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[Q] Changing recording video format on my samsung captivate

How do I change the recording video format on my samsung captivate.
It has froyo now and is rooted....before I was recording videos as .3GP and now it is recording as .mp4. How do I go back to .3gp?
thanks a bunch.

stanislasnancy said:
How do I change the recording video format on my samsung captivate.
It has froyo now and is rooted....before I was recording videos as .3GP and now it is recording as .mp4. How do I go back to .3gp?
thanks a bunch.
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I'm not sure you can. Why would you want to go back to using .3gp?

well I got used to .3gp.
do you know the differences? between the two....
which one is preferable?

Mp4 is better.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

The file /system/etc/media_profile.xml has this in it:
Code:
<CamcorderProfiles>
<EncoderProfile quality="high" fileFormat="mp4" duration="60">
<Video codec="m4v"
bitRate="3000000"
width="720"
height="480"
frameRate="24" />
<Audio codec="amrnb"
bitRate="12200"
sampleRate="8000"
channels="1" />
</EncoderProfile>
<EncoderProfile quality="low" fileFormat="3gp" duration="30">
<Video codec="m4v"
bitRate="256000"
width="176"
height="144"
frameRate="15" />
<Audio codec="amrnb"
bitRate="12200"
sampleRate="8000"
channels="1" />
</EncoderProfile>
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />
<ImageEncoding quality="80" />
<ImageEncoding quality="70" />
<ImageDecoding memCap="20000000" />
<Camera previewFrameRate="0" />
</CamcorderProfiles>
I don't know if changing that will result in what you seek.

So this is weird: it does create the videos in. Mp4 format but somehow changes it to. 3gpp format...I believe after rebooting or mount/unmount sd card by plugging to pc...does anyone know why?

[Q] [Help] Flashlight Notification Widget Cm 7.2

Hello everyone,
i would like to know, if anyone has managed to get the flashlight from the notification widget working on a CM 7.2 based Rom.
In the official build this option is greyed out, i guess because it is not fully working. Anyway i would love to enable this to grab a logcat and try to fix the remaining issues.
My Problem is, when enabling the button I change some xml code and as far as I know, I would have to resign all my System apps, to reinstall Settings.apk. I might be wrong with all this, just started to understand Android…
Anyway, what I have done is decompile Settings.apk and took a look at:
xxx:\Settings\res\layout\widget_settings.xml
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<LinearLayout androidadding="6.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="?android:listPreferredItemHeight"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<LinearLayout androidrientation="vertical" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1.0">
<TextView android:textSize="20.0dip" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="0.0dip" android:text="@string/toggleFlashlight" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
<TextView android:textSize="14.0dip" android:textColor="#ff808080" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="0.0dip" android:text="@string/toggleFlashlightDescription" android:singleLine="true" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
</LinearLayout>
<CheckBox android:id="@id/toggleFlashlight" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:checked="true" />
</LinearLayout>
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Interessting is Line 181, where a android:checked="true" is missing to “ungray” the button. That is my guess anyway…
I also found, that the “toggleflashlight” event includes an app package called net.cactii.flash2. This app is called Nexus Torch. I’m pretty sure, this is just for real flashlights and not LED flashlight.
You can find this reference in:
xxx:\Settings\smali\com\android\settings\widget\SettingsAppWidgetProvider.smali
That is how far I have got with this and unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck at this point…
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Wooaarr

there's no flashlight in the mobile
it is not working that's why it grayed out in official builds
and in unofficial build it is not grayed out because no one thought about it

Hello dheeraj (dhlalit11),
thank you for your reply.
I think you miss understood me. I know that there is no flashlight in this mobile. What i want to do, is get the Screen on, on full Brightness with a white background.
This code is already implemented, so i dont really understand why that option is greyed out anyway. It would work similar to Lidroids statusbar toggles.
If Flashlight available use it, if not turn on Screen with full Brightness.
Cheers
Wooaarr

I think checked code is there to make it check(selected) by default after a factory reset(i think you have got what I want to explain)
and to make it ungray/usable you can use the code used in unofficial builds
to make the brightness go up at max you can use the brightness toggle codes

Thank you again
You are right about the android:checked="true" thing. To enable it, there should somewhere be a setEnable, which i can not find unfortunatly...
Anyway, could you give me a hint about which Unofficial builds you are talking? I can't remember trying a Cm 7.2 based Rom, which had this feature enabled.
Thank you in advance
Wooaarr

forget
i can recall that i had read "do not use flashlight toggle or you will have problems" something like that in a rom's thread
you can try looking into stock based roms like emanon, more etc. or those roms which uses lidroid toggles

dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
"do not use flashlight toggle or you will have problems"
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That is what i read as well, but there is nothing that can't be fixed
Most Stock Based Roms include a little modification of lidroids toggle, so this won't help me that much, because there is quite a big difference between Cm toggles and lidroids.
Never the less i will dig into all this, thank you for your time
Wooaarr

try android:enable="true" />

I just can't ungray the button...
A Android:checked does not make it checked, nor does a android:enable make it clickable...
I can't find anything in the smali that would change the buttons appearance, so i guess it must be in the xml.
What am I missing here?

you can modify the code for another toggle which would be much more east to do

Howe true, i did that already
There is still this gray little button freaking me out
Just an esthetic problem, but it just annoys me...

App results in blank black screen on android phone....why?

I have removed all the elements from my layout and commented out references to the controls etc that I did have in my layout:
Code:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#0099cc"
tools:context=".HexapodControls"
android:id="@+id/frame_controls"
android:visibility="visible"
android:paddingTop="50dp">
<!-- The primary full-screen view. This can be replaced with whatever view
is needed to present your content, e.g. VideoView, SurfaceView,
TextureView, etc. -->
<!-- This FrameLayout insets its children based on system windows using
android:fitsSystemWindows. -->
</FrameLayout>
So why, when I generate the apk in android studio and install it on my phone, do I get a blank black screen.
I give up! What have I changed to cause this?

Never mind I figured it out.
I commented out this line "setContentView(R.layout.activity_hexapod_controls);"
along with the rest of it.

Magisk Module HELP - Please

Hello guys im trying from long time to understand why Gcam no matter from the version the slow motion never worked on HTC 10 and i think is related to the media_profiles.xml because we miss some important lines in order the Slow Motion to work properly.
Anyway sometimes when the things go wrong and edit manually the Media xml file i can recive a nasty bootlopp and in order to not repeat the same all the times
can anyone who is familiar with Magisc create a simple module?! for test purpose.
This lines to be added to the Media_profiles.xml
No mater from the Buld you know that the Gcam always crash and force close when you switch to Slow Motion
But only with this MOD magisk module
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-gcam-patch-t3677993
In every build ive try i was able to switch to Slow Mo without a crash also im able to press the button of recorder and i saw the sign 120 FPS under slow motion the problem is that for now the VIEWER freeze and im not able to record a video.
But this module only add some lines in the media_presets xml so thats why i think we are close and im sure is something related just for the xml file something in our HTC 10 is different in that media profiles xml and we need to find out what exactly!
I think the GCAM cant read the seeting correctly from the XML if they are not corectly set or writen.
for example in my Media profiles by default the SLOW MOTION is missing but this dont preven the Stock HTC CAM to record slow mo maybe we have to add this in order if we want to make GCAM to work as well
If you wish chek your media_profiles.xml do u have something similar i think this is the correct lines that we are missing and have to add this line but because im tired of bootlops if im wrong everytime im looking for methood how to use it like a MODULE and in case something went wrong to be able to revert back to stock.
In the magisk module above some of the lines are incorrect and maybe thats why the view freeze
and think this are the correct we all have to add.
<!-- CAMCORDER_QUALITY_HIGH_SPEED_HIGH/720P : [email protected]; 27.0 Mbps -->
<EncoderProfile quality="highspeedhigh" fileFormat="mp4" duration="30">
<Video codec="h264"
bitRate="27000000"
width="1280"
height="720"
frameRate="120" />
<!-- audio setting is ignored -->
<Audio codec="aac"
bitRate="96000"
sampleRate="48000"
channels="2" />
</EncoderProfile>
<EncoderProfile quality="highspeed720p" fileFormat="mp4" duration="30">
<Video codec="h264"
bitRate="27000000"
width="1280"
height="720"
frameRate="120" />
<!-- audio setting is ignored -->
<Audio codec="aac"
bitRate="96000"
sampleRate="48000"
channels="2" />
</EncoderProfile>
<!-- CAMCORDER_QUALITY_HIGH_SPEED_HIGH/1080P : [email protected]; 34.0 Mbps -->
<EncoderProfile quality="highspeed1080p" fileFormat="mp4" duration="30">
<Video codec="h264"
bitRate="34000000"
width="1920"
height="1080"
frameRate="60" />
<!-- audio setting is ignored -->
<Audio codec="aac"
bitRate="96000"
sampleRate="48000"
channels="2" />
</EncoderProfile>
I think this is the missing part for the Slow Motion to work properly on HTC 10 and few other devices as well, because we by default don`t have that config in our media profiles.
Will be very thankfull.
Thanks

Hi
I have a xiaomi mi a1 and have the same problem. Even with the module you refered slow motion crashes gcam.
I've tried one other module here https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-hevc-60fps-slomo-gcam-op3t-5-t3666287 and I can film at 120frames but it's laggy (filming and playing). I think it's because it is specific for those models.
I also would like to try a module that only adds the necessary lines to media_profiles.xml, but I don't know how to do it.
Did you try to talk with the gcam module creator to see if he can try to do one like you describe?
regards

Setting position of ImageView according to an image (dynamic with screen sizes)

Hello,
I learned that to make a bitmap image clickable, I need to assign it to ImageView. However, I am failing to set the position correctly so that it is dynamic with every screensize. It really is not possible to let ImageView locate the bitmap image on the screen and act upon that? I tried so many things but the best I have now is that ImageView creates another image of my button and when I manually change its position, it does not scale properly with other screen sizes.
For example my AdView (visible in xml) scales correctly with other screens but I could not apply the same principles with my button.
I would prefer if ImageView would just take the location of drawn bitmap button on screen but if this is not possible, could you guys please provide me with some example codes of how to correctly set the button generated by ImageView? So that I can move it to desired location and have it the same across different screen sizes.
I HAVE TRIED:
Changing position manually in SurfaceView - doesnt scale properly
Implement app:layout_widthPercent="50%" etc. - doesnt work for me
Implement app:layout_constraintBottom etc. - doesnt work for me
activity_main.xml:
<com.markS.flappykillercrow.GameManager
android:id="@+id/gameManager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/image_button_android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="@drawable/playbutton"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
/>
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
android:id="@+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:adSize="BANNER"
app:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
Thank you very much in advance, this would save my day!