front bezel topic

Does anyone know where to find a front bezel? I did see the one from parts4all or whatever its called overseas with shipping as much as it costs and god knows when it would arrive- I cannot seem to find any. Thanks

[Q] Replacement front glass without replacing display topic

Hi. My LG G2 Mini fall down on pavement. The front glass is break and touch don't work well. Display is ok. Man in GSM service told me that he only changed all set consist of front glass, digitizer and LCD because exchange without LCD is impossible. It's true? I finded on internet cheaper set without LCD than with LCD. If the repair is possible have I try fix it on my own or search qualified person?

[Q] Front camera. Hardware component not working = CM10/CM11 Call UI crashes topic

Hello,

I’ll start with telling you that my front camera is broken (hardware problem). Since I almost never use it, I don’t miss it and I don’t want to go have it fixed yet if I don’t need to.

Due to what seems a very strange implementation of the stock camera app, it doesn’t work at all (I’m getting a force-close on launch with error message „Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped”). Gallery itself works. My suspicion is that when I launch the Camera app, it tries to get both cameras’ properties „in advance”, regardless of the fact that I only want to use the rear one (which is the default on app startup!) and it fails, because it’s broken.

Some other apps, like OpenCamera, only try to fetch the front camera’s data when I actually try to switch to it and therefore work nicely when using the rear camera (what’s more, the OpenCamera doesn’t CRASH, it handles the error gracefully by just displaying a nice message that the front camera might be in use by another app).

So, I didn’t bother at first. But then I’ve decided to become ninja and installed Cyanogen10 (10.2.1 maguro, stable version, then cm-11-20150209 nightly) and it turned out that… the call ui is not working!!! I attached to adb and saw at logcat the following stack trace:

02-13 14:25:21.061 2209-2233/com.android.camera2 E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-200
Process: com.android.camera2, PID: 2209
java.lang.RuntimeException: Fail to get camera info
at android.hardware.Camera._getCameraInfo(Native Method)
at android.hardware.Camera.getCameraInfo(Camera.java: 221)
at com.android.camera.CameraHolder.<init>(CameraHolde r.java:169)
at com.android.camera.CameraHolder.instance(CameraHol der.java:123)
at com.android.camera.util.CameraUtil.openCamera(Came raUtil.java:468)
at com.android.camera.PhotoModule.openCamera(PhotoMod ule.java:1869)
at com.android.camera.PhotoModule.access0(PhotoMod ule.java:96)
at com.android.camera.PhotoModule$OpenCameraThread.ru n(PhotoModule.java:234)

Even though I never ever use video calls, the call ui seems to need the camera info no matter what (I’ve tried to find something in the settings, but haven’t noticed anything related to disabling video calls). The effect: the logic is working (the call is initiated), but I do not have any UI to handle it, only force closes over and over again. The same with incoming calls - logic working, ringing, but no ui.

The camera bug was acceptable, but this is not. So, now, let’s think of possible solutions:

1) revert to stock Android (I don’t want to do that!)
2) get the sources of Cyanogen, change the system call app behaviour for my needs, build my own ROM and flash it (not really a good solution, since I would have to repeat the same fix with every update)
3) MAYBE there is a way to dig into system files and change some value that indicates whether front camera is available? MAYBE it’s possible without modifying some .so libs or other binaries or the kernel? Do you think it would help? (I would still have to do it after every update, but perhaps less problematic)
4) other ideas?

I’ve found only one similar topic, where the fix is hardware-related: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1745208

Anyway, I don't think that these errors (in stock camera and CM's call ui) HAVE to be there. Front-facing camera is not absolutely necessary for these apps, it's a feature, so why is its lacking practically disabling them? This should be implemented better. But that's my opinion.

Please help who can. I don’t have the necessary knowledge of Android system (yet :) ) to handle it all by myself.

[Q] front mic ok for skype, not for calls. why!? topic

(also posted in MotoX forum but it's a general question for any android phone expert - it seems like a software problem but i think it's hardware or too low-level that new rom unlikely to solve - any suggestions are welcome, please :)

Got a new 1st gen Moto X from Hong Kong via eBay, it's an XT1058 - US AT&T unlocked and I'm using it in the UK on Three network.
The front mic works 100% fine for skype, just not for normal calls - sometimes works after clearing the cache partition, sometimes not - mostly have about 10% volume and keeps dropping/cutting out.

Trying to work out whether it's definitely just software problem that could be fixed by rooting and replacing the system version which is latest 4.4.4 provided by AT&T or if it's likely hardware and I'm better off exchanging phone?
Could it be incompatibility between stock AT&T apps and UK-THREE network?
Anyone got evidence of sellers retailing faulty batches cheaply? It was damn cheap.
I thought after a few cache cleans, reboots, switch between ART and dalvik it was ok but after installing some apps problem reappeared.
After factory reset... problem still there... after wiping cache partition... it's good for a minute then same problem... but skype works fine!
Any suggestions of next troubleshooting steps? Worth trying a different network SIM or waste of time?
If someone could suggest how such a problem might be hardware or software-related I'd really appreciate it.

[Q] 1st gen: front mic ok for skype, not for calls topic

Got a new 1st gen Moto X from Hong Kong via eBay, it's an XT1058 - US AT&T unlocked and I'm using it in the UK on Three network.
The front mic works 100% fine for skype, just not for normal calls - sometimes works after clearing the cache partition, sometimes not - mostly have about 10% volume and keeps dropping/cutting out.

Trying to work out whether it's definitely just software problem that could be fixed by rooting and replacing the system version which is latest 4.4.4 provided by AT&T or if it's likely hardware and I'm better off exchanging phone?
Could it be incompatibility between stock AT&T apps and UK-THREE network?
Anyone got evidence of sellers retailing faulty batches cheaply? It was damn cheap.
I thought after a few cache cleans, reboots, switch between ART and dalvik it was ok but after installing some apps problem reappeared.
After factory reset... problem still there... after wiping cache partition... it's good for a minute then same problem... but skype works fine!
Any suggestions of next troubleshooting steps? Worth trying a different network SIM or waste of time?
If someone could suggest how such a problem might be hardware or software I'd really appreciate it.

Dust under front facing camera topic

So my note 4 has magically attracted dust under the camera. It's quite obvious and annoying. A big black spot.
Any suggestions? I tried opening it but way to much work.
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