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[Update] Camera Firmware Update for Samsung Vibrant

i found something that i think that is important and wanted to share it with all....
Background Story:
yesterday (11/08/2010) i ODIN my vibrant to the "unofficial T mobile stoke 2.2" and used it with no problems...
Today i started to play with the camera set up and i found something interesting....
when i went to the camera setting and enter to the left tab menu i saw under the "reset" a " Firmware Update", when i
pressed the "update" i got a menu the showing:
"check version by network"
and
"Firmware Update"
i started to play with it by pressing the 2 options.... and i got a messeg "Warning, it will occur additional fee" i press the "ok" and .....and at that point i dont remenber what was next but it got me to the "Samsung App" and show me information about the Camera Firmware update and alow me to install....
i did it and it starting to download and update the Firmware...after a 2 min of prosses it said that i need to do reset... i did...
now after the Firmware Update i dont know what is the difrent but i can tell you that there is a new App whan you view all under the camera and showing " Camera Firmware " Version 1.

what does it do?

I figured this out long ago when we first discovered the secret codes. I updated my camera firmware too, but didn't notice any changes so I never posted it.

this menu is accessible via secret codes in 2.1 like the previous poster said. it is in the FFC thread somewhere and we tried to see if camera firmware from different cameras made a difference.

So i also saw this and incurred the so called charges. Only thing that i noticed was that the Camera icon changed to the darker one. Im sure the firmware itself chsnged in some way for the better. I did notice my first MMs was blurry. I immediately updated cam firmware since i knew to check and no more blurry MMs. I honestly think its not related and random that it worked but...i really didnt change anything else.

I also typed in the code and after typing in the codes, my camera setting has changed. previously when u click on the camera, in the right hand side there would be a slider that you changed from camera mode to video mode. that has now changed to a zoom +- sign. its not nearly as nice as having the slider. my firmware is reading firmware 1. anyone know how i can get the original firmware back. also the other code was to use your power button to hang up phone calls, well all that it did to mine, was stop the button working where it makes the screen go blank when u press it once. it only works if you long press it and you get the three options, shut down, silent, etc.
help, anyway i can reverse those two things.
thanks

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chantelle_sa said:
I also typed in the code and after typing in the codes, my camera setting has changed. previously when u click on the camera, in the right hand side there would be a slider that you changed from camera mode to video mode. that has now changed to a zoom +- sign. its not nearly as nice as having the slider. my firmware is reading firmware 1. anyone know how i can get the original firmware back. also the other code was to use your power button to hang up phone calls, well all that it did to mine, was stop the button working where it makes the screen go blank when u press it once. it only works if you long press it and you get the three options, shut down, silent, etc.
help, anyway i can reverse those two things.
thanks
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stefan.buddle said:
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not really news
this is a cry for help (using a old post)
and i think this request belong in Vibrant Q&A (but i could be wrong)
but what rom are you using
because some of us are using the i9000 camera app
on my Nero v3 i have pinch zooming
have you tried odin back to stock
not sure if my recommendation will work

thee camera app is different from the camera firmware, again old news

When I try to update the firmware it says Service Not Available (error 402) wtf?
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Screen Capture

Well here is another question sorry if it has already bein answered. Well the other day while surfing the internet at the bottom of my screen in a box it said "screen captured" I don't know how I did it but I did. Well it created a new photo of what I was viewing and a folder for it. So has anyone heard of this?
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Are you rooted and do you have ShootMe? ShootMe has an option to use the accelerometer (by shaking) to take a screen shot. You don't need to shake it very hard. It also has options to use the proximity sensor and noise (yelling at the phone).
With 2.3.3, there will be a built in screen shot tool, but that isn't even a twinkle in our eye yet.

Nope I don't have any screen capture apps and I am running froyo 2.2 from att stock non rooted. It really has confused me..
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Hrm.. never heard of that happening unless you have downloaded an application that will take screenshots.
I would double check what apps you have installed. Also... I know a lot of the custom ROM's are starting to "harden" their builds against spam/ads/spyware etc..
Possible you will want to update your hosts files to block the crud on the internet. Unfort I don't know if their is an app in the market that does this or if you would just have to move to a custom ROM.
Keep us posted.

Well after doing some research I found this...http://getandroidstuff.com/how-to-take-screenshot-with-samsung-galaxy-s-with-no-root/ now I can't get it to work on my phone but maybe it will work on others and when I went to my running services I had one called "screencaptureservice" I may just be pushing the wrong buttons though any ideas?
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Well.. this is a whole lot less scary.
The site states if your holding down the back button then press the home button it will take a screen cap.
I would just monitor how your using your phone and be careful when pressing your capacitive buttons. Could be it just recognized the command as you wanted to take a screen shot and you just fat-fingered it
Good info to have though - thanks for the tip.
***edit... btw I couldn't replicate this - but then I'm running a custom ROM. Anyone on stock 2.2 been able to repeat this?

Lol no problem hopefully it helps somebody though I still can't get it to work for me
Though I did just root my phone and I don't really need it seems iphoneish
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Warning: Camera Failed

Hey guys, I am currently running Phoenix Unleashed, onix 2.0.5 and UGJL2...
I have Hacked Camera by Fr4gg0r installed.. I am able to take pictures but when i switch to video mode, i get a dialogue box saying, "Warning: Camera Failed"
I looked though the first 7 pages of the Captivate Q&A and the search results only had Vibrant and Epic 4G results...
HELP ME! I really need to be able to take videos.. and thanks in advance

Use sgs tools, go to apply script and choose restore_camera.txt it won't take pictures with the power button anymore but the video should work.

While your there, try the gizmodroids can hack. Its a little different from other hack (version 4.7.3 only ).
Sent from a place my wife doesn't know about (yet)

And you didn't post this in the Phoenix sticky why? Come on, people, what do you think they are for?

Agreed please post this in the Tom's q&a thread

CodeNameAndroid ICS Q&A

This is the Q&A for CNA ICS!

b-eock said:
This is the Q&A for CNA ICS!
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Cool! Any calendar fix yet? Thanks!

Loving this ROM. Fast and smooth.
Can't buy apps from the market though- it just returns the generic error. Is there a fix for that?

Schloot said:
Loving this ROM. Fast and smooth.
Can't buy apps from the market though- it just returns the generic error. Is there a fix for that?
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problem with all ice cream sandwich ROMs
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is there a fix for the wireless tether problem, or its just me?

is there an android os bug fix and full bar signal bug?
is there an android os bug fix in the rom?
also does the rom have a fix for the always full bar signals? thanks

salazar44 said:
Cool! Any calendar fix yet? Thanks!
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Strangest thing.... Was on CNA, decided to try ICSSGS, didn't like it as well so flashed back and calendar was there. I assume because I did not wipe on the flash back to CNA?
FWIW, I have tried this, ICSSGS, and CM9. CNA is my favorite. I have had almost no issues. 1 app won't run, but it is from my small, local bank.

Schloot said:
Loving this ROM. Fast and smooth.
Can't buy apps from the market though- it just returns the generic error. Is there a fix for that?
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That issue is fixed on ICSSGS and maybe others, I'm not certain if it involves some adjustments ROM-side, or it should be fixed by using latest gapps. I previously encountered the issue but haven't seen it in quite some time.
The alternative would be buying them in the browser/pc.

How To Print Screen
Anyone know how I would perform a print screen?

Nevermind, found the answer (Volume Down + Power Button)

Hi guys,
I'm interested in trying this ROM out.
I'm coming from Serendipity VII, which if I understand correctly is I9000 based. Just to make sure I understand what I'm doing, I should just be able to reboot to recovery, and install the CNA ROM from the zip file, correct? Any other steps necessary?
Thanks

the newguy said:
Hi guys,
I'm interested in trying this ROM out.
I'm coming from Serendipity VII, which if I understand correctly is I9000 based. Just to make sure I understand what I'm doing, I should just be able to reboot to recovery, and install the CNA ROM from the zip file, correct? Any other steps necessary?
Thanks
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I got it installed (with the Glitch kernel - running at 1.4Ghz so far), and I'm very impressed
The only issue I haven't yet been able to figure out is the external SD card. It seems that it now gets mounted under /mnt/emmc/ ? For whatever reason, the music player can't find the media that I have on the external SD card. Any ideas? I can find it using ES File Explorer and play the files individually.

Privacy
There has been an ever-increasing number of apps which want access to private information (like call logs, location, and contact information) without needing it to run the application. I'm talking about games and not apps which require such information like Anti-virus and such. Will we ever have a permission manager a la MIUI on this ROM? I understand that many developers work in concert, so I am wondering why most ROM's are not created with safeguards in place to protect private information. I am aware that I am not in the MIUI Q&A section, but I feel this is an issue that all ROM's should consider in order to protect private information. I know that I don't have to install apps which ask for this information if I don't want to give up my information, but it seems that every app nowadays asks for these permissions and it would be a shame to continue as if there were nothing wrong with compromising private information to play a game.
Thanks in advance.

I was one if the unlucky ones that had no 3g data after flashing this rom, flashed glitch, moved apn-conf.XML to the /system/etc/ directory overwriting the old file.
This did not bring data back. I decided to look at the apn list and noticed that it was blank. Clicked the menu button, then selected reset to defaults. Ten minutes later I had data.

Lock Screen
Has the lock screen been updated to allow for custom applications where it shows the icon of the custom application instead of that alien looking character? This was one of the reasons I moved away from this ROM and would love to come back. I'm not a fan of having to try to remember which application ties to which alien character.

Xenocide83 said:
Has the lock screen been updated to allow for custom applications where it shows the icon of the custom application instead of that alien looking character? This was one of the reasons I moved away from this ROM and would love to come back. I'm not a fan of having to try to remember which application ties to which alien character.
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Not yet. It still shows the animated android.
Nostalgia shows the custom icons on the ICS lock screen. (haven't flashed any other ICS roms yet.)
Update 3/24:
All aosp roms do not show custom icons.
All aokp based roms do show custom icons.
aosp also seems a little laggier than aokp. Playing angry birds space @ 1.3 ghz resulted in click and audio lag. (Gummy charged was my aosp test platform at that time).
Docs runs blazing fast at same speed with no click lag. Aokp m28 clocked at 800 MHz / glitch runs smooth. I think this is because of the scrolling cache which I force disabled in from control.
Thanks for your work bringing ics to captivate.

Any way to disable the proximity sensor in this rom? The thing is the cappy i purchased came with that sensor dead.. This makes the phone freeze while making calls for example.. I'm using right now MIUI 2.3.2 Gingerbread 2.3.7 and I can disable it with almost no effort at all..
Thanks in advance
P.S. Check it out the attachment

Huesos66 said:
Any way to disable the proximity sensor in this rom? The thing is the cappy i purchased came with that sensor dead.. This makes the phone freeze while making calls for example.. I'm using right now MIUI 2.3.2 Gingerbread 2.3.7 and I can disable it with almost no effort at all..
Thanks in advance
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Have you tried just disabling the rotation power toggle?

scythekain said:
Have you tried just disabling the rotation power toggle?
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Sorry but I don't really see how the rotation would be related to the proximity sensor functionalities. I could try that, but I would be more than grateful if you could explain me a little further the relationship between those two.. Anyways I have to download the rom, nandroid backup, and flash everything to test it out.
Thanks for the reply

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Sorry but I don't really see how the rotation would be related to the proximity sensor functionalities. I could try that, but I would be more than grateful if you could explain me a little further the relationship between those two.. Anyways I have to download the rom, nandroid backup, and flash everything to test it out.
Thanks for the reply
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you are correct, the proximity sensor does not control rotation. a bit a of a flub on my part sorry.
here are some things I tried with my AOKP rom (don't think the AOSP - CNA is too much different?)
1) There is no setting in the call menu for the proximity sensor.
2) However if you cover your sensor (which is broken anyways right?) a dab of black nail polish, to block all the light from it. I covered my sensor with my thumb and the screen stayed on. However if the problem is deeper within your hardware (possibly the control IC for the sensor), it will still lock up when it tries to access the current state of the sensor.
3) It's possible from what I've found that your sensor is okay, and that there is an internal blockage to the sensor cover. (though, my phone didn't lock up with the sensor covered?). Try canned air/ Vacuum to clear the blockage?
4) There are a several application options as none of the ICS roms I've used appear to have that MIUI option.
http://www.ehow.com/how_12187467_disable-proximity-sensor-android.html

IceColdSandwich 8.3 Bug

Would someone please re-post this in Kaijura's dev thread for me?
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I would post this on the thread but since I'm a new member I'm unable to do so.
I have a strange bug occuring since trying out the latest ICS.8.3 after a full wipe.
This video demonstrates the issue.
When scrolling in Gmail, on any message, the content will disappear.
Apologies for the sideways video, the filehost forces letterbox on their playback tool. You can download it to view it vertically if you need to, but I think you get the idea anyway.

Same issue here
I feel your pain bro. I had same issue. I have 2 gmail account linked generally . tried removing one, even then face the same issue. Moved to We want ICS ROM.

i have it sometimes, normally it helps to close the app with holding the back arrow (remember to activate this feature in rom control) and also kill it in your recent app (holding down your home button).
i even have this issue sometimes in the facebook app
give it a try, icecoldsandwich is a really amazing rom