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DarkAngelFR picked up this project and has a working app up and running... check out his blog @ http://blog.idlezone.org/pages/HTC/DarkRuler
original thread (how it started)
....A couple days ago i stumbled accross an App for the iPhone called RulerPhone and i thought it would be a cool tool to have for the diamond. Since our diamonds screen isnt multitouch, the tool would have to do without it and the lost ease of navigation could be accomplished using additional onscreen buttons.
Here is a basic explanation of the tool. Lets say u need to measure the with of your bookcase but u dont have anything to measure it. well you could guess how wide it is, OR you take out your Diamond, place a creditcard in the case and take a picture of the bookcase from within DiamondRuler. Once the picture is taken, you align the creaditcard from the picture with the placeholder on your screen using the touchdisplay, the zoom buttons on the display and the NavWheel. Once u have it all aligned you lock the picture and now you can start measuring your bookcase. the diamond will calculate the distances for you.
Is there a developer out there willing to take on the task? Let me know via PM.
Here are some Mockups of the GUI.
reserved for later use (maybe)
awesome idea
wow what a program!it is evolutionary!!
Flattering
If anybody would like to contact me about RulerPhone (I'm the developer) or inquire about development hints, please feel free to do so via the email address at http://benkamens.com/rulerphone. I am more than willing to share.
If the final design is going to be so blatantly RulerPhone-esque (to put it nicely...), I would appreciate a simple reference and link back to RulerPhone as the originating idea for what may be DiamondRuler.
Awesome idea!
I hate all these amazing iphone applications, getting very jealous of the iphone...
Must remember iphone GPS is rubbish....Iphone cant run all my favourite WM applications....
i remeber there was a ruler application for the N95..it could measure the distance between you and the object, height, angle...
certainly an interesting application to have
Nice whiskey collection! Nice idea for an app
Great idea !!
Should be really funny
@kamens : do you encounter special problems for developing this (I mean hard picture analysis coding...) ? I may develop this kind of funny tool for "windows mobile" but afraid of getting in hard "card finding algorithme".....
See Ya
DarkAngel
PS: excuse my english
no programmer up for the task?
i would code it myself, but by programmingskills just suck
THUDUK said:
I hate all these amazing iphone applications, getting very jealous of the iphone...
Must remember iphone GPS is rubbish....Iphone cant run all my favourite WM applications....
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Don't worry.. as soon as someone creates this app the Diamond will become world renowned! And the best part.. this is impossible for the iPhone to perform
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437024
Hello,
I made a quick develpment just to have fun with my HTC...Looks to work but I have many small bugs and small things I want to add in...
I will post soon a beta of my app this app will allow you to measure anything that fit in your screen when making photo ^^
Anyone wants to test ?
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Anyone wants to test ?
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Yes please
Looks like a great app i'm subscribing to this thread for sure
If you need a tester i'm happy to help.
this will be amazing
would like to test as well
Hello!
Beta Release is available, if you wants to test contact me by private message.
Will post the app in about a week if not many bugs found!
Thanx to testers and to fluid888 for the idea, to Kamens for its iPhone apps (thanx to a friend here for showing this to me "live", really impressive), to anyone in the beta, to the GSensor SDK Creator, .....
Ok I can see some potential for this if it can be calibrated to any accuracy. But how would parallax errors be dealt with and also spherical aberration could cause problems.
Interesting "bookcase" you have there fluid888, I think I might have read one or two of them myself!
lol
Sorry but I didn't implement any kind of spherical aberration algorythm yet lol... interesting but not really something easy to do!
Maybe in release 12.3.4.5 I will try to implement this let's make the v 0.1 working before
Disclaimer: XDA-Developers has zero affiliation and liability with this, and the sale of these parts is being allowed only for the sake of helping the modding community
My original thread was getting cluttered, and XDA asked me to make some changes, so here is the new thread on HOW TO DO THE MOD.
Breaking news available via my twitter feed, or #vibrantFFC
The US/T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S had it's FFC borked prior to manufacturing. This has left us an easy way to add it back in and open up the ability to explore video calling. From my experience thus far, their is poor support for software for FFC's in general, but this seems to be changing. As more of these cameras make it out to devs, expect to see more video calling and chatting apps to start appearing in the near future.
To accomplish this you need a few things:
[*]A camera from the international Galaxy S variant, the i9000s. These are available through a wholesaler that requires a minimum order of 3, sometimes more. If you want to go this route and find a buddy, see my thread for that here.
A small size 0 flat head screw driver and phillips screw driver. Most eyeglass repair kits include screw drivers that are close enough in size to work.
An iPod opener tool, or something similiar.
Something to remove the paint from the digitizer where the FFC goes. Denatured alcohol, and the stronger goo gone varieties are known to work
Q-tips
Some balls (not really - its easy) and common sense (goes a long ways)!
An FFC compatibale ROM - eugene's froyo (2.2) or Bionix (2.1)
Open your phone - Remove the battery cover, sd card, sim card, battery. remove the 7 screws around the back plate, then use the iPod opener tool to snap the rear plate off.
Unsnap the various buckles to release the motherboard.
remove the speaker and original camera
turn the main board clockwise for about an inch to allow some space to work
locate the FFC molding. It is above where the original camera was located. You can dry fit the new camera in place to see where the FFC goes. This is the area that the paint needs to be removed from
Use your remover of choice and some qtips to get that paint off of there
Let things completely dry before putting back together. 10 - 30 minutes should be fine
snap new camera in place, check your work.
If it looks good, installation is reverse of removal.
Some ROMs (2.2 base) do not include the font camera driver. If you cannot get it to work, try copying the attached file (unzip first - should have .yuv extension) to /system/camera on your phone. (requres root)
You can get the camera from here.
maybe you can add the pictures from the other thread?
scrizz said:
maybe you can add the pictures from the other thread?
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good point. adding now
Feel free to use min posted 10/3
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Apologies for the noob question but what do you mean in step 2? Do we actually have to take the motherboard out of the phone like in these videos: http://www.careace.net/2010/06/09/disassembly-of-the-samsung-galaxy-s/ and also is it really necessary to remove the speaker?
EDIT: Sorry for not being descriptive, What I mean is, does the speaker block this "socket"in which the FFC goes? If not then why is it necessary to remove it?
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Some ROMs (2.2 base) do not include the font camera driver. If you cannot get it to work, try copying the attached file (unzip first - should have .yuv extension) to /system/camera on your phone. (requres root)
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Do the files go in /system/camera or in /system/cameradata ?
I am trying to work it on the Bionix 1.7 rom and I keep getting errors.
Here are my mod pics just to show off. hehehehe.
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Apologies for the noob question but what do you mean in step 2? Do we actually have to take the motherboard out of the phone like in these videos: http://www.careace.net/2010/06/09/disassembly-of-the-samsung-galaxy-s/ and also is it really necessary to remove the speaker?
EDIT: Sorry for not being descriptive, What I mean is, does the speaker block this "socket"in which the FFC goes? If not then why is it necessary to remove it?
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That video is a general disassembly. It isn't specific to this mod. You can make the modification without removing the audio socket/speaker.
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I found a youtube video of showing how to install the camera
my apologies if this was widely known video
here is the link anyways,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFe2qSQZGA
Dude thank you for this, im going to order the camera from you now and get this front facing camera business going....im tired of my evo buddies talkin ****!
Side note.....im getting < 1000 quadrant scores and I saw somewhere that people were getting over 2000 scores with vibrants....any suggestions?
Does anyone have any video samples to show the quality if the video?
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Does anyone have any video samples to show the quality if the video?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8589612
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8613761
ZeroIsJdm said:
Dude thank you for this, im going to order the camera from you now and get this front facing camera business going....im tired of my evo buddies talkin ****!
Side note.....im getting < 1000 quadrant scores and I saw somewhere that people were getting over 2000 scores with vibrants....any suggestions?
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pretty sure its the lag fix
FFC 'mirror app' FC
got an error 'error occired while trying to open the FFC. The camera could not be started....'
Any Ideas? Loaded Bionix 1.9.1 from Stock today, copied datapattern_front_420sp.yuv in \system\cameradata and tried TWO different cameras
Still nothing. Any other way to test it?
Thanks for any insight
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got an error 'error occired while trying to open the FFC. The camera could not be started....'
Any Ideas? Loaded Bionix 1.9.1 from Stock today, copied datapattern_front_420sp.yuv in \system\cameradata and tried TWO different cameras
Still nothing. Any other way to test it?
Thanks for any insight
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you may want to reflash the rom
it2steve said:
got an error 'error occired while trying to open the FFC. The camera could not be started....'
Any Ideas? Loaded Bionix 1.9.1 from Stock today, copied datapattern_front_420sp.yuv in \system\cameradata and tried TWO different cameras
Still nothing. Any other way to test it?
Thanks for any insight
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It won't run on stock kernel. There are several threads going about the cams. You may want to read them to get a full sense of whats going on. But, it looks promising.
Got mine installed a few minutes ago. I'm not on a rom that supports the FFC but the rear camera works, no lines or fuzziness as some reported. On first opening the camera app I tried to tap to focus and got a force close. Can't get it to happen again so I'm not sure why that happened. Other than that it's working perfectly.
I did notice on installing the camera that NOTHING but the camera needs to be unsnapped. There is a ribbon cable that has to be flexed into place to install the new one but it does save you from removing the whole board (not that it's hard but why bother). On installing the new camera I did notice almost a snap when the ffc popped into place.
Did anyone manage to get a perfectly round hole? I tried for a couple hours with a qtip,some goo gone, and a screwdriver. While the results are respectable I'm curious if anyone found a way?
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Yeah....I saw something about how to apply the lag fix...but they gave absolutly not instructions on what it is or how to do it. Would you kindly point me in the right direction
This is what he said about how to apply the lagfix but honestly...no idea what im doing.
"How-to Apply Lagfix to My Rom " Do Not Use another Lagfix as it Breaks my PLaylogos1 Script..."
adb shell
su
mv /system/bin/userinit.sh /system/bin/used
reboot
Then
adb shell
su
busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/dataimg bs=1024 count=1048576
busybox mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
busybox losetup /dev/loop0 /data/dataimg
busybox mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mkdir /data/data1
mv /system/bin/used /system/bin/userinit.sh
reboot
Thanks again
This is just a video I created to really show off a fully customised galaxy note. Link it to your friends (including iphone lovers) and spread the word about this crazy ass device!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JyfrD4VrHY
Nice video man, it's like a documentary of the phone. I like it, it's better than those other generic reviews
Nice vid. Now you have to tell us how you got the 3d user interface on there, and about the programs you're running on it to make those customizations.
Tutorial
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Nice vid. Now you have to tell us how you got the 3d user interface on there, and about the programs you're running on it to make those customizations.
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Cheers. Sure thing bro, a tutorial is in the works!
Hey great video. Alcan you list some of the apps and themes u have. Like make a list. I love the dialer and contact list and all look fo windows phone.
Awesome job, what s the photo edit app you used?
Sent from my note
Photo Editor
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Awesome job, what s the photo edit app you used?
Sent from my note
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It's Just the stock app called 'photo editor' it should come with the phablet.
Great Video.
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Great video James, you have an artistic flair, very nice...
Brian
You may use Go Launcher which supports 3D carousel movement of screens. Just an optional good launcher.
Freaking cool bro.from a full charge to completely drain stage, how long can your battery last? And did you use set CPU? Its fast and smooth as butter.can't wait for your installation procedures.keep it flowing mate..
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Battery etc
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Freaking cool bro.from a full charge to completely drain stage, how long can your battery last? And did you use set CPU? Its fast and smooth as butter.can't wait for your installation procedures.keep it flowing mate..
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Cheers man! Battery life varies heaps. Strangley, browsing the web probably takes the most and gaming is a relatively small drain. In standby ~1 % per 6 hours or more. so that's insane but for heavy use probably 12-14 hours? moderate use 1 -2 days at an absolute stretch..
I do use ADW EX with a few theme plug ins etc (i'll post a full tutorial soon) Cheers for watching!
I really enjoyed watching that. Artistic and the best I've seen!
Very nice
Thanks man.
Excellent video. Looking forward to the tute.
One bit of hopefully constructive criticism for you though - you really need to used a tripod for your video recording device. Shaky handcam makes it look less professional and detracts from what you are trying to show off because it cant keep focus quickly enough for all the small movements you are making.
Great Video and Fantastic UI
npras42 said:
Excellent video. Looking forward to the tute.
One bit of hopefully constructive criticism for you though - you really need to used a tripod for your video recording device. Shaky handcam makes it look less professional and detracts from what you are trying to show off because it cant keep focus quickly enough for all the small movements you are making.
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I think that's intentional.
Great video, also looking forward to the tutorial!
Loving this video and what you've done with your g-note!!!
Any time-scales on when you'll have the tutorial ready?
Cool Dude!
I'm wondering what version of MultiPicture Live Wallpaper do u use, cuz every version that i tried on my HD2 and now on my Note it's loading when i unloock the phone.
Tnx for the answer.
Excellent video. But you do need to make that cam less shaky... I'd advice, in case you want to keep the video "in-motion", is that you reseat the cellphone between scenes, change into portrait and landscape, isntead of allowing it to be shaky. Very artistic tough, very creative, and quite thorough.
BTW, it's been reasonably stablished by users in this forum that browinsg eats your battery because of the white backgroud. The opera browser (and perhaps others) have options to change default background color, just like the "kindle" app does. That extends battery greatly. Wi-fi is also a culprit here, so keep it in 3g.
went with my sister to check out a house for purchase. she took out her galaxy note 2, took a picture of one of the rooms and after measuring it. she took out her note 2 s-pen to write directly on the picture she just took, drawing lines and writing down measurements. and man that was useful. this is samsung' proprietary software that comes with the phone. now is there any app like this for Android? i don't want to add notes or bubble text to the picture, i want to freely write or draw whatever i want on the picture i took. any program similar to this that would let me do this with my finger?
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went with my sister to check out a house for purchase. she took out her galaxy note 2, took a picture of one of the rooms and after measuring it. she took out her note 2 s-pen to write directly on the picture she just took, drawing lines and writing down measurements. and man that was useful. now is there any app like this for Android? i don't want to add notes or bubble text to the picture, i want to freely write or draw whatever i want on the picture i took. any program similar to this that would let me do this with my finger?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.km.draw.photodraw or https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwianAuY28uaGlrZXNpeWEiXQ.. ?
You know, just googling it would've cost you less time than making thread. I found it within ten seconds.
There are probably better apps, like this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwianAuY28uaGlrZXNpeWEiXQ..
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.km.draw.photodraw or https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwianAuY28uaGlrZXNpeWEiXQ.. ?
You know, just googling it would've cost you less time than making thread. I found it within ten seconds.
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i did google before i made this thread. that did not show up. we search different terms i guess. i'm a noob googler
thanks, let me try this out, hopefully i can also zoom in on the picture with this app.
jinjin12 said:
i did google before i made this thread. that did not show up. we search different terms i guess. i'm a noob googler
thanks, let me try this out, hopefully i can also zoom in on the picture with this app.
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i found one better than those, it's called "fingerpaint"
jinjin12 said:
i did google before i made this thread. that did not show up. we search different terms i guess. i'm a noob googler
thanks, let me try this out, hopefully i can also zoom in on the picture with this app.
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I would search for photo editors. Most, if not all, have the option to draw on pictures. For example, this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.studio&feature=search_result
It has a lot more downloads than the others, so I would go for this one. Just search for "photo" or something, and you should find a bunch.
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I would search for photo editors. Most, if not all, have the option to draw on pictures. For example, this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.studio&feature=search_result
It has a lot more downloads than the others, so I would go for this one. Just search for "photo" or something, and you should find a bunch.
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that one looks sick too, thanks let me try it
I would recommend using skitch
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floppyears said:
I would recommend using skitch
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Yup, I would too. Came across it and it looks really professional. Perfect for measuring things. It's from the makers of Evernote so that's a plus I guess. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ldmVybm90ZS5za2l0Y2giXQ..
NOTE: This quick video just shows my modifications and applications on my Nexus 5. If you want me to go into detail about each of them let me know as this is not a 'tutorial' video, but more like a 'teaser'. I hope you enjoy the video XD.
Any feedback?
ill be honest, not to hurt your feelings or anything, because that's not what im trying to do.. but why does it matter to me what apps and mods that you decided to use?
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ill be honest, not to hurt your feelings or anything, because that's not what im trying to do.. but why does it matter to me what apps and mods that you decided to use?
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haha ouch you hurt me bad :'(....haha not at all XD
-well first off I did this as I like making videos and had no idea what to do so just did this as I am not getting feedback on specific things..
-people can discover new 'mods' xposed framework to download
-to see how AWESOME the NEXUS is
-because my videos are awesome?
is there any other type of video you would like to see?
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haha ouch you hurt me bad :'(....haha not at all XD
-well first off I did this as I like making videos and had no idea what to do so just did this as I am not getting feedback on specific things..
-people can discover new 'mods' xposed framework to download
-to see how AWESOME the NEXUS is
-because my videos are awesome?
is there any other type of video you would like to see?
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ahh..
i think your vids can help more, if they got out more into the public, not really much help on xda though. more of the public is uninformed, as it would help there.
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ahh..
i think your vids can help more, if they got out more into the public, not really much help on xda though. more of the public is uninformed, as it would help there.
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thats the problem :/ how will they reach if no one is giving feedback sharing or anything lol
I like the video. Music is good for the type of video, +1 to the wallpaper because turbos, intro is cool, +1 to the themes, I like the Settings tiling up animation (not sure if that makes sense).
Only thing I would say is smoother camera handling (e.g. min. 55, min. 2:13-2:15) and the angle you have your phone is good but at some points it's hard to tell what app, or what setting you're doing/using because the very top left is blurry.
Also I can tell I'm bored right now waiting for the wifey because I just spent a lot of time reviewing a 3 minute video lol
What's the purpose of the video?
Why not link apps and mods properly with descriptions and instructions.
Why not a step-by-step or how-to?
A 3 minute video I'm forced to watch is useless.
Why spend 3 minutes looking at something?
Now you have to pause, rewind, fast forward parts if you missed something.
Everything written out would save time and not waste everyone else's.
All I see is a video to generate views.
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I like the video. Music is good for the type of video, +1 to the wallpaper because turbos, intro is cool, +1 to the themes, I like the Settings tiling up animation (not sure if that makes sense).
Only thing I would say is smoother camera handling (e.g. min. 55, min. 2:13-2:15) and the angle you have your phone is good but at some points it's hard to tell what app, or what setting you're doing/using because the very top left is blurry.
Also I can tell I'm bored right now waiting for the wifey because I just spent a lot of time reviewing a 3 minute video lol
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Thanks for the feedback dude XD. So bout the camera movement I know bout it but the problem is the tripod am using is ****. So I would need to get new equipment for better filming.
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What's the purpose of the video?
Why not link apps and mods properly with descriptions and instructions.
Why not a step-by-step or how-to?
A 3 minute video I'm forced to watch is useless.
Why spend 3 minutes looking at something?
Now you have to pause, rewind, fast forward parts if you missed something.
Everything written out would save time and not waste everyone else's.
All I see is a video to generate views.
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As stated above...I purposely made it without all that because it would be a waste of time. As I have asked what kind of videos people would like to see with no feedback, so I created this for fun. And you are forced? I don't see anyone holding a gun to your head...I mean go dislike, knock yourself out XD
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