] koraun:
Quick question, do I need to be s-off to use this phone on At&t, have a att sim already, already rooted, s-on, hboot 1.45.0013, tried method 1 from here http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1232107, got unlock code, but no data and it keeps asking for unlock code even though it said network unlock successful
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Try it again when unlock code shows up. I did the method 1 on the 1st day I got my MT4GS and had no problems whatsoever till now. And I'm using it on our country's sim card eversince.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Fuzi0719:
Just remember, on AT&T you will be limited to EDGE data speeds.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Coug76:
Mine worked fine. I used MikTouch, but any stock based firmware will work. Borrowed my co-workers SIM card, entered the code, and proceeded to use the AT&T phone service. Make certain you put in the correct APNs.

S off doesn't matter. In fact this is the same process you would use if you contacted t-mobile for the unlock code. It should work with a fully locked up phone as well as rooted and s-off. Stock based Rom is key. Bullet proof, MikTouch, or stock will work fine.

Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Any ROM whether ICS or GB should work with the unlock method since whatever rom you flash doesn't mess with the partition table mmcblk0p6. So the issue is not ROM dependent. Have you tried with another sim card/any other networks?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
It needs to be done on a stock Sense ROM. CyanogenMod mod will not allow for a unlock code to be entered.

Sent from a KangBanged JellyBean
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] koraun:
OK, I am on cm9 I will flash miktouch and try it, don't have another sim to try, trying to unlock it for a family member since I just got my galaxy s3, will write back and let you know how it goes
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] koraun:
/

and i'm guessing I can just google for At&t's correct APNs?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Yeah buddy

Sent from a KangBanged JellyBean
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Ahh yes never though of that :p Retrieving the unlock code was the only thing on my mind.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] koraun:
ok, tried miktouch, wont get past splash sceen, no links for bulletproof are up, any ideas?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
you mentioned you're currently on CM9 and on 1st post you said you were S-ON so flashing kernels is not possible through recovery. 1st flash MikTouch then next is extract boot.img on the rom and flash it using fastboot. You managed to flash CM9 on it then just do the steps again on miktouch.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
First I've heard of this in MONTHS. So it's definitely user created. MikTouch is bone stock HTC optimized

Sent from a KangBanged JellyBean
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corundum:
Would it be possible to make photosphere work on the Bell Galaxy S i9000m since it does have a gyroscope?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiko_007:
Am sorry I must be new here, What's the Bell Galaxy S i9000m again ? can you send me the device link from gsmarena ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kingo64:
Are you using stock ROM or a custom ROM? If so, the custom ROM would require all of the gyroscope libraries and drivers in order to function, otherwise it is just sitting defunct in your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corundum:
I'm using pawitp's 4.2 preview right now, so I guess if a custom rom was made with the libraries and drivers then it could work in theory.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sojibby:
The GT-i9000m Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant in Canada was sold through Bell. It is not the same Vibrant as in the states, it is more like the i9000 Galaxy S. I cannot find it on gsmarena but http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2702&c=samsung_gt-i9000m_galaxy_s_vibrant is a link to some information about it.

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2702&view=1&c=samsung_gt-i9000m_galaxy_s_vibrant is even more detailed (same site)

I wish photosphere worked on this device as well, it would be cool. I don't know what it has in terms of gyroscope or whatever, but if the OP is correct it would be a nice gift to us Canadian i9000m owners. I'm still loving this phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Serren:
Hi. So I was rooting my Note2 using the video from the tethering post. I used Odin and ran the openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1. It gave me the green Pass message. But when I boot into recovery, I don't get the nice interface, I get the Android System Recovery <3e> screen with text only options. With this I can apply CWM-SuperSU but it gives me an error, but says it installs fine. But when I run SuperSU, it errors out because there are no binaries installed. I even redid the Odin and use the 2.3.1.4 version of twrp, but same exact thing. I even tried flashing twrp from the Recovery but still the same.

Anyone have any advice or tips? I'm sure I'm just missing one step or something. THANKS!
[HTC Droid DNA] hatyrei:
Hi I just got HTC DNA, I added a line to my family account and I have the old HTC Incredible 2 with unlimited data plan. and I wanna switch it to that account . I tried to do it online but it won't let me. Then I called costumer support . They said that the Sim card in my new HTC DNA is pre registered with a number and can't be switch to your old one. And i need to purchase a new 4G simcard that is un-activated. Is there anyway. that we can by pass this? But when I did it to my other 3G phones it was ok I switched both HTC Incredible 2 and iPhone 4s before without a problem and both have sim card on it. Help?
[HTC Droid DNA] Memnoch73:
Just head to Verizon and they can do it. Does not cost money..
[HTC Droid DNA] TheBiles:
Definitely this. Do not pay for a SIM card.

Sent from my HTC Droid DNA
[HTC Droid DNA] StreetStrip01:
When I priced the update online from my thunderbolt to the DNA the sim was priced at $30.
[HTC Droid DNA] HelenB:
amazon

You can find at Verizon Amazon.
[HTC Droid DNA] Ferradinho:
Customer care are idiots. I fix their mistakes every day. Any corporate Verizon store will give you a sim card and move the phone to the other line for free. If you can't make it into a corporate store do an esn change on the new line (use a basic phone or 13800000400) and it will free up the device/sim to be activated on your line. Theoretically, if you deactivate the sim on the new line it should be able to be used on your line the next day. VZW recently enabled reusing sim cards which makes it a lot easier moving phones, however, it doesn't reset the sim until the next day. For the most part this works, however, occasionally it will fail and you will need a new sim. Verizon 3G phones register on the network with an ESN and the sim is only used for global which is why you could do it before.
[HTC Droid DNA] BigMace23:
Could you elaborate on this? I am getting the DNA for its discounted price but keeping unlimited on my line. When I receive the phone I plan on activating it on the feature phone line I used to upgrade first and then moving it to my line,but since I'm coming from a thunderbolt I'll have to cut the sim/get a new one and it would be a lot easier to just use the sim that came with the phone (which is registered with the feature phone) and reset it for my number. Do I just dial 13800000400 to do this?