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Motorola Atrix Camera - Modes

Has anyone noticed we're missing the option for camera modes on our stock camera app? My coworker has the Motorola Droid 2 and his built in Camera app has the ability to shoot panoramic photos (you access it by pressing menu while in the camera app). Doesn't make sense that we'd be missing a feature that an older Motorola Android phone had…

camera 360 helps a little
not too much

I'm not worried about Panoramic myself, but the lack of tap to focus is really annoying.

What is the best camera app replacement for 6P's default google camera?

Besides manual controls, i should be able to turn off camera sound/click.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.pro&hl=en
try this. This is the best camera app available IMO. Also has the feature to disable the shutter sound

I like manual camera! Price is 1-2 euros but gives you full control for everything: shutter speed, manual focus etc.

I use snap camera from the playstore

I have Snap too but I am not completely satisfied from Snap's quality. Maybe I have to play with the settings but I don't want to have such an app. I like good photos out of the box. Just launch the app and take the photo. Also I am searching a camera app that when your want to take a selfie in the dark, you can enable virtual flash that enables a white frame on the screen with maximum brightness in order to light your face. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KFMhlpGUrs on 5.34

Ok here come the growning pains

So who likes the app drawer being gone or adding it back in the settings? I was trying as is but I'm feeling closterphobic with the big disarray mess of icons all over the home screens. Who else is not digging the app drawer not being there?
The Always on screen doesn't come with very many options or customizations as the GS7. I'm feeling the pain for that.
It's always overwhelming getting settled into a new phone. The other issue i ran into was all my apps didn't sync on their own from google like they normally do. I had to use the LG Smart Switch app to transfer from the GS7 to the G6. That caused a panic i though i would have to manually install each app like the old android days.

It freaked me out going from my 6P to the G6 because everything was different and not what I was used to. After a day or two I settled in.
And yes... App drawer was a must for me

I'm app drawerless still. It sounds like you have a lot more apps. Mine fits on one page and bordering on needing a second. I manually installed because I didn't need everything I had installed my S5.
Not using AOD because I don't need to be aware of everything that happens on my phone. I imagine it's meant to take the place of a notification LED though.

I selected the app drawer. I about had a fit trying to figure out how to add more homescreens. It took me 5 mins to figure it out. I found out how in the help file. You have to pinch and squeeze the screen to zoom out the homescreens to move them or add more. It seems like i had this type of behavior with my HTC One M7 if i remember correct. I'm 38 yrs old and in the last few years I noticed it takes me longer to get used to different phones or computer software. years ago i was always trying new things and not freaking out about it. Now if feels like the end of the world going to a different phone.

another gripe.... The emoticons are a funky shape same as my Nexus 7. They're not round normal faces like on the GS7. Any fixing that? I tried Swiftkey for the N7 but it didn't change them. I am enjoying the sound recorder. It looks professional. Even has a Vu Meter like real sound equipment!!!! I recorded the bird sounds outside. I have to play it back on the computer and see how it sounds. Hopefully better then the GS7. I like recording bird sounds often but don't have the money for dedicated sound recorders. Another gripe is when doing selfies it shows a mirror image so the picture is backwards. I went in the settings and fixed it to save the picture the right way but the live view still shows a mirror image. I couldn't see no way around it. I'm not used to that. No wonder why there's so many backward selfies on FB. I wondered why so many people had backwards selfies that weren't looking into a mirror.

Launcher: use Nova. infinitely customizable. LG's launcher sucks.
Emoji: use Textra. You can pick any emoji set you want.

thedrizzle said:
Launcher: use Nova. infinitely customizable. LG's launcher sucks.
Emoji: use Textra. You can pick any emoji set you want.
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I do have nova just not on this phone. One think i like about the built in themes though is it themes the colors on the GUI ie the message windows, settings, dialer etc. If i use a theme from LG in conjuction with nova would that give me a themed look for the GUI windows?
Is Textra a separate messaging app or just emoji's?
Thanks.

An update on the sound recorder. I am playing the sound recording of the birds back on the computer with Audacity and am amazed. I adjusted the gain about the same as i did on the RecForge 2 on the GS7. With the recordings form the GS7 i still have to boost it in Audacity and still don't get anywhere because of background noise. But this, I don't need to boost the sound anymore and it sounds great. I think the sound is louder then the noise floor/ background noise or something. More sensitive mic? Still need to record more bird sounds and listen more but so far sounds good.

railfan-eric said:
I do have nova just not on this phone. One think i like about the built in themes though is it themes the colors on the GUI ie the message windows, settings, dialer etc. If i use a theme from LG in conjuction with nova would that give me a themed look for the GUI windows?
Is Textra a separate messaging app or just emoji's?
Thanks.
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I run nova along with black theme and yes it uses the black for the over lay in settings, dialer, etc. But you can still use whatever nova them you'd like for icons just use ez hime swither to swap back to lg theme selector.

A few questions

I have just bought an X Style and have a few questions
1) Is it possible to adjust the size of the Nav buttons without root?
2) Is is possible to activade expanded desktop on the phone to hide the nav buttons in some apps?
3) Are other camera apps able to use more advanced settings compared to the stock camera app?
4) If you root X Style and install an rom,, will the camera be worse?
I have experienced that on both my Sony and Oneplus phones.
5) When is the official Nougat going to be released world wide to the phone?

@Peterrrrr said:
I have just bought an X Style and have a few questions
1) Is it possible to adjust the size of the Nav buttons without root?
2) Is is possible to activade expanded desktop on the phone to hide the nav buttons in some apps?
3) Are other camera apps able to use more advanced settings compared to the stock camera app?
4) If you root X Style and install an rom,, will the camera be worse?
I have experienced that on both my Sony and Oneplus phones.
5) When is the official Nougat going to be released world wide to the phone?
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I am only able to answer your 3rd question, yes there are some camera apps available with extra settings like manual exposure and focus etc..however the one which worked the most for me is bacon camera, available from the play store. Most of the other apps need the camera2api which is not in the stock ROM, however bacon camera does not use camera2api.
Hopefully that helped a bit?

@Peterrrrr said:
I have just bought an X Style and have a few questions
1) Is it possible to adjust the size of the Nav buttons without root?
2) Is is possible to activade expanded desktop on the phone to hide the nav buttons in some apps?
3) Are other camera apps able to use more advanced settings compared to the stock camera app?
4) If you root X Style and install an rom,, will the camera be worse?
I have experienced that on both my Sony and Oneplus phones.
5) When is the official Nougat going to be released world wide to the phone?
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1) No, not directly resize them, but you can reorder them or replace them with custom or different size ones. https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...icons-or-re-arrange-the-buttons-without-root/
2) Kind of, Marshmallow supports expanded desktop for an app, but the app has to call that function, you can't toggle it on and off. The app is in control.
3) Yes, look around, lots apps available, but the X doesn't support Camera2API, so you are somewhat limited. Personally, I like Camera ZOOM FX Premium but that is just because I got it on sale years ago and been using it a while. The issue with the Moto is you can't change the default camera so you can twist it open or open it form the lock screen, which is annoying because the stock camera's controls are crap.
4) It will be the same
5) That is the $50 question... sometime between now and the end of time. In other words, we have no idea.

acejavelin said:
2) Kind of, Marshmallow supports expanded desktop for an app, but the app has to call that function, you can't toggle it on and off. The app is in control.
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You can add toggle for that on homescreen or in quick settings with apps like power toggles without root

Where do I find the expanded desktop option in settings?

@Peterrrrr said:
Where do I find the expanded desktop option in settings?
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Not the device settings... he said Power Toggles, so I think he meant https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc

[FEATURE REQUEST] Change camera photo resolution and format

I find it ridiculous that such a feature does not exist on the default Camera App on OnPlus 6T. What bothers me the most is that there I can't change the format to 16:9 and the resolution to something that eats less MBs. Only have 4:3 and 18:9 available and there's no way to change the resolution either.
Any android phone maker out there let's you change the photo resolution and format. It kind of defeats the purpose of having and Android phone (which supposedly offers you greater flexibility than an Apple device).
Then there are tens of Android apps available that also allow you to do that. The only thing is that even if you set the 3rd party app to be your default Camera app it won't work fromt he Home Screen. By that I mean if I would be to double press the home button, I would like my 3rd party camera app to open and not the OnePlus camera app, which does not have the options that I want.

Gin.Or.Juice said:
I find it ridiculous that such a feature does not exist on the default Camera App on OnPlus 6T. What bothers me the most is that there I can't change the format to 16:9 and the resolution to something that eats less MBs. Only have 4:3 and 18:9 available and there's no way to change the resolution either.
Any android phone maker out there let's you change the photo resolution and format. It kind of defeats the purpose of having and Android phone (which supposedly offers you greater flexibility than an Apple device).
Then there are tens of Android apps available that also allow you to do that. The only thing is that even if you set the 3rd party app to be your default Camera app it won't work fromt he Home Screen. By that I mean if I would be to double press the home button, I would like my 3rd party camera app to open and not the OnePlus camera app, which does not have the options that I want.
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Ya that is pretty stupid. Lots of people are using gcam tho and I guess this is why
Resolution is the very first thing I change

Thanks for your post ... I actually grabbed the latest Google Camera apk and installed it as my default app.

I actually gave up on using the Google Camera App because it was crashing, freezing or not even taking the pictures most of the time.
I ended up using the regular OnePlus camera app, capturing photos in the wide 18x9 format and enhancing / croping them in Google Photos to 16x9.

When you said you were double tapping the home button to bring up the camera, did you mean the power button? You can choose the default camera to use for the system, and it'll use that camera app when you hit the power button twice.

Nope ... it will not bring the Default camera app when the screen lock is on, it will bring the OnePlus camera app.
Another known defect on all OnePlus devices.