Guest Telltale Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 I've had my San Francisco for about a week now and I'm more than happy with it. I installed GSF 15b and the Gen2 upgrade and it's working brilliantly, I'm also having a lot of fun customising and modifying it However recently I'm having issues with the camera: it takes photos fine but it has black lines running all along the preview window: It's not critical but it is an annoyance so it'd be great if I could fix it. The only guess I can give is that I did recently mount the system directory as R/W and rename the camera shutter sound so it doesn't play, could this be linked to the problems I'm having? If I leave it as R/W then the camera won't boot at all and just shows a black screen so I remounted as just R/ and now it gives me this. Cheers for any help you guys can give.
Guest t0mm13b Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 I've had my San Francisco for about a week now and I'm more than happy with it. I installed GSF 15b and the Gen2 upgrade and it's working brilliantly, I'm also having a lot of fun customising and modifying it However recently I'm having issues with the camera: it takes photos fine but it has black lines running all along the preview window: It's not critical but it is an annoyance so it'd be great if I could fix it. The only guess I can give is that I did recently mount the system directory as R/W and rename the camera shutter sound so it doesn't play, could this be linked to the problems I'm having? If I leave it as R/W then the camera won't boot at all and just shows a black screen so I remounted as just R/ and now it gives me this. Cheers for any help you guys can give. Sounds like you need to increase the VM size found in Settings > CyanogenMod > Performance Settings, scroll to the bottom and tap 'VM Heap Size', it defaults to 32m, perhaps increase that to 48m and see what happens. Lines that appear are a symptom of the VM heap size :)
Guest Telltale Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 Sounds like you need to increase the VM size found in Settings > CyanogenMod > Performance Settings, scroll to the bottom and tap 'VM Heap Size', it defaults to 32m, perhaps increase that to 48m and see what happens. Lines that appear are a symptom of the VM heap size :) I'm using Ginger Stir Fry, is there any way I can still do this?
Guest flshg Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) I'm using Ginger Stir Fry, is there any way I can still do this? You could use the VM heap tool on market or from xda developers. You could try lowering the value as well, I think the standard is 24mb or 16mb. I guess you have already tried rebooting, as thats sometimes is all thats needed for strange camera issues like this. Does this issue happen with other camera apps? Also, rename the shutter sound back, does this fix it? If so, then you may be better to create a dummy/silent sound file in the same format and replace the shutter sound file. Edited August 1, 2011 by flshg
Guest Telltale Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) You could use the VM heap tool on market or from xda developers. You could try lowering the value as well, I think the standard is 24mb or 16mb. I guess you have already tried rebooting, as thats sometimes is all thats needed for strange camera issues like this. Does this issue happen with other camera apps? Also, rename the shutter sound back, does this fix it? If so, then you may be better to create a dummy/silent sound file in the same format and replace the shutter sound file. I tried naming the file back and mounting the system as read only but the camera won't load at all now, no matter what I change it to. Is there anywhere I can reinstall the camera app from? Or could someone possibly try uploading the camera_click.ogg and videorecord.ogg files? Also changing the VM size did nothing. I'll try using a different app now. OK just tried using the Camera ZOOM FX app and that wouldn't load either. Edited August 1, 2011 by Telltale
Guest flshg Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 I tried naming the file back and mounting the system as read only but the camera won't load at all now, no matter what I change it to. Is there anywhere I can reinstall the camera app from? Or could someone possibly try uploading the camera_click.ogg and videorecord.ogg files? Also changing the VM size did nothing. I'll try using a different app now. OK just tried using the Camera ZOOM FX app and that wouldn't load either. If you still have your ginger stir fry rom, you can open it in any zip manager (assuming you used clockworkmod version, not TPT). You should find all your needed files in the relevant folders. It may be easier just to reflash the rom over itself, wipe dalvik cache only.
Guest Telltale Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 If you still have your ginger stir fry rom, you can open it in any zip manager (assuming you used clockworkmod version, not TPT). You should find all your needed files in the relevant folders. It may be easier just to reflash the rom over itself, wipe dalvik cache only. Ok cheers for the help, I just checked to see if clearing the dalvik cache by itself would work but it didn't. I was thinkof of trying out CM7 anyway so I may just use this as an opportunity to do a clean install of that. One question though: if I back up my apps and system data with Titanium Backup will they be restored exactly as before? Also I made sure not to select to backup the camera, just incase.
Guest flshg Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 Ok cheers for the help, I just checked to see if clearing the dalvik cache by itself would work but it didn't. I was thinkof of trying out CM7 anyway so I may just use this as an opportunity to do a clean install of that. One question though: if I back up my apps and system data with Titanium Backup will they be restored exactly as before? Also I made sure not to select to backup the camera, just incase. In theory yes. I personally havent tried going from ginger stir fry to CM7 restoring apps using titanium, but it should be ok. If you want to be safe its best to also do a full backup in clockwork before trying CM7. What system data were you thinking of restoring? I've heard restoring any sort of system apps or settings across roms causes problems.
Guest Telltale Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 In theory yes. I personally havent tried going from ginger stir fry to CM7 restoring apps using titanium, but it should be ok. If you want to be safe its best to also do a full backup in clockwork before trying CM7. What system data were you thinking of restoring? I've heard restoring any sort of system apps or settings across roms causes problems. Oh I literally just copied all the apps + system data using the batch tool in Titanium, only excluding the camera. I guess I could try at first just installing the apps and then try installing the system data and if that causes problems just reflash it. The main reason is I just don't want to lose a lot of the data for the system apps e.g. contacts and my general phones settings.
Guest flshg Posted August 1, 2011 Report Posted August 1, 2011 Oh I literally just copied all the apps + system data using the batch tool in Titanium, only excluding the camera. I guess I could try at first just installing the apps and then try installing the system data and if that causes problems just reflash it. The main reason is I just don't want to lose a lot of the data for the system apps e.g. contacts and my general phones settings. I suspect that restoring the system data is going to cause problems, but of course you are welcome to experiment :) You are better off using google's sync to save your contacts, gmail, calendar stuff, and let it redownload those after installing CM7 and signing into your google account. Plus you should expect to have to redo your phone settings anyway since you will be moving to a completely different rom.
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