I have a hard bricked (unfortunately) Xperia S which - everybody knows - has much better camera than our SP. And its not only resolution, but also quality.
I was wonder If I can change these two (of course when its similar tape to connect cameras, dont know yet how it looks in S)
Suppose, however that I can it connect without problems.
Dont know how much these two Qualcomms are different, so question is - if S's camera will work with Xperia SP's camera drivers. If I can get new, higher resolutions without changing system files, or I will have to change some files system files, in this case an which files I have to focus on.
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Hi,
Has anyone tried replacing a GT540 Camera with KF750's camera?
I disassembled GT540 yesterday to each part and figured that the number of pins for the camera is exactly the same as KF750's (5MP with high quality.... compared to GT540) even though I haven't checked the pin arrangements I am assuming they are the same. (I am assuming because camera from KP500 [cooky] has different pin numbers )
the size of the camera is little bigger than GT540's camera so it wouldn't fit in the board but I can probably mod the camera holder on the board and resize it as there are free spaces!!
has anyone tried this before?
Ok, Found that the pin arrangements are similar.
except.
Pin[5],[6],[15],[16] are used as data as well in addition to what GT540's 3MP camera is using.
and voltage in [34] = 2.8v [32] = 1.8v and where GT540's [34] is 2.7v, [32] = 1.2v
therefore, my confidence is reducing now.. if I am confident that replacing the camera would not break the board in GT540, I will try to replace it even it breaks the camera on KF750.
will do more research..
what about the software to use the 2 extra mp's?
Wheres the drivers?
Is the LG Secret an Android phone?
I think at the end of this you are going to have a trashed phone.
dont get me wrong, the research to get the pin outs and the voltages is good.
but like flyboyovick says, unless you got software for the right platform its not gonna work, and this is assuming the camera is an integrated device. are you sure none of the processing would be done by the main mobo of the phone, cos this would be device specific so changing camera hardware isnt gonna work cos f device id's (unless you wanna try and change the id in the firmware)
altough
if you know an experienced techhead with fine sodlering skills, some bloody good software skills to compile a driver for the camera hardware and a way to get it on the device. then you might be in with a chance
or
just get a 5mp android phone and save yourself a few weeks of time, head aches, solder burns and 2 dead phones.
good luck dude
Hi guys,
I got a new S3 LTE, and when trying the camera, I face issues with the camera, the S3 is built with a 8MP back camera but after checking using apps that provide hardware information, I have concluded that somehow the highest resolution I can use is 0.3MP (640*480), similarly for my front camera is at 1.3MP (1392*1392) (should be 1.9MP). Setting the resolution any higher than 0.3MP or 1.3MP in camera apps (the one in the stock rom and some other from the App Store) does not increase the resolution of the image captured. So right now I am figuring out if its a software issue (somehow I am unable to access the higher resolution) or if it is a hardware issue (somehow the phone came with camera sensors of such resolutions)
Just some background info: I have rooted the phone using Kingo root (and whatever kernel it may have rooted, I don't know too well and now I regret being lazy) and its running stock rom (4.3). Also, I don't remember if I faced this issue right from the start, so probably the phone might have arrived with lousier sensors (this is a second hand phone...so yeah), though the picture size values reported by the phone seem to suggest that higher resolutions are supported.
So basically, does anyone have any idea how I can go about troubleshooting this issue? The biggest issue I would want some help in is if the sensor is actually 8MP and not 0.3MP, and perhaps if that is the case I would appreciate if anyone can tell me how I can fix this issue? (Also if anyone has a backup of the stock kernel I would gladly have a try at restoring the original kernel to see if it fixes everything). Thanks.
Rear camera-hardware detected, yet black image. Camera "bus" malfunctioning?
Hi
Half a year ago my girlfriend accidentally gave my Z3 Compact a rollercoaster ride in our washing machine (full tour). The screen broke, but it could turn on and everything looked fine (gave no errors) when connecting to HDMI.
Yesterday I received a replacement LCD, which gave it a new life. It seems that everything works except for the rear camera. When opening any camera-app, the HUD is visible, but image is black, and no error. If i switch to front camera, which works, and back to the rear camera, it shows a freezed image of the last image from the front camera.
I checked some debug-apps to see if it detects the camera-module, and it does. If it's connected, alle the specs of the camera is listed, and if disconnected, the module is not listed.
I then got a broken Z3 Compact from a friend, and I tested both rear camera modules in both phones. The modules are working in his phone, both doing the same black screen in mine.
I tried hard reset, PC Companion-repair, updates, clearing camera cache etc., but with no luck.
Do you have any suggestion to how I can fix this?
Do you know where on the motherboard I could look for dirt in relation to some "rear camera bus/chip"?
Thank you for any help!
Edit: And isn't it amazing that this phone works to this extend after 2½ hours in 60 degrees celcius (140 fahrenheit) warm water with soap and 1400rpm? Wow! (Btw., all panels were open, and screen totally broken, so water must have been everywhere in the phone.)
I have a similar issue on my partners z3c after the screen cracked, I have replaced the screen and it works great however the camera shows a black screen. I know the camera module is working as I have tried it in another phone. Having searched for this issue I seen it has effected quite a few others not only those who have opened their phone.
what software you used to debug so I can verify that the phone can also see the camera module
This is happening to me too a year down the line of ownership.
Replaced with new camera from eBay still black screen. Between your experience and mine of both testing the camera we've prices it's not the lens, so what could it be.
Need to fix don't know what to do
The camera module itself may work but the chip which handles the rear camera may be damaged even if the phone works pretty good.
So if the chip or anything else related to the camera is dead, you can even try thousands of camera modules from different phones on YOUR phone, none of them will work.
That's my opinion - guy's who work in electronical industry for 3,5 years now and have seen hunderds of differend kinds of damages on different stuff.
I see what you are saying however it would be nice to have an idea of where any chip/bus is that may be damaged to see if it xan be fixed or is replaceable.
romcio47 said:
The camera module itself may work but the chip which handles the rear camera may be damaged even if the phone works pretty good.
So if the chip or anything else related to the camera is dead, you can even try thousands of camera modules from different phones on YOUR phone, none of them will work.
That's my opinion - guy's who work in electronical industry for 3,5 years now and have seen hunderds of differend kinds of damages on different stuff.
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zackariah said:
I see what you are saying however it would be nice to have an idea of where any chip/bus is that may be damaged to see if it xan be fixed or is replaceable.
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Yes, you are 100% right but there's another thing.
In the present times, in a rush of miniaturization, there's a little chance of such reapair to be profitable. The chip/bus may be damaged but in fact not only one thing may be dead... I'm talking about tiny little resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors (if there are any on the motherboard...) which are many. I'm not saying it won't be possible to repair the phone but without a proper diagnosis what is damaged... I'd be like looking for a needle in a haysack and everyone can tell you that only replacing the whole motherboard will be worth the time.
But still... this is an interesting case of malfunction... I hope you'll find a solution for this or at least someone else will do it for you for a reasonable price.
I am interested in a buying a 2nd all-arounder phone that mostly ticks all key boxes and found out that the XZ2 is almost there.
As it will be my first Sony I need your experience with the device to decide to buying it or get a different one:
1) are there any serious issues that affect the device, maybe design issues or bad experiences with the device? Maybe display, speakers, or other hardware stuff to concern me?
2) I am interested in root-ability o this phone. Is I saw that there is some development. for this phone and since I am sort of experienced in Custom ROM stuff, I want to know if there are specific rooting issues? Are the valid options for un-bricking it, just in case. Is there a big amount of bricked phones?
3) how's sony with the updates for this device for official firmware updates?
4) is Google Camera functional after rooting?
5) is the phone performance still holding good in late 2019?
I appreciate your responses in any form or shape!
catalindobre said:
I am interested in a buying a 2nd all-arounder phone that mostly ticks all key boxes and found out that the XZ2 is almost there.
As it will be my first Sony I need your experience with the device to decide to buying it or get a different one:
1) are there any serious issues that affect the device, maybe design issues or bad experiences with the device? Maybe display, speakers, or other hardware stuff to concern me?
2) I am interested in root-ability o this phone. Is I saw that there is some development. for this phone and since I am sort of experienced in Custom ROM stuff, I want to know if there are specific rooting issues? Are the valid options for un-bricking it, just in case. Is there a big amount of bricked phones?
3) how's sony with the updates for this device for official firmware updates?
4) is Google Camera functional after rooting?
5) is the phone performance still holding good in late 2019?
I appreciate your responses in any form or shape!
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I like my still fast XZ2 with OmniROM 9.0
catalindobre said:
I am interested in a buying a 2nd all-arounder phone that mostly ticks all key boxes and found out that the XZ2 is almost there.
As it will be my first Sony I need your experience with the device to decide to buying it or get a different one:
1) are there any serious issues that affect the device, maybe design issues or bad experiences with the device? Maybe display, speakers, or other hardware stuff to concern me?
2) I am interested in root-ability o this phone. Is I saw that there is some development. for this phone and since I am sort of experienced in Custom ROM stuff, I want to know if there are specific rooting issues? Are the valid options for un-bricking it, just in case. Is there a big amount of bricked phones?
3) how's sony with the updates for this device for official firmware updates?
4) is Google Camera functional after rooting?
5) is the phone performance still holding good in late 2019?
I appreciate your responses in any form or shape!
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1-some devices are affected from bad production including mine, ghosting on LCD below room temperature, horizontal static electric lines appearing after rubbing the screen, speakers may get temporary damage for no reason (can be fixed by opening the sim tray and pulling that paper in there and waiting a little) or can get permanently damaged if you overdrive them with something like xLoud easily, if you dont want a super slippery 200g heavy 1.1cm thick glass brick look somewhere else (buttons are jiggly too)
2-custom roms have problems with audio and camera and it'll take some time to get fixed and at the end there's the possibility of it not being better than stock camera (also typical sony drm stuff will be lost after unlocking the bootloader)
3-device getting regular security patches and will be updated to android 10 in early 2020 (keep your bootloader locked if you want OTA)
4-no, gcam requires full camera2api and raw support which isnt there on stock
5-performance is good probably due to having close to stock android
this is my first xperia and I'd not recommend this phone to anybody unless you are crazy about what is sony doing with their sony open devices project like the guy above martin
Faruk.ErdaL said:
1-some devices are affected from bad production including mine, ghosting on LCD below room temperature, horizontal static electric lines appearing after rubbing the screen, speakers may get temporary damage for no reason (can be fixed by opening the sim tray and pulling that paper in there and waiting a little) or can get permanently damaged if you overdrive them with something like xLoud easily, if you dont want a super slippery 200g heavy 1.1cm thick glass brick look somewhere else (buttons are jiggly too)
2-custom roms have problems with audio and camera and it'll take some time to get fixed and at the end there's the possibility of it not being better than stock camera (also typical sony drm stuff will be lost after unlocking the bootloader)
3-device getting regular security patches and will be updated to android 10 in early 2020 (keep your bootloader locked if you want OTA)
4-no, gcam requires full camera2api and raw support which isnt there on stock
5-performance is good probably due to having close to stock android
this is my first xperia and I'd not recommend this phone to anybody unless you are crazy about what is sony doing with their sony open devices project like the guy above martin
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I'm sorry to hear that you got a faulty unit.
Did you try to RMA it?
Because I never had such issues, except touch issues in Android 8, which got 90% fixed now (Sometimes while I super fast do swipes on the keyboard it may not recognize only a single swipe at the beginning of the writing).
Camera and Audio are work in progress on the custom roms based on sony open devices project.
SODP is an isolated sony employee team in the sony company + volunteers which need to implement everything by themselves without access to the stock source code (but with access to the closed source Qualcomm source code and documentations).
The camera doesn't degrade on unlock on your stock firmware, so you can freely continue using the stock firmware until the SODP camera reaches a equal or better quality.
(Since SODP supports the entire Camera2API with RAW and GCAM support to raise the quality it may become better than stock.)
And the performance is like stock on SODP.
My benchmark shows the same values like stock, too and you don't have bloat/stock apps preinstalled without the possibility to remove them without root.
PS: The SODP based custom roms are not affected by DRM, since they are a reimplementation of the hardware drivers, there isn't any usecase for DRM keys.
Hello,
So I have this rugged everything-proof ip68 standard android phone Doogee S55. It has not had any major impact or anything, just few casual drops on the ground (these should be nothing for such a smartphone, right?)
Anyway, out of sudden, I have noticed that the rear camera photo quality seriously deteriorated and it can not focus anymore, for example a picture of a passport has unreadable text which was perfect some time ago.
Also, you can see this random ticks on every photo shot by it. Please look at the attachment.
My question is (assuming it's real hardware damage and I cannot fix it at home)
whether it's possible to programmatically disable one of the dual rear cameras and only use a single one? (Hopefully just one camera is damaged)
Other ideas are welcome as well