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Custom ROMs for the ChaCha? That'd be cool!
yeah! can't wait to get this chacha!
Oh yeah, i can't wait to buy this phone. I hope some devs will care about the ChaCha.
I, too, cant wait to get it. My only concern with it is the hardware keyboard and its durability. Before i got myself a Wildfire i used Blackberries. Since i message a lot and use email quite extensively on the phone, the hardware keyboard tends to deteriorate after a year or so. Will see after i get it myself. In any case my trusty wildfire is still alive and kicking now as it was the day i bought it. It should be interesting to see how this combination of touchscreen and hardware keyboard performs.
cocaice2009 said:
yeah! can't wait to get this chacha!
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No need to be rude
you keep a phone for a year
I can't get past a month LOL
I'd be very interested in helping with this. I'd like to bring the battery calibration bits to this phone/battery too
I will probably start developing for ChaCha in 2 weeks, if I manage to get the money I need. So I'm with you guys
The QWERTY / hardware keyboard is the flimsiest I've tried yet. I've had Palm Treo, Centro, Pre, motorola Charm - and tried Blackberries. these are ALL superior.
The keys are OK but it's easy to press a key without meaning too - and the right arrow is kind of less clicky than all the other keys (I confirmed this bug on three ChaChas in HTC's concept store hands-on in Copenhagen.
Sometimes it instantly deletes the whole text because Fn (called Alt outside europe) before Del means erase ALL - this happens when you don't know that Fn is on and want to delete a letter - PUFF! the whole dang text is gone (and unlike iPad - no undo ).
It's easily dropped vertically - the dry metal is edge/grip-less or slippery. almost like the Pre but feels "dry".
The screen is good, the touchscreen reacts consitently (unlike Charm and Wildfire/Buzz where touch don't work on the table and on some chargers - works ONLY when they're held) and the angled shaped is nice. The software speed/response is fine, the cam and video quality is good. speaker is sharp though. Volume buttons are impossible to use without looking - can't feel them.
can't find a better android qwerty though WITH arrow keys (though selections made using shift+arrow can ONLY be deleted - not copy pasted...wtf?).
there's a qwerty bar android list here: http://gadgetwit.com
(I too have the symbol-stays-on-screen bug mentioned in the general/First impressions thread but it disappears when I go to another app and back)
dvfk said:
Sometimes it instantly deletes the whole text because Fn (called Alt outside europe) before Del means erase ALL - this happens when you don't know that Fn is on and want to delete a letter - PUFF the whole dang text is gone (and unlike iPad - no undo ).
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Fn will delete the line of text back to column 1, but you are right that the absence of an Undo is extremely annoying! And I agree with the majority of your points.
tried universal root, z4root and gingerbreak - no luck perhaps root via USB then - Guess superOneClick is next up.
guys, any luck on the cha cha with super one click?
trinityb4 said:
guys, any luck on the cha cha with super one click?
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I tried GingerBreak and SuperOneClick *very briefly* yesterday with no joy - will attempt again shortly.
theloginwithnoname said:
I tried GingerBreak and SuperOneClick *very briefly* yesterday with no joy - will attempt again shortly.
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i've tried soc but no luck too, its stuck at the dos screen looking for adb.
any idea?
cocaice2009 said:
yeah! can't wait to get this chacha!
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I've got a Chacha now, and willing to mod it , but the main problem is no root yet, so nothing can be done...
trinityb4 said:
i've tried soc but no luck too, its stuck at the dos screen looking for adb.
any idea?
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What do you mean "looking for adb?"
techspawn said:
I, too, cant wait to get it. My only concern with it is the hardware keyboard and its durability. Before i got myself a Wildfire i used Blackberries. Since i message a lot and use email quite extensively on the phone, the hardware keyboard tends to deteriorate after a year or so. Will see after i get it myself. In any case my trusty wildfire is still alive and kicking now as it was the day i bought it. It should be interesting to see how this combination of touchscreen and hardware keyboard performs.
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Blackberry's are badly built. Theyre unrelyable and to complicated. I spend most of my life appologising to people because theres has broken for the 4th time in 6 months
Is there any way to disable that annoyng tilting effect og the sense 3??? I don't know why but most of the time I turn on the phone the screen is rotated left or right.
yeah settings then display then auto rotate, turn that off
rameel said:
yeah settings then display then auto rotate, turn that off
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Maybe I made a wrong question. When you hold the phone on hand and you move it from left to right, objects on screen remain alligned with the floor. It's quite annoyng and it doesn't work as well....
Ha ha that sounds great. It didn't happen with mine
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Barff1984 said:
Ha ha that sounds great. It didn't happen with mine
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Thanks for helping....
Still not understanding the problem here. Your phone is getting stuck in landscape mode?
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Still not understanding the problem here. Your phone is getting stuck in landscape mode?
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The home screen tilts if I move the phone. I hate thing thing!
any chance of a vid or photo of this? I've never known anything like that before.
from what i gather, he's saying that the software image is staying aligned with the horizon when he moves his phone. so if he tilts his phone at 45 degrees, sense will still be in line with the horizon, where as you or I would need to tilt our heads at 45 degrees to see it aligned properly....get it?
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The home screen tilts if I move the phone. I hate thing thing!
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That sounds interesting
Sorry for not been helpful at all ... but I'd like to see this on video (we may be able to help you)!
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from what i gather, he's saying that the software image is staying aligned with the horizon when he moves his phone. so if he tilts his phone at 45 degrees, sense will still be in line with the horizon, where as you or I would need to tilt our heads at 45 degrees to see it aligned properly....get it?
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You score it!
Have you tried a factory reset?
alexp999 said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
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two days ago i tested on the dhd a coocked rom, Rmix i think, that came with sense 3.0. It has the same thing, that I assume is a standard feature of the sense. I cannot believe you don't see it. Try to move the phone from left to right in the home screen: I can see the edge of the clock, in the meteo widget you see the moon or the sun in 3d. At a first sight it's amazing, but now, when i switch on the phone the screen is not aligned.....
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two days ago i tested on the dhd a coocked rom, Rmix i think, that came with sense 3.0. It has the same thing, that I assume is a standard feature of the sense. I cannot believe you don't see it. Try to move the phone from left to right in the home screen: I can see the edge of the clock, in the meteo widget you see the moon or the sun in 3d. At a first sight it's amazing, but now, when i switch on the phone the screen is not aligned.....
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Really cant say as I'm getting that. Any chance of you videoing it?
I tried tilting phone, moving phone, my homescreens only move when I touch the screen and drag left or right.
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Really cant say as I'm getting that. Any chance of you videoing it?
I tried tilting phone, moving phone, my homescreens only move when I touch the screen and drag left or right.
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May be is a setup somewhere. I have to descor it otherwise i'm getting mad...
Please please please before you find a fix, give us a video of this. It sounds awesome.
JonSolo said:
Please please please before you find a fix, give us a video of this. It sounds awesome.
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I'll do that as soon as my wife came back with the other phone.....
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I'll do that as soon as my wife came back with the other phone.....
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Here it's a video. Sorry for the bad quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3nCE-ztNo
Wow, thats wierd, mine definetly doesnt do that.
What software version is your phone running?
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Here it's a video. Sorry for the bad quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3nCE-ztNo
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That....my friend...is amazing!!!!
Keep it! It looks great!!!!!
So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
I've replaced mine so I don't have it right now.
Unresponsiveness is not just lockscreen issue. It was effecting every apps on mine. I couldn't type, get carousel effect etc. Does this solve all of these?
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I've replaced mine so I don't have it right now.
Unresponsiveness is not just lockscreen issue. It was effecting every apps on mine. I couldn't type, get carousel effect etc. Does this solve all of these?
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Give it a try....won't hurt ya one bit to change themes. When ya get your device back of course.
Hoggles said:
Give it a try....won't hurt ya one bit to change themes.
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Looks like you didn't read carrefully As I said I've replaced mine so I don't have this issue on my new device. That means I can't test this.
I never had unresponsiveness in any other app. Maybe I just got a perfect Sensation... well almost perfect (s-on)
Mine is so damn responsive, sometimes when I scroll the application drawer a little bit it opens an application
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I saw the 'unresonponsive' threads, and was somehwat amused, since my screen appears to behave normally...but for the heck of it, I tried the carousel, and could NOT get it to rotate fast AT ALL! Other regular nav/touches worked fine. I just tried this 'fix', and can now get fast rotation on carousel easily! It was worth clearing defaults (LancherPro) and playing with it to get this 'fix' working. Now, back to LPro!
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So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
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I posted this on another thread but I noticed that if you swipe really fast on one screen, without moving between home screens, it will always spin.
Just swipe really fast.
tried this fix and didnt work
orells said:
So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
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Can you just apply one of the themes already on the phone? busted did not work, no thanks here. Just dloaded and installed music lover, no go. Who said the problem works in every other app? mine does not. Anywhere you try to swipe/scroll. home screens, contacts, pictures, LOCK RING, fruit ninja.. registers as a touch( a lot of touches) instead of a swipe. I dont think a software update will fix it. If it would then it should work when i restore phone to factory defaults, it does not, yet it worked fine at those same settings when it was new.
Xcor3 said:
Mine is so damn responsive, sometimes when I scroll the application drawer a little bit it opens an application
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That is the problem! lol that is NON responsive. Swipes are not registering as swipes, instead registers as a tap. Thats why an app opens. I open an app almost every time i try to scroll through the app drawer. NOT how it should be.
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I posted this on another thread but I noticed that if you swipe really fast on one screen, without moving between home screens, it will always spin.
Just swipe really fast.
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No it does not. Not on mine. Yours will get worse untill that doesnt work for you either.
Thank you for this.
Why you always gottqa be freaking negative? Even on the fre3vo thread you freaking out on people. I tested this on mine, 1 swipe and the carousel appears.
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I have to agree this did make a difference in the 3D carousel spinning. I don't know about other issues as I have not had them yet.
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Why you always gottqa be freaking negative? Even on the fre3vo thread you freaking out on people. I tested this on mine, 1 swipe and the carousel appears.
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Ok let me be positive and see if that helps. brb.. Nope, still no carousel. All i did was inform you that what you think is actually good, is in fact one of the issues. Our sensations should not be opening apps when swiping. My evo didnt, my N1 didnt, my iphone didnt, but the newest latest and greatest device does. I have a right to be negative. Sorry if i offended you.
I`ve been looking everywhere to find a solution but didn`t found one. To be more precise, both sensors (proximity and light) work occasionally,sometimes they work just fine and then suddenly stop working.
I`m using Andro Sensor to check the sensors and there is "Waiting for event" message for both light and proximity.
I don`t think it`s a hardware problem as they were working when bought the phone and they still work occasionally.My phone is rooted and i`m on latest ARHD now with Sebastian kernel.Maybe someone knows how to fix this as it`s very annoying (automatic brightness and capacitive backlights not working because of this as well).Any help would be much appreciated.
You mean like this?
Lol same issue here.
I contacted htc and they wanted me to send it in for repair. But they said it may be due to water dammage. (I never gave my phone near water and the sticker under the battery is still white.) The rep told ne if it is due to water damage it may be expensive to fix. What I'm gonna do is just pay the 130$ deductable to my insurance company and get a new one.
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You mean like this?
Lol same issue here.
I contacted htc and they wanted me to send it in for repair. But they said it may be due to water dammage. (I never gave my phone near water and the sticker under the battery is still white.) The rep told ne if it is due to water damage it may be expensive to fix. What I'm gonna do is just pay the 130$ deductable to my insurance company and get a new one.
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Any other ideas? I will not pay a single pence again for something which i paid once!
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Any other ideas? I will not pay a single pence again for something which i paid once!
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Haven't thought of any solutions yet but every now and then it will fix its self. But fails soon after.
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do your capacitive buttons light up as well ? or is it just the sensor thats the problem ??.
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do your capacitive buttons light up as well ? or is it just the sensor thats the problem ??.
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They light up only if i`m forcing them with LeeDroid Twekas mod or when the sensors work again.But when the light sensor is not working they will light.
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.But when the light sensor is not working they will light.
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...will NOT light.sorry
Yep why i ask is because it happens to me also exact same problem, i had a temp work around with ICS 3.6 roms with putting tinfoil or something under the shell and covering the sensor, this would present a low light signal to the sensor and some how enable the capacitive lights but still ****s the sensor and or proximity.
Sometimes it will work depending on the boot, it will either work on boot or not never changes while the rom is running.
Now i must try the leedroid tweeks as i can stand my capacitives not working but yes must be a widespread problem if people are having the exact same issues.
found it, bummer its for 3.6 only.
I have the exact same problem as you described, but since 6 months. It really sucks to pay 430€ (~650$) for a device which isn't working as it should. I don't want to send my phone to repair and wait for it 3 weeks. So I have to cope with it.
That's a plus for the S3 to be my next phone.
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It`s very frustrating as it`s an known HTC issues and no one can do anything about it.To send it back and wait forever it`s ridiculous.
Thats why i refrained from sending it myself, i need a phone cant expect us to wait and wait for a repair. Should be a straight swap for being a known issue.
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I have the exact same problem as you described, but since 6 months. It really sucks to pay 430€ (~650$) for a device which isn't working as it should. I don't want to send my phone to repair and wait for it 3 weeks. So I have to cope with it.
That's a plus for the S3 to be my next phone.
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Sadly this is my thought as well. And I was a huge htc fan. I used to boast how good the phone is / was but now it starting to feel more of a burden.
My issues
1. Proximity / ambient light sensor doesn't work properly anymore.
2. Usb stopped working? Wtf still charges though
3. Design flaws. (Ok this used to be one of the phones biggest assets. But going through 3 back covers because the stupid volume buttons keep breaking is crazy.)
4. The tinny sound when you are recording video.
5. The blutooth stacks don't allow connection with the ps3 or Wii controllers.
Hate to turn this into a rant.... :banghead:
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It`s very frustrating as it`s an known HTC issues and no one can do anything about it.To send it back and wait forever it`s ridiculous.
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Why I'm going with the insurance way rather than htc. Those MFs told me that I have to pay for both shipping and recieving, plus is if there is any sort of damage outside of what they cover its gonna cost me starting around 85$ or something like that. Than it may take a few days to get it back to me.
While I can just pay like $140 and have a new phone in like 2 days.
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what are you claiming it as, accidental damage etc ??. With my insurance company i would have to get proof of the damage via a qualified technician and get a certificate from him.
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what are you claiming it as, accidental damage etc ??. With my insurance company i would have to get proof of the damage via a qualified technician and get a certificate from him.
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My insurance company is asurion and I filed my claim online. I think I clicked malfunction or accidental damage don't really remember did the filing a couple days ago. All I have to do is send that to old phone, and they will send me a new one.
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Same problem here to,
Tried everything,and yes it depends on boot.
Try to do factory reset in TOTAL dark.
It worked till next boot...
I think i maybe got it after Sebastian kernel ?
Still puzzeling....
And same problem here with ARHD 6.5.3 XE...
Maybe later I'll try super wipe and different kernel (I got sebastian's currently).
EDIT:
In AndroSensor I got "waiting for event" instead of "failed to start". Someone knows what it means?
regards,
Pawel
I have good news for all of you experiencing problems with light and proximity sensors.I just flashed ARHD 6.5.4 ROM from mike1986
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
with faux123 kernel instead of SebastianFM kernel and everything is working just fine so far!
Flash faux123 kernel and give it a try and report here please.
PS: also hit "Thanks" button if this helped as i don`t have any yet!
dzhoshkun said:
I have good news for all of you experiencing problems with light and proximity sensors.I just flashed ARHD 6.5.4 ROM from mike1986
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
with faux123 kernel instead of SebastianFM kernel and everything is working just fine so far!
Flash faux123 kernel and give it a try and report here please.
PS: also hit "Thanks" button if this helped as i don`t have any yet!
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Trying right now.
Will report tomorrow.
Thanks !
stillbeer said:
Trying right now.
Will report tomorrow.
Thanks !
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No,not working....
It did for a couple of hours.
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stillbeer said:
No,not working....
It did for a couple of hours.
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Same here.Very disappointing as at seems there is no solution for this issue.
Hello all,
Some some weird reason (you don't want to know why ) I need to shut down the front camera of my phone.
It's just the front camera and it only needs to be at the camera app, but if it lets working everywhere there's no problem.
I just want to know if there is some file that I can delete or apk to be edited so the camera stops working.
The only way I can recall now is using bruce's CM10 earlier builds when the front camera wasn't working, but that way I'll loose other things.
Hope someone can help me.
Thank you!!
With the best regards,
Mama_mia
Bumping...
Can anyone point me to the camera module so I can delete it and the camera stops working....
It may look weird, but the thing is that I can loose a free second hand Sensation if I cannot disable its camera.
A guy told me that he would give me his phone because the front camera was broken, but the ruu solved it.
Tomorrow I will be with him, and I don't want him to see that the camera works, or he may want the phone to him.
So I thought if I disable the front camera on camera app, won't want his phone back...
Thank you
Ok, I'll be the one. This is just weird....
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Can anyone point me to the camera module so I can delete it and the camera stops working....
It may look weird, but the thing is that I can loose a free second hand Sensation if I cannot disable its camera.
A guy told me that he would give me his phone because the front camera was broken, but the ruu solved it.
Tomorrow I will be with him, and I don't want him to see that the camera works, or he may want the phone to him.
So I thought if I disable the front camera on camera app, won't want his phone back...
Thank you
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OK...... if you only need to confuse him for a day then just flash the old Bruce roms and then simply don't tell him??? Even if you could mangle the kernel module it would be fixed with every new rom And update you use..... but agreed this is a very weird idea
Tapped out from my sexy nexus 7
Yes, I agree with you, it's weird, but it's the only way to win a free Sensation...
I thought about using Bruce's old builds, but the problem is that I don't know when I will need the camera not working, it may be today, tomorrow, I don't know. And I would like to use the phone without the bugs from old builds, like wakelocks and so on...
It's not a problem if I need to remove modules every time I update rom, I just need to know where they are...
How about just a super tiny piece of black tape and stick it on the sensor. Really tiny, cut to precision, and could be applied with case off?
So when he flips to the front camera it will just be a black picture?
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How about just a super tiny piece of black tape and stick it on the sensor. Really tiny, cut to precision, and could be applied with case off?
So when he flips to the front camera it will just be a black picture?
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That's a good idea nice thinking
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
gustav30 said:
How about just a super tiny piece of black tape and stick it on the sensor. Really tiny, cut to precision, and could be applied with case off?
So when he flips to the front camera it will just be a black picture?
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It worked, but I did not needed to show him that it doesn't work, he assumed that.
Looks like the guy didn't bother to buy a new phone(Galaxy S3, buah...I dont like Samsung).
Thank you!!