Is swap camera roll not compadable with iOs4?

[Gmcube]

Did a search, came up with nothing. when I try to use it it either doesn't show any pictures, or shows thumbnails only, but the pics themsevles are black blanks. its hard to explain it other than neither of the rolls work right with it installed for me.

If its not, is there an alternative?

 

[eyhk]

It seems iOS4 added an additional folder called PhotoData which contains thumbnails and photo counts that override the original files from DCIM.

I simply added this to the SwapCameraRoll.sh file

if [ -e /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2 ]
then
	mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_temp
	mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2 /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
	mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_temp /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2
else
	mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2
	mkdir /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
	mkdir /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/.MISC
	chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
fi

 

[hokeyplyr48]

I appended this to the end of the file with the entire thing looking like:

#!/bin/bash


if [ -e /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_2 ]
then
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/DCIM /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_temp
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_2 /var/mobile/Media/DCIM
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_temp /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_2
else
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/DCIM /var/mobile/Media/DCIM_2
** * * *mkdir /var/mobile/Media/DCIM
** * * *chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Media/DCIM
fi

if [ -e /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2 ]
then
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_temp
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2 /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_temp /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2
else
** * * *mv /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData_2
** * * *mkdir /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
** * * *mkdir /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/.MISC
** * * *chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData
fi


exit 1

But it still doesn't work. Any ideas as to how you got yours workin?

 

[fuocozero]

I got mine working

I had the same problem. While your camera roll is working (i.e. no black pics) go and delte the _2 folders. Let the script recreate them and it should work.

 

[eyhk]

It seems that 4.1 has again broken the fix I posted above.
Also, there are numerous permission issues that cause SwapCameraRoll to blink a black screen but does nothing.

To fix the permission issues, I SSH'ed in (or use a mobile terminal compatible with iOS4) and changed the file permissions and owner of everything in DCIM_2 and PhotoData_2 to match DCIM and PhotoData. Command for permissions is 'chmod' and owner is 'chown'.


I also added a kill process for the photo/camera just in case it was holding on to something, but it doesn't seem to be the case. here's the code in case you want to try it out. I had to install a dev package that includes ps and stuff.

kill `ps -ef | grep MobileSlideShow | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

I've gotten it to the point where I can switch between the two just fine, but whenever I try to add photos to the second camera roll, it either fails, or succeeds but does not survive a swap (meaning after I swap to original roll and then back to extra, the photos disappear.)

I'll keep looking into what's going on and post when I get a chance.

 

[eyhk]

I had the same problem. While your camera roll is working (i.e. no black pics) go and delte the _2 folders. Let the script recreate them and it should work.

Just to clarify, I've tried this method and it worked in iOS 4.0.1 but after updating to 4.1 it created the permission issues. After fixing the permission issues, I tried just deleting the sqlite and plist files. When opening Photo, it does rebuild the index, but still has the issue of not being able to save photos or the photos not surviving a reswap. I'll try completely wiping and rebuilding and see if that helps.