Theory: Recent GApps lead to freezes / Bug #51 / Question about MIUI Camera / etc.
I also have/had the feeling that the October + November nightlies are not working as stable as the 09-23 nightly.
However, currently I am on 11-02 nightly but since a couple of days I am not using one of the latest jajb's Minimal GApps, instead I am using the older 2014-10-05 Minimal GApps. So far it seems that my system is running more stable this way.
The reason for this is that I got the feeling that the new v5.0.x Play Store that has been introduced in the 2014-10-12 Minimal Gapps (which was a v4.9.x version before) and/or that the Play Services which made a jump from v6.1.11 to v6.1.71 in this period could be responsible for system freezes and reboots on our Defys.
So could you please check if using 2014-10-05 (or older) GApps helps you too with the recent nighties, or if using the recent GApps together with the 09-23 nighly does provoke freezes too on your device? :fingers-crossed:
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@dmasu: Many thanks for your report, it should indeed be very useful for fixing bug #51! :good:
@sevenrock: Since you have been following the same approach, could you (as well as @Quarx) have a look which commit between 07-01 and 07-02 nightly is responsible for bug #51. :fingers-crossed:
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Stock Camera is focusing fine here on my Defy+ on 02-11 nightly.
Anyway, I tried your tip to use MIUI camera for 848x480 video recording and it works well, with decent frame rates.
However, I have just a quite old version of MIUI camera (downloaded from here) and I don't like about it that an almost intransparent bar hides about 1/6 of the right screen area when using video mode.
A more recent version of MIUI camera from here doesn't work on my Defy (it just force closes).
So which version of MIUI camera are you using? Does it also have this almost intransparent bar on the right side?
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Edit / addition 1:
Can other green lens Defy users confirm this?
Should I put it on the bug list or is it rather caused by some faulty or incomplete CM commit that will be fixed again in one of the next nightlies?
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Edit / addition 2:
@Quarx: I added a new (minor) bug #53 to the bug list: When doing an incremental update, the kernel isn't updated, i.e. copied to /bootstrap/bootstrap.
As mentioned here I may have found a freeze bug. After 2 days of operation the phone freezes and is unusable. When I plug the charger, nothing happens (LED doesn't start to flash). When I call the phone nothing happens, too. Besides the caller hears the ring ton. ADB isn't possible, too.
I could track the bug in the following ROMs: CM11-20141010, ...1024 and ..1102. I'm sure in CM11-20140923 the bug wasn't there.
I also have/had the feeling that the October + November nightlies are not working as stable as the 09-23 nightly.
However, currently I am on 11-02 nightly but since a couple of days I am not using one of the latest jajb's Minimal GApps, instead I am using the older 2014-10-05 Minimal GApps. So far it seems that my system is running more stable this way.
The reason for this is that I got the feeling that the new v5.0.x Play Store that has been introduced in the 2014-10-12 Minimal Gapps (which was a v4.9.x version before) and/or that the Play Services which made a jump from v6.1.11 to v6.1.71 in this period could be responsible for system freezes and reboots on our Defys.
So could you please check if using 2014-10-05 (or older) GApps helps you too with the recent nighties, or if using the recent GApps together with the 09-23 nighly does provoke freezes too on your device? :fingers-crossed:
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@dmasu: Many thanks for your report, it should indeed be very useful for fixing bug #51! :good:
@sevenrock: Since you have been following the same approach, could you (as well as @Quarx) have a look which commit between 07-01 and 07-02 nightly is responsible for bug #51. :fingers-crossed:
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* Stock Camera doesn't focus on 0211 and Google camera is a memory hog. Use MIUI camera (very fast & has 848x480 video as well).
Stock Camera is focusing fine here on my Defy+ on 02-11 nightly.
Anyway, I tried your tip to use MIUI camera for 848x480 video recording and it works well, with decent frame rates.
However, I have just a quite old version of MIUI camera (downloaded from here) and I don't like about it that an almost intransparent bar hides about 1/6 of the right screen area when using video mode.
A more recent version of MIUI camera from here doesn't work on my Defy (it just force closes).
So which version of MIUI camera are you using? Does it also have this almost intransparent bar on the right side?
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Edit / addition 1:
Hello everyone!
In green lens Defy not working the video camera on the last ROM (11/05), however, the camera works properly.
Here I leave the link to the log.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B00F9XnJ4G3eZHJwME5IclluYWc/edit?usp=docslist_api
Can other green lens Defy users confirm this?
Should I put it on the bug list or is it rather caused by some faulty or incomplete CM commit that will be fixed again in one of the next nightlies?
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Edit / addition 2:
@Quarx: I added a new (minor) bug #53 to the bug list: When doing an incremental update, the kernel isn't updated, i.e. copied to /bootstrap/bootstrap.
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