[makonaima]

Dorregaray: Much respect for your skill, diligence and patience. You ROCK

 

[makonaima]

Yes: http://www.paypal.co...d=BPXX5CHKBL2HW
There's still much work to do but we're much closer to have it fully working than before.

Flashed it. Worked like a charm. The precautions in the OP are on point, so it didn't behave in an unexpected way - i.e. I had to reboot to get back into the camera. All that said it felt GREAT to finally be able to take a photo with our little orphan child. Photo quality is great as well. Even though I didn't do any of the work on this I'm wearing a stupid, "I told you so" grin. Gotta say it again - the developers, who do this in their spare time, and unpaid, are simply superb!!! Thanks guys.

 

[makonaima]

Built per your instructions on your repository, and it did build and boot, but camera would not work. When I activated the camera, got the standard 'sorry, app has failed' message. Did a repo sync before following your directions. I think I also remember some error messages while running the "apply-camera_patches.sh", but wasn't sure if those were expected or not. Any suggestions?

Per Occam's Razor, the simplest solution is generally the best - or something like that. Download the zip in the OP, Nandroid your TP then flash the downloaded zip. Try it. If you like it, keep it. If you don't, revert.

 

[makonaima]

Yesterday I loaded CM9 on my HP Touchpad using the nightly build. I then went on to install "update-cm9-tenderloin-camera-preview5.zip". After that I'm unable to boot with CM9. I keep getting BSD. Any suggestions ?

I see this is your first post - so welcome to the forum.

I'm pretty sure that the OP states that Preview 5 (now Preview 6) is an update for Preview 3. That might suggest you should install Preview 3 first - THEN install Preview 5. If that doesn't solve your problem, then you may have an issue that's deeper than Dorregaray's Camera fix.

 

[makonaima]

So I made a determined effort to break the stock camera app and I failed. I reeled off 30 consecutive photos and made a short video and they all came out perfectly - except the first photo of course, which was rotated.
My only issue is that even though the TP is showing the correct date and time, all of the photos were timestamped 2002-12-08 12.00.00 with a sequence number. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

 

[makonaima]

Does preview 3 take the place of the CM offficial nightly when installing P6? No matter which way I flash I cant find a stock camera app anywhere on my TP.
Thanks

1. Flash the nightly/weekly
2. Flash preview 3
3. Flash Preview 6
4. Enjoy

 

[makonaima]

OK... So here's MY big-time kudos to Dorregaray!!! With the magnetometer fix, Google Sky Map is now working on the TP. May not be worth much to many - but this is an absolutely stunning development. I for one thought it would never be possible on this device - but here we are. I'm hoping that the camera touches will be merged with the latest 'nightlies' so we can have both the camera goodness PLUS the OTA updates.
This surely takes the edge off waiting for Jelly Bean.

 

[makonaima]

Thanks for the help, but can you point me to the install instruction post? The only two files in the op are cm-9-20120926-UNOFFICIAL-cam-preview7-tenderloin.zip which is roughly 130 MB and update-cm9-tenderloin-camera-preview7.zip which is 7 MB. None say preview 3. Again, thanks for helping.

http://goo.im/devs/Dorregaray

 

[makonaima]

Thank you for your great work! I installed this with no problem, but did get blue screen after first boot. Reset with power and home button and booted up fine.
Camera works good so far.
Google sky starts and compass app starts but magnetometer is not working. Sky in auto mode always points east, compass doesn't move. tried calibrating but no go.
Any ideas would helps.

Thanks again!
Rick.

Smart Compass (Lite) worked for me. It was a tad skittish and hypersensitive, but North was always North-ish.
Google Sky started fine, and the magnetometer is working

Things have been happening fast and furious with these recent builds, so clearing of the caches is a must - and the truth is that a Factory reset mightn't be such a bad idea if you're having systemic issues. I'm figuring that if Mr. D keeps up the pace, a full wipe might be in order sooner rather than later. Clears all the cobwebs.

Just my $0.02

 

[makonaima]

Installed preview8 update

Preview is correct

Played around with settings, tried to set power as shutter release, did not work. Could not see any effects from changing any settings. Takes decent videos. Definitely not home video quality.

Did not have to uninstall and reinstall Ucam. Figured out how to zoom. Found a users manual. Think Ucam is going to be my preferred camera app.

Stock cam: Preview is correct, although the aspect ratio does seem a bit wiggy
Stock cam: Power Shutter works for me. I held it down until the photo was snapped
Stock cam: I can't zoom. Has anyone worked out how to do that?
UCam: Uber-configurable, so it seems to offer more promise than the stock. However, trying to shoot a video in uCam always caused it to FC.

Does anyone remember how frustrated they were in the days before Dorregaray published his first cam preview?

 

[makonaima]

I must say I am very impressed with it. I did not get BSOD on either restart and had no problems with the stock camera, or Ucam (only camera apps I have.) I found that both apps will zoom in, but only until 2.0x after that I couldn't see any difference up to 4.0x. No crashes or anything else so far. Great work Dorregaray, and Thank You!

Welcome aboard Serial_Thrilla... Can you say how you got the stock camera to zoom?

 

[makonaima]

Hmmmmm.... 24 hours without any Dorregaray-pearls. What's the world coming to? Pretty soon we're going to start hearing bleating that "... work has stopped on the camera."

 

[makonaima]

Great work, the video quality is a lot clearer now. I will have to do a little testing.

Thanks Dorregaray

+1

 

[makonaima]

Still having issues with some graphics showing up. Any ideas without having to do a full wipe?

Hey Gradular: At this stage of TP development, where things are happening really quickly, your two best friends are Nandroid backup and Full Wipe. What I do is after making my Nandroid, move it off to a computer. So after a full wipe, I just move it back on to the TP and restore it. Takes a couple of extra minutes but is well worth it.

What I have found is there's a lot of residual crap left hanging around in your build if you just keep flashing ROMs one over the other. A full wipe takes care of those low hanging fruit and gives you a clean slate.

Just my $0.02 FWIW.

 

[makonaima]

Make sense. Can you please expand on what steps you use for "full wipe" to clean touchpad before installing to remove residual files left behind. Is it the same process to use whether cyanofenmod 7,9, or 10 is installled and also previews on top are installed ? Thanks.

Run Acme Uninstaller - this will purge Cyanogenmod files
Boot into WebOS and do a full Erase - that will purge any "leftovers"
When you reboot, you'll have to re-enter your WebOS credentials, and basically your tablet will be back to almost basic.
Now go ahead and follow the documented process to place the installation files on your TP and run the Acme Installer of your choice.

 

[makonaima]

Thanks. I already have MTP box checked and that is how I am able to connect/transfer files between TP and PC. But this backup folder is mystery, because I can see it on TP using Astro app file manager(and can do copy, paste) but same backup directory just not visible from the PC side. On PC, I can navigate to \sdcard\clockworkmod\ than nothing under that is visible. On TP, everything shows up fine.

Which recovery are you using to do the Nandroid? CWM or TWRP?

 

[makonaima]

I did backup using CWM and when needed will do recovery using CWM. My problem is not able to see backup directory from PC to move it from TP to PC and backup directory on TP with CM9 backup files do exists.

With apologies to you, let me say that it seems we have uncovered a new "feature". I had done this so many times in the past that to be honest I didn't retrace the steps when I offered the advice. Now that I'm actually doing it, you are 100% correct - the backup folder DOES NOT APPEAR in the listing of files on the SD card when the TP is connected via USB and being viewed in Windows Explorer. This is a bit troubling, since this has often been my quick and dirty way of transferring files to the TP.

That said - and I don't know if this makes things better - the files ARE visible when using an on-device file manager like ES File Explorer or Root Explorer. So my workaround recommendation would be to use one of those to copy your backup files off the TP so yu can get some forward progress.

In the mean time, if anyone else is noticing the same problem, please weigh in so we can get this addressed.

 

[makonaima]

But you can see it if you mount USB using either cwm or twrp recovery. Just remember that after you are finished, right click the TouchPad drive letter and eject the drive. Also, unmount usb in whichever recovery program(cwm or twrp) you used to mount it. If you do not do this, you could corrupt your TouchPad drive.

Agreed - however that seems a retrograde step, and does appear to be something that's problematic with the build. It's neither convenient nor practical to have to boot into recovery to view or manipulate certain files on the TP. Up until now it was also not necessary.

Begin $0.02 -> I will always give due thanks and extreme credit to those who have worked so hard on these builds. But introducing new and systemic problems into what should be forward progress is a bit quizzical. There's a lot of development going on on the flanks, and we're probably at a point where the development team should pause, coalesce their work and try to release a single "experimental" build. All of the progress in recent weeks is phenomenal and very exciting. However to Joe Layman (i.e. those with my skill level or lack thereof) it's confusing. <- End $0.02.

 

[makonaima]

Hi you may need to change the settings on your PC to see hidden files and folders. I just did this the other day and backed up all my Nandroid backups. By default this is off on the PC.

Hello: This was the first fix I attempted because I'm familiar with that requirement in Windows. I also went a couple of steps further.
1. Using ES File Explorer I created a new folder in /sdcard/clockworkmod. That folder is not visible on the Win 7 side.
2. Using Windows Explorer, I created a new folder in /sdcard/clockworkmod (on the Win 7 side). When I refreshed the /sdcard/clockworkmod folder in ES File Explorer on the TP, that folder was visible.
3. After a reboot, even the folder created using Win 7, which was previously visible, no longer shows up in Windows.

 

[makonaima]

This is strange, I just went and plugged the TP into a different PC, without the viewing of hidden files, and it all showed up there too.
Could it be a problem with the permissions on the device and not the PC? Have you got another PC around or access to one? Give it a test on a different computer and see if anything shows up. If not you might want to try fixing the permission.

You can also use one of the WiFi transfer apps to download the Data to your PC. This will take longer but it gets the job done.

Believe it or not, I tried ALL of the steps you outlined above. This included Fixing permissions both in ROM Manager and in Recovery. Actually when I ran Fix Permissions in Recovery it said it "completed" in less than 2 seconds - so that's a little suspect. As a firm believer in Occam's Razor, I Acmeuninstalled (nothing to lose & everything to gain) and when I booted into WebOS, all of the files were visible in USB mode. So I'm beginning to believe that something was suspect in my build.

I'll stop posting on this until I work out a solution....