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My phone reboots when I launch the camera app

Hi there,
I think the title of the topic is quite explicit. The first time I encountered this issue was on MIUI rom. So I thought it will be solved by flashing the stock rom but it's still there. What could be the cause of this problem and how can I solve it ? Thanks

Try to flash stock rom with RSD lite
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753170

That's what I did but the problem is still there :s

The class of the card has a lot to do with the write speed and may cause some interuption, which can cause a reboot, although unlikely. If you are using the Class 2 that came with the phone, maybe try a higher one and see if that helps out. They come in 2,4,6,10 and the price goes up with the higher class. 4 seems to be a good all around general purpose class. I would say that it is either something to do with your SDcard or maybe the sensors/ buttons in the phone that don't like that function.
Do you have more info on how it happens?
When you reboot, do you have in your media gallery a grey box with an ! inside and triangle icon in you notification bar?

Hi
Well I have a class 4 sd card so I think it's ok. About the issue, it occurs whenever I launch an app which needs the camera (or the flash of the camera).
About the gallery, I saw none of the things you mentioned.

Thats weird... will be software compatibility? What stock rom you flash?
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App

qnguyen88 said:
Hi there,
I think the title of the topic is quite explicit. The first time I encountered this issue was on MIUI rom. So I thought it will be solved by flashing the stock rom but it's still there. What could be the cause of this problem and how can I solve it ? Thanks
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I had these issues today running on the XDA special. it would freeze then reboot when trying to use the camcorder. i was able to use it and record but it happened 3 times. I didn't used to have this problem with 2.1 or the builds from Dexter's i don't think at least I don't remember it ever happening. It happened first just from loading the cam and not recording yet.
Ps... it does seem to be an issue with the Sdcard or how the phone interacts with it though https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/310526
Seems to be an issue no matter what ROM we are on. Really it's one of the bugs Motorola should have fixed. Has anybody ever heard an excuse why they dropped support? It's really messed up when they sold the phone on how great the camera is and it turned out to be crap!

DarkMD said:
Thats weird... will be software compatibility? What stock rom you flash?
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
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I used the stock rom from france. Maybe I should try another one
Edit : I've just tried the UK Rom : same result :s

qnguyen88 said:
I used the stock rom from france. Maybe I should try another one
Edit : I've just tried the UK Rom : same result :s
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Try to use SouthEast Asia... im using that
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App

I had a simular issue flashing back to stock & reformating my sd card fixed it for me.

Similar problem
I have the same problem, on opening anything that uses the camera or camcorder the phone reboots, what i've tried sofar;
-wiping cache
-wiping data
-changing roms, XDA special, MIUI, XDA RC2 , Cyanogen
-reflashing singapore sbf
-flashing uk sbf
-Reformating sd card
-launching camera with sd card out
-changing camera settings from androidiani OR
none of the above worked.
I got the stuff below by doing adb logcat, dunno if it anyone can find the problem in there, HELP!!!
Code:
D/AnalogClock( 1438): BroadcastReceiver() act = android.intent.action.TIME_TICK
I/ActivityManager( 1378): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.
MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.motorola.Came
ra/.Camera }
I/ActivityManager( 1378): Start proc com.motorola.Camera for activity com.motoro
la.Camera/.Camera: pid=1843 uid=10010 gids={1006, 3003, 1015}
I/dalvikvm( 1843): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l
=38)
I/WindowManager( 1378): Setting rotation to 1, animFlags=0
W/SurfaceFlinger( 1378): timeout expired mFreezeDisplay=1, mFreezeCount=0
I/ActivityManager( 1378): Config changed: { scale=1.0 imsi=502/12 loc=en_SG touc
h=3 keys=1/1/2 nav=1/2 orien=2 layout=34}
I/dalvikvm( 1843): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l
=42)
D/PhoneApp( 1431): updateProximitySensorMode: state = IDLE
D/PhoneApp( 1431): updateProximitySensorMode: lock already released.
D/MotoCamera Engine Proxy( 1843): new Cam Utility instance
D/MotoCamera( 1843): Camera:onCreate:Enter onCreate 1314179342346
D/LocationManager( 1843): Constructor: service = android.location.ILocationManag
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D/MotoCamSetting( 1843): CamSetting:load:load
V/MotoCamSetting( 1843): CamSetting:load:get preferences
D/MotoCamSetting( 1843): new CamSetting instance
D/ ( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_flex.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno=2)
D/ ( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno
=2)
D/MotoCamera( 1843): Check caller returns true
E/MotoCamera( 1843): in initView
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 2214 objects / 207360 bytes in 58ms
E/FocusView( 1843): in initFocusView,
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 368 objects / 16784 bytes in 48ms
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 111 objects / 5200 bytes in 99ms
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 9 objects / 352 bytes in 44ms
D/dalvikvm( 1843): Trying to load lib /system/lib/libsoundpool.so 0x0
D/dalvikvm( 1843): Added shared lib /system/lib/libsoundpool.so 0x0
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: KXTF9 3-axis Accelerometer, handle=0
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: AK8973 3-axis Magnetic field sensor, handl
e=1
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: AK8973 Temperature sensor, handle=3
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: SFH7743 Proximity sensor, handle=4
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: Orientation sensor, handle=2
D/SensorManager( 1843): found sensor: LM3530 Light sensor, handle=5
V/MotoCamera( 1843): Camera:onCreate:finish onCreate 1314179343245
D/MotoCamera( 1843): Camera:onStart:Enter onStart 1314179343246
V/MotoCamera( 1843): Camera:onStart:finish onStart 1314179343255
D/AudioHardwareMot( 1138): AudioMgr:bufSize from kernel = 8192
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): zoom value 1.0
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): resolution : 8.0
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): remaining : 5837
D/ ( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_preferences.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno=2)
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 443 objects / 49080 bytes in 47ms
V/MotoOnScreenController( 1843): OnScreenController:initTagsSet
V/MotoCamera( 1843): mController.show()
D/MotoOnScreenController( 1843): OnScreenController::rightSetFadeIn:
V/MotoCamera( 1843): ----OnResume, restartPreview-----
V/MotoCamera( 1843): Enter restartPreview
V/MotoCamera( 1843): surfaceView's width or height = 0
V/MotoCamera( 1843): ------------------------------
V/MotoCamera( 1843): getCameraStartMode-0
V/MotoCamera( 1843): ------------------------------
D/Sensors ( 1378): using sensors (name=sensors)
V/MotoCamera( 1843): Camera:onResume:finish onResume 1314179343760
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): zoom value 1.0
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): resolution : 8.0
D/MotoCameraGlobalTools( 1843): remaining : 5837
D/MotoCamera( 1843): onWindowFocusChanged:: hasFocus true
W/IInputConnectionWrapper( 1438): showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection
V/MotoCamera( 1843): mSurfaceHolderCreating:------------------true
I/ActivityManager( 1378): Displayed activity com.motorola.Camera/.Camera: 2594 m
s (total 2594 ms)
D/dalvikvm( 1843): GC freed 810 objects / 37120 bytes in 88ms
D/MotoCamera Engine Proxy( 1843): CameraUtility:android.hardware.Camera.open()
D/CameraService( 1138): CameraService::connect E (pid 1843, client 0x24c40)
D/CameraService( 1138): Client::Client E (pid 1843)
D/CameraHal( 1138): CameraSettings constructor
D/CameraHal( 1138): CameraHal constructor
D/CameraHal( 1138): Software ID 2.1-update1
I/HPAndroidHAL( 1138): Version 4115. 4115STBr Build Time: 2010-02-19 10:24:19.

I had problems with the cam causing the [phone to reboot when the OC seetings where to high....
What are you Over Clocked @?

I am not very versed at reading Logcats but does this have anything to do with it, (com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak)?
Usually when we don't want the phone to recognize an app we rename it .bak instead of .apk? Just a though b/c there are .baks all over that Logcat.

hellmonger said:
I had problems with the cam causing the [phone to reboot when the OC seetings where to high....
What are you Over Clocked @?
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I dont think the problem is overclocking coz it persisted even after flashing alternative sbf's and i believe that undoes whatever overclocking right??

Woodrube said:
I am not very versed at reading Logcats but does this have anything to do with it, (com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak)?
Usually when we don't want the phone to recognize an app we rename it .bak instead of .apk? Just a though b/c there are .baks all over that Logcat.
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Code:
( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_flex.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno=2)
D/ ( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno
=2)
Thanks problem is probably something to do with that bit, just browsed to /data/ found it empty, is it supposed to be empty??

lennyoks said:
Code:
( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_flex.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno=2)
D/ ( 1843): unable to unlink '/data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs
/com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak': No such file or directory (errno
=2)
Thanks problem is probably something to do with that bit, just browsed to /data/ found it empty, is it supposed to be empty??
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Ok so I looked at mine and niether
com.motorola.Camera_pref_flex.xml.bak nor
data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs/com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak have .bak at the end. Open Root Explorer and hit the r/w button at the top to be able to make changes/rename and delete the.bak from the end of both.
My _pref_felx.xml shows a size of 235 and my pref_loadsetting.xl shows a size of 958
Once you take out the .bak, then reboot and it should work. If not the I would think that you could either go into /system/apps and uninstall the camera.apk file (make a back up first) or you can just take your original ROM system.img and restore that.
I really think that deleting the .bak in the above and rebooting will work though. It seems that it isn't able to link b/c the the .bak is screwing with the .apk settings. Like I said before, if we want the phone to ognore an app but don't neccessarily want to delete it, we just rename it .bak and then go from there. Seems that this may be the issue.

Woodrube said:
Ok so I looked at mine and niether
com.motorola.Camera_pref_flex.xml.bak nor
data/data/com.motorola.Camera/shared_prefs/com.motorola.Camera_pref_loadsetting.xml.bak have .bak at the end. Open Root Explorer and hit the r/w button at the top to be able to make changes/rename and delete the.bak from the end of both.
My _pref_felx.xml shows a size of 235 and my pref_loadsetting.xl shows a size of 958
Once you take out the .bak, then reboot and it should work. If not the I would think that you could either go into /system/apps and uninstall the camera.apk file (make a back up first) or you can just take your original ROM system.img and restore that.
I really think that deleting the .bak in the above and rebooting will work though. It seems that it isn't able to link b/c the the .bak is screwing with the .apk settings. Like I said before, if we want the phone to ognore an app but don't neccessarily want to delete it, we just rename it .bak and then go from there. Seems that this may be the issue.
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I thought of doing that but my data folder is entirely empty there is no data/data, only an empty /data perhaps if i could copy a clean one from another phone!

lennyoks said:
I thought of doing that but my data folder is entirely empty there is no data/data, only an empty /data perhaps if i could copy a clean one from another phone!
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I'm quite puzzled by that. Maybe you're looking in the wrong place? I don't see how it can be empty. Even when you do a factory reset (which erases both /data and /cache) by the time you've booted up /data is populated with all sorts of stuff. Just to be clear, we're talking about /data on the internal memory of the phone not the SD card (i.e. /data not /sdcard/data)?
Although, I must say I'm not optimistic these *.bak files are a problem at all--back in the day I used to have problems like this when using the SD card that Motorola shipped with the phone. I replaced it and those problems disappeared. I think Motorola shipped the cheapest (consequently buggiest) SD card they could find.

lennyoks said:
Thanks problem is probably something to do with that bit, just browsed to /data/ found it empty, is it supposed to be empty??
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That usually happens if You browse to /data/data without enough permission (e.g. without root access and without the right browser).
Can You do :
Code:
adb shell
then inside this shell
Code:
su
if on the phone (unlock it) is displayed superuser popup, agree
then continue on the phone shell
Code:
busybox ls -la /data

Mioze7Ae said:
I'm quite puzzled by that. Maybe you're looking in the wrong place? I don't see how it can be empty. Even when you do a factory reset (which erases both /data and /cache) by the time you've booted up /data is populated with all sorts of stuff. Just to be clear, we're talking about /data on the internal memory of the phone not the SD card (i.e. /data not /sdcard/data)?
Although, I must say I'm not optimistic these *.bak files are a problem at all--back in the day I used to have problems like this when using the SD card that Motorola shipped with the phone. I replaced it and those problems disappeared. I think Motorola shipped the cheapest (consequently buggiest) SD card they could find.
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That usually happens if You browse to /data/data without enough permission (e.g. without root access and without the right browser).
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Sorry for the amateur error. You were right i was browsing the folders without root permissions thats why it looked empty,
however this time i did notice that I do not have the com.motorola.Camera folder in /data/data my folder list has com.motorola.android, com.motorola.motophone..., and com.motorola.usb , no camera. I think that should be the root of the problem.
sooo ... can i borrow a com.motorola.Camera folder from one of you guys??

[Q] Google Talk crashes when clicking a link

Trying to open any links sent to me via Google Talk crashes the app with the generic "Unfortunately, Google Talk has stopped."
I just flashed Android Revolution HD last night.

Did you do "Superwipe" before flashing this ROM?

I did, it said there were no problems.

So, as an update, I SuperWiped twice and re-flashed. Gtalk still crashed when clicking a link.
I decided I'd use BeejiveGT as a "for now" solution. Clicking a link in there, however, still crashed the program. BUT! Beejive was nice enough to leave a crash report. Hopefully someone smart can tell me what's going wrong and how to fix it
Report collected on Wed Jun 20 07:51:32 EDT 2012
System Info :
==============
deviceID= 355066040364582_c799cf5d0e73e026_GTALK
versionName= 3.5.7
deviceModel= HTC Sensation 4G
osBuildBrand= tmous
deviceOS= 4.0.3
deviceDisplay= IML74K
deviceHost= ABM011
deviceBuildID= IML74K
deviceBuildModel= HTC Sensation 4G
deviceBuildUser= root
deviceManuacturer= HTC
apphash= PKF6dH2ES10HzdnU940CXA==
Total Internal memory : 1233059840
Available Internal memory : 240840704
Stack :
=======
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {com.htc.HtcLinkifyDispatcher/com.htc.HtcLinkifyDispatcher.HtcLinkifyDispatcherActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1634)
at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1510)
at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3244)
at com.beejive.im.controller.AbstractBeejiveActivity.startActivityForResult(AbstractBeejiveActivity.java:151)
at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:3351)
at com.beejive.im.controller.AbstractBeejiveActivity.startActivity(AbstractBeejiveActivity.java:145)
at android.text.style.LinkifyURLSpan.onClick(LinkifyURLSpan.java:73)
at android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod.onTouchEvent(LinkMovementMethod.java:212)
at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:8776)
at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:5579)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1965)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1734)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1983)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1442)
at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:2414)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1931)
at android.view.View.dispatchPointerEvent(View.java:5759)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverPointerEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:2963)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2522)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.processInputEvents(ViewRootImpl.java:862)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2531)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4944)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Cause :
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**** End of current Report ***
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Same problem
Also experiencing the same problem on the desire S after installing the ICS RUU update. Anyone know of a solution?

[Q] seeking help for 4.4 calendar problem

Installed Scott Harts 11/22/2013 4.4 image - Unofficial CM-11.0 - Release 5 - 11/22/2013 -
Been having a few problems - appreciate any suggestions to fix if there is one , since the ROM is still in development.
a) I start Google calendar, it wants Google credentials(Make it Google, existing ), I sign in, followed by a message "Couldn't sign in" There was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later. This started happening some time in 4.3 so the problem is perhaps in my account or some other data ? I did a factory reset several times but it does not seem to help.
b) Processes randomly die with "unfortunately <process> has stopped". The dead process can range from Google+ to Launcher3 at whch point i have to reimage the phone.
Appending some logged exceptions in the hope that it is useful
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E/EsApplication(26090): java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native method not found: com.google.android.apps.plus.util.FifeUrlUtils.isFifeHostedUrlLjava/lang/StringZ
E/EsApplication(26090): at com.google.android.apps.plus.util.FifeUrlUtils.isFifeHostedUrl(Native Method)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
E/NativeLibrarySupport(26090): Cannot load native library libnetjni.so
E/NativeLibrarySupport(26090): java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load netjni from loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[DexPathList[[zip file "/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar", zip file "/system/app/PlusOne.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib]]]: findLibrary returned null
E/NativeLibrarySupport(26090): at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:358)

Did someone hacked my Phone?

As the title say, someone got into my phone.
Now, i am not a geek but I have learned some stuff throughout the years since I've been using Android. Recently I have recognized some new system apps on my phone which they were not installed by me. I did'nt panic, quickly removed my sd card erased all content and set it up as new phone. I did'nt signed into google play store or downloaded any apps, and I have kept my sd card out of the phone. So I just used the phone for text message, and calls. Just for fun (since I knew that I will erase all the content, I choosed to be a developer and started remove permissions from a lot of apps and soon enough I found something interesting in my download folder which was a pdf file, which you will see in a moment.
English is not my first language but I understood that it has someones report maybe generated I dont know. But I have a few questions.
What is this about?
Who might have been created this?
Who is that for? (Some kind of a report?)
Thanks a lot!
(This is an extract from a pdf file)
`2020年01月02日 04:05:16 Product Model: BV5500Pro,android: 9 versionCode = Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mediatek.camera/com.mediatek.camera.CameraActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: SharedPreferences in credential encrypted storage are not available until after user is unlocked StackTrace: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mediatek.camera/com.mediatek.camera.CameraActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: SharedPreferences in credential encrypted storage are not available until after user is unlocked at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2947) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3101) at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java: 108) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1839) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6724) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:911) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: SharedPreferences in credential encrypted storage are not available until after user is unlocked at android.app.ContextImpl.getSharedPreferences(ContextImpl.java:420) at android.app.ContextImpl.getSharedPreferences(ContextImpl.java:405) at android.content.ContextWrapper.getSharedPreferences(ContextWrapper.java:174) at android.preference.PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(PreferenceManager.java:526) at com.mediatek.camera.common.relation.DataStore$SharedPreferencesWrapper.getPreferencesFromSco pe(DataStore.java:287) at com.mediatek.camera.common.relation.DataStore$SharedPreferencesWrapper. (DataStore.java:240) at com.mediatek.camera.common.relation.DataStore.getSharedPreferencesWrapperSync(DataStore.java :200) at com.mediatek.camera.common.relation.DataStore.getValue(DataStore.java:171) at com.mediatek.camera.common.mode.CameraModeBase.getDeviceUsage(CameraModeBase.java:274) at com.mediatek.camera.common.mode.ModeManager.createDeviceUsage(ModeManager.java:307) at com.mediatek.camera.common.mode.ModeManager.create(ModeManager.java:137) at com.mediatek.camera.CameraActivity.onCreateTasks(CameraActivity.java:198) at com.mediatek.camera.PermissionActivity.onPermissionCreateTasks(PermissionActivity.java:103) at com.mediatek.camera.QuickActivity.onCreate(QuickActivity.java:129) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7136) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7127) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1271) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2927) ... 11 more

Hi
I'm not a pro too, but looks like a log file from an app written in Java for me... Not neccessarily a threat, it uses the camera and some standard system stuff, afaik. Can't tell you more either, sorry.

Patched Photo Pro 1.2 for non-official systems

TL;DR : working photo pro for systems without Sony telemetry services: AFH
Hey guys I've been running a GSI of Descendant OS on my Xperia 5 II and I have been trying to get this photo pro app to work. All the versions I found on apkmirror crashes on launch, not to mention the ones that refuse to install. So after tinkering with some magisk modules I decided to decompile it and see what's going on inside. After a bit of log checking, I discovered some unimplemented telemetry functions which seems to be the cause of those crashes. After patching these the app runs like how it should be. I also removed the restrictions in AndroidManifests.xml that prevents the app to be installed on devices without com.sony.device lib, so any system should be able to install it just fine (not sure why Sony set restrictions for photo pro but not cinema pro).
Let me know if there's more issues to be solved

I've been running the APK from Photopro III for months and have had no significant issues. I got my APK from, I think, ADK.

2nd post down its from the Xperia 1 iii

@hx64 any chance for a patch for the latest version, or a guide as to how to patch it?
That would be awesome!

SeventhRaven said:
@hx64 any chance for a patch for the latest version, or a guide as to how to patch it?
That would be awesome!
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I'm a bit busy these days so maybe I'll work on that a few weeks later.
Meanwhile, what I did is fairly simple and anyone can do it themselves. Once the app crashes, grab the crash log with `adb logcat --buffer=crash` and find the entry with the package name. There will be an attribute that points to a specific line of code which caused the crash, usually an explicit error `throw` action. You'll then need to decompile the .apk file and modify the corresponding file. I use an extension called apklab in VScode but you can do it with apktool too. You should be able to edit the source code (.smali or .java, depending on the tools you used) and locate the lines that throw errors (based on my experience it is usually the unimplemented methods in com.sonyerricsson.idd.api.Idd component that caused the errors so I just removed those `throw` statements in .java files or replace them with `return-void` statements in .smali files). The last step is to recompile and sign the package (using the same tool you used to decompile). You may need to test and repeat these steps a few more times to resolve all the error throws but the process is fairly straight forward and you can find a lot of tutorials online.
Good luck fiddling!

hx64 said:
I'm a bit busy these days so maybe I'll work on that a few weeks later.
Meanwhile, what I did is fairly simple and anyone can do it themselves. Once the app crashes, grab the crash log with `adb logcat --buffer=crash` and find the entry with the package name. There will be an attribute that points to a specific line of code which caused the crash, usually an explicit error `throw` action. You'll then need to decompile the .apk file and modify the corresponding file. I use an extension called apklab in VScode but you can do it with apktool too. You should be able to edit the source code (.smali or .java, depending on the tools you used) and locate the lines that throw errors (based on my experience it is usually the unimplemented methods in com.sonyerricsson.idd.api.Idd component that caused the errors so I just removed those `throw` statements in .java files or replace them with `return-void` statements in .smali files). The last step is to recompile and sign the package (using the same tool you used to decompile). You may need to test and repeat these steps a few more times to resolve all the error throws but the process is fairly straight forward and you can find a lot of tutorials online.
Good luck fiddling!
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I tried working on that by simply removing the requirements (although I actually have zero development experience), but I would always get a parsing error (probably an issue with the signing? No idea how to do that properly) when trying to install it.
As for the unmodified version, I cannot install it at all, as it says it's not compatible. So a crash technically never occurs.
But I don't mind waiting for a patch. Just glad to see it's an option still.

SeventhRaven said:
I tried working on that by simply removing the requirements (although I actually have zero development experience), but I would always get a parsing error (probably an issue with the signing? No idea how to do that properly) when trying to install it.
As for the unmodified version, I cannot install it at all, as it says it's not compatible (using a custom ROM). So a crash technically never occurs.
But I don't mind waiting for a patch. Just glad to see it's an option still.
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Oh I forgot to mention the install issues. There's a `use-library` line in the AndroidManifest.xml that requires the `com.sony.device` library which you'll need to remove in order to install it on non-official systems.
And be sure to use deCOMPILE tools first (it won't work if you deCOMPRESS and edit since a signature is required), google for apktool or check out the apklab github page. I have little java knowledge previously but in this case fortunately you don't need much
I'll try switching to my dev environment as soon as possible.

hx64 said:
Oh I forgot to mention the install issues. There's a `use-library` line in the AndroidManifest.xml that requires the `com.sony.device` library which you'll need to remove in order to install it on non-official systems.
And be sure to use deCOMPILE tools first (it won't work if you deCOMPRESS and edit since a signature is required), google for apktool or check out the apklab github page. I have little java knowledge previously but in this case fortunately you don't need much
I'll try switching to my dev environment as soon as possible.
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Yeah I tried apktool and I guess I recompiled it with Android Studio. All I changed was setting the requirement for com.sony.device lib to false.
I'll try my luck with the tool you've linked, thanks!

hx64 said:
I'm a bit busy these days so maybe I'll work on that a few weeks later.
Meanwhile, what I did is fairly simple and anyone can do it themselves. Once the app crashes, grab the crash log with `adb logcat --buffer=crash` and find the entry with the package name. There will be an attribute that points to a specific line of code which caused the crash, usually an explicit error `throw` action. You'll then need to decompile the .apk file and modify the corresponding file. I use an extension called apklab in VScode but you can do it with apktool too. You should be able to edit the source code (.smali or .java, depending on the tools you used) and locate the lines that throw errors (based on my experience it is usually the unimplemented methods in com.sonyerricsson.idd.api.Idd component that caused the errors so I just removed those `throw` statements in .java files or replace them with `return-void` statements in .smali files). The last step is to recompile and sign the package (using the same tool you used to decompile). You may need to test and repeat these steps a few more times to resolve all the error throws but the process is fairly straight forward and you can find a lot of tutorials online.
Good luck fiddling!
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Welp, that was easy. Used VScode with the extension, swapped the lib flag to false and removed the component you mentioned. Now it works (although that bokeh setting still crashes it if selected, but whatever).
I've attached the patched .apk for your convenience. Big thanks again for pointing me towards those tools!
(I didn't touch anything else, though...so idk about analytics, but I firewall apps anyway so not like it can send anything)

SeventhRaven said:
Welp, that was easy. Used VScode with the extension, swapped the lib flag to false and removed the component you mentioned. Now it works (although that bokeh setting still crashes it if selected, but whatever).
I've attached the patched .apk for your convenience. Big thanks again for pointing me towards those tools!
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Nice work!
Glad I could help xD

SeventhRaven said:
Welp, that was easy. Used VScode with the extension, swapped the lib flag to false and removed the component you mentioned. Now it works (although that bokeh setting still crashes it if selected, but whatever).
I've attached the patched .apk for your convenience. Big thanks again for pointing me towards those tools!
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Any chance someone could do this for the Video Pro app (1.0.a.0.26)?
I took a shot at trying to mod the apk..
I successfully installed with the Manifest.xml library edit, but upon crashing here's my log:
Code:
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: IddManagerThread
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: Process: jp.co.sony.mc.videopro, PID: 8085
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Not an implementation
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at com.sonyericsson.idd.api.Idd.addEvent(Idd.java:114)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at jp.co.sony.mc.videopro.idd.core.IddManager.addAppData(IddManager.kt:99)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at jp.co.sony.mc.videopro.idd.core.IddManager.handleMessage(IddManager.kt:88)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at jp.co.sony.mc.videopro.idd.core.IddManager.access$handleMessage(IddManager.kt:17)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at jp.co.sony.mc.videopro.idd.core.IddManager$Companion$init$1$1.handleMessage(IddManager.kt:50)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
04-27 16:54:12.702 8085 8148 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
And this is where I get lost. Swapping the throw code in com.sonyerricsson.idd.api.Idd doesn't seem to solve the crashes, and I'm not sure where to go next. I don't see any HandlerThread or loop smali files, and in jp.co.sony.mc.videopro.idd.core.IddManager, I'm not familiar with the code in the lines where the errors are defined.

SeventhRaven said:
Welp, that was easy. Used VScode with the extension, swapped the lib flag to false and removed the component you mentioned. Now it works (although that bokeh setting still crashes it if selected, but whatever).
I've attached the patched .apk for your convenience. Big thanks again for pointing me towards those tools!
(I didn't touch anything else, though...so idk about analytics, but I firewall apps anyway so not like it can send anything)
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Just installed your patched version on the latest Pixel Experience GSI (v414/June security patch) on a Xperia 1 III and it worked perfectly including bokeh.
Any chance you'll be sharing patched versions of more recent releases of the app?
Thanks!

Patched version of the latest (1.4.A.0.20-2621460) attached.
Thanks for your work around this @hx64.
@delfuhd I also could not untangle the logcat so I ended up replacing all instances of 'throw p0' in com.sonyericsson.idd.api.Idd with 'return-void' and there doesn't seem to be an issue (yet).

Is the app asking for some Sony exclusive features? I mean, do we lose something like postprocessing or image management? thanks!

Not working

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The 70mm lens causes the app to crash in Auto mode in every 1.4 and 1.5 version I tested. The only one that seems to work is the older 1.3 version.
Still here is the latest patched 1.5 version that I tried. Thanks for the guide above!

cari66eam said:
The 70mm lens causes the app to crash in Auto mode in every 1.4 and 1.5 version I tested. The only one that seems to work is the older 1.3 version.
Still here is the latest patched 1.5 version that I tried. Thanks for the guide above!
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Thank you so much for providing the patched version!!! I'm on lineageos 20, no gapps etc. and the 1.2 works great. Haven't tried 1.3, but 1.4 and 1.5 don't work for me...