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FFC mod back camera sucks?

So i bought and installed a FFC, (bought 2, installed both). the font was blurry but i fixed the focus. But the back camera is really bad compared to my old one. i even switched back to be sure. ive only tested at night indoors because its nighttime now, but the FFC version has lots of awful lines running up and down the screen when i look through the viewfinder, whereas the vibrant version is crystal clear. when i take a picture it comes out much better than what i see in the viewfinder but still a bit of the lines. anyone else have this issue? im running bionix1.8 i tested both cams on that and only the ffc version has this issue...

Are you serious? This is the first time anyone has EVER complained about this! Alert the media...stop the presses...call you Senator...and WAKE UP THE PRESIDENT!!!!

post some picture so we can see

Dude, so you spent say about $60 for two replacement cameras, pried your phone apart, drilled a hole, and subjected your screen to disolving fluids but couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread?

no drilling involved.

someone delete this thread. read the ffc thread, as its a well known side effect. still waiting on the rom dev's to get theres so they can really tweak and make the ffc work to its fullest

All I have to day is I sure am glad I didn't do the mod. In all the excitement almost nobody mentions this problem. I know I never saw it mentioned, and I read several walkthroughs explaining the mods and how to do it.
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Please DON'T delete this post. Why would we have to read the whole thread for such vital information. That thread is ginormous.

Dude, the ffc is much lower resolution than the rear camera, if you replace your rear camera (which is what it sounds like you did) it's a massive downgrade.
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anomalous3 said:
Dude, the ffc is much lower resolution than the rear camera, if you replace your rear camera (which is what it sounds like) it's a massive downgrade.
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....wow....
He is saying the rear camera sucks after completing the ffc mod. Ha ha
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ok, you guys are being too hasty.
First you guys jumped and bought cameras before support was even added.
Now, you guys are QQ'ing because it's not working right, eventhough you all now the devs don' have cameras yet.
Just be patient and wait for the devs to get their hands on cameras.
crying and ****ing on a forum are not going to resolve your problem.
The warehouse is not going to accept returns.
So you might as well keep using your original camera until proper support is added for the FFC.
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http://www.globaldirectparts.com/OEM-Samsung-i9000-Camera-Flex-Cable-p/smsng6087125.htm

dude it is suppose to add a ffc to the phone not replace a back camera with a front you should still have a 5mp back cam
the part even said so
Main camera: 5MP
Front Facing Camera: 0.3MP
i there is a problem then it could be a bad batch of cameras or a conflict in the phone,
am haven't done this yet because i don't want to scratch the glass (maybe some one will come out with a replacement part) i want mine to look as oem as possible

scrizz said:
ok, you guys are being too hasty.
First you guys jumped and bought cameras before support was even added.
Now, you guys are QQ'ing because it's not working right, eventhough you all now the devs don' have cameras yet.
Just be patient and wait for the devs to get their hands on cameras.
crying and ****ing on a forum are not going to resolve your problem.
The warehouse is not going to accept returns.
So you might as well keep using your original camera until proper support is added for the FFC.
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http://www.globaldirectparts.com/OEM-Samsung-i9000-Camera-Flex-Cable-p/smsng6087125.htm
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Do any devs even have cams on the way? I might have an extra one....

warwolfx0 said:
dude it is suppose to add a ffc to the phone not replace a back camera with a front you should still have a 5mp back cam
the part even said so
Main camera: 5MP
Front Facing Camera: 0.3MP
i there is a problem then it could be a bad batch of cameras or a conflict in the phone,
am haven't done this yet because i don't want to scratch the glass (maybe some one will come out with a replacement part) i want mine to look as oem as possible
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I can 100% assure you ALL the cameras where extensively tested prior to shipping. I have been in contact with the CEO of Global for 2 weeks now. The issue with the quality of the pictures is believed to be in the kernal. the i9000 kernal differs greatly from the vibrant kernal. The devs are working on it and as soon as they have a solution im sure everyone will know! just be patient.

Yeah I read a good ten pages of threads and 2 hardware guides and a software guide and watched a hardware video all without a single mention of this.
After all your flaming I did dig a bit deeper and found it, but this is something that should be in caps at the top of every thread.....
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scrizz said:
Just be patient and wait for the devs to get their hands on cameras.
crying and ****ing on a forum are not going to resolve your problem.
The warehouse is not going to accept returns.
So you might as well keep using your original camera until proper support is added for the FFC.
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http://www.globaldirectparts.com/OEM-Samsung-i9000-Camera-Flex-Cable-p/smsng6087125.htm
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Just be patient and wait for the devs to get their hands on cameras.

This is Why I want a portable cam
This is Why I want a portable cam that could be plugged into the phone and use it as a FFC or as a portable camera head so I can look inside walls and take pictures with the phone as the capture device (would be awesome for my work). Then i could use it as a FFC and not be bothered with trying to redesign a phone and installing a junkie little .3 meg camera

To put so that people will understand,
THIS MOD IS IN ALPHA, NOT BETA, NOT RELEASED, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! FURTHERMORE THE HARDWARE IS SOLID, THE SOFTWARE NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED AND APP DEVS HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE MOD BEFORE YOU WILL SEE A REAL USE. SO IF YOU DONT HAVE MONEY TO BURN RIGHT NOW DONT BUY THE DAMN CAMERAS AND STOP *****ING!
Im sick of all the whining in this damn forum, meh, gps, meh. Meh, froyo, meh. Meh, battery life, meh. If this is your first android phone then dammit get used to it, and if its not you know initial dwvelopment is slow unless its htc. So please, PLEASEm stop whining and help somebody or just ****ing shut up.
Whew, I feel better.
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Why? No one told you to be the first to get it. You moved too fast, next time let someone who doesnt mind being the guinea pig test it first
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I usually hate the people that yell at the dumber people and use all caps......but what you said actually had me laughing out loud. No so much the first paragraph, but the second. And since this thread is actually pretty useless, I dont mind polluting it with this paragraph of nothing. thanks for the laugh at least.
orells said:
To put so that people will understand,
THIS MOD IS IN ALPHA, NOT BETA, NOT RELEASED, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! FURTHERMORE THE HARDWARE IS SOLID, THE SOFTWARE NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED AND APP DEVS HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE MOD BEFORE YOU WILL SEE A REAL USE. SO IF YOU DONT HAVE MONEY TO BURN RIGHT NOW DONT BUY THE DAMN CAMERAS AND STOP *****ING!
Im sick of all the whining in this damn forum, meh, gps, meh. Meh, froyo, meh. Meh, battery life, meh. If this is your first android phone then dammit get used to it, and if its not you know initial dwvelopment is slow unless its htc. So please, PLEASEm stop whining and help somebody or just ****ing shut up.
Whew, I feel better.
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[Q] Poor performance on Streak Unlocked?

Hi guys,
Can you please let me know if it's normal to have only a 777 score on Quadrant with Froyo 2.2 on Dell Streak?
I've just got the phone and haven't done anything to it until now.
What are the main things I should look after to improve performance, launchers...and so on?
Is there an easy guide on how to root it? Can I get back to stock if I want to return it to warranty?
Thanks for helping a noob fellow on Dell Streak. I was using HD2 until now and moved to Streak...but i'm a bit dissapointed.

777...thts around how much u r gonna get on the official 2.2....when i was on it it used to avg around 850...
what u can do is either use the performance fix found in this forum( actually go to streak android development)...just scroll down..ull find a thread titled 2.2 performance fix....and install it based on whichever baseband u r on...
or else u cud try going to steve's 1.5.1 version, instructions for which can also be found in this forum...
and obviously u can get it back to stock config whenevr u want if u ever need to do tht for warranty reasons...

superutp said:
777...thts around how much u r gonna get on the official 2.2....when i was on it it used to avg around 850...
what u can do is either use the performance fix found in this forum( actually go to streak android development)...just scroll down..ull find a thread titled 2.2 performance fix....and install it based on whichever baseband u r on...
or else u cud try going to steve's 1.5.1 version, instructions for which can also be found in this forum...
and obviously u can get it back to stock config whenevr u want if u ever need to do tht for warranty reasons...
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Is there also a camera fix? It does extremely bad pictures in low-light. Even the HD2 I had with android did better pictures. Or perhaps another camera app?
thanks a lot mate.

digitalhater said:
Is there also a camera fix? It does extremely bad pictures in low-light. Even the HD2 I had with android did better pictures. Or perhaps another camera app?
thanks a lot mate.
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well there is no such camera fix...i have to agree, streak doesnt have the best 5 megapixel camera...sometimes my 3.5 mp cam on my 5800 outperforms it in low light conditions...
there are some camera apps....i have only used 1 so far...called as camera 360...u can find it on the market...u can add lots of effects to photos..u can chk it out...

DO you mind taking a picture in a completely dark room and share with me? mines have a green tint on them as if they were taken with a night vision camera. Many thanks in advance mate!

Will try doing later..am out at the momemt..

digitalhater said:
DO you mind taking a picture in a completely dark room and share with me? mines have a green tint on them as if they were taken with a night vision camera. Many thanks in advance mate!
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well more than getting a night vision kinda photo my photos show nuthin....the flash is too weak to capture an entire room space...
results are better if u have an object a few feet away...
and also the green comes if the autofocus hasnt happened properly....atleast for me....
will post pics later if u want...
well, streaks definitely not a substitute for a digital camera especially in low light and dark conditions...
but then, thts not the reason why I ( and I am sure several others) bought it,,

[Q] Edge Network Issues....Please Help!!

Hi everybody....I just upgraded to the MT4G from my old HD2. I love the new phone, but I am having some issues with it working smoothly on the Edge (E) network. I've had the phone now for about a week and I have noticed that whenever the phone switches to the edge network, the data connection seems to stop working (i.e. Google Maps, Facebook, Internet Browser all don't work).
Whenever my HD2 switched to edge, it used to run data applications slower, but it never just didn’t work at all.
Has anybody else experienced this? I searched for this problem, but I had no luck...

after reading alot thru these posts i have heard a few people have that same problem, are u rooted and running a rom ? and if ur not now.may be a good time to do so OR check if u have the glod screen or bad screen and call.tmobile.and tell em u want a replacement
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I have not rooted the device yet...I am still in the return period time frame....I will try rooting it and install a custom rom....which one do you recommend? Please provide link if possible....thank you!!!
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crazydrvr20 said:
I have not rooted the device yet...I am still in the return period time frame....I will try rooting it and install a custom rom....which one do you recommend? Please provide link if possible....thank you!!!
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check to see if you have a good or bad screen first before rooting, return it if its bad. As for the roms CM 7 (2.3 gingerbread) is very good, solid battery life and good overall UI. For more of a stock feel go with the ICE glacier, very solid rom as well. Those are the two main ones that I use, debating which one to stick with.

osugsxr said:
check to see if you have a good or bad screen first before rooting, return it if its bad. As for the roms CM 7 (2.3 gingerbread) is very good, solid battery life and good overall UI. For more of a stock feel go with the ICE glacier, very solid rom as well. Those are the two main ones that I use, debating which one to stick with.
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DEFINATELY check if u have good screen , turn fone off, hold vol. Down and power button, then go down to system info, and good screen will say
Lcd type so c2 or sumthin
Bad screen says sh...
As for roms i really enjoy the Gorilla sens 2.2.4
Any other questions ? glad to help
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rich2thad said:
DEFINATELY check if u have good screen , turn fone off, hold vol. Down and power button, then go down to system info, and good screen will say
Lcd type so c2 or sumthin
Bad screen says sh...
As for roms i really enjoy the Gorilla sens 2.2.4
Any other questions ? glad to help
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Are you implying there’s a correlation between no data over Edge and a bad display? I ask cause I have the same exact problem and I do have a bad display.

smellmyfingers said:
Are you implying there’s a correlation between no data over Edge and a bad display? I ask cause I have the same exact problem and I do have a bad display.
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No not at all that iss purely coincedence, but seeing that u do have bad display DO NOT ROOT and go makethe trade with tmobile so u can get the good display and then root and have fun with the replacement
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Just got my Nexus S ATT. My thoughts.

Coming from HTC Inspire btw.
Size-Build is awesome imo, perfect screen size, nice and lightweight and does not feel cheap imo.
Yea its superamoled but wtf at the yellowish tint....why did they do this?? My Captivate looked better and this is one of the main selling points for me, is there anything we can do to get it back to the other color temperature? Seriously....
Tried the camera a bit, not impressive at all, neither was the inspire so eh whatever.
Everything is FAST! I love it!
Stock Android!!! Woooh! No Blocking of Apps! Woooh!
Wifi seems a bit slow, it started doing a restore off the bat and downloading all my apps from the inspire and even the background! wow! Really cool feature that I had no Idea about, but some apps installed and then I kept getting a bunch of errors saying "insufficient memory" I guess I gotta do them one by one...
Thats pretty much it, Im satisfied but the screen tint is kinda leaving a bad taste in my mouth, the SuperLCD seemed more sharp and brighter then this and the whites were WHITE and the blacks werent too shabby either, dunno wtf is going on as the Screen on my old captivate was great and I loved it, this is eh...

Really hoping I didnt make the wrong choice here, the Xperia arc I had my eyes on and the only thing it didnt have was a FFC and I can live without it, beyond that I like the looks, bigger screen, lighter weight, on the arc better and sony unlocked the bootloader on their new devices so updates will come regardless, way better camera, I just dont know about this whole screen thing....

i just got mine today, so thought i'd chime in too.
build quality: not cheap imo, the ergonomics dept should pat themselves on the back. feels just right
doesn't feel laggy
sensors problem. compass seems a bit off, and the best gps lock i've had is 10m error after about 60s. i stood outside and waited, no lock. resorted to downloading gps status and downloaded the additional gps data. this seems to be the only way it's locked on. compared to a desire, this is hella slow and crappy for gps.
camera quality, i think for a phone it's good enough. for the ffc, so it's vga, but at what resolution does skype mobile use? what's that? it's not working? oh well. i think vga is fine for video calls. anything else is just additional cost.
about to test with music and haven't put a sim in yet to test the phone.
i bought it for development, so i'm now going to start messing about with it, but the phone feels nice and zippy, but disappointed with the sensors (will be testing outside tomorrow) as i'm looking to do a lot of augmented reality dev.

MarkusPO said:
i just got mine today, so thought i'd chime in too.
build quality: not cheap imo, the ergonomics dept should pat themselves on the back. feels just right
doesn't feel laggy
sensors problem. compass seems a bit off, and the best gps lock i've had is 10m error after about 60s. i stood outside and waited, no lock. resorted to downloading gps status and downloaded the additional gps data. this seems to be the only way it's locked on. compared to a desire, this is hella slow and crappy for gps.
camera quality, i think for a phone it's good enough. for the ffc, so it's vga, but at what resolution does skype mobile use? what's that? it's not working? oh well. i think vga is fine for video calls. anything else is just additional cost.
about to test with music and haven't put a sim in yet to test the phone.
i bought it for development, so i'm now going to start messing about with it, but the phone feels nice and zippy, but disappointed with the sensors (will be testing outside tomorrow) as i'm looking to do a lot of augmented reality dev.
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if you're going to test sound, i highly recommend using netarchy's kernel (unsure if it works on a I9020A).. but basically put Voodoo Sound, it'll be highly worth it without question

thanks, but i'm going to keep this stock.

You can change the bad color by using voodoo control app on the market and finding a kernel that supports it.
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MarkusPO said:
thanks, but i'm going to keep this stock.
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if you're keeping it stock... why did you say
i bought it for development, so i'm now going to start messing about with it, but the phone feels nice and zippy, but disappointed with the sensors (will be testing outside tomorrow) as i'm looking to do a lot of augmented reality dev.
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aren't you simply contradicting yourself?

j0hnZ said:
You can change the bad color by using voodoo control app on the market and finding a kernel that supports it.
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Not sure what you mean by "kernal that supports it" Can anyone help me out with this? Whole reason I got a NS is so that I didnt have to mod/root etc lol
But I dunno if I can live with this yellow tint, I NEED to change it!

zephiK said:
if you're keeping it stock... why did you say
aren't you simply contradicting yourself?
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You can do plenty of app development on a stock rom. Not all development is rom/kernel based
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krohnjw said:
You can do plenty of app development on a stock rom. Not all development is rom/kernel based
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Yep, thank you. "Development" only means ROM development here. in the big-wide-world it means apps!

MarkusPO said:
Yep, thank you. "Development" only means ROM development here. in the big-wide-world it means apps!
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well, you didn't specify. and yes, development on XDA is defaulted towards ROM development and not apps.

bah. it doesn't matter, let's play nice.
want a game of horseshoe? HORSESHOE!

MarkusPO said:
bah. it doesn't matter, let's play nice.
want a game of horseshoe? HORSESHOE!
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What about a yellow tint? You have it? Its seriously bugging me out...

crap, sorry about the thanks there
no, i don't have a tint at all - i have a 9020. and no tint. i manually upgraded to 2.3.2 - too scared to update to 2.3.3 yet. i don't have a sim in it, so the ota wasn't registering.
in terms of sound quality, it blows away my ipod touch 1st gen, but then again most of my older cheaper mp3 players do so that in itself isn't saying much! the dynamic range sounds a lot better on this than what was on the desire too.
but still haven't taken the stickers on the phone off yet. need a case!

MarkusPO said:
Yep, thank you. "Development" only means ROM development here. in the big-wide-world it means apps!
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Lol lmo in your world maybe.
In the one that I live in and the rest of the world DEVELOPMENT means rom development or something else or different to improve the phone or make it looks nicer maybe a theme
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MarkusPO said:
crap, sorry about the thanks there
no, i don't have a tint at all - i have a 9020. and no tint. i manually upgraded to 2.3.2 - too scared to update to 2.3.3 yet. i don't have a sim in it, so the ota wasn't registering.
in terms of sound quality, it blows away my ipod touch 1st gen, but then again most of my older cheaper mp3 players do so that in itself isn't saying much! the dynamic range sounds a lot better on this than what was on the desire too.
but still haven't taken the stickers on the phone off yet. need a case!
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You'd be even more amazed at sound with voodoo.
Seriously, you're missing out. But if u don't want to mod it then that's fine.
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doniqcc said:
Lol lmo in your world maybe.
In the one that I live in and the rest of the world DEVELOPMENT means rom development or something else or different to improve the phone or make it looks nicer maybe a theme
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putting glow-in-the-dark stickers on it will make it look nice... ohh i see... i didn't know that's development! thanks!
development means programming. fullstop. period. back to the scheduled show!

MarkusPO said:
putting glow-in-the-dark stickers on it will make it look nice... ohh i see... i didn't know that's development! thanks!
development means programming. fullstop. period. back to the scheduled show!
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Not in xda development but you can do it in android market place but you'll learn eventually it's ok. I can't wait to see what app you'll work on. wait I know something about teaching other people how to develop a rom without rooting your phone nice yeeeeah
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voodoo sound and color changed my life.
Try the settings in the apps and themes section of this forum.

aaronpaws said:
voodoo sound and color changed my life.
Try the settings in the apps and themes section of this forum.
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I wish I could do it without a root, I just cant seem to do the damn root, Im stuck on the drivers part....

[Q] Face unlock on ics?

Anyone got it working?
I know it's there, cause when i look at the installed app list with anttek app manager it is shown on the list. but anyone got it working?

Dunno, maybe try ripping the xoom's settings.apk & running it on your tf... probably won't work, but u can try

Transformer doesn't have Face unlock feature. Camera quality + no flash + night = ****ty moment.

PatrikSelin said:
Transformer doesn't have Face unlock feature. Camera quality + no flash + night = ****ty moment.
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It has a backup code
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Come one... the camera quality should be good enough to be able to do it...
This is one of the features why I was so excited for ICS, why did they break it out? :S

What on Earth does 'no flash' have to do with it ???? its the FRONT camera that gets used !!
I have Face Unlock on my Nexus but to be honest it stayed enabled a day or so as a novelty but is now an unused feature.

Face unlock will be available for Revolver

I've never seen a frontcam flash XD
But my Galaxy will probably get it soon
But my front doesn't work at all anymore? :S
The camera app presents a black screen, and when I try to click on something after thet, it crashes...

SparkyRih said:
I've never seen a frontcam flash XD
But my Galaxy will probably get it soon
But my front doesn't work at all anymore? :S
The camera app presents a black screen, and when I try to click on something after thet, it crashes...
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Front camera working for me .... did you flash via CWM ? and if so did you then flash the full ICS (minus recovery) OVER THE TOP ?
That seems to clear up a lot of small issues .....

It seems to be the only issue I have so far, everythign else works like a charm...
I just used the update feature in the tab itself...
Edit: The front cam does work when I switch to it in the Ustream app... so I guess it will work in Skype to... I never use it in the camera app anyway

wilbur-force said:
What on Earth does 'no flash' have to do with it ???? its the FRONT camera that gets used !!
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The lack of flash is a problem when it is night or you're in the dark.

PatrikSelin said:
The lack of flash is a problem when it is night or you're in the dark.
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lol..... really ??
no what i meant is that there arent many (any?) phones/tablets with a flash on the Front camera so its not an issue with the TF and face unlock ....
like i say though - face unlock on my Nexus is pretty much unused.

Faceunlock is one of the few new options in Android which is actually noticeable. ASUS sucks just like the others.
and @PatrikSelin
****ty moment is when you mother's doing poop, if don't want to use FU you JUST don't have to! And you're an idiot, 'cause neither phone has flash at front <facepalm>.

MatthewJackal said:
And you're an idiot, 'cause neither phone has flash at front <facepalm>.
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How many times have I said "phones has flash at front"? None. Face recognition in the dark works like a car with square wheels (hint: It just doesn't work).