I'm new to xda and I did see one other post with the same idea as me, but I want to post my own thread because I want it to offer more information that I found and because it's going to be my first post.
So I was wondering if there is a possibility that the Droid Incredible could have a front facing camera put in it. I've always wanted one, but I will never part with my Incredible. I'm currently running it rooted, and with Cyanogen Mod 7.
Question time!
Do I need a specific camera or can it be any front facing camera from a phone that has it?
What software would I need for my phone to work with it?
Thank you in advance for helping me out!
I know I've seen some hardware modifications to the Galaxy S models to add the front camera. Not sure if it would work on the Inc, but it's worth looking into it. I'll check around in a bit and try to find them and post back later.
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That would actually be really cool and another reason for me not to upgrade.
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This doesn't sound like an easy, if even possible project.
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You're probably right. But when has that ever stopped anyone here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770854
That's the thread for the GS FFC.
Thanks for everyone who responded so far! And yeah, I've seen the ones for the galaxy... They used a camera that was supposedly the same for in all versions of the phone and I saw that it even had a little space where the camera should be. I took apart my incredible and, depending on the size of the camera, it may fit.... Then of course I could follow the same instructions to make a hole for the camera to see out of.
Oh and I still would have to somehow connect it to the original camera, right? Or is there something more specifically it has to connect to... I also wonder if it's possible to replace the Incredible camera... So many ideas!
That sounds like more work than its worth
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Lazy8 said:
That sounds like more work than its worth
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that's exactly the kind of comment one would expect to see out of someone with your username
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that's exactly the kind of comment one would expect to see out of someone with your username
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HA! That's some funny ****!!!
This would be waaaay cool if it was easy/cheap enough for my skills/wallet.
I saw a thread with some code to make g+ think the rear camera is front facing. That might be more do-able than a hardware mod. I'll look afound for the link.
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ibeabrian said:
I saw a thread with some code to make g+ think the rear camera is front facing. That might be more do-able than a hardware mod. I'll look afound for the link.
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What? Can anyone translate?
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What? Can anyone translate?
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His saying that he saw a code tricking the Google + app thinking that the rear camera was a front. If that's what your asking
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if you don't mind the hassle of modifying your inc, maybe you should just sell it and get an incredible 2 instead...
Or quit being cheap and buy a phone with one.
The only problems here would be
#1 where to Søder the new connection
#2 Someone to code the drivers into the rom and make it recognize it (we're not a PnP computer)
As for the trick of making back camera as front is easy. I've used several ROMs that have that set in.
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You should look up "Vainworks"... it is a mirror stand that lets you use the rear camera like a front-facing one. I can't post a link, but you shouldn't have a problem finding it.
Haven't tried it, and it is a bit bulky, but maybe easier than open-phone surgery.
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I have a quick question guys. my wife has an epic and is annoyed by the camera shutter sounds, I have rooted it no problem and went into the /system/media folder and added .bak to the camera sounds thinking this would get rid of the sound. Nope. I searched the forums and the wiki and have not been able to find a solution.
Thanks in advance for the help, I will rape a thank box, I'm not scared
Only way I know of is to install a custom ROM with the sound removed. Though I'm not sure how the developers actually remove the sounds.
CleanGB perhaps.
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Only way I know of is to install a custom ROM with the sound removed. Though I'm not sure how the developers actually remove the sounds.
CleanGB perhaps.
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if im not mistaken its this way system/media/audio/ui/Camera click and camera focus.ogg by removing them???
Search apps subforum for silent camera. The silent camera.apk is there somewhere.
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Search apps subforum for silent camera. The silent camera.apk is there somewhere.
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that works too lol
Or if your on CM7 or 9 hold the volume button down when you are in the app. the only problem with that is if you close out of the app it resets back to normal sound. kind of annoying but it works.
Here's the one I use in my rom. It's enabled to work at any battery level. It still has the sounds, but it re-includes the silent which is set by default.
Please don't ask how to replace your current camera.apk with this one under /system/app.
This is for Gingerbread, any version should work.
Wow guys, thanks a lot. I will try that app out tonight. She is kinda leery of putting a ROM on, noob she is. She "likes"stock and doesn't want to loose all of her data. ;-) trying to explain does no good, lol.
Thanks again
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Wow guys, thanks a lot. I will try that app out tonight. She is kinda leery of putting a ROM on, noob she is. She "likes"stock and doesn't want to loose all of her data. ;-) trying to explain does no good, lol.
Thanks again
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Some friendly advice:
don't root or flash anyone else's phone - especially never your wife's or gf's.
She doesn't give a **** about this "cool" android stuff, and you'll be to blame for everything she doesn't like or that goes wrong. You said it yourself- She likes stock and explaining does no good.
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Some friendly advice:
don't root or flash anyone else's phone - especially never your wife's or gf's.
She doesn't give a **** about this "cool" android stuff, and you'll be to blame for everything she doesn't like or that goes wrong. You said it yourself- She likes stock and explaining does no good.
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I must be the exception to the rule my wife loved most of the roms I put on her phone. Then again been married 21 years I should know what she likes LOL. She just wants certain things to work. She hates stock!! She loves CM7 she liked CM9 but needed better battery life so she is on CM7.
And my GF is one of The People!
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And my GF is one of The People!
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Would of been shocked if she wasn't
mjben said:
Some friendly advice:
don't root or flash anyone else's phone - especially never your wife's or gf's.
She doesn't give a **** about this "cool" android stuff, and you'll be to blame for everything she doesn't like or that goes wrong. You said it yourself- She likes stock and explaining does no good.
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I must be the exception to the rule my wife loved most of the roms I put on her phone. Then again been married 21 years I should know what she likes LOL. She just wants certain things to work. She hates stock!! She loves CM7 she liked CM9 but needed better battery life so she is on CM7.
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You're both right. New and neat features are new and neat to most people!
But... You're on the hook for service when something goes wrong. You know, if that wasn't always the case anyway!
RandomKing said:
You're both right. New and neat features are new and neat to most people!
But... You're on the hook for service when something goes wrong. You know, if that wasn't always the case anyway!
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Trust me when I say I don't put a rom on hers till I have run it for several weeks. I had her on bonsai for the longest time. I think that was her first rom
I know how you guys feel, I'm the chief tech person for my whole extended in law family. There are 3 nook colors, 1 book tablet, 4 Android phones, and 4-5 computers that if something happens I get a phone call. and I'm not even that skilled, just find what I need on great sites like this, I READ everything before I try it, and try to logically troubleshoot stuff. My wife is fairly understanding with stuff but when it doesn't work, it's a big deal. She wanted hey phone rooted to get rid of all the bloat. She was running out of memory and her phone was rebooting every couple of hours
Thanks again, just got home from work and going to check out what you guys suggested in a bit. I'll let you know what works.
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RandomKing said:
Here's the one I use in my rom. It's enabled to work at any battery level. It still has the sounds, but it re-includes the silent which is set by default.
Please don't ask how to replace your current camera.apk with this one under /system/app.
This is for Gingerbread, any version should work.
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This worked perfect. Thank you very much
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This worked perfect. Thank you very much
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Glad it worked. Please mark the thread Solved for others.
Hello my xda brothers. I just recently watched a hands on preview for the galaxy note 2 and saw a pretty cool feature; Screen recorder! The feature lets you record audio and video of whatever screen your on and then send it as a MMS! The S3 doesnt have that feature to my knowledge and I know it MAY be apps that allow it to be possible, but I was wondering if there may be someway to create it and mod it to be a feature within a rom? I'm no developer by any means, so excuse my "Noob-nish"
Video link for better idea of what im talking about. Jump to 06:27 in video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcgZum8M1o
It certainly should be possible! Ill have to look at that when I get home! Thanks for the heads up. I saw something similar but it only took many stills and tried to make it easy to put them together for a video screenshot of sorts. Not worth the effort to me.
Though I doubt I'd be sble yo make it work, Id love to try. And there are some absolute geniuses here so im sure itll happen at some point anyway.
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Ask a dev in the galaxy note 2 forum to pull it if possoble
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Ask a dev in the galaxy note 2 forum to pull it if possoble
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I dont believe there is a forum yet for the note 2, the device wasn't officially released yet. But that is a great idea, I wonder if the note 1 has this feature and it can be "ported over" (dont know if thats the right term tho. LOL)
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It certainly should be possible! Ill have to look at that when I get home! Thanks for the heads up. I saw something similar but it only took many stills and tried to make it easy to put them together for a video screenshot of sorts. Not worth the effort to me.
Though I doubt I'd be sble yo make it work, Id love to try. And there are some absolute geniuses here so im sure itll happen at some point anyway.
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Thank you!! I thought that feature was so cool. The note 2 and S3 will be pretty much distant cousins, so even if It's not possible yet, Im pretty sure some one will cook something up once the device is released in October. If you come up with something, PM me. I will test if needed!!
I've been using this app for a long time.. works on many phones. Need to be rooted of course
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ms.screencast&hl=en
I've noticed other forums w/ dedicated threads for all the random questions that people can come up with and rather than more new threads we can use this one thread and hopefully get the help we need. No worries about flaming in this thread as all questions/suggestions/answers are welcome here w/ one exception: rooting. There are plenty of threads on rooting and by using the Search function you can find your answer, I'm sure.
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I've noticed other forums w/ dedicated threads for all the random questions that people can come up with and rather than more new threads we can use this one thread and hopefully get the help we need. No worries about flaming in this thread as all questions/suggestions/answers are welcome here w/ one exception: rooting. There are plenty of threads on rooting and by using the Search function you can find your answer, I'm sure.
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What is this magical thing you called the "Search function?" I don't see that button on my keyboard.
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What is this magical thing you called the "Search function?" I don't see that button on my keyboard.
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Alt+F4
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X0dus said:
I've noticed other forums w/ dedicated threads for all the random questions that people can come up with and rather than more new threads we can use this one thread and hopefully get the help we need. No worries about flaming in this thread as all questions/suggestions/answers are welcome here
(w/ one exception: rooting. There are plenty of threads on rooting and by using the Search function you can find your answer, I'm sure.
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This made me laugh out loud, literally.
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Hutch89 said:
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This made me laugh out loud, literally.
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b/c..i created an off topic thread or the rooting part?
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b/c..i created an off topic thread or the rooting part?
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How's this for off-topic?
What would be some reasons I get segmentation faults, malformed archive errors, etc when it gets to libwebcore.so, yet I can "make -j8 libwebcore" with a clean output dir and it builds fine.
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b/c..i created an off topic thread or the rooting part?
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The rooting part
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So lets see if you can answer this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UefG-z65iPI
Jitter issue I'm having, can't seem to get rid of it. Any solutions? This happens all the time when you rest your finger on the screen. Vertical and horizontal. Its as if the screen can't decide where my finger is resting so it moves in a small pixel range. At least that's what I think. I just want a fix. Running utacka pa and lightning zap. Had this issue throughout the last year. Can't fing stand it.
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So lets see if you can answer this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UefG-z65iPI
Jitter issue I'm having, can't seem to get rid of it. Any solutions? This happens all the time when you rest your finger on the screen. Vertical and horizontal. Its as if the screen can't decide where my finger is resting so it moves in a small pixel range. At least that's what I think. I just want a fix. Running utacka pa and lightning zap. Had this issue throughout the last year. Can't fing stand it.
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Holy crap yours is pretty bad. I had that happen a few weeks back; only did it when I was charging though. I couldn't even long-press on the home screen to change a wallpaper, it would just start jitter back and forth just enough for it to try to switch pages, but not enough to where it would actually change them. It was so bad that I couldn't even text if it was plugged in. Only thing I could think of at the time was that it was the fact that my digitizer was cracked; but because it went away before I could change the glass, I decided that wasn't it. As far as fixing it... mine did it for about a week and then just randomly quit doing it.
Ya, I can't find anyway to fix this. It has happened as long as I can remember, but not when I first got the phone. I feel like it's something software related, because hardware wise the phone has never had an issue, as far as I can tell/know.
If anyone can help PLEASE!!! do so.
Eternal gratitude is your prize =)
What CM are you on ?
Was running CM10, it happens, the daily builds. Running paranoidandroid Utacka build, still happens. I run Miui port, still happens. No idea =(
Could this be a hardware issue? It's past a year since manufacturer warranty, so i guess im screwed.
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So lets see if you can answer this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UefG-z65iPI
Jitter issue I'm having, can't seem to get rid of it. Any solutions? This happens all the time when you rest your finger on the screen. Vertical and horizontal. Its as if the screen can't decide where my finger is resting so it moves in a small pixel range. At least that's what I think. I just want a fix. Running utacka pa and lightning zap. Had this issue throughout the last year. Can't fing stand it.
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I have the same problem as you, I don't know when exactly started doing this :/
Have you tried flashing a stock rom or unbricking. I seem to remember having this issue way back and fixing it. I'm also thinking using lg software updater could have fixed it...its been a really long time I just can't remember
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Is the XDA app worth a buck ?
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notzippy said:
Is the XDA app worth a buck ?
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I honestly don't do anything extra that I couldn't do with the free version, but meh. Why not support XDA, ya know? It's just a double-cheeseburger from McDonalds...
Haven't had mcd's for over 10 years... but I'll support xda
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Has anyone else received a letter from AT&T regarding tethering while not on a tethering plan? I fired it up once or twice last month for like 10 minutes; received a notification in the mail yesterday telling me that unless I contacted customer service they would automatically change my plan to a 5GB/month tethering plan for like $50. I received a "good stern talking to" and was sent on my way with no plan changes, but if I do it again, they will automatically change it and my unlimited data plan will be gone for good.
I do believe I'll be pushing the "unlimited" part as far as I can again. Time to fire Netflix back up and just let it play for no reason at all. Anyone have any other heavily data-intensive apps to recommend?
I'm looking for a good app to hide apps I been looking for a while now can't find anything I'm running cw 10.01 I believe still new to the rooting process
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Anyone happen to have a mirror for Full Throttle 8.4 they can share?
I am currently on the newest release of Root Box. Included in the update is the HDR feature. Anybody know ways to take pictures very still? Lol I twitch a little bit and the entire picture comes out blurry. Any tips would help if not I guess I'll check out some HDR apps.
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LMAO, I have the same problem so I just set the phone on a table and held it there and got one steady, unfortunately I don't enough of a difference between it or a regular shot. I think it is more of an outside thing.... I'll try later when the coffee wears off haha.
Lmao. Yeah it sucks! I might try out some apps but seems like all the good ones you have to pay for.
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Well if you find anything post em up for us to use. Might want to check out the Picture Thread here in the forums, some people post some amazing shots and share what they used. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809547
Hello there,
is there a way to port the camera app onto the Nexus 4?
If yes, could anyone spend a few minutes to port it?
Thanks for answer and have a nice day
DonPanda said:
Hello there,
is there a way to port the camera app onto the Nexus 4?
If yes, could anyone spend a few minutes to port it?
Thanks for answer and have a nice day
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Pretty sure that the camera is dependant on the framework just doing see this happening
And it would take more than a few minutes to port lol
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CheesyNutz said:
Pretty sure that the camera is dependant on the framework just doing see this happening
And it would take more than a few minutes to port lol
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In addition the One series usually have a dedicated chip for the camera, if ignoring the 'ultrapixel' sensor.
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In addition the One series usually have a dedicated chip for the camera, if ignoring the 'ultrapixel' sensor.
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yep this is very true
it would be cool just to have at least the look of it, I dont care about slow motion or whatever feature has ( becouse i think its impossible to port ).
You have a better chance winning the lottery, here, play 32713.
Ace42 said:
You have a better chance winning the lottery, here, play 32713.
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I've already won in lottery - around 12 bugs.
Try the camera from the Optimus G