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SGS camera issue

Hello everybody,
I've searched around this and other fora for my problem, but I found nothing. I bought my SGS about 2 months ago. It came with Android 2.1 installed and, through Kies, I updated it to 2.2 Froyo. After that, I decided to flash Darky's 9.2, as I heard a lot of good things about it.
After flashing everything was fine for a couple of days, 'till I started installing some camera-based apps, like Barcode Scanner and Google Goggles: I used them about three times, then they started force closing (Google Goggles) or showing a black screen instead of the camera view (Barcode Scanner). The situation grew worst and worst as my camera app started giving me a "Warning - Camera Failed" as soon as i switched to video mode. I read on Android Forums this problem could be caused by some of those camera-using apps, so I uninstalled both Barcode Scanner and Google Goggles, but nothing changed.
Other listed solutions were to disable lagfixes, change ROM/firmware, reset the phone, but none of this helped.
After experiencing those problem with Darky's 9.2, I upgraded to the new Darky's 9.3, but I still experienced the same damned issue. Thinking of some software issue with Darky's, I formatted the phone, disabled any lagfix I had and tried to flash Jimmy's/Hamster's v6.3. Well it's blazing fast, but I still have a similar problem: both camera and video mode work flawlessly, but both Barcode Scanner and Google Goggles force close, while Layar reports it is "unable to access camera hardware".
And now here I am, asking for your help. Thanks in advance.

Loads of posts on this subject on Darky posts suggest one you search them two you delete the rom and go back to stock .Then use another custom rom of your choice .
jje

JJEgan said:
Loads of posts on this subject on Darky posts suggest one you search them two you delete the rom and go back to stock .Then use another custom rom of your choice .
jje
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Thank you for your post, but, as I stated, I've already searched for my problem and no solution worked. Also, I've already flashed to another ROM (Darky's-> Hamster's).

I also have the problem with camera. Try to find the newest firmware and update it, maybe that will solve the problem.
When i updated fw, camera worked fine for a couple of hours, and then, iI don't know how, phone automatically switched to my old fw (about 1-2 hours after rebooting).
Then I have to restart the phone and camera works fine again with new fw.
It's so annoying, but i don't have the complete solution yet. Btw, i'm on Darkys 9.6.6.

Sounds like you're missing the stock email.apk
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

[Q] Darky's ROM v9.5 - It isn't stable for me

My starting point...
This was loaded with PIT *512, Odin 1.7, and PDA 20110318_ZSJPJ.tar (ASIA) with repartition selected
Wifi, APN, phone, android market, auto sync, and camera – working
*#1234# PDA I9000ZSJPJ PHONE I9000ZSJPG CSC I9000OZSJPG
*2767*3855# Device rebooted normally after factory reset. All settings lost, the device start appears to be fresh and clean.
Android system recovery 3e
Automatic time updating has never worked for me. I unselect automatic and manually choose Beijing +8.
Darky's ROM v9.5 Installation
Followed instructions found here:
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...rkys-rom-on-2-2-2-2-1-i9000-i9000m-only.1041/
Setup Darky’s ROM Configurator
Flashed Dark_Core_1.0.tar with Odin 1.3
The Dark Core kernel does not work on my phone. Still Android system recovery (3e)
Revised ROM configurator to skip kernel as per alternative kernel method
Flashed speedmod-kernel-k13d-500hz.tar with Odin 1.3
I skipped backup step. Fresh phone so no reason to backup
Completed efsbackup
Through recovery, wipe data/factory reset completed
Through recovery, Darky’s ROM v9.5 flash completed
Selected reboot device through recovery screen
The rest of the story...
This is a list of every action I took after completing what seemed to be a flawless installation of the ROM.
Updated phone settings…. Language, time, wifi password, google password, etc.
Sync of gmail, google contacts, and google calendar completed without problems.
*#1234# PDA I9000XWJS8, PHONE I9000XXJVE, CSC I9000OXXJS1, Build Info 2011.03
Opened home switcher app. Set homeswitcher to ‘Launcher’
Checked camera. Pressed home key and phone went back to original setup wizard screen, the one you see when you wipe your phone. I continued to press next to get through the sequence. Home screen switched back to ‘TwLauncher’ appeared to be the only change.
Pressed home button. Ticked box to set default. Selected ‘Launcher’
Tested camera again. I pressed the home key to get out of the app and the home switcher option came up again. Once again, selected to tick box to set the action as a default and picked ‘Launcher’.
Tested camera again. The home button properly went to the default this time.
The Places app does not launch.
Modified some settings inside Spare Parts app. Animation and wifi sleep policy.
Changed faster fix app to show China.
Opened Gmail app, rec’d ‘stopped unexpectedly’ message. Force close.
Tried to respond to an SMS message, rec’d ‘stopped unexpectedly’ message when I tapped the box to bring up the keyboard. Force close.
Opened Messaging app and tried again to respond to SMS message with same result.
Went to settings, modified input method to ‘Touch Input Chinese’, the device shutdown immediately.
Restarted phone. Unlocked screen and rec’d message ‘Process system is not responding’. It stayed there momentarily and then did a very quick reboot. I unlocked the screen and rec’d the same message.
I selected force close. The home screen was black with no wifi or phone service. Touching the applications button opened the list of app icons but the phone eventually the device did its very quick reboot.
I held the power button down for several seconds to force the device to turn off. I pressed the power button in hopes of it starting up normally… with the exception of having no phone service, it did seem to start normally.
*#1234# PDA I9000XWJS8, PHONE Unknown, CSC I9000OXXJS1, Build Info 2011.03
Rebooted device. No change in status from note immediately above.
From power off menu, selected recovery. Installed Darky’s ROM again from SDcard.
No personal information was lost. No change in status of phone service.
*#1234# PDA I9000XWJS8, PHONE Unknown, CSC I9000OXXJS1, Build Info 2011.03
Flashed stock ROM and returned to starting point noted at beginning of the post.

Please forgive the post above if you find it offensively long. I have spent the past week reading anything I can as it relates to Darky’s ROM and can’t find anything that seems to relate to the problems I am finding. Admittedly, I am a n00b and this is my very first experience with custom ROM in the android OS. (I made the switch from iOS a month or so ago where the game of JB and unlocks became to frustrating.)
I have installed Darky’s ROM many times over the past week and cannot get anywhere near what I consider a stable platform. Events such as ‘force close’ and system reboots are so frequent, surely that can’t be the norm. Is this to be expected?
From the description in the post above, have I done something wrong? It seems like the most frequent response and solution is to flash the ROM again. I have done that and never seem to get the same response.
I realize this is a custom ROM. I just don’t hear others mentioning the issues I have described so I am guessing they don’t exist for anyone else.

You should tell Darky .
Majority of helps posted on this forum are for Darky roms fact not fiction .
jje

@jje Thanks for your advice. I will take this question over to Darky's forum. I was hoping that the larger pool of potential readers here would be able to offer some advice.

MT00321 said:
@jje Thanks for your advice. I will take this question over to Darky's forum. I was hoping that the larger pool of potential readers here would be able to offer some advice.
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Possibly if you hang around a bit someone may come up with an answer .
Not an answer but you can build your own rom .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
jje

This is not an answer, but for me Darky's ROM v9.5 wasn't stable either. It just stopped working every few hours, just turned off my phone without notice etc.
I'm not sure what the problems was but I think there are some unresolved issues with v9.5.
After flashing stock JVK + darky10kernel + Darky's ROM v10.0 RC3, all my problems were gone tho and my phone has never been smoother. But v9.5.. I just don't know.

wgspoelstra said:
This is not an answer, but for me Darky's ROM v9.5 wasn't stable either. It just stopped working every few hours, just turned off my phone without notice etc.
I'm not sure what the problems was but I think there are some unresolved issues with v9.5.
After flashing stock JVK + darky10kernel + Darky's ROM v10.0 RC3, all my problems were gone tho and my phone has never been smoother. But v9.5.. I just don't know.
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quite weird how so many people say 9.5 is good, and so many other people say 9.5 is bad
i upgraded to 9.5 from 9.2 about 4 hours ago and so far it seems fine
I did a no-wipe upgrade and am using dark core kernel 1.0 that came with the mod itself
not switching to 10.0 because it requires a wipe cant be bothered till 2.3 goes official
Try flashing kernel 1.2 darkcore

9.5 not rock solid, but not that bad either
I'm running 9.5 for a couple of days now, and although I ran into some minor problems, I cannot say it is that bad. It hang once, sometimes I have a small problem installing apps from the Market, but apart from that, it's OK. I think 9.3 had less problems, so if you want to go for a more stable Darky's ROM, go for 9.3. Or wait until 10 is official released.

Go through resurection
One more tip: I noticed you started from a non-Darky ROM. What you can do (and it's what I did) is install the Resurection edition of Darky's ROM. It's essentially the 9.2 version and you can flash it with Odin. After doing that, you can be sure to have a clean Darky environment. You can even see how that one works, I know a few colleagues who are still on 9.2 and fully happy with that. But if you want to upgrade, it's much easier from there. Just use Darky's configurator after you copied the ZIP file to you SD card. It's easy, and like I said, for me it is pretty stable!

Flash 9.3 first then flash over that with 9.5. I have used a lot of Darky's roms and never once had any major issues with them. 9.5 is a good rom

sean2476 said:
Flash 9.3 first then flash over that with 9.5. I have used a lot of Darky's roms and never once had any major issues with them. 9.5 is a good rom
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Told them out of the thousands at least one has a good user experience .
jje

I want to go backwards (I am on 9.5 and battery life sucks).
How do I go from 9.5 to 9.4? Can I just download 9.4 and use the Darky's Rom Configurator and install it the same way I went from 9.4. to 9.5?

9.4 was deprecated due to heavy issues. The previous stable one is 9.3. You can install it with Darky's configurator, indeed.

Bugs will be fixed step by step ....
But I prefer Ultimate v8.2 with Tegrak Kernel ...

Screen wont wake after call on any Gingerbread

Hello.
Im having the weirdest problem and i am going insane.
In Gingerbread roms,stock or custom (darky rc3,rc4,CriskeloRom) when i try to make a call or when i receive a call,the screen turns immediately black and never ever wakes up.
No button works,nore do they lit,nothing...
I have to pull out the battery and restart.
Some times when i plug the cable in kies mode,its ok,it comes back the screen but thats seldom.
I tried to keep the screen on,nothing...
This happens only in gingerbread,if i return to froyo,everything is ok.
PLEASE HELP ME

Wait for official Gingerbread .
jje

You could try installing the official (NEE) Gingerbread.
Or flash back to 2.2 and forward from there.

thanx guys but did that too...
i installed official ginger xee and the same thing...in froyo everything works ok.
insane!!!!

Sucks to hear Hope it will be ok when the official Gingerbread gets released for your country. Allthough that probably wont work either.
ps. how do you update from Froyo to Gingerbread? Odin? Maybe try updating from Froyo with KIES using the registry spoofing tool and then installing NEE.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835628

No such issues for me, had stock JVK now on stock JVB. Remove any lag fixes and do a factory reset + Format SD card and try.

i have done everything!!! everything.im no noob in flashing bussiness.
i have tried almost all roms in xda in froyo,i like flashing but that is one of its kind...
i dont know...i will wait for a fix(?).
maybe an update version on ginger?
i repeat,in froyo or even eclair,everything works perftectly.
i even restored my efs file,my csc code...nothing...

karapoutsoglou said:
Hello.
Im having the weirdest problem and i am going insane.
In Gingerbread roms,stock or custom (darky rc3,rc4,CriskeloRom) when i try to make a call or when i receive a call,the screen turns immediately black and never ever wakes up.
No button works,nore do they lit,nothing...
I have to pull out the battery and restart.
Some times when i plug the cable in kies mode,its ok,it comes back the screen but thats seldom.
I tried to keep the screen on,nothing...
This happens only in gingerbread,if i return to froyo,everything is ok.
PLEASE HELP ME
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I have the same problem, I give it up ! now I flash back to froyo.

Try reflashing and not installing any apps at all see if that problem exist?

tanjiajun_34 said:
Try reflashing and not installing any apps at all see if that problem exist?
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yes,still exists...
i am now again in foroyo,darky v9.5 extreme.everything smooth and perfect...
dunno...maybe is greece network? nahhh...
i dont know...
i will wait till ginger gets mature and try in a month or something a newer custom rom.

MikeyMike01 GR Rom (2.3.3) Q&A

Hey Guys, since I answered my own question, I'll just turn this into the official Q&A thread for this rom to help/talk about rom specific questions from new and old users.. Please feel free to post any rom related questions here.
As always there is no Flaming, name calling or such, just a lot of strong opinions.
No question is too noobish, but please look/search for your answer first so that the same questions do not become redundant.
We need your info in order to help you. Please make sure to included the version of the rom you are using, modem, kernel, ext...
Also please give it some time for your question to be answered, believe it or not, we do not live here.

First.
10chars

Just flashed his new GR9 and i'm curious to know, when locking the phone (tapping power button once) is the screen supposed to have a white flash-like shut off? sort of like powering of an oldschool TV. Not that big of a deal, but can get annoying.

Any good reason why the stock sms will not send txt? downloaded handcent sms and it will send just fine. but not both receive incoming, is there a way to fix this or to disable the stock sms?

KickersBump said:
Just flashed his new GR9 and i'm curious to know, when locking the phone (tapping power button once) is the screen supposed to have a white flash-like shut off? sort of like powering of an oldschool TV. Not that big of a deal, but can get annoying.
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That is a gingerbread thing. If you dont like it turn off animations in the display setting or use spare parts and set them to fast, that will disable that animation but increase the speed of the others.
catman09 said:
Any good reason why the stock sms will not send txt? downloaded handcent sms and it will send just fine. but not both receive incoming, is there a way to fix this or to disable the stock sms?
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Open stock messaging in the settings turn off auto retrieve and notifications.

Just curious to the advantages/disadvantages of this over Serendipity 6.4, other than the details that are posted on the front page, what are some peoples opinions about this??
Thanks!

dillonc said:
Just curious to the advantages/disadvantages of this over Serendipity 6.4, other than the details that are posted on the front page, what are some peoples opinions about this??
Thanks!
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I just switched from serendipity and one is sooooo much better. Only thibg, no battery mod
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Ok im on jvb i9000 2.3.3 GR-10. I have flash both kernels xcal and talon. I get the same issue with my accelerometer wont get out of horizontal its stuck. I have to turn off the auto rotation to get it back to portrait.
List of things i have done.
Flashed stock JVB i9000 2.3.3 and rooted-
Flashed GR-10/with stock kernel- No Rotation
Flashed latest Xcal reoriented kernel- No Rotation
Flashed latest Talon kernel- No Rotation
I have calibrated, hard resets, Reflashed ROMs Reflashed kernels
Please help what have i done wrong. Otherwise everything works great.

Anyone have the AllShare apk from SGS II? I tried the one from 2.2 ROMS on GR-10 and it just fc's. Hoping the one from the SGS II works...

First call after re-boot
On the first call attempted after re-boot, the screen went black on connection, and stayed that way for at least a minute. All subsequent calls were fine. Anyone else experiencing this?

I just came over from 6.4 and really like the new ROM. Other than that first call after re-boot issue.

help with installing GR 10 please
hey you guys i gotta question.. im on serendipity 6.4 and trying to flash to gr 10 and i have everything downloaded but when i go to step 3 ((3. Select the PDA, PHONE, CSC, and PIT files in their correct spot)) and i click on pit or pda and scroll to the (installation 7z) i find no .pit or pda files anywhere.. so basically i cant figure out how to fill in the pit pda phone and csc... any help very appreciated thx.

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hey you guys i gotta question.. im on serendipity 6.4 and trying to flash to gr 10 and i have everything downloaded but when i go to step 3 ((3. Select the PDA, PHONE, CSC, and PIT files in their correct spot)) and i click on pit or pda and scroll to the (installation 7z) i find no .pit or pda files anywhere.. so basically i cant figure out how to fill in the pit pda phone and csc... any help very appreciated thx.
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Did you unzip the 7Z file? You'll see them then. It includes Odin 1.7 too.

Quick Question Regarding 3 Button Fix
Hey all. Getting ready to flash this Awesome new ROM from Serendipity 6.4. My question is do I need the 3 Button Fix working before I flash this? My phone lost that ability and was wondering if I should:
1)Return to stock using ODIN w/3 button fix
2)Reflash over that with ODINoneclick (saw that this might be required for GB roms)
3)Then Follow Mikey's instructions
Any input or advice is greatly appreciated!

If you use one click after the 3 button fix you'll probably lose the combo ... Just use the 3 button combo fix. You'll be on stock from there you can proceed to gingerbread.
DO NOT use that to get to stock from gingerbread!! Use one click for that.

gr 10 running now
atcwoody said:
Did you unzip the 7Z file? You'll see them then. It includes Odin 1.7 too.
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got it running. thanks alot!! for some reason i hadnt been able to extract the files so i redownloaded the installation from a different site and then i was able to extract them. weird

Glad to assist. Trying to pay it forward for all the help I've received here.

Video tetorial?
Can someone please post a vedio link regarding installation for this rom.

AdamNimrod said:
Now that source is out from the SGS II, can anybody add the code that wakes up the phone when a message is received and implement that in with the AOSP Mms.apk so users that like the look/feel of the AOSP mms app can also enjoy the nice feature of their phone auto waking up when a new message is recieved?
Ill upload the two mms.apk here and rename them to easily distinguish the two apart.
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I sloved my own problem, I just decompiled the mms.apk and inserted all the AOSP icons and changed out the ugly yellow bubbles for some better looking gray ones.
I'll upload once I get home for anybody who was wanting to use it.

I am wondering if anyone is having a reboot issue. My phone after installing this ROM reboots after sitting idle for any length of time... battery is at 93% (battery life is fantastic with this ROM). This is on GR 11, all flashed according to unstructions and working properly. I thought this may have been due to flashing Talon and converting to EXT4. However I re-did the installation from stock, and am still having the issue.
Anyone else having the same issue?

s3 lte touch screen problem

my galaxy s3 lte sometimes the screen freezes and it is unresponsive to touch. As soon as I turn the screen off and back on with the lock button then it works fine. It does it randomly, for instance when somebody calls I can't answer it sometimes I have to hurry up and turn the screen off and back on so I can swipe to answer. Also when I'm playing games is the same. Everything solves when turn off and then on screen
Thanks for tips

I had same kind of problems when i was using "bad combination" of kernel and rom. Got it fixed by flashing stock kernel But if you're running stock rom, then i don't know how to help you :s

Such Name said:
I had same kind of problems when i was using "bad combination" of kernel and rom. Got it fixed by flashing stock kernel But if you're running stock rom, then i don't know how to help you :s
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yes I haver stock kernel: 3.0.31-3.0.31-2051278

I'd say try another rom and see if there's any difference