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laggy camera CM7.1 Desire S

I did full wipe and flashed the latest CM7.1, I kinda like this rom but my camera is so laggy only when I use paper camera app it works fine, I tried other camera apps they are laggy too, any advice?

any advice

I have the same issue on CM7.1 ROM. When I run camera app the picture is viewed frame-by-frame per 1,2 second instead of stepless.
On the stock HTC ROM camera works excellent.

Does anybody have this issue? Where can I ask support?

Seems like it is a hardware issue with the desire S. HTC seems to have released a new hardware for the camera which isn't supported by the CM7 kernel yet (as of CM 7.1).
So your best option is to find a custom stock-based rom (sense 3.5), with a lot of the sense things removed for now.
Unfortunately we'll have to wait until either HTC releases the drivers (miniscule chance), someone fixes it in CM 7.2, or someone fixes the ICS camera problems.

anchemis said:
Seems like it is a hardware issue with the desire S. HTC seems to have released a new hardware for the camera which isn't supported by the CM7 kernel yet (as of CM 7.1).
So your best option is to find a custom stock-based rom (sense 3.5), with a lot of the sense things removed for now.
Unfortunately we'll have to wait until either HTC releases the drivers (miniscule chance), someone fixes it in CM 7.2, or someone fixes the ICS camera problems.
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Are you sure about that? I thought it was because HTC app is more optimized..
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olyloh6696 said:
Are you sure about that? I thought it was because HTC app is more optimized..
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Unfortunately the problem isn't fixed in CM7.2 rc1 either... and apparently we're not alone as users of Incredible S are also getting camera lag.
I've done some forum trawling on CM and xda, and it seems that the complaint summary is:
1. Users of CM7-based kernel roms are affected (stock-derived sense roms don't seem to have this problem).
2. The Camera works, but live preview appears to be broken.
3. When you first turn on the camera app, it works for a brief second, then it freezes.
4. Touching the on-screen buttons appears to temporarily fix live preview, but if you let go, it freezes again.
Issue is explained here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397883
Other users also seem to complain of video playback lag (though I haven't tested this myself...)
So, I'm guessing the problem is a Camera harware vs. driver vs. kernel incompatibility with CM7?
And apparently we can't flash HTC sense-based cameras on CM7...

Mine Works alryt... bit laggy compared to stock sense, But not so bad.

rusor123 said:
Mine Works alryt... bit laggy compared to stock sense, But not so bad.
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Lucky... apparently users have been complaining that phones after october 2011 seem to be having problems, if you got your DS before then you should be fine.

[Q] What's up with the ICS camera driver development?

I'm a bit confused about this ICS related camera problem. Apparently the camera driver needs to be rewritten due to huge changes in ICS. I've been searching around but could only find an abandoned thread, last post one month old.
So is there any developer group/person actively working on the camera? Or is everyone just waiting for someone else to fix it?

The Virtuous Quattro and CM9 Roms have the camera kinda working, although they are still a little buggy, but usable.
I am sure those guys are working hard to fix it.

I was watching an SXSW presentation on android evolution and ICS and they mentioned taking photos instantly with ICS, without the need need for focus delay etc.
This implies the camera driver is performing some form of continuous focus, as opposed the the previous driver which performed focus on request. This is, from a software perspective a very different form of driver operation, and driver interface and other underlying assumptions will be accordingly different.
Andy

All we need is kernel 3.0..
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Miui camcorder problem... help wanted

Hey guys, first off I want to apologize if this is wrong area for this or if this has already been posted, but yes I have looked and haven't found anything about it.... so I have a HTC One S running the latest MIUI.... the problem is, I go to the default camera, switch it over to video recording, and it'll take the video just fine.... problem is when you go to play it or even preview it, it has a ton of lines through it, it's blurry, you see triple of everything, etc....same thing if you plug it into computer and play the vid.n help is greatly appreciated guys!

Are you on the cm9 base or the Sense base? I know the cm9 one was having camera/camcorder problems.
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I believe CM9 base? I ran cm9 before and I froze the HTC sense **** lol. Not positive though, I can check if needed but I'll need to know how xD I'm still a little new to messing with Android.

There is no fix for this yet on roms that are not sense based, due to HTC using a special undocumented imaging chip for the camera in one S. If/when it is fixed I guess it'll come to miui quick.

Jellybean (CM/AOKP/Virtuous) Maps/Photoshpere Bug (Report Here)

Hello,
I have the following problem:
I experience visual artifacts when using two-finger rotate in Google Maps, also Photoshpere is really acting up... the images flicker...
Not all devices have it, as a matter of fact there are few of them (reported). Let's try to collect as much data as we can in order to find the cause of this and maybe a fix. I'll start.
HTC One S
Color: Gradient Blue
HBOOT:1.14.0002
Radio:1.06es.50.02.31
Jun 11 2012, 14:36:28
It's recommended to attach a logcat with the problem.
The problem allways happen when try to rotate Gmaps with two fingers, and photoshpere gets crazy especially after taking 1st photo.
It seems like an accelerometer problem, but accelerometer utilities seems to report the sensors working fine, so maybe a GPU driver problem.
C'mon guys, let's get this fixed

For the flicker have you tried changing debug.composition.type=dyn to debug.composition.type=gpu? I also had the same issue with that camera but only tried it when it come out, have you tried other packs that have it?

Darknites said:
For the flicker have you tried changing debug.composition.type=dyn to debug.composition.type=gpu? I also had the same issue with that camera but only tried it when it come out, have you tried other packs that have it?
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I've tried many packs... i will try those and report back. The thing that scares me is that this happens on Virtuous Rom also (which is almost stock build with HTC jb libs), and this may mean that i will never have fully working jb not either from HTC.

adi4motion said:
I've tried many packs... i will try those and report bach. The thing that scares me is that this happens on Virtuous Rom also (which is almost stock build with HTC jb libs), and this may mean that i will never have fully working jb not either from HTC.
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What you get both issues on Virtuous? that can't be good.

Darknites said:
What you get both issues on Virtuous? that can't be good.
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yes... that's also what i'm afraid of...

Keep in mind the camera is for 4.2, not 4.1, and I doubt we'd ever get stock camera on official Sense.

PcFish said:
Keep in mind the camera is for 4.2, not 4.1, and I doubt we'd ever get stock camera on official Sense.
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ok, that's not a problem, i can live without photoshpere, but the fact is Google Maps also have this problem and I need GMaps...
I know that at least 3 others reported this problem (and i'm sure that are many others who didn't test for it) I wonder where are they now...
I started this thread hoping that if other users reported it, the devs would try to solve this, but i think i'll just have to wait for HTC to give us JB and see if i still have the problem (but I am really concerned that I might have it). What's wrong with this One series? so many bugs (and not minor): cases chipping, helicoptering bug, sound issues, performance issues (one x), this problem....

I reported in another thread that I have this problem and I do, when using photosphere, I've seen it, although if I keep my movements nice and slow and steady, it seems to hold together.
I haven't seen any problem in Google Maps though, what happens to you in there?
Cheers

wheeliemonster said:
I reported in another thread that I have this problem and I do, when using photosphere, I've seen it, although if I keep my movements nice and slow and steady, it seems to hold together.
I haven't seen any problem in Google Maps though, what happens to you in there?
Cheers
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when i rotate the map with two fingers i get visual artifacts

I have the same problem on photospere, on maps I have no graphical problems, but the magnet sensor seams to change it's direction sometimes. Had this on CM10, and now on 4.1 Sense+.
Edit: I mean I have the orientation problem on photosphere. My screen does not flicker.

I have this same exact problem with an HTC One XL. I have not found a fix for it.
I've tried flashing every flavor of jellybean there is. It oddly seems to not happen if I use a sense version of jellybean. But I hate sense and want vanilla android.
AOKP, AOSP, modded, unmodded, doesn't matter. I get this annoying graphics glitch when I try to scroll around using maps or photosphere.
I hope it's not purely hardware related, and that there's an easy software fix for it.

[Q] HTC One XL image artifacting in google maps after JB update

[Q] HTC One XL image artifacting in google maps after JB update
Hi guys
I have been experiencing a very annoying buy on my one xl when I run on JB roms.
I experience image artifacting (screen flicker) when I try to do any sort of movement using google maps.
Note that this does NOT happen on sense-based JB roms, only AOSP/AOKP roms.
It doesn't matter what non-sense JB ROM I use, the same issue happens (though it's more pronounced on some ROMS over others).
I searched XDA and found someone else with a similar issue using the HTC One S, and he recorded a video:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2053337
Direct link to vid:
Messing with the dev options for GPU rending does not fix the problem.
It seems to be a fairly isolated but major problem.
Are any devs here aware of this problem? Anyone know the cause, or if there is a possible fix for it?
It's driving me nuts! I vastly prefer sense-free JB Roms, but having glitches in such an important app like google maps is very frustrating.