Good camera and up-to-date ROM - Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers

Dear S8 / S8+ lovers:laugh:
You may know Samsung's policy about firmware updates: it is not going to last forever, unfortunately.
BUT, Samsung provides the best camera drivers and software for our S8/S8+.
So: Could you point me to the direction of a ROM that will be updated (AOSP or Lineage based, etc) that would embed these drivers, please?
(Please, share your experience)
Hence : Up-to-date ROM + Good camera / photo.
Cheers all
Spyrou
Still with original stock ROM on S8+ (so far)

Hi all,
Still no reply after a month.
Is it that no-one makes good pictures ? Lol
Or you don't have an up-to-date ROM ?
Your experience would be appreciated.

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[REQ] Developers need help cooking rom

Hey I was wondering if a dev would port the camera and the framework required from the vodaphone 1.5 rom, to the fenderV2 rom which is 1.6.
As the vodaphone rom has got the new camera zoom and focus. And I would like it to work in the fenderV2 rom.
So if any of you have the time can you port the camera over to FenderV2 I chose that rom because its stable and has htc music, I feel it will also benefit other members with the focus feature on a 1.6 firmware.
Thanks for listening,
Codex
P.s. If you don't have time thens that's ok but is it possible to do a howto in this thread of doing it.
You would just end up back on a 1.5 rom. For the most part the framework is the base of the rom which is where the version comes from.
Is there any 1.6-based rom that uses HTC's camera software?
Before 2.0/2.1, all I can remember is the Tattoo, but that was a Sense rom, and it requires far more of the framework than a Vodafone/Rogers build would require.
jubeh said:
Is there any 1.6-based rom that uses HTC's camera software?
Before 2.0/2.1, all I can remember is the Tattoo, but that was a Sense rom, and it requires far more of the framework than a Vodafone/Rogers build would require.
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I second this
Btw, don't give into the "zoom" frenzy with cameraphones. With Samsung and a few others being the notable exceptions (I'm drooling over the yet-to-be-announced Samsung Halo), the phones use merely digital zoom, which, if you talk to anybody who knows their stuff, is nothing but coding junk. You get the same effect (maybe even better) using video-editing software.
For the focus, the Dream's camera is a two-stage camera button, and that function is disabled on HTC's camera software. Personally, I use that button a lot and get better pictures with it (I can hold the focus until the shot I want is ready), but I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
I'd like to see better video encoding done for the Android's camera. Winmo phones have registry tweaks to allow for better video recording. I wonder why it hasn't been tried for the Dream (mostly because it requires modifying the source, I believe)...
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Oh, dang, no optical zoom on the Halo, bummer. It's got a projector and 16 GB internal storage though. If it's like the Galaxy, then 1 GB is for apps. That phone will make me glad I had so many problems with my N1 order and ended up not getting one.

Samsung H1 (GT-I8320) Porting

There recently some busy with this i know but in my eyes they don't work on it anymore.
Samsung H1 is a Linux LiMo phone.
A nice fone with not alot of apps 720p camcorder and 16GB intern memory.
But LiMo seems to be a death project...
What i wondering if some one of this site can port android for it.
Most of the users here porting android i know reason i ask it
Some info about the phone on other sites
http://www.limo-os.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68 some docs
http://h1.pargon.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page more info might help i guess
http://h1.pargon.nl/gitweb/gitweb.cgi more info might help i guess
http://code.google.com/p/h1droid/wiki/GetSource Source
http://gitorious.org/h1droid/ Source
http://code.google.com/p/h1droid/wiki/GetSource?tm=6 How to compile it
http://www.freelimo.tk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15 More And More info
What work and not work at this moment
What works?
- Touchscreen (does not support multi touch)
- Alarm & Clock
- 2D acceleration
- LCD - high resolution
- Brightness ajustment
- Sound
- 3D acceleration
- Phone
What doesn't work?
- Gravity sensor
- Camera
- Wi-Fi (in progress)
- Shutdown
- RTC
- Rotation sensor
- Power management (in progress)
- GPRS
- 3G
- Bluetooth
- GPS
I hope you can help me cuz i want android as my main system on this great phone
Right 80 views and no comments wth cmon some one know how ?
I come from PRC
Good Luck!
magicalyun said:
I come from PRC
Good Luck!
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i can't port it reason i ask lol
Can you make the ROM available
Many of my friends here are concerned about this phone!
If you can do to help, to raise!
English is not very good sorry!
I'm waiting...............
Yes!
Please someone give a fully working android rom that works on this phone!!!
Please!!
I need it badly
ninphilius said:
Yes!
Please someone give a fully working android rom that works on this phone!!!
Please!!
I need it badly
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Maybe end òf oct...........
Hopefully this can be a sucess, this phone deserves better than LiMo with Vdf 360.
Heard that at least the wifi is already ok.
any news on this?
magicalyun said:
I come from PRC
Good Luck!
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from limofans.com?
Anyone tried compiling the kernel? I got 2 errors when it finished doing LC LD stuff. Didn't even know it had 16GB, what a waste!
Android on GT-I8320
It would be so great to see android running on this machine, i have a friend that just sold his phone because of this stupid LiMo. How come it's so hard to have a working version? Is it because of drivers? who are the responsible?
any news on this? such a good phone, basically an expensive paperweight as i'm using x10..
Hi there.. There's awesome news...there were released more android roms and phone calls already work, but there's work needing to be done!!
More Info for developers (Chinese forum, main forum) limofans
Portuguese Forum: samsungh1pt.freeforums
International forum: freelimo
Git repository (owner mephisto...it still has not phone calls working but he needs people to help him) gitorious h1droid
Since a user released the drives that control phone calls and etc...the project seems alive again... the latest rom is 0.3!
There's also a lot of videos on youtube!
Hi there,
I just bought this wonderful phone with those awsome specs, even better than iphone 3g for 100$...
1 day of studying Limo OS and 360 service off, I love this phone... But there are some not good things about this OS (wi-fi internet loading big pages always crashes, not working GPS becouse only 360 users can do it..). Google'd, and found that people from China, Portugal, Poland Spain, have transported Android OS v2.2 froyo to this phone, but there are not working camera, UI sensor and other things...
Looking forward to next release of H1Droid. Just read chinese forum, and found that they already have H1droid 0.4 version in those days.
Want android system so badly...
Portugal page, about h1droid 0.4: samsungh1pt.freeforums.org/portal.php [use google translate to translate in english]
Wifi is now working...stil some work needed in phone module and power managent!
GPS, Bluetooth ... not working yet!
Please contribute to this project!
is the processor on h1 fast enough for android 2.3?
It is! But it is too soon to port to android 2.3! We have to finish first the work on android 2.2!
Rom 0.6 released!
samsungh1pt.freeforums.org

Dynavin D99+ Android new kernel for GB or ICS ?

Hey there.
I have this Device now a few months.
ht tp: // www . dynavin . com / android.php
Its called D99+
The Device works on Android 2.2.3 for further informations please ask me.
I have rooted it with a custom rom from this thread: ht tp: // forum . e46fanatics . com / showthread.php ? t=909077
Is there any possibility to upgrade to Gingerbread or ICS ? The guy who works on the custom roms says, we need a new kernel. Dynavin.com doesnt gives any sources etc.
Does anybody from you have the possibility to create a new kernel for this device, so i can install ginger or ics on it? Froyo is so annoying
I even would pay for a good working solution (kernel + - custom rom) !
Anybody can help me please?
Greetings from germany
Chris
P.S.: Cant add direct links. Sorry.
I really wish this device could get some xda love... froyo sucks.
i agree.. 2.2.3 is way to old!
If any dev was willing to put some work into this I would be willing to offer up some start up cash and some cash upon completion, maybe we can start a pool?
This device is horribly behind software wise. They did a great job making it look the part, but functionally its near useless for someone even alittle bit into the audio side.
My main gripes, lack of EQ controls, an android side that worked reliably. a better bluetooth interface (even if this went through the android side that would be fine); and a few other small things. Just the flow and feel of the device isnt "fluid"
If any devs need a device to work on, I could probably work something out to send my headunit to you for testing as well..

[Q] Samsung S8500: Flashing Android on it

Hi Everyone,
I have a Samsung S8500 with Bada 2.0 installed on it. I read in the internet that it is possible to put an unoffical Android ROM on it. Obviously there are existing a lot of different roms (Zendrokat V2.3, Iczen veyron, Omni etc.)
It's very difficult to get a good overview of all versions and existing bugs.
What should work if i install android:
- making Calls, texting messages
- Wlan, 3G Internet Browsing
- WhatsApp and Snapchat (maybe skype and viber?)
- Camera
- Kalender
- no Games
Do some of these roms support this basic smartphone functions?
I also read that there is a problem with the overheating protection. Is this solved by now?
I am willed to take the risk that this whole flashing can destroy my phone, but i dont want to risk a fire in my flat or maybe a exploding battery in my pocket! Can I be sure that this doesnt happen?
Which rom would you suggest for me? Or will be a new one be released soon and i should wait for it?
Thank you
CheVeyo

[ROM][UNOFFICIAL][7.1.2] LineageOS 14.1 for Elephone Trunk

This is a genuine 64bit LineageOS 14.1 ROM for the Elephone Trunk. It's the follow up to my previous CM13.1 ROM as discussed here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/rom-cyanogenmod-13-0-elephone-trunk-t3394060
It can be used as a daily driver, all important features seem to be working, including:
Voice
Mobile Data
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
WiFi
GPS
Please feel free to post any bug reports here.
XDA:DevDB Information
LineageOS 14.1 for Elephone Trunk, ROM for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
ottmi
Source Code: https://github.com/ottmi/android_device_elephone_trunk
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Based On: LineageOS
Version Information
Status: Snapshot
Current Stable Version: 20180114
Stable Release Date: 2018-01-14
Created 2017-02-10
Last Updated 2018-01-14
Changelog
20180114
Upstream LineageOS changes, including December 2017 security patches
Fix camera recordings
20170811
Upstream LineageOS changes, including August 2017 security patches
Remove libwvm and use Crackling Widevine blobs instead
20170430
Upstream LineageOS changes
20170419
Update to latest LineageOS Upstream, including Android 7.1.2 merge & April Security Patches
Enable F2FS
Get rid of annoying selinux denials for setsched
Enable Pinner Service to pin key files in memory
20170409
Return to Crackling camera blobs to fix issues re-enable higher camera resolution
Disable backlight dimming in thermal-engine
Fix random reboots due to qcom subsystem crashes
20170314
Replace netmgrd by proper binary from ASUS Z00T
Pull camera blobs (mostly) from Google Seed
20170224
Fix crashes of the WCNSS subsystem
20170221
Fix GPS
20170220
Fix torchlight tile
Fix netmgrd crashes that caused mobile data to stop working
Remove ZRAM, LZ4, and Swap
Remove F2FS support
Replace Camera with Snap
Replace Browser with Gello
20170210
First beta
ottmi said:
20170210
First beta
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@ottmi
Thanks for your work we were expecting. Installed the new rom L_OS 14.1 without difficulty using "TWRP-3.0.2-20161108-trunk.img" + open_gapps-arm64-7.1-pico-20170210.zip + SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip. so far also works updating of installed apps after a thorough tour will let you know any bugs.
Thanks again and good work.
This afternoon I installed the new ROM.
@ottmi first thank you, a job well done. the first impression is really good, I believe that from this foundation will do a wonderful job.
bug:
- The flashlight does not work.
- Some animations are jerky.
Considerations:
The general flow is good, Wi-Fi reception OK
GPS OK
Camera improvements, noisy photos. The 8 megapixel resolution is not selectable.
Battery: I do not know, it takes time to understand.
Awesome first release! Was this a lot of work to get to this stage, @ottmi?
Looking forward to the next build with currently reported bugs addressed, which is when I'll jump into the testing.
Martin
@ottmi
after using for a couple of days the first version of the Rom L_OS 14.1 I consider still to be improved especially the battery life, the management of the status bar and especially the lack of advanced configurations. All this by referring to the Rom "RR-N-v5.8.0-20170115-peach" I have used for nearly a month without any problems and with several customization options although 32Bit. It would be interesting on your part to verify the basis of http://www.resurrectionremix.com/ development for our Trunk 64Bit. Thanks anyway for the wonderful work you are doing.
I'm sorry for my english.
Guys, you have to be more specific than that if you want me to fix problems: @Sampierdarena:
Which animations are jerky? Is this still the case after the 2nd reboot?
Was the 8MP selection available with CM13.1? I think this is a feature of the camera apk..
@josoft86:
What's wrong with the status bar?
Which advanced configuration options are you missing?
I know about the flashlight, this has been a problem already in CM13.1 and I never found a way to fix it properly.
Also there seem to be some issues with the 2nd SIM slot. I sometimes don't get a data connection with the 2nd SIM - the status shows LTE or HSDPA and connected but I don't get an IP address. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the 1st SIM card. Did anybody else witness this problem?
@ottmi
I try to be more precise:
The animations are jerky affect the output from applications. I partially solved with the trim.
The camera: using CameraFV5 you can choose 8 megapixels, I think you're right, the problem is the camera application stock.
The battery with this release has a shorter duration than 10%, I think it is normal with Android 7.1
Thanks again for your work.
@ottmi
perhaps you interpreted my little appropriate proposals, but I did not remotely affect your work but address it on what I thought was perhaps valid for your own product development. I enclose the examples on the configuration and status bar that I used with the Rom RR. Thanks for your work always appreciated and I hope that more and more continuous.
Guys, I'm about to donate my dead elephone trunk if anyone needs it.
it was in great condition but one day it just won't turn on anymore.
it showing charging process once connected to charger, but doesn't react on power button.
case and some other accessories such as spare new back cover can also be donated .
And thanks Ottmi and all other guys for this great rom that extending life of this device!
@ottmi
I do not know if you might be interested in helping you develop your wonderful work for our Trunk:
Reference: https://plus.google.com/communities/109352646351468373340
"Resurrection Remix (official)
ROM Release │ DEVS ONLY-DO NOT POST HERE
İmportant announcement & some good news
So a few days back we came to an important decision , and we went ahead and decided to merge Full OMS Support.
Yes many users will be happy , some will be upset but honestly it has been too long waiting for Lineage Theme Engine .
Anyhow the manifests will be updated soon and maintainers can push oms builds as official .
Thank you for being patient with us.
Now You can enjoy full OMS supported themes and themers can now officially support our ROM .
PS: users please wait for your maintainers to upload your builds
NO ETA.
If coming from a 5.8.0 build , please clean flash .You will run into issues with dirty flashes and help will not be provided in that scenario
Read before posting
https://plus.google.com/101154841950858558748/posts/RAuHneppoKa
Thank you for understanding
Happy flashing..
Sincerely
RR Team"
Sampierdarena said:
@ottmi
I try to be more precise:
The animations are jerky affect the output from applications. I partially solved with the trim.
The camera: using CameraFV5 you can choose 8 megapixels, I think you're right, the problem is the camera application stock.
The battery with this release has a shorter duration than 10%, I think it is normal with Android 7.1
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Can you name an application that shows the video problems?
Regarding the camera: the next ROM will ship with the new Snap app as stock camera that allows for setting the resolution to 7.7MP. I'm not sure thought whether that is native or will be interpolated from 13MP..
I can't really comment on battery life as I'm currently using the phone more intensive than usual and connect it to the computer very often, so the battery will recharge quite often..
@ josoft86:
Since the Ark RR ROM seems to be working fine for you, why don't you just this? I personally have no interest in porting another ROM. I don't even use half the features LineageOS offers on top of stock Android. My focus is on creating a stable ROM and being able to regularly pull upstream security fixes. That being said, all my work is published on my Github account, so anybody who's interested can pick it up and use it as a stepping stone for any other ROM.
New ROM 20170220
There's a new ROM available in the download section. Main improvements are fixing of the disappearing torchlight tile (thanks to the good people working on the Redmi2) and fixing of non-operational mobile data after disconnecting from WiFi. Also, I removed support for ZRAM, LZ4, swap, and F2FS. I don't think we need this (other msm8916 devices are living without it) and removing this brings the kernel closer to the stock kernel and hence improve long-term maintainability. I'm using this now as a daily driver and from my point of view it's quite stable.
EDIT: I messed up the GPS blobs in yesterday's release. There's a new ROM now in the download section that should have workiong GPS. Sorry for the inconvenience..
For those who are interested in details and for documentation purposes: on some msm8916 devices on Android 7, mobile data stops working after disconnecting from WiFi. There a few bug reports on LineageOS's jira on this:
https://jira.lineageos.org/projects/BUGBASH/issues/BUGBASH-72
https://jira.lineageos.org/browse/BUGBASH-129
It seems that netmgrd occasionally crashes and leaves the RIL in an undefined state that doesn't allow for new mobile data connections to be established. The crashes are due to netmgrd freeing non-allocated memory (which jemalloc intercepts and causes the process to abort). As netmgrd is a proprietary Qualcom binary, there is no way to fix this in source. I've tried to use the netmgrd binary from other devices but that didn't help. So I ended up patching the binary and replacing the respective calls to the free function by NOPs. Obviously, this introduced a memory leak and we will have to watch this carefully over time. But at least for now this seems to fix the problem and the memory leak seems to be small.
ottmi said:
It seems that netmgrd occasionally crashes and leaves the RIL in an undefined state that doesn't allow for new mobile data connections to be established. The crashes are due to netmgrd freeing non-allocated memory (which jemalloc intercepts and causes the process to abort). As netmgrd is a proprietary Qualcom binary, there is no way to fix this in source. I've tried to use the netmgrd binary from other devices but that didn't help. So I ended up patching the binary and replacing the respective calls to the free function by NOPs. Obviously, this introduced a memory leak and we will have to watch this carefully over time. But at least for now this seems to fix the problem and the memory leak seems to be small.
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Maybe it's a silly question, but where is that netmgrd binary from? Would it be possible to use the netmgrd binary from the 32 bits version of Nougat for the google seed?
Meanwhile, my attempts with [email protected] are failing: wifi and ril cannot even start. I will try some change looking at your tree
Sorry for not having tried your rom yet, but I am spoiled with your great CM13
siljaer said:
Maybe it's a silly question, but where is that netmgrd binary from? Would it be possible to use the netmgrd binary from the 32 bits version of Nougat for the google seed?
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It's the 64bit binary from Crackling. I thought about trying the 32bit netmgrd from Seed, but it has quite a few dependencies in terms of libraries. I would probably have to replace the libraries as well which would mean that the version numbers of the 32bit and 64bit libraries would be different. I'm not sure whether that would contribute towards a more stable ROM
Anyway, the patched version seems to work fine for now. I didn't notice any growth in memory consumption of the netmgrd process, so the leakage is probably small..
New ROM 20170224
There was a problem in the previous ROM with occassional WCNSS subsystem (WiFi) crashes which also caused the BlueTooth stack to crash. Should be fixed now in the new build.
Hi ottmi,
gorgeous work! I just got this device, therefore i did not do excessive testing yet. In comparison to cm-13.0-20160902, the 14.1-20170221 seems to work better (e.g. camera is not crashing). I do have only one question: At least on my device, root can be only set to 'ADB' or 'disabled'. Is this a restriction of LineageOS?
Best Regards,
Jan
jan_100 said:
Hi ottmi,
gorgeous work! I just got this device, therefore i did not do excessive testing yet. In comparison to cm-13.0-20160902, the 14.1-20170221 seems to work better (e.g. camera is not crashing). I do have only one question: At least on my device, root can be only set to 'ADB' or 'disabled'. Is this a restriction of LineageOS?
Best Regards,
Jan
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LineageOS requires rooting. It can be done in several ways, I chose to use the addon provided by them in the "extras" download section on the LineageOS website.
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ottmi said:
It's the 64bit binary from Crackling. I thought about trying the 32bit netmgrd from Seed, but it has quite a few dependencies in terms of libraries. I would probably have to replace the libraries as well which would mean that the version numbers of the 32bit and 64bit libraries would be different. I'm not sure whether that would contribute towards a more stable ROM
Anyway, the patched version seems to work fine for now. I didn't notice any growth in memory consumption of the netmgrd process, so the leakage is probably small..
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I've read that Lenovo is planning to officially release Nougat for msm8916 G4... I hope they can provide updated BSP too...
Meanwhile, I switched to your new ROM. It's been a short time, but it looks even better than CM13
Thanks for your great work!
@siljaer
Thank you very much! I was not aware of that.
karabassssss said:
Guys, I'm about to donate my dead elephone trunk if anyone needs it.
it was in great condition but one day it just won't turn on anymore.
it showing charging process once connected to charger, but doesn't react on power button.
case and some other accessories such as spare new back cover can also be donated .
And thanks Ottmi and all other guys for this great rom that extending life of this device!
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Hi karabassssss, I will appreciate so much if you could donate me your Trunk.
I need a new case and, more, I've broken it and the camera glass too but I don't reach to contact any assistance to do this work.
I live in Italy, close to Florence and logically I will pay for the shipping of the package. Please let me know, thanks
PS Many many thanks to @ottmi for your previous CM13 rom, in a couple days I will flash your new one too

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