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[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
In case you haven't noticed, every generation of Samsung gets more poorly supported than the previous one by community projects, even the less painful Qualcomm-based ones.

I don't think a single one of our existing maintainers has any interest in the S5. (If you recall, most of the Omni founders were former Exynos 4210/4412 device maintainers. We'd already been angry at Samsung and sworn off any new Samsung devices for a year at the time Omni was founded.) Exynos4 devices have been on minimal life support for a long time.

(Right now, our best-supported devices are Oppos with Qualcomm chips. We have a VERY good relationship with Oppo. Sonys have not been as well supported lately due to how difficult it is to actually obtain their devices. I really miss Sonys, but I can never buy them until they're obsolete.)
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
You know what, I have NO IDEA what is inside my phone, it could be cotton wool, lightning and fairies for all I know. So that part of things means absolutely nothing to me.

I like my S3, and didn't get an S4, so would think about getting an S5. But I'm not getting it for the TouchWiz stuff, I want the best possible phone, to run stock, vanilla, AOSP, as Google intended it, Android.

So, if u tell me the best phone hardware out there at the moment (or that will be out by January next year) then I will believe u, and maybe even get that phone. But right now, I like this phone for how it feels, nothing more nothing less, lol.

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[Galaxy S III General] mohitmikky:
So, S3 is not getting android L. :crying:

What about Motorola and LG devices? Do they have enough support? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] bleggy:
I'd love to pick up a 64gb moto x. but will omnirom support ever happen?
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Gotta ask, is anyone else having serious speed issues when trying to download the latest nightlie??

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
Ok, thanks OMNI. I really will miss you! I'm with CM again, after all OMNI was a nice dream but CM corp offers more support for ours devices.
[Galaxy S III General] ashutoshsinghy2k:
Contrary I just left CM 11 to be on omni rom . they have very buggy Rom
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Am I one of the only people who have never tried CM?? I tried PA for a bit but found it way too much.

I have always loved OmniROM, and if I was a dev I would help give support forever!! Lmao.

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
I was with OMNIROM since my S2 and S3.... With the S2 everything was just fine but in the S3 OMNI releases camera never get to work fine.... multiple problems, randoms "camera disconect", etc... Now I'm with CM last 5 days and EVERYTHING runs smooth...

I realy like OMNI better than CM... but unsopported OMNI, no thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Andy3268:
I am tried only omni to. It's work the most time very good and never had a reason to change to an another rom.
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
And what ROMs did you tried? CM is the pilar stone of customs ROMs since day 1. You must try first CM and then alternatives to really can decide which ROM is better than other. Lately OMNI was the best in framework in my opinion (system settings options) but is unsupported in our device... same problems after long time ago. CM is a coorp but at least they have people to take care about our device.

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Camera problems are there my friend. Play a lot with the camera and you can tell...

- Front face camera: ratio image problem

- Back button in camera gallery after take a picture: sometimes camera error, camera not connect (reboots needed)

- Some times first photo focus after reboot is just garbage.... and you need to take the picture again

- HWC random errors (like when you swipe a tab in chrome to close it, sometimes produces graphical glitches). This is only thing also present in CM but less frequent.(HWC problems are unfixable for the S3 I think).
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Why do I HAVE to try CM first?? I came from stock 4.1.2 TouchWiz, which I hated, I tried PA and didn't like it at all, then I came to Omni and I liked it, so I stuck with it. I don't think u HAVE to try anything u don't feel the need to.

Yes, there are camera problems, and this is cos Samsung have not released the CLOSED SOURCE drivers for it. There are also very simple fixes for it, I rarely have problems with the camera now, using Google Camera.

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
The very simple fixes don't work either. And using only Google Camera exclusively isn't very attractive to a "open" ROM. I use 1+ One Camera.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
To give you a simple example:

camera: 101 problems

fixes: 2

so yeah, Omni camera i is in worse condition that the camera of CM11.

try google translate, snapchat or vine. Good luck getting those to work.
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Each to their own.

U can not speak for everyone, only urself, and let's not forget that even tho we all have a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300, different phones have different hardware, so have different problems.

The camera reset apk works fine for me, and I have tested a couple other fixes that have worked for me. The only issues I face now are very VERY rare freezes, and the lock screen camera not playing nice, so I disabled that bit and I'm happy.

I personally like Google Camera, some don't, but from what u say ur not using the camera that comes with OmniROM either??

I like having as much Google on my GOOGLE device (I know its Samsung really) but by choosing OmniROM (or CM for that reason) we are choosing NOT to use TouchWiz.

If the devs say they are stopping development for the S3, I'm not gonna ***** and moan about it, I'm not gonna run around saying "guess I'm going to CM now then" cos I like the ROM exactly have it is right now, when I had my Xperia Play I was lucky I got ICS Beta (4.0.4) as Sony were dropping support for it, so I'm perfectly capable of sticking with a slightly outdated ROM that I like!

Thank u to the dev who was looking after my GT-I9300, u have made me a very happy S3 owner, and I will continue to use OmniROM till I change my phone in January 2015 :)

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
"The camera reset apk works fine for me" thats was a joke right? The ROM must be usable for all kind of users... must be stable. Uses of auxiliary apps like these to "reset" the camera are ultra annoying.

When i said that you must try CM i told that in advice. CM was the OMNI "father"... and right now works BETTER than OMNI on the S3.

You must be aware that our S3 is unsupported since long time ago in OMNI and the camera won't be fixed ever because there isn't be anyone that merge those fixes into OMNIROM S3 branch. Is simple like that.

Is for that reason that I'm now running CM again in my device. It runs very well and camera problems are GONE without strage fixes or auxiliary apps.

S3 IN OMNIROM IS UNSUPPORTED! (by now)
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Thank u.

Goodbye.

If ur now running CM then u have no need to be in this thread, basically bashing and hating on OmniROM.

If u like CM, congratulation, u have something u like. I like Tesco own brand "Xero Cherry Cola" but I wouldn't tell people its better than any other cola drink, it is just what I like.

Anyway, I just flashed the latest nightlie, which is omni-4.4.4-20140703-i9300-NIGHTLY, and I have lost all haptic feedback in the launcher when clicking an app icon. In the keyboard and for the menu and back buttons it works fine. Anyone have any ideas why this may have happened??

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
"basically bashing and hating on OmniROM" thats not true, I'm a OMNI fan really, I preffer OMNI over CM every day of the week. But problems that never will be fixed in our device makes it a "no go" for daily use.

Perhaps after 6 months with no support and the same lame problems and after been writing a lot on this thread you will have your owns conclusions.
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
Let's QUIT this right now...

There's seriously no need for this...

You made ur point...

You prefer CM11 and we get that...

You are frustrated with OmniROM... We get that too...

Move on and help keep it calm here :)
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
That is similar to say: "Let´s OMNI died here in calm.".

I'm not upset is just that if OMNI was meant to replace CM and support is so weak for a worldwide used device like S3 that is not right. They have support only for "OPPO" hardware!? hilarious...

And after months of report bugs and things we suddenly notice that there aren't developers supporting our device is just wrong. Bye.
[Galaxy S III General] bleggy:
kinda think the omni dev team needs to recruit maintainers. the s3 is still a widely used phone. and theres a few other phones that might be dropped by them as well. they need help.
[Galaxy S III General] tdcfpp:
If you want, you can learn programming. An introduction to C would be good as starting point. C++ is based on C and java is similar to C++.

If you are young, and you want to dedicate some spare time, it's just a matter of time when you get experienced enough to help the community.

At the University, almost two decades ago, a professor told us it wasn't important to have knowledge but to remember where you have seen something similar. You can start observing https://gerrit.omnirom.org commits and the patchsets (i.e. changes done to files).

I hope to have convinced you to pass to the dark side of the force.

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I've been working with oss camera hal the last months (but cm version, which is similar except some commits). Recently I found a possible reason, why do you suffer those "camera disconnects".

Fimc device and its subdevices can only have up to three (maybe four) instances open. Still I am not 100% sure, but I think that some fimc instance is not properly closed.

A combined logcat together with /proc/kmsg when you encounter such situation would be of help.

Hmmm. CM didn't took the previous version of camera wrapper (before oss camera hal from replicant) thus by ignoring the bugs previously fixed by teamhacksung. It's a matter of time that some bugs arise.

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Ever? :P
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
Now i'm CM... I reported the same error more than once in this thread until last weekend that I moved to CM. Maybe next week reinstall OMNI again.

I don't know with camera hal are they using, but it works without failures until now.

Are you participating in OMNIROM proyect or are you by your side? It will be nice to have a developer participating in the thread.
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
You should be easy with such statements regarding c++ and java. They are quite different.

Also, the current camera hal of cm is quite the same as the old one.
[Galaxy S III General] tdcfpp:
:angel: My intention was to motivate people to begin developing. I will be glad if people from this forum tell me in the future that I was wrong. That would mean that they started learning. ;)

Thanks for clarifying. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
Buy them a S3 or give then ur device...

Might just help us all :)

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If you really wanna report issues and get updates... Report them at:

http://jira.omnirom.org
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
Thats fun... 7 months later than the op post was published we finally know that here is no place to inform bugs... Nice play OMNIROM.

If CM let me down i will return, till now everything works fine.
[Galaxy S III General] Stahet:
Thanks

Thank you for this rom
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Are u still here??

Seriously, we're all bored of u now, for the last time...

Goodbye.

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[Galaxy S III General] Smackeroni:
How much did you pay for OMNI? As far as I know its free. So why do you behave like you've spend hundrets of dollars?
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
[MENTION=2162789]XpLoDWilD[/MENTION] & [MENTION=2876905]f0xy[/MENTION]

I registered 2 issues on Jira.

Still sort of waiting on an update on OMNI-1048.

The issue did get assigned a dev and got re-assigned later to another... And now it says it is unassigned.

Last comment said that Jake didn't have the i9300 device.

Now I'm wondering if neither of the devs have the device to look into the low volume levels when recording? Or if it was mistakingly unassigned.

Could you update when possible?! Not in a hurry and not asking for ETA... Just an update would suffice.

Many thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] frederic5000:
Yeah right. I dont know what is wrong with some people, they think that the devs have no lave or they dont have to work or study.

Jesus man shame on you. If you dont want this rom just gto ok
[Galaxy S III General] pippoaacc:
I'm not a developer, but as far as I know Cm simply doesn't use the Open Source Camera HAL, using instead the Samsung Blob Camera from Cm10.2/ jelly bean. I always thought that a possible temporary solution could be to implement the Samsung blob in Omni for i9300 instead of keeping the os hal. Would it be possible?
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
You all... is not that I'm angry for my dollars lost... Time is everything... if you all likes to spend months with OMNIROM informing bugs in this thread (witch obviusly isn´t the thread reason) it's OK with me. But if I'm downloading every nighties and informing problems or bugs day by day I would like something more organized. Like I said, 7 months, 500 pages of this thread and yesterday I notice that bugs must be reported in JIRA website... even informing these bugs were unassigned for months.

I'm not angry, like I said more than once "I'm a OMNIROM FAN" but if I must buy an OPPO device to use it's too much. My saying in this thread was for improving the protect not to bring it down.

I would like read some posts from smart people and not word-fighters in this thread. I show you bugs and facts you all kick me out of this thread. Some answers were clarifying anyway, like "post bugs in JIRA", "all bugs posted in JIRA are unassigned for a long time ago" and "Omni maintainers doesn't have an i9300 device for development". Thanks to that people.
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
You prolly have a point... But it is what it is...

If you can help change something then we'll and good... If not.... And I think I can speak for everyone else on this thread... We are annoyed with someone venting out and lashing out... This isn't the place for it... And will never be...!
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
My main question here is this:

On the changelog app, I have it sent to "device specific" so it only shows things that are for the GT-I9300, and most days there are things on it, so surely that means someone somewhere is putting things into the nightlies that are specifically for our device??

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[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
Those commits are auto-merges with the master branch of OMNIROM, they are improvements but not device related. Only os software related, like changes in apps, framework, boot and so. Nobody is adding specific code for the i9300.

The nightlies are automatic too. Auto merge, auto build.
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Well, at least things are being updated and fixed.

The only problem I had was the camera, I flashed the v5 camera fix and its all fine for me. I guess I must just be a lucky one.

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[Galaxy S III General] frederic5000:
Man sorry for talking like that, its just some people who just makes me a bit angry. I didnt onow that u were posting bugs here...

Sorry once more this just aint my day
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
Yes, are those fixes that may or may not fix the camera. Since months before these fixes are present but developers who see the code of these commits says that they don fix anything. That they create a placebo effect but after some time camera died on you again. I test a previous version of the fix, camera dies less in time but it always died at last.

Can you test take a picture, enter in gallery swiping right and then press the capacitative back button to see if it dies? Or take a picture play around gallery and press back button? It always crash before.

Sorry for my english, I'm from Argentina. Yeahh were are in semifinals! haha
[Galaxy S III General] tdcfpp:
¡Ché! Are you talking about a bug in v5 camera fix? Or from omni camera hal?
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
I have removed stock gallery and I use QuickPic as my main gallery. I also use Google Camera, not to one that comes with OmniROM. I have also flashed the v5 fix when flashing latest nightlie, kernel and gapps.

Testing:

1. Took picture, swiped into gallery, pressed hardware back button, took another picture fine.

2. Took picture, swiped into gallery, pressed back button at top left of screen, took another picture fine.

3. Took picture, swiped into gallery, flicked through a few pictures, deleted unneeded previous pictures of close ups of my bedding (lol), swiped back into camera, took another picture fine.

Summery:

No camera fails at all during testing.

Have taken 5 or 6 photos today previous to testing, with no problems at all.

Hope this helps.

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[Galaxy S III General] XpLoDWilD:
Good news! I have some time to give some love to the i9300 tomorrow :)

I'll primary work on the audio issues first (I heard about the camera being too silent), and the easy FC stuff, and if I have more time, the video stuff

Again, my reference is http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52961714&postcount=7059 + Omni's JIRA
[Galaxy S III General] pippoaacc:
[MENTION=2162789]XpLoDWilD[/MENTION] what do you have to say about implementing the blob camera instead of open source hal? It could be a temporary workaround for all our problems.
[Galaxy S III General] tanqueta207:
I was talking about OMNI camera hal. I use OMNIROM "stock" and the camera dies on my very often.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
First of all, thank you.

Secondly, I just have a question that's been bugging me for quite some time: why Open camera HAL and not the one that's currently being used in CM? Isn't the latest more "complete" and better working?
[Galaxy S III General] Failyx:
The mic generally is very silent, for example when i record a whatsapp audio it is too silent, in CM it isnt.

Please fix this because it is the only Problem why i stay at cm
[Galaxy S III General] Aureo Ribeiro:
Is for this reason that I can not run my app for voice dialing (cyberon speed voice dialer)?

*sorry my bad English!

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[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
Can you add:

"Low volume levels when recording videos or voice recording."

The same does not happen in CM.

Been trying to find out why the same is not found on CM... But can't get the information. I've asked in the CM11 thread for i9300 but no one wants to answer I guess.

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+1
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
https://github.com/omnirom/android_device_samsung_i9300/commits/android-4.4/configs/tiny_hw.xml

Its one of those commits for sure.
[Galaxy S III General] tdcfpp:
Found culprit. But have problems with gerrit setup.
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
Ok wait... So now what do I do?

Hmmm...

Don't know nothing about gerrit... Sorry!
[Galaxy S III General] abdismoz:
Hey guys. I want to be a android developer. I am good at C and Java but I dont really know where to start. Could anyone help me to help people?
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
http://docs.omnirom.org/Main_Page#Development

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Development

Not really a beginners guide, but could be worth to read

This is just github, not gerrit. Do you have any knowledge about building roms?
[Galaxy S III General] f0xy:
I have a day off work today so I will keep track and update that post as much as possible while playing with my children ;)
[Galaxy S III General] nqk:
Pls add "low mic volume on recording". That has been reported here several times. Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] wm20320:
Cameras dont't work anymore after updating today. (If it is known, sorry for posting, I'm in hurry and didn'read all above)
[Galaxy S III General] keneth_c:
Clearly I do NOT.
[Galaxy S III General] darkluna:
Same here. It was working fine before updating today. It's been months before I have a camera problem with Omni. Hope it gets fixed soon.

Sent from Omni powered GT-I9300, Stock kernel, Latest nightly and Running Art
[Galaxy S III General] steevieboy4u:
Video playback

Anyone else having issues with video playback? I've tried downloading various different ones and it's still really jerky and unwatchable :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
wait for jul 8 nightly

that should fix it
[Galaxy S III General] UtkarshGupta:
Guys proprietary camera wrapper has been restored, just like cm, but with a much better camera wrapper.

Changes will be in July 8 build & on.

It's much stabler, much faster.
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Is this just for the camera app that comes with OmniROM, or for any camera app?

I use Google Camera.

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[Galaxy S III General] UtkarshGupta:
Any app.
[Galaxy S III General] Adam3Sixty:
Awesome.

Thanx for the quick reply, won't bother flashing the 7th July nightlie now then, just wait for tonight and do the 8th :)

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[Galaxy S III General] Galaid:
Thank you for that guys!
[Galaxy S III General] Maarren:
Nice the wrapper on CM11 already gives good results on my phone.

Is the change back to the camera wrapper just for testing? Is it likely that things will be reverted to the open source camera HAL on short term?

In case the return of the camera wrapper is more permanent then I will switch back to omnirom. (if its still a test for omnirom then I will stay with another rom for a little while longer).
[Galaxy S III General] UtkarshGupta:
Until issues with open source hal are resolved, closed source one will stay.
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
Ok, now please elaborate on what makes it faster and more stable.

You basically just copied the old camera wrapper back from cm-10.2 without even testing if stuff is still necessary.

Basically, there are only 2 differences between the current cm and omni wrapper.

For example the omnirom one disables the autoexposure lock for no reason. There is a comment that says that it crashes, but have you verified that it still does? Since it actually does not crash.

statement: params.set(android::CameraParameters::KEY_AUTO_EXPOSURE_LOCK, "false");

Second one is this:

// Workaround for camera freezes

VENDOR_CALL(device, send_command, 7, 0, 0);

It also does nothing and not needed anymore.

So, now tell me what makes it faster and more stable?
[Galaxy S III General] nicoc77:
Hey guys I've just installed latest (jul-7) nightly and official 20140606 gapps and the camera application is missing. Did I do something wrong? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] UtkarshGupta:
Hmmm. You are right. I compared the camera hal just after rmcc committed it, didn't notice that someone had cherry-picked javifo's amends to cm's wrapper.

Committed cm's wrapper to omni.

Edit: can anyone confirm that camera works with new wrapper & blob ?

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