yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
I have a experiment for expert users.

I want to see if it can be recreated.

Clear data on stock camera

Start your stock camera.

Now before you hit camera icon.

Tap on screen as if you was focusing. The flash should light up. Let it focus until flash goes out.

Now tap on screen again, and let it focus until flash goes out again.

Do it slowly.

Now hit camera icon as if you was taking a pic.

Let me know if can take pictures.

Do these steps before each picture.

So sum it up... tap tap snap.

Edit.

Oh... I should of added start the camera from the app drawer not a shortcut on you home screen.

Hope this works for other because I might have a fix.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sugartibbs:
I tried it a few times per instructions, but only got one picture, couldnt get it to do it again after clearing data and starting again.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
Great news. Ugh! Long way to go.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dstars33:
Using your "tap tap click" instructions, I took 8 photos in row, closed the app, opened it, took another 8 with no issues.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LordPhong:
**** you. I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass like you. I was just trying to have a question not repeated. It still says none under bugs on the second post. I can't post screenshot with my phone.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LordPhong:
Here's what I see.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] luxkore:
That's accurate because the camera bug isn't because the ROM, it's because device-specific vendor blobs.

That's why it says "camera doesn't take pictures" under device-specific bugs.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LordPhong:
Just tried this and the stock camera worked better than Open Camera for me. It may take a while to take a picture but tap tap snap works.

PS: I was able to take multiple pictures without clearing data.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nafeasonto:
Seriously, what is going on with VIPER?

No matter how many time I install the driver it's always "Not running, or Driver Status: Abnormal."

I downloaed the se Linux change, and it set it to permissive. Everytime the phone resets it goes back to enforcing. WHy won't it stay on permissive? I am using the default kernel with the LiquidSmooth

I can't get viper to work. At all. This is on a brand new fresh install, wiped away clean internal SDCard, starting completely anew.

This is frustrating the crap out of me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Yeah, currently SElinux cannot be set to Permissive mode on current kernel, we will see what can be done about it. AFAIK, Viper driver relies on SElinux permissive mode.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
I'm using the 2/3/2015 BMS and selinux from play store

Viper4android is working well. https://plus.google.com/app/basic/communities/105811573086663999452 BMS link

Selinuxmode is in playstore

Edit.

Actually check that. as soon a su restarts so does enforcing mode.

Viper is good but downside it's a huge battery drain I prefer power amp it doesn't skip like the built in player. Worth every penny. Of course that doesn't solve this problem.

New Os = new bugs.

Lollipop seems to be full of them though. :p

Edit again.

Haha now its working again but in about section states its enforcing selinux to funny.

Is this android or windows lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nafeasonto:
I am not trying to be a jerk here, but isn't this phone older now?

Why are there the same bugs in every firmware I get:

1. Bluetooth working on and off

2. Viper not working correctly

3. System apps that shouldn't be system apps

4. Stock camera still not working correctly and/or force closing and using flash shuts off phone.

5. 720P recording not working

6. Menus constantly changing and the same options that were in one place are in another, and looking for 30 hours trying to find it again.

7. back to kill not working correctly, again.

8. Horrible skipping audio.

I don't get it, every firmware I download for this phone on this site has the same bugs over and over again.

How can they not be fixed by now?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] alecsharp:
No Calendar Sync

Hi fenixus,

So I've tried a number of different things (including reflashing, wiping data/cache, etc) and I keep seeing that calendar is not in Google Account Sync, and it is not syncing at all. Here's the behaviour:

When I first fire up the Google Calendar app, it goes through the "friendly" setup stuff, asking for an email address (!?).

When I enter mine, it says it already exists on this device and would I like to instead add another. (!?).

The next time I fire it up, it shows that it is looking at my account in the calendar settings, but claims no calendars to display...

Any help would be awesome -- I'd rather have my calendar than the camera ;)

Thanks again for your hard work on this ROM!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
Agree...

You need to remember the ROMs that are provided here are mostly built from cm source.

The sg3 is almost 3 years old and would be stuck on jelly bean from Samsung.

Every time a new Firmware comes out all those problems return.

Yes it sucks... I have a 1+1 and it has bugs.

Vent away your not a jerk.

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Shakes fist at sky yelling "Damn you Google stop f_ing with my ****."
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ZoneBlaze:
From my personal experience, whenever there's any problems with a ROM and I'm 100% sure I flashed correctly, the issue is fixed when I redownload the ROM again and reflash. Probably an incomplete download was flashed.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] alecsharp:
ZoneBlaze, thank you -- I have a similar opinion to yours. In this case, this has persisted for 3 nightly snapshots. before the 2/5 nightly I had 1/27 nightly and 1/2somethingelse nightly. All three are similarly misbehaving.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
I don't know why you guys have problems with Calendar app. I never had to separately set up Calendar ever ... Once I am signed into google account during Welcome Setup, so all Google apps use my account, everything is ready to use for me ... including Calendar and everything else from Google.

Some ideas that might help:

Have you tried wiping user data partition?

Are you running the latest Google Services app from Playstore?

which gapps package are you flashing?

There is new 2/5/15 Banks linked in the Downloads of this thread. If you were using different gapps before (e.g. one dated 201411xx) then wipe cache BEFORE flashing ROM and see if it helps. Other than that I am out of ideas, as again I never see Calendar problems on any of those builds ...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Maybe you don't want to sound like one, but you do. Are you familiar with the term NIGHTLY?

Go back some milestone release of Kitkat or back to stock all the way if you don't like it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
[MENTION=4474827]fenixus[/MENTION] hahahaha

And here comes 5.1 ;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chris_sd:
My Google Calendar started working now and calendar shows up under sync settings. I re-flashed with Gapps from 2/5, and i also installed Google Calendar from the App store. I am thinking that it was the Google Calendar from the app store that fixed it, but not sure.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
sure LOL, it will fix a few things and break a few others ;)

Possible, I have this one installed too and both appear working to me :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] alecsharp:
PlayStore Calendar is the key

Chris_SD, you had the winning response! I didn't realize that there was a different app in the play store. Installing that one makes both calendar apps work.

There are very many worse things in life than having to have two calendar apps installed, so I call this one a win.

Thank you!!

[MENTION=4474827]fenixus[/MENTION]: btw, ya, I had done the wiping/flashing stuff prior to posting -- including factory reset, user data + cache, and reflashing the rom and gapps, etc. For some reason the calendar app that comes with the gapps zip still needs its counterpart bff app from the store...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Lol, at least it works this way :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Smoothzz:
When I go to the androidfilehost site ibsee 2 folders. Layers and Themes. Which one has the most current ROM that I can flash ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] luxkore:
They're the same internal content, they're just different theming engines. Flash whichever, it doesn't matter.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cash2387:
Am I missing something in the main post? I was looking for the newest download but when I click on the nightly link I see only the themes.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nom nom apple:
Check out the post above you, cash2387. They are both ROMs able to be flashed. The difference between the two are just theme engine related.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cash2387:
DOH!...I didn't see that :eek: Thanks :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nom nom apple:
No worries! It happens to the best of us.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Yeah, a reminder to all. Builds have been forked into 2 ROMs, one with CM Theme engine (Liquid Themes subfolder) and other with SykoPath Overlay Manager (Liquid Layers subfolder).

They are not easily interchangeable tho! Clean flash (Factory reset from Recovery - it does not remove user data) is required when switching over.

Next release is scheduled for Friday.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Try Volume Up button two times, then it should go back to minimum normally and respond to slider. It's a very old issue actually, I was having it all the time on Carbon ROM Kitkat in past ... It's related to kernel and/or toolchain change we did a while back.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cyberma007:
Thanks I'll try it later today
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ZoneBlaze:
Is it considered a bug when in the sounds setting page the notification volume slider is greyed out? I tried toggling the separate notification/ring volume, but still greyed out :(

I can adjust it without a problem when adjusting via volume button>more.

It's not a big problem but worth pointing out.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mp3deviant721:
Possibly. Just get a logcat for fenixus just in case he doesn't know about it.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cash2387:
Just Clean flashed the Feb 5th build last night. Had the Calendar issue as well, once I installed Google Calendar, everything started working. Thanks for the info in the previous posts Chris_SD. As well I just wanted to point out that on the lock screen it tells me "No Service" but when I unlock and check Mobile Network, Its fine. Anyone else having that problem?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
That notification slider under sounds seems to be greyed out on mine too. You can toggle Link to ringtone volume, right above it, thats what I do.

In volume button more settings there is no notification, just ringtone, media and alarm.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Same here.

There is so many changes in ROM every day (changes come from 3 dev teams: LS, CM and SR) that it's hard to stay in the loop and know what to expect lol each tim ewe make a build. We are not even fixing most of minor issues until ROM gets stabilized a bit more.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cash2387:
LOL okay just making sure its not me. So far so good on this build. Gave it a full charge this morning and trying it out.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] flip3601:
In pretty sure there's other teams working on LP. I'm just glad it's coming along as well as it is. OctOs, Slim, Cyanide, Bliss, as well as the teams u mentioned. I'd personally like 2 thank all Dev teams 4 all their hard work on this ^.^
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
E/wpa_supplicant(8123): recvfrom(ctrl_iface): Try again

Does anyone know what this is?

Im thinking wlan but not sure? Googled it but found very little helpful info.

It keeps repeating itself in logcat over and over.

If I turn WiFi off it stops.

??? Something new to me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nafeasonto:
the shift d2 kernel seems to work well. oc works, viper works and call recording works as long as kernel is set to permissive.

biggest issue is the bluetooth audio constantly skipping, and default camera.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
we are working on making Viper work on our ROM without the need to set kernel into Permissive mode.

OC works fine on BMS bundled kernel too, I'm running 1.72GHz daily ...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nafeasonto:
no idea if this is related but I noticed that there is no Bluetooth skipping if the wifi is disabled.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
To me it looks like standard lollipop wifi drivers in kernel has some kind of routine that times out silently in background and affects BlueTooth audio streaming. Saw something like that in logcat somebody posted, it was there whenever wifi was on. I think that goes towards all current ROMs and kernels, correct me if wrong.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mp3deviant721:
Would it be fair to assume that this issue could possibly be fixed in 5.1? This statement is with emphasis on could...

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
I certainly hope so that it could :o
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mp3deviant721:
I want it fixed so I can run LP instead of KK (I'm back on (KK because of said BT streaming quality issues with WiFi)... The smoothness is so nice on LP.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Yeah, personally I very rarely use BT so it doesn't bother me at all, but I can understand your point very well.

LP is dramatically faster and smoother than Kitkat ever was for me, mostly that is thanks to ART libs. LP5.1 will completely obsolete Dalvik, so they say it will boost performance even further above that level.

So far we've seen antutu scores reaching 24K on 1.8GHz CPU when running light-weight Layers Manager builds. Builds with CM Theme manager seem to be slower, but 22K scores weren't uncommon with CPU running 1.7GHz, that's pretty impressive considering that highest score I ever had on Kitkat was somewhere around 18-19K and that was with CPU overclocked to 1.8Ghz, read ahead tweaked and F2FS partitions to boost score further...

Besides, the LP5.0 still has a nasty memory leak bug that will be fixed in 5.1, not to mention adding back the silent ringer mode (missing in 5.0 - the Priority mode is not exactly same as silent) and a few other minor patches, list is quite long and I believe it does include some wifi stability/reliability improvements which could hint on newer driver.

The only big problem is camera video mode on GS3, so far nobody was successful in making it work with stock Camera app.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
I've been reading up on 5.1 myself. Seems that it will plug a lot of the leaks. Hopefully Google don't tie things down for the custom ROMs. This whole Cm/Microsoft deal seems to be a thorn. I would miss messing with this old phone. Its so reliable.

Time will tell I guess.

As far as layers do you think there will be a working build. From the activity in git it looks promising? I might even break out the old theming skills.

Camera is a non issue. Stock camera works with a bit of love and I own vivavideo now anyway.

Thanks again fenixus for mataining the builds. You rock!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Orion116:
Layers should work soon. CM base was an issue so LS is rebasing to Slim.

LiquidSmooth d2usc/d2vzw maintainer
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] anil2653:
My AnTuTu result with default CPU of 1512 MHz Maximum is almost 21k
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Liath:
Hey, one thing I want to know before I go testing ROMs. So far this one seems to be the best one I've looked into (and is up to date, others don't seem to be updated any longer).

Does WiFi calling work with this ROM, or is that something that is only in stock-based ROMs?

Also, now that I'm looking at the downloads, I'm not sure which of the two versions I should download for the most stability / features... Theme or layers. Hrmm, will try and dig through the pages to see what I can figure out.

[Edit] I think I found the answers I was looking for. Seems if I understand correctly that WiFi calling is built into touchwiz, so no WiFi calling (I'm going to try without it but I have crap signal out here in BFE) I got the layers version of the ROM because of the fellow above me saying that it is faster. Just stuffed it on the phone and I must say I'm impressed. I thought a new version of android would end up even slower, but this blows stock right out of the water. If WiFi calling doesn't end up being the thing that breaks me I'm definitely sticking with this ROM :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mp3deviant721:
I feel your pain on WiFi calling. Can't stand TW though so that's why I grit my teeth and run AOSP ROMs. But I use Hangouts as a substitute and its works fine...

As for the speediness, that can be attributed to the new ART runtime. It does certainly make a new ROM much snappier on an older device. :D

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
Trust me, I am in need of WiFi Calling as well, but so far AOSP doesn't have it. The rumor (quite old one I'm afraid) is that 5.1 update is supposed to bring it to Nexus 6 phones on T-Mobile. If T-Mo is able to do it with native AOSP phones running lollipop then it will be for all if I understand correctly. Lollipop is different than Kitkat and as far as I understood the WiFi calling hooks are there in OS already, no need for TouchWiz anymore. That would be great news if it turns out true. Watch Nexus 6 news on T-mo regarding the promised WiFi Calling feature.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mp3deviant721:
Oh I hope that's true. That'd make my day!!

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=banks&device=gapps

New gapps l minimal

New theme build is running well.

Thanks fenixus
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Liath:
Hey Fenixus, odd problem I'm having. My wifi and phone data often end up with an "!" next to them after a while. I turn off wifi and turn it back on, and still it wont reconnect to the wireless network. Mobile data seems to be unwilling to connect when this occurs as well.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] anil2653:
In 13th February release I am not able to switch to back camera and it is only on front camera?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cyberma007:
High volume while talking on the phone

Hi Guys

on my S3 volume is so high at lowest that everyone in the room can hear what the person is saying .

even tried the double clicking the volume to lower it that someone suggested, but it still goes high, any idea what to do?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fenixus:
what is your modem revision? I see only occasional trouble with WiFi staying off stubbornly (Authentication trouble) right after running Titanium Backup on system components, but it only takes taping the router manually to Connect and it always does. No other issues here.

Just checked OpenCamera and I can use either of them without problems.

try Volume Up twice to reset it while in-call.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cyberma007:
I tired it, it only work for one call and if get a new call it goes back to what it was before
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] allendj81:
how do you turn off haptic feedback from the navigation bar?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] homerwasa:
Sounds/other sounds/vibrate on touch

The notification is not implemented yet. Still greyed out.

You would have to turn all off.

Nightly builds some things are still broke unfortunately.

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I'm using the 2/14 theme version and don't have that problem.

Have you tried a clean install? That usually will fix any problems.

As always in recovery factory/wipe all. I'm sure you know that.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Open Camera had an update, and after it got installed, it no longer worked on this ROM. Anyone else had this issue?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Orion116:
Works for me. Disable stock camera and wipe Open camera's cache and data.

LiquidSmooth d2usc/d2vzw maintainer
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Stock camera was/is already disabled. I actually even uninstalled and reinstalled Open Camera but the same problem exists. Are you on the latest version?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Orion116:
Yep. Wipe data would have been quicker, lol

LiquidSmooth d2usc/d2vzw maintainer
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
except that when the cause is unknown, reinstall is a better approach because it addresses other possible causes too (and, apparently, the issue is not resolved via cache/data wipe).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Orion116:
What ever you want to do is fine, lol. Just saying wiping Open Camera data and cache then rebooting would have been the same as uninstalling then reinstalling.

LiquidSmooth d2usc/d2vzw maintainer
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Not really. If there was a corrupt/damaged file, that approach won't address it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lilian1:
want to backup some sort of information from my OS like for example the wifi hotspot list along with their passwords. Dont want to decript them. I just want to be able to restore them on another phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnetboard:
If you are rooted, the app Titanium Backup will back up WiFi information for you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lilian1:
but without rooting my device, exist a way to do it?