[Q] Reproducable freeze and end of video recording. - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I experience a reproducable Bug on CM10.1 and want to know if this is connected to my phone or a general bug others experience as well. I'll try to describe it as detailled as possible and I'm keen to find out if some of you have the same problem.
So here we go.
Used Software / Hardware
CM10.1 nightlies since end of Nov 2011 up to now (01/13/2012).
gapps as of (12/12/2012)
SGS II (I9100)
Symptoms
When recording video, at the end (when I touch the stop button) the screen freezes and doesn't react on input anymore. The recorded file is corrupt. It shows up in Gallery as a grey video and can't be played by MXPlayer or gallery itself.
Sometimes I get the "Gallery not responding", when I chose to quit gallyery, I can get back to the home screen and continue using the phone. However, another try to record a video gives me a "Can't connect to Camera" error message. (note that all english screen text are translated by me since I use german localisation)
When I choose to wait for gallery, the freeze gets worse and as the screen went to standby I couldn't get it back to show anything. (The lower touch keys however where still lid when I touched them).
All the helps now is a reset (holding down power button).
Reproducability
The problem is not reproducable everytime when taking a video. However, I think I can reproduce it in 10 Minutes when trying several shots. Even after a fresh reboot. I have the feeling it fails more on longer video recordings (+1:30min).
What I've tried to get rid of it (without success)
Change resolution from 1080p to 720p or 480p
delete data/cache of gallery app through app settings
switch Geotagging on / off
switch power shutter on/off
wipe data/factory reset (from CWM Recovery (v6.0.2.7)
wipe Dalvik cache (from CWM Recovery)
fix permissions (from CWM Recovery)
Nothing helped, so far.
Logs
I was able to reprocude it with adb logcat running on my desktop. I attached the logs. I'm not sure about traces.txt, though. It might contain younger entries and not those at the time of the original crash.
At camerafreeze.log:8809 there was a big pause in logging and online the light entries were logged. That was shortly after I touched the stop button.
Additionally I post a poll to get a feeling for how many of you CM10.1 nightly users the recording works fine.
Cheers,
David
PS: other than that, the CM10.1 is really great, especially when it comes to battery life compared to Samsungs stock ROMs!

What I've tried to get rid of it (without success)
Change resolution from 1080p to 720p or 480p
delete data/cache of gallery app through app settings
switch Geotagging on / off
switch power shutter on/off
wipe data/factory reset (from CWM Recovery (v6.0.2.7)
wipe Dalvik cache (from CWM Recovery)
fix permissions (from CWM Recovery)
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I'm adding
Deactivate RingDimmer
to that list. The Log showed that RingDimmer is recording Audio and crashing afterwards. Maybe there is a race condition or insufficient locking within the audio recording facilities causing this bug. However, since disabling (not even deinstalling) RingDimmer, I can not reproduce this bug so far. To crosscheck things I reactivated RingDimmer and set it to maximum accuracy (decreasing the pause between it's recordings to test environment noise). With that setting, the bug appeared almost immediately with short videos.
Maybe thats the sucker. I'll keep you updated.

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[HELP] Touchpad keeps losing it's Sound

hello.
i have a 32 gb hp touchpad overclocked.
when i turn it on i have sound working good.
but after very quicly, it have no more sound at all (even when i push the sound + or soung - button, i see the sound logo going up and down but no sound)
and if i turn it off and on the sound come back.
do you know what can be the problem ?
Thank you
Happens to me ALL THE TIME. I just chalk it up to WebOS being completely unfinished. But then again it could be some of the patches I have installed, since I spent all of about 3 minutes without them.
Me too, I read that Making a call in skype will bring sound back.
Apparently it helps to disable system sound, keyboard and vibrate.
Happened to me twice more today. So annoying.
Happens to mine pretty much daily. I don't see a whole lot of *****ing in general about it though, mostly here and Precentral, which leads me to believe it's mostly "modified" touchpads with this problem. I'm thinking it's a patch or kernal problem.
It's most likely a problem with a kernel or patch. I have 3 16GB's, two stock, one modded, and none of them exhibit this behavior. Since all of you have modded yours, I suggest removing patches/kernels and see if the problem persists.
parisien99 said:
hello.
i have a 32 gb hp touchpad overclocked.
when i turn it on i have sound working good.
but after very quicly, it have no more sound at all (even when i push the sound + or soung - button, i see the sound logo going up and down but no sound)
and if i turn it off and on the sound come back.
do you know what can be the problem ?
Thank you
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Install the Preware Linux App > Increase TouchPad Volume ( Lite)............
See if it makes a difference
I haven't figured out what causes it for me, but a simple solution to fix it without having to restart is to run a couple commands in xterm..
stop pulseaudio
start pulseaudio
Sound goes off (ANNOYING)
Why does the sound go off all of a sudden, I hate it, I can't even hear youtube videos, it requires a restart
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Finally , I had to disable the email audible notification (left the vibrate only). Now it has been OK for more than 1 week, before it will lose sound in a few hours.
Hope HP get's this resolved.
Thanks
trialdoer said:
I haven't figured out what causes it for me, but a simple solution to fix it without having to restart is to run a couple commands in xterm..
stop pulseaudio
start pulseaudio
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If you install the "Advanced Reset Options" patch, you can use it to restore your sound...
Just hold the power switch until the buttons show up, then tap "Cancel".
Hi,
Advanced Reset option does not fix the issue for me (unless I select Reset).
Sound fails even if the only App I have opened since a full reboot is the email App.
Maybe one of the installed Logging patches is causing the sound to drop out? Maybe we should enable logging to see if the logs give any indication around what is causing the sound issue?
this issue was happening to me everything my touchpad would go idle for longer than an hour (super annoying) however I gave all the suggestions here a try and finally had luck with robrob777's suggestion! Turning my email notification sounds to vibrate has seemed to fix my issue hasn't happened in 2 days. Just wanted to say thanks robrob777!
gburt said:
Advanced Reset option does not fix the issue for me (unless I select Reset).
Sound fails even if the only App I have opened since a full reboot is the email App.
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There's an article over on precentral about fixing the problem, though it really isn't a fix, but rather a way of getting your sound back without a reboot. See it at:
www
precentral.net
/
fix-your-touchpad-s-lost-audio
Sorry about the format of the link, but forum rules for newbies prvented me from posting it properly. Since it obviously isn't spam, I am hoping I won't be in trouble for it.
It's complicated, and you might find a reboot easier, but perhaps some developer who's into patches will spot it and come up with a more permanent fix, either to fix the problem itself, or at the very least, to have the stop/start fix applied when the volume control button reaches max and is pressed again once or twice.
Update: It just became a little easier to apply the start/stop "fix". XServer, Xterm, and Xecutah just became available on webos-internals (.org). Just use Preware, select Applications, All, and the new stuff will show at the top of the page. Just download Xecutah and the other two packages will download with it if you allow it.
Update 2: Even easier...
After installing the X stuff, start Xecutah and create a shell script in the default directory you land in with Xecutah. I just used cat and typed it in.
cat >fixaudio
Here's what I put in it...
#!/bin/sh
stop pulseaudio
start pulseaudio
Then, fix up permissions...
chmod 070 fixaudio
(It's been a while since I used Unix/Linx, but I'm sure someone will correct my permissions choice if it's not right).
Then, when your sound goes away, start Xecutah and type fixaudio.
Even better... Use Preware to find an app called PulseAudio Restarter. Works well.

[Q] Rarz Jelly Bean and Titanum Backup

I flashed the leaked jb update, All was working good. Messing around with Titanum Back up i Intergrated the sys Dalvik to the rom, Well this lead to a few apps missbehaving so I started the proccess of undo this and the phone shut down and started doing a Reinstall of JB, it hung at the spot where it optimizes the apps for a very long time, So i did a reboot and the system appeared normal, Then i have noticed all out going calls go to the speaker regardless if the speaker is selected or not, Then i noticed camera may not take pics and the video record is inop. I can view pic but i can not view recorded video, Also no ringer on phone or notifications only vibrate.
2 Reinstalls 1 Reinstall fresh from new sd card
Multiple Restarts one in safe mode
No Change so far
N
Please Help
Thanks
Al

[Q] CAMERA PROBLEM SOS , galaxy sii 9I100

My Samsung Galaxy SII had been working fine, no issues at all until two days ago I went to take a picture and the camera won’t work, the camera screen is black and hanged up when I press to take a picture for a while then I just keep getting some error messages like force close, and media server not responding. I've tried to clear the cash and data for the camera application but nothing happened, I wiped the cash from the recovery mode without any success.
I tried other apps using camera some of the not working at all, and some recording some videos with the black screen on but after finishing recording it showed me what recorded but even this happened after long time of waiting for the app to do recording.
I tried to do the test for the camera using the code *#0*# for the back and front cam but get the error message of "activity factory test not responding (wait or Close)" then Camera failed. I searched over the web but most of those who had the same problem mentioned that they did factory reset with no luck.
On which Rom, Android version, Kernel are you? Recently installed gapps? Some day I had problems with the camera after flashing gapps.
pvlastarakos said:
My Samsung Galaxy SII had been working fine, no issues at all until two days ago I went to take a picture and the camera won’t work, the camera screen is black and hanged up when I press to take a picture for a while then I just keep getting some error messages like force close, and media server not responding. I've tried to clear the cash and data for the camera application but nothing happened, I wiped the cash from the recovery mode without any success.
I tried other apps using camera some of the not working at all, and some recording some videos with the black screen on but after finishing recording it showed me what recorded but even this happened after long time of waiting for the app to do recording.
I tried to do the test for the camera using the code *#0*# for the back and front cam but get the error message of "activity factory test not responding (wait or Close)" then Camera failed. I searched over the web but most of those who had the same problem mentioned that they did factory reset with no luck.
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go to settings-applications and force stop camera app also go to cached processes and stop camera
Reboot
Hope it helps mate

[Q] No sound problem upon sharp vibration (tap) vanilla NK1 - hardware or software

I've been living with this problem for quite a while so there is a lot to say. I can't stand it anymore & consider installing custom ROM, but before that I'd like to get the opinion of more experience ones if this might be a software glitch (corrupted ROM) or actually there are some hardware issues (if so I should give it back under warranty first). If there is a simple fix / another brilliant "feature" to switch off I would extremely thankful for your help
Story:
phone Verizon S4 i545 bought directly from the carrier in Aug'14
initially worked like a charm, rooted, living the dream
first update - the infamous "broken one" making phone supper sluggish and freezing all the time; also lost root; had to do full wipe which fixed it.
another "small" update - main change is that now I see unlocked padlock at the boot screen (guess b/c of long gone root) & unable to check the KNOX counter in download mode
my current version is VRUFNK1 and that's when my current problem started.
Symptoms - all I've observed so far
Quite often during making sounds (music, game, alarmclock, even caller) all the sounds dissappear. Totally silent even though phone is not in silent mode nor the app crashed (music soft continues playing the song, call still on but neither I can hear other side nor they can hear me, no sound on recorded video). The reboot doesn't help.
What actually brings the sounds back is system notification or repetitive start-stop the music app (not the song play-pause) until it finally brings the sound back.
If I decide to reboot there is sound on Verizon logo boot screen, but the phone gets back to the muted state after booting to main screen. Furthermore, sometimes after reboot it becomes supper sluggish and freezes for couple seconds whenever any kind of sound is supposed to be played.
I found that this behavior is triggered by a stronger tap (or any other vibration like running) on the upper part of the body.
Some apps seems to be more prone that the others (Endomondo w/ GPS on, game "Deck Heroes")
At the moment of loosing the sound I can a "scratchy" digital noise for a fraction of a second. It sounds familiar to when the mp3 is corrupted.
Phone have never actually fallen, but cannot rule out some generic physical damage inside
Things I've tried & failed to fix the issue:
full wipe (again)
all the samsung rubbish switched off, no motion / gesture control, no smart screen etc
"now google" detection disabled
safe mode
safe mode + all connectivity off
no sd-card (never had one)
Thank you very much for your help!
Let me know if there is anything else I can provide to aid the solution of this problem

Galaxy S5 multiple bugs after a missed call

Description of problem
After getting a missed call the phones starts acting very weird , the home button does not work so does the multitasking button,the screen wont rotate, the auto brightness stops working and defaults to the middle, YouTube auto pauses for no reason.
Cause/Steps to recreate the issue
if i get a missed call the issues stars to appear even if it is a whatsapp call, the auto brightness and YouTube auto pause just appends regular.
What I've tried so far to resolve the issue
i have tried to wipe the cache, turn off some bloatware apps even i have restore my phone and it fixed the problem for a week.
Samsung Galaxy S5 SM900A Android version 6.0.1
arieldm said:
Description of problem
After getting a missed call the phones starts acting very weird , the home button does not work so does the multitasking button,the screen wont rotate, the auto brightness stops working and defaults to the middle, YouTube auto pauses for no reason.
Cause/Steps to recreate the issue
if i get a missed call the issues stars to appear even if it is a whatsapp call, the auto brightness and YouTube auto pause just appends regular.
What I've tried so far to resolve the issue
i have tried to wipe the cache, turn off some bloatware apps even i have restore my phone and it fixed the problem for a week.
Samsung Galaxy S5 SM900A Android version 6.0.1
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Did you try a complete new installation of your rom? Or try flashing stock rom? If it is a bug in the system of your current rom then wiping or reseting won't just fix the problem.
no,i have only gone as far as to wipe the system and then restore, any guide on how to flash the stock rom?

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