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unlimited 3gp video recordeing - registery hack

I was messing with my jam today... and I got it to record in 3gp format to unlimited time or size
Do the following:
with any Registery Editor go to the Following Path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE\HTC\camera\AppDefSettings\P3
then u should see a DWord Value called "EnableLimit"
change it from 1 to 0
now Soft Reset and Bingoo
Hope u like this tweek :wink:

thanks for the info.. i'll give it a try now
i thought there wasn't a timelimit on recording! the only limit is the size of the SD card that u record to!

there is no time limit for video recording
But if u want to capture video in 3gp format, u have to use MMS video... and this one is limited to 95 KB only.....
so u can capture 4-5 sec in 3gp
this hack disables the size limit
Greetings 8)

latest mms composer v2.0.0.13 sets 3gp record limit to 300kb. quiete resonable to send videos long about 32seconds.
Nice reg tweak.

thanks for the info duke..... keep up the good work

Does anyone know why my Magician changes to landscape mode if I set my camera to capture in 3gp format (H.263)? If it is set to Mpeg 4 there's no problem.

I have experienced the same thing. Obviously it's a huge bug, that has yet to be fixed after several ROM updates...

This hack has been included in version 3.8.0 of Tweaks2K2 .NET

Video playback problem (not that it's slow). Garbled screen.

So it seems that I'm unable to play back any video format besides WMV.
WMV's play back fine while other formats (e.g. xvid, divx) do not play back at all. Coreplayer crashes to today screen or shows me a green garbled screen with vertical lines.
WMP just freezes and does nothing.
Is this a known issue (I didn't find anything using search)?
Any format of audio plays back perfectly fine (as long as it is not embedded in a video).

I had this, you need to change the Video driver to Raw frame buffer and all will be well. I use TCPMP and this was what I had to do for it to work.

findus said:
I had this, you need to change the Video driver to Raw frame buffer and all will be well. I use TCPMP and this was what I had to do for it to work.
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I had done this at first initially too, but simdeo (fellow member) suggested Imageon setting, but NOT Imageon Hardware decoder. This has massively improved speed and visual quality, but you will get intermittent lines across the interface, but not in full screen mode. Settings should be:
TCPMP:
Video Driver = ATI IMAGEON
Buffering = Microdrive (ticked)
Advanced = Tick only: D-Pad, Use System Vol, Benchmark (none od these settings affect performance, just my preference - but selecting other options may adversly affect performance)
Direct Draw = YV12 and tick 'Overlay with colorkey' only.
That's it. Best performance to date and can play torrent or own DVD rips perfectly, providing they were not encoded as high as 640x480.

I'm having the same problems but cannot for the life of me find any settings on Coreplayer that will let me change the buffer settings or the driver.
I'm sure I'm missing something here.
Coreplayer version =1.0.4 build 716
It's the latest version afaik.
Adey
Ok, I found the settings in Coreplayer (yeah, I know, should have looked harder..) and all is now well.

Ok, so I've got really decent playback from standard 350mb XVid TV programs but I'm still having what appear to be buffering problems.
Does anyone know what the ideal buffer settings are?
Adey

I have found that overclocking the CPU yields in much better playback (although not perfect).
If I want to view a 640x480 video I run the CPU at 728 Mhz (what program would allow higher?), but still the fps is not up to par. I would say the playback is around 90-95%.

Calavaro said:
I have found that overclocking the CPU yields in much better playback (although not perfect).
If I want to view a 640x480 video I run the CPU at 728 Mhz (what program would allow higher?), but still the fps is not up to par. I would say the playback is around 90-95%.
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Hi Calavaro. What app are you using to o/c the CPU? & exactly what settings do you use? Oh and lastly what's the power consumtion like if left on 728 Mhz all the time?
Cheers.

mackaby007 said:
Hi Calavaro. What app are you using to o/c the CPU? & exactly what settings do you use? Oh and lastly what's the power consumtion like if left on 728 Mhz all the time?
Cheers.
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we use PHM to overclock our device, if you set to 728 and push mail and bluetooth all the time, you won't last for whole day, maybe just about 7 hours. But really you don't need your device on 728 all the time, and personally i think 728 is a bit unstable, so i use 662 when my device is on, otherwise 228 the rest of the time to save battery.
You MUST disable the internal scale from the PHM setting, otherwise it won't work

wu5262 said:
we use PHM to overclock our device, if you set to 728 and push mail and bluetooth all the time, you won't last for whole day, maybe just about 7 hours. But really you don't need your device on 728 all the time, and personally i think 728 is a bit unstable, so i use 662 when my device is on, otherwise 228 the rest of the time to save battery.
You MUST disable the internal scale from the PHM setting, otherwise it won't work
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Thanks for that Wu. What version of PHM are you using?

mackaby007 said:
Thanks for that Wu. What version of PHM are you using?
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latest version from the website

wu5262 said:
latest version from the website
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Cheers mate. Got it now. Latest version 4.13 is found here:
http://www.wizcode.com/downloads

mackaby007 said:
Cheers mate. Got it now. Latest version 4.13 is found here:
http://www.wizcode.com/downloads
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btw, mine one says 4.14 for some reason, and i can't remember where i get it from....

findus said:
I had this, you need to change the Video driver to Raw frame buffer and all will be well. I use TCPMP and this was what I had to do for it to work.
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just wanted to say thanks for this thread. was going nuts with the same problem re: vertical lines, pink screen, etc. almost made a post to ask you guys what kind of parameters or settings you used for your video players. i use core and i confirm that the "raw frame buffer" works well.
cheers

About TCPMP with the best settings applied as mentioned in this thread, is there something else we can do to further improve the playback quality?
I have some clips that feature "fast moving action" e.g. action scenes in movies. These clips will actually play, but when the "fast moving action" is there, you can see that it isn't going really that smooth/fast enough, resulting in noticeable, fast upcoming blocks/lines when you look closely. I'm not sure how to describe this effect best, but I guess pretty much everyone knows what I mean here.
Thanks!!

JayRayMee.NL said:
About TCPMP with the best settings applied as mentioned in this thread, is there something else we can do to further improve the playback quality?
I have some clips that feature "fast moving action" e.g. action scenes in movies. These clips will actually play, but when the "fast moving action" is there, you can see that it isn't going really that smooth/fast enough, resulting in noticeable, fast upcoming blocks/lines when you look closely. I'm not sure how to describe this effect best, but I guess pretty much everyone knows what I mean here.
Thanks!!
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Hi.
Try playing any 3 minute segment of the video you have then click on File/Media Info and check the resolution of your video. If its below 640x480, then the problem is most likely a low bit rate used to encode the video, hence the pixelated blocks in high speed.
You can get away with less, but I encode now only at 480x320 @850kbps and get superb results each time...DVD quality and High definition quality too when I encode from HD source.
Can't say anymore than that. Click on my name and look through my posts, there will be a recent one entitled something like 'Excellent playback via Coreplayer & TCPMP'. This should help a bit if you have the time to read.

Large & CIF Camera Video resolutions hack

HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P2\MainCamSupportCapSize = dword:0x0A (10)
change to dword:0x3A (58) and you will have Large & CIF resolutions.
Dmitry

can u explain better how to do it because when i go in i cant change the dword value and its # is 10 for me

bwxd said:
can u explain better how to do it because when i go in i cant change the dword value and its # is 10 for me
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Use any registry editor (like Resco Registry Editor or PHM Registry editor) and going to the HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P2\MainCamSupportCapSize . Default value is 10 decimal (0xA hex). Change value to 58 decimal (0x3A hex).

I modified the registry for these values and it does seem to increase the quality but not the image size of the pictures or video.

f00dl3 said:
I modified the registry for these values and it does seem to increase the quality but not the image size of the pictures or video.
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After registry patch the L & CIF resolutions will be available in video camera mode. Try to click on resolution icon on top bar or select it in options.

the new resolutions are
L = 320x240
CIF = 352x288
which are much better than
S = 128x96
M = 176x144
thanks for the info

i made the edit and it enabled the two resolutions in the options, but when i actually tried to take a video with those settings (either large or CIF) it came out as the same low resolution it normally does, but the video quality is even worse (very choppy). is there a way to get around this?

hamstarz said:
i made the edit and it enabled the two resolutions in the options, but when i actually tried to take a video with those settings (either large or CIF) it came out as the same low resolution it normally does, but the video quality is even worse (very choppy). is there a way to get around this?
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No problem. HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\Bitrate
default value 128000. I chaged it to 1024000 and now video quality is better.

hey, thanks for the reply...did what you said, and picture quality is better, but video is still very choppy and still much below the framerate id get while recording in medium. id be happy if I can just get it up to 15 frames per sec at this quality.

MJPEG @ 15FPS seems to be the sweet spot with Dmitri's tweak
Thanks for this tweak Dmitry! After spending few hours testing various settings, I found that using MJPEG @ 15 FPS got me the best results in both visual quality and framerate consistency (FPS for MJPEG can be set under Recparam\AVILarge although 15FPS is the default, if I recall right). Anything higher than 15-20 FPS with high motion videos will result in erratic captures.
Note also that you'll want a fat MicroSD card to store MJPEG videos as these can become large fairly quickly.

This is an amazing reg tweak, i knew it was a matter of time before this leaked out. This camera is more powerful than whats let on and i know it
Now if only we can get some frame rate tweaks in here that work

Well I actually got the frame rate to not be so choppy by just changing HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\FrameRate to 5 Hell you may even be able to go lower. Because that's all I kept doin an it just seemed to get better each time I lowered it.

Changing the framerate to 5FPS for Mpeg4 yields horrible playback results. It's not even worth taking videos with the setting at 5 because of the slow, jerky movements.
--James

xtreme929 said:
Well I actually got the frame rate to not be so choppy by just changing HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Recparam\MP4Large\FrameRate to 5 Hell you may even be able to go lower. Because that's all I kept doin an it just seemed to get better each time I lowered it.
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5 frames per second? That is REALLY choppy, maybe you meant 15?

i've done some testing and it seems like mpg4 just uses too much processing power to do the compression and that motion jpeg (AVI) at 15fps yields pretty good results. will try and do some more testing and report back.

robbyroy;1548515 said:
i've done some testing and it seems like mpg4 just uses too much processing power to do the compression and that motion jpeg (AVI) at 15fps yields pretty good results. will try and do some more testing and report back.
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my only problem with using motion jpg is that audio stream format doesnt work with tcpmp, so all my beautiful movie automaticly become silent films out side pocket media player

help
I messup. I changed the maincamsupportcaptsize and dont remeber the org setting. the 2nd problem is that i could not add change to dword:0x3A (58) it would only let me change from 8 to 58 but not the 0X3a?

Not sure if changing this messed up my MMS but I haven't changed any other feature. Right now after doing this hack, my MMS won't send out, giving me an error that says my image size of 16k or whatever is over the 0k limit?

Reseting to default
thanks for the info but I have tried that reg hack and it will stay at 58 until i launch the camera/camcorder function then i go back in and it is back at 10. don't know if i need to soft reset before i launch cam? any help would be a appreciated.

phatstud said:
Not sure if changing this messed up my MMS but I haven't changed any other feature. Right now after doing this hack, my MMS won't send out, giving me an error that says my image size of 16k or whatever is over the 0k limit?
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Same thing happened to me. Just uninstall your mms and re install it. It will work.

Smooth video viewing possible? (h2.64)

Heya folks, i am wondering if it is possible on TCPMP to view a hi res video smoothly, i first got the H2.64 format invalid error but shortly after fixed that with the TCPMP ffmpeg addon but now the video i want to watch doesnt run smoothly,
anyone have any ideas how to set it up and if so if they are willing to provide the presets
Cheers everyone
exemike
Sorry title error, i meant to say H.264 =)

OK
MAKE AN OVERCLOCK! TO 260MHZ With Batterystatus or Omapclockplus

i dont think that will work, i tried a h.264 video on my exe aswell and it was just as slow.
maybe i need to convert the video

exemike said:
maybe i need to convert the video
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That's exactly what you should do.
I use a nice freeware conversion tool for WinXP called SUPER, which converts videos to a specific compression of AVI that's optimized for Pocket PC. Just select "AVI (for Pocket PC)" as the output container, and bob's your uncle. Works great: is formatted to fit the screen correctly, and goes into full screen mode flawlessly. You can even strip the audio tracks from strictly visual media (your p*rn, for example...)
Now, sure, you're going to lose some resolution, but you had to know that was going to happen anyways viewing it on a 320x240px screen, right?
Download SUPER

YES
Myrddin Wyllt said:
That's exactly what you should do.
I use a nice freeware conversion tool for WinXP called SUPER, which converts videos to a specific compression of AVI that's optimized for Pocket PC. Just select "AVI (for Pocket PC)" as the output container, and bob's your uncle. Works great: is formatted to fit the screen correctly, and goes into full screen mode flawlessly. You can even strip the audio tracks from strictly visual media (your p*rn, for example...)
Now, sure, you're going to lose some resolution, but you had to know that was going to happen anyways viewing it on a 320x240px screen, right?
Download SUPER
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Yep the super converter is SUUUUPER!!!! i use it too... and can recomend to you the AVI format our devices can view smothly without overclock a video at lest 230 mbps.

thank you very much guys, I really am enjoying this wizard very much and having it play videos just makes it so much better
now I just have to read the big book on how to upgrade to wm6
thanks again guys,
exemike

Youre welcome men
Be sure to read evrything!!!! and ask somuch more ok?
Its our pleassure to give you the needed info about what you will do.

hehe thanks q will bear that in mind and be sure that I will have lots of questions, after all like I said for a device growing in age it really is brilliant.

The Guide
Well people you have all read the threads so i thought i would translate everything to one simple guide.
First of all, this should hopefully work for most Htc's out there (from what i've read and understand anyway)
Second First of all
You should download the program (Freeware) TCPMP, which can be downloaded at the provided link.
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/
Personally i downloaded the 0.72RC1 but any of the versions should work farely well.
Secondly you should take the time to download some of the additional plugins for the player, commonly for the program we will be using, the ffmpeg plugin i think is suggested but also the avc and aac video and audio codecs from another site i have provided.
Aditional Plugins
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
This is the AVC and AAC codecs, commonly used for H.264 videos, although the wizard struggles with really high quality videos sometimes may be worth overclocking to get the performance you want
http://www.box.net/public/gk97uv7x1o
Addons worth having for sure though
Next you will need to download a program, yes another magnificent piece of freeware known as Super
http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
When the installation is complete, run it, install it, and open it up, from there
When you run the program for the first time, one main menu will setup, the base of the program, now im sure on first sight its like lots of new buttons to press, well its not really that, all you need to do is set where you see (1) and the formats for the output container, just selec avi for Pocket pc, immediately, pocket pc res and settings are loaded.
The settings i am using for my MDA Vario (HTC Wizard) are 320:240 video scale, 4:3 aspect, 25fps, a bitrate of 128 and hi quality + 48k audio for the video options,
for audio i am using a frequency of 22050, 2 channel, 48kbps bitrate and default dvd language select.
further towards the bottom of super you will see what looks to be an input box, anywhere within the white area right click and select add media, add your video (any video you like) and hit ok, the file should input itself, and there should be a checkbox under the active colum, tick it and then further down the program hit encode, wallah, your video should encode perfectly for your wizard, heck you can try other presets to differ your performance.
Open the vid in TCPMP and it should happily play.
For youtube videos etc, there are altho online + downloadable programs to convert to different programs for youtube directly.
http://www.vixy.net/
This is the program with the installable converter, it is freeware but expires every so many months, but its always put back up for download again, dont know why they do that really but it is a good program.
Another program which is reliable online and has lots of options is
http://mediaconverter.org/
Hope this guide helps newcommers someone.
Thanks to Q and Myrd for the information =)

Sweet
I use Lathe 1.5, been using it for almost 2yrs
Works great

exemike said:
The settings i am using for my MDA Vario (HTC Wizard) are 320:240 video scale, 4:3 aspect, 25fps, a bitrate of 128 and hi quality + 48k audio for the video options,
for audio i am using a frequency of 22050, 2 channel, 48kbps bitrate and default dvd language select.
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One more thing would help me pretty much. Could you add which video (h.264 / h.263 / h.262 / xvid / mpeg4 / msmpeg4 / ...) and audio (mp3 / aac / wma / ...) codecs you're using?

[TIP] Good video/sound quality mp4 recording

Because i'm using CM7 and it's recording quality is very ****ty, now looking at the source i found one file in system/etc/media_profiles.xml
here you can set YOUR values of quality! I've attached file with in my opinion very optimal configuration of good quality video/audio recording settings.
If you want to also change low quality settings - you're welcome.
So just overwrite old file with new one You can use my settings or change to yours.
This also reduces your file size to half of 3gp (current profile) size! Cool.
NOTE: MIUI users also maybe oxygen already have mp4 recording config.
PS: unzip file

Just tried, didn't see any big diference except the output to m4v.
Is there a way to change the fps from 7-8 ( mine at least) to something like 25 ??
EDIT: But is has much better sound quality (5Kbps @3gp vs [email protected])

RaNd.gr said:
Just tried, didn't see any big diference except the output to m4v.
Is there a way to change the fps from 7-8 ( mine at least) to something like 25 ??
EDIT: But is has much better sound quality (5Kbps @3gp vs [email protected])
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Cause video quality is most depending on sensor and lenses, then bitrate...because this phone has cheapest sensor and no lenses so the quality can not be improved very major.. but the main purpose of this is to allow people to change parameters, i don't need 6Mb/s bitrate, it's stupid, 3mb/s is the best. Also i dropped frames to 23/s and do not use full hd.
And audio is superb 96kbs and 32 Khz, you can change this to even 320Kbs and 96Khz but there is no need

try to increase the photo encoding atleast by 10%
default
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />
<ImageEncoding quality="80" />
<ImageEncoding quality="70" />
improved
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />
<ImageEncoding quality="80" />
it'l improve quality

well done can u upload a movie recorded with that to people see the diference?

anjo88 said:
well done can u upload a movie recorded with that to people see the diference?
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all included recorders in rom supports this.
The quality will not be better because sensor is ****, what i meant by saying quality -is that you can adjust it by your needs. I don't use 720x1280 resolution i don't need it, it's stupid because phone do not support it anyway, i use 720x480. Cause then it will record better fps and less size. Also you can adjust audio to be near perfect. That's what i mean by quality. You cant make **** to be and pie just because you put some sugar on it

Just flashed the newest CM7 with latest Franco kernel (24 Sept) and looks much better.
Resolution 1280x720, 30FPS, audio 8000Hz with 96Kbps with stock app.

RaNd.gr said:
Just flashed the newest CM7 with latest Franco kernel (24 Sept) and looks much better.
Resolution 1280x720, 30FPS, audio 8000Hz with 96Kbps with stock app.
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could you do a movie and put it here to see
thanks

RaNd.gr said:
Just flashed the newest CM7 with latest Franco kernel (24 Sept) and looks much better.
Resolution 1280x720, 30FPS, audio 8000Hz with 96Kbps with stock app.
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Ι m curious too.. I want to see the result.
Greek: Για ανεβασε ενα βιντεακι φιλε, να δουμε κ εμεις αποτελεσμα.

It's just what i could record with some movement outside my workplace
It's some points that the video freezes and i assume its cause of the sync it was doing at that time.
https://rapidshare.com/files/3065924380/VID_20110928_145804.m4v

RaNd.gr said:
It's just what i could record with some movement outside my workplace
It's some points that the video freezes and i assume its cause of the sync it was doing at that time.
https://rapidshare.com/files/3065924380/VID_20110928_145804.m4v
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Looks nice & smooth.Will try ASAP.
But seems to be @20fps on media properties.

RaNd.gr said:
It's just what i could record with some movement outside my workplace
It's some points that the video freezes and i assume its cause of the sync it was doing at that time.
https://rapidshare.com/files/3065924380/VID_20110928_145804.m4v
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the problem is in video encoding - it's encoding video in VARIABLE bframerate, so it means some seconds it could be 30fps and at some points onli 1fps so at place where it's only 1fps - you see one frame 1 second and it looks like it frozen. To avoid that i use lower resolution [720x480], lower bitrate [3200], and lower framerate [23] and phone handles it good min fps i get is 11.
your file info is:
Minimum frame rate : 0.628 fps
Maximum frame rate : 30.191 fps
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so not even 1 frame per socond..so it causes 1.5 second delay. And your sound is ****. 8Khz is way too low. Use 32 000

So, how do i change the sound quality ??
I don't think there is a way to record to stable framerate instead of variable, right ?

RaNd.gr said:
So, how do i change the sound quality ??
I don't think there is a way to record to stable framerate instead of variable, right ?
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My given/attached XML already with good [better than yours] sound.
2. don't know i don't see option in XML to change to constant framerate [i changed in xml min framerate from 1 to 23 - but this doesn't helped], i think it's somewhere in codec source but i do not have time so don't know 100% where exacly.

Is there a way to change the path that the video are saved. i have a slow memory card which causes freeze in videos so i want them to be saved directly somewhere at HWUserData. Is there a way to do that (not by removing sd)?

I think no with default cammera app. You can use lg camera that have an option for this though.
Also you can try an app as SD Booster which incaze cache size and lead to faster read speed

genti7 said:
Is there a way to change the path that the video are saved. i have a slow memory card which causes freeze in videos so i want them to be saved directly somewhere at HWUserData. Is there a way to do that (not by removing sd)?
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your card is good. Videos are in 6 mbps [which is btw way to hi, change to 3200] so this is like 0.75MB/s so if your card can write at 1MB/s your card is not making difference. Freezes is because of variable framerate. Also i don't think that it's writing directly to card, there should be some buffer first then only writes to card..so problem is somewhere else i think.

How do you fix this? When i try to copy and paste it just deny it... can you make a quick guide? Got MIUI rom with franco kernel but its not the newest version.
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Isakk1 said:
How do you fix this? When i try to copy and paste it just deny it... can you make a quick guide? Got MIUI rom with franco kernel but its not the newest version.
Sent from my u8800 using Tapatalk
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use root explorer ant make sure etc dir is writable.

I already tried Root explorer but it just says "This file is a system read only file" or something like that