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just a FYI the SGS tools app which allows you to replace your tw launcher, email, contacts, and gallery app works for our sgs 4G. i have tried em all (upgrade stock apps) and can confirm they are all working. If you want to go back the scripts dont work, but you just need to move the stock apk back from sd>sgstools>xxx.apk into system>app> using root explorer or similar... and it will revert. also the boot up/down sounds can be disabled through the app

faceved2 said:
just a FYI the SGS tools app which allows you to replace your tw launcher, email, contacts, and gallery app works for our sgs 4G. i have tried em all (upgrade stock apps) and can confirm they are all working. If you want to go back the scripts dont work, but you just need to move the stock apk back from sd>sgstools>xxx.apk into system>app> using root explorer or similar... and it will revert. also the boot up/down sounds can be disabled through the app
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If I had to guess the email app on there that is made for the tab will get really buggy when used with exchange. Crazy thing is, it takes a few days to show up. You may have better luck on this device. But my vibrant didn't like it..
Lastly, make back ups of the apps your gonna try and switch using this app. Easiest way titanium backup. That way you get your app back that's optimized for 2.2.1.
Might not make a difference. But never hurts to put a back up on your external
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SGS TOOLS
lovemysgs said:
Might not make a difference. But never hurts to put a back up on your external
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what cool about the app is it makes the back up of your apps on the sd card

also...
faceved2 said:
what cool about the app is it makes the back up of your apps on the sd card
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the TW home replacement works as well...

Yeah the tab email app is no good..
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yeah i dont use the email app but i do use the gallery and the tw home replacemnet...works like a charm..and the boot sounnds

Is the gallery fix relevant to the 4g?
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u can shrink ya font too love it

My problemw with titianium backup is that it dosn't actually backup the system apps, just it's data

I just tried to use my FFC after the camera hack & it does not work anymore, it says camera failed. I tried to restore from Titanium and copied the .apk from the sgstool back up with no luck.
Anyone else having the same issue? I just flashed the Krylon's stock + root rom and did a factory reset but the issue is still there. Do you think I can pull the files from a system dump to remedy?

fknfocused said:
I just tried to use my FFC after the camera hack & it does not work anymore, it says camera failed. I tried to restore from Titanium and copied the .apk from the sgstool back up with no luck.
Anyone else having the same issue? I just flashed the Krylon's stock + root rom and did a factory reset but the issue is still there. Do you think I can pull the files from a system dump to remedy?
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Try flashing the deodexed version 1.9.. when Odin reboots you into factory recovery do the factory reset. And then reboot.
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lovemysgs said:
Try flashing the deodexed version 1.9.. when Odin reboots you into factory recovery do the factory reset. And then reboot.
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no joy, Im going to try and restore files from a system dump.

fknfocused said:
no joy, Im going to try and restore files from a system dump.
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If you need the files let me know and I'll upload them for you.

aloneinshadow said:
If you need the files let me know and I'll upload them for you.
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Thanks Aloneinshadow, but I had the dump from a previous post. I pushed datapattern_420sp.yuv & datapattern_front_420sp.yuv to /system/cameradata along with restoring camera.apk & camerafirmware.apk to /system/app and rebooted with no luck. BUT when I ran Tango and used the FFC it worked and fixed my issue. I do not know why but its fixed now. Im never going to use SGSTools again unless its made for KB5.
Aloha from Hawaii \m/

Ok thank God I was able to revert my camera back, the hacked camera didn't allow me to record videos. Quick question, why is it that our phones don't have autofocus for video recording but all over YouTube there are vibrants that have it?
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icy56 said:
Ok thank God I was able to revert my camera back, the hacked camera didn't allow me to record videos. Quick question, why is it that our phones don't have autofocus for video recording but all over YouTube there are vibrants that have it?
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We do. Should be both with stock set up. Mine has both.
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Thanks for the info. There is a couple versions of this app which one are we referring to in particular?
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Mine doesn't have autofocus, it does only for taking pictures but not video....I've tried it soo many times and while recording video the focus never changes, it just stays fixed.
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Arghhh, WHERE!!! is the gallery fix in SGS Tools??
I have spent 15 minutes here looking and cannot find anything in it with the word gallery.

PLEASE HELP- camera broken

I have wiped and tried new roms 7 times so far. i dont know what to do. every rom i try as soon as i get through setup i get a gtalk error. and then the camera still wont open. any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

traumahawk said:
I have wiped and tried new roms 7 times so far. i dont know what to do. every rom i try as soon as i get through setup i get a gtalk error. and then the camera still wont open. any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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Wrong section but are you wiping data, and cache and dalvik cache and formatting system between the roms?
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00negative said:
Wrong section but are you wiping data, and cache and dalvik cache and formatting system between the roms?
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There have been several posts about this, but long story short here is the zip to flash in CWM and fix camera and gtalk.

oc3rulz said:
There have been several posts about this, but long story short here is the zip to flash in CWM and fix camera and gtalk.
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Ah have never run into this issue personally . Have heard about sense 3.0 camera issues or some versions of gapps not working at times.
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00negative said:
Ah have never run into this issue personally . Have heard about sense 3.0 camera issues or some versions of gapps not working at times.
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yeah I had it happen when I was actually going to use my camera. I use it for my business to send high res pics, and when I can't it a BIG BIG problem. I found the camera.zip on rootzwiki and I am happy to share.

Lightning Rom 4.1 Camrea stopped being able to save pictures

I'm using the Lightning Rom 4.1
2 nights ago..took some pictures with my phone...all worked like it should
today I went to take a few pictures and now it wont save to the SD card
too the SD card out and put it in My Acer tablet, and I have no issues saving to the card
so its not a bad card....
it has to be something with the Camera app...
and I dont know how to fix it
the Video side of it will take movies and save them just fine
the camera side of it will create a file with 0 bytes in it.
also when I take a picture...it hangs for a second like its doing a picture review...but like I said...it doesnt save the pictures properly
I've tried the SD Rescan app...still broken
I've tried a different SD card... still broken
I've tried reformatting the card... still broken...

also.. for what its worth...I just noticed...
the forward low resolution camera works fine
the high resolution main camera is broken

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anybody have any ideas???
I even went back to the stock rom, and reloaded Lightning Rom 4.1
Camera worked fine for a few days...
now this morning I go to take a picture and it doesnt work again...
Last night it worked fine, today its broken again...
I havent updated a thing since last night
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS!!!

hello??
is this thing on??
anybody on here read and respond?
has to be somebody else with this issue..

Probably because you are using old ROM, isn't even latest available, ROM thread says latest is 4.3.
Might try that or send message to dev and see what he recommends.
Could be kernel issue as well, did you change that recently?
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same broken problem in 4.3

are you freezing any programs using titanium? I froze some programs that had nothing to do with the camera (or so I thought), and killed my camera. Had to reflash the ROM.

What about the other suggestions? Contact dev? Change kernel?
Do cameras from market work? What about camera from another ROM? Did you do full wipe of data, cache, dalvik, and format system between the 4.1 you had and on 4.3?
Did you ask this question in the thread dedicated to this ROM?
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00negative said:
What about the other suggestions? Contact dev? Change kernel?
Do cameras from market work? What about camera from another ROM? Did you do full wipe of data, cache, dalvik, and format system between the 4.1 you had and on 4.3?
Did you ask this question in the thread dedicated to this ROM?
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Probably coulda contacted me...you can just send me a pm...dont mind answering issues there...
My best guess is that you are removing something that you aren't supposed to be removing because it works for everyone else. What you can do, is pull the camera out of just about any other GB sense rom and push it to your system...if its still jacked up, you erased/froze/bad flash...if it works then let me know

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Probably coulda contacted me...you can just send me a pm...dont mind answering issues there...
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I tried to tell them.
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How can I make the camera work in CM10?

I flashed the latest official nightly for CM10 and sure it's pretty buggy, but the biggest thing to me that's really bothering me is the closing of the app or rebooting of my phone when I try to use the camera or video camera as well as apps related to them. Is there any current fix or should I just wait for an upcoming nightly?
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Fallen224 said:
I flashed the latest official nightly for CM10 and sure it's pretty buggy, but the biggest thing to me that's really bothering me is the closing of the app or rebooting of my phone when I try to use the camera or video camera as well as apps related to them. Is there any current fix or should I just wait for an upcoming nightly?
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I have had no problems with the camera, or anything for that matter! did you do a clean install?

jfhanny said:
I have had no problems with the camera, or anything for that matter! did you do a clean install?
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I came from stock! The only thing I didn't do is flash back to completely stock-right out of factory. But I had no other ROM's or anything!

Fallen224 said:
I came from stock! The only thing I didn't do is flash back to completely stock-right out of factory. But I had no other ROM's or anything!
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Clean install means wiping data/cache/dalvik.

Well then I did that!
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I would try reflashing, or getting a slightly older nightly just to check. I haven't had any problem with the camera on CM10 for quite a few builds now.

Yeah, sorry dude, mine works fine too . Had it happen one time on the last build but its worked fine since then.
Rumor has it.....some people got a bad batch of gapps with gallery issues. Make sure you're on 7/26 gapps. Also some have said that wiping cache/data for gallery actually cleared the problem up too. Its pretty random the people with camera issues, but its definately a common thing still. See the cm10 official thread and there are a LOT of ideas about it floating around.

Did you restore anything strange with TiBackup or anything? It's a long shot, but I noticed after accidentally restoring a "system app" from GB to JB, it caused me some problems (wasn't a GSIII phone though). I wiped & reflashed ROM to fix my issues, but it sounds like you've done that well enough.
Does your camera not work immediately after flashing CM10?

Fallen224 said:
I flashed the latest official nightly for CM10 and sure it's pretty buggy, but the biggest thing to me that's really bothering me is the closing of the app or rebooting of my phone when I try to use the camera or video camera as well as apps related to them. Is there any current fix or should I just wait for an upcoming nightly?
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First thing I would do is a permissions repair. fixing permissions can iron out all kinds of little issues.
You can do it through rom manager but I've never trusted it to do much properly so I always do permissions repair through recovery.

So, I already had the latest version of Gapps, I fixed the permissions, cleared the data/cache of the gallery, and flashed the latest nightly "8/22" yet it still isn't working. It's a pity having such a great ROM with such a potentially large drawback. I'm very much still open to more suggestions! I have nowhere near the Linux literacy of a developer, but push me to try something out of the ordinary and I can figure it out with not too much help!

[Q] AOSP Roms Cannot Connect to Camera

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else, but after flashing AOKP Build 3 my camera keeps giving me the error "cannot connect to camera." I have tried clearing data on the gallery app, rebooting the phone, and nothing works.
I researched some and tried some fixes I found but none had any effect.
I then reflashed to stock to see if stock Touchwiz would work and it works with no issues. Wiped all data, reformatted my SD card, removed my SD card and cannot seem to find the culprit. I also flashed CM nightly to see if it was an AOKP issue with my phone, but had same issue
For whatever reason I cannot flash any AOSP rom without having FC on my camera. Any help would be appreciated. Again, sorry if it has been posted somewhere I haven't found, but I've looked for a few days and didn't locate anything that worked.

Did you try fixing permissions?

Zalithian said:
Did you try fixing permissions?
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Do that and also format cache and dalvik.

shinjielric said:
Do that and also format cache and dalvik.
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Did all of those and still no change in outcome.

MistarJones said:
Did all of those and still no change in outcome.
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What version of CWM are you using? I've heard some versions don't play nice with AOSP.
EDIT: I'm assuming you're using CWM.

You happen to try a different camera from the play store? My quess is it wouldnt work either as its probaly a kernel issue?
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shinjielric said:
What version of CWM are you using? I've heard some versions don't play nice with AOSP.
EDIT: I'm assuming you're using CWM.
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I am using las test, CWM touch. Could try with non touch after work.

x714x said:
You happen to try a different camera from the play store? My quess is it wouldnt work either as its probaly a kernel issue?
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Yeah I tried with several camera alternatives and all said couldn't connect to camera as well. :/

this happened to me randomly yesterday on CM10 M1, I'm on leankernal and using twrp. I had just flashed the aosp camera mod earlier so I thought it was that. I just restored a backup I made the other day and it was all good since. I guess its a good reason to make routine backups on aosp

DertyDOH said:
this happened to me randomly yesterday on CM10 M1, I'm on leankernal and using twrp. I had just flashed the aosp camera mod earlier so I thought it was that. I just restored a backup I made the other day and it was all good since. I guess its a good reason to make routine backups on aosp
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I tried that and any backup still having camera FC issues.

Originally Posted by shinjielric
What version of CWM are you using? I've heard some versions don't play nice with AOSP.
EDIT: I'm assuming you're using CWM.
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I am using las test, CWM touch. Could try with non touch after work.
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I'm using cwm touch v6.0.1.2 and its working good for me.
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I've had the same issue and reflashed multiple times and tried all the above.
My Galaxy III SCH-I535 operates on Android 4.1.2 aokp_d2vzw_jb_milestone_1
Kernel is 3.0.48-cynagenmod-faux123-vzw...
I love this ROM. I'm not sure how it randomly a day or two into operation just quit the camera operation completely. This would be a real miracle solved

MistarJones said:
Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else, but after flashing AOKP Build 3 my camera keeps giving me the error "cannot connect to camera." I have tried clearing data on the gallery app, rebooting the phone, and nothing works.
I researched some and tried some fixes I found but none had any effect.
I then reflashed to stock to see if stock Touchwiz would work and it works with no issues. Wiped all data, reformatted my SD card, removed my SD card and cannot seem to find the culprit. I also flashed CM nightly to see if it was an AOKP issue with my phone, but had same issue
For whatever reason I cannot flash any AOSP rom without having FC on my camera. Any help would be appreciated. Again, sorry if it has been posted somewhere I haven't found, but I've looked for a few days and didn't locate anything that worked.
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Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the exact same issue and would love to get it fixed.

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bandit2443 said:
Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the exact same issue and would love to get it fixed.
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I wasn't able to get it to fix. I came to the conclusion that it was a hardware issue. For whatever reason it works on touchwiz but wouldn't work on aosp ROMs. I got a warranty replacement and it solved the issue. Wasn't able to find a software fix.

MistarJones said:
I wasn't able to get it to fix. I came to the conclusion that it was a hardware issue. For whatever reason it works on touchwiz but wouldn't work on aosp ROMs. I got a warranty replacement and it solved the issue. Wasn't able to find a software fix.
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Oh wow... that's an idea i hadn't thought of. Samsung replaced it under warranty? What did you tell them was wrong with it?

Camera Can't Connect & Firmware
shinjielric said:
I'm using cwm touch v6.0.1.2 and its working good for me.
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I am having the "cannot connect" issue on CM10. I posted about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2152348
The camera works fine in stock, but on CM10 no-go. According to this post its a firmware issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2006128
only problem is to fix I need to figure out what camera firmware I have so I can flash a new one - but I cannot determine what firmware i535 has? Anyone?

Based on another thread, seems like I might be able to copy the bins from the cameradata folder on stock where the camera works. No need to flash or anything.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/index.php?/topic/66022-Can't-Connect-To-Camera
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