October 8, 2010
A200 (or Elm J10i2 only?) sony ericsson platform bug: serial photoshots via J2ME
Yesterday tested midlet that does serial of photoshots via J2ME MMAPI: VideoControl.getSnapshot(defaultEncoding), at my new Elm (J10i2), firmware R7CA061. Mode I used for viewfinder is canvas direct draw.
After 2 calls the viewfinder turns off and getSnapshot() returns null (this is unexpected behavior as by spec it must throw exception in case of trouble). Seems that this is some camera driver problem.
The most unpleasant is that my old K530i works perfectly at this test :-(
I'm going to check whether item viewfinder mode solves the problem.
Actually, seems that new platform is not actually as good as it seems, because of unstable wifi and multiple gui animations that slows down everything and makes feel of gui almost like in nokia 5230.
I will write a review of elm from the end-user point of view. Actually, I'm not impressed by anything except wifi and new big screen :-(
If someone wants to run midlet at your SE phone without BACK button (A200 platform), drop a comment please and I'll send you the test midlet.
After 2 calls the viewfinder turns off and getSnapshot() returns null (this is unexpected behavior as by spec it must throw exception in case of trouble). Seems that this is some camera driver problem.
The most unpleasant is that my old K530i works perfectly at this test :-(
I'm going to check whether item viewfinder mode solves the problem.
Actually, seems that new platform is not actually as good as it seems, because of unstable wifi and multiple gui animations that slows down everything and makes feel of gui almost like in nokia 5230.
I will write a review of elm from the end-user point of view. Actually, I'm not impressed by anything except wifi and new big screen :-(
If someone wants to run midlet at your SE phone without BACK button (A200 platform), drop a comment please and I'll send you the test midlet.
Labels: bug, elm, j10i2, regression, shit, sony, sonyericsson
