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[Onetouch Idol 3 General] stl1859:
Comparison shots

I did some more testing today, where I compared the Idol3 camera, to my regular Panasonic Lumix ZS7 Point & Shoot. On the Idol 3 , I used 'A Better Camera' in HDR mode , and Open Camera - with ISO_HJR in auto , and HDR modes. On the Panasonic I simply used its Intelligent-Auto mode. I uploaded the resulting pictures to my Picasa album here --> https://picasaweb.google.com/115584...&authkey=Gv1sRgCI7Lvoe5-YaVNg&feat=directlink . There are 4 shots each of 3 different scenes, and for one, I also posted a cropped portion from 100% of the image, so that you can blow it up further and compare. ( you should be able to tell from the exif which one is the Panasonic, and which one the Idol 3 with 'A Better Camera' - and the rest )

After looking at this - I am concluding that for daytime photography at least, I will say that the Idol3 camera is decent for the price of the phone. Yes , it could have been better , but using the right software and technique, once can take pretty good pictures with what we have here.

Also - I am pleasantly surprised to see the HDR performance with ' A Better Camera' - The difference between that and ' Open Camera' is that with the former, you can actually see it snapping three different pictures . Obviously there will be shake between those shots. But it looks like the app is taking care of that very well when merging the three pictures. Of course you have to put up with the delay involved in taking the 3 pictures and then merging them.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] tirgas:
I tried install Camera FV-5 to my phone but this app did not work
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
It's a pity we have to use manual mode in cam for best night results. Set shutter speed at 1/2 and iso to max, to bring night shots to life, really. :)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Lenova Camera

Many of the folks over at the HTCMania site which also has an idol3 section (in spanish) seem to prefer the Lenova Camera with the Idol3 so I tried it and was very pleasantly surprised. I've placed the camera in a folder here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!DwsQRYhA!qpifao82EdaAPTjlwEMkEg

[Mod below unneeded if you don't mind having to save photo's to the internal storage]

Also in that folder you will find a modded platform.xml which allows 3rd party apps (like the camera) to write to the external sd card (without jumping through hoops). This was accomplished by adding a line allowing "media_rw". The code looks like this inside the file:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_r" />
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>

I added the last line '<group gid="media_rw" />'. If you copy the platform.xml using es file explorer (free) to /etc/permissions/platform.xml it will overwrite the existing file (you may wish to copy the original to a "platform.xml.bak" file for safekeeping) and upon a reboot all your apps should be able to write to the external sd without any permission issues. This mod requires allowing root access to es file explorer so it's able to copy the file to /system.

*obligatory warning* Rooting your device will prevent it from getting OTA updates. You can however restore your phone to factory condition should an OTA update become available which you want by using the TWRP system backups available here (Details in the thread however you'd basically do the opposite..boot twrp and do a restore after copying the folder over to the phone): http://xdaforums.com/idol-3/general/want-to-able-to-install-ota-updates-t3163745
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] stl1859:
It does appear to take good pictures . However I noticed that installing the APK that you attached - adds a third icon (in addition to the camera and gallery) to the app drawer - with what appears to be Chinese lettering in the name - which appears to be a bar-code reader - but when opened, takes you to an infinite loop of asking to add one more app. I found that very annoying.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
If you're running nova or Apex Launcher they have the option to hide the icon.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
I decided to give this a try with disastrous results. My only edit was the added node above, which I double checked for accuracy. I backed up platform.xml, to the sdcard (/Downloads) and also as platform.xml.bak in /etc/permissions. Then, I restarted the phone. Quickly, I realized that very little was working normally. I went into ES File Explorer to look around. But I could only access root. The sdcard and external storage are both unavailable to me. I can tap them, but there are no contents. I'm not sure why. Permissions seem OK, but I may be missing something. Booting into TWRP, I see that all the contents of the storage are there, or so it seems. And Solid Explorer tells me that there's data. But they're invisible to me when booted into the system and inaccessible by any apps. After confronting these problems, I deleted the edited version of platform.xml and renamed the backup back to platform.xml. So it would seem to be as it was to begin with. That backup is unedited. It even has the same date, May 7, as it did before I embarked on this.

So my phone is largely toast unless and until I can get this fixed. I don't have a backup of my phone since rooting, so all I've done to configure it is not saved if the solution is to restore a nandroid backup. I'd hate to have to start over again. Though I'm thinking a system restore could fix things without touching anything else.

I tried fixing permissions in TWRP, to no avail. I really don't know what to do.

Any thoughts?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
You have adb access in TWRP(and root) so all you would need to do is push the old copy back and restart the phone. Next time do a twrp backup first before messing with /system so you can restore if you have issues.

adb shell

su

cp /etc/permissions/platform.xml.bak /etc/permissions/platform.xml

reboot

http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-to-unlock-external-sd-card-writing.html
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
Looking around the net, it appears I'm not the first to have this problem. platform.xml in its original form is already there. But obviously, something's wrong. I don't see most of what's in /etc from TWRP, though it's a symlink in file manager apps while booted into the system, so maybe the actual path is something different. Anyway, I pushed it as you suggested. Then, it appeared in TWRP, but nothing's changed when in the system. Maybe that path didn't overwrite the instance that's visible in ES File Explorer or Solid Explorer.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
I have no idea what you've done. Try grabbing a twrp stock backup for your model and restoring that.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
Via net searches, I'm seeing multiple instances of people having the same issue I am out of the same context; editing platform.xml, then finding it to be unrecognized by the system afterward. But nobody I've seen, so far, has a solution. So I did restore one of the stock backups. The only thing it seems to clearly have done is to remove root. Storage is still unaccessible, so nothing really works, other than the phone itself. I'm screwed here.

---------- Post added at 07:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:31 PM ----------

One note of possible interest on this — when I originally tried to edit platform.xml in place, I couldn't. The text editor couldn't save the file. So I edited a copy I'd saved to the /Downloads folder of the sdcard. Then, I overwrote the original with that. So I wonder if there's some issue with the system failing to see that file, even though it's there in /etc/permissions.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
If you restored the stock backup for your model it should overwrite all of /system including the platform.xml file....your saying /sdcard is unavailable or /storage/sdcard1? Have you tried reformatting them? Did you try factory reset? If you had twrp installed why did you have no backups? Getting root back is as simple as running the supersu zip file (and then downloading the supersu app) or doing it the way you rooted the first time. Did you try doing a wipe of /system in twrp?

If you can boot into twrp then you are NOT screwed unless you choose to be. TWRP has a file manager built into it that lets you copy files...it should have no issues restoring the platform.xml and twrp still has root.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
In my obsession with getting this straightened out, I haven't spelled all of what I've done out clearly as I might have.

Neither /sdcard or /storage/sdcard is available. In other words, neither the local storage or the external sdcard. Solid Explorer sees both of them in the list of drives and even shows how full they are and how much empty space there is, accurately, it appears. But it can't access the contents. ES File Explorer explicitly states that it doesn't have permissions to access the contents. I'm not clear why that is, obviously. Nothing looks particularly "wrong" to me. No app on my phone that has any sort of dependency on accessing those disks works. That means nothing really works very well. Both the internal and external sdcards still have their data, which I've copied to my computer via USB.

So I restored UERO, from the backups provided by users here. But it didn't solve anything. The problems are the same, other than that it removed root, which I easily restored by flashing SuperSU again. I'm waiting for the system to rebuild the cache in the wake of that. I did wipe the cache, btw, from TWRP.. Once it does, I'll try and get platform.xml to be seen again. Failing that, I'll do a factory reset.

I didn't make a nandroid backup of my own before editing/replacing platform.xml. Major mistake. I know better, but frankly didn't think it was a big thing, just editing a line in a text file. My error.

I really wish TCL (if that's what they're called) would provide factory images. I'd feel more comfortable with all this if they did. I'm used to the Nexus world where that security blanket is always there.

BTW, taking advantage of losing root, I opened the system updater to see what would happen. But it gave me an error message when I prompted it to check for an update saying that I had no net connection. That could be another side effect of this overall issue.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
If you do a ls -l platform* in adb shell do you see both your platform.xml and platform.xml.bak in the /etc/permissions dir? If the restore worked correctly then the .bak should have been wiped and the platform.xml should be back to factory. if you type "cat platform.xml" in that dir is the line you added still showing up? In TWRP if you go to Advanced, File Manager are you able to see /sdcard and /external_sd in twrp? If the file is still showing your change are you able to overwrite it using the file manager? You may have to go into twrp, Mount and checkbox system so it gets loaded and is available to twrp...that might be why you could not see it from adb shell in when in twrp.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
In adb shell, I don't get anything for platform.xml.bak, in part because I had already renamed it back to platform.xml after deleting my edited version that seemed trigger all the problems. I get permissions, etc., for platform.xml. But it is clearly the version that I overwrote the "old" instance with because the date is earlier, 4-22-15 instead of something like 5-7-15. (Is UER0 not the most current release?)

The cat command gives me the expected file contents, without the added node that would give write access to the external sdcard.

I do see both /sdcard and /external_sd in TWRP's file manager. I also see them in the Android File Transfer program that's on my Mac.

I'll try mounting the system. It's strange to me that I can see /etc in TWRP, but with only one subdirectory (/firmware). But ES File Explorer shows /etc as being a symlink, so I wonder if the actual contents of /permissions are elsewhere in the rooted section of the partition. If they are, though, I haven't found them. I see the entire contents of /etc from adb shell, too. Just not from TWRP.

I was about to do a wipe when I decided to try a file system repair. It uses fsck commands, which have bailed me out when I had a problematic ExFAT partition on my Mac awhile back. Didn't help, though.

---------- Post added at 09:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:45 PM ----------

I did a data wipe, which did away with most of what I've done and reformatted the internal sdcard. That seems to have done it. I'm at a factory state, except that I'm still rooted. But both sdcards are now visible to the system. Time to start over again... Not what I had in mind. Such is the life of an XDA dweller. :(

Thanks for helping.

---------- Post added at 09:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:04 PM ----------

I want to point out, as a fyi, that even now, with my phone in a factory state, formatted, wiped clean, the TWRP file manager does not show any subdirectories in /etc other than /firmware.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Glad you at least got to a workable state...consider titanium backup if you just want to backup your apps and data...it makes it easier to get back to how you like things. As opposed to windows files don't take on the date of the restore...they maintain the date from inside the archive. Try the sdfix app as someone earlier in the thread said it worked fine for them and it edits the same file...but make a fresh backup first. ;)

Oh for future reference....if you edited the file yourself as opposed to using the file I provided then that was probably the issue. Unless you used an editor that keeps the linux formatting it would have messed up the file. https://kb.iu.edu/d/acux
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
I was wondering if I'd lost Linux formatting and whether that was a factor. But I doubt I did lose it. I edited the file with DroidEdit on the phone. But I couldn't save the file in its usual root location. Must have been a permissions thing. Instead of changing the permissions, I copied the file to /Downloads, as mentioned. Then, I overwrote the original, which had been backed up. Upon reboot, trouble had started and nothing could make it right, at least what I'd tried.

Titanium Backup is always an early install for me, including on this phone. But I hadn't done much with it since rooting it. I could have taken a prior Titanium Backup from my Nexus 4 and used it to reinstall a bunch of apps, but I just did it from the Play Store. Lots of wasted time. I'm usually pretty good about being safe and prepared with the right kinds of backups. I paid the price this time.

I noticed a number of apps that enable apps to write to the external sdcard. Seemed so easy to just edit the file, though. I'd like to know what went wrong.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
If you really want to know, attach the file you modified to a post (add .txt to end) and I'll browse the change to see if I see anything obvious.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
The offending file is long gone. I deleted it as soon as things went wrong and reverted back to the unedited backup of it. That's gone, too, since I started all over again. I'm close to being back to where I was, now. Once I've got things where I want them today, there will be backups. :laugh:
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] maigre:
Re: the system failures I was having a couple weeks ago that are chronicled in the posts above...

I discovered last night that my sdcard/data directory was dated 12/31/69 and that nothing could write to it. I found this out when I tried to back up my launcher's setup and it failed. Ultimately, I saw that while all the folders in sdcard/data had that date, the actual data within was dated from the time I got the phone up until I made the problematic edit to platform.xml. It appears that after I did that and rebooted, the OS must have copied or moved the folders from /data/data/ to the internal sdcard with permissions that made it inaccessible. com.android.* folders did not get copied or moved, afaik, though they may have been deleted from /data/data. I have no way of knowing. And maybe the system was looking for data that it couldn't find. Something like that, anyway. So I renamed sdcard/data to something else so that apps that wanted that folder could create a new one. And they did. I couldn't delete the obsolete sdcard/data from my file managers, or even change the permissions, so I did it from TWRP's file manager. No problems resulted because nothing was reading from or writing to that directory, anyway.

Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone comes up against these issues in the future.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] gecko702:
ive been snooping on htc mania me being a spanish speaker theyve been talking about that lenovo camera also procapture which it has great HDR also it has noise reduction ill give this one a try too
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
I've been using the lenovo camera...been very pleased with it....it's available in xda's "android apps and games" forum.

I've considered playing with the motorola camera which is also in the xda forum.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
Have anyone experienced stock cam crashing during manual shutter speed and white balance setup?

Sent from hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] ps3cfw:
Stock camera app gives me lackluster performance and A LOT OF BLUR on almost any condition.

However Open Camera works pretty fine, hardly any blur... the only problem is it takes quite a bit more time to process a single photo.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] gautam.malik:
Hey people,

How is your experience using Google Camera?

I don't like to use a camera with lot of settings. So far Google Camera has performed much better than the stock camera.

I have removed stock camera from my device.

I have 6039Y

I have not tested Opencamera yet. Just want to if anyone has tried both and how are they different.

I have a very fast SD card; hence, photos don't take a long time to save, even in HDR mode.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
Found out that Google cam is now taking much better pics especially in hdr mode.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] wiemar:
i tested many apps and stock camera always win (pictures quality). too bad we can't try apps with Lollipop's Camera2 API like manual camera from google play.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] bryant rosado silva:
I really want to buy the Idol 3, but camera is an important thing for me. Does it takes good photos with the stock camera when compared to the Galaxy S3?

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[Onetouch Idol 3 General] techware7:
Youtube?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] bryant rosado silva:
I've saw and liked but more information I receive better it will be...anyway, thank you

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[Onetouch Idol 3 General] techware7:
Camera pretty good... Specially that 8mp front shooter vs your 1.9.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] kevin6876:
Under good light it takes great photos. In the dark, photos are pretty grainy, struggle to find the right light balance and exposure. There's definitely better cameras on the market. If the camera is your sole reason for buying the phone, look else where. It's a phone camera, it's far from SLR.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
Cam from stock rom with right shutter speed, let say 1/2 at night can take really good photos. But mine was crashing so I switched to Google's one on cm12.1..

sent from Hell
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] seanvree:
Looking for a TWO port USB charger that is fast charge capable. What's the best one out there?
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] gsrrr:
Aukey has a 2 port but only 1 port is quick charge capable.

http://www.amazon.com/Qualcomm-Certified-Aukey-Charger-Included/dp/B00LJT2EPK
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] carren_li:
here is the only one port quick charger.

http://www.amazon.com/Charger-Amzdeal®-Universal-Adapter-Cigarette/dp/B00WWI0S82
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] tomatoguy:
I'd like one too.
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] chiewable:
I bought the tronsmart fast charger from amazon

Make sure you use the included cable or your phone may not fast charge. Charges as fast as the oem charger
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] Taebom:
i just bought the CHOE Qualcomm (Quick Charge 2.0)Qualcomm Certified 51W 4 Port Intelligent Multi USB Quick Car Charger. i know it's a mouthful, but basically it's a 4 port charger with a siingle Quick Charge 2.0 slot.

Fast: Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 Technology reduces the charging time by up to 75%

Powerful:Total power 51W 4 port (Auto detected charging port 5V/2.4A*3+Adaptive fast charging port 15W) for this multi port USB car charger

Smart: With auto detect technology, which could automatically recognize your devices and is compatible with most of electronic devices

Adaptive Fast Charging: Especially match with Samsung Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge/Galaxy Note 4/Note Edge

Safe: Over-current, over-charging, short-circuit protection will make the charge safely, without any risk of overheating or damaging your devices

$19.99 w/prime

http://www.amazon.com/Qualcomm-Certified-Intelligent-Technology-USB-Powered/dp/B00R18XTCA/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dpcod_6mSUvb07S8GPC_im
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] V0latyle:
I use this. Works beautifully.
[Galaxy S6 Accessories] Taebom:
lol, you and the OP are on the same page.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pierre Ehab:
hey our developers can we edite on (vold fastab) to swap the memory:rolleyes: please help
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alher591:
Anyone know where the auto thumbs up playlist is stored in Google play? Or how I can export it? It's really a pain in the ass whenever I flash a new rom to create a new one.

I haven't been able to find a straight answer yet. I'm sure it's possible .
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm0002:
Hello,

So i drop my nexus on conrete floor shattering the screen in the process, to the point that the display no longer comes on at all, and i have it encrypted, is there a way i can dump the partition and maybe flash it to my new nexus 6?

its rooted and i left the boot loader unlocked and i know it still powers on because it comes up on linux when i run the lsusb command as Google Inc. Nexus 4 (not really sure why it says 4 but it is it because when i unplug it and re-run lsusb its gone) is there any hope for me?

Thanks for any replys
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Hmmm. I assume you had a screen lock?

I'd love to say boot to twrp then enter the password with a USB OTG keyboard but I've no idea if that would work.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm0002:
Yea i did with a pattern :( i was hoping for a way to do a dump without having to enter the pattern to boot
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Have you tried a keyboard as suggested?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm0002:
im not really sure how to enter a pattern with a keyboard though
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lost Dog:
How about a mouse? Not sure if that would work either but I'm almost temped to dig out my OTG cable and see!

EDIT:

Yeah, I works! I was able to boot in to TWRP and unlock a pattern with a mouse. Good to know!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Imagine a pattern grid of dots...

* * *

* * *

* * *

Then imagine a grid of numbers...

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

Then you'll get the idea. Although last version of twrp or the one before uses actual pattern now instead if numbers so it may need downgrading a version or two
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SGS3VMU:
Hello XDA community. Sorry for being noobish, but is there a TouchWiz Lollipop ROM port for the Sprint Galaxy S3? If not, can someone PLEASE work on a port?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
No and there won't be, there's no base to work with.