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[mantera]

mantera, I tried this fix and the camera didn't work kept crashing.

That's weird. Worked on my phone. As you can see from the commits before that, I pulled in your camera changes before reapplying that commit.

 

[g60madman]

That's weird. Worked on my phone. As you can see from the commits before that, I pulled in your camera changes before reapplying that commit.

I think it maybe an issue with the new commits I just pulled in for base_frameworks as it has totally screwed the camera up. When you record video now it creates 2 video files for each recording. Also taking pictures with the front facing camera now crashes the camera. Oh how I love CM7 code :banghead: I may need to check if there is new updates for the apps_Camera.

edit: never mind looks like they just added some language support to the camera so no dice

 

[Chairshot215]

Ok did nothing else with my life but and am now able to build the entire Rom from source. Just have one last thing I need to figure out and that

 

[g60madman]

Ok did nothing else with my life but and am now able to build the entire Rom from source. Just have one last thing I need to figure out and that

 

[Chairshot215]

Ask away brother!!! All the apps are located in android_packages_apps. If there is an app you don't want to build any more just go into the folder and rename the Android.mk to Android.mk.old. Just in case you need to use it again, or removing the app causes problems.

Thanks that would make perfect sense, one of the ways I figured out how to add a bunch of APK

 

[g60madman]

Thanks that would make perfect sense, one of the ways I figured out how to add a bunch of APK’s was to set up a directory with an Android.mk and then added an include command in the Triumph.mk pointing to the Android.mk with the copy command for the packages. Feeling a bit stupid that after learning this I did not think to look at the Android.mk for the packages I don’t want. Downloaded the source for a few different ROMs just to get an idea on different ways of doing things.

No worries there is 100 ways to skin this cat Another thing to look at is android/base/target/product/full.mk this gets called in android/device/motorola/triumph/triumph.mk on like 225

$(call inherit-product, build/target/product/full.mk)

The full.mk is a place to change those blasted boring default sounds depending on how much you are tweaking your ROM.

EDIT: One more note is once you figure out what apps you don't need to call anymore you can always updated your default.xml to reflect those changes to remove them from your repo completely. Here is one of my commits. I am not sure if you already knew this or not, but figured it wouldn't hurt to post for you and others.

https://github.com/g60madman/android/commit/ccdbfbacb3092759217835ecfd3faffc7487f47f

 

[Chairshot215]

Ask away brother!!!

Sorry just always feel a little hesitant asking you guys as I'm coming to find that not everyone is as willing to help someone trying to learn as you are. Have recieved a few unkind PM's from others and a few negative comments from accounts that had just been created and then apparently never used again. Basicaly Im just trying to say thanks for answering my questions and I very much appreciate that You have.

 

[g60madman]

Sorry just always feel a little hesitant asking you guys as I'm coming to find that not everyone is as willing to help someone trying to learn as you are. Have recieved a few unkind PM's from others and a few negative comments from accounts that had just been created and then apparently never used again. Basicaly Im just trying to say thanks for answering my questions and I very much appreciate that You have.

klehman215,

It's my pleasure Lucky for us we have a great community of dev's that are willing to share the knowledge. I wouldn't be doing what I am doing with out others that also shared the wealth like Whyzor, mantera, TickerGuy, Austrie, Mobstergunz, and b_randon14 just to name a few. Even though we have lost some dev's we still are standing strong. Any forum like this is simply about community. As long as the community still helps one another we can only succeed. So keep rocking it and asking those questions!

 

[dsmryder]

Sorry just always feel a little hesitant asking you guys as I'm coming to find that not everyone is as willing to help someone trying to learn as you are. Have recieved a few unkind PM's from others and a few negative comments from accounts that had just been created and then apparently never used again. Basicaly Im just trying to say thanks for answering my questions and I very much appreciate that You have.

Yeah, like g60 said. Ask away! I would just put the rude coments in the recycle bin and keep moving on. I know I've asked my share of noobie questions and will ask more. now I'n in the position where I can build. Diagnose what happened when I can't build. And barely work through git and github.
So, yeah. Ask away.

There are no dumb questions, just long nights