Root [DEV] WIP CM9 (Camera) [updated 2/23/2013]

Quite frankly, I thought we'd never see an ICS ROM with a functional camera on the Triumph, ever. Much thanks to the MTDEV team for not giving up, as well as to the devs who have left the Triumph such as Mantera for getting the ball rolling on the Triumph.

don2775 said:

I really appreciate all you are doing, I am paitent...hopefully when it is all done, one of you guys can re-root my phone. If anyone lives close enough by I can bring it , otherwise I will fedex it it to you, so you can do it for me, I will ...OF COURSE.. pay you whatever for doing it for me, as I have a guy who sometimes does computer stuff for me. I have since downloaded "questionable" videos, in his opnion, so I don't want to take a chance on him wiping my downloads off my phone.

Click to expand...

Are you the guy with the difficulty seeing the phone?

Thanks to all the developers for their hard work getting the camera up.

I flashed the 12/31 (aka 1/1) rom. Everything that was working in the official beta release of CM9 still appears to be functioning: wifi, calls, etc. If you want to flash this rom, it seems as stable as the last official release.

Great job guys!

Incredible. And just in time, as I need to take some pictures for school this week. Perhaps I can use an alternate camera app to save the pics. Haven't tried yet. I know it's been said so many times already, but thank you guys so much for your dedication to this phone.

Also, I'm curious, now that you've basically gotten the harder problems out of the way, what do you see in the future of the development of these roms? Once we get the camera fully sorted out, will it be easier to incorporate the rest of the fixes into CM9 and CM10? I know the transition from GB to ICS has been a long and difficult one for the entire Android community, but surely the transition from ICS to JB shouldn't be as difficult, correct?

Thanks. Really, thanks.

Good to hear.

ICS with a working LED flashlight! (Don't laugh, I use it about three times as much as I take pictures!)
(Netflix works too)

I did a backwards skype test yesterday too. It worked with the rear facing camera pretty well..

Have you tried third party camera apps ?

Izzard said:

Have you tried third party camera apps ?

Click to expand...

I tried camerafx and the orientation is right but when you try to take a picture the screen just goes black.

Having problems with the GPS in Foursquare, it freezes then causes a system reboot. Anyone else have this problem?

for the camer u can always screan shot while ur cam is running

chilz said:

don why not just use the guide and save some money its super easy to root and rom ur phone and once u learn how u can do it as often as u want

Click to expand...

I might try, but I'm afraid I will lose what I already have put on it.

muffalettaboy said:

ICS with a working LED flashlight! (Don't laugh, I use it about three times as much as I take pictures!)
(Netflix works too)

Click to expand...

Yeah. Too bad my flash doesn't work due to water damage

don2775 said:

I might try, but I'm afraid I will lose what I already have put on it.

Click to expand...

Well ROMming doesn't mess with the SDcard. Even if it did, you could back it up to a folder on a computer. That leaves the OS side. ROMming will erase most of your app's data when the apps rebuild their cache or try to use old data and need to be redone anyway. And that brings us to the idea of doing a factory reset in ClockWorkRecovery. That will erase your cache and data partitions, thus removing the "you" out of the phone. And we will tell you to do it if any problems arise.

I guess what I am getting to is, what are you afraid of loosing? We can guide you. And if someone says something wrong I'm sure that someone else would correct it. Then you would just have to see who was right.

I don't know what I did, but now my Triumph keeps rebooting after the red "M". I flashed this ROM using b_randon14's CWM based recovery v6.0.1.9

I flashed the 20121231 update in /alpha directory, and then when it didn't work (did what I explained above), flashed the "Ed-MTDEV-CM9-Kernel.zip" from the same folder on the site. It still reboots.

Vortrex said:

I don't know what I did, but now my Triumph keeps rebooting after the red "M". I flashed this ROM using b_randon14's CWM based recovery v6.0.1.9

I flashed the 20121231 update in /alpha directory, and then when it didn't work (did what I explained above), flashed the "Ed-MTDEV-CM9-Kernel.zip" from the same folder on the site. It still reboots.

Click to expand...

Ok, let's backup for a moment. Try to check the checksum if you can. Or maybe just try to redownload the ROM. And make sure to do the factory reset.

Wrong CWM, Mantera's 5.5.0.4 or earlier..I'm running v5.0.2.6 and Mantera's v5.5.0.4 are confirmed.

calitrippin said:

best news I've heard all year

Click to expand...

lol

even though i moved to the evo, thats freakin amazing guys! im installing this on my dads triumph, great job guys :')

Awesome! Great work MTDEV! When camera is fully functional, will install this on my fiance's triumph. Video chatting will be nice

Prerunner said:

Wrong CWM, Mantera's 5.5.0.4 or earlier..I'm running v5.0.2.6 and Mantera's v5.5.0.4 are confirmed.

Click to expand...

I flashed with b_randons cwm 6.0.1.9 no problems whatsoever. I have never had any problems with this recovery.

lololol im still running on 4.0.0.9 and it has been running flawlessly

g60madman said:

HOLLY SHIT!!! Houston we have lift off!!!!

It still doesn't store the picture but the display now works!!!! It's off set but that is easy enough to fix!!! Here is the new Beta ROM! The reason for the date is 31 is I started the build yesterday!!
http://mtdev.us/alpha/CM-MTDEV9-20121231.zip

Edit: It does store panorama pictures!

Click to expand...

Very nice work, guys! Congrats.

Izzard said:

Have you tried third party camera apps ?

Click to expand...

A big thanks and kudos to G60 and all the developers who directly and indirectly are working on upgrades.

I don't frequently use the cameras or camcorders in the phone but do on occasion. The LG camera and LG Camcorder available in the playstore has the most tweaks and adjustments of any camera software I have found (so far).

After a reboot the digital zoom works and the autoexposure seems to work on all the cameras I have tested. I can sometimes use the settings menu to changes frame rates and image or video size (on the LG), but the camera will stop responding at some point and obviously, without it recording, it's hard to say if these adjustments are actually working. As stated by G60 many camera functions are not working which is completely understandable ...On the stock camera, ICS camera and LG cameras, the exposure compensation and most other tweaks that changes the on screen image quality real time don't work (yet). However I can change the settings in the menus some of the time. The LG camera sometimes goes blank image but after a reboot the image is back, unless I tried one of the other cameras first.

I must say that the LG camera and camcorder are excellent for checking many camera functions not available on most if not all other camera apps. Exposure compensation and adjustments are far more adjustable and some older versions of this camera were actually almost working on older CM beta and alpha roms ...where it wouldn't crash... where the stock cameras did during testing... That is not the case for the current version of the app and it does not respond more frequently then the stock or ICS camera apps but that may help in the logcats...???

Otherwise I have found the Rom to be very responsive and smooth....Keep up the great work and thanks for all your efforts on this mostly fun to use phone. For now I will probably go back to the Sharp Rom but look forward to when this camera is all or mostly functioning!!!!