Bravia Engine! Real Time Photo/Video Enhancement!

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I want reopen thread about Sony Bravia Engine working on Galaxy S2!

First, I want say thanks to GadgetCheck that opened old thread that was closed.

Second I want say that it isn't PLACEBO EFFECTS as someone told.

Difference is low, but difference THERE IS and BRAVIA POSTPROCESSING WORKS!! (I compared 2 galaxy s2, with the same firmware, same kernel, same condition, same photo..before screens was indentical, after that I have patched one, I've seen DIFFERENCES! Yes, is not too much, but image is sharper)

Third I want explain that this software postprocessing IS NOT RELATED TO HARDWARE, but use ONLY CPU TO APPLY IN REALTIME SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS (doesn't use any hardware acceleration and for this reason can be used on galaxy s2)

For this reason I paste instruction from old topic:

Introduction
Sony Bravia Engine provides DHD HQ IMAGE & MOVIE Quality Improvements!
it was first ported to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 via zdzihu And its almost the same procedure for the SGS2 also so thanks to his main thread the procedure lmost remains the same with slight variations.

Benefits

IT's A Post-Processing Engine, so you can view the improvements only on your phone's screen.


Requirements

Android Gingerbread 2.3.x
At least 5MB free on /system


Instructions
For the time being this is for developers and advanced users only,
So i will provide CWM packages for my ROM only!

Download Sony Bravia Engine File Pack:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chec...2.zip/download

Extract the two files inside the Downloaded file (be_movie & be_photo) and place it in /system/etc

Now you need to edit the build.prop of your ROM
so Open /system/build.prop and add

#Sony Bravia Engine Service
ro.service.swiqi.supported=true
persist.service.swiqi.enable=1

That's done, Now Save the file.

Now here is the tricky part a.k.a setting the correct permissions of the files
Here are the file permissions

set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/system/etc/be_movie");
set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/system/etc/be_photo");
set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/system/build.prop");

So that means,
Permissions should be(Reminder the permissions are the key here if you don't use this it wont work!)

be_movie- 0755
be_photo- 0755
build.prop- 0755

To set this permission you can use root explorer and set all permissions or install a terminal and digit:
su
busybox chmod 0755 /system/etc/be_photo
busybox chmod 0755 /system/etc/be_movie
busybox chown 0.0 /system/etc/be_photo
busybox chown 0.0 /system/etc/be_movie
busybox chmod 0755 /system/build.prop
busybox chown 0.0 /system/build.prop

That's it
NOW REBOOT AND ENJOY!

You can follow also this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...5&postcount=42

Credits

zdzihu: For XPERIA X10
XxXPachaXxX: For DesireHD

Here Old Topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1380094

Man, did you even read the line in the build.prop that you're adding?
Do our S2 have swiqi service?
No.
So, those lines:
o.service.swiqi.supported=true
persist.service.swiqi.enable=1

Are useless. And doesn't do anything.
As long as be_movie and photo. These are just for different mode of the bravIa engine, when its loaded with swiqi service.
This have been said one hundred billion times, why getting back on this?

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Woops. Wrong one.

I did only copy and paste...maybe that row in build.prop is useless and need only 2 files in system/etc, but image is sharper (and this isn't placebo)

Originally Posted by fenomeno83

I did only copy and paste...maybe that row in build.prop is useless and need only 2 files in system/etc, but image is sharper (and this isn't placebo)

This is a Placebo. I can really assure that Bravia engine can't work without that service.

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Originally Posted by Paradoxxx

This is a Placebo. I can really assure that Bravia engine can't work without that service.

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I don't want continue discussion with you.
Do you want that I say that you're right, so you will be happy? Ok, you're right

Who want, can judice by himself.
I will not reply to you.

Peace and goodnight

This is a placebo and of no use to our device just like HTC has dependencies over framwork so does the bravia engine to Sony/Erickson...

On that note thread closed.

Sent from the valley of the shadows....