yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
The kernel is the main thing. But with the PA there are a lot of fixes for stuff like thumbnails and GPS lock, removed redundant commands used a different telephony RIL and swapped over to a different Camera wrapper as well and i have restored the camera files from the official .96 when rayman first made the source for the kitkat branch he had alot of issues with the camera and recording but over time they got fixed but noone got around to using both .96 camera source files. So im curious if anyone notices any difference in picture quality i personally havnet used it for so long i cant really remember what the quality was like.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
1st Taken with 1.24+

[IMG="Xperia S"]http://s29.postimg.org/e4y6uzodx/DSC_0005.jpg[/IMG]

2nd Taken With Stock Xperia Rom (.96)

Seems pretty the same in my Eyes 0.0 the second picture was taken 20 minutes after the first shot cuz i did a backup and restore lol. Both Pictures taken with Camera FV-5 with same camera settings. both in Auto they look different because the weather changed fast. (i think)

yay got 200 thanks now lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
In my opinion the second is a bit better

EDIT: or maybe is the different light :S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
remember: the weather changed after 20 minutes. :good:

The colours at the first picture are more vibrant.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Was that taken with PA installed because the camera blobs are part of the system partition. The actual kernel doesnt hold those drivers.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Oh...... wait wait wait..... flashing PA right now....... that was Carbon.....:highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Thanks. I will push the changes to my source anyhow because at the very least the camera still works and it is good to keep everything as stock as possible but it would be handy to know if it actually makes a difference.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mihir160489:
kernal 1.24

Can you give me the new kernel so that i can test having very slow speed connection.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Kernel

It is just the boot.img you will have to copy across the wifi module that was posted a few posts back to make wifi work most likely.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
the wifi module is only when he tries the kernel on carbon rom

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@deedwar

PA First Shot

(STOCK) Second Shot

only 8 minutes time difference from those two. I Also compared those two by zooming the pictures and they look still the same FOR ME i dont know for the other people.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Thanks, Yeah they look the same to me too, but have people complaining about how the stock camera takes better pictures. Sometimes going from earlier version of the same ROM means the module needs to be updated too. When i play with the kernel too much and change the size for some reason i sometimes have to recompile the ROM
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Well in my opinion Stock 4.4.4 Cameras viewfinder is just bad. thats why i dont use Stock camera app. Maybe thats why people complain about quality. yea the module i read about that. same as Xperia Arc's problem. :good:

Im going to test some Video recording soon. But not going to upload it since internet gets slow.... just telling my thoughts
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gold_Phenix:
I can't open your screenshot can you fix it?

LT26i tap from Poland
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Working for me on tapatalk. Using white theme.maybe country blocked?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] leemo92:
Was using aosp and switched to this rom because I was tired of waiting for a built in recovery but I'll be sticking with this because I find it more smoother and stable nice job

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I wonder why they still call it beanstalk they should change the name now like katnip or something sorry for the ot I'm a bit pissed lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deepanshunamdeo:
Every thing works fine but the interface is bit laggy and screen black flash a lot ,and there is no"OK Google " feature.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Does anyone have an idea why i cant get cm11 trebuchet to be installed on this rom? Shouldnt be a framework problem cause some got it to install on stock xperia rom

Heres the link for anyone interested, https://plus.google.com/104198748447047341202/posts/a3gcz3QZtM3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
OK. After a few days using this Beta 4 ROM I have the following comments to make:

Overall, nice effort. ROM is fast and seems good on battery life if a bit unreliable on the status. Memory seems efficiently used and I particularly like the approach PA have taken with GAPPS. Good work. Well done and thanks.

Problems I've noticed:

GPS: I seem to have working sensors but can't find my location in apps such as maps.

Battery charge status: This does not seem to be updating when I plug my charger in - yet, after a reboot the status is updated accurately

Bluetooth: I am seeing random pairing requests from devices with random characters as their names - even when away from other Bluetooth devices?

Are these known issues? If not, what format do you want log reports in? Is there a definitive bug list for this ROM?

Also - small point, but important - I was unable to post this on the XDA app this morning. This may be the app, but it may be something else. I wrote the post but when I tapped on Submit, I got a 'Could not connect to the forum' notification. I was on WiFi at the time and was successfully browsing/emailing at the same time, so it wasn't the connection.

Let's hope these are easy to fix. I've updated the Bug Report (with the ROM version I am running)

Cheers

Savcom

Sent from my Xperia S while my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
For battery charge status..I think you too didn't read the bugs section in the op( just like me :P ) the battery charging becomes normal after you turn on and off developer options once
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
I'm getting application not installed ! :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Me either, but there are people getting successful install as seen in my link. I really wanna tried it out cause I don't quite like GEL :(
[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] any thoughts?

Oh and I can confirm the bug a few post earlier that says when turn on Bluetooth there is a random pairing request
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Thanks. Will try that - the actual instructions say to turn USB Debugging on and off, but thanks for the pointer. Like you, I should have paid more attention to the Original Post. :silly:

Thanks have been passed to you.

SavCom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Ok bamboohao and all those who want to install trebuchet.. You need to uninstall launcher3 (using titanium backup or anything else you want) and then reboot and install trebuchet.. The app installer may not show "App Installed" it may get stuck at installing but trebuchet gets installed and you can use it

Apparently(from logs I got) this happens due to the fact that android treats launcher 3 as default android launcher and trebuchet also has the same property so it conflicts
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Interestingly, I had an OTA alert yesterday evening for an updated PA GAPPS so maybe this is supported?? Certainly got down a newer GAPPS release and installed it.

SavCom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Good to know I'm not seeing things! :D Attached a screenshot showing the error. I'll do this again when I have time with a log report.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
No sorry, I just got a reply from one of the pa developer few days ago that says they added support for ota for legacy device, but I think it's up to deedwar to decide if he want to use it(I think he need to use their server). As for gapps, I think it might work as all pa gapps are the same and will work on all device
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
Hope deedwar will add OTA update soon ! :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Ok i love you for this lol

Hopefully someone will create a modified version that can help me get rid of the persistant search bar, but now i am grateful enough to get rid of the google now page :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Thanks for the clarification
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Hey guys..

Has anyone managed to play Asphalt 8 on this ROM..coz I downloaded it but it just gives an FC ..upon checking the logs I think it is associated with the graphics driver because it involved the libegl.so

I am now downloading OpenSEMC cyanogenmod 11 beta 3.1 coz it says that subway surfers is working now on it..so maybe they have made some changes to the graphics drivers.. I'll give that a shot
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
This ROM is based on OpenSEMC. So if they fix any bug, for sure same changes will be made in this ROM in next update.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
OTA

Is this possible for xperia S ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
Legacy doesn't mean "any device". You should realize that every time the PA team releases an update, a new version of PA nozomi has to be built. PA can't pull that build out of their asses, so that's why deedwar makes it. The PA team can't keep track of every unofficial build for devices they don't support. Honestly, that OTA update thing is just a service that downloads the zip for you, you still need to install that zip.

It's probably possible to make the OTA app point to mirror for deedwar's ROMs instead of the official PA ROMs, but it won't work as it is right now. I don't think this works with deedwar's hosting provider.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] balavigneshs:
Hi,

i took an photo on my Xperia S Camera and then switched to video mode and recorded a video.When i tried to playback the video, the Gallery FC and only audio was played in MX player.Any fix?

And now i am not able to enter Camera. If i enter it FC.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Didn't work for me either on the web have to right click and open in new window to load them
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] [MENTION=5517917]Gold_Phenix[/MENTION] Uploaded it in Tinypic for you all as well :good:

PA First Shot

STOCK Second Shot

This should work for everyone now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
Yeah.. I can see.. On the latest official build I've a problem.. Sometimes while taking picture from google camera.. The focus doesn't stay constant.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Thats the Latest test build. And i can say that other builds have terrible focusing. :cowboy:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
Latest test build by deedwar doesn't have that problem ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
i dont think so since he brought back the (.96) blobs. well i dont have a problem now. try it and report it here.

i also dont use stock camera at PA.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
This build is fantastic. Everything's smooth and there's minimal heating. Haven't yet tried 1674 though, which I use usually. But anyway even 1512 used to heat up earlier, while it is running quite cool now

As for the camera, I think there's a noticeable difference. Hopefully not a placebo.

[MENTION=4884137]xDroidZz[/MENTION] since you love to experiment all the time, I have a task for you ?

Take 4 photos from the following builds ↪ Stock .96 (stock app and the one which you use in PA), today's test build AND a previous test/official build. I think that would be a better comparison.

I don't really have complaints about the camera. I just miss stock Sony app (particularly because it had better focussing and nice UI). But anyway I've been using this great open source app called Open Camera for some weeks now and although the UI isn't great, it's fantastic at what it's supposed to do. Lots of options to customize and focussing is spot on - especially macro, at which other apps like the AOSP and Google camera hopelessly fail. Give it a try!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Haven't took a really good look at the samples given, but most of the time the complaint about better picture on stock from what I believe is because of the camera app different, aosp camera app sucks since like... Forever?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
OHH!!! A TASK!!! :o WILL DO SIR!!! RIGHT NOW!! :good:

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yes it sucks like hell :cyclops:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Good ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
The latest test build by deedwar still has focus problem. Any fix for that ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
[MENTION=5444464]PünchUp[/MENTION] [MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] Forgot To Rotate Sorry :D

Paranoid Android Using Camera FV-5

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Paranoid Android Camera

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Camera FV-5 (.96)

Macro

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Stock Sony Camera (.96)

Macro

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Previous Build of Paranoid Android (Official build Beta 2) (CAMERA FV-5)

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Previous Build of Paranoid Android (Official build Beta 2) CAMERA

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Overall Camera Of Beta 2 is the worst camera. Latest Test build and Stock are the same. Congratz Deedwar u made it :D :good: :good: And i know that i forgot to turn on my iPad (my bad) but as u can see on other pictures. the orange pencil is more sharper than in Beta 2. GO CHECK THE ORANGE PENCIL :D :D Feel free to compare it :) And if u think that i didnt tried to focus on beta 2. NO, The Camera is just bad and didnt let me focus just like the other roms did.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Wow you did much more than I asked for.. Thanks!!

I think flash is handled much better in stock .96... Rest of the images look similar. Macro in AOSP camera sucks of course

Waiting for images from previous build now
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
7 minutes more download........ its the official build Beta 2 4.5.

couldnt give u day time pictures cuz its night here lol

and macro is bad in aosp i must say.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] darknessmc:
Camera on this build is good

I made some tests on camera and took the same picture on ICS, 96 and this build

ICS' picture was the best. It is more sharpness and clear but 96' picture and PA' picture (this build) 99% are same. I compared it on PC to be close

[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] you made best build
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
That's ok. Take day time photos on Sunday if you don't have much to do ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Its done you can check it above.

HAPPY 300TH PAGE OF PARANOID ANDROID !!! XPERIA S THREAD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Not completely related, but does anyone know the effect of repartitioning the storage? Would flashing a ROM change it back? Tell me any information that would help, since the guide thread doesn't really mention.

Also, race to be the #3000 post XD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Yep I was right!! I felt the camera is different today but thought I was just imagining it. Thanks for conforming it by testing ?

And I have 20 posts per page so it's 150 paged on mine ? Anyway I hope nozomi development continues thanks to some amazing people like deedwar.. And we have a nice little community here ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Yea ikr. still waiting for Android L to come in our device hahaha. Going to use latest test build now. since it has good camera. going to test battery tomorrow cuz school. :D

#3000 POST YAY!!!! [MENTION=5169817]bamboohao[/MENTION] SLOW hahaha
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
I think battery must be good in this one. Let us know tomorrow..

Camera is certainly a huge difference now from the previous builds. Great work [MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION]

[MENTION=5169817]bamboohao[/MENTION] I'd like to do that too. But too much stuff on my SD card. Maybe later if it's necessary for Android L. If you find out the answer to that question, let us know!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
That's what I planned too, but recently I've gotten too much of the insufficient storage warning, and judging from the situation, our chance of getting L is pretty small, so I've decided to do it now anyway, after I find the answer to my question of course. If I do find out, will keep you guys updated.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
There's still one tiny bug present from the 4.2 era. When listening to music with the loudspeaker, you can only hear one channel. (Left or right. Don't remember which.)

You can easily test it by listening to one of your favorite songs. Not a big deal tho. :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
[MENTION=5169817]bamboohao[/MENTION] insufficient storage? ? How many apps do you have? ?

[MENTION=5435064]mithab[/MENTION] I'm sure that will be fixed eventually. Other bugs have higher priority ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] isouzz:
I have a problem with screenshot and recent apps , do you have a solution for this ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Search the thread before asking man
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Never counted, but since you asked, I count 62 in my app drawer, including system apps. Never thought I have this much before lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
I have 191 in my drawer.. But never got an insufficient storage warning even though I've been too lazy to move the apps to internal storage after the last clean flash.. How come you get it??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Wow, 191 o.o

I would like to know too lol

My apps are all pretty small in size, only google+ and some other being exception.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tebra:
thanks deedwar for this new test build. Works good
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
That's weird. I still have 351 MB left even after all those apps.. If I clear cache and move apps to internal storage I'll surely have around 1 GB free on my phone memory.

You should look into it. Something is not right
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
Same of [MENTION=5169817]bamboohao[/MENTION] here...58 app e 0,8GB free (no apps on SD). I've always had problems with storage, alwayshad to save my precious bytes!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
0.8 GB free and you have a problem? How exactly? I don't understand. Phone storage is just for apps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
Use only unofficial builds provided here

Official build server compiles with those issues

Anyway [MENTION=4884137]xDroidZz[/MENTION] you did a damn good job. The purple tint problem anyway is still there.

And another thing which turns up my nose... have you ever noticed that whenever you focus on something the live preview still seems to be somewhat blurry?

Then you take the photo.. and ka-puf: for half a second (the time you see the photo which has been taken) you see finally a sharpened picture

I couldn't actually test if stock has the same behavior though

And besides, I feel like we are going too far away from the actual Android Development...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
You have 191 apps and 351mb free, I have a third of your apps and more of half of the memory gone. The proportion is quite different, so there is a problem. I'm missing 300mb if the ratio was the same
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Don't look at the numbers. It varies according to the app sizes. 0.8 GB free shouldn't give you any problems ?

[MENTION=4900593]mirhl[/MENTION] that focussing issue you talking about is from the AOSP camera I assume? It sucks.. Open Camera app handles it perfectly.. And also the app xDroidZz uses is good I think.

As for ‘Android development’ I doubt even 50% of the discussion on this thread is strictly development related.. deedwar handles everything on his own.. A little bit of digression won't harm anyone considering that this is a legacy device thread ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
I'm having problems flashing last deedwar test build. I'm doing a CF but when I boot for the first time the phone the google keyboard app crashes and I can't go forward. I'm using PA GApps 20140818
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Did a dirty flash so can't help you out on that. Why don't you skip all the steps and install another keyboard?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
Hi. Repartitioning the storage is permanent until you recover your phone. I have an 8gb data partition. And flashed at least 10 times a new pa build. Everything is fine..

Gesendet von meinem Xperia S mit Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Thanks for clearing that. Well anyway I don't have a problem with 2 GB yet and there's too much stuff on the SD card, so may be some other time or if it becomes necessary for Android L ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
Means,in case 2GB data partition is less with android l than we can use this resizing storage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Yes exactly. He has 8 GB
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
Tried doing this, but there are other problems with others GApps (Google+, App Store, ecc)

[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] can this be kernel related?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
That's weird. I haven't had any such problems. And I don't think anyone else either.

Try wiping your system partition and then flash. Might help
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
Today I changed my SIM card and this is my first flash with this SIM. Can a SIM interfere with flashing?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Not sure man. I don't think the SIM should interfere. Why don't you try without it if you have a doubt?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
Already did. Nothing changed. Now I'm trying to downgrade the kernel from 1.24 to 1.17 but for some reason the 1.24 remains there. Someone has any clue?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
How exactly are you downgrading?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
By fastboot. Now after a lot of tries it succeded, but the Google Keyboard and Google+ problem persist. But it's really strange because I used the same kernel, same GApps and the same PA relase that I was using before flashing deedwar's test build.

Now I'm trying using micro GApps
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Which GApps were you using? Banks?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
PA GApps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50684852
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Ok. Try Banks once. That's what I use
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
I formatted system partition and now the phone is not booting, even if I flashed a ROM...

I'm starting getting angry T.T
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Weird :confused::confused: not even recovery?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
[MENTION=5925129]mikylucky[/MENTION]

Wipe system, data, cache, flash latest pa build

Use banks minimal gapps and you can't go wrong this way
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikylucky:
Yes, I can enter in CWM, but I can't boot PA T.T

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Didn't work! Should I panic now?

EDIT: Third try went good, feeeew
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DvDwx.:
Do a refresh installation from. FTF, than root and flash the kernel again, and than make this steps you commented to flash PA
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
its good now.

hii all again hahaah 5:42Am here
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DvDwx.:
My advice is wipe dalvik cache too, after flash PA via recovery do a fix permissions too