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[Desire General] I RICHY I:
I've been using my phone a lot the last few days and I've found a few bugs which I was wondering if anyone else has come across.

1. Camera sometimes turns half blue and half purple, sometimes it takes parts of the image and places them in random places.

2. When viewing images as thumbnail, sometimes it will replace a image with another, or parts of images in other images. When selecting the image, it is fine.

3. Low battery warning - when it gets to the 4% warning, the warning will pop up and then phone will shut down with this warning.

Anyone know of some kind of fix for any of these?

Using a debranded o2 running froyo ota.
[Desire General] .:george:.:
Hi,

1) Happens to me once a while running Froyo, never happened to me on Eclair though... I have rooted 2.2 only.

2) Can confirm this one, however don't know how to fix it.

3) Don't see a problem there...? :)
[Desire General] Whiterin:
I think I have had my Desire for 6 or 7 months, and I have never had the problems in 1 and 2. I have had the pictures go grainy with a green hue, but that was outside at night, trying to take a picture of a building. As for #3... it probably does that because a full discharge of a L-Ion battery is very bad for it. I let the battery on my Sidekick fully discharge, and it never worked again. Shutting the phone down at 4% is likely a safeguard to avoid damage to the battery.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wYh0iUt:
I'have an HTC Wizzard ( Qtek 9100 ) With Manila 2d Rom. When i instaled the Manila 2d Rom month after that i couldnt call anyone when i dial i hear only one Sound and it stops dialling , When someone try to call me it tells that my phone is off but When i went to Bulgaria for the Holidays and i could make and recieve calls with the bulgarian SIM.I dont know what to do i want to make it calling .

Can you help me resolve this ?

Please PM or Reply.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] madnish30:
Do a hard reset, flash the stock ROM, Talk to your Operator.

Wrong place to post this thread.

Thread shut.
[XPERIA X10 General] needmoregigs:
Hey fellow members, my friend recently bought an X10a from the sony store for $129.99 with a contract renewal. The best part was the accidental protection plan was $69.99 for 18 months.

I personally think the protection plan is great. I just sent my beloved X1 for repairs and got a call that they couldn't give me another X1 but instead will be sending me a brand new X2a. I don't know how the X2 compares to the X1, but you can't complain about an outdated new phone instead of a refurb.
[XPERIA X10 General] junkk29:
Are you serious? that's awesome. So now you have both the X2 and the X10. Good for you mate :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
i tried 'vignette' with the image stabilisation feature on and the quality set to superfine ....the resulting images were literally twice as good as with the default camera app ....no blur and sharper, more detailed.

The Image Stabilisation obviously helps, and the superfine setting on vignette saves the images at a much higher quality with less compression, the file sizes being about 2.7mb vs 1.6 for default app.

so with these facts in mind it is apparent that samsung is not making full use of the camera hardware .....it is being limited once again by the poor software.

unfortunately 'vignette' is not really useable full time because it is slow as heck!

you have to wait 10 - 15 seconds between shots while it processes, so ideally it would be nice if samsung got their heads out of their asses and fixed the software so it is not crippling the hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Case_:
Seriously? In my opinion the Samsung camera is the best camera software for Android. Beats even the HTC Camera.

BTW, this thread probably wasn't meant to be in Development section...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
don't know where it's meant to go, i guessed since it had to do with the built in firmware ......

ok, it's not a terrible camera, but it could be much better, especially in low light conditions. In perfect daylight it does take superb photos.

here are two samples, identical conditions, tell me which you think is better
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xan:
+1 for second 1
[Galaxy S I9000 General] voodoochild2008:
2nd one is better
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
thanks, the second is the vignette one .....there's obviously a noticeable difference
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spybreak:
Wow, you're absolutely right. I just tried it myself (quick test here at work) and Vignette solves my main issue with the SGS camera, which was the aggressive noise reduction that made images way too soft.

With Vignette (no filters applied) there's a lot more detail in the image. It might be due to Samsung compressing images too much (which accounts for the file size differences) but it might also be image processing on the stock camera app is way too agressive.

I'll do some more proper tests soon.

These are 1:1 crops of a test pic. Both pics taken from the same spot, focusing on the middle of the image and with no other processing applied.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] diehard2222:
damn it i cant buy this app till i get my debit card pin!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spybreak:
There's a free version available. I'm going to do tests with some other camera apps and see whether every app is doing a better job than Samsung's app or if it's just Vignette.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
i didnt try them all, vignette had the best reviews, and seems to be one of the only ones that includes image stabilisation and saves images at a higher quality (less compression) than samsung.

the demo does have some limitations, and, as i said, it is very slow in processing the photos.

if u find an alternate one that does the same job faster pls let us know.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
ohhhhhhhhh.... thanks for the suggestion

http://www.appbrain.com/app/uk.co.neilandtheresa.Vignette
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PhilPassmore:
Camera 360 also provides IS. There is a free and a paid for app, and the IS is available on both. Not sure about the level of compression though, not checked respective file sizes.

Phil
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FadeFx:
i have ben testing with camera apps also yesterday,and i realized there must be some bug in the camera firmware either, that prevents all apps that feature a zoom to do this, as soon as i zoom in, the image freezes and gets pixelated.

during tests with vignette i found that it uses a different approach to zooming by just actually cropping the immage and therefore not causing a freeze. also i did not see the sayed delay on taking a photo...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Case_:
Yes, the Vignette pictures seem a bit more detailed and it certainly has to do with the lower compression it's using. However, some of it is just because Vignette seems to sharpen pictures more as well (which is something you don't really want) and that also seems to accentuate noise. Also, from my test it seems that Vignette also tends to underexpose pictures, another not really welcome effect (most digital camera pictures are already way too underexposed).

So while it would be nice to be able to choose lower compression in stock camera, because of the things mentioned above (and also because of the ability to change metering method) I'd still pick stock app as an overall winner, despite the less detail (some of which can be reclaimed by sharpening the picture a bit afterwards). Though Vignette might certainly come handy under certain circumstances (so thanks for the tip, I'm keeping it even though I just wanted to test it at first).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Adevem:
the camera 360 seem to produce a better picture in a lit room. not sure if it's a placebo effect, shall compare it with the stock camera tomorrow. eyes too tired tonight.

gonna compare the shots taken tomorrow in the day too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
i trashed camera 360 after 5 minutes of trying to figure out how to turn the random effects off and gave up when it kept adding a different effect to every pic i took

....but i found this one which at least to my own eyes (in limited testing) takes slightly better photos than the stock app, it has no settings whatsoever except for point and click (although there are some extra filter effects which i didn't bother with), it is very bare bones but fast. I will test it some more tomorrow in daylight.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.nate.android.cycamera
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The.Opethian:
I'm using primarily Vignette, but damn, I think the programmers designed it in a way that is really is supposed to be slow (it's designed to be old-school-like right? LOL).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
ok, tried cycmera in daylight ....it's rubbish, has no focusing mechanism whatsoever so is useless.

also noticed that vignette creates an invisible thumnails folder inside the dcim folder which can build up to huge sizes if not manually deleted ....this is really stupid imo
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ramsey:
definitely the quality is much better with Vignette over the stock app.

however it is reallyyyyyy slow. Even when changing settings it is slow to react. When processing the image, takes about 10 seconds.

And also we can't choose with our finger where we want the focus to be like in the stock app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sunwee:
maybe the "improvements" in vignette comes from the post-processing?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrwadim:
Yes, it looks so as there is much longer processing time after taking a picture.
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
I've got an Epic 4G waiting for me when I get home today. If anyone has any questions or requests Ill be more than happy to answer them!
[Epic 4G General] kennethlongshaw:
...is it epic?
[Epic 4G General] ben7337:
What color is the notification light on the phone? is it one color or can is do pretty much any color under the rainbow, or just a few? BGR is the only source I saw officially state that the notification light is in fact a notification light and they only said that it is red.
[Epic 4G General] sling:
If you wouldn't mind loading some apps on SD card testing their open/close response.
[Epic 4G General] quasi13:
I'm also interested in the notification light.

Wouldn't he need Froyo for that?
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
It looks like there is a system app called GPSSetup. Can you run that? What does it do?
[Epic 4G General] xXSecretAgentXx:
Please post some videos of it in action. Doing some benchmark test from popular apps would be nice too :)
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
Will do. Two and a half hours from home!
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
natually you need to do some real world testing of the GPS to see if it actually works and is accurate. Take a drive somewhere with google maps loaded up and see how well and accurate the GPS please :D
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Just driving around is a pretty unrevealing test. If you are going to field-test the GPS, please use a little more rigor than that: Install and use My Tracks to capture several tracks on complex driving courses with stops, turns, and fast curves. Also some walking courses. You can upload the results to Google My Maps and post the links for others to peruse.

Then use GPS Test and report the results being shown when getting an outdoor fix (number of satellites seen, used; reported accuracy; SNR levels for satellites used, time to first fix.)
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
Alright gang.

First tests:

1.) Notification light - red.

Can't test any other colors. Don't know if it can change.

2.) Quadrant benchmark - 960. I/O score improves, 3D, etc. Most improved by a little. I/O a lot.

Here's my benchmarks: http://briefmobile.com/samsung-epic-4g-benchmarked

3.) GPS -- worked well with initial test. Found me in my court outside. Will do more testing later.

4.) Speed of the phone - unrivaled. Possibly the fastest, baddest Android-powered device yet. I own a Captivate, and this thing BLOWS the Captivate out of the water.

When I apply the EXT2 lag fix on Captivate, it brings Captivate up to par with the Epic 4G. But, Epic is fast right out of the box. Boot up times are nice and fast. No ten minutes of loading crap.

Sidenote: Wish I had the Epic drivers. I have no way of connecting this thing to my PC. Of course the driver site isn't up yet. The phone's not out for ten more days!
[Epic 4G General] mensaphone:
FM Radio useable?

What version of BT?

Anyway you can try out vid out?
[Epic 4G General] skeeterslint:
Any way you could post a link to a kernel dump?

Just run

Cat /dev/bml7 > /sdcard/bml7.dump
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
Can't run this without any drivers to connect... :confused:

Bluetooth - 3.0 like all Galaxy S devices.

FM radio - no way to test... I'm assuming it's disabled like the Captivate. No radio application.

TV out - I'll see if I can test it later today... but I don't think I have the right cords.
[Epic 4G General] skeeterslint:
You should be able to run this from connectbot and your pc should see the sd card without pc drivers.
[Epic 4G General] Dman10:
Is it running TouchWiz 2.5? I've heard that it's running 2.5 but I don't believe it.
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
Yes, the version of TouchWiz is slightly different. Not any better or worse necessarily. Just a different version.

Samsung has told me previously that the TouchWiz would be updated with the Android 2.2 rollout. But, all of the Galaxy S line devices will be receiving updated skins with 2.2. A few changes coming to every one.
[Epic 4G General] kaotikevo:
I have a few questions. First I'd like to know if the Epic 4G has video out like on the other Galaxy S variants through composite cables via the 3.5mm jack, and HDMI through the micro USB port? Thanks in advance
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
No TV out option! :mad: Can't believe it.

http://briefmobile.com/sprint-epic-4g-has-no-tv-out
[Epic 4G General] aim1126:
Probably because its not running touchwiz 3.0
[Epic 4G General] rawsoup:
Could you run some standard benchmarks and tell us the results?
[Epic 4G General] aim1126:
He already did lol. There on the second page
[Epic 4G General] kaotikevo:
Sounds like a deal breaker to me. It looks like so far the omissions outweigh the additions. It's hard to swallow the extra $50 and $10 a month fee for a phone that seems to be missing many key features available on the cheaper Vibrant. It's a shame Samsung and Sprint are trying to nickel and dime us for a watered down device.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
Meh, this is a feature I'll never, ever have a use for anyway. My laptop has TV out via HDMI. Why the hell would i use my phone.
[Epic 4G General] ImSoHungry:
idk, having a hardware keyboard would make the tv out useful, think of it like this, epic 4g with gamepad playing snes on a nice hdtv without having to look down. Its basically a portable gba, snes, gnsis, psx!
[Epic 4G General] kaotikevo:
Doesn't matter whether you use it or not. It's the principle of the matter. We potential Epic 4G buyers are getting charged extra for owning a "premium" device, yet we're getting a watered down device missing many of the features the other Galaxy S phones have. A slide out qwerty keyboard is great and all, but that alone does not justify a $50-$249.98 raise from other Galaxy S phones. Aside from the keyboard, we're getting what's essentially a gimped device. It's a shame Sprint and Samsung went this route. I was really excited about this phone. Looks like I'll have to wait it out for the next phone that isn't crippled catches my attention. I already had to return an EVO due to the many issues it had, and now Sprint messes up again. They're never going to raise their subs this way.
[Epic 4G General] ImSoHungry:
What else is this model missing? Also, is the TV out issue just a software thing, if so then it may be possible to cook a rom with this feature. I so want a hw keyboard, enough in fact for me to forgo my Nexus...if this phone is one i shall pass up then what to wait for, Blaze or G2?
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
What exactly is this phone not having that the others do?

I can tell you're the kind that calls Sprint every month for a credit of some sort because something was missing that month... "principal" doesn't mean anything in an open market.
[Epic 4G General] kaotikevo:
The phone has less ROM than the other Galaxy S phones, no TV out through composite or HDMI, running TouchWiz 2.5 instead of 3, so it has less customization options and it's missing many apps, Bluetooth 2.1 instead of 3.0, no virtual surround sound, lesser video recording and picture quality than the other Galaxy S devices, and possibly GPS issues, since as how the sites that report issues outweight those that don't.

Quite a lot already wrong with this phone
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
Seriously? Just because you can hook it up to your TV your going to pass this phone up? Wait....your right....the Epic is so gimped compared to the other galaxy phones. Working GPS, notification LED, front facing camera, flash, slide up keyboard, 4G, no lag because of no fixed internal SD card..........BUT NOT TV OUT IS A DEAL BREAKER! F YOU SPRINT AND YOUR PRIORITIES!
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
Thats what causes the lag, i'm happy it has 1GB of NAND rom rather then 16gb of class 2 SD card built inside

where have you read that?
[Epic 4G General] ImSoHungry:
i for one have not found any discrepancy with the phone other than the no TV out, however i believe it will have tv out with the microUSB to HDMI, also DLNA, and im sure software fix for 3.5mm out to tv will come.
[Epic 4G General] kaotikevo:
The lag has more to do with the file system partition used rather than the kind of ROM used. They use rfs instead of ext. I hate to burst your bubble but read this: "Like the other Galaxy S phones, the Epic 4G is powered by a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. For the most part the Epic was incredibly fast, but I did encounter some stalls in the user interface in one particular action. I shared one of my Gallery photos with a friend via Gmail. As the phone was delivering the message, I attempted to browse through more gallery images. The Epic began to stutter and freeze between the images. I then closed the Gallery app and tried to open another--the phone completely froze for about 20 seconds. I was able to replicate this problem a second time when I tried to send another image. My contact did receive both images, but it was disturbing to see the phone freeze up like that as I was trying to send an attachment."

That's from http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/652079/review/epic_4g.html

As for the image and video quality, take a look at this: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=404&p=3003

Now compare those to the various Vibrant, Captivate, and Galaxy S i9000 video samples, and you'll see a difference.
[Epic 4G General] rawsoup:
i guess it pays off to read the whole thread lol

but also have you tried playing any games such as the psx emulator, and if so how do they run?
[Epic 4G General] aim1126:
Other reviews say the camera was really good so maybe it was a problem with their phone or a setting
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
My Epic has been extremely fast. Never lagged so far. Faster than Nexus One, same as Droid 2 and faster than DX.
[Epic 4G General] aim1126:
Can yoy find out If the no tv out is a software thing our a hardware limitation?
[Epic 4G General] kennethpenn:
There's no way for me to do that... or else I would.
[Epic 4G General] aim1126:
Damn thought you might have some connections lol. Thanks for everything else though
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
I was reading over at SDX developers and it looks like samsung might of disabled TV out via a software update. If thats the case that means the hardware supports TV but they disabled it for whatever reason :confused:

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/epic-general-discussion/just-wanted-to-clarify-a-couple-things/

Post #5 he says it
[Epic 4G General] Eazail70x7:
Maybe there's hope? He said it was there at first...
[Epic 4G General] schizopunk:
How is the social networking integration since the phone doesn't have "Social Hub"? That was a major thing I was looking forward to, having all my contacts sync with Facebook and Twitter.
[Epic 4G General] ConceptVBS:
Tell me how this looks to you: (select the 720p)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FJYNhUvtbc
[Epic 4G General] gophergun:
That's been in Android itself since 2.0, I don't see why it wouldn't have it.
[Epic 4G General] schizopunk:
I know it has been in the Android OS but what I was looking forward to was the deep integration of the social networks like the universal contact list Samsung TouchWiz has and how you can see that persons status when you look at their contact entry. Its kinda like motoblur on steroids.
[Epic 4G General] a454nova:
Are we sure it doesn't have HDMI? I've read where it does and you can all ready buy the cord... via the micro usb. One (and ill look again to link it) said it pops up a message when you plug it in with options.

Samsung make a micro usb to hdmi for their Gal S phones. Its a very nice one that will charge the phone too.

IDK.. Why would 5.1 matter then?

Isn't it just awesome! I keep reading and watching videos... I can only describe it with a song from Sat Night Live (The Lonely Island Guys), and my pants are bad!
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
U mean like Sense
[Epic 4G General] larryccf:
trust me, there will be a considerable number of forum members waiting to hear your GPS results
[Epic 4G General] chipstar1:
I may be wrong, but is any of this true? Or is this just a rumormonger going crazy about some things he read with little/no confirmation?

Edit: The TouchWiz thing I believe is true. The rest though...
[Epic 4G General] Dman10:
I don't believe any of it is true with the exception of the Touchwiz 2.5, all I can say is just to get the phone and if you don't like it, get your money back. It seems really weird that they would take out all of that stuff for the one called Epic. Epic should be the best.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
The gps issue have been confirmed. Yes the gps performs better then the other galaxy s phones but it still has lag issues. There is YouTube videos about epic gps issue. I hope the new driver coming in September fixes the issue. To the people saying the other sgs's have class 2 sd card as internal storage have no idea what your talking about. The captivate has been dissembled and it has 16 gig nand chip not sd card. Its the rfs file system thats causing the lag issues not the speed of the 16 gigs. The epic has the same file system but Samsung implemented there own lag fix. All of this has been confirmed as well (no TV out through composite or HDMI, running TouchWiz 2.5 instead of 3, so it has less customization options and it's missing many apps, Bluetooth 2.1 instead of 3.0, no virtual surround sound, lesser video recording and picture quality than the other Galaxy S devices)

Edit: Theres is people saying they do have 5.1 surround sound and some saying they dont. I have seen pics with the icon so I would say it does have 5.1 surround sound.
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Are you still spouting this falacious meme? I have seen no published tests of the Epic proving that it has GPS issues, or does not. Given Samsung's public statement about the testing and validation of the GPS on the Epic, there is at least reason to believe that the GPS issues plaguing other Galaxy S variants have been resolved on the Epic.

Refuting your unsubstantiated declarations is like playing whackamole. Once they are refuted, you just resurface elsewhere and make the same bogus statements.
[Epic 4G General] shep211:
There are 2 videos on youtube about the gps issue with the epic. The gps fix from the epic has been tested and does not fix the issue. Samsung said its a driver issue and the epic does not have the new driver. Keep telling yourself theres no gps issue.

Cant find the other video now but heres one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rxVn7YQug
[Epic 4G General] imdshiznit:
From the comments left on that video, it seems he did not enable the GPS which comes disabled stock.