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Just some basic questions for you frequent ROMers. Note up front, I'm currently running a rooted Inspire with Sensed LeeDroid. I've also tried No-Sense LeeDroid and CM7.
First, if you're running Sensed Gingerbread, what are you running and why? This is the thing I want the most right now, but I'm so tempted to just wait until an official Gingerbread build comes out for the Inspire and someone makes a ROM off that. Frankly, I'm mostly just interested in the nifty UI enhancements at the moment (Overscroll glow, CRT screen-off, etc.). I know that's rather superficial of me, but there's not really anything else about Gingerbread that I know of at the moment. If there were ways to get these things in Froyo, I'd likely just do that for now.
All that said, please try to convert me, I'm interested. I do really prefer sense for now though, having tried out a couple ROMs without it.
Also, what is your usual process for getting your phone back the way you like it after a new ROM is installed? Some of you flash ROMs very regularly, and for me it is SUCH a pain in the butt restoring everything. The app restoring is tedious, as it requires you to click buttons for each app. And I do find remaking my home screen setups tedious as well. Do you guys just suck it up and do it?

for app restore, buy Titanium backup. BATCH restore rocks. I do have to redo my screens but to me that's not a big deal because I don't keep much on them.
I'm running CM7 right now.

I did do a batch restore the last time I did a ROM and it was a pain in the butt. It sent me to the Android app install screen for every app and asked me to confirm installation. It was like pulling teeth...

Silas0220 said:
I did do a batch restore the last time I did a ROM and it was a pain in the butt. It sent me to the Android app install screen for every app and asked me to confirm installation. It was like pulling teeth...
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If you buy the premium key for titanium backup it does all that for you
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No development I see....

When the Sidekick and Android were spliced, I was attracted to this phone, but development has become a big part my choice in a phone and from what I see... There's no development. Is it just slow? Still too early? Or not a popular device? What's going there?

Why don't you read the forum?
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Development is in the process, its just going by slow, like the above poster said take a look around.
The phone is fine and it works 100%, the battery DOES NOT die fast, and all the other issues people seem to complain about are non existent for me.. the only difficulties I had was getting cloud text and visual voicemail to work but after a phone call or two to t-mobile I was able to get everything working.
The phones still really new I guess so nobody really knows too much about it.
Coming from an iPhone 4 user, I love this thing a lot more than I ever loved my iPhone.

please, for the love of God, search the forum before you post. We're working on Clockwork Recovery so that we can make custom roms. Clockwork is almost done, it's in testing phases. Once Clockwork is working, we can begin working on Roms.

sduvick said:
please, for the love of God, search the forum before you post. We're working on Clockwork Recovery so that we can make custom roms. Clockwork is almost done, it's in testing phases. Once Clockwork is working, we can begin working on Roms.
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You don't necessarily need it to build ROMs. Test it yes, but a stock deodexed ROM or anything doesn't even exist yet. I would have done ports for this phone like I did with the myTouch but the sidekick is just dry.
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Captivate kk4 based rom opinions.

Just curious about what everyone's opinions are about the roms out there based on kk4. I'm on cyanogenmod 7.2 Kang build right now, but after upgrading my wife's phone to official gingerbread I'm thinking about going back to a stock based rom. Seems really fast and smooth. Mainly I'm looking for a rom with the Tmobile theme engine and screenshot capabilities as I'd miss those if I left cyanogenmod. I'm still debating whether or not to go back to a stock based rom.
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I like the roms, nice and fast, good bluetooth.
No lag except that damn gallery bug, but i get that on other versions and on stock rogers gingerbread aswell.

Cor-master said:
Just curious about what everyone's opinions are about the roms out there based on kk4. I'm on cyanogenmod 7.2 Kang build right now, but after upgrading my wife's phone to official gingerbread I'm thinking about going back to a stock based rom. Seems really fast and smooth. Mainly I'm looking for a rom with the Tmobile theme engine and screenshot capabilities as I'd miss those if I left cyanogenmod. I'm still debating whether or not to go back to a stock based rom.
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Opinions are like buttholes...just flash it and decide for yourself...going back to what you're running now if you don't like it is not difficult.
Qawnman said:
I like the roms, nice and fast, good bluetooth.
No lag except that damn gallery bug, but i get that on other versions and on stock rogers gingerbread aswell.
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Go to the market, get quickpic, you'll forget about the stock gallery entirely.

Well really just curious what everyone's using. Honestly there doesn't seem to be as many supported stock-based roms as their was on the earlier GB betas. I always used Cognition, but the most current version hasn't had an update since like July. I'm happy with Cyanogen for the most part, though it seems a bit buggier than stock. Really I just want a stock based rom with the theme engine and screenshot feature.

Cor-master said:
Well really just curious what everyone's using. Honestly there doesn't seem to be as many supported stock-based roms as their was on the earlier GB betas. I always used Cognition, but the most current version hasn't had an update since like July. I'm happy with Cyanogen for the most part, though it seems a bit buggier than stock. Really I just want a stock based rom with the theme engine and screenshot feature.
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Neither of which exist on stock, and the first being impossible on stock.

I could of swore I've seen theme support in some of these roms. Either way guess I can always use uot kitchen.
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I didn't see what the big deal was about screenshots but in the month and a half I've had cyanogenmod I've found I use the feature all the time
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There are apps in the market that allow this. Shoot me is what i use...it also has a video feature, that will take a screen shot every so many seconds (depending on what you set it to) and then make it an mp4.
Oh and for theme support on a tw ROM, go to the market and get darky ota that should work. It injects the proper images and compiled xmls INTO the existing ROM, I've used it on mosaic, should work on all tw roms, I'd make a backup zip of the framework-res.apk and systemui.apk first though, that you can flash if it doesn't work. Or just reflash the ROM.

Cor-master said:
I could of swore I've seen theme support in some of these roms. Either way guess I can always use uot kitchen.
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Yeah, but no theme engine. You have to flash them. Only the collectives have themes, and the others may have ICS themes.

I've thought about maybe just going to stock, removing the bloatware, installing corn kernal, installing a screenshot program, and then using UOT to get my themeing the way I want and calling it a day. That could work I suppose.
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Cor-master said:
I've thought about maybe just going to stock, removing the bloatware, installing corn kernal, installing a screenshot program, and then using UOT to get my themeing the way I want and calling it a day. That could work I suppose.
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Theres already a rom like that. Check it out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358180
Ive been using it for about a week now and its really stable. It comes with an older corn kernel though so you might want to flash the new one.

Nice! Thanks!
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I'm using the KK4-based version of SauROM (note that there's an I9000-based version too, which I haven't tried). It's mostly pretty nice, except that after a full day or maybe day and a half of use, the browser tends to go loopy. It freezes up and becomes non-responsive, and appears to be hogging the CPU, as hitting the home button doesn't repsond either. If I just put the phone down and walk away for half an hour, it's usually fine again when I get back, but I tend to just reboot instead which also fixes it. I find this annoying, but it's just infrequent enough to be tolerable. I've been meaning to try a different ROM to see if it's universal or not.

Cor-master said:
Just curious about what everyone's opinions are about the roms out there based on kk4. I'm on cyanogenmod 7.2 Kang build right now, but after upgrading my wife's phone to official gingerbread I'm thinking about going back to a stock based rom. Seems really fast and smooth. Mainly I'm looking for a rom with the Tmobile theme engine and screenshot capabilities as I'd miss those if I left cyanogenmod. I'm still debating whether or not to go back to a stock based rom.
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Well I was on stock rogers 2.3.3. and I found it very laggy. no matter what launcher I used: go, adw, lp, even sbp shell. after a while lag would start up that would require a reboot or the phone would just shut off. Games would start out fine then start lagging. I then flashed cm7 and noticed an immediate improvement with minor overclocking but I would still get that lag, but not as bad as stock.
I then flashed teamhacks 4.0.3 ics rc14. I can never go back to GB. It is so intuitive, very smooth. The transitions are amazing. Even with no overclocking it is miles faster than stock or CM7. I was considering buying a new phone but now I will not be.
Since you are on cm7 now why don't you flash ics . its very simple to do since you already have cm7 installed. then you can decide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363760
Hope this helps!

shaker2k said:
Well I was on stock rogers 2.3.3. and I found it very laggy. no matter what launcher I used: go, adw, lp, even sbp shell. after a while lag would start up that would require a reboot or the phone would just shut off. Games would start out fine then start lagging. I then flashed cm7 and noticed an immediate improvement with minor overclocking but I would still get that lag, but not as bad as stock.
I then flashed teamhacks 4.0.3 ics rc14. I can never go back to GB. It is so intuitive, very smooth. The transitions are amazing. Even with no overclocking it is miles faster than stock or CM7. I was considering buying a new phone but now I will not be.
Since you are on cm7 now why don't you flash ics . its very simple to do since you already have cm7 installed. then you can decide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363760
Hope this helps!
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I thought about it, but I'm kind of waiting for stable CM9 to be complete first. I hear it has an issue with rebooting during calls. Trust me though I'm very eager to try out ICS. I ended up going with Illuminance, so far so good. I'm currently restoring all my apps ATM. I'll report back after I"m done.
This is off topic but why is Titanium backup soo sooo slow? Why do I have to sit there and say "install" and "done" on everything? I wish I could have all the time back in my life I spent restoring stoff with titanium backup

Cor-master said:
I thought about it, but I'm kind of waiting for stable CM9 to be complete first. I hear it has an issue with rebooting during calls. Trust me though I'm very eager to try out ICS. I ended up going with Illuminance, so far so good. I'm currently restoring all my apps ATM. I'll report back after I"m done.
This is off topic but why is Titanium backup soo sooo slow? Why do I have to sit there and say "install" and "done" on everything? I wish I could have all the time back in my life I spent restoring stoff with titanium backup
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I too was reluctant to go from CM7 to CM9, but I eventually flashed it just to check it out, with no intention of staying. Long story short, I've been using CM9 for the past two weeks and it's definitely stable enough to be a daily driver, IMHO. I believe the phone call reboot was solved (I've never had it anyway), the only issue I have had was charge death, but that was solved by switching to the Glitch kernel. If you are waiting for it to be stable, your time may have come
As far as TB is concerned, the paid version lets you batch restore your apps. Well worth the $5 or however much it was.

So far so good on ilkuminance but I miss my screen shot feature, and all the apps in the market suck. Why would I want a camera icon hogging up my screen? Anyway, I may try ICS sooner than later
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I ran all of the stock GB roms, was not super impressed with them, switched to the SauROM KK4 and Love it. Very smooth, seems less buggy then stock kk4. Have had a few issues of it being unresoponsive for a minute or so everyonce in a while, but it seems to be rare.

Try SauromKK4 or FastyKK4
Advantage of SauROM is that it is one click Heimdall, and really hard to mess up.
I then tried Fasty - also pretty good.
I got the impression that SauROM is smoother.
But that Corn 7.0.5 kernel is buggy - beware!

I tried a few of the KK4 roms, but eventually went back to CM7 and Kangs because the speed and responsiveness.
Now I have a Captivate Glide and am waiting for dev to ramp up for it. The Glide is what I really wanted when I got the original a year and a half ago, so I am happy.

Newest Galnet MiUi port for G2x released

It adds some more ICS functionality (like a 4 way lock screen with dedicated Camera slider), ICS camera app, and some other fixes. I am running it on my current G2x. It seems far more stable than the previous release.
You can check it out here: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13939-rom-miui-port-miuius-galnet-miuiandroid-updated-02052012/

the link shows 02/02/12 I flashed that and saw absolutely no differences in that build to the ones from dec 2011... I played with it for a whole day and it was not good at all, lag (stock kernel) all day horrible battery, and wifi was funky 9just seemed slower then it should have been. All on a fresh install after full wipe using scrubber and wiping system & data twice... Just my opinion though.

Very strange, are you sure you flashed the right one? I flashed mine and I have the ICS camera and ICS lockscreen now. Wifi and 3g/4g seem to be far more responsive than before as well and I don't have any lag issues either.

that lock-screen is just a theme, and that camera is the same MIUI camera that has always been there.

The lockscreen isn't a theme, it is what comes with the newest MiUi, and the camera is different too.
It as at least different from the previous release of Galnet and I am definitely running smoother than before. I have had no crashes, no battery pulls, and much more responsive. The previous release was crashing in market:games, this one has no such issues. Of course this is how I installed it:
Load into recovery, wipe user data then mounts and storage format/system, then installed Galnet stable 2.2.1 then MiUi 2.2.3 over top. I suppose I could have installed just MiUi 2.2.3 but I read something about it needing previous versions to install on top of first for stability. Either way, I am just a messenger, the ROM works wonders for me.

phitch said:
The lockscreen isn't a theme, it is what comes with the newest MiUi, and the camera is different too.
It as at least different from the previous release of Galnet and I am definitely running smoother than before. I have had no crashes, no battery pulls, and much more responsive. The previous release was crashing in market:games, this one has no such issues. Of course this is how I installed it:
Load into recovery, wipe user data then mounts and storage format/system, then installed Galnet stable 2.2.1 then MiUi 2.2.3 over top. I suppose I could have installed just MiUi 2.2.3 but I read something about it needing previous versions to install on top of first for stability. Either way, I am just a messenger, the ROM works wonders for me.
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yes the lockscreen is a theme...
it is called default_theme.mtz
like the stock layout on miui is also a theme you can just include another ¨default theme" and it will show when you install the rom
and about the camera it is just the stock MIUI camera.apk

phitch said:
The lockscreen isn't a theme, it is what comes with the newest MiUi, and the camera is different too.
It as at least different from the previous release of Galnet and I am definitely running smoother than before. I have had no crashes, no battery pulls, and much more responsive. The previous release was crashing in market:games, this one has no such issues. Of course this is how I installed it:
Load into recovery, wipe user data then mounts and storage format/system, then installed Galnet stable 2.2.1 then MiUi 2.2.3 over top. I suppose I could have installed just MiUi 2.2.3 but I read something about it needing previous versions to install on top of first for stability. Either way, I am just a messenger, the ROM works wonders for me.
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The camera is just themed, nothing is new, it's all a theme. It's called "MIUI" for a reason-- it is extremely customizable.

Yup all just a theme...
Hell, you can make the lockscreen look exactly like sense, doesn't mean it is... and that camera is the regular MIUI camera.

Yep, exactly what they ^ said
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Thank you all, xda made me proud today lol.
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phitch said:
The lockscreen isn't a theme, it is what comes with the newest MiUi, and the camera is different too.
It as at least different from the previous release of Galnet and I am definitely running smoother than before. I have had no crashes, no battery pulls, and much more responsive. The previous release was crashing in market:games, this one has no such issues. Of course this is how I installed it:
Load into recovery, wipe user data then mounts and storage format/system, then installed Galnet stable 2.2.1 then MiUi 2.2.3 over top. I suppose I could have installed just MiUi 2.2.3 but I read something about it needing previous versions to install on top of first for stability. Either way, I am just a messenger, the ROM works wonders for me.
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Pwned
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Pwned
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Did you not see all the comments from the rest of the community that told him he his wrong? I think he got Owned.

true...mmmm guys by the way anyone can give me a few links for how to become a developer? i wana learn i ussually learn fast.. i got windows 7 64bit ic an develop with this? i wana become pro developer like you guys we cannot let our G2x Die

there is no getting owned there are a bunch of people calling miui a theme which is strange because it is a flashable ROM that can be themed which has nothing to really do with the point of what was said. In other words a bunch of pricks who would rather nitpick than actually provide any form of useful information. All I was doing was making people aware of the port being available. Currently when you flash the ROM it gives you the ICS 4 way unlock screen. As the default lockscreen for the ROM that makes it no longer a theme but default. Can you apply a theme over it and change it? Surely you can. Was that the point of the message in the first place, no? So here is an idea, you want people to help develop on the G2x and I assume you want people to actually support XDA, so don't be a bunch of pricks. Don't say pwned or owned or whatever you think is going to make you elite in your mind. Be polite, you know you can do that with out being a total **** about it. This is also the reason why developers stop responding and why less people start posting and why eventually the community and the development for the phone goes down hill. So be proud, be proud that you are leading the charge into prickdom. I am sure it will make XDA that much better.
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phitch said:
there is no getting owned there are a bunch of people calling miui a theme which is strange because it is a flashable ROM that can be themed which has nothing to really do with the point of what was said. In other words a bunch of pricks who would rather nitpick than actually provide any form of useful information. All I was doing was making people aware of the port being available. Currently when you flash the ROM it gives you the ICS 4 way unlock screen. As the default lockscreen for the ROM that makes it no longer a theme but default. Can you apply a theme over it and change it? Surely you can. Was that the point of the message in the first place, no? So here is an idea, you want people to help develop on the G2x and I assume you want people to actually support XDA, so don't be a bunch of pricks. Don't say pwned or owned or whatever you think is going to make you elite in your mind. Be polite, you know you can do that with out being a total **** about it. This is also the reason why developers stop responding and why less people start posting and why eventually the community and the development for the phone goes down hill. So be proud, be proud that you are leading the charge into prickdom. I am sure it will make XDA that much better.
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just cause it has a theme defaulted doesn't make it an "ICS functional" rom, it makes it any other MIUI rom with a theme on it. I'm not trying to be a prick I'm just saying that there are way too many posts about MIUI having ICS in it, when it clearly doesn't have even some of the minor things in it. The camera especially why in the world would MIUI have an ICS camera for the g2x already lol? Again, I understand you were just trying to let people know of a port but when it has a lot of "false" information that only leads to people freaking out, and having little bits of false hope for an ICS rom when it doesn't even have the simple animations/transitions of ICS. Maybe it is just me, but I'll be that "prick" to tell you that it isn't an ICS rom. Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

Except it actually does have ICS functionality in the Galnet release. It would actually be super sweet if you got off your high horse, stopped with the you are posting false information crappie and actually read the release notes for the ROM next time. Yes, it has ICS functions, no I never claimed it was running ICS as full blown ROM. I am sorry you think you are providing some deep insight into what I was posting. You aren't. You are simply trying to get the last word and making your self look like an even bigger prick at the same time. Also as far as hurting my feelings, what are you ****ing 12 years old? I don't care what you have to say except that you are wrong thinking that ICS functions means ICS ROM. So, if you don't like what I have to say report it or move the **** on.
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Except it actually does have ICS functionality in the Galnet release. It would actually be super sweet if you got off your high horse, stopped with the you are posting false information crappie and actually read the release notes for the ROM next time. Yes, it has ICS functions, no I never claimed it was running ICS as full blown ROM. I am sorry you think you are providing some deep insight into what I was posting. You aren't. You are simply trying to get the last word and making your self look like an even bigger prick at the same time. Also as far as hurting my feelings, what are you ****ing 12 years old? I don't care what you have to say except that you are wrong thinking that ICS functions means ICS ROM. So, if you don't like what I have to say report it or move the **** on.
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Only place in that changelog that says anything about ICS or 4.0 is the rom version he posts in the changelog (which is from 11.26) it says 2.3.7 framework all over the place. Please copy and paste where it says ICS anything... and why you so mad?

I am done with you, you are like a 12 year old who is only interested in fighting. Again, I never said it had anything more than some functionality so get off it.
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phitch said:
I am done with you, you are like a 12 year old who is only interested in fighting. Again, I never said it had anything more than some functionality so get off it.
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lol funny you say that with no comeback because he is right, galnet rom merely just have ics looks and feel but the backend is just gb, it shared very small ics functionality. you have been pwned once more

[Q] Camera not working on certain ROMs can any one help me?

I am not new to the android world of flashing. I recently attempted to flash tbaldens ROMs as well as the virtuous ROM, the ROMs do not allow my camera to work. The camera works on the stock rooted ROM as well as bulletproof 1.1 and undeadk9s ROMs. Any insight would be appreciated. I am truly going to sell this phone to the highest bidder on ebay unless I can fix my camera dilema. According to what tbalden said the camera drivers don't initiate properly, I would love to use ICS on this phone but no camera on basically any ROM over android 2.3.5 is a big deal breaker.

Do u have a. Warrenty
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Rooting and unlocking the bootloader voids such a thing.

kaotikking said:
Rooting and unlocking the bootloader voids such a thing.
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Well, until someone sits down and makes it work, it's not going to.
Obviously there is no problem with your camera itself, as it sounds like it's fine on software that is or is close to what it came with.
Anything else is a bonus granted by the time and effort dumped into these projects by people in their spare time.
You've identified a problem you wish to overcome - using the device with software released long after the device itself, to which the manufacturer and carrier have not chosen to update to.
The solution has yet to be developed - every person working on it brings us closer to having it.
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Blue6IX said:
Well, until someone sits down and makes it work, it's not going to.
Obviously there is no problem with your camera itself, as it sounds like it's fine on software that is or is close to what it came with.
Anything else is a bonus granted by the time and effort dumped into these projects by people in their spare time.
You've identified a problem you wish to overcome - using the device with software released long after the device itself, to which the manufacturer and carrier have not chosen to update to.
The solution has yet to be developed - every person working on it brings us closer to having it.
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My thing is why am I the only person? Or at least the only person who has come fwd with such a problem. I am more then willing to be patient for someone with the knowledge to fix the issue, I would just love to help in anyway I can. I have a logcat and the dmesg to show the problem.
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Get the MIUI port from sensation, that rom is the best so far. MIUI is so sick, and even if you don't like MIUI, I'd say it's the most stable rom for our phone yet

jeetp26 said:
Get the MIUI port from sensation, that rom is the best so far. MIUI is so sick, and even if you don't like MIUI, I'd say it's the most stable rom for our phone yet
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The port isn't ICS plus I loathe the UI with a passion but thanks anyway. Odds are the camera still wouldn't work for me.

No one has any insight as to why this happens? I can't use the camera on many ROMs which limits me even more considering we hardly have a good choice in ROMs anyway.
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kaotikking said:
No one has any insight as to why this happens? I can't use the camera on many ROMs which limits me even more considering we hardly have a good choice in ROMs anyway.
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Honestly, you would either have to take that up with the author of the ROM and/or work on a resolution yourself.
If it's an ICS ROM you are having issues with, remember, HTC hasn't released any ICS code for this device, so anything you get your hands on is most likely a works-in-progress given the state of ICS development.
There is a lot of positive advancement towards the ICS software, but it's a huge undertaking and most of it has to be hacked apart and rebuilt for the device. There is only so much any individual person can do at once, and ICS is a gigantic project to tackle.
We are all working on this in our spare time, around work, spending time with significant others and families/friends...these are all projects of donated time because we enjoy doing it... but it is at the expense of something else we could be doing with our lives.
The more people that pitch in and help, the more quickly we will all have what we want. What one person wants may not necessarily be what another wants, but once it's made and shared with the community it's there for others to use and build on.
Maybe talk to the author of the ROM you are having an issue with, and if they can't get to it right now because they have a pretty big list of things to do in their project already, see what help they can give towards you working out a solution. They might be able to point you in the direction of what's wrong, or what they think may not be working right so you can help research and devise a solution.

I have spoken to the author, thing is its not just ICS ROMs. Its any sensation port from what I can gather so far. I literally have only 3 ROMs to chose from that have the cam working. I would love to be pointed in the right direction but all I got told is its a problem with camera driver. What I don't get is if its such a problem why is it ONLY MY phone. Its not like they shipped one phone with a locked camera driver.. what are the odds of that? What is different in my board? Or is it just a random fluke? Also what would need to be done to get the drivers to work? I have experience building from source but none working on ports.
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Without reading all this may I suggest: get a 3rd party camera app?
Just my spare change.

kaotikking said:
No one has any insight as to why this happens? I can't use the camera on many ROMs which limits me even more considering we hardly have a good choice in ROMs anyway.
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did you clear dalvik cache when flashing the rom?
did you wait five minutes after flash and 1st boot, then reboot?
I am not having problems with the camera on latest pyroice no-sense.

Third party camera apps don't work, yes I did wipe in fact I did everything I can do to possible eliminate user error. Either the stock camera app won't show a preview or it just won't even open. Trust me when I say I'm FAR from a noob and the only reason I'm posting is because I have done everything possible I know of.
Fresh install of any ICS ROM and trying to open the camera app results in the app just closing no FC no errors NOTHING!. Using virtuous unity, I just can open the camera app and I can't see a preview nor does the cam app take pix.
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kaotikking said:
yes I did wipe
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dalvik cache needs to be wiped in advanced settings in recovery, and standard wipe (factory restore & delete user files) will not wipe dalvik, and I had problems when I did not specifically wipe it, so I was just checking.
also, you are not restoring apps using titanium backup? that is known to cause problems.
did you test camera on 1st install before installing any other apps. perhaps the most likely reason would be if there was some app installed on your phone that is overwriting a critical file and that is the reason for the problem with the camera.
just some suggestions that might narrow the search and help solve the problem.

I did everything u mentioned and then some like I said I'm FAR from a noob. Lol I been flashing ROMs since the G1 I own over 5 android devices and I also have rooted over 100 devices 40 of them are still in active use all around my city.
I have a logcat if it makes it easier for anyone to understand.. I have DONE ALL the basic ****. Lol
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kaotikking said:
I did everything u mentioned and then some
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I was hoping for an easy fix, but sounds like its gonna be a tough one.
Oddest piece of the puzzle is that it seems like something unique to your phone, as the error is not reported (as far as I know) by anyone else.
If it is bugging on fresh install with no other apps, well, that is a puzzle, and I'm out of suggestions. I hope you can get it figured out, the phone is great with these new roms, but I understand that it is a lot less useful without a working camera.
I have done a warranty return on a t-mobile MTS4 that had been rooted and s-off. just reflashed to stock before return, and there was no problems from there side. on the other hand, since your phone is working when flashed to stock, they might not be happy with the return...

Its such a puzzle, I will just eventually use this until it falls apart. I am partially disabled n am always dropping my phone, funny thing is I didn't start dropping this phone until after about 3 weeks of realizing the camera don't work on certain ROMs so I know the falls didn't do it. I'm already on my 2nd device on less then a year with my two year contract... After this one goes I'm just going to switch devices.
My main concern is for others out there who may have this problem and don't even know it yet because they are still on stock ROMs. If I get the money to replace this device soon I will just donate it to a dev who knows what to look for better then me.
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