Develop Bugs

Why can't Sense Roms control softkey backlights...

while cm7 and other AOSP roms can, either directly, in display brightness settings, or through apps (screen filter, Moon + reader etc)? The same apps don't work with the softkeys in sense.
Am currently on cm7, mainly because of the darn softkeys blinding me while reading or watching vids.
And is there a camera app for cm7 that does auto focus, like the HTC camera app? And how about internet pass-through?
It seems I need a combination of both types of Roms!

Have you tried the Miui Camera? I was using it with CM7. It's pretty nice, has Autofocus as well as Antishake.
It can be installed as a system app and replace the stock camera (rename the apk to camera, and place in the system app folder and change the permissions. or just install as a stand alone app. I chose to replace my stock camera.
If you have any issues, let me know.

Thanks!
I'll give this app a try!

Mine must be broken because they are hardly blinding.

shoman24v said:
Mine must be broken because they are hardly blinding.
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Must be!
I'm talking about reading with very low screen brightness at night.

PacerguyDon said:
Have you tried the Miui Camera? I was using it with CM7. It's pretty nice, has Autofocus as well as Antishake.
It can be installed as a system app and replace the stock camera (rename the apk to camera, and place in the system app folder and change the permissions. or just install as a stand alone app. I chose to replace my stock camera.
If you have any issues, let me know.
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I just installed it! First time I had a chance to use the barcode scanner.
Nice app! Is there a way to zoom in using video? And can I use the front camera with it? I haven't found an option for that, so far.

siskiou said:
I just installed it! First time I had a chance to use the barcode scanner.
Nice app! Is there a way to zoom in using video? And can I use the front camera with it? I haven't found an option for that, so far.
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I don't know of any way to zoom on the video.
I have the front facing camera option on the left hand side of the screen near the top. It has a camera with arrows around it. I'm not sure if it is on the version I linked though. I've switched back to the Miui rom and using the lastest version 1.9.9 which has the front facing camera option (works for both camera and video)... I can try and pull the apk and see what happens if I flash it to CM7 later...

Thanks! I would appreciate this very much!
PS: I'm still hoping someone can explain why there is no control over the softkey lights in sense roms.
For example, screen filter and Moon + reader can both turn them off using AOSP roms, but the same apps cannot in Sense roms.
Is this something that is easy to add and nobody else wants this function, or is there something in the sense roms making it hard to incorporate?

Tried flashing the camera from the latest Miui build (1.9.9) in CM 7... no luck, just force closes.
I'm sure there may be someone out there that knows what needs to be modded to make it work. I wish I did...
I'll enclose the apk if anyone wants to try to mess with it.

Thanks a million for trying, Don!

No problem. Good luck on the backlighting.
I enjoy being able to kill mine when reading books. It's a nice feature to have. Crazy that on the sense based roms that dimming the display doesn't effect the soft key back lighting like it does on the Aosp roms Crazy..

siskiou said:
Is there a way to zoom in using video? And can I use the front camera with it? I haven't found an option for that, so far.
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PacerguyDon said:
Tried flashing the camera from the latest Miui build (1.9.9) in CM 7... no luck, just force closes.
I'm sure there may be someone out there that knows what needs to be modded to make it work.
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The Fixed2 version doesn't have FFC support. There is also a TEST1 version which has enabled the FFC for some. The link in my signature will take you to the post about Fixed2 but it also links to TEST1. I'm currently working on the version from 1.9.2 so if you want to try it out, PM and I'll give you the download link. The only reason I'm not just posting for everybody right now is so people on various devices/roms give feedback about what needs fixed and tweaked.
As far as why we can't take the app right from MIUI and have it work is because it's dependent on pieces of the MIUI framework. Basically, to make it work the apk needs to be decoded and have some of the framework added to it. Would be a lot easier if MIUI was open source.

Android Camera 4.2 Freeze

Hey guys, I can't reply to the actual thread due to the fact that I have less than 10 post. Even though I've been a member since 2007 lol. Anyway just an observation, With the new Android Camera 4.2.zip from androidcentral I can do the photo sphere just fine, front facing camera works just fine, recording video front front camera and rear camera work fine but if I take a picture with rear camera it will snap the photo and lock up. I am running CM10 with the nightly from last night (Nov 2, 2010) is the date on it.

xhaloz said:
...new Android Camera 4.2. ... if I take a picture with rear camera it will snap the photo and lock up...
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Same here. On mine It was working for a while. Now, I can take one photo and then the camera freezes. Shortly before that happened I started seeing an error saying something about not being able to access the camera when I tried to run it. It was working for a while, now it's not. Tried rebooting a couple times. Tried using Titanium Backup Pro to "Freeze" the other camera/gallery apps. Did not seem to help.
I'm running: Galaxy S3 T999 (T-Mobile) with AOKP Jelly Bean Milestone 1.

Having similar problems on AOKP. It's still buggy so I would just re-flash rom and re-install google gallery to get old camera+gallery back. 4.2 will release to AOSP in about 10 days so just sit tight

Same problem here, it seems that it works for me if i disable the flash-led, but freeze with it or when it's set on "auto" (and a dark place)
PS. I'm running Galaxy S3 with Omega 31 with siyah kernel.

Were are you guys downloading it at?

Randomacts said:
Were are you guys downloading it at?
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here you are sir, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1965895

i got same problem on rooted stock

well
a reboot fixes it it appears that flash brakes it, so no flash for now

Workaround for this:
Change camera mode from Auto to any other mode. (Here I chose Active).
If you want Auto mode, make sure you tap screen first to focus the camera.
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xhaloz said:
Hey guys, I can't reply to the actual thread due to the fact that I have less than 10 post. Even though I've been a member since 2007 lol. Anyway just an observation, With the new Android Camera 4.2.zip from androidcentral I can do the photo sphere just fine, front facing camera works just fine, recording video front front camera and rear camera work fine but if I take a picture with rear camera it will snap the photo and lock up. I am running CM10 with the nightly from last night (Nov 2, 2010) is the date on it.
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I honestly dont know what u guys are talking about i got this 4.2 camera on miui,cm10 and aokp i have no problems what so ever

PhtiNIX said:
Same problem here, it seems that it works for me if i disable the flash-led, but freeze with it or when it's set on "auto" (and a dark place)
PS. I'm running Galaxy S3 with Omega 31
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Same issue for me. I'm running Galaxy S3 with Omega 34 srock kernel. It freezes only when using flash.

This is a known issue. The issue being the camera is designed for 4.2 and thus won't work properly on 4.1. Unfortunately, there's really nothing that can be done (aside from the workarounds already mentioned), believe me I've looked. Until we're on 4.2 (CM10.1, etc) the 4.2 camera just won't be fully functional.

working now
Guys, it works
just found an amazing workaround. when you need to use the flash - long press the shutter button. it will use the flash to focus, only when it shuts down the flash, release the press.

I have no issues using the 4.2 camera. I'm on stock jelly bean. Photosphere works and it doesn't freeze. *shrug* I googled 4.2Camera_t04.zip. works great.
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ConeyKiller said:
I have no issues using the 4.2 camera. I'm on stock jelly bean. Photosphere works and it doesn't freeze. *shrug* I googled 4.2Camera_t04.zip. works great.
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So you can take pictures in "Auto" mode without tapping the screen first and it doesn't crash? If so, you're the first person I've seen that doesn't have that problem.

Ya...I use it all the time. Only thing I dont like is it doesnt have the picture preview in the camera app anymore. Oh well.
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lior-k said:
Guys, it works
just found an amazing workaround. when you need to use the flash - long press the shutter button. it will use the flash to focus, only when it shuts down the flash, release the press.
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wonderful man! yeah it works that way. great finding.

Glad to here.
An update - I installed cm10.1 with the latest gapps. The camera now works great without any need for a workaround
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Problem with video camera in Xperia ION

hi i have a problem, when i use the camera of my cel in the places where there are Light of day/White light (example street, school), my cam and video cam works 100%, and takes nice photos, the problem is when i use my cam where there are warm light/ yellow light (example my house when i have turned on the light) the video cam has got lot of noise and i checked the isos, mensuration,focusing, and nothing, and the problem continues
I think that the problem appeared when sony upgraded my cel from 6.1.c.1.105 to 6.1.c.1.111, i dont know if this is the problem but i did not notice that the camera never has had noise in the version 6.1.c.1.105
Any Help?
Sry for my english, im translating via google translator

hey haha we meet again XD
using CWM flash this camera
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945470
it is far superior than any stock camera and any other camera availiable
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY please

424aca said:
hey haha we meet again XD
using CWM flash this camera
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945470
it is far superior than any stock camera and any other camera availiable
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY please
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Hi again, ty i gonna try it, i have 1 question, if i install that camera mod cyber shot and then i dont wanna use anymore that cam, can i uninstall it going to settings, aplications? and replace it for the original camera with titanium back up ?
tyty

Just make sure you have a backup before you flash it. If you don't like cyber then delete it and restore the stock one. Though as stated Cyber shot is a big step forward and once you get the settings correct it works great. The one thing I have noticed about the camera in general is the auto mode is not that great. Whyle cyber shot's superior auto is better I tend to use manual mode for crisper shots.

zackspeed said:
Just make sure you have a backup before you flash it. If you don't like cyber then delete it and restore the stock one. Though as stated Cyber shot is a big step forward and once you get the settings correct it works great. The one thing I have noticed about the camera in general is the auto mode is not that great. Whyle cyber shot's superior auto is better I tend to use manual mode for crisper shots.
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why should i do a flash with stock firmware if i dont wanna the cyber mod ? i cant delete it via settings>applications?

nvm i solved this, ty!

Sorry
hey infraa sorry i didnt respond xD i had my highschool sophmore finals xD mah bad haha and its good you solved it

Its a system app so you need root to delete it. I was just saying you could use Titanium Backup for the old one so you would have the option to replace it easily. Glad you got it working.

[MOD] Camera drivers | No JPEG compression - UPDATE Sense 5

I was playing with camera drivers on my ONEX+ and managed to remove JPEG compression and also some auto enhance algorithms that sometimes can destroy the quality in some details which u can see if you zoom in specific parts of picture.
I did few pics around my garden and pics go up to almost 6MB now.
Try it out and report back results
New HTC ONE Camera with GIF mode and Face smoothing options for Sense 5.
View attachment NEW_CAMERA_Sense5.zip
Mod with Compression disabled for Sense 5 android 4.2.2 roms!
HTC_ONEX_CAMERA_DRIVERS_MOD_Sense_5.zip
Mod with Compression disabled and Noise reduction Disabled.(Sense4+)
View attachment HTC_ONEX_CAMERA_DRIVERS_MOD.zip
Mod with Compression disabled and Noise reducion is Enabled.(Sense4+)
View attachment HTC_ONEX_PLUS_CAMERA_DRIVERS_MOD_NOISE_REDUCE_ON.zip
Restore original stock drivers.(Sense4+)
View attachment HTC_ONEX_PLUS_CAMERA_DRIVERS_RESTORE_ORIGINAL.zip

testing now. will report back.
EDIT: Can confirm this. Better images, larger file size, minimal amount of noise.
+1
EDIT 2: Using this on Blade rom, without extrim mod pack.
Will installing the mod pack change drivers or anything ? @ivicask Can you confirm this? Or provide a moded extrim camera which will cause no trobules ?
Thanks. And as always good work

Qwerty123 \m/ said:
testing now. will report back.
EDIT: Can confirm this. Better images, larger file size, minimal amount of noise.
+1
EDIT 2: Using this on Blade rom, without extrim mod pack.
Will installing the mod pack change drivers or anything ? @ivicask Can you confirm this? Or provide a moded extrim camera which will cause no trobules ?
Thanks. And as always good work
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This are stock Sense camera drivers with modification i did to them via hex editor.
It doesnt matter which camera app you use, this is direct modification to camera drivers, even if app you used before had "compression removed" it was not 100% true as libs where still limiting this and i unlocked it fully!
So it will work with any camera app
EDIT: I dont know what's extrim mod pack, but check inside of it if it contains the same libs as i provided in this zip.
EDIT2:I checked, that extrim mod pack only has Camera.apk, there no drivers included, so what i did is something different.

I'm gonna try it out on the latest ViperX and report back here. Thanks !

I still have no more than 3mb files. Any way to tell ifworking?
Can u also have the ability to unlock raw files?
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acidspider said:
I still have no more than 3mb files. Any way to tell ifworking?
Can u also have the ability to unlock raw files?
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Depends what are you taking a photo off, that 3mb file was 1.5 mb before, did you try taking a same photo before of same thing?
Also it may be limited by camera app you use if your not using camera mod that also has disabled compression.

Any chance to have it in htc butterfly?
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lthawker said:
Any chance to have it in htc butterfly?
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I think all code is hidden on Qualcomm, so you cant edit nothing except from source.

Cool do you get better pictures with this using stock camera app? Or we need to use modded app?

skynet77 said:
Cool do you get better pictures with this using stock camera app? Or we need to use modded app?
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Not sure, all Venom roms have moded stock app which allows setting Image encoding quality to 100%.
So try taking same picture with and without this moded drivers, if no change install camera mod, or some app from market which allows setting image quality (Like Camera JB+)

Thanks
I've just tried that, took one picture in my room, size 1,85MB, than installed your modded drivers, and took image again, same position, same object, but size is now 4,65MB ... so i guess it's working with stock app also

ivicask said:
I was playing with camera drivers on my ONEX+ and managed to remove JPEG compression and also some auto enhance algorithms that sometimes can destroy the quality in some details which u can see if you zoom in specific parts of picture.
I did few pics around my garden and as you can pics go up to almost 6MB now.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tixwhs3jpfx13fh/LgyeSxd7Wk
Note i haven't tested this on ONE X yet, only one ONEX+ but cameras are the same and i moded this based on latest base for ONE X (SENSE).
Try it out and report back results
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Ivicask maybe you can help me activate RAW mode of the stock camera ?
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tessut said:
Ivicask maybe you can help me activate RAW mode of the stock camera ?
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I think thats camera libs related, not camera, i did try to set compression to 0 (100 quality) but it ended up with inverted picture and all photos where just one big glitch.
Also dont think its good idea of getting RAW sensor data, libs fix alot of hardware imperfections, like dead pixels on camera which you may not even know you have, colors, saturation, brightness and so on, getting RAW data would produce alot of problems for many people.
But please tell me if u have more info than me and think im wrong .)

what is the difference between this and lyapota's mod?

carlowise said:
what is the difference between this and lyapota's mod?
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This one actually works
But seriously, reason i started working on this drivers because i notice my old HTC Sensation does better pictures than my ONEX+ and i was frustrated with this, and we are also using lyapota's camera mod on ONEX+ and i couldn't even notice difference until now.
Try and see your self.

ivicask said:
This one actually works
But seriously, reason i started working on this drivers because i notice my old HTC Sensation does better pictures than my ONEX+ and i was frustrated with this, and we are also using lyapota's camera mod on ONEX+ and i couldn't even notice difference until now.
Try and see your self.
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ur right I also niticed that in lyapotas's mod pictures are the same size without mod about 1.8 mb. also not all modes uses 100% quality like macro , portrait etc. even if mod works changing scene loses compression effect.
will try this, tnx
THIS WORKS!!!!!!
gr8 tnx

ivicask said:
I think thats camera libs related, not camera, i did try to set compression to 0 (100 quality) but it ended up with inverted picture and all photos where just one big glitch.
Also dont think its good idea of getting RAW sensor data, libs fix alot of hardware imperfections, like dead pixels on camera which you may not even know you have, colors, saturation, brightness and so on, getting RAW data would produce alot of problems for many people.
But please tell me if u have more info than me and think im wrong .)
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We or better say you (think that you know more in this specific) could test it if we/you can get it working. The Image sense chip of the HOX could use the raw mode without problems dead pixels you maybe are right its tippical for samsung camera modules but could you just try it would be the ultimate photographer feature
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Works great! Tnx
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Thanks. How about video recording, anything to improve that auto focus during recording..HTC cameras are disappointing even in the one.
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tessut said:
We or better say you (think that you know more in this specific) could test it if we/you can get it working. The Image sense chip of the HOX could use the raw mode without problems dead pixels you maybe are right its tippical for samsung camera modules but could you just try it would be the ultimate photographer feature
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No go, whatever i try i kills camera complete, what i done is best so far..
I can maybe change pictures format to any of this
jpeg,jfif,exif,yuv420p,yuv420sp
But not sure if that helps at all..
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Thanks. How about video recording, anything to improve that auto focus during recording..HTC cameras are disappointing even in the one.
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U got to understand im hacking closed source libs, i cant do miracles, and probable its hardware limitation and no change to software will ever fix it.

[Mod] CM11 (unofficial) Camera Mod -Max Quality

Created by : Jishnu Sur
Tested and working on this rom
V1.
1080P Video @ 20Mb/s
720P Video @ 20Mb/s
JPEG Quality 100%
High-Medium-Low quality = 100%
Auto ISO In camera will max out to 1200 instead of 1600 now. Switched off denoise! and switched on Touch Contrast..
Sound Recording quality Increased to 196000Kb/s.
Flash the zip below in recovery and enjoy!

Cool will try it.

To get the best quality, wouldn't it be best to take the values from a touchwiz rom? Am I wrong?
Using yours, the pictures look like this
and here is what it looks like using touchwiz default media_profiles.
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?96e4gkjhaqatbng

Im SUPER excited that there is some one working on this. I have never been impressed with the CM camera (stock or focal) and always wished it was on par with the TW camera.
That being said, I'll download this and give it a try soon.
Thanks!

Seems to work, didnt fix the green lines on ffc... Thanks OP!!

Master™ said:
To get the best quality, wouldn't it be best to take the values from a touchwiz rom? Am I wrong?
Using yours, the pictures look like this
and here is what it looks like using touchwiz default media_profiles.
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?96e4gkjhaqatbng
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The Touchwiz libs will not work on CM ROMs sir..

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The Touchwiz libs will not work on CM ROMs sir..
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I wasn't saying the libs, but the media_profile.
I know the libs wouldn't work.

Am I the only one that notices that the stock cm gallery is like 2 zoomed in even when is zoomed out all the way...... Even if you download an app from the market it doesn't show that is so zoomed in...... Couldn't this be what's messing up the quality of the pictures since is way 2 zoomed in even when you zoom it out as much as you can ????

Trev420 said:
Im SUPER excited that there is some one working on this. I have never been impressed with the CM camera (stock or focal) and always wished it was on par with the TW camera.
That being said, I'll download this and give it a try soon.
Thanks!
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Same here. . Only reason why I keep going back to TW roms cause of the camera. Whenever I use cm/aokp/etc, something always happens to where I have to use the camera and the quality isn't that good .

Master™ said:
I wasn't saying the libs, but the media_profile.
I know the libs wouldn't work.
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The media_profile.xml doesn't really do what you think it does. It's not what controls the quality of audio/video/photos.
That my friend, is done in the .apk or the kernel depending on the type of ROM. In AOSP, it's mostly kernel controlled vs TW which can be adjusted when you decompile the apk. I can take the TW camera up to 30Mbps on 1080p though it's pointless.
OP, why not take the audio bitrate to 320kbps? Would be much better and the phone can handle it. Also, what's the sampling rate? 44.1 or 48? Lastly, do the increased bitrates apply to both cameras or just the back camera?
If you need any help with this, PM me. I did a TW mod like this but would like to help in any way I can on this.

KCRic said:
The media_profile.xml doesn't really do what you think it does. It's not what controls the quality of audio/video/photos.
That my friend, is done in the .apk or the kernel depending on the type of ROM. In AOSP, it's mostly kernel controlled vs TW which can be adjusted when you decompile the apk. I can take the TW camera up to 30Mbps on 1080p though it's pointless.
OP, why not take the audio bitrate to 320kbps? Would be much better and the phone can handle it. Also, what's the sampling rate? 44.1 or 48? Lastly, do the increased bitrates apply to both cameras or just the back camera?
If you need any help with this, PM me. I did a TW mod like this but would like to help in any way I can on this.
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if you can make a better mod make it m8 ill add it to the op

haldi15 said:
if you can make a better mod make it m8 ill add it to the op
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I'll see what I can do. I suggest checking the quality of my work before adding it lol. I'm pretty drugged up at the moment :silly: almost 30 and just now got my tonsils removed.

Installed this in S4 for Sprint (jfltespr) and it worked like a charm. No more green lines on the front facing camera. Cheers.

passwords log file
How come there is a password logger file in side this zip?

Where do you see a password logger? I only see 2 .so files for the camera and the media_profile.xml ...
On my S4, the video camera does not work constant. In dark rooms, it still records with [email protected] and on bright szenes, it uses [email protected] with this patch. The only ROM where i got a constant 30 fps in all situations is the original one from Samsung.
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haldi15 said:
Flash the zip below in recovery and enjoy!
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does this work on other device like i9305 s3 lte on cm11? thanks

I can use this mod on kitkat 4.42? Thanks
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xda23 said:
I can use this mod on kitkat 4.42? Thanks
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CM11 is 4.4.2

can this work on s3?

not work on the CM of 08 september14
Stay on application launch after Wipe cache and Wipe dalvik cache
Sorry for my bad english...