Breathing life back to venture dev

[spen1995]

I have been away from venture for some time now developing galaxy s2 and 3 other phones roms, and im back to get this phone on the top, msg me if you need any help i have learned some extensive smali language if youd like me to help with settings customization, venture rules!!

 

[roadkill42]

be nice if can get the touch screen addjustment if,at all possable and get the cammera to work when u clock the phone over 600mhz i dont think will happen due to the quialty of the phone componets

 

[Dracable]

The bug with the camera while oc'd is extremely common across devices. In fact, ive noticed a lot of custom kernels and cm ports list the camera as one of the only bugs, if not the ONLY bug. I will prob never find a fix for it. Sorry man :-(

 

[roadkill42]

it ok just bugs u s bit to go back to stock speed to take a pic

 

[Dracable]

Ya, but a small price to pay to b able to oc this phone ;-) i hope someone can dev a better kernel, but turning down the speed for a sec to snap a pic isnt too bad. At least the cam works at all. U could always revert to stock kernel by flashing any rom that doesnt contain my kernel (including my drandroid rom with stock kernel) ;-)

 

[roadkill42]

i like ur rom i dont do alot of pics any ways sounds like a conflection of some typ had simuliar problem on,my pc once to find it would b a pain dose ur new phone do it?

 

[Dracable]

I havent oc'd my new phone yet, but ive read up on it, and pretty much every kernel/cm and ics port has issues where the cam is totally disabled.

 

[roadkill42]

couldent a comand b put in the camera progran, to set the cpu @ 600 i know there is program for windows that will slow down the cpu or somthing that will allow older games to run properly i know rthis, is different operating sys should be able in,theory

 

[Dracable]

As i dont have the full aosp source, i dont have the source code for the camera app, so no clue on that one. I only have the kernel source on hand. The aosp source is too big for me to complete the repo sync on my crappy connection :-(

 

[Dracable]

If anyone knows any tweaks to the kernel source that would allow the camera to work while oc'd, speak up and i will recompile a new kernel with the changes

 

[Dracable]

I dont know much about the Tasker app, but maybe u could throw somethin together with Tasker tp automatically turn down the cpu before opening the camera app? Anyone know the Tasker app well?

 

[roadkill42]

some kind of batch file should work i think i dont know how to but heard of it

 

[spen1995]

use an initd script, we caan easly add support for them to are rom

 

[Dracable]

Drandroid supports initd scripts already.

 

[divinebovine]

be nice if can get the touch screen addjustment if,at all possable and get the cammera to work when u clock the phone over 600mhz i dont think will happen due to the quialty of the phone componets

I'd settle for the camera just working reasonably at normal clock speed...I hate hate HATE how it gives me a still image (and plays the camera click sound if I haven't disabled it) a second before it takes the picture rather than a moment after, I lose so many shots that way.

Drandroid supports initd scripts already.

Speaking of which, does Drandroid Lite happen to have built-in support for SD-EXT mounting of /data?

 

[Dracable]

No, i never added support for that. If u would like me to, i can add it and reupload the rom by tomorrow.

 

[divinebovine]

The easy way sounds nice, but I guess it would be a good idea for me to do the research and learn how to do it myself.

 

[roadkill42]

that sounds great to me

 

[Dracable]

Alrighty folks, check the DRAndroid thread for the beta of v1r3. I attempted to add apps2sd support. This is UNTESTED! I need guinea pigs to post some results, so get on it guys! ;-)

 

[roadkill42]

so what did u do to this updated rom i having no problems but dont know what i need to test

 

[Dracable]

Just apps2sd support. Need to kno if working.

 

[roadkill42]

i have that program all ready installed for two months now works great

 

[Dracable]

Specifically talking about support for sd-ext partitioning

 

[roadkill42]

sorry not understanding

 

[divinebovine]

sorry not understanding

It's all my fault!

app2sd is the native function for moving part of apps to SD. It's helpful but not enough. To do more, you partition your SD card, setting aside a portion of it to be formatted with an EXT2, EXT3, or EXT4 filesystem, the same type commonly used in linux. Then there are a variety of techniques and apps you can use to put stuff there from the back-end without Android really knowing what trick you're pulling, resulting in you having more space.

Along those lines I've been using link2sd, which moves much more of an app than app2sd and creates a symbolic link wherever an original file was. It's a much better solution than app2sd but still not as good as I'd want. I considered just abandoning the entire /data partition and mounting my SD's EXT3 partition on /data but I'm lazy and haven't gotten around to experimenting with that yet.

Then I read this:

Have you tried an sd-ext partition? Those do wonders for working around low internal storage, they basically make the phone think it has far more than it really does. If you say, used an 8GB card, the internal storage in settings--storage will display 8GB of 'internal' storage if using an sd-ext. I find it preferable to apps2sd because simply moving to SD still leaves certain parts on the internal which means you still quickly run out if your device has little internal memory to begin with.

On reading that I realized that I'm not only not the first person with the idea, but that there is an existing design and perhaps even an existing system. I mentioned it to Dracable who adjusted Drandroid Lite, and here we are.