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NX-KS Mod pack - installation

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OP (unknown member) Contributing Member • Posts: 715
Re: NX-KS Mod pack - installation

BernardoAdam wrote:

I agree 100 % with your theorie. They like to get a lot of money for their overprised smartphones and do not like to have complains. I jumped out of this train 3 years ago, i am very happy with thl, jiaju and kingzone. The only thing the chinese smartphones do not have is good cameras. But therefor we have a nx500. For the moment i see no reason to update to1.41, there is no benefit for me. I still own a 2 year ols t320, Samsung is not updating the android version 4.4.

Do we need for the future 2 versions of the hack, 1 for 1.4 and another for 1.41??

for now it looks like bitrate mods will have to wait a while (if they ever happen again)

I'll hold off a new release for a couple of day to see if vasile manages to figure out the bitrates, and if that happens I'll switch the mod pack to be available only for the latest firmwares, if that does not happen, it will stay for 1.40/1.11 only.

maintaining two separate firmwares will be too much

BernardoAdam
BernardoAdam Regular Member • Posts: 261
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Bitrate hack was the most improvement to the cameras. I have no problems to stay with 1.40. I would prefer that now a post focus is more of interst than supporting 1.41. Lets wait and see what are the real improvements in the 2 new firmware, there are enough people who will update and report. Scm improvements are no reason to change, at least for me.

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ARSPR Regular Member • Posts: 385
Re: NX-KS Mod pack - installation

It really seems to me quite weird, that nobody spends time on a dying system in order to kill community efforts...

Therefore, I'm more inclined to think this is a side effect of any bug-hunting they've done under the hood, (in addition to the official and public BT/SCM enhancement).

And therefore, maybe we, (cof, cof, I should have written "you the wise guys"), should check if the memory leak which caused the crash with the time limit removal while recording has been solved.

A shot in the dark but maybe...

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ARSPR Regular Member • Posts: 385
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BernardoAdam wrote:

Bitrate hack was the most improvement to the cameras. I have no problems to stay with 1.40. I would prefer that now a post focus is more of interst than supporting 1.41. Lets wait and see what are the real improvements in the 2 new firmware, there are enough people who will update and report. Scm improvements are no reason to change, at least for me.

Well, it depends. If you are a videographer, sure. But if you are a photographer, I'm not so sure.

I do prefer my future smartphone to continue being a GPS source for my camera. And I'm probably not going to ever use the enhanced movie bit rates, but maybe I'll use the focus stack/bracketing occasionally (if they are available...)

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tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
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Nope. They are simply scared. The mod could potentially brick cameras under warranty -> they could loose money.

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tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
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100% agree. Samsung is now out worst enemy

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otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: 2.5K - good to go

What are the bitrates on 1.12 for 2.5k?

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BernardoAdam
BernardoAdam Regular Member • Posts: 261
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VASILE: I am no software specialist like you. But I have one question. If you compare the old and new firmware did Samsung change more than necessary parts of the code than for scm and Bluetooth?

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vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
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BernardoAdam wrote:

VASILE: I am no software specialist like you. But I have one question. If you compare the old and new firmware did Samsung change more than necessary parts of the code than for scm and Bluetooth?

You are mistaken, BernardoAdam, I am not a software specialist.

But yes, it has passed through my mind to check binary differences - it is in my ToDo list as part of the bitrate mod update.

But thanks for trying to help - always open to ideas.

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OP (unknown member) Contributing Member • Posts: 715
Re: 2.5K - good to go

otto k wrote:

What are the bitrates on 1.12 for 2.5k?

depends on where you "mount" it
2.5K when set on DC, with Pro quality - the reported bitrate of a test file is 70Mbps

2.5K set on VGA  - shows total bitrate 7Mbps
(those are the values from 10 sec. test files)

vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
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vasile wrote:

BernardoAdam wrote:

VASILE: I am no software specialist like you. But I have one question. If you compare the old and new firmware did Samsung change more than necessary parts of the code than for scm and Bluetooth?

You are mistaken, BernardoAdam, I am not a software specialist.

But yes, it has passed through my mind to check binary differences - it is in my ToDo list as part of the bitrate mod update.

But thanks for trying to help - always open to ideas.

BTW. I try to always keep this up to date: work in progress.

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otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
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70Mbps is enough for me and I'm not really using DC so it seems I'm good to update. Thanks!

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