Ive been searching these forums for about a month about the s4 which I now own. I used to have a samsung infuse and was very active on the xda infuse forums. When rooting that phone infuse users lost a lot of features like mhl hdmi, hi res cam etc. With rooting the s4 what is lost? From what I can find it seems like only the air gesture features are lost. What else is lost and is it that way on all the roms. I want to root this device but not if I lose things like bluetooth or cam. I maybe can deal with no air gesture things. Thanks in advance. Sorry if this is answered I have tried to find as much info as possible before posting here.
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If you stick with stuff in the Android dev (stock based ROMs with TW) section and not the Original dev, you won't loose anything. Just pick one that keeps that stuff, or has a flashable add on for it. Some remove it to keep the ROM lite if the dev feels not many use the feature.
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Hey All,
Since rooting my SGS2 and installing ICS Roms I find the Camera App is total S**t !
I use the camera loads both still and video.
The stock SGS2 Camera app was awesome !!!!! But the ICS one is rubbish !
I have searched everywhere and stock camera app is not available for custom roms or as an apk file.
So I am trying to find a developer to port the SGS2 Stock Camera App so it will work on all custom roms so we can all use it.
Failing that port it to Root Box Rom by Bajee11 as that's the Rom I use.
If anyone is skilled enough then let me know and we can discuss it further. It has to be totally bug free and working though.
I want this to happen so no time wasters please.
Feel free to leave comments regarding your camera experience on ICS.
Also don't recommend any apps as I wasted money on them all.
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I think it's impossible if you want it go back to stock rom
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Nah I don't think it would be imposable, just a lot of hard work either porting it from GB or starting from scratch. But either way something has to be done cause the ics camera is just crap!
I dont understand your topic. You're talking about a stock camera app. Flash any SAMSUNG based custom or stock ICS Rom and you will have a great camera... If you are using a CM or AOSP based ICS rom, like Rootbox, your camera might be worse. Because you have a Samsung device with Samsung camera, but a not samsung firmware... Or am I thinking wrong here, lolllzzz. Seems like common sense to me...
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Nah I don't think it would be imposable, just a lot of hard work either porting it from GB or starting from scratch. But either way something has to be done cause the ics camera is just crap!
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That's right it is bad but only the cm team can add features to it but no one will port the camera app its not so easy
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I am fully aware that it will be hard but if someone can port the other Samsung apps over then porting this will be possible. It will just take a little hard work and time for someone who has the knowledge about these kind of things (I don't)
Hopefully sooner or later a developer with the skill will answer the call
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It may not be impossible, but you have to understand that the stock Samsung camera app requires the touchwiz framework and system libraries, these files are completely incompatible with the AOSP framework and libraries, also the libraries in question are closed source when distributed by Samsung so any attempt to port or write from scratch would be a complete shot in the dark and while I'm sure there are devas out there who agree with you, with all the issues Samsung creates for AOSP devs a mostly working camera is much further down the list than other projects.
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This is something I've been looking for since I been using CM as well... 6 months now... really sucks to have such a great firmware with such a bad camera... more importantly the reduced camera settings is what makes matter worse...
For eg if you want to make a video with CM Cramera on lowest resolution, a 1 min video is like 40mb... can't even email something like that... while stock allowed 3gp and VGA resolution cams so you can take random small unimp videos to send... like on whatsapp with a 12mb limit you can only make like 5-10 second videos...
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Get UCAM pro. Try it. Seriously great.
The question should be about other third party camera apps available on the play store. Is there any app that comes close to the stock samsung app in the terms discussed above?
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As OP states no point in recommending any PS Apps. I have seriously tried them all and wasted loads of money on inferior camera apps.
There is nothing that comes close to Samsung camera application.
Also I have ucam and it's crap. How you can compare that app to the SGS2 Camera I don't know.
Which is a shame. (
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I agree with op here...the camera of this phone is very good and that's y I hate when it goes to waste on custom ROMs...Samsung ROM is very very ugly but utilizes camera quality to the fullest and has WiFi direct and FM but aosp and aokp ROMs r beautiful but camera sucks and no WiFi direct..spirit FM is the alternative at least
When will the perfect ROM come
Hell I would even buy the ROM like any play store product if it has aosp with Samsung like cam and WiFi direct and FM
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Why don't you use stock ROM with custom theme then?
I'm using Neat ROM and you can flash a custom theme over it (Jkay, vertemus, ...)
There's a lite version in case you don't want all stock Samsung apps.
Not what I am trying to achieve here.
Really want it so the camera application can be shared to all who want it.
Thanks for the idea though.
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Why don't you use stock ROM with custom theme then?
I'm using Neat ROM and you can flash a custom theme over it (Jkay, vertemus, ...)
There's a lite version in case you don't want all stock Samsung apps.
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I'm using that too but it has limitations like the theme is close to aosp but not in full...plus some colours r not very good...some notifications r pure white etc such things...plus changing DPI which is possible in aosp and aokp disrupts the UI in Sammy ROM with aosp theme on it
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Try using Ucam from play store it has most of the features of the stock camera and it also ugly like it
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i miss my stock camera....,could we like port the stock camera...Ive read some threads with instructions to detouchwiz an stock app,but that's gonna be a pain in the [email protected]#$ then again its worth it i guess.
Me too. I love Root Box but stock camera is really good.
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So I just tried ucam and I must say I'm quite impressed by the picture quality... not as good as stock but definitely better than CM...
Problems with it tho are that it keeps trying to autofocus which I find a little annoying...
Secondly and more importantly... its not allowing to take videos in less than 620*480... which was the problem to begin with... I'm starting to think this is a main CM limitation rather than any application...
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The stock camera has the advantage that Samsung can make calls directly to the hardware - fast and efficient. Because the stock camera only runs on Samsung devices.
When we talk about AOSP, now we are talking about generic Android. Google rewrote it for all devices with a general framework - it works on HTC. Now, the hardware cannot be directly addressed. Much more complicated programming - simpler in a way, but harder in others.
Then along comes AOKP. Those guys want to take Google out of the deal entirely, so they again rewrite everything and add another layer of abstraction. And when you think that NOBODY on the AOKP team owns an S2 and they don't even list it as a supported device. It is no surprise that the a large percentage of the features of the S2 are no longer available. For the life of me, I can't understand why putting up Superman wallpaper is better than having a decent camera, long battery life, FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity, etc.....
Hi guys had my N4 couple of weeks now loving it possible best phone I've used. Now I've done a bit of rooting over the years had some success and failures but stock JB is pretty much spot but I want to tweak the screen and only way is by rooting so I believe. If I root will I have to do full reinstall of apps and settings which I want to avoid because apart from the screen calibration its just how I want it all works and battery is on par with my galaxy nexus and my 4s so cant complain. What's best way to go?
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Huh...big dilemma, I also wouldn't know what to do!
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For apps you can backup via adb or using a toot kit, any other files backup to PC or cloud, for calls and texts you can back them up via apps from market. Settings you can always re set your phone.
You'd need to unlock the boot loader so will completely wipe your phone.
Do it, once rooted its simple to restore everything back.
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Once rooted running stock is there any know glitches?
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Not really, you gain the benefit of root. Plenty of kernels out there with changed colours.
Root your phone. The benefits of rooting and flashing a ROM from one of these great devs outweighs by far the possible glitches. You can add toggles to the quick toggle menu and resize the nav bar, or get rid of the nav bar and use pie for navigating. I could go on all day. If you do run into problems you can always flash the stock firmware, this is why I buy Nexus phones.
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Hello,
Numerous threads answer your question already please have a look here
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Hey guys! Soo i have been using Nexus 4 for about 2 months now, aand I have been in reach with both my cousins s4¬e2 ive played with them and i found the note's multi-screen and pop up feature useful. Well i dont like having to download on 3rd party on google, well either its buggy of i'd have to buy go use all the features.... So i'd want to request if it were possible to port the features, if we can, add in the new apps and features the S4 has as well. Thank you to people who would help and i apologize to those who would find this post annoying. Again, thanks in advance
It'll require porting the touchwiz framework.
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Hey guys, first off I would like to say that Im new to the forum again, and if this is in the wrong spot, go ahead flame away lol.
I'm having a hard time finding a good rom for the Sprint S4 that can include the wifi tether. every application that I use gets denied by the phone's system. What im looking for is a rom that allows me to use the wifi tether, and keep the IR functions. I used to have the HTC and Droids and didn't have a issue like im having with the new s4....Can someone help lead me in the proper direction.
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Hey guys, first off I would like to say that Im new to the forum again, and if this is in the wrong spot, go ahead flame away lol.
I'm having a hard time finding a good rom for the Sprint S4 that can include the wifi tether. every application that I use gets denied by the phone's system. What im looking for is a rom that allows me to use the wifi tether, and keep the IR functions. I used to have the HTC and Droids and didn't have a issue like im having with the new s4....Can someone help lead me in the proper direction.
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try sacs its tw based so ir blaster should still work and i believe it has the tether built in
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try sacs its tw based so ir blaster should still work and i believe it has the tether built in
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Do I need gaps or anything. Right now I'm running cm10.2
Flash a touch wiz rom.. just about every TW rom has hotspot hacked out the gate.. no need for wifi teather
I believe sacs rom is TW so most Google Apps are included. Read the OP and try it out. ..
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Just flash hot spot mod zip on your stock rom, no need to flash a rom...btw I tryd a couple roms and always end up back to sacs roms
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Looks like it's pretty unanimous, If you want a rom, check out sacs custom rom. It's based off stock so you won't lose any features, and it's tweaked to where some people are pulling over 30 hours of battery life
4 out of 5 people have recommended it
Let me also recommend sacs' rom. It's reason I rooted my phone.
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so the sacs rom wont need to have a secondary anything for the hotspot to be active and pass the block sprint has.
SACs is awesome! Everything works and hotspot will work as if you were paying sprint for it.
Sac's ROM FTW!! I' on 42% right now with 1 hr 45 min on screen time and total of almost 20 hrs! I dare any other ROM to beat that
Just got my galaxy s4 still don't know if I should root it or not.
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churchey360 said:
Just got my galaxy s4 still don't know if I should root it or not.
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Just take some time before you root. Make sure it not defective and just give it a test run so you know after you root its not causing you problems
Members are expected to research and read through the development threads before altering their device. The only thing you will get here is a list of all the ROM's because every member has found what is best for them. You can get the same list by looking at the first few pages in development. Try each Rom out until you find what you are looking for.
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Hello Everyone I have a few quick questions. I searched the web for answers but none turned up. I am very new to rooting phones but I love stock android so bad, I must have it. So here are my questions concerning rooting my SGs4.
I have rooted my nexus 4 and put Cyanogenmod on it in the past, is the process the same for the sgs4?
The sgs4 has many features iv never seen on Cyanogenmod, I could be wrong so will all my s4 features still work?
Finally whats this Build MF9 mean? iv recently bought my s4 does this build apply to me?
MF9 is the text code for the date the software was released. Go to settings - more - about device and look at your build number to see which version you are on. If not mf9 do the software update.
None of the touchwiz apps will work natively on an AOSP based rom but many of them (not all) have alternatives in the play store market
We should be getting an upadate to android 4.3 starting tomorrow so you may want to hold off and see how you like that first.
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Yeah and all of the fancy gestures like the smart stay, smart scroll, air view and air gestures will not work on AOSP from my understanding. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
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MF9 is the text code for the date the software was released. Go to settings - more - about device and look at your build number to see which version you are on. If not mf9 do the software update.
None of the touchwiz apps will work natively on an AOSP based rom but many of them (not all) have alternatives in the play store market
We should be getting an upadate to android 4.3 starting tomorrow so you may want to hold off and see how you like that first.
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daniel4653 said:
Yeah and all of the fancy gestures like the smart stay, smart scroll, air view and air gestures will not work on AOSP from my understanding. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
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As these people stated are true but to be honest if you plan to root do not update to 4.3 unless some devs says is a go for rooting. And if you do decide to upgrade, you might stay without root for awhile.
A rooted verson will be out before the OTA goes out.. The source is already available
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Thank you all I read everyone's post, very helpful. I do have build number ending in mf9 so I think I'm good to root.
I don't think update will be cool and I don't need Samsungs bloat ware, truthfully I haven't used not one of their features.
I have had an amazing experience on cyanogen mod with my nexus 4.
Also I hear battery is amazing on Cm on gs4
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