getPicture now *works* on Motorola Droid X

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Many of you may be familiar with the fact that Motorola Droid X (and I believe Droid 2, 3, 4 and X2 as well) have some crazy Android memory configuration that causes PhoneGap applications to be killed when they go to the background and allow the native camera to work. After the user takes a photo the PhoneGap app shows the first page and the state is lost. This has been a long standing and frustrating issue for many, as demonstrated by this thread on Google Groups:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?from...

I had been struggling with this as well and today we made a new build using PGBuild 1.7.0 and we find that now it "just works". At least on our Droid X. That's great!

HOWEVER, it makes me want to know what changed? Did someone snap in a patch for PhoneGap Build 1.7.0 or something? There were several potential fixes suggested on various threads but I don't believe anything was committed to Cordova 1.7.0.

Any hints anybody? Simon?
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Posted 8 years ago

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Hardeep Shoker

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Hey Alan,

PhoneGap Build tries keep our distributions of PG/Cordova as vanilla as possible, this was most likely fixed on the Cordova side.

I would suggest asking the Google Group, also I'm glad that your issue seems to have been resolved!

Hardeep Shoker